Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2626: Love Sickness? Not!

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse No. 234, Limitless Celestial Domain, Gainover Manor, Unparalleled Arena

”Aren’t you giving up too soon?” I asked Anna, finally hearing her genuine feelings toward me for the first time since she returned from her recent seclusion. ”Especially with me here.”

”...” Anna did not respond. Her feelings toward me were clearly conflicted; she was both angry at me and cared deeply enough about our relationship to be angry even in the face of death.

”Just say the magic words, and I’ll become your prince in shining armor,” I assured her, using humor to ease the tension between us. ”Or talk to your ancestors. They’ve already come up with numerous ways to deal with your situation. Honestly, though situation is dire, it’s not very hard to get rid of it.”

”I’d rather call on my prince than try to understand what those old fools are saying,” Anna said bluntly, offending all of her ancestors with her rude words causing them to break into an uproar.

From what I could hear, they had plenty of opinions about her, with some even petitioning to disown her as an unparalleled descendant. They believed she was too foolish and stubborn, even by their standards. However, they also considered it a pity, given the purity of her bloodline.

They seemed to hold mixed feelings toward her. For a long time, they had been trying to contact her through soul whispers, yet she never truly learned to perceive them, breaking their hopes and disappointing them each time she summoned the unparalleled arena.

Some strongly believed that Anna was a career troll, deliberately provoking them at every opportunity. Otherwise, they could not fathom why a descendant would have no eagerness to listen to or learn from her ancestors. Especially when they were eagerly taking the initiative to contact her and teach her.

Ultimately, they concluded that they missed Ann, Anna’s triplet and their ideal daughter. They blamed Anna for keeping their ideal descendant away from them.

As for me, I believed these unparalleled bloodline ancestors were simply too bored in the afterlife, which drove them to behave so childishly.

”You’ve got to call the prince. Otherwise, he won’t know where you are or that you’re in trouble,” I reminded Anna. Because of her stubborn refusal to seek my help, we were both locked in a game of chicken. Either she would give in and beg me to help her, or I would give in and help her, even though she never asked me to, putting aside my pride.

”If the prince is too dumb to find me or realize that I’m in trouble, how can he save me? I might as well not call him,” Anna retorted, making it clear that she had no intention of asking for my help and would rather die in my embrace.

”Anna, why do you have to be so damn stubborn?” I barked in frustration, knowing I could no longer delay her treatment.

”Why?” Anna shot back. ”How dare you ask me that? You failed to keep your word to me. You said you would wait for me and take me on a date. But when I returned, you were announcing your relationship with that hussy to the five regions. If not for not wanting to give my mother the satisfaction, I would have dragged your ass off and locked you in the deepest part of the prison beneath the royal palace.”

”Regardless of what I did, aren’t I here for you right now?” I asked in my defense. ”Besides, you need to be alive for me to take you on a date.”

”You have a way of making everything my fault,” Anna said irritably, hating my silver-tongue that she once used to praise.

”Why does it have to be anyone’s fault?” I replied. ”Why can’t we just move on from that?”

”You would like that, wouldn’t you?” Anna remarked with a sneer.

”Yes, I would,” I answered honestly. ”Because I don’t want to spend my time with you fighting. I think it’s the same for you. And the only way for us to do that is to let the past stay in the past and move on, enjoying each other’s company.”

”It’s hard to do that when you say that I alone am not enough for you, that you need two more, and Lord knows how many more in the future,” Anna revealed her deepest desire. ”I want you all to myself, as my prince consort.”

”If you want me, then come and take me,” I argued, not stressing that if she wanted me, she would’ve to learn to share with Susan and Jill. I welcomed her to challenge me if she want me all to herself. ”Instead of suffering and making me suffer with you. Dying out of foolish stubbornness is not the solution to this.”

”Fine,” Anna finally nodded in agreement, then called out in a flat, deadpan voice, ”My prince, come and save me.”

”Fear not, for I am here, my beautiful princess,” I muttered to Anna teasingly as I retracted my limitless celestial domain from outside and summoned my celestial blood fate domain within the unparalleled arena.

The moment I did so, every statue that had been speculating about my origin and debating whether I truly belonged to the card master realm erupted into chaos. They instantly fixated on my celestial blood rule domain, buzzing in agitation as they all tried to contact me at once. I pretended not to hear them. For a brief moment, they almost believed me, as only those of the unparalleled bloodline could hear them within this place. However, recalling my conversation with Anna, they realized that I could, in fact, hear them.

I instantly regretted ever telling Anna that she could listen to her ancestors to deal with Gainover’s flesh infecting her body. The unparalleled bloodline ancestors began spamming me with their soul whispers, demanding to know how I was able to use a celestial rule domain without having formed my divinity.

Unlike the present card demigods, who had only ever heard of the celestial rule domain through myths, these unparalleled bloodline demigods understood the truth. Only celestials could wield a celestial rule domain, and if other beings wanted to wield it, they would have to do so by using a fragment of celestial will. And to use a fragment of celestial will, one had to possess divinity, as a mortal could not withstand the power of a celestial will fragment.