Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2532: Triunion Four-Petal Demonic Vines

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning, Time Vestige, Morningstar University 2nd Campus

I began the treatment process by placing three top-tier Clampedo cores, three four-petal vines—each roughly thirty meters long and separated from the same parent—and nine strands of demon-face mushroom beard onto my grimoire’s creation page.

Using the Breath of Erosion, I refined them thoroughly, making their soul pathways more adaptable to the changes I intended to introduce. This would increase the chances of successfully mutating the four-petal vines using the Clampedo cores.

After refining their soul pathways, I first used the pathways of the three top-tier Clampedo cores to merge with the three four-petal vines, successfully mutating them into four-petal demon vines. Then, I used the soul pathways of the nine strands of demon-face mushroom beard to help the newly formed demon vines fully embrace their dark nature, completely removing the side effects caused by using Clampedo cores to transform a mortal-tier plant into a demonic one.

I was far from finished. Everything up to this point had relied on the accumulation of my knowledge and help from my primordial soul pupils. What came next, however, would draw on my comprehension of the Blood Rule. This was one of the main reasons I had chosen the four-petal vine over the other appealing alternatives—its blood-based abilities could be reshaped, refined, and tailored to my needs through my understanding of the Blood Rule and of course a little help from my primordial soul pupils.

I had already pushed three Blood Rule meanings—Blood Fate Plunders, Blood Curse, and Blood Plague—to the ultimate tier and reached the stage where they needed to be fused into a single Blood Rule stream. Only by doing so would I be able to comprehend additional Blood Rule meanings and merge them into my stream without limitation.

My understanding of the three Blood Rule meanings had advanced to the point where I could perform a bestowal—a technique I learned by observing Pax Whiteburn’s origin card receive one from Demigod Michael Angelo’s will within the Card World’s womb. I intended to carry out a similar bestowal on all three four-petal demonic vines, strengthening the innate connection they already shared from having originated from the same parent vine.

Among the three Blood Rule meanings I had comprehended, my grasp of Blood Fate Plunder meaning was the deepest, followed by Blood Curse meaning, and lastly Blood Plague meaning. I planned to use the Blood Fate Plunder meaning to perform the bestowal on all three four-petal demonic vines, linking their individual fates into a single thread. This would elevate their connection to the point where, despite having distinct bodies and minds of their own, they would be one and same, functioning as one.

My bestowal would not end there. It would also enhance their vampiric ability to feed on the blood of other creatures, allowing their roots to not only assume the form of whatever they consumed but also gradually alter their intertwined fate to mirror that creature’s fate.

In essence, the three four-petal demonic vines would become a single entity with three different bodies and minds, each capable of plundering both the form and fate of its prey through blood.

I had successfully performed bestowals on my other creations on the first attempt, so I wasn’t particularly worried. Focusing my understanding of the Blood Fate Plunder meaning, and using my soul pupils to pinpoint the soul pathways responsible for the vines’ vampiric abilities, I began the bestowal—merging their fates and granting them the power to plunder fate through blood.

The bestowal was a complete success. I had mutated the three four-petal demonic vines into a single Triunion four-petal demonic vine.

Usually the next would be to turn it into a card by moving the modified soul pathways into a common core and turning it into a card, but not today as I didn’t the Triunion four-petal demonic vines but their fully developed roots having assumed their complete form.

Then I turned to Lucine, who was sulking in the corner after her intent failed to break past the barrier of my unranked grimoire and peek into my soul-crafting process. If I had a diamond grimoire, I would have been helpless against her spying, but mine was one of only two unranked grimoires in the entire card world. For someone who had lived so long, Lucine still behaved spoiled and childishly. That was why, when I told her to sit in the corner, I never expected her to accept it quietly.

Still, the turn of events that followed worked in my favor. The more setbacks she experienced, the longer she would remain obedient, giving me enough time to prove I was telling the truth when I said I could cure her time-rule dementia. Then I would own her flat ass.

When I physically turned to look at her after releasing the Triunion four-petal demonic vines, the sulking and bored Lucine instantly stiffened. She stared at me with wary eyes, as if I were her mortal enemy. And honestly, in her current state, that was exactly how she saw me—an opponent forcing her into a fake ’treatment,’ one she believed was merely a pretext to kill her under the guise of curing her time-rule dementia.

”Wyatt, it’s still not too late. We don’t have to do this. Please let me go—I’ll have them take you to our present as quickly as possible,” Lucine made one final attempt to persuade me, swearing she would give me anything I asked for as long as I didn’t force her to undergo my treatment.

Lucine had long since given up. She already knew the only reason she could store Slay’s egg in her dimensional storage card was because I allowed it, and I did so only because I was completely confident I could take it back whenever I wished. She no longer harbored the delusion that, with enough planning, she could ever control me.