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.
Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 9:49
Location Sky Blossom City, Lion Cub High School, Principal's Office
"Sir, Student Wyatt is here to see you"
"Send him in."
…
Every time I step into this office I am amazed by its lavish decor. Isn't teaching supposed to be the most miserable and low paying job, I guess private schools are a different story.
Seeing me enter the principal got off his chair and welcomed me in, I really can not get used to how fake he is. Which principal stands up to welcome a student in his office, none.
After meeting the Bright brother's trio I knew that silver grimoire is not that big of a deal in the upper circle of Sky Blossom city. It's rare but not worth this much fuss.
"Student Wyatt, did you like your replacement homeroom teacher?"
"I haven't met the new replacement teacher yet. I came here for another reason. What is the Rookie Card Fight Tournament?"
"Where did you hear that, I was about to announce it at tomorrow's school assembly."
"The Bright Brother Trio told me about that, they seem to take this tournament seriously."
"They should since the top ten will be rewarded handsomely, especially the top five they stand to gain more."
"What are the rewards?"
"You should not worry about the rewards as you are still too weak to even enter the top 20."
"What?! FYI I just defeated one of the Bright trio along with another 20 card apprentices."
"Oh! That I did see it, your performance was indeed remarkable for someone who awakened 4 days ago. But not enough, why do you think someone arrogant like Bright Trio chose to hide their card rather than beat your weak ass."
"What is that supposed to mean?" You knew about the fight yet you did not stop it. What are you getting paid for, Wait! Does it matter as long as I am not punished for the school fights?
"Look kid let me give it to you straight, the two from Bright Trio are way out of the league for someone of your prowess.
Just like you both of them inherited their ancestor's grimoire and also gained their ancestor's origin cards.
Don't think you are the only one to inherit your mom's grimoire and origin card."
Hearing the principal my mind thundered and my brain was in complete turmoil, till now I thought Soul pupils were my cheat of a transmigrator but turn out I was wrong.
"Mom's origin card?" I asked, covering my shock with a clueless expression.
"No need to pretend kid, I saw you use your mother's Aura Sight origin card in the fight earlier.
Otherwise, how could you predict the position from where the skeleton will attack or how were you able to see when the bust blocked everyone's sight or how could you accurately find the cores of the undead summons."
Wait! Aura sight. Thank god my heart almost jumped out of my mouth. So he knows nothing about Soul pupils. To think mama Wyatt's origin card was also a mutated eye ability coincidence or?.
"I did gain the origin card when I contracted my mom's grimoire but I did not know it was my mom's card."
Yes, I did gain an origin card when I contracted mama Wyatt's grimoire and did not know the origin was related to her. But he does not need to know which origin card I had.
"Wait! you don't know your own mom's origin card."
"My parents chose to keep their work life and private life separate, apart from teaching me about cards and card creation they never bothered to talk about work in front of me and I never bothered to ask."
Mama and papa Wyatt never mentioned their work to young Wyatt, I can understand since no parent in their right mind would want to share the gruesome battle stories of survival with their young child.
"Ok, when you contract an ancestral grimoire you also inherit your ancestor's origin card. But origin cards are supposed to be unique cards to that individual card apprentice so the inherited origin card slot becomes locked until you find a fated ingredient and fuse it with the inherited origin card to make it unique to the individual card apprentice again.
But in some special cases like your case student Wyatt, when the individual card apprentice is very similar to the ancestor then the inherited origin card does not get locked. This is very rare, almost near impossible therefore not many people know about it."
Hearing this I got more confused because I belonged to neither the special nor the normal case. My origin card formed directly when I contracted the grimoire.
The only hypothesis I could come up with was that I belonged to the normal case and my fated ingredient was the remnants of young Wyatt's soul, that is Aura Sight mutated to soul pupils fusing with the remnants of young Wyatt's soul.
Nothing else came to my mind that sounded sane to explain my awakening of soul pupils origin card. Since it was out of my understanding I stopped worrying about it and inquired about why was here in the first place,
"How strong are the two silver graders of the Bright trio?"
"Officially I don't know. But since I had promised to give you priority l will provide you info off the record.
Do you know the prominent Bright family of today was a nobody 56 years ago in the Sky Blossom city and If not for the infamous War Golem Twins they could not reach today's heights and have three known golden card apprentices."
The twin brothers of the Bright family were titled War Golem Twins because of their bravery during monster tide and their unique Golem origin cards.
56 years ago during a monster tide attack on Sky Blossom city, the twins of the Bright family defended the south gate of the city all alone until the reinforcement arrived, thanks to their unique golem origin cards.
Golem cards are item cards but if the golems are sentient then they become familiars and fall under the summoning card category.
Golems have immense strength, durability and are unstoppable until their core is destroyed similar to the undead creatures.
But Golem origin cards of the Bright twins were almost immortal. Contrary to other cards, origin cards are part of the card apprentice so the Bright twins were able to hide the golem core within them making their golems almost unstoppable.
Making it possible for them to hold off the monster tide from attacking the city till the reinforcements arrived.
These War Golem Twin brothers are the grandfathers of the two silver graders of the Bright trio from whom they inherited their silver grimoire.
"So, if I am not wrong they both should be able to summon unstoppable war machines each to fight for them. Now, do you think you are their match?"
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