Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 654 Abandoned Teenager

Time- 14:37

Location- Sky Blossom City, Burger Empire.

The fancy infrastructure in the Burger Empire block was all crushed to bits by my spiked spinning top and was covered in gore, flesh, and bones of the giant demonic snakes, Titanoboas. It took a while, but the enormous spinning top finally killed the last frenzied Titanoboa on the surface. Just when I was about to decide how to deal with the Titanoboa’s hiding underground, the problem took care of itself for me, but I wasn’t lucky this time.

*Booom!* The Titanoboa attacking me from the underground detonated themselves and blew the entire Burger Empire block sky high. The dust and smoke rose to the sky. It took a while, but they settled down soon. 

As the smoke cleared, it could be seen that a single-horned cloaked figure was grabbing a teenager by his neck and laughing,” hahaha! How dumb are you to believe that you were able to massacre nearly one thousand Titanoboas in half an hour? You did kill most of them, but I ordered about 445 of them to hide underneath, and when the stage was ready, Boom! Hahaha! 

I thought the explosion would take another 3 or 4 blocks with it, but it seems the city array has isolated this space from the rest. Unlucky you. You had to take the full brunt of the explosion. It is really impressive that your body is still intact! I guess I have no choice but to add you to my collection. But remembering your smug voice from earlier as you grabbed me from behind, I want to kill you. 

But, look at you now. You can barely keep your eyes open. Don’t worry. I forgive you and make all your pain will go away soon. Aren’t I generous?” 

”Origin card, Devil Skull mask!” The cloaked figure activated her origin card and summoned a skull mask with a single horn on its forehead. 

”Don’t struggle! Submit, and all the pain will go away!” Whispering this, the cloaked figure placed the skull mask on the barely conscious teenager. As soon as the skull mask touched the teenager’s skin, it wiggled as if it had come alive and stuck to the boy’s face.

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Within the last half an hour, the authorities arrived to rescue the injured civilians. The city array was activated, isolating the burger king block from the rest of the city. So that no demonic creature escapes to the city and disturbs the normal life of the average citizens. 

This demon cult attack was deemed as an A-rank threat. Apparently, all the active A-rank parties under the city were in a dungeon. As for the rest, they claimed injury and refused to participate, hearing the mission target were demon cult members. As for the top families of the city, none came to help as the city hall did not ask for help. 

Without the official request for help, the families did not plan on meddling with the demon cult attack as the city would confiscate the spoils of war. Therefore they wanted to reach an agreement with the city hall about dividing the spoils of wars before taking action. But the city hall was in no rush to take action since the incident area was isolated from the rest of the city, and they had all the time on their hands to wait for their A-rank parties to return from the dungeon raid and rid the city of the demon cult pests.

Due to the city politics, the incident area would have been isolated from the rest of the city without rescuing the injured and trapped, waiting for further orders. But thanks to the bravery shown by Chief Denise and Ed Bright, many injured civilians were rescued and given proper medical care. But still, Chief Denise could not stop them from abandoning a teenager to fend for himself in the incident area isolated from the city. 

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Even though it was difficult for me to count the number of demonic Titanoboa hiding in the underground, it could be calculated by subtracting the number of demonic snakes I killed from one thousand, the original number of snakes attacking me. The answer we get would be the number of Titanoboa hiding underneath the ground. So once I realized that nearly half of the giant demonic snakes were hiding underneath the ground, I knew the cloaked figure was up to something, so I asked the three stone viltronians to strengthen our defense to the max. 

As I expected, the cloaked figure was really up to something. It blew the whole block from underneath. Thankfully the injured civilians were brought to safety beforehand by Ed, Chief Denise, and authorities. As for Nick and Tom, they felt overshadowed when I summoned the 50-meter tall spinning massacre top, so they cleared the field and became spectators from outside under my permission. 

I had already strengthened my defenses, knowing that the cloaked- figure was up to its tricks. Therefore I was intact despite the explosion, which took an entire block down with it. Yet I decided to pretend that I was injured so that I could get the rat hiding in the hole to come out. Therefore after the explosion, when the smoke and dust hadn’t cleared yet, I ordered the three stone viltronians to blow up the spiked stone top and return to the monster orb. 

As for the other two stone viltronian fighting the blood lord and giant earthworm monster, their bodies were destroyed. Thankfully, their monster cores were kept safe by the shell of calamity daughter gem. Which meant they could recreate their body once again as long as they had my permission. But for now, I let their calamity daughter gem lay on the ground peacefully so that my trap to catch the rat doesn’t spook it away instead. 

When the cloaked figure was giving her cliche villain speech, I wanted to stop pretending and smack her for almost boring me to death. But I wanted to see what she had in store for me, so I let her be and continue acting arrogant.