Amber Sword

The gray-white sky was disintegrating overhead, like oats dissolving into milk. Brand stood in the middle of the plain, looking at the corpse of the Deputy Commander of the Flame Temple Knights. The black flames on his body were gradually fading, like black butterflies fluttering away.

"How was it?" Otarais suddenly asked.

"That was close." Brand exhaled lightly. The final confrontation with Williams made him deeply feel the true strength gap of powerful individuals. Even at the final moment, if Williams hadn’t fought back, he wouldn’t have been able to break through the Deputy Commander’s defenses without unleashing the Fool’s Fervor talent attack.

In the end, he had to rely on his own strength to save his life. Anyway, the lucky thing was, he won, and that was enough.

He paused for a moment.

Brand suddenly asked, "Lord Otarais, you knew all along that Trisman’s deck also had flaws, didn’t you?"

Otarais smiled gently, "Some things need to be experienced to be truly impressed. Years of war taught me this truth. Rookies need to experience setbacks to transform into veterans, young one."

Brand felt a pang of resonance. The moment Williams pulled him into the Extreme Plain, the Travel Mage’s Absolute Law was broken — Medisha, Char, and other summons were isolated from the world — meaning that even forming a cycle, Trisman’s deck still had flaws.

From the final result, he had also won this battle by luck. However, fortunately, it was Williams, not some other more powerful opponent, who discovered this flaw. Therefore, the one lying on the ground was not him.

That meant he still had a chance to make amends.

But the reason he asked Otarais was because he suddenly thought that the Four Saints’ enemy back then was none other than the Dark Dragon Odin. Deer Demon Yi Lian told him Odin was also a powerful Travel Mage, but since the Four Saints could defeat Odin, it indicated that Travel Mages were not existences above this world.

Otarais seemed to see through his thoughts and gently replied, "It’s said that every Travel Mage pursues a perfect cycle. Under nearly perfect conditions, laws can form a world on their own. In this cycle, the power of the Travel Mage is unassailable. Unfortunately, no one has achieved this yet..."

Brand understood her implication: Odin didn’t achieve it back then; otherwise, he wouldn’t have lost to them.

"Odin’s deck was everlasting darkness. That deck was much more aggressive than yours. The characteristic of that deck is transforming all elements into dark power, and then, in turn, the dark power is his home ground. Can you imagine fighting the Dark Dragon, he grows stronger, and you grow weaker?"

"This sounds a bit like Madara."

"Don’t interrupt. Madara’s Undead were once his followers and admirers." Otarais replied, "Odin didn’t have as many creature cards as Tu Men and Trisman. All his cards were Divine Artifacts, Abnormal Abilities, Spells, and Boundaries. And his own strength was incredibly powerful, so he didn’t have your pathetic little weakness, but we eventually defeated him."

"How did you do it?" Brand couldn’t help but be curious.

She was somewhat proud: "Because his core power is transformation, he must still use the Divine Artifacts and Spells on the field to convert our power. His deck can quickly form a cycle, much faster than yours. Once he gets started, he can form a cycle, and then it’s constantly filtering cards to counter our attacks, and with each counterattack, he can draw dark elements to continue his cycle."

"Wait, are you saying he didn’t have land cards?"

"Land cards are the Travel Mage’s weakness; how could he leave that flaw? Young one, do you really think land cards in your world can’t be attacked? Have you forgotten how you entered Williams’ world? He had just stepped into this Extreme Realm. The true Extreme Plain is a complete world, a world maximized by a person’s law. And the Travel Mage’s land cards are within his Extreme Plain—"

"Ah." Brand couldn’t help exclaiming.

"So having land cards itself is a weakness. We cannot directly attack your land cards like true Travel Mages. But we can violently destroy them." Otarais continued, "Odin was a genius. He devised a deck that didn’t need land cards. But unfortunately, it also sowed the seeds of his downfall. In the final battle, Fanzan kept dismantling his core spells, causing his elements to suffer a chain break, giving us the opportunity to seize."