Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 103: Family

Date 23 Mar 2321

Time 11:15

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

My stomach hurt from laughing too much but I did not want to stop to get back at Susan for teasing me earlier for calling her sis. But seeing that we are in company I stopped as it would be cruel if I continued further and look like I was belittling Susan in front of others instead of laughing at her innocent words.

“The government did not step in to uphold justice and fairness…” I said looking at Susan who was puffed up with anger.

As I gave a dramatic pause for a big reveal Susan impatiently asked, “Then why did the government step in?” I could sense her annoyance at the prolonged laugh earlier, it was justified. As I would also like my friend to have my back in front of the outsiders instead of making me feel dumb, I will make it up to her later.

“The government stepped in because they are afraid.” I said but Susan did not seem to understand and asked, “why would the government be afraid of losing equilibrium between the rich and commoners in the card creationist association?”

“63% of the market’s cards are created and supplied by the card creationist association. Who do you think creates these cards?”

“Of course the card creationists employed by the card creationist association.” Susan answered confidently.

I shook my head and said, “no! The commoner card creationists employed by the card creationist association do.

Do you really think that the stuck up snobbish rich card creationist waste time creating low-level day to day and normal cards which would fetch very little money but require hard labour.

The Rich faction considers it beneath them to waste time creating low-level cards because the pocket money given by the families backing them is 10 times what they gain from completing card creationist association missions. And also thanks to their good arsenal of cards they have more success rate in card creation attracting more clients for custom made cards which in turn supports their lavish lifestyle and get wealthier.

So commoner card creationists are left with no choice but complete card creationist association missions to get by.”

“How does this make the government afraid?” Asked Susan still not understanding where I was headed.

“What will you do if the association mall worked you like a donkey and paid pennies in compensation while your colleagues made buttloads just by doing 1/10th or even 1/100th of what you did.” Instead of answering Susan, I questioned her instead.

“Find another job where I am appreciated, if the situation is too desperate I would consider changing my career.” Answered Susan.

“That’s what the Commoner Card creationist are doing… If the people who are actually running the card creationist association are deserting it then all that’s left of it is a glorious shell that could crumble any minute. As even if the rich faction worked their butt off they cannot supply or meet the demand of 63% of the card market. And considering their predecessor’s example the new generation of commoner card creationists will think twice before joining the card creationist association.

But losing the percentage in the card market is not enough to alert the government as they can earn more in terms of income by tax paid on every card created by the Commoner Card creationist working for the card creationist association’s competitors.

The other companies are not supported by the government so they do not waste resources creating low-level cards with low profits instead they target high-level cards and custom orders.

Since now the card creationist guild is not able to supply low-level cards and nobody else is creating low-level cards there will be a shortage of low-level cards in the market and the high-level cards will be more available leading to a decrease in high-level cards price in the market.

This way the market will fall, raising utter chaos doing significant damage to the economy… And the only way to stop this from happening is to restore the balance between the rich and commoner faction of the Card creationist association. Therefore the government stepped in and made new laws in favour of the commoner faction which to young and naive minds will seem as upholding justice and fairness attracting new commoner card creationist to join the card creationist association.

Now, do you understand? The government is not being fair or maintaining justice but just recruiting more slaves to its cause and pleasing the crowd avoiding an uprising.”

Susan was silent hearing the real reason for the government getting off its ass for a change, it’s not that Susan is stupid to believe in government but it is just her nature to trust because of which her thoughts never went in that direction of reasoning.

The atmosphere in the room was depressing and discouraging, this is why people avoid talks of the government as the waters there were too deep and dark and people like Susan will easily get lost unable to see past its darkness. But surprisingly Susan soon cheered up and said, “anyway whatever the reason they had the government did something good for once. Thanks to that we do not have to go through an economic crash any time soon.”

It seems I had underestimated Susan… I expected her to lash out and defend the government or just complain of its unfairness but she took the hard and ugly truth that the government does not care about commoners but just the economy and market pretty nicely and focused on the positive.

“cheers to a stable economy, I guess” Said Elliott easing the atmosphere.

“Yes, cheers to a stable economy!!” I also followed Elliott’s lead and changing the topic I said, “Elliott… what do you know about physique and traits on grimoire status page.”

“Oh, it looks Mr Wyatt has made breakthroughs in his card creation” I did not know if Elliott was asking me or telling me, but to me, it felt like Elliott was suspecting that I had physique and traits or had come into contact with someone having them.

So I made myself clear by sending the saved article physique, traits and ugly truth to his grimoire and saying, “I came across this just this morning. Thankful I saved it to read later as it was deleted by authorities the very next second, making me curious and question its authenticity.”

Elliott nodded in understanding but did not believe Wyatt because something like this does not just pop up and you save it unless you are searching for it… Considering their friendship Elliott decided not to prey anymore and said, “this is true, not many in the upper class of the society know this even I would not know this if not for one of our clients being one of the secret families.

Considering our new relationship I would like to inform you not to look further into it and also delete the saved article one cannot be too cautious. If they knew I was spreading this particular secret they will kill me and everyone in contact with me over the years without hesitation just to be safe.

I only admitted to the existence of physique and traits because I know lying to you will only make you more curious and I do not want my new friend to die this early in our friendship.”

Seems like the secrecy to physique and traits is very important to the government and the secret families, clans and sect. Debunking the reasoning that they don’t want the general public to know because the general public will demand their secret methods. Seeing how much importance the government and the secret families, clans and sect are giving to hide the physique and traits I had a feeling that this had a ginormous secret hidden behind it enough to threaten the government and the secret families, clans and sect.

“So, can anyone of you fill me in about this Physique and traits you talk about?” Said Susan.

Hearing Susan my brows frowned and I realised what a grave mistake I have made talking about the physique and traits in the presence of Susan. If the government is really none tolerant about this info leaking as Elliott makes it sound then I have just put Susan in grave danger.

Elliott gave me a look, I don’t know what he meant by this look but I felt like he was telling me to fix it or he will fix it for me. So emitting abyssal bear’s intimidating aura I said, “Elliott I think you should visit a healer because your eyes seem to be not working properly or maybe you want me to fix it for you.” I did not bother to wait for his response to my threat and added, ” Susan is family and I am very protective of my family Mr Elliott. I hope you will not be careless and understand what I am trying to say.”

“Do not worry Mr Wyatt, my friend’s family is my family. But I hope you know the seriousness of this matter. I just risked my neck and the necks of my family to stop you from seeking death…

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