Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 5 April 2321

Time- -/-

Location- Southern Region, Blossom district, Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon, Inter-realm city

Property no.05 was an acre of empty land right next to the fancy fountain at the center of the entire 100 acres of the sector NS7878. It cost 2000 low-tier soul jades rent per day. Since I rented it and paid a week's worth of rent in advance I planned to get started with renovations right away.

First thing first, I used the demon merchant codex to build a big properly ventilated warehouse in property no.05. I will not be here all the time so I need walls not only for privacy but also for security. Plus the construction of the warehouse was free but if I wanted to build something fancy like a boutique or a tiny mall it was going to cost me.

After the large I entered it, only noticing a dialogue box appear,

[Dear Demon Merchant,

Select the nature of your property,

>Private (Exclusive entry only to Demon merchant Renting it)

>Public (Open for all Demon merchants.)

>Commercial (Exclusive entry only for the customers specified by the Demon merchant Renting it.)

Note: Each selection comes with varying options with appropriate offerings to be offered to the devil merchant code.]

"Private," I set the nature of the property based on my preference, and looking at the spacious empty warehouse I nodded in satisfaction. This was enough for a small-scale operation of the business plan I had in my mind.

'Hive AI, how far has the development of modified soul energy gathering array formation come?' After leaving the library I specifically instructed Hive AI to use all the information we had collected on the soul energy gathering array and the information on dungeon core formation to create an optimum version of the soul energy gathering array formation specifically created to meet all the requirements of the business I had in mind.

[Rendering complete…]

"Great!" With available data Hive AI was able to come up with three separate soul energy gathering array formations that meet my requirements. After running several simulations she optimized these array formations so that each one of them would give maximum efficiency. All that was left for me was to decide to name each of the array formations,

> Soul Energy Nectar array formation

> Soul Energy Milk array formation

> Soul Energy Wine array formation

The use of the soul energy gathering array formation was to gather soul energy in the surroundings and increase the concentration of the soul energy within the array formation. But if these exceptional soul energy gathering arrays were to be used in soul energy rich area like the inter-realm city the soul energy in the array will start to condensate and start to form visible vapors and clouds of soul energy within the array formation. Now that was fascinating but not enough to harvest the soul energy like planned.

Yes, my big plan was to harvest soul energy within the inter-realm city. Would the devil merchant code have a problem with that?

Many demon merchants practice soul energy and comprehend rule power in their respective sectors. Seeing how the devil merchant code has not reacted to that what I was doing was also similar so there should not be a problem. Not to mention I was paying rent a heft rent to the devil merchant code.

This was where the data I had about dungeon core formation came into the picture. I planned to use this data to modify the soul energy gathering array formation such that it would gather concentrated pure soul energy in liquid form. The soul energy that could be orally consumed was worth a lot more in the card world market than soul jades.

I planned to harvest soul energy in liquid form here in sector NS7878 and then sell it in the card world. First of all, soul energy and rule power-related products were not worth much in the inter-realm city and the dark realm. Because these both had environments rich in soul power and rule energy. But that was not true for the card world, not to mention a few environments rich in soul power and rule energy that the card world had were occupied by powerful organizations. Truth be told despite the monopoly over it wasn't enough for them to sustain their organizations. Leading to fierce competition between the organizations.

So I had no doubt that all three products Soul Energy Nectar, Soul Energy Milk, and Soul Energy Wine would immediately become in-demand products when introduced in the Card World market. These three edible soul energy products were the same with the same effects but of different flavors like the carbonated drinks back on earth.

The advantage of using liquid soul energy products over soul jades for cultivating active soul control percentage was that a card apprentice would can a lot of concentrated and pure soul energy into his system during the cultivation of the active soul energy.

Whereas when using soul jades, the card apprentice will have to first extract soul energy from the soul jades then inhale it into their system, and then use it to excite their active soul control percentage. And once the card apprentice was able to make some progress using this, he would then refine the soul energy he had gathered in his system to make it purer. Not to forget the energy loss during the extraction of soul energy from the soul jade and inhaling it into the card apprentices system.

Using soul jades for cultivation was a tedious and inefficient method compared to using liquid soul energy products. With liquid soul energy products, the card apprentice can directly skip the process of refining soul energy to make it purer. As the liquid soul energy was the liquid form of concentrated pure soul energy which could be directly introduced into the system of the card apprentice keeping the soul energy loss to a minimum making this method of exciting active soul control percentage more efficient than one where it involved using soul jades.

Now the question was how much liquid soul energy these three soul energy gathering array formations could gather in a day. I already had an estimate that Hive AI had calculated by running various simulations but I did not plan to hold my breath on it as there were always a few discrepancies in theoretical and practical results.