Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 352: Rats

Date- 27 Mar 2321

Time- 17:35

Location- Sky Blossom City, Card Stadium, VIP Box no1

“Sorry, I hope we are not interrupting anything. We patrolled the city borders. And there’s no sign of hostile card emperors. We believe they are either hiding in the city or on the outskirts of the city. How are things at your end?” The two unknown card emperors from earlier appeared in the box uninvited.

“…” Anna and the rest did not answer them, instead Anna turned to Luna, Lorenzo and said “Enough about that, I am sure mom can handle herself. Also, our discussion on that matter is pointless. Not to forget the issue at our end. Let’s focus on that matter for now.” Anna put an end to the discussion and diverted the topic to something I wasn’t aware of.

“I have upgraded the city array. And added my rain positioning array to it. The array is up and running as we speak. It will sniff any rats hiding in the city any minute now” Old man Lorenzo reported his upgrade to the city array.

“Uh… guys, What are you talking about? What Rats? Is there a problem I should know of?” I could not help but ask seeing that I could no longer understand what they were speaking about.

“Wyatt, about th … ” the older one of the two unknown Card Emperors spoke up as Anna and the rest were considering whether to involve me. But before he could get to what he was about to say, he was interrupted by Anna.

“Did I allow you to speak?” Anna questioned the older unknown Card Emperor with a stern gaze. To my surprise the card emperor did not erupt, instead tolerated Anna’s oppression.

“Sorry, your highness.” The older card emperor apologized to Anna but the younger seemed to be dissatisfied with Anna’s words and did not hesitate to express his opinion.

“Your highness, you said we could talk with the boy once the tournament is over.” The younger Card Emperor, though dissatisfied, still maintained proper etiquette while addressing Anna.

The younger unknown Card Emperor’s words made it clear to me that these two unknown card apprentices were here for me. And from their words, it appeared that Anna had prohibited them from addressing me. Knowing this I was thankful that Anna decided to attend the tournament today because if not for her presence these two unknown card emperors would not be so courteous. This was clear from their attitude towards Anna. They appeared to be the type of people who feared the strong and disbanded the weak.

Was I not curious about the purpose of the two card emperors with me? I was not. I know it had something to do with the silver milk powder and I was happy Anna was blocking them for me.

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“Has the tournament ended yet?” Anna knew what the younger card emperor meant by his words but she no longer planned to let these two get close to Wyatt, not until it’s clear who is behind the hostile card emperors.

“That… Not yet your highness.” The younger card apprentice understood that Anna did not plan to let them close Wyatt.

Despite knowing that Anna was purposefully making things hard for them, the younger card apprentice could only swallow his anger and frustration. As he was not stronger than Anna neither was his family background. The weak had to know their place.

“Wyatt, this matter is out of your strength so you do not have to concern yourself with this. Just trust me and all of this will be over soon.” After showing the two unknown card apprentices their place. Anna made it clear that she will not involve me in whatever is going on and the reason was my strength was not enough.

Even if Anna did not involve me. From their conversation it was clear that we are currently or soon will be facing an enemy attack. And it appears the enemy is of strong men in the Card Emperor realm. Knowing that card emperors are after my life I was alarmed but soon calmed down as I had already anticipated that this would happen when Anna visited my warehouse to force me into giving her the Silver milk powder.

Having calmed down I began calculating the chance of my survival in case of an enemy attack. Counting the two unknown card emperors, Anna, Luna, and Lorenzo I had 5 Card emperors guarding me. 5 card emperors should be more than enough and I chose to believe in Anna’s strength.

“Old man, are you sure your array is working? Why haven’t you found any of them yet?” Assuring me Anna turned to old man Lorenzo and asked if his upgrade to the City array was working. Since after all this time it was unable to pinpoint the location of the enemy.

“The City array and my upgrades to it are working fine. It appears the rats are not hiding in the city. They must be hiding in the outskirts out of the range of the array. But don’t worry once they enter the range of the city array I will be the first one to know.” Old man Lorenzo assured impatient Anna that his upgrade to the city array’s were working fine and the delay in detecting the location of the enemy was because they must be out of the city array range.

“You better locate the enemy as soon as they make their move. It’s the only advantage we can have….” Anna had to pause being interrupted by Lorenzo.

“Hold up. Rats detected! They appear to be done with hiding and are on the move” Old Lorenzo suddenly reported and added, “Um… 25 rats detected. Their numbers are way more than I would have guessed. 5 are heading here while the other 20 have spread across the city as expected.”

Hearing Lorenzo report that 25 card emperors were attacking us I was shocked to the core. And I no longer believed that 5 card emperors were enough to guard me.