Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2253 Gluttonous Plague

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Lil Red Storm Planet, Unspecified

A 25,000-foot-tall Wyatt hovered in the spiritual plane, surrounded by red clouds of plague. Despite his immense size, he still appeared tiny before the celestial array formation core. The sheer enormity of the core increased his dread toward the entity responsible for forging such a monstrous structure that too in the spiritual plane. Given its celestial origin, it wasnʼt surprising that the core had given birth to a spirit.

Although the spirit appeared young, in terms of celestial lifespans, even a millennium-year-old celestial was still a toddler. This suggested that the spirit might be several millennia old, just like the celestial array formation, which had been arranged millennia ago. Remarkably, the celestial core spirit could understand and communicate with them, implying it retained the abilities of its celestial origin, allowing it to bypass any language barrier.

Hopefully, it hadnʼt inherited all celestial abilities-beyond celestial voice and celestial force-because even though Wyattʼs innate calamity was a natural predator of celestial force, he was sure he couldnʼt take on a celestial in his current state. Judging by the absence of rule streams in the realmʼs womb, Wyatt was confident that the celestial core spirit was merely a failed imitation of a celestial will.

Though this discovery was encouraging to make matters worse, Wyatt was running on borrowed power, which wasnʼt limitless, especially considering that his innate calamity was a glutton by nature. He had no idea when he would run out of power, as this was his first time using his fourth form as the Thousand Blood Curse Incarnation and unleashing his innate calamity. Without proper data, even his Hive Spirit couldnʼt assist him.

At that moment, Wyattʼs myriad primordial spirits were circulating his self-created soul-nourishing technique at full capacity, summoning as much primordial energy as possible from the origin source. The combined energy they summoned was 2,048 times greater than what a regular primordial spirit. could summon. This astronomical amount of energy would have been enough for most, but not for Wyatt. Half of the primordial energy was being used to enhance the curse energy being used to create the plague, while the other half nourished the 1,024 SSS-Class blood curses integrated with his primordial spirits.

If not for the nourishment from the primordial energy, the SSS-Class blood curses would have been long drained by the effects of Wyattʼs innate calamity, the ʼWorld Devouring Blood Plague! However, this balance will not las for long, especially if he planned to continue using the plague to fight the celestial core spirit.

Yes, the plague could devour anything to multiply, but the plague cells reproduced through devouring were not equal to the ones lost. They were facing a powerful enemy, one capable of killing the cells faster than they could multiply. The amount of energy required to replace the dead plague cells wasnʼt small, and the energy needed to sustain the remaining ones added up to an even larger figure.

No matter how much primordial energy his myriad spirits summoned, it wouldnʼt be enough to sustain his plague for long. The plague was invincible if one could sustain it, but if not, it would devour its creator. Wyatt had to be careful and work within his limits.

The high energy consumption of the plague cells was due to his relatively low original realm. The energy required to enhance individual plague cells was significant. Thankfully, this applied only to

the initial cells, as their reproduction ability shouldered most of the burden. If not for this ability, Wyatt would have been drained dry by his own plague long ago.

Despite knowing this there was a reason why Wyatt rushed to the spiritual plane to confront the entity targeting them instead of escaping with Field Marshal by using his World Devouring Blood Plague to break through the celestial array formation, which had disconnected them from the rest of the myriad realms, especially the Devil Merchant Code.

It was because he knew the energy consumption of his plague was too great to last long enough for him to break through all six planetary rings of the celestial array formation that served as barriers isolating them from myriad realms and locking them on this desolate realm. Therefore, he took the gamble of confronting the entity directly. Even if he couldnʼt defeat it, he hoped to persuade it to spare their lives. Hence, he was relieved to discover that he was facing the core spirit and not its

creator.

”You found me!”

Ignoring the spiritʼs surprise, Wyatt immediately commenced his attack on the celestial array formation core. He was on borrowed time, and so he had to finish this as swiftly as possible, even if it meant diving headfirst without fully understanding the enemy.

ʼActivate, Innate Calamity: World Devouring Blood Plague Incarnation!

With that, Wyattʼs 25,000-foot-tall spiritual body split into trillions of plague cells, morphing into a mist of blood plague. It merged with the surrounding red cloud of plague, drastically increasing its volume. Now, Wyatt was the plague. With the assistance of his Hive Spirit, he maintained absolute control over all the plague cells. Using celestial force, they surged forward like a plague tsunami, targeting the celestial array formation core, intending to devour it as quickly as possible. ”Whoa, I was right-you are like me, but different, the celestial core spirit said upon seeing Wyattʼs use of celestial force to move his huge plague form within the spiritual plane. Similar to its actions in the physical plane, the spirit attempted to mobilize a combination of celestial force and space rules to restrain Wyatt. However, just as before, the energy failed to restrain the plague, which instead devoured it and grew in volume.

Despite the failure of its attack, the celestial core spirit persisted with the same strategy on a larger scale. It seemed unaware that it was fueling the very fire consuming its home. Wyatt suspected that this might be because the spirit only knew one form of attack. At least in the physical plane, it could rely on the vault form of its array formation to launch meteors from the planetary belt targeting the prisoners. Here, in the spiritual realm, its options appeared limited.

Wyatt couldnʼt help but wonder if this was due to the celestial array formationʼs limited offensive capabilities or because the celestial core spirit was still too young to unleash the true power of the

array.