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1.77% Card Apprentice Daily Log / Chapter 41: Mental Health

Chapter 41: Mental Health

Date 21 Mar 2321

Time 19:17

Location Sky Blossom City, Fine Gold Sky Blossom Branch, Fine Gold Tower 1, Card Lab

Since Fine Gold was my client it was decided that it would be better if I used the Card lab in Fine Gold Tower.

Having rich client's has its perks, I was escorted to Fine Gold Tower in a luxurious car and received like a VIP. 

A nobody high schooler like me was not worthy of this treatment but still was treated with utmost respect and care because of Cindy the Managing Director who accompanied me. 

It seems for some reason Cindy cared about my ability in card creation a lot as she acted as my host in Fine Gold. Even though any other staff should be more than efficient to receive me. 

….

[ C-rank Skeleton Centaur Kight Core, with the beast x 1 - 25 million $

C-rank Ram Bull Core x 1 - 16 million $

C-rank Skeleton war horse core x 1 - 7.7 million $

C-rank Skeleton knight core x 1 - 8.2 million $

C-rank Soul reactor x 1 - 6 million $

C-rank Artificial beast will x 1 - 8 million $

E-rank High Wood Wisp x 100 - 10 million $

Unique-grade Core x1 - 125,000$

C-rank Core x 1 - 100,000$

C-rank Gemini Card x 1 - company issue

D-rank Para Share Card x 1 - company issue

Total - 91,125,000$ ]

Within 30 minutes the employee's of Fine Gold brought all the ingredients mentioned in the list but the total cost did not reach 100 million $ as I expected it to. 

That's because of two reasons firstly the ingredients are priced at discount prices and secondly the Gemini card and Para Share cards seem to be issued by the company.

Since Debra is a Fine Gold employee she gets a 10% discount on every Fine Gold purchase, leading to discounted prices of the ingredients.

Gemini and Para Share cards are Cards that help party members share their mental strength, they are basic cards used by card creators to help them use their party members as mental health banks.

It is not a surprise for a company like Fine Gold to have Gemini and Para Share cards as they employ a large number of contracted Card creators. 

"Anything else? " Cindy asked.

"Um...I require one more C- rank Skeleton Knight and War Horse cores." 

"Okay!" said Cindy nonchalantly.

But Debra gave me a doubtful glance, 'I swear I am not trying to cross the 100 million mark.' 

Another 5 minutes and the employees brought the two cores. And now the total cost reached 108,025,000$ meeting my estimated cost. 

"Done?" Asked Cindy

"Yes" I replied

"Then shall we get started!" Debra said hurriedly, it seems she has completely given up hope on an origin card and wants to get it over with quickly. 

"Not yet miss, the card creation will take at least half a day to create. I would like to have dinner before we start, you should do the same as we will be inside the card lab for a long time."

"He is right, I will arrange for dinner. make yourself comfortable." Supported Cindy as she left the Card lab. 

"Wyatt you are in over your head, Fine Gold is like a Hornet nest, it is peaceful to watch but if you poke at it, it will sting you to death." Warned Debra.

"Are you worried about me or worried that I will fail and it would cost you your precious fate ingredient?" 

"Both, since you are a friend of Susan I believe you are a decent guy and not someone who will play with your own life. 

 Fine Gold is not somebody you should mess with, if you fail they will find a way for you to cough up the 100 million they wasted on you."

"What about you then?"

"Me? I am a Fine Gold employee as long as I am hardworking, loyal and never betray them I will be fine, maybe even promoted in rank." 

"Don't worry, I will be fine too since I won't fail."

Having a light dinner, I and Debra head into the card lab. 

Forming a party with Debra, I equip the Gemini card and Para Share unequipping the rest of the cards in my grimoire. Since I am the only one with a Silver Grimoire of the two of us and can equip C & D cards within my soul power. 

[Card Name: Gemini 

 Card Type: Skill Card (active) 

 Card Rank: C-rank, uncommon grade

 Card Ratings : [19]stars

 Card Durability : [82/82]

 Card effect: user can form a mental connection with a party member. Additional effect - Share mental strength with the said party member.]

There is a myth that twins have a subconscious connection to each other. Gemini Cards function is similar to that it allows two party members to have a mental connection and share their mental strength.

Thanks to this card I do not have to worry about running out of mental strength during the card creation process as I will have a mental strength bank, Debra. 

[Card Name: Para Share

 Card Type: Skill Card (active) 

 Card Rank: D rank, uncommon grade

 Card Ratings : [14]stars

 Card Durability : [87/87]

 Card effect: the user can share a single stats parameter with a party member (active) Addition effect - increased mental health(passive).]

Since I am creating cards of higher soul power requirement than my current soul power, the Para Share card is the most important one as with this I will be able to borrow Debra's Intelligence stats and add them to my stats. Making up for my lack of soul power. 

The only drawback of this card is Debra won't be able to use the stats I borrowed from her, therefore this card is not used in combat by the card apprentice. 

Having solved the issue of mental strength and soul power, now I could focus on the Origin card creation. 


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Chapter 42: Trial and Error method

Date 21 Mar 2321

Time 20:13

Location Sky Blossom City, Fine Gold Sky Blossom Branch, Fine Gold Tower 1, Card Lab

The first step to card creation is to decide on which type of card to create, since the fate ingredient is a part of the undead remains I choose to create an undead summoning card.

There are three important parts of the undead summoning card creation, 

Undead Core 

Beast will

Skeleton body

The undead core is the power source and the foundation of the card, the Skeleton body is the machine and the frame of the card while the Beast Will is the operator and the conscious of the card.

Right now I was in a bind as I did not have an complete skeleton body, all I had was a femur bone, how am I supposed to create a complete undead from it?

That's where the Ram Bull core comes into the picture. Ram Bulls are Sheep with a body size of a bull, hence the name Ram Bull. 

There is another thing that Ram bull does not have in common with the sheep and that is instead of growing wool on their bodies Ram bull can grow and manipulate bones on its body similar to an exoskeleton.

Ram bull bones are different from other beast bones, they are stronger than steel yet soft as rubber. 

Ram bull bones make excellent C-rank ingredients for weapon cards. Making them one of the most valuable livestock. Therefore its core is twice the cost of other C-rank cores.

Since I have a part of the skeleton body instead of a complete skeleton body I came up with an ingenious plan to recreate the complete skeletal body of the undead creature. 

That is to transfer the abilities of the Ram bull to the Femur bone, with the ability of the Ram bull the Femur Bone can be grown into a complete skeletal body of the undead creature.

Not only will I be creating a complete skeleton of the undead creature but an enhanced skeleton stronger than steel and softer than rubber with the ability to grow and manipulate bones at will. 

Low-level skeletons below the Lich cannot grow or regenerate lost bones, they can only reconnect the severed bones. But thanks to enhancement from Ram bull ability the new skeleton can regrow the lost bones at will.

Usually, people mistake the refreshing of the undead card in the grimoire for a low-level skeleton growing its lost bones. 

But in reality, after a fight, the undead summoning card goes into a period of cool downtime, during this period the card with help of soul energy gathered in the grimoire regrows the lost bones of the undead. 

Finally, when the creature is completely healed the card comes out of cool downtime. People mistake this as the ability of the creature itself. 

This is true for other summoning creatures too. After the battle when they return to the grimoire they are healed by the grimoire using the soul power stored in it. 

During dire situations, the card apprentice does have the option to summon the creature in cooldown time but the summoned creature will still have the wounds from the previous battle.

Therefore a skeleton or any other summon with regeneration ability is a huge deal. 

Knowing what I had to do I place all the ingredients on the card creation page and start with the creation process, 

First I combine the soul pathways of the Femur bone with the Origin core forming the Femur bone core as the Femur bone is the fate ingredient and is supposed to be the core part of the origin card. 

After combining the femur bone and origin core, next I had to transfer the abilities from the Ram bull core to the origin core which is now combined with the femur bone.

Now, this is a tricky part as I did not know which soul pathways of Ram Bull core contained the ability that I wanted, I could try the trial and error method but it was time-consuming and I would run out of mental strength even before finding the correct soul pathway. 

There is no correct method for this if there is I did not know, but I could shorten my options using my soul pupils. 

The stronger and most used ability tends to have a high wavelength making the soul pathway of that ability bulkier than other soul pathways, which I could differentiate using my soul pupils, but I still had to use the trial and error method with the remaining soul pathways. 

To make sure that the soul pathways of the femur bone core are not damaged I enhance them using the High Wood wisp core soul pathway. 

High wood wisp is the evolved form of the wood wisp. Unlike the Wood wisp, the High Wood wisps are very rare as a wood wisp requires a large amount of vitality to evolve into a High Wood wisp. 

Since High wood wisp has a large amount of vitality their soul pathway is used to enhance the soul pathway of high-level ingredients. 

After about 13 tries I was able to transfer both the required abilities of Ram bull to the Femur bone core.

During these 13 tries, I had to strengthen the soul pathway of the femur bone core 13 times using the soul pathway of the High Wood wisp, this is one of the reasons why even though the card creators of this world theorised about this they could never achieve it but I could using my soul pupils.

Even though the new femur bone can regrow into a full skeleton it could not for now as it did not have a conscious or the required amount of soul power.

With no conscious to take control or power to act the enhanced femur bone was nothing but a bone with new fancy abilities. 

Therefore next I had to focus on the beast will and the power source for the undead creature. 


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