Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus
"Boss, we finally have their attention," Henricks informed me, noticing two card emperor realm campus guards as they approached us.
"Sir, the university campus airspace is a no-fly zone. Please, and pay the fine," one of the guards announced from afar without even taking a proper glance at us.
"Henricks, did they just call you a fly?" I said, feeling offended in his place.
"..." Henricks silently stared at his young boss. He didn’t know how to respond to him, who took the words ’no-fly zone’ literally. He was worried that if he agreed with him, his young boss would later blame him for calling him a fly. After all, he wasn’t the only one flying in the no-fly zone.
Henricks figured until he figured out his young boss’s personality he was going to struggle to get along with him. However, he didn’t dare to give up for the sake of the Freedom Fighters and yelled at the campus guards, "How dare you call my boss a fly? You motherfuckers have done it now."
"Sir, calm down—" the card emperor realm campus guards stopped in their tracks and went silent in dread as Henricks’ intent sense covered them.
"Boss, don’t worry. I will teach these fools a lesson for calling you a fly," Henricks assured, facing his young boss with his most charming smile.
"Oldman Henricks, we both know if they called me a fly or not, but you sure implied that twice," I scowled at Henricks for ungratefully demanding a foot when I generously gave him an inch. I asked him to stop being unnecessarily cautious around me, and now he was acting way too comfortable around me, which made me regret asking to stop being cautious around me.
"Young boss, I called it as I heard it," Henricks stubbornly refused to give in, having decided to stop figuring out his young boss and show his young boss who he was. With the current circumstances, he didn’t know what it was for sure, but he knew for sure that he wasn’t an ass-kisser. He wanted to make it clear.
"Keep this up and you will be working as my driver for the rest of your deaf life," I warned Henricks. I didn’t mind my employees challenging me once in a while, but they better not make a habit of it. Because, if I wanted people who would mindlessly please me and do what I say, I would have just got more calamity daughter gems and not adopt the entire freedom fighter group.
"It will be my pleasure," Henricks grinned, after all he had already dedicated his life to freedom fighters and their cause. Now, Dalton Wyatt was the Freedom Fighters and their cause. He didn’t mind dying for him, let alone being his driver for the reminder of his life.
"We will see," I said in annoyance, and then turn to the campus guards, I scolded, "Don’t you fuckers know who I am? Go call your Dean or shareholders. Tell them, Dalton Wyatt is here to make good on his promise."
The campus guards nodded vigorously before Henricks retrieved his intent sense on them. Watching the guards scurry away, I couldn’t help but complain, "This is not at all the welcome I was expecting during my first visit to the central academic city."
"It’s my fault, boss. Had I known you wanted to make a grand entrance in the central academic city, I would have teleported within the range of their security arrays and not inside it. Also, these guys have gotten complacent. We have been hovering on the campus grounds for several minutes now, and all they sent was two lousy campus guards. They weren’t even a demigod realm. This is just maddening. Especially considering that you had warned them what would happen if your demands weren’t met. Compared to these guys, the royal families have better security—" Henricks confessed, then complained about the university’s lacking security response time, and then spiraled into an emotional outburst, but before he could finish he was interrupted by a familiar voice, "That’s because they have to guard against assassins and what not, not to mention they were all soldiers at some point of their life. Here, we are not expecting assassins, at best a few spies trying to steal intellectual property. Also, we are all scholars here. We believe in brains over brawn.
But you are correct, we have become complacent with our array formations and other tricks. To think our University array formations had such a huge flaw. It is chilling. But then again, can it be considered a flaw? After all, your origin card is one of a kind, Field Marshal Henricks. It’s just one of the many unlikely possibilities turning to a likely variable. Nothing a small patch cannot fix."
"You dumb fuck, you drove us right into the enemy’s array formations. How the fuck did the Freedom fighters manage to survive so long under your leadership?" I blamed Henricks, unable to find the source of the voice as it spoke nonstop. Who the fuck teleports directly into the enemy array formations?
"Boss, it’s just a trick. I will handle them. Trust me," Henricks assured, as he cluelessly spread his intent sense to find the source of the voice.
Seeing Henricks in action, I almost slapped my forehead in frustration, wondering if he really was this stupid? How could he have not figured out by now that the enemy was using the array formation covering the university campus to talk to us, making his voice omnipresent, making it harder for us to track its source. Unless he planned to scan the entire university campus with his intent sense, there was no guarantee he would find the culprit of voice with his intent sense. The same was true for my primordial soul pupils. Though I could do it faster by cracking the codes of the array formation and tracing the source of the voice.
"Unless you want me to break your ancient array formation, I advise you to show yourself and voluntarily face the consequences," I warned the unknown enemy, giving him one last chance to continue maintaining their university’s beautiful and tranquil campus. After all, the array formations of this place was able to optimize the weather and nature on the campus, playing a major part in the sublimity I felt from its presence, which made me reluctant about destroying it. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝘯𝘦𝘵