Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 718 Compromise

Date- 1 April 2321

Time- 12:08

Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234

It didnʼt take long for Corey Park to realize she was barking up the wrong tree. Susan was a pro card boutique. Which meant she would always side with the side that benefits the card boutique as a whole. And this time, the benefit of the card boutique was in screwing over her.

If it were some other time, Corey Park wouldnʼt bother to deal with this. But right now, a devil ingredient and a fortune matching the entire Bright familyʼs worth were at stake. With so much to lose, how could she continue to be nonchalant?

A devil ingredient will come a long way in raising her active soul control as her titled demon core could feed on the demonic soul energy from it. So she could not bear to part with the devil ingredient.

As for the price for three restricted legend grade cards, their price was more than the entire net worth of the Bright family. Corey was rich enough not to fight over money, but that did not the same if the money was more than her familyʼs net worth.

”Come on, Wyatt, I know I am wrong. Please forgive me. How about I add a legend-grade soul energy refining technique for free?” Seeing Susan was of no help. Corey tried to convince me with a freebie.

By legend grade, Corey only meant that the martial arts and the Soul energy refining techniques are legend grade, not the cards. The cards will be of Rage grade so that I can equip them in my grimoire, which means that the martial arts and techniques would be imposed with prohibition and restrictions to make it so that they are eligible to be within the norms of a Rare grade card.

”A Legend-Grade Soul energy refining technique!” Susan exclaimed in astonishment. Having experienced the common-grade Soul energy refining effect of the Turtleʼs dream card given to her by Corey, Susan knew how important soul energy refining is. A card to have that effect was unheard of. So, for Corey to develop a legend-grade soul energy refining card was out of this world. Something coveted by the world rulers.

”Hmm…” thanks to my mutated soul, I didnʼt need to refine my soul energy. They would purify my soul energy for me every time they mutated. So I wasnʼt psyched by the legend-grade soul energy refining technique. But it had a lot of research value for me, especially now that I had learned array formation.

When it comes to forging Ego Gem, everyone struggles with soul energy refining. As the soul, energy needs to be purified to a certain degree to condense the ethereal spirit and forge the Ego Gem. But the soul energy refining is a very time-consuming process, and there are no cards to help with that. Until the appearance of Corey Park, that is. She brought otherworldly martial arts and techniques with her.

Now I can use these martial arts to create array formation with soul energy refining as an effect. If I were to be successful in creating such an array formation, I would hit another jackpot similar to the silver milk powder. Thinking of this, the legendary grade soul energy refining technique started to sound attractive. If I successfully turned the soul energy refining technique into an array formation, it would earn me more than hundreds of devil ingredients.

”Okay, Corey. Since you are being so sincere with your apology, I will forgive you this once. But I will be paying for the martial arts cards in installments with zero interest rate and take a 40% discount. Are you okay with that?” Seeing the prospects of the legend grade soul energy refining technique, I decided to compromise with Corey Park.

”Thank you, Wyatt. You wonʼt regret this.” Corey Park cheered for chump change, not knowing she had lost the fortune of a lifetime. If she knew, she would regret agreeing to give her boss the legend-grade soul energy refining technique for free.

”Donʼt mention it.” I waved my hands, indicating that it was not a big deal.

”I will head to my card lab to create the twin demon dragon body Arts card for the creation of the twin Soldiersʼ origin card.” After I agreed to pay for the three martial cards in installments and promised not to take her devil ingredient, Corey Park hurriedly excused herself, fearing that she or Corey Bright would say or do something to change my mind.

”Wyatt, are you sure about this?” After Corey left, Susan asked me if I was sure about letting off Corey Park in exchange for a legend-grade soul energy refining technique.

”Yes, this is a good deal for us in the long haul.” I didnʼt go into detail to explain to Susan how the legend grade soul energy refining technique was worth more than a devil ingredient and the fortune spent for three legend grade martial arts cards.

”If you say so.” Susan didnʼt understand how the deal helped them in the long haul. But since her boss was confident, then it meant he must be planning something.

”Susan, I will pass another list of ingredients to your grimoire. Please purchase them as soon as possible. I plan to begin the advanced experimentation phase with the array formation as quickly as possible.” To develop the Array formation hack card, I need to experiment with various arrays. And see how much resistance each array has to outside invasion through natureʼs soul pathways.

”Okay, I will get to it right away.” Saying that Susan exited the warehouse and left for the guild association mall to acquire the card ingredients I mentioned in the list.

As Susan left to procure the ingredients, I took out the new materials on array formation given to me by Lorenzo.

I planned to have the Hive AI scan the material on array formation and save it for my slave consciousness to go through them for me while I experimented with the advanced array formation technique. And how to hack them in the fastest and most effective ways.

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