The Card Apprentice
Chapter 116

Deep Mutation

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From the strokes on this card, Chen Mu could tell that its Card Crafter had a wealth of card-making experience. Only after a thousand hammerings and a hundred refinings could someone produce lines this precise.

The strokes of a card's structural pattern sometimes revealed its Card Crafter's style. This card, for instance, struck Chen Mu first and foremost as precise-a precision without the slightest deviation, every thread fitting perfectly into place. The Mysterious Card, by contrast, gave him a sense of vastness and grandeur.

No two Card Crafters were alike, and naturally, neither were the cards they made.

Will's control over his perception was too weak to bring out this card's power.

The card's true power went far beyond what he had shown, even though it was only a Three-Star Illusion Card.

Chen Mu inserted the Dual-Polarity Thunderball Card into his Wrist Device and activated it. Closing his eyes, he carefully felt the changes in the energy within the device.

Two fist-sized balls of light appeared around Chen Mu, spinning as they merrily chased each other. Unlike the thunderballs Will had created, however, the electrical arcs on the surface of Chen Mu's thunderballs were pale blue, and their sizzling was all but inaudible.

Chen Mu had never been sure what level his perception had reached. He had never undergone a dedicated perception assessment.

Before long, Chen Mu was immersed in exploring the Dual-Polarity Thunderball Card.

His perception was far more delicate and sensitive than before. He carefully sensed the flow of energy inside his Wrist Device. Twelve fine streams of energy converged from different directions, passing through different structures. They were like streams of molten metal flowing through pipes with different functions, ultimately forged and pressed into metals with distinct properties.

Operating the two thunderballs took little effort. He could

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