Card Apprentice Daily Log

1047 Volatile Circumstances

Date- 4 April 2321

Time- 02:41

Location- Southern Region, Blossom District, Sun blossom city, Sewers

”Are you done?” Sniper asked the flower thief, who was busy tweaking the Dragonviper poison canister so that its area of effect covered the entire drainage system of the city at the cost of decreasing the concentration of the poison in the gas. Considering that the poison was SS-rank, even a little concentration of it in the air was more than enough to deal with a low-level card apprentice like the boy.

”Five more minutes, when I am done with this, this entire cityʼs drainage system will be filled with poison in seconds,” Flower thief said as if the consequence of his action never crossed his mind.

”Noice,” Sniper was happy that they could get off work soon. He too did not seem to care about the implication of flooding the cityʼs entire drainage system with poisonous gases.

”Thatʼs good but how long before the poisonʼs gases disperse,” Gary Fur asked knowing no matter how smelly a fart was it would disperse with time.

Before the flower thief could answer him their fourth teammate the card emperor in charge of the array formations suddenly spoke up, ”How do you guys live with yourself? You speak of killing an entire city like throwing another bbq party.”

Hearing him the other three did not spare him a glance and continued with their conversation.

”Since there is barely any air movement in here, the poison is going to last for a while. Even months if the authorities donʼt interfere,” Flower thief answered ignoring the fourth member of their team. Turns out Flower thief was fully aware of the consequences of his idea to poison the cityʼs entire drainage system, it was just that pretending ignorance let him continue with his plan.

”...” Being ignored the fourth team member shook his head blaming himself and his greed, he was not afraid of death nor losing his memory but having his memory altered to do Matronʼs bidding. He could turn to suicide but he knew he would be forced into a coma even before he could go through it, just like the fifth member of their team.

Yet he chooses to commit suicide by self-detonation, considering his circumstance he felt being forced into a coma was better than being a spectator to the deaths of millions of innocent souls. But before he could go through that, he suddenly felt the mental strength of the semi-demigods scan through the drainage system of the city. It wasnʼt just him the other three to felt the semi-demigods inspecting the drainage system.

Gray furʼs expression turned ugly and he said, ”Whatʼs going on up there? We need eyes up there. Flower thief, order your familiar to take us out there.”

”Canʼt those semi-demigods, do that?” the Flower thief said feeling that they should use semi-demigods sent by Matron to run such errands.

”No, seeing it will give us a clear picture of changes up there than the words,” Gray fur was adamant about personally checking on what the semi-demigods were up to while they traced the boy to the city sewers.

”Fine,” Flower Thief did not agree with Gray fur but he felt that it would best to know what the semi-demigods were up to, though the Dragonviper poison was deadly if it were to be contained by the semi-demigods before it could achieve its purpose then all this would be for nothing so he instructed his familiar to go above ground.

Reaching the surface, they were surprised unable to find the semi-demigods from the circle. Then seeing the three clones of the boy next to the allied semi-demigods, they realized that the Circle and the boyʼs bodyguards came to an understanding and reached a compromise. Which was bad news for them because without the semi-demigods from the circle distracting the allied semi-demigods they could never successfully poison the cityʼs drainage system.

Seeing the circumstance has changed for the worst, Gray fur immediately reacted and summoning his grimoire he updated the semi-demigods sent by Matron about the situation and asked them to distract the allied semi-demigods so that they could poison the sewers to kill the boy, completing the mission before the situation gets anymore out of hand.

Gray Fur choose to double down on their previous plan despite the volatile circumstances because of the previous mental sweep of the allied semi-demigods. As he felt the only reason the semi-demigods would scan the cityʼs drainage system was to search for the boy, Gray Fur was confident of this because the empty beast was untraceable so the allied force shouldnʼt even know of their presence. So the former made sense.

But suggest when Gray fur was feeling assured of his decision he saw one of the boyʼs clone look right at them as if he could see the empty beast and them within its subspace. Gray Fur wanted to ignore it thinking he was imagining it but then the boyʼs cloneʼs mouth arched into a smirk as he nodded at them. Seeing this Gray felt a chill run through his body.

”Guys, is it just me, or did the boy just smirk at us? Tell me I am not seeing things,” Sniper said, as the boyʼs cloneʼs actions were too obvious to miss.

”No, you are not seeing things,” the Flower thief spoke and then yelled, ”This proves I was right, the boy can see us, that is how he was able to pull that trick on us at the stadium.”

”Shit, we have more pressing things to worry about,” Gray fur was not interested in the past but present. He started to doubt whether the clone smirking at them was the original body of the boy. That would explain why he was able to see them. But that put his theory of the allied semi-demigods sweeping the cityʼs sewer with their mental strength.

If the clone was really the original body of the boy then things would be a lot easier, with 12 semi-demigods on their side they could complete the job with ease but this begged the question if this clone was the original body of the boy why risk it by signaling that to them unless there was something else afoot here.

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