Chapter 28: The Overpowered Card—The World
"My body... I can't control it at all..."
The people kneeling on the floor stared wide-eyed, blood vessels standing out in the whites of their eyes. Their bodies were completely rigid; they couldn't even lift their heads.
Humbled and deferential, they could only look at the carpet beneath them and... the spots where sweat dripping from their bodies had dampened it.
"This is bad... This guy..."
"Why... did he target us?"
"Why would a monster this powerful target us?!"
No one could hear the voices in their minds. They could only suffer through their fear and bitterness alone.
The train car Su Wu sat in had become the quietest car on the train. Everyone kept their mouths shut, communicating only with hand gestures and occasionally glancing at the figures still kneeling in the corner.
The train attendants were at a loss. They tried to help the men up, but couldn't budge them. The kneeling men kept their heads lowered, their faces covered in beads of sweat. Their eyes pleaded for help, but their bodies fought desperately against the attendants' attempts to assist them.
Seeing this, the attendants took a few deep breaths and tried to approach the instigator to plead on the men's behalf.
The boy didn't look very old. Surely a little coaxing would be enough.
That was what they thought. But before they could reach him, the boy lifted his eyes and cast them a casual glance.
Along with that look came a palpable, crushing force that weighed down on everyone.
"Leave."
That was clearly what his eyes were telling them.
At the same time, the attendants' bodies stopped obeying them, too. Their faces pale and their movements stiff, they left the train car.
The car seemed to grow even quieter. Someone even covered their nose, as if worried their breathing might be too loud.
Su Wu, however, was completely absorbed in his card abilities and couldn't be bothered with the others for the time being.
After spending some time exploring them, he'd figured out what The Emperor and The World did.
The Upright Emperor seemed to boost his ability to control things, while also giving him an invisible aura of intimidation.
Based on his experiments, that intimidating aura seemed to work much like Conqueror's Haki, and could frighten other people.
When he equipped The Emperor card and told everyone to shut up, they all did. When he told those few men to kneel, they did that, too.
Clearly, it was another ability that took effect by force.
But given its limitations, it probably wouldn't do much to someone with more life energy than him. At most, it might affect them for a short time?
And his ability to control things worked on himself, too. In his case, though, that control simply let him wield his abilities more effectively.
Under The Emperor card's influence, he'd gained new insight into his Nen ability.
Namely, the more times he drew cards, the more detailed the cards' effects became.
As he gained new insight into his Nen ability, brief descriptions gradually appeared on the backs of the cards in his hand.
[Upright Emperor] Buff Card, Effect 1: Control.
[Upright World] Buff Card, Effect: Endless Vitality.
"Endless vitality?" Su Wu rolled the words around on his tongue, savoring them.
Then he suddenly closed his eyes and began observing the energy within his body.
Come to think of it, his Cursed Energy and Nen had both kept increasing ever since he used The World card.
If the card's effect lasted for twenty-four hours, then this was an amazing support card that kept replenishing his energy for twenty-four hours!
Drawing this card during a drawn-out battle would be a stroke of genius.
He could wear his opponent down just by outlasting them.
But since the cards were drawn randomly, there was no guarantee he'd get it during a fight...
After getting a rough idea of the cards he'd drawn today, Su Wu was in an excellent mood to discover he had a god-tier card for drawn-out battles.
"We will soon arrive at Banato. Passengers getting off, please prepare to disembark," a sweet voice announced over the train's speakers.
Su Wu happily got up to leave. He passed the men kneeling by the train car's door without stopping, and was about to step outside.
Everyone in the car waited with bated breath for the menace to leave.
But just as he was about to cross the threshold, he pulled his foot back and stood by the door.
"You can talk now," he said casually, as if he'd just kindly remembered that he'd silenced everyone.
His amused gaze settled on the figures kneeling with their heads bowed.
"And you lot, get up." He said it as if he were magnanimously granting them permission.
The invisible, irresistible pressure that had kept them pinned down finally vanished with his words. The men collapsed to the floor, exhausted, gasping like fish on the verge of death.
"The smarter people are, the better they understand the value of silence, right?" the White-haired boy said in a low voice, smiling.
Everyone nodded frantically, still too afraid to speak.
Only then did he finally leave the train.
Once his figure had disappeared from view, everyone on the train let out a sigh of relief. But for the moment, they'd lost all desire to talk. Each person sat in their seat, exhausted and dazed.
"I... I'm alive."
"Yeah..."
"...We survived a monster..."
The exhausted men sprawled limp on the floor, murmuring in disbelief and shock, as if they couldn't believe they'd escaped death.
Banato was a coastal city on the Urubian Continent. It was an ordinary place, nothing special, but thanks to Banato Port, it was far more prosperous than most cities. Its commerce thrived, and maritime trade was bustling.
As a coastal city, most of its food came from creatures caught in the sea.
Su Wu bought a few skewers of grilled fish from a roadside shop and ate as he walked.
He loved seafood, but he was allergic to it.
But he wasn't the person he used to be. Now he had abilities, and his body was much stronger, so...
He looked at the red, swollen patches that had suddenly appeared on his hand. His expression turned a little strange, and the grilled fish in his hand suddenly felt much heavier.
How could his seafood allergy still be around after he'd transmigrated and gotten superpowers?!
"It's fine. It's just an allergic reaction. It won't kill me." He pondered for less than three seconds, then continued eating his grilled fish as if nothing had happened.
He'd just have to stop by a pharmacy later.
"What are the ways to get from Banato Port to the Aijin Continent?" he casually asked someone by the road.
"This is a port city, so the most common way is, of course, by ship! Ships sail to the Aijin Continent every month." An old man wearing a vest and flip-flops, and sporting a straw hat, answered as he fanned himself.
"What about besides ships?" Su Wu asked.
"Why, airships, of course." The old man looked at him as if to say, Where did this kid come from? How does he not know that?
"Are those the only two options?" Su Wu pressed.
"The sea lies between the Urubian Continent and the Aijin Continent. Apart from ships and airships, there really isn't any other way." The old man patiently answered his question.
"Thanks." Su Wu nodded and continued exploring the city.
There were only three kinds of transportation: sea, land, and air. Land travel was obviously out of the question, so the old man was right. He could only take a ship or an airship.
So, should he take a ship or an airship?
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