Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 09:47

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital

Ann, Jill, and Team One watched the boy’s body vibrate uncontrollably before it blended with the surrounding nature for a fraction of a second and returned to vibrating uncontrollably. The boy’s body continued to fluctuate between becoming one with nature and vibrating for a few seconds. 

Ann and the rest watch the boy in amazement because they knew that the boy was trying to become physically one with the world. A feat that even the demigods wished to achieve. Some even believed that the secret to transcendence was in a ‘one with the world’ state both physically and spiritually. 

However, history doesn’t have records of many card apprentices achieving the ‘one with the world’ state both physically and spiritually. Nonetheless, those who were able to achieve this incredible achievement have been a huge influence on history and their footprints can be seen in many defining movements of this world’s history. 

At present, the only person known to have achieved the ‘one with the world’ state both physically and spiritually was Louis Forger aka the Miracle thanks to her physique the ‘Right eye of the world.’ 

Who despite being a semi-demigod could contend toe to toe with demigods. And the only boost she seemed to have demonstrated of being ‘one with the world’ state physically was being able to tap into the world’s reserve of soul energy and gain boundless energy along with fast recovery. 

Because of this even Team One which was dissatisfied with the boy and was losing their patience decided to be patient seeing the boy had obtained a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and was on the verge of a breakthrough. 

“How?” Team One’s leader looked at the boy in confusion and wondered what could have triggered the epiphany the boy had gained. 

They were in the middle of an intense situation with demigod realm beings drawing their swords, as the only Card Master and being targeted by demigods anyone would be fearing for their life. 

However, forget about being scared for his life, the boy had somehow managed to gain a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, an epiphany about achieving the ‘One with the world’ state physically. 

‘One doesn’t just gain an epiphany, something must have triggered this,’ thinking of this Team One’s leader immediately turned to look at the humanoid in black in the sky, and to his surprise he found that the humanoid in the black was intently staring at the boy ignoring every Team Two the was closing on it. 

“Team Two, this is Leader One, I have reasons to believe the hostile might have achieved the ‘One with the world’ state,” Team One’s leader, Code name Leader One, immediately cautioned the entire team two using the common secured network. 

“Copy that Leader One. Approaching hostile cautiously,” Leader Two replied 

Listening to Leader One Ann and the rest of Team One members look at the Humanoid figure in black in reverence, the skills displayed by it had gained their respect and caution. 

Even Jill looked at Arnas in astonishment, in the few encounters she had with Arnas she never realized that Arnas was so strong and skilled. 

“Fan out, and secure the perimeter. It seems we are stuck here for the time being,” Ann ordered Team One to secure the perimeter as the boy accepted his enlightenment. She did not want to be the reason the boy could not make use of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. 

As soon as Ann gave this order across the entire border of the Southern Capital city thousands of red beams of light pierced the sky from earth. 

Seeing this new development all fifteen teams halted their actions and looked at the beam of lights at the border of the city in alert. Leader Two felt engaging the hostile in light of the new development would be reckless so asked his team members to retreat to a safe distance and await his orders.

As for Ann, she immediately used her grimoire and accessed the user interface of the Golden Gate cluster array formation to check why the turrets did not react as the red beam of light emerged at the border of the city. 

Ann had specified all 250 turrets to secure the city perimeter yet the turrets did not alert her of the red beams of light. Leaving the matter of Golden Array aside, Ann contacted her teams, “Teams report the status of the perimeter.” 

“Team Three, reporting. No hostiles were detected. The unidentified incident was out of nowhere. Unable to detect the source of the unidentified incident.”

“Team Four, reporting. No hostiles were detected…”

“Team Five, reporting. No hostiles were detected…”

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“Team Fifteen, reporting. No hostiles were detected…”

All twelve teams claimed the same thing, the red beam of lights across the border of the Southern Capital city was out of the blue as if they manifested out of nowhere and its source was unidentified, labeling it as an unidentified incident. 

Without enough information, Ann did not know what to say but to look at the Humanoid in black who was surrounded by Team Two however it completely ignored them and kept staring at the boy. 

“Fuck, no wonder they destroyed the city array first,” Jill cussed seeing the beam of light. 

The unidentified red beams of light spanning across the city borders were thousands in number, enough to surround the southern capital within them but not enough to completely close the borders of the city. 

Now that was about to change as the thousands of red beams of light were expanding their width, soon they would all come into contact with each other if they continued to expand at the current rate. 

Then the entire southern capital city’s border will be enclosed by a red curtain of light. And if the expansion of the red curtain of light doesn’t halt in its path and continues further then the entire city will be covered by the unidentified red light.