Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 27 Mar 2321

Time- 18:27

Location- Sky Blossom City, City Outskirts

"No, this wasn't supposed to happen. Those bastards must have already revealed that I ordered the assassination of Ellen's son." Sansa was at the end of her nerves, thinking of the possibility that the Southern emperor knows about her little club. 

Sansa was not worried that the Southern emperor knew about the existence of her secret club. What worried her was that the Southern emperor knew she was behind the secret club. 

The secret club is like a zombie. Unless you take out its head, it will keep coming for you. Now that the zombie's head is exposed, Sansa was worried the Southern emperor would aim directly for her and uproot everything she had built over the past decades. 

"Madam, it is not yet certain that those people have revealed any club-related information yet. After all, those who are missing willingly choose to be your slaves…subordinates. As far as I know, it would not be in their best interest to disclose any information to the Southern Emperor, who is known to kill first and ask questions later. So I think that it would be unwise to jump to any conclusions." Grey fur tried to calm enraged Madame Web.

"Shut up, you stupid fool. Don't act innocent; I know you knowingly used the other teams as your bait. If not for your scheme, they would not have walked right into the southern emperor's trap. This is all your fault. And don't say you didn't know it would end up this way. I read your memories. In the past, I would ignore this and didn't mind giving you some rope, but your greed has hanged me with it." Enraged, Sansa blamed it all on Grey fur. Forgetting the fact that she sent 30 card emperors to kill a card soldier for a petty reason.

From the start, Grey fur planned to use other teams as bait. Grinch's team, which negotiated with the southern emperor, would be the first bait, and the other four teams hiding in the city would be the second bait. While the Southern emperor and her subordinates were busy dealing with the two bait, he planned to use the flower thief's origin card to assassinate the assassination target silently. 

Once the mission was complete, those who could escape would escape to the rendezvous point and escape through their individual escape array. But things didn't go as Grey fur planned; instead, both the baits walked right into the southern emperor's trap leading to the current situation. Having read Grey fur's memory, Sansa knew all this; therefore, she blamed him. 

"Your slave begs for forgiveness, Madame." Hearing Sansa blame him for everything, Grey fur did not dare to argue and hurriedly begged forgiveness. 

"I will decide on your punishment for you later. For now, leave the city as fast as possible and don't wait for the southern emperor to return to monitor her response when she learns about the boy's death. It's pointless. Bring your new team with you. I have a new task for you guys.

Meanwhile, I will try to get more information on the Southern emperor's field card and make arrangements for the worst case, assuming those losers have revealed my information to the southern emperor." Ordering Grey fur his next objective, Sansa started to plan for the worst, thinking that the Southern emperor knew everything about her and her club. 

Sansa had learned from Grey Fur's memory that he was planning to continue staying at Sky blossom city and wait for the Southern emperor's return and check on her reaction to the assassination of the boy. And that thought that was pointless and had another task for Grey fur and his new team.

"Yes, ma'am. we will be there." Grey fur did not make any excuses and hurriedly agreed to travel to the central region to accept the new task his team was assigned. 

Grey Fur thought any objection was pointless as Madame web had already read his memory and should know he and his team members were planning on awarding themselves with a night at 'Heaven on four legs.' Despite knowing all this, Madame Web assigned them a new task, which meant that the mission was urgent and could wait. 

This was also why Grey fur dared to use other teams as bait despite knowing that he would be reprimanded by Madame Web later. The punishment that madame Web spoke of would never come; instead would be showered with rewards as long as he keeps completing all the assigned tasks. 

"Speaking of your new team, take care of Flower Thief. That one is essential for my plans." Sansa warned Grey Fur from using Flower Thief like the other club members because his origin card made him too special to be used as expendable goods. 

"Yes, Madame. That goes without saying. Without that boy, the last mission would not have been a success. Please be rest assured I will take care of that boy and Sniper." Sniper and Flower Thief's origin card made them assets in Madame web's eyes and she showed more tolerance towards those who she viewed as assets. 

Ending the call with Madame Web Grey, fur called his new team and asked them to meet up at the central region for the new task. 

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Date- 27 Mar 2321

Time- 18:31

Location- Sky Blossom City, Card stadium.

Exciting the damned raining arena Anna appeared right where she entered it. Hovering in the sky, Anna was in deep thought but throwing everything to the back of her mind. Anna hurried towards the VIP box no.1.

"What the heck is that thing? And Where is Wyatt?" Pointing at the blood cocoon in the middle of the room, Anna inquired Lorenzo and Luna about it and my whereabouts. 

"..." Lorenzo and Luna were speechless; they did not know how to explain their failure to protect me to Anna. 

Yes, I was still alive, but it was because of my quick thinking. If not, I would have died under the hands of the assassin, which was the fault of Lorenzo and Luna. If they had done their job right, the killers could not have reached me. And I would not have to fake my death. 

I could have formed my new body long ago before Anna arrived, but I did not because I wanted Anna to understand what happened and how dire the situation was. This way, these irresponsible card emperors would not go unpunished. Therefore I delayed the formation of my new body and waited for Anna in my blood cocoon. And also, because if the hostile card emperor's returned, I would not have to make another decoy. 

"Will somebody answer me?" Anna stressed her words, feeling the atmosphere of the room dampen. 

*cough* 

"Holy shit did that thing just cough" Anna was spooked, suddenly hearing the blood cocoon cough. 

"Anna, it's me." Feeling Anna's mental probe, I answered Anna. 

"What the hell are you doing in the cocoon? What happened?" Anna asked in concern. 

"Ahem, I will go and do a perimeter check to see if any mouse is still running around.'' Lorenzo cleared his throat and excused himself. 

"Not so fast, Old man. We gave the Positioning Rain array. So you do not have to do any parameter sweep." Anna was not new to Lorenzo's tricks, and seeing him escape, Anna knew that these guys messed up. 

"Haha, I forgot. I am getting old." Lorenzo laughed it off and blamed his age. He wanted to argue that the enemy could walk in the array without getting noticed, but he was wise enough not to drop the stone on his leg. 

"Now, will someone explain to me what Wyatt is doing in the blood cocoon? Is it the rumored blood revival technique?" Anna was not new to blood rules and arts, so she guessed that the blood cocoon was related to the blood revival technique. 

" Don't hold your breath on them. None of them will answer your questions. Let me tell you what happened." I slowly narrated what happened to Anna. 

"Cousin, I did my best. Those people had a weird card. That allowed them to cloak themselves and phase through from my array. Please don't assume that it's my fault, cousin." Hearing me blame them for the death of my decoy Luna tried to reason with her cousin. 

"What do you mean by high-level stealth? By any chance, are they still here?" Anna finally realized old man Lorenzo's array was not dependable as he sounded it to be.