Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2646: Extreme Shattering Fist Art

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, The Heatsend Royal Palace

”Grandma, tell your daughter to stop putting on airs and tell me how to change Wyatt’s mind about those two women,” Anna said impatiently. She watched her mother, who had urgently baited her over here by claiming she would help convince her young groom to choose her and ditch the other two, now sipping tea as if she had all the time in the world.

”I still don’t understand why the two of you can’t get along. I would give the rest of my life just to have a few minutes with my mother,” Colleen said. Even as she spoke, she knew her daughter’s parenting had not been the best. Despite all of them being around to mitigate and help her, she had somehow managed to make her eldest daughter hate her, and perhaps even the youngest.

”Grandma, you’re an orphan. Shouldn’t you consider finding out who your mother was first?” Anne pointed out from within Colleen’s embrace, causing the latter’s hand to coil around her neck, nearly choking her to death. Regaining control of her emotions, Colleen told her eldest granddaughter, ”Retrieve her into your card. That mouth of hers will get her or you killed out here.”

”I can’t. She’s stronger than me,” Anna lied, throwing her hand into the air, only for Ann to exclaim, ”Say what now?”

”I said she’s stronger than me, so I can’t retrieve her into my origin card at my whim,” Anna repeated. Ignoring her annoyance, Ann asked, ”How is that possible? I’m... I used to be stronger than you, yet I was trapped in your origin card by you for decades.”

”It’s my fault. I wasn’t clear. She’s not just stronger than me, but way stronger than me. In her obsession to see Wyatt and confirm his well-being, she combined her mastery of the extreme path and her know how in the martial path to create the Extreme Shattering Fist Art. The only reason she’s here and not rushing to Wyatt’s side is because she wants to know how to get Wyatt to forget the other two women and me, and focus only on her,” Anna explained.

Except for the part about not being able to force Anne into her card, everything was true. Even the part about being unable to forcibly retrieve Anne into her origin card, since the latter was indeed stronger than her.

Yet she was able to withdraw Anne into her origin card anytime she wanted because of the wager she had won against the latter; it allowed her to retrieve Anne back into her origin card at will. She only realized this after understanding that the oath she and Anne had taken for the wager contained major loopholes that worked to her advantage. Even Anne had no idea about this yet. She was saving it for the moment Anne lost control.

Meanwhile, Colleen turned to her daughter and asked, ”You said that their love for each other, if true, would help her turn normal. Then why does she still continue to hate you with the passion of a thousand suns?”

”That’s because Wyatt made her recall her love for him, while I couldn’t, as she subconsciously keeps resisting, she doesn’t want to recall that part of her,” the Southern Princess answered, her voice steady. ”It only proves that I failed as a mother.”

”No, Mother, you didn’t fail as a mother,” Ann cried out. ”Everything she is, and everything we are today, is because of you.”

”Ann, honey. You’re confusing giving birth with parenting. Even monsters can give birth. However, they cannot be parents and raise their child as a mother. In that area, I too failed. I find no shame in accepting it, because you all grew into great adults despite me. So neither should you, my daughters,” the Southern Princess said as she rose from her chair and moved toward Anne, the youngest, intending to hug her welcoming her into the family.

However, the latter impatiently snapped, ”Enough with your cringy sob stories, and tell me how I can get Wyatt to forget the other women and revere only me.”

The Southern Princess frowned, listening to her youngest’s words and noticing the manic glint in her eyes. She then warned her eldest, ”Anna, don’t release this one out of your grimoire under any circumstances unless it’s absolutely necessary. Otherwise, she might destroy everything Wyatt values and holds dear just so he’ll finally see her, that includes you. This time, you really drew the short straw with this one.”

”Why you—” Anne was about to attack the Southern Princess with killing intent after hearing her advice to Anna, but Anna immediately recalled her in her origin card.

”Aha, I knew you were lying to me just to mess with me,” Ann exclaimed, pointing at Anna, only for the latter to shrug and reply, ”I wasn’t lying. If you’re a lot stronger than me, you can resist my control over the origin card. But believe what you want.”

”Ann, honey, she isn’t lying about that,” the Southern Princess added, hoping the latter would grow stronger than Anna and eventually fight for her freedom.

”You guys need to see this,” Colleen suddenly blurted out, sharing the Western Princess’s live stream with Anna and the other two.

”Aren’t those our soldiers? Why are they fighting Wyatt? What’s going on? I need to get there right now,” Anna exclaimed in distress. Her thoughts were in disarray. She wanted to know what was happening, and at the same time, she wanted to rush to her young groom’s rescue.

”No, stay put. Wyatt can handle this himself. Also, look at those guards’ eyes. They are no longer our guards, but the Emissary of Light’s believers. Why is he targeting Wyatt of all people? And why now, of all times?” The Southern Princess immediately deduced, based on what she had learned from Clown Mask’s memories and her own independent investigation into the Emissary of Light’s origin card. ”Mother, contact Matriarch Malvin of the Unstoppable Auriculean Family. I need to know everything she knows about the Empire’s current activities and why they would target Wyatt.”

Despite what Clown Mask’s future vision had shown, the Southern Princess had always believed that in the current era, especially with a second demon invasion on the verge, the Emissary of Light was the greatest threat to all five regions.