Date: Unspecified
Ti: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Guild Headquarters
While Corey and the Saintess argued, my attention shifted elsewhere. I was far more interested in learning more about the New Age rchant Guild.
Saintess Catherine’s revelation had flooded my mind with questions, but whether the Demigod Micheal Angelo was a devil rchant, wasn’t one of those questions. It couldn’t be because I was the first rchant from Card World.
The Devil rchant Code’s counter for rchants from card world confird that I was the first rchant from it. It even counted for the dead. I.e. death would not remove a rchant from the count. The Devil rchant Code categorized the deceased as offline in its networks and records.
That ant if demigod Micheal Angelo Godson had been a devil rchant under the Devil rchant Code, then when I joined, the system would not have displayed that there was only a single rchant from the Card World. It would have shown two. Since it did not, and now that every demon or devil rchant from the Card World had been accounted for, after confirming that Pax Whiteburn Godson was a demon rchant, I was certain of one thing. Before , there had been no demon or devil rchant from the Card World.
Soon, Hive Spirit accessed the Demon Codex and extracted every trace of information it could locate on the New Age rchant Guild through the inter-realm network.
The New Age rchant Guild was one of the oldest rchant guilds established by non-native demon or devil rchants in the Devil rchant Code. From its inception, every recorded mber had been a non-native rchant. Even so, the guild had managed to grow steadily over the years.
At present, it had firmly established itself as a semi-ruler-class force within the inter-realm city and its vast network. For a rchant guild composed solely of non-native rchants, such a rise was nothing short of extraordinary.
The founders of the New Age rchant guild had all co together under a single purpose: to protect their native worlds from demon invasion. That shared resolve shaped everything the guild beca. Its track record spoke for itself. Even now, it adhered unwaveringly to its founding principles. For a rchant guild ford entirely of non-native rchants, it was no small achievent to endure this long and continue to thrive.
However, the fact that they protected their native worlds from demon invasion did not an they refrained from acting as invaders themselves.
The Hive Spirit had carefully tracked the items the New Age rchant Guild was known to trade. The pattern was unmistakable. Many of those ingredients could only have been obtained through large-scale incursions, the kind that left civilizations fractured and worlds stripped bare.
The evidence pointed to a troubling conclusion: while safeguarding their own realms from demonic forces, they had conducted raids across the myriad realms, conquering and devastating other worlds to secure the very goods they later sold.
Moreover, the inter-realm network hosted nurous discussions claiming that the guild’s protection extended only to the native worlds of its mbers, and even then, strictly according to the rits of the individual in question.
Given the guild’s scale, such claims were not difficult to believe. Over ti, the New Age rchant Guild had expanded into an entity too vast to be governed by sentint. An organization of that magnitude could not afford to operate on emotion alone. It required profit, structure, and calculated allocation of resources to sustain its massive frawork and prevent it from collapsing under its own weight.
"Baem, get that bitch!" Corey’s shout shattered my train of thought. I snapped back to the present just as she ordered Lil’ Baem to act. I instinctively unleashed my Limitless Celestial Domain, separating Lil’ Baem and Saintess Catherine by a limitlessly stretched space, as I sternly commanded them, "Stop."
"What the fuck, Corey? This is what you call not creating trouble?" I sharply snapped at Corey after getting the situation under control.
Even though I was lost in my thoughts, going through the dossier on New Age rchant Guild, I heard their argunt in the background. So, I knew that this entire situation had spiraled to this point because Corey refused to stop insisting that Demigod Godson was a devil rchant even after the Saintess explicitly warned her not to. Her persistence had turned suspicion into confrontation, and confrontation into open escalation.
"Wyatt, I did nothing wrong. I was just stating facts. But her sectarian mind couldn’t comprehend it and attacked , so I had to defend myself." Corey frad her actions as purely defensive, distancing herself from any responsibility for how far the situation had escalated.
Saintess Catherine offered no rebuttal. She simply glared at Corey. Her silence was far louder than any argunt could be. There was a finality in her gaze, as though she had already resolved the matter within herself and was prepared to kill Corey or die in the attempt.
I exhaled and shook my head before correcting my employee, "Corey, Demigod Godson couldn’t have been a devil rchant. I was the first rchant from the Card World. Either Pax or Gideon was the second. Then the rest of you guys ca."
Listening to , Corey’s eyes condensed and confird with , "Are you sure? How do you explain the devil rchant quota among his possessions?"
"I’m guessing one of the devil rchants from the New Age rchant Guild gave it to him, likely with the intention of recruiting him soday. But Demigod Godson never used it. Instead, he left it behind for his descendants as a fail-safe in case of his absence. As for why he didn’t use it himself, I don’t know. Maybe he refused to beco the very thing he had spent his life fighting. Whatever his reasons, one fact remains clear. He was never a devil rchant."
I explained, but in truth, I was thinking out loud. The inconsistency had been bothering too.
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