Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 967: Betrayal

Time- 23:45     

Location- Sun Blossom City, Circle Headquarters, Fine Gold carrier floaters     

The Duo Mirror array was powerful enough to withstand the attack of 15 A-rank warships which was impressive. It could be seen that the Circle did not spare any effort to keep others from spying on them and protecting themselves. Yet it crumbled in face of Diana's second way of attack, as this time the cannonballs shot by her 15 warships had been powered by wind rule power. Hence, the Duo mirror array shattered like glass at the first impact of the wind rule powered can on balls. A soul energy powered array never stood a chance in front of rule-powered attacks.      

Seeing the power behind the combo skill Diana had become confident and started to believe that if something unexpected doesn't happen then she alone could wipe the circle's sun blossom branch from the face of the world. Now she understood why her boss did not send the tropes to battlegrounds and instead asked her to finish it off loaning her an Ego elemental.      

Diana glanced below from the deck of the carrier floater and looked at her former colleagues who kept chanting 'Kill.' Thinking of massacring these Circle's goons with her next attack, Diana showed no pity or hesitation in her eyes. If not for her trying to figure out how to use two ego elementals in a combo attack she would have already shelled these fools into ash.      

"Phantom Fleet Aim," Having thought of a way to use the two ego elementals in combo with her skill, Diana ordered her Phantom Fleet to aim and yelled, "Skill Combo Wind Rule Powered Guided cannonballs."      

"Phantom Fleet, Open fire."      

"Sensory meaning Wind rule Ego Element use skill Guiding Wind."      

"Haste Meaning Wind rule Ego Elemental use skill Speed of wind."      

Diana ordered her phantom fleet to open fire and then blessed the cannonballs with two wind rule Ego Elemental's skills to launch the combo skill wind rule powered guided cannonballs. The idea was that Diana would use the skills of the two ego elementals to enhance the power and the aim of her phantom fleet's attack. Enhanced by the wind rule numerous cannonballs entered the desolate punisher array at an unimaginable speed and instead of traveling in a straight line they curved and bend under the guidance of the wind rule and only aimed for areas where circle's card apprentices were present making sure that all of the cannon balls hit their target with a devastating speed.      

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On the side of the Circle, Mike saw the Phantom fleet prepare for the third round of bombardment and immediately ordered the elites of the circle to stand guard just in case some of the cannon balls slipped the prohibition of the desolate punisher array.      

Unlike the Duo mirror array that was powered by soul energy, the desolate punisher array was powered by silence rule power. Though it did not have strong defense power like the Duo mirror array it had strong prohibition ability which could render the soul energy and low-level rule power useless. So in front of the numerous incoming cannonballs, none of the circle's card apprentice present showed signs of fear. As they knew as soon as the cannon balls entered the desolate punisher array, they will lose the enhancement of both the soul energy and the rule power and will be nothing more than mortal-level cannonballs. Such attacks at most would manage to hurt a few feeble card scholars, so they had nothing to worry about. Hence with this calculation in mind, a bunch of promising elite card soldiers prepared to interpret the cannonballs before they ruined their headquarters' beautiful infrastructure.      

While the minions moved to defend their base, Mike descended to a nearby building and searched for Ji Feng, to ask him if the desolate punisher array was lacking something. After all, he planned to use the array to help him stall time for his plans. Though he had a strong inking that the enemy must have something up their sleeves to deal with the desolate punisher array he believed that despite the enemies' counter for the desolate punisher array it was powerful enough to buy him some time. All he had to do was patiently wait until all the pieces were in place.      

Just when Mike thought that he had the situation under control a variable occurred he could not find the Yin-Yang harmony sect's disciple. Which gave rise to him thinking of various variables that he had not thought of previously. With that, Mike felt the situation spiral and the only way to put an end to it was to find the Yin-Yang harmony sect disciple Ji Feng. Thinking of this he immediately summoned his grimoire- but he was unable to summon it before he could contemplate why he was not able to summon his grimoire he heard the cries of his underlings.      

Mike immediately turned to witness that the influence of the soul energy and rule power on the cannonballs did not get negated after entering the confines of the desolate punisher array instead the cannonballs danced in the air searching and hunting their targets. To his surprise, even the strongest of his minion and the elders of the inner circle were helpless in front of the attacks. That was when he noticed that none of them had summoned their grimoires, to be accurate none of them was able to summon their grimoires similar to how he was not able to summon his grimoire.     

With all this proof right in front of him, pointing to the obvious, it did not take Mike long to conclude that the disciple of the Yin-yang harmony sect, Ji Feng, had betrayed him and had turned the array that was meant to protect the Circle's card apprentices equipping the token cards in their grimoires into a death trap targeting those that had equipped the token cards in their grimoire.      

"Ji Feng!" Mike screamed with bloodshot eyes watching his subordinates bombarded into a blood and meat shower.