Nanny Karen sipped flower tea as she watched the two young men duel with vigor.
This kind of Dreamscape duel had already been fought more than ten times, with twenty rounds each time. Neither Charlotte nor Hughes mentioned anymore how long they intended to keep dueling.
During this period, both of them improved rapidly. Whenever Hughes grew stronger, he killed Charlotte even faster.
Although Charlotte had not broken through again and advanced to the eighth rank in those short dozen or so days, he had comprehended the seventh movement of the Twelve Angelic Movements: All Things Obscured.
From this movement onward, Star War Qi changed from a blazing zenith sun into shadowy darkness. Its edge was concealed, yet it became even more dangerous. Even Hughes did not wish to take one of Charlotte's sword strikes.
Charlotte still could not last beyond thirty moves and continued to lose all twenty rounds, but he was not discouraged in the least. He respectfully bowed to Nanny Karen and withdrew from the Dreamscape.
Hughes always felt that there was something strange about Charlotte, but he could not figure it out and could not be bothered to guess. He too bowed to Nanny Karen before returning to Madame Nansera's military camp.
After the two young men left the Dreamscape, Nanny Karen stretched lazily. She had loved watching excitement when she was young, and old age had not tempered that habit. Instead, it had only made her enjoy all sorts of interesting things even more.
Charlotte and Hughes each had their own plans. Ordinary clever people, once they became accustomed to solving problems with wisdom, tended to rely on their minds and cease striving. But these two young men were different; neither of them relaxed their personal cultivation because of it. Watching them temper one another