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

Seeing the young Redfoot hurriedly return to his body in the physical plane I wondered if the human race looked scary to other races. However, what were the chances of me running into a fellow demon merchant from sector ES0012?

I planned to learn the Redfoot race's native language so that I am able to greet the young Redfoot demon merchant the next time we meet if I get the chance that was. Shaking my head I looked at the sector map and would you look at that its borders were also undefined and only a total of 100 acres of the area was listed as available same as the sector NS7878.

Once again I randomly rented property no.03 right next to the fountain for 48,000 low-tier soul jades per day. Now I know why the young Redfoot chose to sleep on the street instead of renting a small shack. The cost to rent an acre of land in sector ES0012 was a lot more than in sector NS7878, I have no idea why.

But I noticed that the starting rent of an acre of land in sector DS0909 was 480,000 low-tier soul jades per day which was exactly ten times the rent of an acre of land in sector ES0012 whose rent of an acre of land was exactly 24 times the rent of an acre of land in sector NS7878. Was this pattern just a coincidence or did it mean something? I had no idea.

At this cost setting up the three soul energy gathering array formations here to extract liquid soul energy was not going to be cost-effective. If I needed to make a profit then intermediate soul energy gathering array formation was not going to cut it I would require a higher-level array formation.

However, it did not matter because I wasn't here to extra liquid soul energy from this sector. I was here to extract liquid rule power using pseudo-natural rule power gathering array formations.

Considering the demand and cost of liquid rule power in the card world's market I hoped the cost of renting an acre of land here to extract liquid rule power would be cost-effective. Depending on whether the profit margin of producing and selling liquid rule power matched the profit margin of producing and selling liquid soul energy or vice versa I planned to prioritize one with a greater profit margin. This was one of the reasons why I did not largely invest in both of these business ventures.

Soul energy and Rule power were the same everywhere with the exception that some realms had fewer rules and rule meanings while some realms had more rules and rule meanings. And I could not help but feel that this somehow was the reason behind the difference in the cost of renting a property in various sectors.

Moving on, I used the demon merchant codex to get the devil merchant code to construct a big properly ventilated warehouse. Now that I know there was another demon merchant using this sector I need my privacy. Walking into the warehouse a familiar dialogue box popped up,

[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," setting the nature of my property I mentally ordered, 'Hive AI, get me the array blueprint for pseudo-natural rule power gathering array formations for Earth, Wind, and Fire rule power.'

After the creation of the three pseudo-natural soul energy gathering array formations using the data I gathered from the infinity library and the data I had dungeon core formation, I had the Hive AI use the data on intermediate rule power gathering array formation I collected in the infinity library to come up with arrays to gather Earth, Wind, and Fire liquid rule powers.

There was a reason why out of all the rules in the card world I was gathering Earth, Wind, and Fire liquid rule power. It was that these three rules were commonly comprehended by card apprentices with an ego gem of any synchronization rate. Among all the rules in the card world's will Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water rules were easily accessible to all card apprentices regardless of their ego gem's synchronization rate. Since I can only build three intermediate array formations within an acre of land I made an executive decision to choose Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Rule power-related natural resources was very scarce in the card world. All known Rule-power rich environments were occupied and regulated by the central government, Royal families, Nobles of the central capital, Top ten universities, Sects, and other organizations.

Rule-power-rich environments were scares but it was even more difficult to find natural resources related to rule power. Therefore whenever natural resources related to rule power were discovered it led to a struggle between these powerful organizations so that they can monopolize the resources for themselves.

Such monopolistic behavior had led to the price of rule-power-related resources skyrocketing in the card world's market. That was why I did not think twice before spending nearly 2.5kgs of phantom sword wood to rent an acre of land to produce liquid rule power. If everything goes accordingly and get similar results to the simulations conducted by Hive AI then I will be making millions of soul jades with very little investment and effort.

However, I did hear rumors calming that the way beyond had many rule-power-rich environments developed by supreme beings. Seeing how the Bloodette's dungeon seal had turned into a holy place to comprehend blood rule with her presence I felt that these rumors held merit to them.

This was one of the reasons why many powerful card apprentices volunteered to guard way beyond. They did not seem to mind risking their lives to get their hands on scares resources. I did not know how to feel when numerous people were risking their lives to get the resource I could manufacture in tons with near to no effort and a little investment.