Card Apprentice Daily Log

Changes, Ego Temple -> Ego Gem

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Date- 27 Mar 2321

Time- 12:43

Location- Sky Blossom City, Sky Blossom Card Stadium, VIP Box no.1

Though Anna was willing to give up preying on my secrets that doesn't mean others would do the same. No, not Corey and Lorenzo. Corey recently started acting too proud, so she does not care about my secret. Lorenzo was Anna's slave… employee so he would do anything against her wishes. The ones that gained my suspicions were the two card emperors seated beside Anna. They have been staring at me intently, if for the presence of Anna and Lorenzo I bet they would have already acted on the ideas that they were cooking up in their minds. It seems I wasn't the only one that felt their intent towards me, 

"Lorenzo would be kind enough to entertain these two guests from central to lunch." Anna order Lorenzo to take the two card emperors from central somewhere else before she and I would start talking about Ego Gem, my experience in the Ego Gem, Rules and Broken Runes. Out of all these, my experience in the Ego Gem was of confidential nature.

"Happy to oblige, your Majesty." Lorenzo dowed and accepted Anna's orders without a bit of delay or hint of dissatisfaction. Turning to the two card emperors Lorenzo barked, "you central region snoods follow me, I will show you guys what an authentic southern 36-course meal looks like. If you are well behaved I may even let you taste it." 

Lorenzo was not worried his unbridled worlds would heart the visitors, he was a prideful person after all. Having served an entire family of demigods and their descendants, the Heatsends. Lorenzo thought it was beneath him to serve some no-name card emperors from the central region who were known to look down on anybody who wasn't from or belonged to the central region. 

Brandon wanted to teach this old card emperor some manners but was held back by his uncle, in anger he mentally asked his uncle, " Uncle, why did you hold me back? Let me kill this old fool. How dare he disrespect us and treat us like some kind of inferior being." 

"Control yourself, my dear stupid nephew. Who do you think that old man is? He is the Raining Alchemist. He single-handedly cleared not one, not two but four SS-Rank Field dungeons. Do you know what that means? Field dungeons are more difficult compared to the gate dungeons. They have an army of monsters in them. Do you even know how many SS-Rank monsters are in a single SS-Rank field dungeon? Do you know the kind of power it takes to defeat an army of high-level monsters with about 100 or so SS-Rank monsters and one SS-rank boss monster? 

There is a rumour going on about him in the central region that even some in the Demigod realm fear him. We together can barely handle Anna let alone taking on Raining Alchemist and Anna simultaneously. Stay put and do as they say, do not forget our mission. If your ego gets in the way of our mission I will cripple you myself." Brandon's uncle mentally warned him and reminded him that the family mission was the priority, not his petty grievances. 

Hearing his uncle's warning Brandon was dumbfounded and stared at the carefree old man Lorenzo in front of him at high alert. as he quietly followed Lorenzo he thought, 'Fuq, what kind of monster is he to threaten someone in the demigod realm. First that bitch and now this old fool.' 

"How about we head out for lunch too? Just the two of us, I will explain everything to you in explicit details." Anna ended her sentence with a small moan, was it intentional. Knowing her it must have been. As people do not simply moan in a room full of people. 

"Big sis, come on let's go. Let's give them some privacy." Corey gave Anna a thumbs up and dragged Susan out of the VIP room. The rest did not need an invitation, they followed Susan and Corey out. I ordered Sarah and other daughter cores to follow Susan. 

"Your Majesty, about the whit…'' the Whiteburn siblings stayed behind to consult Anna on the matter earlier but before Eliza could complete her sentence Anna interrupted her and said, " You guys have nothing to worry about. I will meet your family leader to put an end to this matter. Go enjoy your lunch." 

"Thank you, your Eminence." Eliza, Pax, Ammy and Beth hurriedly thanked Anna and vacated the VIP box no1. Leaving me and Anna alone in it. 

"So, what would you like to have for lunch?" Anna asked me while ringing the staff beeper, calling for the staff to take our orders.

"Double cheese pizza with mushroom topping." Narrating my order to the staff who just walked in I looked at Anna and said, "Well I am waiting" 

"Mushroom and Pepperoni for me" Anna reported her order and added, "what the rush?" 

"Mmm... At least keep the severed head out of my sight." I said looking at the severed head and platinum grimoire of card emperor Claude. 

"Fine." Stuffing the head in her space storage Anna said, " wait a second let me make sure that nobody is eavesdropping." 

Saying that Anna summoned her diamond grimoire and activated a card. And soon a blue hollow circled the room and formed a type of energy coating on the floor, ceiling and the 4 walls, "You can start now, begin from how you entered the ego gem? what you experienced within the ego gem? And why were you able to escape the ego gem."

"I thought you were not going to ask me how and why?" Anna had promised me that she would not pry into my secrets a few minutes ago, yet here she was preying into my secrets. 

"I thought you started trusting me so I asked. Do you trust me now?" Was she doing it on purpose? I do not know, because her expression seemed genuine enough. 

"No! I don't." I stated. 

"Wow, that hurts more than I thought it would. Why don't you trust me? Is it because of my sleeping around? I just like to have a good time. But for you, I give up on that, Babe." Anna elucidated, looking as if I had wronged her. 

"What is happening here? Nope! I am not participating in this. Anna, I will walk right out of here if you do not stop these shenanigans and start explaining what I want to know." Note to mental self, 'never be alone in a room with a crazy woman named Anna. No matter how desperate you are.' 

"You are no fun, well I will forgive you as you just experienced a near-death experience. But if you dare to reject me again I will show you what it feels like to be rejected, again and again, got it" Anna warned me, for a second I thought I saw her eyes turn pitch black. Note to mental self, 'scratch that, this bitch is possessed. If you get out of here alive. May god bless you that you do not run into her again.'

"Understood. Now can you tell me about the ego gems? How can I get one?" What was I thinking? Why did I willingly choose to stay alone with her? Or are all girls like this, moody? 

"For humans, Ego Gems are what Monster cores are for the monsters. Unlike monsters who are born with a monster core, humans have to form their ego gem by solidifying their spirit.

The spirit of your soul is in an ethereal state, you have to purify and refine it before you solidify your spirit into an ego gem." Anna explained but I did not understand her. Seeing my confused look it became clear to her that I did not understand a single thing she was talking about. 

"Here watch this, it will help you understand." Saying that Anna closed her eyes and an Astral phantom appeared behind her. It looked exactly like Anna, no more majestic and stuck up than Anna. Yeah, she was also bountiful and charming than Anna herself but the expression made by the phantom clearly expressed an unbridled disgust for all living beings.

"That is my solidified spirit. Don't mind her expression, she is like that to me too. You have to solidify the spirit/ego of your soul to that level then you can form an ego gem." Anna seemed to also be worried about her spirit's unbridled disgust. 

"I thought we already have an ego gem and we had to open or awaken it." My wrong assumptions were the reason for me not understanding Susan

"That's for animals, once they awaken their monster core, they are termed as monsters."