To everyone else, the surprise attack on Bomen City had been a textbook raid.
In their eyes, the moment the Wood Character Camp appeared silently outside Bomen City, victory was already theirs. In this much-discussed battle, the dazzling performances of two of the camp's Card Adepts also drew considerable attention. Beyond that, word of the Wood Character Camp's extravagantly lavish equipment spread like wildfire.
Still, everyone else could only look on with envy. Apart from the Six Great Academies, probably no one could afford to equip a force so lavishly.
This seemed to confirm the long-standing rumor that Chief Steward White was the creator of the Digital Series Cards. But those paying closer attention found something peculiar about it. Pitifully little time had passed since Chief Steward White began assembling the Wood Character Camp. Even if he was the creator of the Digital Series Cards, how could he have made so many cards single-handedly? Had he begun preparing long ago? Or was there another explanation?
People discovered, to their frustration, that Slaughter God Xize was an inscrutable mystery, and his student, Chief Steward White, was every bit as enigmatic.
He had never removed his mask. No one knew what the face beneath it looked like. Handsome? Ugly? No one knew his real name or where he came from, either.
He was a powerful Card Adept, a student of Slaughter God Xize, who had once killed a Faya expert wielding the [Blue Ice Floating Wings] in just ten moves! Moreover, rumor had it that he was the mysterious creator of the Digital Series Cards, each card he made a masterpiece worth an exorbitant price. He was a tactical genius of the younger generation whom Luo Xiju himself had praised. He had escaped the encirclement of the Underworld's four allied armies, annihilated