Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2497: Soul Sour Fruit

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning

Curious about Lucine’s secret, I used my primordial soul pupils to check her soul pathways and arrangements, especially of her brain. What I observed shocked me. There were two ethereal spirits in her body. One was from our present and one was from this past. These two ethereal spirits were actively exchanging their soul pathways.

There were two Lucine. One from our present, who was suffering from time rule dementia, and timeline dementia. The other one was from this past, who was also suffering from time rule dementia.

Both Lucine were suffering from time rule dementia, one’s soul pathway got transferred to this past while one’s soul pathway got replaced by soul pathways from an unknown future, i.e. our present.

This was going to be confusing, bare with me.

To reiterate, where do the soul pathways of the Lucina from our present go under the influence of time rule dementia? They go to the past. Which past? This past. To be exact, to the Lucine of this past who too was also suffering from time rule dementia, which causes her to forget the present and recall a future, i.e. the present of the Lucina from our present.

Lucine from our present was losing her memories and soul pathways to this past.

Lucine from this past was getting her memories and soul pathways overwritten by her memories and soul pathways from our present, i,e, one of her possible futures.

Now that they both were in one timeline, Lucine of this past was giving the memory and soul pathways she gained due to time rule dementia back to Lucine of our present. Meanwhile, Lucine of our present, who was also suffering from timeline adaptation/dementia under the influence of this past, shared these memories back to the Lucine of this past.

This way, Lucine from our present got her memories and soul pathways back while avoiding timeline adaptation/dementia under the influence of this past, and the Lucine of this past got her memories and soul pathways back.

By exchanging the memories and soul pathways that got interchanged between present and past or overwritten due to time rule dementia or timeline dementia, the two Lucine were not only able to maintain their sanity and stop their health from deteriorating. That was to say Lucine of our present had not only found a way to avoid the influence of this past but also a temporary fix for her condition when in this past.

I wonder why she hadn’t done the same in our past? Was she worried about the consequences of bringing Lucine from this past to our future?

"You are bold. You refined your other version in this timeline as your incarnation. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures," I couldn’t help but exclaim, understanding what Lucine had done. But I was totally impressed by the fact that Lucine could think of this solution when battling with raging time rule dementia and timeline dementia. No wonder she was still alive when most of her generation were either dead or were serving under the masters controlling the central government from the shadows.

"You’re mistaken. But I can see why you would think that. Still, color me impressed," Lucine complimented the boy in genuine awe for almost figuring out her secret.

I frowned and rechecked Lucine’s soul pathways, this time more thoroughly. And what I found was bone chilling. I didn’t think there was someone else out there in the Card World cruel enough to cut their soul like me, but Lucine proved me wrong.

Lucine had not refined her version in this time into her incarnation, instead she cut off the part of soul that had succumbed to the timeline dementia of this past and then refined that part of her soul into her incarnation and left it behind in this past. This way she not only managed to beat the timeline dementia, left a way to suppress her time rule dementia in this past, but also experimented with a method to create a perfect incarnation of herself.

Seeing how her incarnation had managed to develop an ethereal spirit, I think it’s safe to assume her gamble was paying off. Her incarnation was so perfect that I mistook it for a version of her from this past.

"Do you have any more Soul Sour fruits?" I asked with a grin, having found tiny traces of soul sour fruits in Lucine’s two ethereal spirits.

Soul sour fruits were miracle herds that can turn a half soul into a complete soul in a fraction of a second. Lucine had used two of these fruits, one to heal her soul after she had cut it in half and one to help the other half riddled with timeline dementia to turn into her incarnation.

"Holy crap, how are you doing that? Can you read minds? Get out of my head," Lucine screamed in panic, fearing the consequences if the boy could really read minds.

I had read about soul sour fruit when I was researching soul division and healing. However, I did pay attention to learning these miracle herds were basically extinct across the myriad realms like the primordial pixies, World calamity tree, etc. Soul sour fruits were simply priceless miracle herds across the myriad realms among the sentient creatures who knew what it was, let alone Card World.

It was believed that those who had eaten soul sour fruit would gain a soul regeneration soul treat. That was, their soul could regenerate slightly faster than a regular soul, enough to make a difference. Lucine did gain this soul trait, but her incarnation appears to have gained it.

I also read that one could use the soul that inherited this soul trait to create a soul healing potion that would function similar to a soul sour fruit, only it would take several minutes to a few weeks to completely heal the soul based on the quality of the potion made. It appears Lucine also knew about this, explaining why she was panicking so much.