Miracle Card Shop: All My Cards Can Be Actualize

"I don't know… I thought I had forgotten about him. I hadn't dreamed about him for a while after I started dating Danny…" Envy replied with a frown. She hated the feeling that she desperately wanted to forget, yet it continued to haunt her.

"Sloth… I'm afraid. I'm afraid that something bad might happen. I can't explain it, but this overwhelming feeling… it hasn't gone away," Envy said, her heart racing with fear of the uncertainty.

Yes, she knows how powerful Daniel is, and even if it's her, she won't be able to win against him. Yes, she may get the upper hand, considering she has more magical knowledge than he does. But that's about it; she can only have a temporary upper hand; she had witnessed Daniel using his mana construct. That's not something she can win against.

But even so, the gnawing feeling of ominous uncertainty that is within her heart right now. She can't calm this feeling down.

Envy then decided to use a small and easy oracle ritual. The ritual is not that accurate, but it can point in the generalized direction, and she may get a glimpse of something that's yet to come.

Envy then began to draw the ritual on the ground. Sloth, seeing the ritual circle, asks. "Is it that bad to the point that you need to perform an oracle ritual? Are you sure that it's not paranoia? Or nervousness like the time when you are waiting to see if you win the lotto prize?"

"You're still young and might not know this, but witches have a stronger connection to the flow of destiny than average mages. When the feeling becomes so strong to the point that it gnaws on you deeper than just a normal nervousness of worry, you'll know that's a sign." Envy explained as she continued to draw the ritual circle on the ground.

"Yawn~" Sloth yawn once again. "Ok… If you think you can have a better night's sleep, do this. Don't let me disturb you then…. Good night." Sloth said goodnight, went to sleep under the warm blanket, and curled on her cozy bed.

Seeing this, Envy can't help but let out a smile. Sloth behavior is like the youngest of all the witches… even though she's the second youngest and only older than Pride for a few years. She's so adorable to the point that even Pride can harden her heart and not cuddle her.

Envy continued to draw the ritual circle, and after a few more minutes passed, it was finished. Envy takes out several Chromatic Philosoper's stones and uses them as a medium and a sacrifice for the ritual.

Then, the ritual circle glows brightly as it begins to do its job. The vision quickly enters Envy's mind.

Within Envy's mind, she saw the vision of the Titan vanishing into the river and then being replaced with a cloaked silhouette she was familiar with… but she couldn't make out the cloaked figure's face.

Then… suddenly, the vision cut off as the sky fell, and she rose above the sky into the black abyss above.

With a flash of light, Envy's mind returns to the real world, and her vision ends there. Envy can't make out of the vision. What is Titan? Is it pointed at Daniel as he uses the power of the Titan? Why did he vanish? And that cloaked figure? What is it? Could it be…? Then she rose to the place above the sky, and instead, she saw a black abyss above the sky?

She can't make sense out of it! At all!

— Envy P.O.V —

— A week later —

I'm starting to get used to that 'Empress'. To be honest, she's not half bad; she's a good cook and can be reliable when I am too busy to cook for little Sylvana and Greed, who seem to ignore eating out like she usually does.

Talking about Greed, she has already relocated her HQ to the building in the block adjacent to us. Her new HQ was newly built, but Kuroda-San was greenlit for her to use the city center resources and manpower, including some outsourced companies that relate to us, to build her HQ.

It doesn't need to be said that her HQ has retained her show-off character, and of course, its rooftop also has that golden structure made of pure gold to spite other companies near her. Typical of her style, I say.

Greed had already released her hold on the US Congress as the idiots who want to get on a hate train against New Atlantis that is becoming a trend once again after it had died down after Daniel had pulled all of his investment and facilities out of their country. Now… New Atlantis could be considered entirely self-sufficient and maintain trade and connection only with a select few countries still trusting in us.

No, it could be said we have powerful influence and connections withonly a few countries, such as Russia, South Korea, the Ming Federation, and the Sultanate of Akaba. Those countries receive full support and even complete renovation of their infrastructure.

This led to hate intensifying in other countries, but strangely enough, the hatred never went to that country. It instead directs at us.

Of course, if someone told me that the Hightower didn't have a hand in it, I wouldn't believe it. Besides, I had already checked. They had built a new magic relay around the world. The magic relay serves as the node to distribute the magic effect to the mass.

I didn't even know that they had secretly built such a thing around the world. I've found a few such relays near here. But the relays were hidden worldwide; there's no way I could find all of them. Even Albert could not find all of them in a short time. Which… let to the current situation.

The news on the TV reported that the tension had escalated to the point that some of the countries in the UN had already joined the military alliance after they had declared sanctions on us. Of course, some countries in the UN objected to this, such as the Sultanate of Aqaba, South Korea, and Russia. Russia even used the veto to stop the UN sanctions.

But after that, the sanction was declared by a group of countries and not in the name of the UN, which made the countries that helped us can't do anything.

Of course, as if the sanction can do anything to us, we have technology that can have underwater farms and even the technology that accelerates the growing rate of crops and livestock. No, it's not some chemical that accelerates the growth like the corp usually does; Daniel just puts those loves tock in another acceleration enclosure and lets them grow and live there. Talk about a fully organic farm but still able to do it on the scale of an industry… this is the first.

While I'm watching the TV, I let my mind wander and, from time to time, wipe the carbonara sauce out of little Sylvana's mouth while she enjoys eating it. A doorbell rang.

Tian Xingyun got up and went to check on the door to see who had come to our home during dinner time.

"Lord Husband!" Tian Xingyun said with mirth. I quickly turned toward the door, and I saw Daniel had returned; he had a smile. His smile is confident, but his eyes… seem to have some lingering ominous cloud in them. I don't know what it is, but it's not hard to guess because of all the hate we have received.

It would take a kind of person who can ignore all of those hateful remarks without any reaction… and that kind of person usually is not a good person. Either they have all of their feelings numb from all the atrocity they did, or they have no feelings at all.

"You seem like you do not get a good sleep. Are you perhaps pulling the all-nighter for the past few days again?" I ask; according to Koyuki, this is one of the flaws Daniel usually did. He's not the kind of person who remembers his bedtime, and most of the time, when something urgent comes up, he forgets to sleep entirely.

"I know that you are a mage now, and you have a stronger body than any normal human… but please, can you please take care of your body more? Don't make us worry about you all the time." I admonish him.

"Sorry, but it can't be helped this time," Danny told me.

"Are you perhaps… worried about the world tension and all that hate?" I asked.

"Lord husband, You shouldn't be bothered with those inferior. They always hate you when you appear and help them, and then, they will also hate you when you stop helping them." Tian Xingyun chimed in, her voice haughty when mentioning ordinary people.

"Heh! It's better to teach them to grovel on the ground and know their place in front of their better." Tian Xingyun finished, her voice cold and murderous.

Right… speaking about those who are already numb from their atrocity. I bet this haughty butch is one of those.