Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 1786 Tough Love?

Date- 16 April 2321

Time- –:–

Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Guild Headquarters, Blood Rock Cave, Seed World, Inter-Realm City, Sector DS0909, Infinity Library, Exec. VVIP Members Lounge

Belphegor could not shake the feeling that the chaos dwarf was monitoring their every action while pretending to be engrossed in enjoying his spirit beer. Belphegor took his intuition seriously and did not doubt it for a second. So he wondered how the chaos dwarf was monitoring them constantly when he had barely glanced at them since they arrived.

Belphegor recalled the card demigod saying that the chaos dwarf had a strong spirit item, so he wondered if the chaos dwarf had other spirit items that could allow him to monitor them without actually looking at them. Convinced with his theory, Belphegor scrutinized the chaos dwarfʼs spirit body and the box but he found nothing that closely resembled a spirit item.

Failing to find any evidence to support his assumption, Belphegor did not doubt his intuition but instead grew wary of the young chaos dwarf in front of him. He did not dare to look down on it.

When he first arrived in the Exec. VVIP Member box, Belphegor was happy that the chaos dwarf was alone and not with his Elder. At that time he felt like it was good news not only because it showed that the Elder chaos dwarf did not attach importance to his matter but also because he felt that the young chaos dwarf was overestimating himself after fooling them once.

But now he did not feel that way, the chaos dwarf had not overestimated himself but come prepared. Especially seeing how the young chaos dwarf was not reacting to Gol Kinʼs numerous provocations. The reason he brought the hotheaded Gol Kin to this important negotiation meeting was to annoy the opposite party and throw him off his game but the chaos dwarf was not falling for it.

Despite the chaos dwarfʼs strong front, the chaos dwarf could not hide his fondness for the pixies. Even Gol Kin noticed this let alone Belphegor. Seeing this Belphegor had an idea that this chaos dwarf was part of a rare breed in the dark realm, a breed that had a soft spot for the weak and helpless.

This amused Belhpegor as he figured out that the reason why he was not able to recall where and when he offended a chaos dwarf was that he never did offend a chaos dwarf. The young chaos dwarf in front of him might be targeting him because he had offended someone the dwarf cared about.

All races and tribes in the dark realm worshiped the strong and loathed the weak. Similarly, they believed that only the weak would defend and show compassion to the weak. No wonder the Elder chaos dwarf did not care about this matter. Otherwise, the elder would come for their heads after knowing they tried to enslave their junior. Belphegor wondered, ʼWas this the Elder Chaos dwarfʼs way of imposing positive reinforcement on his junior through tough love? Like tempering will make steel stronger or something.ʼ

Discerning that the Elder Chaos dwarf will not get involved as long as they do not go overboard dealing with their junior, Belphegor felt relieved, because If the Elder were to choose to involve themselves in this matter, no games would work they would not have much choice but to agree to whatever the Elder chaos dwarf demanded begging them to show mercy.

Despite so many thoughts going on in his head, Belphegor indifferently enjoyed his spirit beer at his pace blatantly monitoring the chaos dwarfʼs every action as he did not have a spirit item to spy on him like the chaos dwarf did. Even a low-tier spy-type spirit item was too expensive, Belphegor felt it was a waste of money since beings with sensitive spiritual energy could notice its presence as he did, he would rather invest in a defense-type spirit item like the spirit suit he was currently wearing.

ʼIs this Belphegorʼs commonly used form?ʼ Wyatt wondered enjoying his beer. He was not foolish enough to believe that Belphegorʼs true form was a humanoid with the twin horns of a cow.

However, Wyatt was surprised to see that Belphegor preferred to dress in an expensive suit-type spirit item. In the inter-realm city, it was rare to see beings wearing spirit items. Most just shaped their choice of dress with their spiritual power just like they shaped their spiritual body. So he wondered if Belphegorʼs suit was one of those fancy defense-type spirit items with different forms.

Wyatt considered if he should order a defense-type spirit item for Ezra from the devil merchant code, it would be a good addition to Ezraʼs image of an arrogant second-generation chaos dwarf. Wyatt soon discarded this notion as he did not plan to use his Ezra persona again after he managed to get what he wanted from Belphegor today. Not to mention spending so much on a temporary persona would be a waste of money.

The quietness in the Exec. VVIP box continued to prevail as the two devils, a demon, and a pixie enjoyed their drinks while the other two pixies stood at ease waiting for any further orders from their designated clients. They too wanted to enjoy a spirit dew like JiJi but the Infinity Library did not allow them to be willful during work hours even though they could take and use anything in the Infinity Library for free.

”Tsk,” Gol kin irritatedly looked at the chaos dwarf, he was not the one to enjoy silence but thrived in chaos. He would choose torture over silence because silence was like torture to him. He felt that his spirit beerʼs taste diminished due to the silence. Someone like him was not suited for these meetings, he would rather be in a losing war desperately trying to turn the tides than be here another second.

At first, when Belhpegor invited him to the settlement discussion he believed the faction was finally recognizing his contribution but now he felt like Belphegor was punishing him for always whining about not including him in important meetings despite his large contribution to the prosperity of their faction.