Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2961: Reality Isolation Seal

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

At least, not entirely. Yet failure often hid useful discoveries. While the dungeon seal couldn’t disconnect a Supreme Being from the Card World, it proved something far more important. Such a seal was possible. More importantly, it worked.

Either way, I now possessed something invaluable. A functional and battle-tested sealing framework that had already proven capable of restraining a Supreme Being.

It wasn’t the final answer, but it was a foundation. And every impossible problem stopped being impossible the moment you found something solid enough to build upon.

What remained was figuring out the proper power source for the seal. More specifically, it had to be a power source that did not belong to the Card World. That was the crucial requirement.

If the seal drew its power from the Card World, then the Supreme Being trapped within it would still remain connected to the world through that very power. The separation would never be complete. And the seal would fail more often than not.

In other words, if I wanted to isolate a Supreme Being from the Card World, then the seal itself had to operate outside the Card World’s system. It needed an external source of energy.

Fortunately for me, I already had access to one. Or rather, several as the first card apprentice to sense the Origin Source.

Through the Origin Source and various Rule Sources, I could access soul energy, primordial energy, and rule power that did not directly belong to the Card World. Not to forget, as a hybrid celestial, I possessed my own celestial force.

The final piece of the puzzle quietly slid into place. The answer had been in my hands all along.

After that, Hive Spirit took over. Together, we ran simulation after simulation accounting for various real-time variables, rule interference, energy instability, seal collapse scenarios, compatibility mismatches, countermeasures employed by Supreme Beings.

We test millions upon millions of possibilities. Each simulation refined the framework further. One percent became five. Five became thirty. Thirty became seventy. And only when the average success rate exceeded ninety-nine percent across millions of simulations did we finally conclude the research.

At that point, the design was no longer theoretical. It was practical and reliable. And that was precisely why I found it unsatisfying. Thanks to the dungeon seal and all my previous research, this breakthrough hadn’t truly challenged me.

I had merely assembled the final missing piece of an already completed puzzle. The real advantage wasn’t my intellect. It was access, I simply possessed pieces that no card apprentice in history had ever possessed simultaneously: the Origin Source, multiple Rule Sources, and personal celestial force.

The result was less a triumph of genius and more a triumph of circumstance. Any sufficiently capable researcher with the same resources could have eventually arrived at the same conclusion.

Right now, I felt strangely irritated. It was like waking up in the morning and discovering someone had stolen your first cup of coffee.

The day still worked, everything functioned normally. Yet something essential was missing. That satisfying spark. The feeling of having truly earned the answer.

Putting my irritation aside, I gave the optimised seal a name, the Reality Isolation Seal. Simple, direct, and accurate. After all, that was precisely what it did. It isolated those trapped within it from the reality they belonged to by sealing them in a sub-reality.

With the Reality Isolation Seal complete, all that remained was to deploy it. Fortunately, the perfect opportunity presented itself when I faked my death inside Aqualas’s Ocean World.

Using the privileges of the Devil Merchant Code, I left behind an empty shell of a body while transferring my soul to one of the pseudo-primordial calamity soul gems scattered across the city and its outskirts.

To everyone else, I had died. In reality, I had simply changed to new bodies like changing into new clothes, though they were the same make and model. And while everyone’s attention remained fixed on my supposed death, I quietly activated the seal, without anyone noticing.

None of them noticed. Not Aqualas, Seraphina, Veerott, or even Petra. That was the true beauty of the Reality Isolation Seal.

Those trapped within it didn’t realize they had been sealed. Because the seal wasn’t a prison built *inside* reality. It created a sub-reality that overlapped with the original while remaining fundamentally separate from it.

A reflection that perfectly mirrored reality while remaining distinct from it. Its existence piggybacked on the original reality like a parasite clinging to its host.

The sky remained the same. The ground remained the same. Even the flow of time and space appeared unchanged. From the perspective of those trapped inside, nothing had changed at all. And that was what made it terrifying.

Most seals announced themselves. The Reality Isolation Seal left no sign as it didn’t imprison its targets. It quietly displaced the reality they occupied with a sub-reality that looked and behaved identically to the original.

By then, escape was no longer a matter of strength. Because strength meant very little when one had already been severed from the very reality that empowered them.

The Reality Isolation Seal didn’t merely replicate the sky, the ground, or the flow of time. It replicated the entirety of the reality it was mooching off. In other words, it could reproduce the celestial force, rule power, and soul energy of the original reality with near-perfect fidelity.

Yes. Ever since I had faked my death, every bit of energy those four inhaled, absorbed, and wielded had come not from the Card World, but from the sub-reality I had created. The celestial force used by them was mine. The rule power summoned by them was mine. Even the soul energy surrounding them flowed through a world sustained by my seal.

In this isolated reality, I had become the source from which their world drew its breath. That was how I ensured Aqualas couldn’t summon her Ocean World against Petra. And that was how I was able to do this. Let her experience the dread of the Void while standing in the real world. Or rather, what she believed to be the real world.