Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2257 The Price Of Kinship Is Freedom

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Lil Red Storm Planet, Unspecified

Having understood what the core spirit sought from him, Wyatt set his plan into motion. ”I understand this was all a misunderstanding, but that doesnʼt change the fact that you attacked us first. However, it doesnʼt warrant a fight to the death over a misunderstanding. So, if you want me to stop attacking you, youʼll have to do something for me.”

”Okay, Iʼll do anything,” the core spirit agreed without hesitation, not even pausing to learn the condition. It was simply relieved that the agonizing pain would finally stop and that Wyatt was willing to forgive it. Since it was getting everything it wanted, the spirit didnʼt care about the price it was paying.

Few in the myriad realm were capable of locating the core spirit on the spiritual plane, let alone launching an effective attack against it. So, it wouldnʼt be surprising if the spirit had little understanding of pain-or if Wyatt attacking it was its first experience of it altogether. Judging by its low tolerance to pain, both scenarios seemed likely. Wyatt too would have been helpless against an enemy like this if not for his array of abilities with unique prowess which would be coveted anywhere in the myriad realms. For most mortals, a being like the celestial core spirit was practically a god. Even many card demigods and similar level entities across the myriad realms shared this perspective. Celestials were unmatched, so it was no surprise that the celestial array formation coreʼs spirit, as a formidable celestial array formation, lacked predators in the realms and was unfamiliar with pain. Especially considering it could lock and hid itself from the myriad realms. The defensive shell formed by its six planetary rings were no joke either.

However, agreeing to anything just to avoid pain was unlike a celestial. Yet, the core spirit did so was because it had another strong reason. The another big reason for the core spiritʼs swift decision was its desperation for kinship. Being a unique celestial array formation core spirit meant it was alone in a vast realm where even the most wicked beings could find friends or companions. So, when it found someone it believed was similar to it, it wasnʼt surprising that it was willing to agree to anything to get to know them and become close to them, even if the kinship was brief or merely an illusion. The spirit just wanted to experience it.

”Good. I want you to stop resisting my plague,” Wyatt commanded, ordering his world-devouring blood plague to halt its attack on the celestial array formation core and to start fusing with it using the effect it gained from his primordial calamity daughter gem.

With his current grimoire grade, Wyatt knew it was impossible to subdue the celestial array formation spirit with the calamity daughter gem alone. Even if his grimoire were diamond-grade, the calamity daughter gem would still have no effect on celestials as the World Calamity Tree could devour celestials, but it couldnʼt subdue them with its calamity daughter seeds.

Despite knowing this Wyatt ordered his plague to fuse the core using the fect of the primordial calamity daughter gem because his daughter gem had been baptized with primordial energy, it had evolved into the primordial calamity daughter gem, significantly enhancing its strength and capabilities.

With his current power, using the primordial calamity daughter gem to subdue the celestial core spirit was possible if he could break past the coreʼs outer shell and reach its center where the spirit was housed. Still, there was a chance the spiritʼs will might resist even his enhanced daughter gemʼs control. That was to say while it wasnʼt a absolute effect like it was previously, the primordial calamity daughter gem still offered Wyatt a viable option for subduing celestials. For this reason, he asked the core spirit to stop resisting his plagueʼs fusion with it.

If the core spirit willingly allowed the fusion, Wyattʼs primordial calamity daughter gem would have a one hundred percent chance of subduing it. In other words, the cost Wyatt was asking of the celestial array formation spirit was its freedom. ”Alright,” the core spirit agreed, willingly allowing Wyattʼs world-devouring blood plague to fuse with its body, unaware of the true price it was paying to stop the attack and gain Wyattʼs forgiveness-and perhaps even his friendship.

The red mist covering the celestial core fused with it over time, leaving behind a single primordial calamity soul gem plague cell, which multiplied to grow Wyattʼs spiritual body on the spiritual plane. As the plague cells fused with the core, they began to heal the previous damage they had caused to the core. Moved by this, the core spirit felt reassured and had no doubts about allowing Wyattʼs plague cells to fuse with it, not that it had any to begin with.

In its desperation to feel kinship with Wyatt, it hadnʼt doubted him even slightly, and now, seeing Wyatt healing it, the core spirit felt it had made the right choice. Overwhelmed with emotion, it wondered if this was the kinship it had yearned for all along, and thought that, if so, it was worth waiting an eternity to experience it. When the plague cells had finally fused with the celestial array formation core through the effect of the primordial calamity daughter gem, Wyatt made a surprising discovery: the core spirit automatically received partner-level authority instead of a servant-level authority. He attempted to reduce its authority level, only to fail repeatedly.

Wyatt wracked his brain, trying to figure out why he couldnʼt reduce the celestial core spiritʼs authority level below partner tier as his primordial calamity daughter gem. He wondered if it was because the primordial calamity daughter gemʼs effect simply

wasnʼt strong enough. This was the only reason he could think of at present.

While this wasnʼt the outcome he had hoped for, he could only console himself, thinking that this level of control was better than nothing. As, for the moment, it assured that the celestial array formation coreʼs spirit would not be able to turn on him even if he were to return to his original realm.