Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 4 April 2321

Time- 01:42

Location- Central region, Capital City

Who in the world was able to pull off something like this without gathering any suspicion and stood to gain the most?

Matron and the Paw Clan.

This was what came to Mike and Karl's mind with what Mike had discovered on the battlefield.

The Yin-yang harmony sect had the capability but not enough motive to pull this off. Not to mention they stood to lose the most if word gets out about this incident.

The South Royal family had enough motive but its capability was very lacking and questionable to attempt something like this.

Ji Feng, by himself, neither had enough capability nor enough motive to betray not just the Circle but the Yin-Yang harmony sect.

As for the boy, without the southern royal family backing him he was nothing but an ant.

As for a third mysterious force acting from within the shadow, very likely, but how many unknown forces were out there that would be able to get such detailed information about something that was happening in a third-rate city like Sun Blossom city? Out of everything else they could be conspiring about why would they come to a third-rate city in a backwater region. Unless they were somehow personally related to this incident or they had a high-level prophet in their organization. Though the latter was debatable it was less possible than the former. Either way, these two possibilities left them with two organizations to be wary of,

Matron and the Paw clan

Or

Saint and the Holy Empire

Considering that the Saint and the Holy Empire had their hands full dealing with the so-called infidels, they would not have the time or reason to target the Circle.

As for Matron and the Paw clan,

They were very capable of pulling something like this, their unique type of information network was proficient in such dubious plans.

But the question remained, why? What was the motive for Matron to suddenly attack the alliance that has been rewarding for both of them? No matter how he racked his brain Karl could not come up with a reason, because though allied they had different motives, so there was no conflict of interest. With greed out of the picture, there was not much left that he would find justifying enough for Sansa to target them from the dark. This lack of motive on Sansa's part gave Karl the only reason Karl answered Sansa's call giving her the benefit of the doubt.

But things changed when Sansa replied that the reason behind her call was to get an update on his progress with the boy. Karl was not foolish enough to believe that Sansa did not have eyes in the sun blossom city right now, monitoring the fight between Mike and the boy and giving her a live update through their memories. Since she could give him such detailed information on the boy's attack on one of his branch headquarters then getting a live update on the progress of the battle would not be difficult with her capabilities.

Yet, she choose to call him to ask for the progress, this could only mean that she was not really interested in the progress of the battle but something else. Most like to figure out why where the semi-demigods of the circle not surfacing to engage the Semi-demigods protecting the boy for Mike to kill the boy.

If things were normal between them, Karl would not think too much about Sansa's actions but they weren't. Though he gave Sansa the benefit of the doubt because of the lack of motive on her part, this did not mean that he had removed her from the suspect list, rather she was the number suspect currently.

Though he was not able to think of a motive for Sansa to make a move against him from the dark it did not mean she did not have one, so he was vigilant against her every action. Which was causing him to scrutinize every little action of Sansa which he would usually brush off as her quirky attitude out of suspicion that they meant or signaled something more.

With doubt in his mind, every action of Sansa started to appear suspicious despite them being harmless. The reason Karl was so cautious towards Sansa was that she was the worst enemy one could have. If you were on her naughty list then you would not even know what hit before you gasp your last breath on this world.

"Sure, what do you want to know?" Karl replied to Sansa after she stated her motive for calling him was to get an update on the progress. Though the replay of Karl seems to be compliant with Sansa's demand, it actually did not answer her, it raised another question enunciating that Sansa knew what was happening in the Sun blossom city.

If Sansa were to answer him she would be agreeing that she had her minions back monitoring the fight back in the Sun blossom city. Then the point of Sansa's call was no longer what she claimed it to be. Considering the decades of alliance between them why would Sansa lie to him?

"Fine, you caught me. Now answer me why aren't your semi-demigods drawing the attention of semi-demigods protecting the boy?" As long as the semi-demigods were protecting the boy Mike would never be able to land a killing blow on the boy despite his overwhelming advantage against the boy.

Though the semi-demigods protecting the boy would not interfere in the battle, they would indeed save him when needed and retreat. Which was not the result Sansa wanted to see. She wanted the boy dead no matter the cost.

"I plan to withdraw from the sun blossom city entirely. It would be childish on my part to make an enemy of the southern royal family over this," Karl replied even though he had yet to decide on what course of action Mike had to follow as this sentence was meant to test Sansa and her motive behind all this.