Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 1389 Big Picture

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Date- 7 April 2321

Time- 19:12

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Card Creationist Association, Auction House

"Tsk tsk, my dear friend, the question isn't what I want from you but what I can do for you?" Jill said smugly. 

"I don't want you to do anything for me," I uninterestedly replied not bothering to play along with Jill. 

"Tell that to me after you hear what I can do for you," Jill said knowing that the boy was playing hard to get. 

"I am pretty sure my answer will be the same after I hear what you have to say?" I said confidently as I would never consider taking a partner in my VR-City project. 

"Let me be the judge of that. Get ready to drop your jaws, my father and a few of his friends are interested in your VR-City and are willing to invest a lot of money. By a lot of money, I mean enough for you to feed the whole world three meals per day for a whole decade. Along with that, they are willing to take full responsibility to provide you with a reliable supply chain for the ingredients required for your VR-Cacoon card," Jill revealed.

"That's a lot of money, but what's in it for you? What do you get to be their spokesperson?" Since Jill was not seeking any advantage from me, her greed for money was met somewhere or by someone else. 

"I get 5 percent of their combined shares in your VR-City project as a commission for brokering this deal," Jill replied to the boy honestly. 

"Now that's a huge commission, enough to turn you from a rich lady to a filthy rich lady," Now I finally knew why Jill was not trying to take advantage of me, she had a bigger whale in sight.

"I know right? All it takes to make that happen is your nod, do I have it?" Jill asked the boy with great anticipation. 

"Jill, I consider you as a friend. So, I will be honest with you. I am not searching for investors for my VR-City project however I have been searching for good distributors for the VR-Cocoon card, Do you think your father and his friends will be interested?" I answered truthfully to Jill because I still needed her to get me the coordinates of other worlds discovered by the top ten universities. 

"I see," Jill said in a low tone, and then added, "Since you are searching distributors for the VR-Cocoon card, I take it that you have managed to secure a reliable supplier for the card ingredients and that you have already completed the creation of the VR-City." 

"It is almost a done deal," I did not go into details.

"..." Jill went quiet hearing my answer and after a moment of silence, she spoke, "No wonder you dared to show off the VR-City to the world. I would like to know when and how did you complete such a big project but you will not tell me that. I guess my call was also within your plan." 

"You overestimate me," I said humbly and then reminded her, "Don't forget to ask your father and his friend if they are willing to be the VR-Cocoon card distributors."

"I don't need to ask, I already know their answer. They will not," Jill answered

"Well, their loss. What about you?" I was not disappointed by Jill's answer since the real target I wanted to recruit was Jill, not her father or his friends. 

"Me?" Jill asked in surprise. 

"Why are you surprised? You are one of the best saleswomen I know. What do you say will you become the distributor for my VR-Cocoon card?" I asked Jill again. 

"Sure, since you scraped my dream of becoming a filthy rich woman, I have to hustle to survive in this expensive world," Jill agreed. 

"Good, can you make it to the Southern capital in two days to collect the cards?" I inquired. 

"Do you even have to ask?" Jill asked while implying that she will be in the Southern capital in two days. 

"Good, let us discuss the contract and other stuff after you arrive. I will be looking forward to your arrival," Receiving the confirmation from Jill, I ended the call planning to get started with my plans, as two days was not a lot of time to create millions of cards. 

As I hung up the call, I found Ann glaring at me. Ignoring her glare, I demanded, "I want the Southern royal family to become my distributor for the entire Southern region." 

"Why would we agree to that when stand to gain chump change compared to what you will be gaining?" Ann argued. 

"Take me to the guest palace, I have to get started now to meet the deadline," I ordered not bothering to argue with Ann because I knew the Southern Royal family would help me distribute VR-Cocoon cards to every corner of the Southern Region. 

How do I know this? Let me just say we have an understanding between us. My relationship with the Southern Royal family was strained right now but that was because of a few differences of opinion but in the end, they treated me modestly well. Yes, they dropped the ball in the case of Silver beach gate dungeon. However, I believe they can handle the distribution of VR-Cocoon cards across the Southern region. 

"What do you mean? How are you going to create the cards when you don't even have the ingredients to create the cards?" Ann asked the boy in confusion.

"Don't worry I have everything prepared just make sure that by the end of this month, every one out of five card apprentices in the southern region has my VR-Cocoon card," I did not bother to explain myself to Ann and just put forward my demands. 

"If the price of the cards is low as you claim, then that is not a challenge," Ann answered despite having claimed that the Royal family might not help because they stood to make less. It was clear to Ann that the royal family will not hesitate to meet the boy's demands especially when they stood to earn money while they were at it. 

"Don't worry the price of the cards will be low while also enough for distributors to make enough profits," I assured Ann. 

To ensure that the prices of the cards remained as low as possible while giving the distributors enough profits to be motivated into pushing these cards onto the public I planned to forgo my share of the profits. I wasn't being generous I was just keeping the bigger picture in mind. 

I was willing to forgo my share of the profits now so that I can have a steady stream of vast revenue in the future. Aside from the money I stood to gain something else from this, a way to monitor anyone and everyone who uses my VR-City, allowing me to form my information network. 

With this, I will finally be able to spy on the big leagues of this world power. Just like the Supreme leader and his incarnations, Matron and her paw clan, and the Emissary of Light and his fanatics. Thinking of this an unconscious grin formed on my face. 

Yes, I had Clown Mask's future vision but it was limited to the date of her death in that timeline and right now the timeline I am in has diverged a lot from the Clown Mask's future Vision's timeline. It would be safer to assume that her future vision was no longer reliable. Take the raise of Freedom Fighters for example. If I had not relied on the future vision too much maybe just maybe I could have seen the signs of Luna's betrayal sooner. 

I could use the calamity daughter gem to create my information network but I did not want to involve innocent people in my struggle for a chill life. If I did that, it would weigh heavily on my conscious. 

Seeing the grin on the boy's face a chill ran down Ann's spine giving her an ominous feeling, so she asked, "What are you scheming Dalton Wyatt?" 

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Date- 7 April 2321

Time- 21:50 

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Royal Palace, Royal Treasury No.007

"You sure took your time choosing the 50 devil-grade ingredients," Ann scoffed seeing the satisfied look on the boy's face as he walked out of the treasury. 

"What can I say your family treasure trove was eye-opening?" I said remembering the enormous piles of devil-grade ingredients lying on the floor of the royal treasury.

"Unfortunately, they are worthless. Nobody except you had ever wanted to trade them," Ann replied. She was not lying because there weren't many diamond-grade card creationists who could use devil-grade ingredients. 

Thanks to my Soul pupils I can easily study the soul pathways of ingredients and uncover their secret. However, the same was not true for other card creationists, it would take them years of research to uncover the secrets of each soul pathways of the ingredients. Not to mention the devil-grade ingredients that were basically the parts of fallen devils were unique, which meant, to use them as ingredients for a card it would require a diamond-grade card creationist to conduct years of individual research on that ingredient. Therefore, Devil-grade ingredients were not popular for trade.