Date- 30 Mar 2321
Time- 8:46
Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no. 234
“Susan, congrats on becoming a silver grade card apprentice.” I congratulated Susan as she walked out of the card lab with her silver grimoire hovering next to her.
“Congrats, miss Susan.” Van and old Ben both congratulated Susan for her successful grimoire up-gradation.
“Thank you, Wyatt, Guild Master Van, and Captain Ben.
Wyatt, your silver power works like a miracle. I never thought I could contract a silver grade grimoire when I was in the card student realm like the young geniuses. This feeling is Amazing.
Wyatt, sorry I believed the social media and doubted you.” Susan was delighted with her grimoire upgrade, and thanking everybody, she apologized for having doubted me.
“Forget about it. That’s water under the bridge since you were brave enough to try my theory. I think nobody is as naive as you to believe me and agree to be a lab rat for an untested theory.” In this new world, Susan is the only one who has trusted me when others would think twice. And I am happy to have a friend like her.
“Hey!” Hearing me call her naive, Susan protested cutely with puffed cheeks.
“Susan, you help old Ben. I have urgent matters to attend to.” Van and I head out of the warehouse to read to Sarah’s matters, leaving old Ben with Susan to discuss blood Item cards sales.
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*Ring* *Ring* *Ring*…
Outside the warehouse, as I was planning to head to the location of the D-rank silver beach gate dungeon to get Cortney and Bloodette, I heard my grimoire ring alerting me of a call.
“Cortney?” I was surprised to see that the caller was none other than Cortney, as I thought she was under Southern Watch’s custody.
“Hey, Wyatt.” I picked up the call, and Cortney’s voice sounded from the other side of the call.
“Cortney? Aren’t you supposed to be in Southern Watch’s custody? How are you able to call right now?” I hurriedly asked Cortney how she could call me while still under the custody of the Southern Watch.
“I fled, duh!” Cortney answered
“What? How?” Southern Watch is the elite military force filled with Card Overlords and Card Kings. How could a mere Card Master escape under their watchful eyes?
“That’s a crazy story. Bloodette created a rune similar to my Intent Blood rune that allowed her to house in my body. Bloodette’s rune enables me to hide in her body. Using that rune, I escaped to the dungeon seal.” Cortney enthusiastically explained her escape from the southern watch camp.
Turns out that she hid in Bloodette’s body using the new rune Bloodette created, and then Bloodette was summoned back to the Blood Rock Cave by the dungeon seal. No wonder the soldiers of the southern watch did not notice Cortney escaping or that she was missing. Cortney basically teleported out of the southern watch’s camp.
“So you are in the dungeon now?” I asked Cortney, planning to enquire about Sarah.
“No, silly, I came outside the dungeon to call you and inform you about the abnormality surrounding one of your subordinates who is glowing with blood-red light as we speak,” Cortney answered, revealing why she called me.
“What did Bloodette have to say about that?” I asked Cortney enquiring about Bloodette’s opinion on the abnormality with Sarah.
“She believes that the blood rule meaning your friend comprehended is behind this abnormality. She is now trying to identify the blood rule meaning your friend learned to point out exactly what is happening” Cortney informed me of Bloodette’s deduction regarding Sarah’s abnormality.
“Oh, I see. Okay, then Cortney, I will be there in a few minutes.” Seeing that Bloodette was already trying to find a solution for Sarah’s abnormality, I felt some burden reduced. But still, I did not dare to make light of Sarah’s situation. So hanging up the call, I turned to Van and said, “Hurry, take me to the dungeon.”
Using NanoMorpher to head to the dungeon would take a minimum of 10 minutes if I ignore all the traffic rules, but I had a better alternative, a Viltronian mutant Card Lord, Guild Master Van. He could take me to the dungeon in under a minute. If the situation weren’t urgent, I would not opt for this option, but a dire situation calls for dire needs.
“Yes, boss.”
….
*whoosh*
“Wyatt, you are here already!” Cortney exclaimed, seeing Van and me land.
“Yeah, let’s head in.” I did not waste time with chit-chat and headed straight into the dungeon gate.
Walking into the dungeon gate, I found that blood-red rocks of the dungeon were glowing in a rhythm, like a beating heart. Ignoring this glow, I headed deeper into the cave until I found Sarah, who was seated in a lotus position with her eyes closed and emitting bright blood-red light. The light emitted by Sarah was in sync with the rhythm of the glow emitted by the rocks of the cave. I couldn’t tell who followed whom, whether the rhythm originated from Sarah or the cave itself. Either way, the blood-red glow on Sarah was brighter than on the rocks of the cave.
“Hi, Wyatt,” Bloodette, who stood monitoring Sarah, greeted me, seeing me arrive. To my surprise, I noticed another Bloodette sitting in the lotus position next to the original Bloodette. She seemed to be comprehending the Blood rule.
“What’s going on, Bloodette?” I asked her in concern as Sarah was one of my investments. Sarah had a demigod bloodline, which meant that she had the potential to reach the demigod realm. I did not want to lose a potential demigod subordinate here.
“She is sucking the blood rule energy from the cave. I do not know how she is doing it, but she seemed to have formed a domain within the cave. If not for the bloodstones, she would have sucked blood energy from any living being next to her. Lucky for your friends. They were in my cave. If not for the blood energy from the cave stones meeting her requirement, she would have sucked everyone sitting in her domain dry.” Bloodette explained that the blood-red light on Sarah was a result of her blood rule domain, and it was absorbing blood rule energy from the blood rock cave. If not for the bloodstones in the cave, Sarah’s blood domain would have sucked the blood energy from all of my calamity daughter gems and turned them into dry corpses.. Turns out my calamity daughter gems were very lucky; otherwise, they suffer in Sarah’s blood rule domain.
