Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 4 April 2321

Time- 00:26

Location- Sun Blossom City, Circle Headquarters

"Kid you think you are so smart, you must be feeling good about yourself right about now," Mike said as the extermination team got into their respective position and completed the battle array formation.

"Yes, yes I do," Seeing Mike at the center of the battle array formation set up by the extermination team I said smugly.

"Well, let me prove you wrong. Let's if your battle array formation can hold up against this," Saying that Mike Platinum grade grimoire suddenly shone with a flash of brilliance as he chanted, "Summon origin card bone dragon."

With Mike's chant, a 100 feet-wide magic circle appeared under him, and soon a colossal lizard skull surfaced from within the magic circle and let out a deafening roar.

Roarr!!

Mike immediately climbed onto the bone dragon's skull and then soon that entire bone dragon's skeleton-winged bone body climbed out of the magic circle at this point the extermination team could only fan out from their positions to make way for the bone dragon or be caught in the backlash of the magic circle. But this did not break the battle array formation as the team expanded the battle array formation to fit in the bone dragon at the center.

Expansion of the battle array formation was a unique technique to defend against the enemies that were harassing the card apprentices in the formation from outside. By suddenly expanding the formation the enemies outside will be caught off guard and be added to the inside of the battle array formation.

Standing on the shiny white skeleton skull of the bone dragon, Mike who saw that the emergence of the bone dragon was not able to break the battle array formation could not help but frown and added, "Kid you got skills, I will give you that. But today they will not be enough."

From the meticulous and attentive planning and execution of the battle array formation to the expert-level battle array formation expansion, Mike could not help but be impressed by the boy. He had heard the boy was good at card creation but seeing him skillfully set up a battle array formation mid-combat Mike was in awe of the boy's talent. The more impressed Mike was the more he felt the need to kill the boy and rid the Circle of potential future trouble.

"Bone Dragon, soar," With Mike's command the bone dragon began flapping its skeleton wings and immediately took to the air.

Before the bone dragon could gain elevation its path was blocked by the sudden appearance of the phantom fleet. The bone dragon's retreat in the air was blocked by the phantom fleet and on the land, the extermination squad had set up a battle array formation. As I concluded that Mike and his bone dragon were trapped, I heard Diana seeking permission, " Boss, let me take care of the skeleton lizard."

In response, I nodded looking at the bone dragon hovering in the air as Mike tried to figure out a retreat without a fight, knowing that despite gaining elevation he was still within the range of the battle array formation. So if he were to try and fight his way out, he would be entangled by the battle array formation.

"Card Combo - Wind rule powered guided cannon balls, Fire!" gaining my permission Diana immediately used her new card combo to attack Mike's bone dragon.

Aiming at the bone dragon the phantom fleet shot nearly 500 - 600 cannonballs which were immediately enhanced and guided by the two wind rule ego elemental as per Diana's will.

In face of the incoming cannonballs, the bone dragon showed no resistance, it took the attack head-on, causing Diana's brow to frown as the bone dragon would only do that if it were confident of its defense. But contrary to Diana's speculation the bone dragon's skeleton body's defense was not able to withstand the barrage of her card combo attack. Being impacted by 500 - 600 cannonballs its skeleton body was demolished into numerous fragments.

"What the fuck?" Seeing this the extermination team and I was dumbfounded. As having felt the domineering intent of the bone dragon we knew the done dragon was strong but for it to go down just like that we could not believe that something like the bone dragon would be Mike's trump card.

Speaking of Mike, I immediately searched for him but I could not find him. It was as if he suddenly vanished into thin air with the destruction of his bone dragon. Giving a plausible explanation as to why the bone dragon collapsed without putting up a fight. Mike sacrificed the Bone dragon for his escape.

Considering that Mike may have not escaped far I immediately used my soul pupils to scan the surroundings to find any clue about Mike. But instead, I made another scary discovery, "Guys be careful, the Bone dragon is not dead its skeleton fragments have soul energy and traces of spirituality."

As soon as I was done warning, each of the skeleton fragments of the bone dragon floated into the air and began to grow into an individual bone dragon. The Bone dragon's skeleton body had shattered into hundreds of pieces and was scattered into the surroundings, allowing them to give rise to hundreds of clone bone dragons forming the current Clone dragon army.

Witnessing this I grew alert and hurriedly searched for Mike while the extermination team prepared to face the clone army of the bone dragon. The rise of the clone bone dragon army only signified that Mike did not use the bone dragon as a sacrifice for his escape instead he used one of his bone dragon's abilities to skillfully hide as his clone bone dragon army took delta with his enemies. Now I realized that Mike and his bone dragon were not trapped by the phantom fleet and the battle array formation instead he had his plans and I played right into them.