Card Apprentice Daily Log



Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 09:40

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Royal Palace, Secret Passage, Gold Gate

Listening to Ann's explanation of where the Citizens were teleported to and what happened to them, I finally understood why there was no mention of the ability of Golden Gate Cluster Array formation in the Grimoire network and history. It was because all of those who experienced the effect of the Golden Gate Cluster either had no recollection of it or were dead. 

However, based on the performance of the Golden Gate so far I was not convinced that it was the strongest defense of the Southern capital. Teleporting the citizens to a secure location was well and good but what was the use of it if they did not have a home left to return to? 

Hopefully, there was more to the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation but I did not have time left to witness it, as my interview with the Matron was in five minutes. 

"Ann, if you are done with your preparations let's go, I have an interview to attend to," I reminded Ann that there wasn't much time left for my interview and we should be leaving.

"Okay," Ann verbally agreed with the boy but continued to fiddle with the Golden Gate Cluster using her grimoire. 

"Ann, where's the hidden passage you are talking about?" I asked Ann wondering where the hidden passage Ann previously mentioned that we would be taking to the Prestige Fours Seasons was. 

Listening to my words team one, Keeper of the Golden Gate, and Jill looked at me as if looking at a country bumpkin for asking such a question. However, Ann quickly explained, "The Golden Gate is the secret passage. Watch."

Following Ann's words I watched the apparition of the Southern Capital in the middle of the room, in it the buildings and the streets between the royal palace grounds and the Prestige Four Seasons began to move to form a straight path from the Royal Palace grounds to the interview venue. 

Yes, the building and the streets of the Southern capital were moving as if they had a will of their own. They not only moved by themselves but also rearranged themselves to form a straight path from the royal palace grounds to the Prestige Four Seasons. 

The most fascinating thing was that such big buildings and asphalt roads were able to move around at an incredible pace without damaging themselves or their surroundings. 

Seeing this unfold I understood that the whole Southern Capital city was a part of the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Ann to make changes to the city through her grimoire. 

I think it would be more accurate to say that the city grounds were a part of the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation than the buildings and the street built on it. Because most of the buildings and streets of the Southern capital were not a millennium old like the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation, they were all recently built and were one or two centuries old at best. 

This was why it was fascinating to see the Golden Gate Cluster Array move the buildings and streets of the southern capital at a fast pace by moving the ground underneath them while causing no harm to the city's buildings and the streets. 

A living city, now that was something I would expect from the strongest defense of the Southern Capital. However, Ann was not done yet. 

Soon I saw the building in the apparition of the Southern Capital city move again. This time they moved to create numerous large empty clearings within the city. Then soon from underneath the grounds of these numerous clearings a tower of sorts could be seen rising above to the ground surface. 

A total of two hundred and fifty clearings were created within the city and each of them had a rising tower in them that was already 30 meters high but continued to grow in height. 

40 meters

50 meters 

60 meters 

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120 meters and finally the towers stopped rising and then numerous cannons could be seen protruding out of the towers. These towers weren't just ordinary towers but turrets designed to attack the enemies invading the city. 

Seeing Ann had activated the turrets, team one and the keeper of the Golden Gate were shocked because using even one of those turrets was not cheap. However, the Southern emperor had activated 250 of them. 

Witnessing the majesty of 250 turrets, each 120 meters in height, as they rose from underneath the city grounds I was speechless. It took me a while to count how many cannons were mounted on each turret. 

These cannons were not ordinary, they all seemed to be powered by SSS-rank or SS-rank monster cores. Each one of them was capable of killing a semi-demigod and harming a demigod. 

Now, even I was starting to feel that Ann was taking it a bit too far. I wonder if she was planning to use the turrets in the city as the attack from even one of them will wreak havoc in the city. 

75 demigods and 250 turrets were enough to wipe out a large-sized army let alone a few demigod realm spies and assassins from the central government and Morningstar Universities. 

I was shocked that the Southern Royal family would go this far to protect me and keep me safe. The shock was not because of the firepower gathered by them but the wealth that would be spent on using them. The Demigods might be willing to work for minimum wage out of patriotism but the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation and the Turrets were a different matter because they required a lot of soul energy just to activate and without a proper energy source they were useless and nothing but garbage. 

I cannot imagine how much this stunt alone would cost them. I mean activating the Gate Cluster array and turrets just for the show and to deter the enemy would not be cheap by a long shot.