Will shook his head. "My teacher gave me that card. He didn't know where it came from either, only that it was a fairly old card, one that had been around for some years. Are you interested in it?" He didn't understand what there was to study about that card. He had used it for so long without discovering anything special about it.
"Oh, never mind, then." Deeply disappointed, Chen Mu turned and left the training room.
The training room door slid shut with a swish. Before leaving, Chen Mu habitually swiped his Room Card, then walked away. Will, absorbed in the Hundred Blades Card, never noticed that he had been locked inside.
Back in his room, Chen Mu recalled Marco Witt, whom Will had mentioned. His reason for seeking a close-combat Card Adept wasn't what he had claimed. He had no prejudice against close-combat cards, but he knew that, at this stage, long-range combat cards were more valuable. Although he currently had no need to worry about materials, costs, expenses, or the like, that didn't mean things would always stay that way.
Good as this place was, it was no place to linger.
He had been planning how to leave the base all along. As for the Ning Family's promise, Chen Mu no longer held out any hope. Two hundred cards-never mind whether he could finish them. Ever since the Ning Family had first given him that stack of cards, they had never mentioned the matter again. They were probably still thinking about the Rain Shuttle Card II. Chen Mu wasn't stupid; he understood what that card meant to the Ning Family.
He could only rely on himself.
To leave this place, he first had to become a Card Adept. Chen Mu didn't believe that a Card Crafter too