Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2466: I’m Field Marshal Lorn

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central-Southern Region Corridor, Southern Region, Base Ursus

”Master, both the bases have mobilized their soldiers to their posts. It seems they bought it,” Lois communicated with her master through the Hive Spirit. She desperately escaped the Field Marshal’s attacks by jumping between planes, all while feigning mortal wounds and the exhaustion of a person at the end of her rope.

Thanks to the Hive Spirit’s assistance, she was able to perform this act perfectly, paying attention to her escape and her performance simultaneously.

’Yes. Let us kick it up a notch, shall we? You ready, this is going to hurt,’ I warned Lois as I decided to get serious. I wanted to make General Maden desperate enough to cross the border and come to rescue Lois himself instead of waiting for the reinforcement as I wanted to kill as many lapdogs of the Masters as possible using Lois as bait.

Why?

I was currently disguised as Field Marshal Lorn. It wouldn’t befit her reputation as one of the top ten strongest if she not only failed to detain Agent Lois but also failed to stop those who came to her rescue. Such a failure would certainly look suspicious. After all, the Field Marshal was not only a Martial Sage but also an very skilled in spatial rules, not to mention her unparalleled Bloodline and Eyes.

Why disguise myself as Field Marshal Lorn? Believe me, I wouldn’t have if there were any other choice. For Lois’s story to be believable, her miraculous escape from the Southern Royal Family needed to be backed up by a tangible, high-profile pursuit.

The Masters would definitely investigate her story, no matter how convincing it seemed. After all, they’d stayed hidden in the central government’s shadows for millennia because of such caution. Therefore, impersonating just anyone wouldn’t be enough. It had to be Field Marshal Lorn, and disguising anyone else was out of the question as one person cannot be in two places at once.

My plan was clear: I would impersonate Field Marshal Lorn herself, as she was the only one in the Southern Royal family’s tree whose whereabouts were currently unknown as her physical body was on the Lil Red Storm while her spiritual body was in the Devil Merchant Code’s inter-realm city in the spiritual plane polishing her old martial arts and learning new martial arts.

So, when Masters try to divine about the original Field Marshal Lorn, they would be led to the next best, me disguised as Field Marshal Lorn. The means of the Masters were not to be underestimated, and the same went for my Myriad Devil Transformation skill.

Also, a public pursuit of Lois by a figure as prominent as Field Marshal Lorn would not only prove that Lois had truly been held captive by the Southern Royal family but give legitimacy to her story about escaping their grasp.

Not to mention Field Marshal Lorn’s reputation among the Southern Army was crucial for this plan to work. If it were anyone else, things wouldn’t have gone as smoothly with Base Ursus’s General Welshman as they did.

That was because, within the present unparalleled bloodline, only Field Marshal Lorn held an actual high-level military rank. Others commanded their own personal armies that occasionally held posts at the Southern Borders and Way Beyond, but they were part of the monarchy, not the military.

Most importantly, Field Marshal Lorn was the only one who satisfied the condition of my Myriad Devil Transformation that would allow me to disguise as her perfectly. That was because during our mock battle on the planet Lil’ Ride Storm, I had managed to get my hands on her DNA material and fed it to my Myriad Devil Transformation skill.

Also, just looking like Field Marshal Lorn and having a similar soul energy signature wasn’t enough. I need to have similar strength, cards, rules, and skills or just enough to fake it till we make it. Thanks to my Curse Incarnation Form and Field Marshal Lorn adamantly teaching me her martial arts, I had more than enough to fake it.

Therefore, despite covering myself in black head to toe and suppressing my soul energy signature, I bluntly used the martial arts Field Marshal Lorn taught me. Though they were only basics, they were the Field Marshal Lorn’s signature martial arts. As a result, without me having to tell them, the generals from both ‌military bases immediately guessed my identity as the Field Marshal Lorn.

Can’t blame them for falling for such a simple trick, as one of the top ten strongest for a couple centuries now, Field Marshal Lorn was insanely popular. Especially the martial arts she used. After all, she was the only Martial Sage in the top ten strongest. Everyone wants to learn the best and what was best then the martial arts used by the strongest Martial Sage known.

Though the basic martial arts used by Field Marshal Lorn were available in the market, they were no longer the same as the ones Field Marshal Lorn used. That was because she had improved them through enlightenment and augmented them to her preference through vigorous practice. She didn’t share them with the rest of the world but shared them with her disciple.

Therefore, when I used her martial arts, looking exactly like her, it was no wonder that the generals from both military bases immediately jumped to the same conclusion. It would be surprising if they didn’t.

’Master, don’t worry. I can take it,’ Lois just jumped out of the spiritual plane 100 yards from me.

Now that Lois could exist on the physical and spiritual planes simultaneously, she didn’t need a card apprentice’s spiritual channel to enter the spiritual plane or return to the physical plane at will. Only she wouldn’t travel too far on the spiritual plane as she lacked the knowledge to navigate through the spiritual plane. Therefore, her traveling through planes appeared like short-distance instantaneous teleportation.