Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2649: Inbreeding Misconceptions

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Heatsend Royal Palace

"Grandma, you are not getting my point," Anna cried aloud, then said desperately, "What’s stopping her from starting a coup like she did last time. Not immediately, but she definitely will. Next thing you know, she’ll be forcing me to inbreed with my uncle or JJ, and locking Wyatt away, forcing him to slave for the Southern Region and the Royal Family for the rest of his life. But I fight her off and save Wyatt. Then we both escape to the Way Beyond and live happily ever after."

"What?" Colleen looked at her granddaughter in puzzlement, trying to figure out how that little brain of hers worked. If anything, it wasn’t Anna’s turn to worry yet. If anybody should be worried, it was her son, who would have to worry about his grandma trying to inbreed with him. Honestly, Colleen didn’t mind the idea; she felt it was far better than losing her son to the Enlightened Path. She would love their webbed babies no matter what, no less than she loved Anna, Ann, and Anne. After all, they were her grandbabies? Or was it her nephews and nieces? It doesn’t matter as long as her son doesn’t live a lonely life.

"That’s the plot of that old, cringey folk song. No wonder it sounded so familiar," Ann sighed, realizing Anna did not even have the originality to come up with her own version of a tragic romance plot and had to plagiarize a forgotten folk song.

"Anna, stop making excuses and get to it ASAP," the Southern Princess ordered her daughter, ignoring all her bizarre concerns. Though they were not unfounded, the times had changed, and so had the people. Also, Anna was living proof that one didn’t need inbreeding to keep the bloodline pure. It was merely a scare tactic used by the ancestors to keep the bloodline within the family.

"No, I will not," Anna said resolutely, turning her focus to the live stream to watch her beloved’s fight against the soul projection of the Emissary of Light.

The Southern Princess frowned, knowing it would be hard to convince Anna once she had made up her mind. What astounded her most was that the reason Anna was unwilling to free the former Southern Hero was her fear that the latter would oppose her marriage to her beloved. Considering the former Southern Hero’s past actions, it was easy to see why Anna thought so. Even so, when the fate of the entire Southern Region and the Royal Family hung in the balance, her marriage should not have been her primary concern, especially as the Southern Heir.

"What the heck?" Anna cried in shock, seeing the soul projection of the Emissary of Light break her beloved’s Celestial Blood Rule Domain and continue to grow stronger.

The Southern Princess and Colleen watched the live stream grimly, understanding why they had lost to the three mischiefs in the Clown Mask’s future vision. The strength displayed by the Emissary of Light had made it clear that they, the three mischiefs, too, were the pride of their generation and not to be underestimated. This was only a soul projection; they could not imagine what it would be like if the Emissary of Light were to appear in person.

The myths of the Celestial Rule Domain had driven the likes of the Royal Instructor and other powerful card apprentices into madness for centuries in their pursuit of it, yet here, one had mastered it while the other had found a way to counter it. The two of them were breaking reality as they knew it in turns.

The only regret of the Southern Princess and Colleen was that, unfortunately, neither of them had been born into their family. Thankfully, their willful girl had chosen for herself the most capable of them as her husband.

"Why is Wyatt just standing there like a fool? Why doesn’t he try to evade or something?" Ann shouted in frustration, observing that the tug-of-war between them was over, as the soul projection of the Emissary of light summoned an enormous amount of power out of nowhere and was now trying to squash their fiancé like an insect with one finger. Even though she had no time for anyone else in her life besides her mother, she had long accepted that whoever Anna ended up marrying was going to be her husband as well. Because it wouldn’t work otherwise.

"I’m sure he has something up his sleeve. If nothing else, he can fake his death like he did in the past," Anna said, having faith in her beloved, believing him to be cautious and far too slippery. He only fought if he had the slightest chance of winning; otherwise, he would slip away, faking his death.

If this had been back when she had taken charge of the Southern Watch, she would have felt nothing but disdain for someone like that, but now she admired him, now loved him to death.

Colleen and the Southern Princess did not comment, as they knew Anna’s groom could survive this. Since he had managed to survive the time separation array and nearly four dozen demigods equipped with time-related cards and runes, this level of threat should be nothing to him. They merely wanted to see how he would deal with it, to gauge his power and get a sense of just how strong he truly was. Because every time they thought they had him figured out, he would fail to surprise them.

"That’s one way to deal with an incoming attack, I guess. But what’s that red fog covering his growing body?" Ann remarked, seeing that Anna’s groom had finally reacted by unleashing his giant form. She had witnessed it before, but she had never seen the red fog oozing from it, protecting it by what looked like eating away at the soul projection of the Emissary of Light.