Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 29 Mar 2321

Time- 21:59

Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no. 234

"Go ahead. Tiger Squadron is your responsibility. Do your best to keep it afloat. If the financial troubles are urgent, I could allocate some funds for the Tiger squadron." I respected how old Ben looked after his soldiers and tried to rectify his mistakes by making up for his absence over the years by himself. 

"Thank you, Master Wyatt. The situation is not that urgent. I can handle the situation." old Ben refused to ask for funds and assured me that he could take care of it himself. 

"Good, but do not hesitate to ask for help if you need it." Asking old Ben not to be shy to ask for help, I advised him, " If you plan to sell the blood equipment cards, contact Susan for assistance. With her present, you don't have to worry about fair pricing and being taken advantage of." 

"Yes, Master Wyatt. Now, if you may, I plan to head back to raiding dungeons to create enough cards to come up with funds." Old Ben knew no rest. He planned to get back to raiding dungeons to create more rune cards and gather the funds as soon as possible. 

"Sure, but that will have to wait as I have matters to discuss with you two." Saying that, I ran my gaze over old Ben and Van, adding," It's regarding our plan to invade the Sun Blossom City and whipping out its branch of Circle." 

"..." Hearing my words, Van and old Ben became visibly serious. I had already given each of them their respective tasks for the upcoming mission. So they knew what I was talking about. 

"Van, how far have you looked into the Circle Sun Blossom city branch and the authorities, families that are facilitating their activities in that city." Earlier I had tasked Van to dig in the Circle and its connections in Sun Blossom City. 

"Almost everyone who is anybody in the Sun Blossom City is already in Circle's pocket. The authorities, guilds, families, even the card creationist association, everyone is at the beck and call of the inner circle of the Circle. The roots of the Circle in the Sun Blossom City are very deep." Van reported that the whole Sun Blossom City is under the Circles thumb. 

"What about their new leader? Were you able to find anything about him? " The control of Circle on Sun Blossom city was stronger than I thought. So I asked Van about the leader of Sun Blossom city branch Circle. 

"That, the new leader of the Circle is Mike Brown. He is a local hero. A few years ago, random three B-rank gate dungeon opened up in the Sun Blossom City. The city's rapid response team focused their activity in the high-income neighborhood of the city and left slums to fend for themselves. Then Mike Brown showed up out of nowhere, hunted all the monsters, and finally captured the gate dungeon single-handedly. Since then, he has been hailed as Savior, Hero of the poor by the citizens of Sun Blossom City. Once he was pronounced as the leader of the Circle Sun Blossom Branch, the citizens and authorities were no longer opposed to the idea of Circle opening a branch in their city." Van narrated the feats of Mike Brown, the leader of the Circle, Sun Blossom Branch. 

"..." Hearing that not only did the Circle have all the authorities and families of the Sun Blossom City in their pockets, but were also well received by the citizens of the city because of the heroic leader, I was astonished. And I was surprised to see the growth of the Circle's influence in Sun Blossom City in such a short time. 

"The authorities and families of the Sun Blossom City were already in pockets of the Circle Sky Blossom Branch, so it, not a surprise that Circle's influence grew to such a dangerous level in such a short time. " Van explained that the degree of Circle's control in Sun Blossom city was not surprising as authorities and families of the city were already subjugated by the Circle even before they moved into the city. 

"This will make our invasion plan a lot harder than it had to be." Waging war against the Circle in an unknown land was already a massive risk. But the unknown land turned out to be the home field for the Circle, making it even riskier to declare war on them. 

I had members of the TSR guild and Tiger Squadron to handle the cannon fodders of the Circle. At the same time, my Calamity daughter gems take care of the Inner Circle. And I would hunt the big fishes and the Kingfish, Mike Brown himself. This way, the workforce on both sides would be equal, but things change if the authorities, families, and guilds provide the Circle with reinforcement. 

If this were to happen, my forces and I would be facing the entire forces of the Sun Blossom City. With various forces attacking us from all sides, the Battlefield would become a cage for my troops and me. No matter how strong the members of the TSR guild and Tiger Squadron have grown with Blood equipment, Blood Spirit, Blood Totem Cards, they still cannot take on an entire city. 

I could intervene with my ego elementals. After all, the average card apprentice cannot defend against the rule attacks, then the war to slaughter the Circle would turn into a city-wide massacre because that is the only way my troops and I can escape the city. And no matter how much Anna valued me, she would have to arrest me and hold me responsible for massacring an entire city. With that, I would have to say goodbye to my chill university life and plan on how to survive a prison life in the card world. 

"Fock this," I cursed in frustration, realizing how hard it would be to invade the Sun Blossom city and wage war against the strongest organization of the city. 

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