Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 9:49

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital

The time in the Southern Capital appeared to have come to a halt as an ominous air filled the city and made it hard to breathe. The attention of every soul within the city was drawn to the red light curtain and the sinister figures that were slowly marching into the city through the red light curtain from all directions. 

The sinister figures were none other than the summoned demon army, a total of six demon armies consisting of 300 demons could be seen coming out of the red light curtain. The demons in the demon army ranked from demon lord to demon emperor of demons 

Once the demon army entered the card world and assembled themselves, all 2100 of them let out a war cry expressing their ferocity. Their cruelty was visible in their eyes and the brutal weapons they carried. 

The war cry of the demon army continued welcoming the six demonic figures oozing an eerie evil aura that spread throughout the city as they exited the red light curtain. Then each of the six figures hovered over their respective demon army, these figures were none other than the devils leading the six demon army. 

As soon as each demon and devil entered the card world they all were greeted by the wrath of the Card World’s Will and their peak strength was suppressed by it. Even with their strength suppressed the ferocity in the eyes of the demon army or the devils leading them did not decrease in the slightest. 

The six devils each looked at the empty city, ignoring the 75 demigods and the 250 turrets guarding the city their attention was directly captured by the Southern Royal Palace Grounds, specifically the two array formations covering it, the Golden Gate array formation and the Timeless array formation.

“Little girl, this is not what we agreed,” A devil covered in black feathers spoke with her blood-red beak while her gyroscope head turned to look at an empty stop next to the red light curtain. 

From that space, a humanoid figure wearing a devil skull mask revealed itself, and asked the devil in puzzlement, “This slave doesn’t understand your highness.”

“This whole city is part of a big array formation that doesn’t allow demon sacrifice within it,” the feathered devil said aggressively. 

The array formation the feathered devil spoke of was none other than the Golden Gate array formation which had refined the entire area on which the Southern capital was built. 

“Your Highness, this slave has destroyed the array formation covering the city as promised,” Ada humbly replied, not daring to raise her voice. 

“I can see you have destroyed the city array formation but there’s another array formation, the ground underneath the city is a part of it,” the feathered devil patiently explained about the Golden Gate array formation to Ada. The devil, though aggressive, had to be considerate of Ada as she had summoned it using its true name.

“Your Highness, if you are talking about the Golden Gate array it is just for show as most of its ability is limited by the other array formation covering Southern Royal palace grounds,” Ada argued that the Golden Gate array formation’s functions were being limited by the other array formation covering the Southern royal palace grounds so the devils would not worry about it. 

“…” the feathered devil frowned, unable to understand if Ada was purposefully acting ignorant. But thinking that Aba did not know they, the six devils, planned to sacrifice their demon army and arrange the blood dome of darkness array formation to temporarily turn the southern capital into a part of the dark realm, she thought Ada might not understand her. 

“Lady Devil Penna, I don’t think summoning the blood dome is necessary. Except for those towers being a little bothersome, they are not a threat to us here. There are so many descent vessels here, let’s possess one, kill the rest and leave before the powerful humans arrive,” A devil with a snake body covered with grief-stricken humanoid faces in place of scales spoke up saying that they should complete the contract with Ada and scatter before the powerful card apprentice that can be a threat to them arrived.

Then the human face snake devil looked at the other four devils and asked, “Agreed?” 

Three devils nodded in agreement, however, one devil with a giant grey humanoid body carrying a wooden hourglass filled with golden sand on its back did not agree. Instead, it slowly took to the air saying, “I don’t care what you guys want to do, I am here to get my revenge and if you get in my way I will kill you all.” 

Listening to the giant hourglass devil the expression on the faces of other devils became unsightly. However, none of them dare to argue with it and let it be. 

Flying to a certain height, the giant hourglass devil looked at only the Card Master present in the city and yelled, “Dalton Wyatt, I have returned to collect your soul.” 

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Handling one or two devils was too much but now they had to face 6 devils. Ann commended herself for her foresight to assemble 15 demigod teams and activate the turret function of the Golden Gate array formation as protection detail for Wyatt. 

Thanks to this Ann was not that worried about facing the six devils and their demon army. What worried her were the conspirators that were hiding in the dark waiting for an opportunity to capture Wyatt. 

Faced with six devils and their armies, Ann did not lose sight of the prize, protecting Dalton Wyatt. She was willing to let the devils run among as long as she could get Wyatt to safety. As currently, his life was worth more than the Southern capital itself for the Southern Royal family.