Catastrophe Card King
Chapter 1478 - Chapter 1478 Chapter 453 Royal Academy Enrollment Day

Chapter 1478: Chapter 453 Royal Academy Enrollment Day Chapter 1478: Chapter 453 Royal Academy Enrollment Day “What? The person has already been captured?”

“And no one has discovered it?”

“Hahaha… Reward! A hefty reward!”

…

Leonard Churchill and his group returned to the inn successfully.

When Young Master Sack learned that they had captured Scarface from the Black Market, the Landon Family heir was extremely excited.

At the same time, he thought even more highly of the loyalty, decisiveness, and wisdom of the six guards.

Young Master Sack indeed cared a great deal about the Emperor’s Relics.

But face was even more important.

Having been humiliated by his rival Ferren at the Black Market, it wasn’t just an embarrassment for him but also tarnished the Landon Family’s honor.

Sack knew he was not in the right, and it seemed he would have to swallow this bitter pill in silence.

Unexpectedly, the situation turned around so quickly.

Sack had certainly considered revenge, but as he was clearly in the wrong, actually ordering retribution would not only fail to salvage his dignity but would also make him a laughingstock among the nobility.

The pride of the Dragon Descendant wouldn’t allow him to make a decision that would embarrass his family even more.

However, now, a few loyal and close guards had perfectly solved the problem!

They had accurately gauged his intentions and acted decisively.

So decisively that while he was still grappling with how to regain face, the six had already reclaimed it for him.

More importantly, his subordinates had done it cleanly, without giving the enemy any leverage.

Even if the affair was exposed later, Sack could boldly claim that he hadn’t ordered it.

The suffocating sense of injustice in his heart had dissipated upon receiving this news.

…

And for their actions, Leonard Churchill and his group received not only recognition from Young Master Sack but also a substantial monetary reward.

Sack awarded Gale, Garfield, Jessica, and Serli with treasures bought from the Adventurers’ Marketplace–Gale received a dagger worth one hundred thousand gold, Garfield a shield, Jessica an enchanted robe, and Serli an ancient Dragon Clan magic tome…

While Leonard seemed unimpressed by these items, for low-level card masters like them, these relics could even be life-saving.

In the early stages of a card master’s career, equipment and Curse Cards significantly increase combat power.

These rewarded relics nearly doubled the squad’s strength.

Even the seasoned knights of Duke’s House wouldn’t necessarily obtain such items based on merit.

Now, Young Master Sack had directly bestowed them upon a few squire candidates.

That was indeed a pleasant surprise.

However, Leonard didn’t ask for anything else, only taking the two Elemental Elves he had bought earlier.

These creatures were so difficult to raise to maturity that not even a high-tiered noble like Sack could manage it; to others, Leonard taking them seemed like he intended to cash them in.

But no one said anything.

This was Young Master Sack’s reward.

As for the information about the land relics in Scarface’s possession, Leonard didn’t pay much attention.

The person had been handed over to Young Master Sack, so naturally, the experts within the Duke’s House could clarify the intelligence.

And as for going into the Magical Beast Forest for treasure hunting… that was best left to professional adventurers.

Now that the information was known to have come from Duke Simon’s House, possibly more people were aware.

With multiple parties competing, conflicts were inevitable during the adventure.

Leonard had no interest in spending energy on such uncertain news.

He thought it wasn’t too late to consider it if the Emperor’s Relics truly appeared.

Besides, he had a suspicion that there was something amiss about the sudden dissemination of the land relics news,

As if an invisible hand was stirring things in the shadows.

Leonard recalled the bizarre incident of the Pope’s assassination and felt a strangely familiar… sense about these methods.

Great Dragons, though cunning, preferred to resolve issues through force, resulting in the Dragon Clan of the Southern Continent disfavoring overly complicated conspiracies.

But in the East Wilderness, Leonard had experienced this many times.

Only then did that feeling of familiarity surface.

…

The next day, in an Adventurer’s Inn in Giant Spirit City.

Leonard’s real body had rented a room here.

And at this moment, there was a birdcage with a cloth cover in front of him. Inside, sitting on a cushion, were two listless Rainbow Spirits.

These were the Elemental Elves his clone had gotten.

The two elves looked at Leonard, their eyes already filled with numbness.

Having been trafficked by humans many times, each new face they saw meant they had been sold once more.

Their companions dwindled one by one, and in the end, they too could not escape this fate.

Moreover, that greedy gaze made the elves, creatures of a race that naturally loved beautiful things, feel very uncomfortable.

Leonard observed the two elves in the cage, and he too was astonished.

Seeing these Mythical Creatures described only in classic books for the first time, he found it incredible.

When he felt the elemental fluctuations emanating from the two elves, almost as if Laws themselves had taken shape, he felt even more amazed by the creator’s wonders.

Leonard had this same sensation from another kind of object before–the mysterious symbols representing the Universe Law, the Rune Inscriptions.

These two Elemental Elves were like living rune inscriptions of Elements.

Although both exhibited a rainbow spectrum, Leonard keenly sensed that one leaned towards water while the other towards wood.

“Could it be that they truly are creatures formed from the Elements?”

The more Leonard looked, the more fascinated he became.

Classical texts didn’t offer much on these legends, but according to the old goat’s tale, mature Elemental Elves were the favored companions of the ancient magicians.

Since he had obtained them, Leonard naturally planned to try and raise them.

For humans, the elemental richness of Giant Spirit City was vast, but for the two elves, it was utterly barren.

Their spirits were in terrible shape.

It was like fish out of water; they could survive for a while, but not for long.