Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 1625 Results

Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 12:15

Location- Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Central Tower

Leaving the conference room, Wyatt arrived at the Van's penthouse office reverting to his original appearance. Turning to Sarah and Van who were waiting for his orders, he said, "You guys continue with your duties."

"Yes, Master," Van and Sarah said simultaneously leaving Wyatt alone with his thoughts in the big and fancy penthouse office. This floor was supposed to be Wyatt's Card Boutique but since he had moved to the Southern Capital and planned to attend the Morningstar University soon, Wyatt thought it would be put to best use if the guildmaster of the TSR adventure guild used it as his office since it was to become a prominent guild in entire Blossom district.

"How is this possible? Was it because of Baem's arrival?" Wyatt muttered as he still could not come to terms with the results that the Hive AI provided him and when he, himself, verified them to be true.

According to the Hive AI, there was no change in Baem's recent soul records when compared to her soul records it had recorded in the Southern Capital during the battle, no surprise there considering Baem's strength.

As for Susan, she was indeed under the influence of an ability similar to the one that prompted Bloodette to detonate her blood-rule body upon seeing him. Since Wyatt had already guessed this, he was not surprised but the last part of the Hive AI report surprised him.

This part of the report held the results of the comparisons between Corey's recent and all previous soul records recorded by Hive AI. According to them, Corey was once under the influence of a similar ability that influenced Bloodette to explode with Wyatt in sight. But currently, she was not. Shocking, right?

How was Hive AI able to tell? It was because of the residual traces of the ability that had once influenced Corey. This residual energy made it so that Corey would never be able to recall who and how she was influenced by the ability along with when and what she did under the influence.

With this new information, Wyatt was glad that he did not text Susan seeing how Corey was fine after having read his text. He appreciated his restraint and foreknowledge. Wyatt had no idea what would trigger the hypnotic suggestion implanted in Susan so it would be best if he stayed out of touch with Susan for the time being as he has been doing so far.

After the small victory, Wyatt once again found himself surrounded by a series of unanswered questions. Apart from the obvious questions such as, What were the trigger conditions for the hypnotic suggestion implanted in Susan? What was the hypnotic suggestion Handsome Fox planted in Susan? or How to undo Handsome Fox's ability? There were other questions that stuck out like an odd nail such as, What did the Handsome Fox have Corey do using his ability on her? Why did the Handsome Fox not implant a new hypnotic suggestion within Corey?

The latter two questions bothered Wyatt the most prompting him to wonder what the Handsome Fox could possibly want from Corey. What did he have her do when he used his ability on her? Why did he not use his ability on her again later when he used it on the rest?

Was Handsome Fox interrupted from implanting a new hypnotic suggestion in Corey with the arrival of Baem? No that was not it, how much time would it take a demigod to implant a hypnotic suggestion in a bunch of low-level card apprentices? A minute at most. Handsome Fox could have implanted a new hypnotic suggestion in Corey even with Baem's arrival if he wanted to. However, he chose not to. Clearly, there was more to it than what met the eye.

Considering Handsome Fox's ruthless and thorough nature, Wyatt could not get his mind around the fact that Handsome Fox would spare Corey the second time despite implanting hypnotic suggestions in the rest.

Trying to figure this out Wyatt remembered the demigod fight that Susan had described to Diana. About how Handsome Fox and one of his party members together kill the other three party members then the last party member other than Handsome Fox let him kill him.

With this Wyatt concurred that Handsome Fox had used his ability on his team member, that was why he helped him kill rest and then kill him too. Thinking of this Wyatt wondered why Handsome Fox did not use his ability on the rest of his team members to just hand him over their merchant recommendation quota. Or use his ability to order them to kill themselves?

Out of all the possibilities that Handsome Fox could use his ability to get his hands on the merchant recommendation quotas for his party members, why did he choose this specific why? It was a lot more complex than the other simpler ways he could have attended to this matter. Especially considering that opening the grimoire of a dead card demigod was not an easy task, let alone four of them.

Come to think of it, even if Handsome Fox only used his ability on one of his party members, why did he kill him without ordering him to hand over his merchant recommendation quota to him? Why did he not do that?

When Wyatt began to put Handsome Fox's actions and choices under scrutiny, he began to feel that none of them made sense. Based on his assumptions of Handsome Fox's ability, there were so many things Wyatt would have done differently to get his hand on the four merchant recommendation quota and kill everyone who knew about devil merchant code to monopolize the card world's market in devil merchant code.

Wyatt and Handsome Fox were different people, so their choices would be different however considering that Handsome Fox was cunning and thorough it would be reasonable to assume that he would choose the logical options when given the choice. But so far Wyatt found his actions illogical and even deranged.

This could only mean one of two things, either Wyatt's assumption of Handsome Fox's ability was wrong or Handsome Fox's ability was not as overpowered as Wyatt thought and had limitations that he had to adhere to, explaining his illogical actions and choices.