Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2630: Child Support

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse No. 234, Limitless Celestial Domain, Gainover Manor, Unparalleled Arena

"Wyatt, what is happening to me?" Anna asked as she noticed that Gainover’s flesh, which had infested and spread across her entire body, was slowly being absorbed into her. At the same time, eerie soul energy flooded her and her triplets to the brim, making them feel unbearably bloated. If not for their extreme divinity reacting in time, they might have actually exploded from the sheer excess of energy. Because of this, she was forced to temporarily lift her punishment on Ann and have her use the energy being ingested into them to forge her extreme divinity and ascend to the card demigod realm, just like the other two.

"You are harvesting the fruits of Gainover’s labours. Don’t ask, just focus," I answered, not daring to tell Anna the full truth. I knew it would be too jarring for anyone to handle, let alone her. After all, that man was her father. She had planned to kill him, not consume him.

Anna squinted at me but continued to trust me. Soon, all of Gainover’s flesh infecting her was absorbed by her body. She was brimming with energy, and so was her extreme divinity. The same held true for her triplets. They all felt invigorated, unable to have been in better condition.

Just then, Anna’s diamond grimoire materialized, hovering before her. It began to emit a brilliant light before opening to reveal her updated status page. There, in the second origin card slot that should have been empty, was now ’Predatory Upgrade.’

Anna was shocked to see Gainover’s origin card equipped in her grimoire. Before she could react, the unparalleled arena spat us out, returning to its card in her grimoire.

Upon arriving back at the main hall in Gainover’s manor, Anna noticed alien runes floating in her extreme divinity. She did not remember forging or ingesting them, yet to her dismay, they responded to her will and showed no signs of rule contamination. Moreover, her divinity felt far sturdier than before. Under normal circumstances, it would have taken nearly a century to refine her divinity to this level.

Seeing these changes, Anna almost guessed what had happened. She rushed to the side and began vomiting violently, retching as though she might spill her insides. Even without her saying a word, I knew she was sick to her stomach by what I did to her.

Gainover was using his Cannibalism rune, undying meaning, and bloodline possession meaning in tandem with the origin card ’Predatory Upgrade.’ They complemented one another perfectly, their synergy was so precise that they formed a dangerous combo. However, due to the restrictions of each of these prowess, there were no beings in the entire myriad realm on whom he could use this combination except his daughter, Anna Heatsend, and his granddaughter, Ada Davis.

The Cannibalism rune restricted his target to humans, while the bloodline possession meaning further limited him to human targets who carried his bloodline. Across the entire myriad realms, only Anna and Ada met these conditions. Ada was not only missing, but her physique and prowess held no appeal for Gainover, who coveted the strongest bloodline in the five regions, the Unparalleled bloodline.

Using my soul pupils, it wasn’t difficult to discern how Gainover was combining his Cannibalism rune, undying meaning, bloodline possession meaning, and the ’Predatory Upgrade’ origin card to form a deadly combo. Once I grasped the underlying principle of his combo, a glaring loophole became apparent. It wasn’t that Gainover had been careless; rather, the flaw I noticed could only be exploited by someone who comprehended the blood fate plunder meaning of the blood rule or similar rule meanings.

Therefore, I retrieved my limitless celestial array and deployed the celestial blood fate domain within the unparalleled arena, fully aware that doing so would cause Gainover’s manor to manifest in real space, destroying Warehouse No. 234, which the city authorities had planned to preserve as a historic building.

The glaring loophole lay in the bloodline possession meaning of the blood rule. One had to understand that bloodline possession did not apply solely to possessing one’s descendants, but also to one’s predecessors. As long as the target carried the same bloodline and had not comprehended the bloodline possession meaning of the blood rule, it functioned in both directions. If both parties had comprehended the bloodline possession meaning, then the one with the stronger will and deeper comprehension would emerge victorious and claim all the spoils.

Anna had not comprehended the bloodline possession meaning of the blood rule, so she could not actively contend with it. She could only rely on her will to resist Gainover’s bloodline possession. Even with her extreme will, Anna found it difficult to halt Gainover’s possession because of his deadly combo. After all, his entire setup was standing on the bloodline possession meaning. However, the situation changed when I introduced the celestial blood fate domain into the equation.

Using the celestial blood fate domain, I reversed the bloodline possession. Was that even possible? Yes. Within the celestial blood fate domain in the card world, my control over the blood rule was omnipotent, unless I were to face the card celestial or its blood rule stream spirit.

As a result, the effect of Gainover’s carefully crafted combo was reversed. Instead of him assimilating Anna and upgrading himself, he was assimilated into Anna, upgrading her instead. In the process, he relinquished all his prowess to her, including his divinity, runes, and origin card. This was possible because Anna’s extreme divinity had influenced Gainover’s combo, as it was now acting in her favor.

"Wyatt, what the heck!" Anna shouted, wiping her mouth with the back of her left wrist as she glared at me with unbridled rage. For a moment, her anger toward me eclipsed her love for me.

"What?" I replied. "Consider him paying off his child support with interest."