Catastrophe Card King

The cliff walls of the Demon Mountain Range were tremendously steep.

They didn’t resemble anything naturally formed.

Instead, they seemed more like they were split by some kind of supernatural power, creating this almost ninety-degree vertical cliff-side.

Even mountain goats could not find a foothold on most parts of the cliff face, let alone any vegetation or places to hide.

Leonard Churchill had morphed into the Werewolf form, draped in a cloak. His sharp claws dug into the cliff, as he scaled up heading North.

Earlier, he had looked at the map. The distance between the Thunderbolt Fortress and Echo Wind Fortress was just over a hundred kilometers.

Whilst the Werewolf form drained good amounts of Curse Power during the journey, even so, Leonard kept taking breaks intermittently to replenish his physical strength and Curse Power.

Luckily, after finishing off the five members of the Fierce Beast Legion, he obtained numerous Recovery Potions. Using them for his journey wasn’t a big issue.

Furthermore, the Demon Compass turned out to be of great help.

It helped Leonard avoid countless dangers.

Some places on the cliffs that seemed perfectly normal to the naked eye had terrifying fluctuations of demonic aura.

Leonard didn’t quite know if it was the Will of the Alternate Dimension preventing shortcuts, or if the Demon Corps had hidden sentries.

Although he had slain several groups of Demon Lackeys along the way, the compass had helped Leonardo avoid high-risk areas, making his journey thrilling yet uneventful.

After a few long hours, he finally saw a War Fortress standing on a cliff.

Constructed of white stone, it was magnificent and spectacular.

This was the ‘Meteor Eagle Fortress’.

This fortress was at the very northern end of the Demon Mountain Range.

Further north laid the Wailing Abyss- a line marked in black on the map.

As Leonard peered at the massive chasm below, nearly a kilometer wide and stretching into the unknown, he thought to himself, “So even in the Alternate Dimension there are such cracks…”

Although it wasn’t as outrageous as the infinite world crevice near the Sinless City.

But the Wailing Abyss before his eyes was just as unfathomably deep and awe-inspiring as any end-of-the-world rift.

In the dim light of the space, his night vision could just make out the outline. However, the gorge was pitch-black, like a doorway to hell, its depth unknown. This was the natural barrier blocking the Demons from invading the North Territory.

“Why does this world feel like it was shattered by a god?”

Seeing the rift before him and the smooth cliff of the Demon Mountain Range, an image suddenly popped into Leonard’s mind: two indescribable enormous creatures battling, splitting the earth apart with some unfathomable methods. These rifts were wounds marring the land.

And humans were like… microorganisms on wounds?

Every time he confronted such “colossal beings”, he felt a deep sense of awe that came from the depths of his heart.

After a while,

Leonard had observed the Wailing Abyss from high above, but found nothing unusual, so he began to climb towards the fortress.

The lights were brightly lit in the Meteor Eagle Fortress.

Leonard prowled in the darkness and headed over.

There were normally several thousand soldiers stationed in the fortress. Some were patrolling, others were training, there were even men in the tower sentries.

Everything seemed perfectly normal.

“Weird. Nothing happened?”

Looking at the tranquil fortress in front of him, Leonard felt something was not right.

The Thunderbolt Fortress, which was a vital point for the Kingdom, was infiltrated. Could it be possible that this frontline, which was in constant contact with the Devil Territory, would be perfectly fine?

Thinking of this, Leonard took out the Demon Compass to give it a try.

Trying this stoked further confusion.

The compass was spinning wildly like a magnet disturbed by some sort of field.

“Is the compass broken?”

Looking at the disorderly spinning compass needle, which frequently showed the fluctuating values of the demonic aura, Leonard was momentarily stunned.

He glanced at the fortress, without discovering any traces of demons.

Just as he was considering whether the relic was affected by a special magnetic field due to its proximity to the northern Devil Territory,

Suddenly,

A patrol of soldiers walked by him.

Leonard watched as his compass pointed at a certain individual in the patrol troop, displaying a value of 10, similar to the “great demon” in terms of demonic aura.

As they were quite close, the needle kept pointing at that person.

“Could it be…?”

Upon seeing this, Leonard no longer suspected the compass was malfunctioning.

He arrived at a startling conclusion- this soldier was actually a demon in disguise!

And the reason for the constant spinning of the compass needle…

It was because the camp was swarming with demons!

Once Leonard thought of this, he couldn’t help but tense up.

Apparently,

It wasn’t any lack of abnormality.

But something had not been discovered yet.

The demons, through some kind of method, had already infiltrated the fortress.

He had unknowingly jumped straight into a pile of monsters.

“The situation is worse than I thought…”

After observing for a while, Leonard confirmed his thoughts.

But instead of feeling threatened, he sighed out in relief.

If there weren’t any demons, he wouldn’t know how to trigger the high-difficulty scenario.

Now that the demons had proved to have infiltrated the fortress, yet not completely conquered it.

This was clearly an excellent time for an adventurer to join in, set by the Alternate Dimension.

Leonard was certain that there must be a key to digging out the high-difficulty scenario inside this fortress!

With this in mind, he continued to prowl around the fortress.

As he observed around the fortress, he discovered that there were fluctuations of demonic aura on soldiers taking up key positions.

Such as the operator of the basket elevator and the tower sentry..