Card Apprentice Daily Log



Date- 7 April 2321

Time- 14:04

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Card Creationist Association, Auction House

Seeing the audience maintain a pin-drop silence after witnessing the impatient card creationist being thrown out of the auction house the referee nodded in satisfaction, he was very keen on watching the card creation process of the Card Soldier with one track mind but then a sudden exclamation among the audience was disturbing him from doing so. 

So, left with little choice, he finally decided to make an example out of the impatient card creationist as a warning for others that if were to exclaim or cause a ruckus then he would use the array formation of the auction house to throw them out of the auction house regardless of their status.

As the referee of the card creation challenge between Chris Ainsworth and the Southern Card Creationist Association, the referee was a Diamond Grade card creationist. With such high status, the referee had better things to do with his time. Still, considering that this challenge also involved the reputation of the southern region, he had no choice but to sacrifice his time for his motherland. 

Watching, Chris wiped the floor with each of the representatives sent by the Southern card creationist association the referee had a stomachful of anger he felt ashamed that the future card creationist of the southern region could not handle a single card creationist from the Western region. 

He was starting to understand why the Association leader Lorn repeatedly asked them to conduct card creationist seminars and classes for low-level card creationists, it was not that the association was lacking money but it was lacking worthy future generations to pass on the association to which they built with blood and sweat. These juniors had a very shaky foundation of card creation compared to the challenger from the West. 

The referee was not bothered by the fact the association might lose this challenge to the Western card creationist, what worried the referee was the future of the association having witnessed such a disappointing performance from the representatives of the Southern card creationist association. 

Just when the referee had lost hope for the future of the Southern card creationist association he saw it spark watching the card created by the Card Soldier realm card creationist. As a semi-demigod and a high-ranking member of the Southern card creationist association, the referee knew that the boy hadn't cheated in any way nor did the Southern card creationist association rig the challenge in the favor of the card soldier. 

However, for there to be no doubt why the Southern card creationist association conducted this challenge he had no choice but to pull up the footage of the Card Soldier's card creation process after getting his permission. It was rare for card creationists to reveal their card creation process so openly therefore the referee had mentally asked the boy if he could use the recordings of his card creation to prove that he did not cheat, before declaring to the audience about it. This was just a courtesy, as the representative of the Southern card creationist association the card soldier had no say in how they could use the recordings of his card creation process. But it was good to see the Card Soldier be understanding of the situation and give his consent. 

Normally as a diamond-grade card creationist, the referee would not bother to watch the recordings of a low-level card creationist's card creation process but having witnessed the card that the card soldier had created despite the limitation of the number of ingredients and time, he was curious how did the Card soldier achieve something like that when he, himself, was not confident about achieving such a feat.

As the referee watched the recordings of the Card soldier's creation process he was suddenly reminded of watching his late master's card creation process. Because the only time had seen such a decisive and precise card creation process was when his master let him watch his card creation process while teaching him. Not to forget the Card soldier's knowledge about the soul pathways of the two mortal grade ingredients was out of this world.

Like the audience, the referee too was caught off guard by the duality displayed by the Card soldier's mental strength. This caused him to look at the boy in a new light and wonder where has been such genius been hiding so far. As someone who was a step away from becoming a demigod the referee never planned to take disciple but suddenly he felt like he found the disciple he was destined to teach. 

As the recording continued, the referee began to notice that the part of the Card soldier which was separating the soul pathways of the Nyon rope was a lot faster than the other part of mental strength that was separating the soul pathways of the Bloody veins. Focusing on the processing of the Nyon rope soul pathways the referee began to notice that the part of the Card soldier's attending to the soul pathways of Nyon rope was not faster but was doing three things simultaneously causing an illusion that it was faster than other part of his mental strength. 

With this revelation, the referee finally understood that the boy's control over his mental strength had already broken through duality and reached greater heights previously which only the best of the card creationist and array masters of the world had achieved. Now the referee felt he was not worthy of taking the card soldier as his disciple because his mental strength had just recently achieved duality, his skin was not thick enough to teach someone who had surpassed him in terms of control over mental strength. 

Unlike the crowd that assumed that the fraudster was using a card to display such control over his mental strength, the referee knew better because until recently he too once used such a card and knew that such cards were far from enough to display the control over mental strength displayed by the boy.