Chapter 898: Chapter 280 Flying Dragon Attacks the City
The rules of the two-player Rod card game are very simple.
Each player draws twenty-one cards from a deck of playing cards.
The cards can form various combinations like in Texas Hold’em, such as straights, flushes, pairs, full houses…
One side leads, and the one with stronger cards continues to play.
Whoever finishes their cards first wins.
Leonard Churchill didn’t know why Noah Wright was interested in playing poker.
But he sat down and played with ease.
It was only now that he understood it probably wasn’t a coincidence that he had come here.
It was because he had been influenced by some mysterious force, an inevitability that he would arrive.
The leader of the Thirteen Knights wanted to see him.
Because Rod cards have many possible combinations, the skill of the card master in playing the cards is also well tested.
So, it’s quite entertaining.
Mushroomhead had excellent card skills, and Leonard Churchill wasn’t too shabby either.
The two played leisurely.
Seeing Leonard Churchill’s expression, Noah Wright knew he was still troubled by the Holy Water matter, so he added, “Don’t find it strange. My choice to give up the Holy Water isn’t due to any other reason. It’s simply because deducting this had a higher chance of plan success. In fact, the risks of plan failure would have been greater without you, even if I could use the Holy Grail Water.”
If the Divine Ruins Treasure House couldn’t trap Count Nikola,
then drinking Holy Water one more time wouldn’t trap him either.
Saying so, he showed a very relaxed smile, “Now we’ve reached the best outcome I could deduce. So, what does it matter?”
Hearing his words, Leonard Churchill also came to a realization.
Indeed, as Noah Wright said, if it were Tracy Garcia going to the Crimson Altar alone, the uncontrollable risks would be plenty, and definitely not as efficient as both of them going together.
But at the same time, four words popped up in his head: absolute rationality.
If the plan required Mushroomhead to sacrifice his own life to increase the odds of success, Leonard Churchill believed that this guy would definitely do so without hesitation.
However, Leonard Churchill still found it amazing and asked directly, “Did you anticipate that… I could be of help?”
Ever since he knew the man before him was a Pursuer of Light, the phrase “omniscient strategist” had become his stereotype of this guy.
Not just him, even Barre Shepherd evaluated him the same way.
Noah Wright was straightforward.
He looked at Leonard Churchill and smiled, correcting him, “My ability isn’t ‘Prophecy.’ It’s not as magical as others imagine. At best, it’s deducing some possible directions in which events might unfold.”
Leonard Churchill knew this had to do with the other’s Professional Sequence ability.
It was private, so he didn’t ask further.
But Noah Wright took the initiative to explain, “It’s like playing cards. I can deduce what cards you still have in your hand based on the cards you’ve played. However, no matter the deduction, with a deck of fifty-two cards, and we only have forty-two, there are still ten dark cards. After all, you can’t count everything… it still comes down to a bit of luck.”
Listening, Leonard Churchill slightly smiled.
The intricacies of this layout were far from as simple as Mushroomhead made them sound.
To explain in detail would take more than a few words.
But once the results came out and he reconstructed the process, Leonard Churchill had more or less understood.
He did not dwell on this topic.
Instead, he was more curious about something else.
Leonard Churchill inquired, “I’m very curious, the ‘Noah Wright’ I knew before was…?”
He had initially been curious about the Spell that allowed for resurrection.
But he also knew it surely held great importance as one of the Pursuer of Light’s top secrets.
Even if the other party didn’t reveal it,
he felt it didn’t matter.
But unexpectedly, just as he posed the question, Mushroomhead casually revealed the secret of ‘Noah Wright,’ saying, “That was a ‘perfect persona’ I created in a script using my professional ability.”
Listening, Leonard Churchill gave a puzzled look: “???”
Noah Wright elaborated, “I needed a flawless identity to infiltrate the X Bureau. But the X Bureau isn’t any ordinary place; they’re exceedingly strict with identity verification. There’s also Count Nikola, who has already achieved demigod status. So, no matter how I disguised myself in reality, there would inevitably be flaws. The perfect persona I needed could only exist within a script in a novel.”
Taking a breath, he continued, “So, for this purpose, I wrote into the script the necessary persona I needed: a top graduate from the Federation Card Master Academy, a diligent and studious young man, with an excellent memory and a pure heart… That’s the ‘Noah Wright’ you knew before.”
Leonard Churchill was genuinely surprised, exclaiming, “A script persona?”
He had guessed many possibilities before.
He thought “Noah Wright” was the Pursuer of Light’s perfect disguise or a Spell Avatar…
Or some other kind of existence.
But it turned out to be just a persona?
Noah Wright knew this concept wasn’t easy to digest and responded, “Yeah, in the literal sense. He is just a character from my script.”
Looking at Leonard Churchill’s even more confused gaze, he smiled and explained, “Oh, to be more accurate, ‘Noah Wright’ is my projection in the world of the script. I infused my understanding of the world into the character in the script. It acquired a part of my cognition. So I am it, but it is not me.”
the card Leonard Churchill was about to play hesitated in his hand, “Is ‘Noah Wright’ really a character written out from a script?”
Leonard Churchill hadn’t expected to receive an answer.
But to his surprise, the other party laid everything out clearly.
So, one of the Pursuer of Light’s abilities is to “bring to life” characters from a script?