Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2828: Spacetime Rule Immunity

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Three Mischief Encampment, Limitless Celestial Blood Fate Rule Domain

Combined with Corey’s words and what I had observed about the vapour venom, it wasn’t hard to piece together what was happening. Corey had figured out how to make Lil’ Baem’s vapor venom effectively immune to spacetime rules. In truth, it had always shown a degree of resistance to spacetime rules just like it had been to the faith. She had simply taken that trait to its extreme—fusing the vapors until that resistance became full immunity.

What’s more, these concentrated strands of venom weren’t just immune to spacetime interference—they were nearly immune to faith and far deadlier as well. As a result, despite spending a fortune of faith, Konjur ended up coughing blood, while the Emissary of Light was only a few breaths away from death.

What made it even more shocking was that Corey hadn’t even been sure it would work. She didn’t have mastery over time to test it beforehand—so she tested it in the middle of the fight. Not only was the concentrated vapor venom unaffected by the accelerated flow of time, it actually used it to spread across the divine dominion in an instant.

Corey had no idea what would happen, she was just winging it... and somehow, she was winning it.

I never thought there would come a day when I’d be saved by Corey, of all people, in the Myriad Realms. If someone had told me that before this fight, I would’ve brushed it off—good joke, buddy.

And yet, here I was, getting my ass saved by Corey. Still, I knew her too well. If there was a way to mess this up, she’d find it. Hopefully... I was wrong.

However, I didn’t plan to give her the chance to prove me wrong. I immediately signaled the Field Marshal and Karl to strike the poisoned Konjur alongside me.

My plan was that the Field Marshal and Karl would keep him occupied with their relentless, destructive attacks. Meanwhile, I would summon my innate calamity, the world-devouring plague. It would surge forward and consume him entirely, leaving nothing behind for his faith to work its miracle on.

”Supernova!”

However, we were a step too late. Corey had already moved—summoning two suns the size of cannonballs and hurling them at the devil, each infused with a rapid, violent spin. She was going for the kill—I liked that. But the temporal drag caused by the spinning suns affected us as well. We were caught in the crossfire, our movements slowed and team work was thrown off.

We didn’t have time to take cover, let alone launch an attack with the same intensity as hers.

”Enough!”

This time, the devil reacted in time. A brilliant light burst outward from him, expanding without resistance. It swallowed the two suns whole—without slowing, without bending—and then swept across the entire divine dominion.

When my vision finally cleared, Corey’s supernova was gone as if it had never existed. Both Konjur and Kidd stood there, no longer poisoned, their condition restored to peak form. Even the concentrated vapor venom that had filled the dominion had been completely expelled.

One move—and Konjur had reclaimed his advantage, as though he had never lost it.

However, there was some good news. The Hive Spirit had analyzed all the data we’d gathered and finally deduced the nature of the divine dominion.

Understanding it made everything click. Why had Konjur never seemed stressed despite spending vast amounts of faith to undo our attacks? The reason was simple—the dominion itself reduced the cost of faith by more than half for anything used within it.

In other words, the guy had been fighting us enjoying a hefty discount the entire time while we were exhausting ourselves.

Seeing that even Corey’s miniature supernova and concentrated vapor venom were powerless against the sheer amount of faith Konjur wielded, I realized I had no choice but to resort to my final measure.

”Hahaha... the Devil Merchant Code truly knows how to gather talent and nurture it to its limits. Little girl, you are quite the handful. Because of you, I’ve already spent three times the faith the family would ever compensate for on this job. I’ll make sure to use you to earn back a hundred times that.”

Konjur’s attention was no longer on me; it had been entirely consumed by Corey. She was proving to be a nightmare. If she hadn’t been a demon merchant, he might have invited her to join his family—her vapor venom alone made her a valuable asset against other dark cults.

However, knowing that she was a demon merchant with an ability capable of restraining and countering faith, the rest of the family would see her the same way he did—as a threat. So, he focused all his attention on eliminating her first before sparing any attention to the others.

Konjur restrained Corey telekinetically, the invisible force was reinforced by faith. With a wide, sadistic grin, he drew her toward him, inch by inch. It was clear from his expression that he intended to torture her immediately, lacking even the patience to study her as he claimed earlier.

Corey struggled fiercely against the invisible force binding her, fighting to break free as it dragged her closer to the one responsible for her predicament. But it was futile—the harder she struggled, the stronger the telekinetic grip became.

I wanted to step in and free her, but Corey stopped me, asking me to trust her—to give her just five more minutes, and she would have everything handled.

I wasn’t convinced. At the rate things were going, she might not even last that long.

Just as I was about to intervene, a sharp, shattering crack rang out—like glass breaking. Ten massive cacti speared through the dome of the divine dominion from the outside, tearing it apart as if a hoe were plowing through soil.

As the domain split open, it revealed a colossal devil’s head made of cactus, looming over the fractured remains of the dominion. Its imposing gaze settled on Corey... and Konjur.