The Card Adepts at the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps' base noticed that their supervisors had been smiling much more these past few days. Even the unsmiling Jiang Liang's expression had softened considerably. Their surprise was accompanied by a sigh of relief. Almost all the training was now Jiang Liang's responsibility, and he had become the second-in-command for combat operations.
In many of the Card Adepts' minds, Bagnell had reverted to his true colors after the speech he gave when recruiting them. He had handed all the work over to Deputy Supervisor Jiang, and spent every day either sleeping or idling around. Going ten days or half a month without seeing him was perfectly normal. Apart from his habit of joking with everyone, which made him fairly approachable, it was hard to find anything admirable about this lazy middle-aged man.
In their eyes, however, Jiang Liang was the very model of a soldier. His clothes were always neat, his conduct measured, his gaze piercing, and his words brief and forceful. When he worked, he moved with the speed of thunder and the force of lightning. He simply never made allowances for anyone, so the Card Adepts under him both respected and feared him. Although the training was extremely harsh, Jiang Liang led by example. He completed every exercise better than they did and never skipped a single one.
As far as the Card Adepts were concerned, when the bosses were in a good mood, their own lives would become much easier. They were no longer the rookies who had just joined the corps. The intense, hellish training had tormented them until they hardly knew whether they were in ecstasy or agony. Many of them had previously been trained by other corps' Youth Teams. Yet compared with those corps, the