The Card Apprentice
Chapter 123

Marco Witt's Coiling Bramble

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Chen Mu did not agree immediately. Instead, he cautioned, "You need to be more specific about your requirements."

Bo Wen smiled faintly. "Mr. Chen, you're an expert in card crafting. It should be easy for you to judge which cards have outstanding overall performance. I have only one requirement: it must be a three-star card."

Chen Mu still did not agree at once. He considered it for a moment before slowly nodding. "All right, but I'll need time."

"No problem." Bo Wen was quite easygoing about it. "I've always been very patient." He bowed to Chen Mu. "Then it's settled. I'll be waiting for your good news, Mr. Chen. Here's my Communication Card number. Please contact me when it's finished."

After Bo Wen left, Chen Mu immediately began searching for information about the Weak Water pen set.

Weak Water: crafted by the master Card Crafter Kuo Haofeng on his fortieth birthday. The complete set consists of seven card-crafting pens. Current whereabouts unknown.

The seemingly simple description only strengthened Chen Mu's determination to obtain Weak Water. Of course he had heard of Kuo Haofeng, and this apparently unremarkable introduction revealed a crucial piece of information.

-Weak Water had been crafted on Kuo Haofeng's fortieth birthday.

That was the sentence that caught Chen Mu's attention. An introduction to Kuo Haofeng he had read mentioned that his most famous work, True Illusion, had been crafted when he was thirty-nine. In other words, Weak Water had been made a year after True Illusion. Without question, Kuo Haofeng had been at his peak then, his craftsmanship at its most mature. Moreover, he had created Weak Water to celebrate his own fortieth birthday. A set like that had to be a masterpiece among masterpieces.

How could Chen Mu's heart not leap at the thought?

Within moments,

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