Chapter 514
"It's not that I DON'T wish to, but it's because I CAN't leave this place." Ina smiled as she tossed something to Brendel, "And here, this is my farewell gift to you."
It was a deck of Cards.
Brendel held onto the deck, confusion stirring in his heart, "Honestly… I don't really get what you meant." From his tone, it was evident that he wanted Ina to follow him. It was pitiful that she never got to see the Sun for thousands of years. Plus with her capabilities, she would definitely be a great help to him. Albeit she proclaimed herself to be slightly weaker than the Pendulum Golem, she was no doubt the strongest existence Brendel had seen since his reincarnation, and was definitely not weaker than Andesha.
Brendel was ninety percent confident that he could recruit her to his team, but Ina just smiled and turned around. Her hair flew against the air, revealing her bare back. Between her smooth shoulder blades, there was a frightening red gash. It did not seem to some sort of external injury, but rather coming from something deep within her, as if it grew from within her body.
The crystals split apart her skin, and it resembled the crystals that grew out of the Pendulum Golem and the Crystal Wight.
"What's going on?" Brendel asked with a stunned grimace.
"Didn't you see the corrupted rock earlier? The quartz in this place is corrosive. Staying in this place for too long will lead to the crystallization of tissues." Ina let down her hair, her smile still plastered on her face, "I personally witnessed the young man catch the same illness. His entire organs began to crystallize and continued to weaken till his death. Even then, the crystallization did not stop, and he ended up to become the monster you saw earlier."
Brendel Fell silent once more. This disease was similar to the symptoms of the crystallized monsters in the Dark Forest, just not as serious looking as it did. This process was caused by the infection of magic into the body, growing a layer of crystals over it like a sh.e.l.l. It was similar to a parasite, and would not even let the host go even if he died.
Brendel suddenly thought of the parasitic wasps that existed back in his old world. He shuddered and tried to cast the idea aside.
"Is there no cure?" He asked upon pondering for a moment.
Ina just smiled. Her silence seemed to be self-explanatory.
"There's still some time left, let me explain about the deck I just gave you," Ina's avoided the topic. "There's a total of thirty-two cards here. One copy of the Furnace of Adversity, Martyr of Radiance, Accelerated Thoughts, Sacred Ring of Anrolda, Grimoire of Life, and Desperate Trojan horse. Four copies of Glorious Trumpeteers, Pride, Tempest, Nightmare Forges, Breaking Dawn and six copies of Death Sentinels.
As you might have noticed, this isn't the complete version of the Paradise of Adversity. The complete version is inaccessible. They are sealed here to create the Magic Formation that allows us to use the Cards. Simply put, we can only be Planeswalkers under the influence of the Formation."
She continued, "So to answer your question from earlier, we are not Planeswalkers, and can't even be compared to you apprentices. We were granted power by the Formation and we each held half of the deck's authority: I was given the Paradise of Purity while the Golem was given the Adversity of Darkness" [T/L: Meaning the Cards are not real. Ina and the Golem were only using their projections..]
"However, the cards that you have right there, they're real ones. They're the Legacy master pa.s.sed on to you. Albeit incomplete, the Cards you have right now will allow you to use the basic combinations. As long as you continue to possess these Cards, I believe that the Paradise of Adversity will see the light of the day again.
"The cards that I found in the coffin were your intentions?" Brendel asked as he suddenly came up with the question.
"Not really. The Golem and I could never leave this place anyways. Some two hundred years later, a few bandits managed to arrive here. I intentionally let them have some of the Cards in hopes of luring in a Planeswalker. But the tin can disagreed with my methods and ordered the Wight to finish them off.
But even if it killed the bandits, it did not order Leder to retrieve the Cards back here, meaning that it was not completely in objection with my plan, just that it had other plans in mind. If not, you would never have reached here anyway."
As the questions he had in mind were getting resolved one by one, Brendel nodded for Ina to continue her explanation.
"Every deck will have its own strategies, and even with the same decks, they might vary accordingly to the users. Some Planeswalkers preferred to utilize short bursts of power. For example, they would immediately cast attack spells and summon cheap but large armies to suppress their opponents. However, there were also Planeswalkers who were late-game players. Their decks are focused on precise controlling, fighting a battle of attrition to gain the advantage in the long term. Their decks are usually more balanced for them to get into an unbreakable position before counterattacking.
But the Paradise of Adversity had both of their characteristics," Ina was feeling proudful as she talked about her own master. "It was able to attack and defend simultaneously, the Nightmare Forgers and Tempest were especially powerful. The Nightmare Forges were both Artifacts and Undeads, and had the status of being 'dead' upon summoning. Plus, they were cheap to use and can be deployed quickly at the beginning of the battle. They can also be enhanced with the tempest and had the ability to self replicate, and could easily create a formation"
- Nightmare Forges (Paradise of Aversity IX)
- Consumes 1 Dark EP
- Treasure - Artifact/Undead Forge
- Level 26 Creature
- Pay 1 Light EP to clone it
- "Within every vessel, there lies a wailing soul."
- Tempest (Paradise of Adversity VI)
- Consumes 4 Energy
- Effect: Applied onto the Nightmare Forgers. Deals 5 true damage to enemies targeted by the Nightmare Forges.
- Disposed into the Graveyard upon use
- "Fire! - Ekronian Commander, Tyrin"
"You can see its effects usually within minutes and that scene you saw just now, it was merely a fraction of the total power." She seemed kinda happy, "Count yourself lucky that the Golem did not have the other half of the deck. Only the Paradise of Purity's cards could supply enough Light Element to multiply the Forges. Plus if it had used the Anxiety Card(which can recast the previous Card, as long as it does not surpa.s.s a certain threshold) that my master excluded from the
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