Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2464: Mission Impossible: Deliberation Eye

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Way Beyond, SSS-rank Titan Forest Field Dungeon.

Despite knowing various ways to put an end to Jill’s adult card market monopoly dreams, I didn’t decisively order the Misfits to take action against her despite them having the strength and status to get it done without dropping my name. Since they were new members, no one would connect them to me.

I held back because before going to war with Jill I wanted to give her a chance to back out. For old times’ sake. She has been a good friend to me and also the first/only woman I bedded in this life. She has time and gain gone out of her way to help me on many occasions. Her informing me about Morningstar University and the central government conspiring to kidnap me during my college interview in the Southern Capital city was just one of them.

Jill Norley was greedy but also a very loyal friend. She had proven it time and time again. I didn’t want to lose her friendship over this. That was why I didn’t want to take any action against her until I talked to her. I know she likes to keep business and friendship apart, but I believed together we could find a common ground here.

Basically, I was going to strong-arm her into following my arrangements. If she doesn’t appreciate it, then it’s too bad for her. The world was not fair. Not everyone got what they wanted. Besides, she doesn’t get to talk about what’s fair considering she stole my idea and was using it without asking my opinion.

"Leave it to us, boss. We will protect the Sky Blossom city as if it were our native city," Kiren enthusiastically assured her young boss, seeing him give her the perfect reason to stick her nose in all of his business in the Sky Blossom City and investigate them. Under the guise of protecting the city, she planned to clarify her doubts and misgivings about her new boss.

"Love your enthusiasm. If guys do an exemplary job, maybe I might change my mind about your joining bonus," I said, as I never planned to take away their joining bonus, just ask the accounts department to delay it by a month or two.

Hey, I liked to take good care of my things, sue me.

Soon we parted ways. Redfall led the Misfits to the Southern Capital while I and Lois headed towards the Central Region. I could have used the Southern Royal Palace’s teleportation array. It would have been faster, but I didn’t want to be caught unprepared on the other side at Morningstar University. The palace not only shared its teleportation logs with the destination but sought permission from them for teleportation.

I didn’t want my arrival to be a matter of record. After all, it would be like an assassin giving a heads up to the target of their assassination. Now that would simply be dumb on my part. I was confident about my strength, but I also didn’t dare to underestimate Morningstar University. These people have a very long and rich heritage, especially their time-rule vestige.

I had a very strong resistance to the time-rule of the myriad realms because of my otherworldly soul, but I didn’t want to test its limit, at least not yet. Especially after Redfall’s defeat at the hands of the Misfits. There might be a meaning of a true rule that my otherworldly soul wasn’t resistant to.

Or there could be other eye-opening rules and skill cards like the Super-time card used by the Misfits. Not to mention the collection of unique physiques, traits, and innate cards the university had gathered over the millennia. I couldn’t stress enough how idiotic underestimating Morningstar University could be. That was why I completed my frosling corpse puppet spirit cards before heading over to Morningstar University.

I could have used the Devil Merchant Code or Henricks to take me to the Central Academic City. I planned to do exactly that once I helped Lois create and arrange evidence to back up her story about escaping the imprisonment of the Southern Royal family because her physique upgraded, helping her to break through to Card demigod realm, allowing her to escape the peculiar SSS-rank space isolation array that Southern Royal family used to imprison her.

It not only cut her off from the grimoire network but separated her from the original space by hundreds of thousands of miles, making it hard for her to navigate her way back to the original space even by entering the spiritual plane.

Afraid of getting lost in the spiritual plane, she could only give up. Until her physique ’right eye of the card world’ upgraded to ’deliberation eye’ helping her to break through to Card Demigod realm, giving her more confidence in navigating the spiritual plane to escape the array and appear outside of it in the physical plane.

"Are you ready?" I asked Lois as we arrived at the border of the central region. We specifically selected this particular border military base on the edge of the central region because it had a hideout frequently used by the Master’s loyal minions.

If Lois were actually on the run from the Southern Royal Family, this hideout would be both the closest secret location to the southern region and the most optimal place for her to report to her masters and seek help.

Lois gaining back the Masters’ trust was easier said than done. However, her chance had increased after her ’right eye of the card world’ physique upgraded to ’deliberation eye.’ It made her story a little believable. Still, the odds were against her.

Lois nodded resolutely, eyeing the military base and the secret hideout within it. Knowing the general in charge of this particular military base was most likely a lapdog of the Masters. If she managed to convince him that she was on the run from the Southern Royal family’s forces, then her odds would drastically increase.