Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 81: Ambush

Date 22 Mar 2321

Time 20:05

Location – Sky blossom City, East Zone, Zhang financiers Main office

While entering Zhang financiers Main office I had equipped a C-rank Rainbow Poison Blaster Mounted Full Body Scaled Armour card (5-stars) and 5 D-rank Poison Gas Bomb Card (3-stars) completely occupying all the 6 item cards slots. So, 20-stars of my total 34-star power were occupied.

The Poison Gas Bomb has an area of effect of 150meters, 2 Poison Gas Bombs should be more than enough inside the lobby but I placed 3 Poison Gas Bomb. 2 bombs were for the lobby but the last one was placed inside the building main vent which was conveniently positioned by the service room next to the Security room.

Even though I had placed 4 Poison Gas Bomb my 4 Item cards were still occupied but instead of Poison Gas Bomb, the item card slots showed Poison Gas Bomb Trigger. Therefore, 20-star of my 34-star were still occupied.

When I finally detonated the 5 Poison Gas Bombs my 5 out of 6 Item card Slots were emptied and now only 5-star of my 34-star was occupied allowing me to equip C-rank Poison Soul Beam Rifle (4-stars) and D-rank Stealth Clock (3-stars) bring my occupied star power back to [12-stars/34-stars].

I entered the prison dungeon and tried to use Stealth Cloak card on Ronnie but I received a string of notifications,

[You have tried to use Stealth Cloak card on Ronnie without the permission of the dungeon master Joe Meyer]

[Prison Dungeon finds you as hostile and has automatically designated you as Invader]

[As the Invader of Prison Dungeon you are facing the following penalties,

-You are unable to summon your grimoire.

-You are unable to leave the prison dungeon without the permission of Prison Dungeon Master Joe Meyer.

-Your star power is halved.

-All your stats have decreased by 10%

-You will be attacked by Prison Dungeon self-defence, 10 F-rank Prison Guard Golems and 1 E-rank Prison Warden Golem.]

[First penalty invalid as Invader had already summoned his grimoire before entering the Prison Dungeon]

[Second penalty applied, As Dungeon Master is unresponsive Prison Dungeon automatically authorizes the second penalty. You’re now unable to leave the Prison Dungeon without the permission of the Dungeon Master]

[Third penalty applied, your current star power is 17-stars [12-stars/17-stars]]

[Forth penalty applied, all your stats have been reduced by 10%]

[Fifth penalty applied, 10 F-rank Prison Guard Golems and 1 E-rank Prison Warden Golem being summoned.]

[Kindly surrender to change your status from Invader to Inmate and stop the pursuit of Prison Guards and Warden]

Reading the notifications I was impressed with the prison dungeon card and here I thought that the creationist of this world did not have imagination. A card being able to trap and halve the star power of a card apprentice was already a remarkable card not to mention the other penalties. Thanks to the notification I could conclude the following,

-Joe Meyer the guard was still under the hallucination effect of the Poison Gas Bomb, as the Prison Dungeon found its Dungeon master unresponsive.

-The Prison Dungeon card was the origin card of Joe Meyer.

-Joe Meyer was of Card Scholar realm as the highest rank of the golems was E-rank.

-Finally, unless I completely render Joe Mayer unconscious I and Ronnie could not leave the Prison Dungeon.

As I was assessing the situation, 10 F-rank Prison Guard Golems and 1 E-rank Prison Warden Golem were summoned right to my location such that the 11 golems had surrounded me blocking my exit from all directions.

I already knew that even though I was invisible the Prison Dungeon could accurately pinpoint my location within it thanks to its detection ability which I discovered when the guard spotted the poison gas bomb earlier.

The Third penalty to halve the Invaders star power was impressive ability but it did not affect me at all as my card star ratings were very low except for the abyssal bear card which had a card rating of 26-stars.

Even though my stats were reduced by 10% the 10 F-rank Prison Guard Golems and 1 E-rank Prison Warden Golem were not my match thanks to my C-rank Poison Blaster Mounted Full body Rainbow Scaled armour card which gave me the defence of a C-rank Rainbow Serpent and C-rank physical strengthening.

While carrying Ronnie in one hand I defeated each of the F-rank Prison Guard Golems with a single punch and as for the E-rank Prison Guard Golem, its body crumbled with a single punch of mine but the broken golems regenerated.

To my surprise, I did not find any core in their body to destroy them for good even after I activated my soul pupils. Considering that the prison dungeon card is the origin card of Joe Meyer then the core of the golems should be Joe Meyer himself.

Since I knew that the golem’s core was Joe Meyer himself I no longer wasted my time fighting with the prison golems. Getting rid of them I ran to paralysed Joe Meyer who was laying on the chair with his eyes wide-open but those eyes looked confused, making it easier for me to knock him out without a second delay. With that, the golems rushing towards me vanished indicating that the Prison dungeon card was no longer in play.

Unconscious or not Joe Meyer was not my opponent. This is the advantage of having a higher grade grimoire and, if not for me having a silver grade grimoire I would not have been able to equip C-rank cards enabling me to defeat card apprentices with a higher realm than me even though my stats were refused by 10%.

Not to mention the Card ratings, most of the card apprentices of the Card student realm would be rendered combat less under the third penalty which would halve their soul energy making half their equipped cards useless. This was not the victory of my combat prowess but my high-grade grimoire and near-perfect cards with the lowest possible card ratings.

Using the Stealth Cloak item card on Ronnie and turning him invisible I carried him to the staff stairs, thanks to the C-rank physical strengthening effect of the Poison Blaster Mounted Full body Rainbow Scaled armour Ronnie’s weight did not hinder my speed.

Climbing the staff stairs to the 1st underground floor that is used as an underground parking lot I exited the Zhang financiers Main office Building through the parking lot exit. The security guard in the booth at the exit was also paralysed and under hallucination. It seems the poison gas bomb that I placed in the building main vent worked exceptionally.

Without looking back I hastily rushed to leave this block of the south zone on foot before anybody realised the peculiarity within the Zhang financiers Main office or even worse, the arrival of Kevin Zhang along with his top goons.

Running 4 blocks faraway from the Zhang financiers Main office I finally stopped to hire a cab but could not since Ronnie was paralysed and hallucinating. I thought of carrying an antidote but did not as my item car slots were full and there was no point in carrying them since the Poison Blaster Mounted Full body Rainbow Scaled armour card gave me a poison immunity, another reason why I chose the poison gas bomb as its poison was from green horned poison frog.

Even though the poison was only temporary it would still take hours before the effects of the poison start to wear down because the poison gas was of D-rank and two realms higher than Ronnie who was only a card student, so its effects on Ronnie would last longer.

So, I could only carry Ronnie and walk to the Warehouse avoiding the main streets and crowded area in stealth.

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Date 22 Mar 2321

Time 20:23

Location – Sky blossom City, East Zone, Zhang financiers Main office

“Ben you have made all the arrangements properly right, why isn’t everyone rushing out to receive me.” Asked Kevin Zhang seated in a luxurious black limousine which was parked right in front of the Zhang financiers Main office main entrance.

“I have arranged everything properly uncle, please wait let me call them to check what’s the delay.” Replied Ben Li as he hurriedly summoned his grimoire to call the goons. But to his surprise, nobody answered his calls.

Ben Li started to sweat vigorously under heart fear and nervousness. Imagining the worst he panicked and stutteringly said, “U-uncle… it seems we have a problem nobody inside the building is answering my call.”

Kevin Zhang frowned and asked the driver to drive into the building’s underground parking lot. To their surprise, the security guard in the booth at the entrance of the parking lot was laying on the floor.

One of the goons got out and the condition of the security guard only to be affected by the residual poison inside the booth. Seeing the goon who went to check on the security guard fall to the ground Kevin Zhang shouted, “Poison! Fu<k quick get out of here.”

Hearing Kevin Zhang’s order the driver did not delay and fled the scene. The atmosphere in the luminous was tense especially Ben Li he knew from today on that his uncle would not trust him with anything.

Kevin Zhang was a cautious type and because of this, he was able to survive till now in the underworld. Considering the situation the first thing that came to Kevin’s mind was to flee the scene to avoid any possible ambush or assassination attempts. It did not matter if his decision was wrong or right as long he was alive, who cares if he was wrong.

“U-uncle… What is going on just before leaving the airfield I checked on them while informing them about your safe arrival and be prepared to receive you. Everything was normal then…. What happened? Just within 40minutes…