Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2921: Boundless Celestial Ocean Domain: Ocean World

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City

”I got it!” Aqualas suddenly exclaimed excitedly as her gaze snapped toward us.

The moment she spoke, both Petra and I immediately understood something troublesome had happened.

While trapped inside the Limitless Celestial Blood Fate Domain, Aqualas had gradually confirmed that everything Seraphina told her was true. There really was a card apprentice capable of wielding an actual Celestial Rule Domain.

Still, she refused to believe I possessed true celestial power naturally.

After all, in her eyes, I was still human, not a celestial existence born alongside the laws of the world. To Aqualas, there had to be some trick, loophole, or borrowed mechanism behind my domain.

That was also why she and Seraphina previously tried replicating my pseudo celestial rule domain technique themselves, hoping to evolve it into a genuine Celestial Rule Domain. Unfortunately for them, every attempt ended in complete failure. However, her failure didn’t make her believe it was impossible, but that I succeeded where she failed, that was all. Basically, she was correct, card apprentices can’t create celestial rule domains.

After overcoming her initial shock, Aqualas completely calmed down and began methodically studying my Double Celestial Domain instead. And to her surprise, Seraphina hadn’t exaggerated at all. The domain truly was absurd. Escaping through brute force alone was incredibly difficult even for a Supreme Being.

But then again... Who was she?

Aqualas was one of the oldest and strongest Supreme Beings in existence, a monster who survived countless wars, betrayals, and calamities across several eras.

The moment she stopped treating the domain like a prison and instead began treating it like a puzzle, the situation changed completely. Several minutes of nonstop analysis later, she finally understood enough of the domain’s structure and interactions to formulate a method of escape.

After celebrating her discovery, Aqualas slowly turned and looked directly into my eyes with a smug smile before uttering,

”Boundless Celestial Ocean Domain: Ocean World.”

The instant the chant left her lips, her entire water body twisted inward and compressed into a small orb of deep blue water. Then it began expanding violently. The water orb rapidly grew larger at a speed that exceeded the rate at which my endlessly stretching space distorted the distance around it.

At the same time, an overwhelming celestial force erupted from its core and acted like a stabilizing anchor, forcibly holding the expanding oceanic mass together despite the spatial distortion trying to separate and delay everything within the domain.

It was less like watching water spread and more like witnessing an entire ocean attempting to overwrite space itself.

Petra stared at the scene in confusion, clearly not understanding what Aqualas was trying to accomplish.

Meanwhile, I simply sighed and shook my head in dismay. Honestly, I had already expected this outcome and made no attempt to stop Aqualas from trying to deciphering my Double Celestial Rule Domain.

Against opponents on the level of Supreme Beings, my Double Celestial Rule Domain was never truly unbeatable. The blood rule was useless against Supreme beings who were made of the rule they represent. The infinitely stretching space was terrifying when the opponent didn’t understand it, but once someone fully grasped the mechanics behind it, counters would inevitably emerge.

Capable card demigods or devils probably could have figured out the principle eventually too. The difference was that even if they understood it, they still wouldn’t possess enough force to unravel my Double Celestial Domain so directly.

Aqualas, the ocean supreme, however, was different. She was never truly alone. She had the ocean rule stream spirit watching over her not to mention the moment she began to borrow celestial force to use against me, the celestial will stopped lending me celestial force. The card celestial had its priority straight.

Aqualas’s Ocean World continued expanding faster and faster while my endlessly stretching space struggled to keep up.

The problem was terrifyingly simple.

As long as her expansion rate exceeded the rate at which my space distorted distance, then eventually her Ocean World would become ”infinitely larger” than the infinitely stretched space surrounding it.

And once that happened, she wouldn’t merely break free from my domain. She would crush everything inside it during the process. In my mind had already known there were no countermeasures, as this scenario was like tug of war, the side with powerful pull wins. In this case, it was Aqualas with the entire Card World helping her.

Could I use her mass together with my mastery over space to slow down time around the expanding ocean?

Could I use her mass and my mastery over space to collapse the surrounding space into a black hole like I had done before?

No, neither was possible. Because Aqualas’s expanding Ocean World didn’t possess a constant mass. Its mass continuously increased as the ocean expanded outward. More water, more pressure, more energy, more celestial force. Everything about it kept growing dynamically every moment.

That completely ruined the calculations required for me to manipulate spacetime the way I normally did.

Whenever I previously slowed time or artificially created black hole-like effects, I relied on stable relationships between mass, distance, and space distortion. Even then, the calculations were absurdly difficult.

But variable mass changed everything. Without direct mastery over mass itself, I couldn’t accurately predict or stabilize the continuously changing gravitational relationships produced by Aqualas’s ever-growing oceanic domain.

Had the mass remained constant, I could have mathematically forced the interaction between her mass and my space manipulation into producing the desired effect. But with the mass endlessly increasing alongside the expansion...

It simply wasn’t possible for me to calculate or maintain it accurately enough in real time.

”Wyatt... is it just me, or is she actually getting closer to us?” Petra asked in visible shock.

Even though Aqualas was still trapped within the endlessly stretching space, her expanding Ocean World had begun visibly crossing the infinite distance separating us.

It was slow, almost imperceptibly so at first, but undeniably happening.

The infinitely stretched space that normally made approaching impossible was gradually being overwhelmed by the sheer rate at which Aqualas’s Ocean World expanded outward.

Meanwhile, another thought quietly surfaced in Petra’s mind. If Aqualas could counter the Double Celestial Domain this way... Could she do the same?

After all, unlike Aqualas, Petra’s domain and authority were tied directly to the ground itself. The entire Card World was effectively her territory. If she focused entirely on expansion and stabilization the same way Aqualas currently was, then theoretically she might also be able to overwhelm the endlessly stretching space through sheer scale and persistence.

For the first time, Petra began seriously analyzing my domain not as an obstacle... but as a problem with a solvable answer.