Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2481: Hiding In Past

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning

”Boss, I don’t think that’s a good idea. Let us just stick together. This way I can take you to safety when needed,” Henricks rejected his young boss’s idea to search for the time vestige in the garden of beginning separately. It’s not that he doubted his boss’s prowess, but just that he didn’t dare to underestimate the means of the Morningstar University.

Seeing his young boss hesitate, Henricks warned, ”Boss, don’t be fooled by their current easygoing demeanor. Remember who these people are: they orchestrated your kidnapping in the Southern Capital under the guise of a university admission interview, all in collusion with the central government. Their approach may have changed, but their ultimate goal remains the same. We can’t afford to take any chances.”

”Fine, lead the way,” I had to agree with Henricks. I couldn’t afford to underestimate the Morningstar university’s accumulated wealth and means even though I could just escape any danger by getting the devil merchant code to transfer my soul to one of my pseudo primordial calamity soul gems that I had stashed across the Card World, Lil Red Storm, Ceed World, Dark Realm, and the Blood Rule Source.

The garden of beginning was Morningstar University’s heritage land, there was no way that they didn’t realize I had entered it. Maybe they were monitoring our every move right now. Though my skill ’If you see me, I see you’ didn’t ring any alarm bells, I wasn’t naïve enough to believe that they didn’t have unknown means to monitor intruders in their heritage land. After all, sight was just one of the senses. For demigods who had intent sense, the need for sight only diminished, turning from one of the essential senses to a sense they were used to using.

”Boss, I think they moved the time vestige. It’s not in here,” Hendricks sighed after six taxing hours of searching across the ’garden of beginning’ led to nothing. He came to realize why Morningstar University didn’t bother to stop them as they scoured through the ’garden of beginning.’ The time vestige wasn’t here to begin with. Henricks felt they should have guessed this when they saw Morningstar University made no effort to stop them as they searched the ’garden of beginning.’ He couldn’t help but feel like a fool. He prayed his young boss wouldn’t blame him.

”No, they didn’t move it. I know for a fact that it is here,” I disagreed confidently. The reason I had Henricks take the lead of the search was that I was busy using my primordial soul pupils to reverse engineer the biggest artificial field dungeon I had been to. I figured if Morningstar University was actually hiding the time vestige in its heritage land, what better way than for me to just piece it apart and put it back together, taking what I want.

For my primordial soul pupils, which could allow me to peek into the mysteries of the origin source, it shouldn’t be hard for them to uncover the mysteries and core of an artificial field dungeon. However, I was stuck trying to uncover the core of the ’garden of beginning’ for the past six hours now. I only knew why that was when I found out that the core of the artificial field dungeon ’garden of beginning,’ at present, was in the past.

It was not that I didn’t notice signs of time rule in the pseudo-natural array whose core was used as the core to create the ’garden of beginning’ artificial field dungeon, but they weren’t big enough for me to jump to any conclusion except for believing that the array before me was incomplete. Some of it was missing, yet somehow it was functioning optimally and efficiently as it was designed to.

Now that I figured out that it’s core was in the past, I was beginning to think maybe it’s not just core that was in the past but also other parts of the pseudo-natural array and the artificial field dungeon were in the past. Like, for example, the part of the array that allowed the array and dungeon to hide parts of it in the past and the part where the time vestige was hidden.

Reaching this conclusion, I finally knew why Morningstar University was not concerned with Henricks and me searching the ’garden of beginning.’ Neither of us had mastery over time rule enough to realize where the time vestige was hidden, let alone go into the past and drag the time vestige and the dungeon’s core from the past. No wonder they didn’t see us as a threat.

If not for my unexplainable immunity to the Myriad Realm’s time rule, I would have never dared to face Morningstar University head on. Especially not arrogantly barging onto their campus. My immunity to the time rule did make me cocky enough to forget that though I am not affected by it, my surroundings could be. And I didn’t have the power to do anything about it.

Just like now. I was helpless. What could I do knowing that the time vestige and core of the artificial field dungeon were stashed away in the past? Try comprehending the time rule?

Even with my beyond perfect synchronization rate, it would take days, even weeks, for me to master time rule enough to do something about the time vestige and core hidden in the past. I couldn’t help but lament that Morningstar University’s ’garden of beginning’ was truly the last resort of humankind in case of an impending demon invasion.

”Really? Did you find a clue?” Henricks asked in anticipation of finally finding the time vestige, but his young boss’s reply only left him bewildered. ”It is in the past. Either we wait for it to return to the present or figure out a way to force it to come to the present. I’m all ears to any creative ideas.”

”Boss, please come again,” Henricks asked in astonishment, wondering if he had heard his young boss right.