The rumor came without warning, and its contents were strange-bizarre, even.
It concerned Chief Steward White. Supposedly, he was the creator of the Digital Series Cards! When the rumor first surfaced, nobody believed it. Chief Steward White was clearly a Card Adept. How could he possibly be a Card Crafter? But as time passed, more and more people began to believe it.
Card Adepts could not become Card Crafters, true, but that only applied to ordinary Card Adepts. In ancient times, there had been no distinction between the two. Only after the establishment of the Vincent System had their roles been clearly separated. Yet Hainer Vincent himself had been a peerless powerhouse who practiced both professions.
Was Chief Steward White an ordinary Card Adept? Of course not! He was the successor of Slaughter God Xize. How could he possibly be ordinary?
That alone was not convincing, but evidence soon began emerging one piece after another, leaving people increasingly torn between belief and doubt. Before long, the little shop where Janette worked came to light. Those there had witnessed the completion of [029. Explosive Bomb], one of the Digital Series Cards. It was a Digital Series Card that had never appeared in public before. But once the statistics for [Explosive Bomb] were released, the uproar was followed by the disappearance of any doubt over whether the card belonged to the Digital Series.
Such astonishing statistics, paired with the series' characteristic low star rating-if someone claimed it was not a Digital Series Card, nobody would have believed them.
That alone still was not enough. It only proved that the creator of the Digital Series Cards had visited East Rui City. But unexpectedly, before long, the card used by the Card Adept known as the "Enforcer" under Chief Steward White was exposed. It