Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2960: Cause Of Void Phobia

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

When I first learned about the Supreme Beings’ void phobia from Petra, I was intrigued. They were the apex beings on the surface of the Card World, yet in the void, they were just as helpless as any mortal.

Yes, they wouldn’t die in the void. But they were helpless there nonetheless.

I had a lot of questions, as I always do whenever I learn something new. And, as always, my curiosity got the better of me. While simultaneously fighting the trio, I began exploring the why and how of it all alongside Hive AI.

Was I being careless and overconfident? No. Anything below the level of a true ruler-class was not a threat to me. And when I say true ruler-class, I mean beings who had not only reached the ruler-class realm but whose comprehension and command over various rules, and the meanings behind them, were also worthy of that title.

I make it a point to say that because I wasn’t an actual ruler-class. The ruler-class curses I had integrated with my primordial spirits granted me the strength of a ruler-class. Likewise, there were many beings across the myriad realms who possessed ruler-class strength through lineage or other means without being true ruler-class entities. Even celestials treated such beings with caution.

That being said, my fight with the foolish trio was no longer my priority once I learned of the Supreme Beings’ void phobia. Instead, I began using what I knew about the Supreme Beings and the Void to understand and deduce the cause of this phobia.

Why? What’s the need to do that while fighting for your life and your friends’ lives?

If you discovered that your enemy possessed such a glaring vulnerability, wouldn’t you want to learn more about it, even in the heat of battle?

That’s a valid enough reason, right? Though my reason was different. My curiosity had simply gotten the better of me.

Anyways, just as humans cannot live without air and water, Supreme Beings cannot exist without the celestial force of the world and the rule streams that birthed them.

Those two things were as essential to them as breath was to mortals. The Void, however, possessed neither celestial force or rule streams. It possessed nothing.

As a result, Supreme Beings thrown into the Void gradually lose control over their rule powers and become trapped within mineral veins formed from the rule power they possessed before being severed from their rule streams and celestial force of their world.

Their wills were essentially trapped within a massive chunk of crystallized rule power. It was a cruel fate, neither truly death nor truly life, but an eternity of imprisonment.

Figuring out the answer behind this phenomenon had been surprisingly easy, and that bothered me. It failed to scratch my intellectual itch. After all, discovering an answer was only half the fun. The real excitement lay in asking whether the same result could be achieved through different means.

So I decided to challenge myself.

Could I disconnect a Supreme Being from the Card World’s celestial force and rule streams without throwing them into the Void?

At first, I considered array formations. A sufficiently advanced formation could isolate space, suppress energy, and interfere with laws.

Then I considered hybrid space domains. If a domain could create a localized environment governed by different rules, perhaps it could sever a Supreme Being’s connection to the world.

The ideas sounded promising in theory, but reality proved far less cooperative. The problem became obvious once I thought about it deeply enough.

We stood upon the Card World, surrounded by its celestial force, bathed in its rules, and immersed in its soul energy. Everything we used belonged to the Card World. The energy powering our abilities. The laws governing our existence. Even the space we occupied. All of it belonged to the world itself.

Trying to isolate a Supreme Being from the Card World while using the Card World’s own power was like trying to drain the ocean with seawater. The contradiction was too fundamental. No matter how many times I ran simulations in my head, the answer remained the same.

It was impossible, at least through conventional means.

Then I remembered Bloodette’s dungeon seal. Back then, I had studied it extensively. Or rather, obsessively. A seal capable of imprisoning a Supreme Being wasn’t something one encountered every day.

Unfortunately, my research quickly hit a wall. The dungeon seal was intrinsically tied to Bloodette herself. Its strength rose and fell with her state. The more unstable she became, the more the seal changed.

At the time, I had no desire to tamper with it recklessly. The risk of harming Bloodette was simply too great. So, in the end, I chose to follow the method proposed by the Blood Rule Stream Spirit and help her break the dungeon seal properly.

Then Petra happened. Or more accurately, Petra did what Petra usually did. She saw a problem. Ignored the complicated solution. And used brute force. The result was obvious. Bloodette had broken free of the dungeon seal.

But the price had been severe. For days now, she had been crying a blood storm across the entire Card World.

It became clear that by taking a shortcut and forcibly breaking the seal instead of following the Blood Rule Stream Spirit’s guidance, Bloodette had lost something precious, irreplaceable.Perhaps memories or a fragment of herself. Whatever it was, the price had been real.

Even so, my investigation had once again reached a dead end. The dungeon seal isolated Bloodette from the outside world. But not from the Card World itself. She could still comprehend the Blood Rule while imprisoned. She was still accompanied by the Blood Rule Stream Spirit. More importantly, she could still access celestial force.

That meant the seal had never truly severed her connection to the world. It merely restricted her interactions with it. In other words, the dungeon seal wasn’t the answer I was looking for.