Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2427: What Is Unranked?

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Lil Red Storm Realm, Seed World, Trophy section.

Wyatt and his primordial spirits used the Breath of Erosion to refine a dozen semi-noble-class Forsling corpses, following the guidance of his primordial soul pupils, unlike during his duel against Bigold in the Duel World. Thanks to the unique properties of the Breath of Erosion, Wyatt found the refinement process far more profound, almost like witnessing the corpses being reborn in his vision.

Since acquiring the Breath of Erosion, Wyatt hadn’t had many opportunities to incorporate it into card crafting. And when he did, the materials typically weren’t up to standard. But this time was different. Though the corpses of semi-noble-class Forslings didn’t fall under the unranked ingredient category, they were the highest quality ingredients in Mythical grade.

According to the realm limitations of the card world, only the devil realms of the upper noble-class realm and above were qualified as unranked-grade ingredients. As such, the semi-noble-class Forsling corpses were of the highest quality one could get in Mythical grade.

For a card crafter of Wyatt’s calibre, crafting noble-class Forsling corpse puppets, or rather, unranked-grade corpse puppet cards using these semi-noble-class corpses, was a realistic challenge, especially since he intended to nourish the corpse puppets and their cores using primordial energy and pixie dust.

Seeing the impressive results of refining the Forsling corpses with the Breath of Erosion, Wyatt grew increasingly optimistic about the crafting process. He eagerly anticipated applying the vast knowledge he had gleaned from the undead devil Agony’s title demon core. The anticipation of how many of the Forsling corpse puppets’ cores would develop spirits made him restless. After all, considering the ingredients he used, a corpse puppet shy of a spirit, regardless of its grade, would be a failure and a huge disappointment.

With the Breath of Erosion, Primordial Energy, and Pixie Dust at his disposal, it would be shocking if these corpse puppets failed to develop spirits. If they didn’t, it would call into question Wyatt’s skills as a card crafter. These three forces were responsible for the very existence of life across the Myriad Realms at various stages—Breath of Erosion as rebirth, Pixie Dust as nourishment, and Primordial Energy as the origin. They were powers so immense and elusive that even ruler-class entities could only dream of wielding them. Yet here was Wyatt, a mortal card master, in command of them.

With such profound forces at his fingertips, if Wyatt failed to recreate the miracle of the Undead Devil Agony using these dozen Forsling corpses—especially with the guidance of his Primordial Soul Pupils and the vast knowledge from the Infinity Library—then he wasn’t the genius card crafter he believed himself to be. He would be no better than a lucky hack in the vast and competitive field of Soul Crafting in the Myriad Realms.

Once the corpses were refined using the Breath of Erosion, Wyatt began the next phase: core creation. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of corpse puppet crafting, he worked following the guidance of his primordial soul pupils and Hive Spirit. He didn’t hesitate to use Primordial Calamity Daughter Gems in their construction.

Additionally, he made sure to align the development of the cores with his newly devised Forsilk title demon core technique, the complete version of the Forsling Title Demon Core Technique he had designed for Moon Fright and her race.

This complete version would allow the spirits of the corpse puppets to cultivate all the way into the upper ruler-class realms, making up for the lack of ruler-class Forsling corpses to create ruler-class Forsling corpse puppets.

Now that Wyatt’s grimoire had advanced to the unranked grade, it was no longer bound by rank or realm limitations of the Card World. Using the Breath of Erosion to upgrade, it had successfully broken free of the limitations of the Card World. In other words, he could now equip unranked cards crafted using the ruler-class ingredients.

One must understand that the Unranked Grade in the Card World was equivalent to the Noble and Ruler Classes of the Devil Realm. In other words, anything above the Semi Noble Class in the Devil Realm fell under the Unranked Grade in the Card World.

This distinction is important because if the Will of the Card World were to grow, the realm limit for living beings within it would rise from the Chivalry Class to the Noble Class, mirroring the structure of the Devil Realm. However, Wyatt had no idea how long it would take for the Card World’s Will to achieve such growth, let alone reach the point where it could raise its limit to the Ruler Class.

He also didn’t know how the Card World’s Will would apply that growth to the living beings within it. Despite their similarities, the power systems of the Card World and the Devil Realm were fundamentally different.

That said, Wyatt—who had already surpassed the limitations of the Card World despite being mortal—had no choice but to look to the various power systems of the Myriad Realms for guidance. Given that the Devil Realm’s power system, thanks to the Devil Merchant Code, was widely accepted throughout the Myriad Realms, he used it as a blueprint for his own progress.

It was no secret that corpse puppets with spirits, or any tool or relic with a spirit, could ascend in rank and grade just like demons and devils did in their realm. But when it came to cards, this wasn’t usually the case. Aside from Origin Cards, which evolved alongside their card apprentices, most cards would not naturally ascend in rank or grade over time—unless they were deliberately upgraded or fused by their card apprentices.

Yes, there were exceptions—like rune cards. A rune card’s rank and grade would increase along with the tier of its rune. It was important to note that only rune cards created using runes with a spirit and nourished within the ego gem of their original master were capable of evolving. However, the birth of a rune spirit was an extremely rare occurrence in the mortal realms, as mortal card apprentices were incapable of nourishing their runes with enough rule power to give rise to a spirit. If they planned to, they would have to pause their realm progress, wasting their golden years.

Only demigods were generally considered capable of achieving this. Having reached the realm limit of the Card World, they alone possessed both the time and the talent required. At that stage, they had no choice but to turn to rules and runes to continue enhancing their strength, as they had already hit the ceiling of the Card World’s power system.

This meant that the corpse puppet cards Wyatt aimed to craft were poised to become the first of their kind. To create a card capable of ascending to ruler-class over time, he would need to use a ruler-class core in its creation. Otherwise, despite having the potential to reach ruler-class within the Unranked Grade, the card would always be limited by the grade of the ingredients used in its crafting. Which would be a shame, considering the incredible prowess used in the crafting process of these dozen forseling corpse puppet cards.