Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2445: Calamity Eye

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Lil Red Storm Realm, Freedom Megalopolis, Teleportation Hub

"Woah, that escalated quickly," Lois commented, appearing behind Henricks. Putting her arm around his neck, she uttered, "Calm down, old fart."

Henrick’s eyes widened in shock because he hadn’t sensed the female demigod approach him until she spoke or reacted as she put her hand around his neck. With his mastery of the space rule, it was basically impossible for someone weaker than him to sneak up on him, apart from Wyatt of course.

Clearly, it hasn’t been long since this female demigod had built her divinity and had just taken a step into the demigod rank. Yet, somehow she made his instincts blare out of control. He could hear his heartbeat race as sweat trickled down his forehead.

"Now, that’s like it," Lois said, as she left his side and then, turning to face him, she said, "We used to work together, I trusted my back to you. Not once did I stop to imagine that a day would come when you would backstab us and be a traitor along. That goes to say, things change, so do people. Just stop making a fuss and start the teleportation array before I change my mind and decide to kill you."

"Who the heck are you?" Henricks asked, feeling threatened, not just for his life but for his position in the new group the freedom fighters had just joined. He found it hard to believe that except for Field Marshal Lorn, there were other Demigod Card Apprentices working under their new leader. Not to mention, each one of them was a deadly force to reckon with.

"Me? I’m Calamity Eye. Master Wyatt’s humble dragger. You can think of me as your death, because I will kill you if you dare to pull the kind of shit you did with me, here," Lois warned Henricks, claiming the moniker ’Calamity Eye’ and making clear where her allegiance lay.

Bloodkin Lois’s loyalty to me aside, it appeared she blamed Henricks for her being captured by me back at the Sky Blossom City. After all, Henricks was supposed to protect her and her team if things went south during their mission. Instead, he watched them get slaughtered one by one and then ran off with the dungeon relocation card they were after, leaving her to fend for herself.

"Calamity Eye?" Henricks uttered, confused, trying to remember if he had ever heard the name before. He had no recollection of that name. He had no recollection of the person before him claiming that they used to work together.

There was a reason Henricks failed to recognize Agent Lois Forger—the Right-Eye of the Card World—because she was in disguise and didn’t have an empty right eye socket. Thanks to the reconstruction ability of her primordial calamity daughter gem, she was able to disguise herself and her right eye perfectly enough to fool Henricks, who once used to be her colleague. Not to mention, she was a demigod now.

Lois had a very important mission: infiltrating the organization controlling the central government and spying on the masters. As a precaution, she decided to hide her identity and her relation to their master even from their allies because she couldn’t risk anything jeopardizing this mission. Being caught by the Masters and dying a worse death possible was the least of her concerns. She just didn’t want to fail the mission her master had assigned to her.

"Listen, little girl. I have no idea who you are or what you keep talking about. I think you mistook me for someone else," Henricks said, controlling his emotions, realizing that if the freedom fighters don’t pull their weight around here, others will soon replace them.

"Yes, I did mistake you for someone you are not, but that was before. Now, I know exactly who I’m dealing with," Lois said. As she suddenly vanished from Henricks’s field of vision, he immediately activated his space runes. But just as they screamed a warning, it was already too late. Lois grabbed his head from behind and slammed it hard on the floor. A spiderweb-shaped crack spread across the tiles, breaking them. Then, leaning her lips next to his ear, she whispered, "Old dog, remember to behave, or I will destroy you and everything even slightly related to you."

"Calamity Eye, stop playing around. I’m already late as is," I said sternly with a frown, ignoring her fight with Henricks. I didn’t want the change of scenery to make the Freedom Fighters’s demigods lazy, get comfortable where they were, and start playing politics. Besides, a little competition won’t hurt. It would keep everyone on their toes, especially now that they had something to lose — the Freedom Megalopolis.

I wasn’t surprised to see Lois wiping the floor with Henricks because with the Primordial Calamity Daughter Gem, Celestial Vision, and Right of the Card World aiding her, it would be a surprise if she failed to do so. With buffs from all these skills and physique, Lois could move between the physical and spiritual planes faster than Henrick’s intent sense and runes could react.

"I’m sorry, Master Wyatt. I saw a rat and couldn’t help wanting to stomp on it," Lois said, returning to my side as Henricks got back on his feet, not daring to start anything, but he glanced into Wyatt’s eyes trying to figure out what brought this on.

"Start the array," I ordered, continuing to head toward the platform carved with the teleportation array linked to the array in the Southern Region.

Seeing I didn’t plan to answer or comment, Henricks just nodded and personally started the array formation as the trio got on it while trying to figure out if he or the others from the Freedom Fighters do something wrong.

"Nice meeting you, old dog. Until next time," Lois waved at puzzled Henricks before they were teleported out of the Planet Lil’ Red Storm.

As the three figures vanished, Henricks finally roared, "Who the fuck are you, bitch?"

Then, turning to the array masters working on the arrays still under construction, he gave an ultimatum: "I want all these teleportation array formations fully operational by evening. There are only a dozen of them at present, yet you are taking so long to set them up. What will you do once the Southern Royal Family green lights the project? By then, we will have thousands of these arrays and be on a strict clock. Unless you guys want to lose your jobs to the array masters from the Southern Region, you better shape up fast. Do you hear me? Then stop dragging your feet and sighing."