Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 1617 Dungeon Mutation

Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 11:55

Location- Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Fine Gold new tower

Susan never intended to hide the attack on her from anyone, but with Coreyʼs demigod realm pet snake protecting her 24/7 she did not think there was anyone else who could do a better job as her bodyguard. So, instead of causing needless panic, she chose to stay quiet. 

But now that cat was out of the bag she had no intention of hiding the truth because she knew this was bigger than her and could potentially have grave consequences. Just like today, if not for Baemʼs timely warning not only was her life in danger but Diana almost became collateral damage. Susan was not somebody who would let someone else pay for her ignorance.

”Wait, is that why you were late to work today? Susan, it is not like you to enter a field dungeon on a workday,” Diana asked Susan in surprise because even though she would ask her to come to the office at 9 a.m. along with other management staff, she would be here at 8 a.m. or even earlier along with other staff, preparing for the day ahead. This was not like Susan she knew this had Corey written all over it. 

”Donʼt blame Big Sis, it was me. I could not wait to see the armor card I created for her in action. Besides we thought we would be back before 8 a.m. but things took a turn for the worse when the D-rank dungeon suddenly mutated into an S-rank dungeon. I could have handled it alone but Cortney was there to help so we were able to clear the dungeon by 9:40 without any injuries,” Corey paused to let the fact that she cleared a mutated S-rank field dungeon sink into Dianaʼs mind. 

However, to her surprise, Diana focused on a completely different matter, ”Cortney was there with you guys?” 

”Yes, why does that surprise you?” Corey asked raising her brows. A little annoyed that Diana said not a single word of praise about her clearing an S-rank dungeon. 

”When I tried calling Cortney this morning to talk to her about the orphanage, her grimoire was not reachable. When I asked around, Sarah said that Cortney was not reachable because she was in the basement of the central tower,” Diana made up the story on the spot, perfectly playing her role as a smart mouthpiece for Wyatt. 

”Oh, that. Cortney can use Bloodetteʼs Blood Flash rune to teleport in and out of the central towerʼs basement. She usually uses it to prank the TSR guild members,” Corey said finding it hilarious that TSR adventure guild members still had no idea that Bloodette had a blood rule rune that allowed her to teleport to blood marks she previously placed all over the city. Thanks to her symbiotic connection with Cortney, when together with Cortney she could use the Blood Flash Rune to teleport out of her dungeon seal to anywhere in the Sky Blossom city that she had tagged with her blood mark. 

”So, I take it Bloodette helped you guys clear the mutated S-rank dungeon,” Diana deduced. However, listening to those words Corey instantly lost it and yelled, ”I could have cleared the S-rank dungeon all by myself. You donʼt believe me? Reserve an S-rank dungeon, I will solo it.” 

”I am sorry Miss Bright, an adventure guild needs to have a minimum of five Card Kings, that is an S-rank party to reserve an S-rank dungeon. I am sure you could have soloed an S-rank field dungeon,” Diana said with a hint of sarcasm. However, it was not subtle enough. The sarcasm in her tone was apparent even for an idiot like Corey to hear it. 

Diana was doing this on purpose. Now that she knew Susan did not plan to hide anything about the incident, she decided to claim some interest for all the shit she had to go through because of Corey. 

”Damn it—” Corey was about to flip the table in anger but one glare from Susan calmed her down mumbling, ”I can solo an S-rank dungeon.” 

”Miss Diana, please donʼt tease her,” Susan spoke up for Corey and then began where Corey had left off, ”the dungeon mutation was not natural it was artificially induced by five demigods.” 

”Demigods?” Diana exclaimed, unable to stay calm. Even Wyatt who was listening in on the conversation from through the grimoire call was shocked. He wondered who would be resourceful enough to send a demigod-level party to deal with a few low-level card apprentices. Besides, how did Susan, Corey, Bloodette, and Cortney survive the ambush of a demigod-level party? Though Bloodette was a supreme being she had not fully recovered her strength because of the dungeon seal. Forget a card demigod she could not defeat a card emperor. 

”That is not that surprising thing of all. What was peculiar was these demigods ambushed us at 9:45. Not 9:40 when we cleared the mutated dungeon or not when we were about to leave the dungeon but correctly at 9:45 when we were out of the dungeon and headed to the city. Begging the question what was the point of them mutating the dungeon and why did they not ambush us inside the dungeon which was the perfect place for them to make our deaths look like an accident?” Susan pointed out that the demigod ambush was orchestrated in a peculiar fashion as if they were waiting for some kind of auspicious time to attack a bunch of low-level card apprentices. 

The Demigodʼs actions did not make any sense. Why mutate the dungeon and why ambush them when they left the dungeon when it would have been more reasonable to ambush them inside the dungeon? Where it would be easier for them to orchestrate their death as an accident in a dungeon mutation. Susan had no idea why but Wyatt knew exactly why the demigods ambushed them right at 9:45.

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