Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2691: Pink God Of Death Sticks Again

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

"Should I be worried?" I asked Petra, who had already given up trying to console her friend Bloodette. Instead, she stood nearby, deliberately present, like she were wordlessly telling Bloodette that if she needed her, Petra was available and fully prepared for whatever unhinged idea crossed her mind next.

The entire basement was flooding with blood. So I had assigned Corey and Lil’ Baem to shoving duty. Corey was my friend, sure, but Dredre was my lucky charm and mascot. I could just let her and her pet be after what I had witnessed. My priorities couldn’t have been more logical.

"Nah. This is a little more than normal, but she’ll be fine within a few days or weeks. Months at most," Petra replied casually. "Bloodette’s always been the most sensitive one. Total crybaby, even back then."

She said it like this wasn’t the first time she’d watched Bloodette cry herself into complete emotional collapse.

"Months?" Cortney blurted out in disbelief, tightening her hold around the sobbing Bloodette and thought back to their childhood. The current situation actually tracked. She had seen Bloodette cry for an entire day when she didn’t visit the dungeon seal to play with her for an entire week. After that, she made it a habit of meeting Bloodette every day, no matter what. It had just been so long that she’d totally forgotten about it.

"Like you humans, we supreme beings also process grief with time," Petra explained. "But it never fully leaves because every time we resurrect, we relive our memories in the process of recollecting our past life memories as we grow stronger. Therefore, when something too tremendous to process happens, it all comes rushing back at once. That’s when we feel everything. Not just this loss, but every loss that came before it. Yeah, so it takes a lot of time to come to terms with them and process them."

Then she paused, pointing at the sobbing Bloodette.

"I don’t even know if that applies to the present her," she continued. "She doesn’t have any memories from before being sealed. I don’t know what she has to cry about. Considering we freed her from her prison, I could understand tears of joy, but those don’t look like joy to me."

Seeing the worry on Cortney’s face, Petra smoothly changed the subject.

"I wouldn’t worry about Bloodette. She’ll be fine," Petra and glanced at my hair as she added, "What you should be worrying about is this little one nested in your hair."

"When I first met her, she was the strongest being I had ever seen. Now she’s weaker than a bug. I could crush her between my fingers." Petra frowned slightly. "Are you sure she’s okay? After all, she was the one who broke the dungeon seal. I think it might have hurt her."

Initially, when Petra met Cortney, who claimed to be Bloodette’s best friend, she didn’t like her one bit.

Petra knew Bloodette had an odd, recurring attachment to card apprentices. Every time Bloodette was resurrected, she would keep a few of them close, calling them friends. It almost always ended badly for her, yet that never stopped her from surrounding herself or mingling with card apprentices again. Petra assumed Cortney was just another case of the same pattern, even though Bloodette and Cortney appeared to be linked by an innate blood rule rune.

However, after spending time together within the dungeon seal and observing them through her Petruth rune, Petra came to a different conclusion. Cortney truly was the current Bloodette’s best friend. She genuinely cared for Bloodette, perhaps even more than Bloodette cared for her in return.

Over time, Cortney grew on Petra, and Petra began to think of her as a friend as well. She even decided to relinquish Bloodette’s best friend title to Cortney this time around. After all, card apprentices weren’t immortal like they were in the card world.

As for Dredre, Petra met her while she was having the time of her life with pixie-shaped Bloodette, playing inside the dungeon seal. Because of that, Petra saw Dredre almost at her peak realm, with some aspects bordering on the ruler class. It scared the living hell out of her.

At the moment they met, Petra thought she had fallen for another card apprentice trick yet again. But watching Dredre giggle and play with Bloodette like two whimsical children on a playground, Petra realized her instinctive fear had caused her to misjudge her. Dredre, despite being the strongest being Petra had ever seen, was also the kindest.

That realization only unsettled Petra further. She found herself drawn to Dredre, even feeling the strange urge to bully her. The thought terrified her. It made her wonder whether Dredre’s cuteness was a trap, a way to lure in prey. In the end, although Petra admired Dredre deeply, she chose to keep her distance. After seeing her break the dungeon seal that she could break even put a scratch on, making Bloodette wallow in pain, she knew she was right to keep her distance resisting her urges.

"No. The dungeon seal couldn’t have hurt her. It’s just that she is sad for Bloodette," I corrected calmly. "It was bound to Bloodette. If anything, it would’ve hurt Bloodette."

I had already gone through everything Yin Widow observed within the dungeon seal and knew exactly how they had managed to break the dungeon that was supposedly unbreakable without killing Bloodette according to the Spirit of the card world’s blood rule stream.

Seeing Petra and Cortney stiffened with panic flickering across their faces at the idea that Bloodette might have been harmed, I immediately continued, "Dredre used Breath of Erosion to erode the connection between Bloodette and the dungeon seal, and then the seal itself. Because of that, it’s impossible for either of them to have been hurt when the seal broke."

I paused, then added with a hint of regret, "Though ’Breath of Erosion’ destroyed a perfectly good gate dungeon. That place could’ve been a holy ground for cultivating blood rule power."

"Speaking of blood rule power," Petra said, fixing her gaze on me, "what did you do with the blood rule stone vein? I was planning to use it to create a blood cave for Bloodette to move into in my sub-terrain home."