Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 852 Monster Meat

Time- 05:09

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

Going through the contract Asong and Cole finally knew why Agatha was so desperate to make this business venture despite the young card creationist’s rude and humiliating remarks. 

”Wyatt, once again you have opened my mind to a new world. I did not know puppet cards could be used like this.” Asong sighed as she watched the video of Ronnie using his 10,000-armed butcher origin card. She knew how much the monster meat processing costs. If the multi-armed butcher card were able to do what it promised then it was going to revolutionize the world. 

Asong always wanted to improve the diet of the common people. Unlike the rich families that could afford to eat monster meat three times a day regular people could barely afford monster meat. This difference in nutrition shows in the people awakening as card apprentices. Almost all of the children of wealthy families can awaken as card apprentices before turning 19 years old, but the same was not true for the children from humble families. Researchers believed that this was mostly because of the difference in the diet as the monster meat seems to help mortals gather more energy to practice active soul control. 

Therefore, improving the diet of regular people was one of the most important agendas. But making monster meat available to regular people was not possible because the monster meat was very expensive. And one of the main reasons that inflated the monster meat price was the meat processing fee. Though the fee charged for monster meat was very high it was reasonable considering that it was a craft that was not easy to learn or execute. As each monster has a different process for processing its meat. And higher the monster grade higher the realm required to process their meat. Not to mention how much monster meat can one card apprentice process in a day. Therefore the prices of the monster meat processing were inflated. And there was nothing Asong could do about it. 

But today finally Asong had found the solution for the monster meat processing, the multi-armed butcher card. According to the card info mentioned in the contract forwarded by the young card creationist the puppet hands of the card were able to memorize the monster meat processing of different monsters with ease and also process a bulk quantity of monster meat at a time. Not to mention it could use the waste remains to create packaging for the meat. Asong did not know if this card info was real but according to this, this card was very efficient. With these cards, she will be able to flood the market with monster meat and make it so that the expensive rates of the monster meat in the market will decrease considerably. One of the main reasons for the inflation in monster meat was the scarcity of monster meat in the market. But now thanks to the multi-armed butcher card which can process monsters in bulk she will be able to produce processed monster meat at an incredible pace. 

The core problem wasn’t that the market was lacking monster meat but it was lacking processed monster meat. The card apprentice hunt monsters every day, there were always mountains of the monster corpse whose meat go bad because they were unable to process the monster meat in time. There are large freezing arrays and freezers to store monster corpses to prolong the life of the monster meat for an extended period but storing the monster meat is not cheap. So card apprentices don’t even bother storing low-grade monster crops as the profits they can make from this low-grade monster meat would not cover the cost of the freezer storage and meat processing. 

So the market did not lack monster corpses it only lacked an efficient and cheap method to harvest meat from all these monsters they were able to hunt. But now Asong found that method in the form of the multi-armed butcher card. She believed that if this card was used to harvest meat from all the monsters hunted in the dungeons then there will be no scarcity of processed monster meat in the market instead it would saturate the monster meat market decreasing the price of the monster meat to record low where even the regular citizens could afford monster meat. 

”Correction, they are not puppets but machines.” I corrected Asong. 

”Okay, my bad. By the way, Wyatt, have you considered donating this card recipe to the government?” Asong said suddenly. Hearing her Agatha and Cole glared at her as if she was going to steal their family fortune. 

Asong’s idea was simple she wanted to use the multi-armed butcher card for the welfare of regular people but that would not be possible if she were to follow the profit split mentioned by the young card apprentice in the contract. 

Yes, they will be able to pump out more processed monster meat with the business model stated by the young card creationist but this way the effect of the cards on the price of the monster meat in the market will be minimal. But if she were able to decrease the profit margin demanded by the young card creationist then the prices of the processed monster meat that they will be pumping into the market will be decreased and with a large quantity of cheaper processed monster meat in the market, she will finally be able to bring down the prices of the processed monster meat where even the mortals can afford to enjoy the processed monster meat. After thinking about it Asong felt that this was not enough. As making processed monster meat cheaper was not enough, she had to drive the price lower so that mortals can enjoy monster meat in their daily meals. Only this way will she be able to provide for the children from humble families a fair shot at awaking as card apprentice by the age of 19. And to do this she planned to have the young card creationist contribute the card recipe of the multi-armed butcher card for the good of humanity.