Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date 23 Mar 2321

Time 2:01

Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no. 234

"You better keep your word… heck I don't care anymore, l blame my luck. Susan make use of the rest of the soul jades to purchase C-rank Black steel F16 alloy" At first if I knew that the ingredients were going to cost me nearly 10 times their original price margin and I would barely make any profits I would not have even considered taking on this project.

But now, I was invested in the project. I am not talking about my agreement to create Pax's origin card but my effort in designing the card fit for Pax's origin card. I had all these ideas and plans for the origin card right now in mind, I invested my interest into this card's creation more like hooked to this new card's creation. I wanted to see this card come alive and achieve all the parameters I had in planning this card. I was no longer doing this to make profits but to see the idea I have in mind come alive, therefore I did not mind if I had to dip into my profit's or pay from my pocket for me to create this card and make it a success.

My words brought a huge surprise to Susan, Elliot, Karen, Amy and Pax. They all thought that all I cared about was making profits, I did not blame them, after all, I did only care about profits at the beginning… I only cared about how to get my hands on the siblings 102 soul jades, but now not only am I not making any huge profits but also using up all my profit to buy the required ingredients… my move brought them a huge shock as they thought I would bail seeing that I barely made any profits but they never expected me to forget about profits for once and focus on card creation. But all their surprise did not last long as I sent out a contract to Amy, Susan and Elliott's grimoire.

"Ms Amy, please sign the contract so I can proceed with card creation… Since the huge sum of soul jade is involved Susan and Elliott please be the witness to the contract that Amy has accepted and signed the contract of her own free will." The contract stated that Amy Whiteburn owed me 102 soul jades for the creation of Pax's Origin card. While Susan and Elliott were witnesses just as a formality as it was a huge transaction.

10 soul jades is a huge sum of money but not enough to compensate for the card I am about to create for Pax. I had to refine and transfer soul pathways of tonnes of black steel, hundred thousands of cores and essence all that and create a just under a day… fuck! If not for my recent breakthrough and mutated soul and its second mental strength which is similar to AI, I would not have the confidence to take up such a huge project.

I accepted this project considering I would stand to make 40 to 50 soul jades in gross profit but buying the ingredients in the black market was much more pricey than I expected. Since I cannot just give up the card creation at this point not that I wanted to but just because I want to fulfil my curiosity I couldn't just take a loss, hence the contract, I did not gain to make immediate profits but I would make a huge profit once Whiteburn's pay me.

Amy did not know what I was about to create with this many resources but I did promise her a higher version of Susan's origin card and seeing me fully invested in the creation of Pax's card Amy signed the contract without hesitation. If it takes an extra 102 soul jades to make sure that Pax's origin card creation was a success she did not care, 102 soul jades were a huge number but it is nothing compared to her brothers future and her father's honour.

"Umm… Wyatt, you want C-rank black steel F16 alloy cards or just the alloy is fine." Asked Susan since I was not clear about it earlier.

"Alloy will be fine, these ores are not going to be used in the card creation process, they have another purpose you will see just have them lined up near the warehouse…" 10 soul jades worth C-rank black steel F16 alloy would be about 60 tonnes which cannot be stored in Susan's small warehouse so it could only be kept in the containers they came in… it would not be a problem on guild association mall's side as once the card creation is complete those ore will also be used by tomorrow.

"Good! I will make the arrangements." Susan answered and headed out, following Karen Susan had made her very own connections in the black market and no longer needed Karen's assistance. At first, Susan's connection was only limited to the association mall but now thanks to Karen's guidance her connections have not only branched out in the black market but some big-time suppliers, giving Susan a huge confidence boost in her abilities. And outside connections were only a small part of what she learnt from following Karen's lead.

After making all the arrangements I and Pax headed into the card lab, where thousands of ingredient cards were stacked on each other with each ingredient placed individually. There was barely any room for me to move without having to worry that I would crash a stack of ingredient cards leading to a domino effect. Finding a spacious place to occupy I initiated a party with Pax, and began with the card creation process.

My plan was simply to let my second mental strength do all the grunt work while I worked on all the important and creative stuff. I had programmed my second consciousness similar to a world-class Artificial intelligence back on planet earth. It could do all the heavy lifting like refining and transferring millions of soul pathways without a complaint but when it came to designing the artificial beast will, weapon system, power system and other necessary systems to make this card a true success I would have to step in. So even though my automated second consciousness did all the heavy lifting I was not free to rest but I had my hands full with the core part of the card.