The Card Apprentice
Chapter 481

Peril

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The bone-piercing cold left Chen Mu's mind unusually clear. Xiao Man was so close he could reach out and touch her.

At such close range, he could see her startled expression and the trace of fear in her eyes clearly through his mask. Yet he felt no satisfaction. Almost instinctively, Chen Mu swung his fist!

Pale cyan light enveloped his right hand, forming a pale cyan energy cone. Chen Mu's right fist became a pale cyan awl.

The ice wings he had been unable to deconstruct finally appeared in his black-and-white world in the finest detail, now that he was so close.

Chen Mu's fist slammed into the blue ice wing shielding Xiao Man.

Everyone felt as though their brains could no longer keep up. Chen Mu's earlier sequence of movements had been breathtaking, intricate and dazzling-a textbook display of technical finesse. Yet after painstakingly securing a sliver of advantage, just when everyone expected him to finish the match with even more spectacular technique, he resorted to the crudest, most direct, least technical method possible.

Many silently lamented that the advantage Chief Steward White had worked so hard to establish would vanish with this reckless move. No one believed Chen Mu's punch could pose any threat to Xiao Man, even if he had shaped his energy construct into a cone.

[Blue Ice Floating Wings]-these were the [Blue Ice Floating Wings]! Every Energy Blade in the [Blue Ice Floating Wings] was astonishingly strong. Among the miracles performed by each successive owner, there had been no shortage of occasions when its superb defensive capabilities had kept them alive.

The [Blue Ice Floating Wings] combined offense and defense, greatly increased the user's movement speed, and delivered powerful attacks with bone-piercing cold. That was why the Federation universally recognized it as a top-grade five-star

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