Date- 29 Mar 2321

Time- 21:45

Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild a.s.sociation Mall, Warehouse no. 234.

After creating the C-rank NanoMorpher cards, I handed them to Susan. And then started to study various books on soul pathways. Though I understood the soul pathways as the air I breath and the water I drink, I need to know how the average card apprentices understood the soul pathways. This way, I could finally start imparting my findings to the rest of the world under the guise of patent and copyright.

I currently had access to the basic books distributed for rookies to get introduced to the soul pathway and its means. This knowledge was not enough for me to hand down my findings as the stuff that I wanted to apply for patent and copyright could be considered as an advanced level of soul pathway application. But still, I decided to get thorough with the fundamental and standard interpretation of the soul pathways. So, when I gain access to more advanced stuff, I do not struggle because of my shaky fundamentals.

Using Hive AI, I could memorize all this information. Still, when I started to read the material on the soul pathway, I slowly started to get enlightened on things I was unconsciously familiar about soul pathways. It all began to make more sense to me. I began to relate to every word written in the book. The more I explored the contents of the material, I realized how profound it was. Honestly, I was astonished how an average card apprentice without cheat like soul pupils could write such detailed and deep information regarding soul pathways.

This newfound respect for the predecessors who wrote these texts made me excited and increased my antic.i.p.ation towards the advanced books on soul pathways. I would be lying if I said I didn"t gain anything from this introductory book on the soul pathway. I finally had a profound understanding of every little thing I would unknowingly do during card creation. It"s like knowing what it is you are doing right. There is a lot of difference between knowing it and vaguely knowing it. Putting what I consciously did in words makes it more susceptible to a more extreme understanding.

As I explored the standard techniques mentioned in the basics of soul pathways to manipulate soul pathways and arrangements to create basic low-grade cards, Van, followed by Old Ben, entered the warehouse. Old Ben has never been to the Warehouse; hence he was led by Van.

"Master Wyatt, the task is complete." Old Ben reported stiffly. His military training had not left his old bones.

"That"s fast. I thought it would take you guys another day." I was surprised to hear that Old Ben finished creating blood equipment cards for the TSR guild and the Tiger squadron this early.

"Before that, Gentleman, would you prefer tea, coffee, or just water?" It was already late at night. Susan and Corey had gotten off work. So, I was all alone in the warehouse, brushing up on the basics of the soul pathway. As the Manager of the card boutique, Susan was not here to offer our guests beverages. So I decided to step up as the founder of the Card boutique also because I could see that Old Ben was visibly exhausted after raiding dungeons and creating thousands of rune cards.

"Water would be fine." Old Ben, who came here straight from the dungeon, asked for water, while Van chose nothing.

"There"s the kitchen. Help yourself. Don"t be shy," I said, pointing towards the warehouse kitchen.

"..." Old Ben wasn"t surprised by my response, not because I was his boss, but he was emotionally paralyzed.

"While you are at it, fetch me a grape soda from the fridge." As Old Ben headed to quench his thirst, I ordered him to get me a grape soda. And turning to Van, I asked, "Where"s Cortney? Why isn"t she with Old Ben? "

"The Southern Watch has taken the Clown Mask and Cortney into custody. Thankfully Miss Cortney completed the contract in time." Van answered.

"You guys did pay her for the cards, right?" Since Cortney was taken into custody by the southern watch, I was worried she was not paid the agreed-upon compensation.

"We did. And Miss Cortney asked you to come to visit her when you have time." Van delivered Cortney"s message for me.

"I see" I would also miss Cortney, but the question was how long was the Royal family planning to keep the mother and daughter pair in custody.

"Here you go, Master Wyatt." Handing me the soda, Old Ben sat across from me and explained, " Master Wyatt, after you left, I and Cortney split up. I headed to raid the E-rank Goblin Feast field dungeon to create low-grade blood item cards while Cortney continued to raid the Ogre Fields."

Cortney created agreed-upon high-rank Blood spirit cards in a single raid, and I developed enough low-rank blood equipment cards. Then we switch the dungeons, allowing me to make enough high-grade blood item cards in Ogre Fields gate dungeon and for Cortney to create enough low-rank blood spirit cards in the goblin feast field dungeon. This way, we both completed the required cards in just two more dungeon raids."

"Good job. Here are the Ogre Blood Totem cards I created. Distribute them between the Tiger Squadron and high-level executives of the TSR guild. As for the low-level members, if I have time, I will pay a visit to the E-Rank Woodapes field dungeon to create E-rank ape Blood Totem Cards for them." I chose the E-rank Woodapes field dungeon instead of the E-rank Goblin Feast field dungeon because the physique of the Woodape is a lot stronger than the best of the goblins and because Woodapes are more agile than goblins.

"E-rank WoodApes Field Dungeon, good choice, boss. I will reserve it for the next few days under the TSR guild name. Feel free to visit whenever you are free, boss." Van took it upon himself to make the arrangements.

"Master Wyatt, if you don"t mind, I would like to create more blood equipment cards to gather funds for the Tiger squadron." It seems Old Ben planned to use his rune to gather funds and keep the tiger squadron running. Tiger Squadron has been under the scrutiny of the city lord for a long time, and its members are surviving on minimum wages despite them being grandmaster realm card apprentices. Since all these problems stemmed because of him stepping down as captain.. Old Ben took it upon himself to rectify them and compensate his soldiers appropriately for their years of loyalty even though he was not there when they needed him the most.

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