Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 33: Rookie Card Fight Tournament

Date 21 Mar 2321

Time 9:49

Location Sky Blossom City, Lion Cub High School

Summon cards, the name says it all you get to summon a familiar to fight for you. These types of cards are rare and expensive for obvious reasons.

There are different types of summoning cards and the undead summons card is a rarer type of summoning card, it summons an undead creature to fight for you.

Undead creatures are very tricky to deal with as they do not fear pain and death. Worst of all they do not stop until they are completely immobilised or their core is destroyed.

Making undead creatures perfect for combat.

Right now I am facing an undead creature that can hide in the ground, an assassin type undead.

Even though this card is E rank at best, it must be worth millions and hard to find even in Guild Association Mall.

There is no way this undead belongs to one of these delinquents. So, I look around to find the Bright Brothers Trio.

Of the three the slender blondie had summoned the bronze grimoire and was being guarded by a skeleton hound.

To be able to summon two undead creatures at the same time at Card Student level means that the star ratings of both the undead summon cards is low, meaning these cards are created by a professional Card creator skilled in making undead cards.

These two cards must have cost a fortune, these prominent families seem to be rich to be able to equip their children with such expensive cards.

The only difference between these delinquents and the Bright Brothers trio is their background. Proving my theory that one can buy strength with enough money.

Now my worry was not the undead creature underground but the remaining two Bright brothers and their cards.

The most exciting thing about the card fight than the card fight itself is the mystery of the opponent’s cards. There are a nearly infinite number of skill/item cards out there not to mention the unique origin cards.

Cards are the most crucial part of the card fight. One can’t be prepared for all kinds of cards out there. Thankfully not everyone can afford or create all kinds of cards out there.

I wasn’t worried about the undead in the ground cause I was able to see its soul pathways as it moved around in the ground using soul pupils.

Since I could see it I can be prepared for it. But I still could not figure out what kind of undead creature it was? Is it a snake or a lizard or an earthworm maybe?

The delinquents did not seem surprised by the sudden visit of the undead. as it may be the reason they joined the Bright Lion gang in the first place.

People won’t follow you without enough power to show for, even if you are from a prominent family.

Since the dust was cleared the delinquents could see, seeing most of their comrades unconscious on the ground and me being unscathed covered in the golden aura in the form of an abyssal bear, they had lost their will to fight if not for the undead creature showing up they would have fled the scene.

Since the delinquents had lost the will to fight it was easier for me to render them unconscious.

Watching out for the undead underground I began taking down other delinquents one by one, even though they could see now my movement was too fast for them to react, thank you sprint.

I would knowingly leave an opening for a sneak attack but the undead creature never took the bait, taking down the last of the delinquents finally only I and the Bright Brothers were left standing.

Looking at the slender blondie I asked,” why didn’t you attack?”

“I don’t need an ambush to defeat you. The sneak attack earlier was me letting you know how easy it is for me to put an end to your life.”

“So, what now? You had enough or shall we continue.”

“You do have a good card there, a pinnacle E rank card proficient in close combat. But it is not enough!”

As the slender blondie spoke I could see the undead in the ground slowly circling me ready to attack any time.

Then the hound guarding the slender blondie dashed towards me.

It seems the blondie wants to keep me engaged with the skeleton hound while the undead underground sneaks up on me.

It was a reasonable plan if I could not see the undead in the ground, can’t blame a guy for trying.

The Skeleton hound was an F- rank undead creature not much of a threat to me even if I was lying down.

I pretended to be focused on the hound so that the creature underground would surface, and it did.

Right when the hound pounced on me with its mouth wide open trying to bite me, a skeleton tail with telson and stinger crawled out of the ground at my back and sting at me.

In response, I turned sideways with one of my hands going right through the hound’s open mouth reaching for its core and the other hand grabbed hold of the tail trying to sting me.

Freeing my hand by crushing the core of the hound, I pulled on the tail using both my hands to drag out the undead creature in the ground. The undead creature turned out to be a skeletal scorpion.

As I was about to crush the skeleton Scorpion to bone powder, I could hear slender blondie shouting ‘don’t!’.

I could understand his distress, the only drawback to a summoning card is that every time the summoned creature is killed the card’s durability rating drops. Meaning that if the summoned creature is killed enough times it is possible to kill it permanently.

Not heeding his pleas I directly crushed the skeleton scorpion’s core, afraid that the other Bright brothers would interfere. I wanted to crush all its bones to powder but I could not take the chance of letting it escape.

As I expected the bulky blondie dashed towards me with high speed to save the undead creature, luckily I was cautious and directly destroyed the core before the bulky blondie closed on me.

Looking at him I said, “Ops my hand slipped.”

But to my surprise, seeing me destroy the core the bulky blondie stopped in his advance and returned next to the glasses blondie who seems to be the leader of the three.

The distressed slender blondie did not create a scene over his summon being killed instead looked at me intently and said, “hope we meet in the rookie card fight tournament. I will kill you there.”

I could see he meant every word he spoke thanks to the killing intent oozing out of him.

But I was confused seeing them leave in a cool manner as if they did not lose in the first place.

“Hey! you dipshits who let you go?”

Hearing me the trio stopped in their advance and turned to me while the glasses and bulky blondie both summoned a silver grimoire each.

The glasses blondie frowned and said, “don’t push it?”

Seeing them summon two silver grimoires I was stumped, I did not know what kind of cards they had but considering their background their cards should not be worse than the undead summon cards of slender blondie.

If these two decide to gang up on me then for sure I will be at a disadvantage. Finally, I felt what it is like to be in a real card fight.

But for some reason, they were not willing to fight. Since I had enough for today I asked, “what is this rookie card fight tournament you speak of?”

They did not answer me but turned and left. But the slender blondie did not seem to be convinced so he said, “The principal will announce it soon.

Boy, you are lucky if not for them not wanting to reveal their cards before the tournament you would not be walking home today.”

Saying that he hurriedly followed his brothers.

Fighting a bunch of weaklings I had become complacent.

Seeing how the Bright Brothers are hiding their cards it’s clear that there are many strong card apprentices in the school.

Hearing the slender blondie this tournament should be important and many strong card apprentices should be looking forward to it.

Not getting a satisfactory answer I headed to the principal’s office for more info. But before that, I found the four delinquents from earlier among the unconscious delinquents lying on the ground.

I placed their naked unconscious body on top of each other and left in the direction of the principal’s office.

‘Rookie Card Fight Tournament’ looks like the school is more fun than I anticipated. It seems I will have to stock up on some good skill/item cards soon.