Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2454: Skill Card: Super-Time

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Way Beyond, SSS-rank Titan Forest Field Dungeon.

”He’s a lot stronger than we remember,” Kiren said, retreating to tend to Ollie’s deadly wounds. A large chunk of his torso’s right side was missing, as if a wild beast had torn the flesh away.

”It has been a couple of decades since we killed him,” Ollie replied, his voice strained. ”We’re a lot stronger than we were back then. But we weren’t a match for him then, and we aren’t a match for him now.” He watched his dear friend Cam hold off Redfall’s attacks, even as chunks of his flesh flew with every blow. Fortunately, Cannibal Cam grew sturdier and stronger the angrier he gets.

Kiren looked at her husband, his big back and wide shoulders drenched in blood but still straight. Knowing his limits, she turned to her bestie, who kept dealing ranged damage to Redfall, trying to hinder him, but it didn’t appear that effective. So, Kiren instructed, ”Christina, we can’t continue like this. I’m sorry, but I don’t think we can win like this. Let’s notch it up to Super-time.”

”Fine,” Christina agreed, glaring at Redfall begrudgingly. Then, seeing Ollie nod in agreement, Kiren called her husband back, ”Cannibal, retreat.”

Christina’s two royal bodyguards engaged Redfall, creating an opportunity for Ollie to retreat. As the four friends gathered, Kiren kissed Cannibal Cam, summoning the original Cam back. Just as Kiren was about to update her husband on the battle, Christina, knowing her bodyguards couldn’t hold Redfall back for long, hurried them, ”Hurry, activate super-time in 3.. 2.. 1!”

With that, the four friends activated their super-time cards simultaneously. Soon, the world around them came to a halt. Instead of checking their frozen surroundings the four friends checked each other. Seeing everyone was safe and at the same wavelength, Ollie sighed, ”Phew! I was worried. After all, it has been a long time since we entered super time together.”

”Let’s hurry and finish him off fast. I don’t want us to waste too much of our lifespan on killing this scum for the second time,” Christina said, taking out a hand mirror to check her facial features.

”Do we destroy or seal his soul?” Cam asked the group. After all, if Redfall could crawl out of the afterlife once, then he can do it again. He didn’t want to repeat this all over again.

”Destroy, obviously. Though we don’t have the resolve to kill all his descendants, the least we can do is destroy his soul so that he can’t kill another one of those descendants so he can revive again. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t have enough lifespan left to keep repeating this,” Ollie honestly answered, knowing that unlike his friends he didn’t have the self-control not to use the Super-Time card. It was really the reason why his friends looked younger than him and he looked a lot older than his age.

Their former allies, who helped them bring down Redfall the first time, wanted to erase his ’evil bloodline’ from the card world, but this group stopped them. The Misfits didn’t agree to killing innocent toddlers and children just because they were afraid Redfall would revive again. These four intervened and saved the innocent descendants of Demigod Redfall.

If not for them, Sarah and the other leaders of the Tyrant Sun Raven Guild would have never made it to the Sky Blossom City and long been killed by Redfall’s enemies. This was the main reason why only these four misfits from the party that brought down Redfall showed up to confront him now, after he had retrieved his grimoire.

There were some who would have chosen to help them despite their past differences fearing Redfall’s revenge but these four came on their own without informing anyone, believing they could kill Redfall, who had just revived with their new prowess.

”Ollie, killing is one thing, but extinguishing his entire existence is different. We don’t have the right to do that. Let’s just seal his soul away.” Kiren disagreed, preferring to seal Redfall’s soul over destroying it. She believed that once the soul deteriorated in the seal with time and returned to the River of Reincarnation, it wouldn’t have the strength to revive itself using the blood memory rune.

Also, once a soul was recycled by the river of reincarnation, there was no telling what it could achieve in its new life. So, why resort to the extreme when they had more humane methods to help the soul close the Chapter called Redfall and start a new one.

”Just decide already! If I get a single wrinkle, you guys will never hear the end of it,” Princess Christina yelled, abstaining from voting, her eyes glued to the mirror as she meticulously checked her skin.

Cam glanced at his wife before casting the deciding vote. ”I’m sorry, babe, but I’m with Ollie on this one. We shouldn’t take any chances with this scum. Ollie’s right—we might not be around next time to stop him, and then all the atrocities he commits will be on us. We have to take care of this here and now, for the future generations.”

”You don’t have to participate in this,” Ollie said, and with that, he stepped forward, prepared to erase Redfall from existence.

As Ollie neared Redfall, he hit Redfall with his strongest blow, preparing to catch Redfall’s soul before it was forced to leave the physical plane and destroy it for good. It took him a couple of punches to finally manage to destroy Redfall’s physical body. However, in the pile of blood and gore paused in air, Redfall’s divinity anchoring his soul in the physical plane didn’t show even a single scratch. It also appeared to very slowly trying to regenerate Redfall’s body in the Super-time, proving just how strong and fast Redfall’s regenerative capabilities were.

”Hybrid Divinity?” Ollie muttered, looking at Redfall’s divinity, finally knowing why the latter was stronger than four of them combined despite being dead for the last couple decades.

Just as Ollie reached out to dig out the divinity from a pile of mashed flesh and bones, he observed the world suddenly turn red as he heard a loud chant, ”Celestial Blood Fate Domain!”