Something's wrong with how I'm watching anime.

When the lights are off, even if it's still daytime outside, the room is pitch black.

The disappearance of the light source also caused Chen Jie to pause in his movements.

Should we fire?

Chen Jie thought of this subconsciously.

But in the end he didn't do it.

The bullet ricocheted as soon as I fired, and now I've lost sight of it. If I fire again and am unlucky, another ricochet could injure me, which would be ridiculous.

In the brief moment of Chen Jie's hesitation, a figure lunged at him from the darkness.

Chen Jie felt a powerful force strike him, slapping his hand hard. In pain, Chen Jie released his grip, and the pistol fell to the ground.

The entire process, from the lights going out to knocking the gun out of Chen Jie's hand, took less than three seconds.

Kazama pressed the switch and then lunged at Chen Jie, knocking the pistol out of his hand with a fluid and seamless motion.

Kazama, of course, does not have night vision.

In the pitch black, the reason he was able to accurately shoot the pistol out of Chen Jie's hand was simply because he had memorized Chen Jie's location in the room before turning off the lights.

As he knocked Chen Jie's pistol away, Kazama retrieved it again and punched the back of Chen Jie's neck.

A gust of wind blew past his ear. After his pistol was knocked out, Chen Jie instinctively crouched down to dodge and retreated at the same time—this punch from Kazama naturally missed.

"Damn, how is this fat guy so fast?!"

Now Chen Jie has finally realized what's going on.

This includes Kazama's immediate evasive maneuver when he drew his gun and fired, as well as Kazama's sudden movement to dodge, his dash to the wall to turn off the lights, and then his rush to him and knock his pistol out of his hand.

The guy in front of me didn't act like a short, fat man at all.

Kazama is not fat at all; his appearance is just a disguise made up of [Gaia Foundation].

In his thought process, Kazama's self-control reached its limit, which is why he was able to make such smooth and fluid responses.

The room fell silent again.

In the darkness, the silence resembled the environment where a wild beast lurked.

Chen Jie held his breath and silently backed away until he was pressed against the wall.

He stretched out his arm and groped towards a certain spot on the wall.

However, there was another crisp click as the switch was pressed, and the lights in the room came on again.

There are two light switches, one in front and one in back.

When light filled the room again, the previously gloomy situation became clear once more.

At this moment, Kazama and Chen Jie were only two meters apart.

The pistol and the silver briefcase were on the ground to the left and right, respectively, near the wall, about eight meters away from the two people.

.........

Kazama frowned as he looked at the man in front of him.

From an ordinary person's perspective, he is indeed a formidable character.

But for Kazama right now, it's nothing.

Although he mastered his superhuman powers in less than a month, Kazama could still easily defeat his opponents if they were normal humans.

One illusion card is enough.

Although illusion cards are not considered attack cards, but rather spell cards, they are still extremely convenient for use against enemies.

Just confuse your opponent's senses, then go up and knock them unconscious.

but...

Kazama couldn't help but raise his gaze slightly, looking at the surveillance camera in the corner of the room.

Never leave any evidence when using supernatural powers, unless the worst-case scenario has truly occurred.

Under surveillance, Kazama couldn't openly take out the illusion cards.

Because he wasn't sure if anyone was still in the monitoring room. Even if no one was there, he would still try to delete the recorded video footage afterward.

However, with the police already raiding the scene, Kazama clearly didn't have that time.

"Am I only able to use supernatural powers that 'look' normal?" Kazama thought to himself.

While Kazama stood still, Chen Jie moved.

He twisted his waist and lifted his hips, suddenly raising one of his legs to his chest, and then rammed into Kazama.

A powerful knee strike.

If someone is hit in the chest, several of their ribs will break immediately.

Actually, Chen Jie's real skill wasn't marksmanship, or rather, his marksmanship had always been terrible. It's just that in this day and age, you had to learn how to use a gun to survive.

Chen Jie's true weapon is his own body!

Before he entered this industry, he was a professional boxer fighting in underground rings.

He is particularly skilled in Muay Thai, which is known for its fierce and brutal style.

"You fat bastard, just die..."

Looking at Kazama, who seemed to be standing there in a daze, Chen Jie thought to himself.

He could almost picture the fat man flying backward, his chest caved in, coughing up blood.

However, Chen Jie did not see the two cards that quietly disappeared from Kazama's fingertips behind his back.

Just as Chen Jie's knee was about to hit Kazama, Kazama suddenly moved.

It wasn't a dodge, but rather an arm raised to the waist, followed by a swift punch.

A punch was thrown, colliding directly with Chen Jie's knee.

Chen Jie felt as if his knee had hit a hard steel plate, and excruciating pain surged from his knee.

But before Chen Jie could even cry out in pain, a figure had already pressed against him. The figure's shoulder was slightly lower, and his shoulder pounded like a hammer, his waist and hips twisted, and then... he suddenly slammed into him.

With a single movement, the whole body becomes one, the person is like a taut bow, and the hair is like a thunderclap, possessing an indescribable fierceness and violence.

Chen Jie suddenly felt as if a speeding truck was crashing into him head-on, the immense force instantly sending him flying and crashing heavily into the wall.

[Fighting Cards, Bajiquan, Cannon Fist]

[Fighting Cards - Eight Extremes - Iron Mountain Lean]

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hands Up!

Among the items on Kazama's watchlist, the Clow Cards may not be the most powerful, but they are definitely the most versatile.

It must be said that the Clow Cards truly embody the combined skills of the great magician Clow Reed, their core being all-encompassing:

The four cards representing Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water represent Kuro's research on the elements, and their derivative cards—Cloud, Rain, Fog, Snow, Storm, and Thunder—can even directly influence the weather.

The interplay of light and darkness represents the study of spacetime.

The two cards represent research into altering the state of matter.

Such as many others.

In short, the various Clow Cards, each possessing different abilities, represent Clow's expertise in a particular field.

Even in areas where the spellcaster is clearly not skilled—melee combat. Clow Reed also condensed the relevant power into cards.

Playing cards.

Users can instantly master superb fighting skills.

The game is centered around the Fighting Card, and includes the 'Power Card' which enhances strength, the 'Drive Card' which enhances explosiveness and speed, the 'Leap Card' which enhances jumping ability, the 'Sword Card' which enhances weapons, and the 'Shield Card' which enhances defense.

These six cards, when combined, can instantly create a powerful melee attack.

Although, due to limitations in his magic power and mastery of the Clow Cards, Kazama was unable to use so many cards simultaneously.

Kazama can currently control up to two Clow Cards at the same time.

Cards and shields—that's Kazama's current choice.

The shield can cover Kazama's body with an invisible protective layer. Of course, using this method to wield the shield to block bullets is not feasible for the time being, but it can be seen as having trained an extra external martial art compared to his opponent.

If it's purely a hand-to-hand combat situation, the defense is more than enough.

Needless to say, card games are another story.

With most of the Clow Cards that Kazama possesses being spell cards and support cards, the Fighting Card is the support card that, apart from the Wind Card, provides the greatest boost to Kazama's combat power.

When Kazama first acquired this card, he learned from Clow Reed's original intention in creating it from Cerberus.

At that time, Kuro was traveling in the Eastern Continent and happened to come into contact with the Maoshan School's "divine attack" and the Nuo opera deity masks of the Xiangxi shamans.

Kuro, who was already very interested in this, came into contact with Eastern martial arts and thought of combining the two in his own understanding to create a unique Kuro card, namely the 'Fighting Card'.

"The creation of Doupai was not achieved overnight. When it was first created, Doupai was like an innocent baby."

"It was through Kuro following a martial arts master friend and having the card witness the exchanges between that martial arts master friend and other martial arts masters that the martial arts spirit gradually formed within it."

The martial arts spirit in the card game is most skilled in the Bajiquan, the signature style of Kuro's martial arts master friend.

..........

The feeling of wearing the Fighting Card is very strange, unlike the Shield Card or the Power Card, which are simple auxiliary cards that act on the body.

The ability to play cards seems to directly influence one's inner experience and thinking.

Various experiences and knowledge that should have been unfamiliar surfaced in Kazama's mind, and these experiences even directly influenced Kazama's instincts.

Just like the knee strike the opponent had delivered, Kazama almost instinctively threw a punch, making the best response he could at the moment.

Then, a powerful lean into the opponent's arms was the perfect way to execute a combo, a move that came to mind and was the best way to execute the combo.

instinct.

This is especially important in life-or-death struggles, particularly in fast-paced combat.