Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2692: Petra’s Intentions

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

"Wow, hold up. Who said you get to take Bloodette with you?" I shot back immediately. "Did you even ask her what she wants?"

I made it clear to Petra that where Bloodette should stay wasn’t a decision to make. It was Bloodette’s, and hers alone.

At the same time, I was more than happy to steer the conversation as far away from the blood rule stone vein as possible. With that vein and a properly placed pseudo-natural array formation, I could recreate a holy ground for cultivating blood rule power. Naturally, it would belong to Bloodette. If she wanted it, it could become her new home.

Petra opened her mouth several times, wanting to refute my words, but each time she closed it again, unable to find a rebuttal.

She had lived long enough to know she couldn’t force Bloodette, or anyone for that matter, to move in with her. More importantly, she couldn’t influence her into making that choice at all. It had to be Bloodette’s decision. Otherwise, Petra would only be repeating the same old mistakes.

Actually, she understood that and it didn’t bother her. What truly bothered her was something else entirely.

Even if she was willing to be the mature one and avoid influencing Bloodette’s decision, she didn’t trust the jerk on whom her Petruth rune didn’t work to do the same. She was certain he would try to sway Bloodette into staying among the card apprentices, where they would see her as nothing more than a tool for power and conquest, just like they always had.

Petra tried to think of a way to stop him before he got the chance to influence Bloodette’s decision. But no matter how hard she thought, nothing came to her. She couldn’t even test the waters as her Petruth rune was useless on him.

However, that didn’t stop her from warning him.

"The same goes for you," Petra said coldly. "Supreme Beings can’t live among card apprentices. You might treat her like a friend, but the same can’t be said for the others. If you truly care about her, I hope you’ll let her go."

"Guys. Really?" Just as I was about to counter Petra’s truth with my own carefully crafted bullshit, Cortney snapped at us. She glared at both of us for bickering so insensitively while our friend was right there, drowning in her grief. "Bloodette is hurting her. Whatever argument you two are having, if it can’t wait, then take it outside."

"No, let me stay. I’ll be quiet," Petra said immediately. She had no intention of leaving Bloodette’s side during her sadness. She wanted to be there for her, just like they used to be back in the day.

Bloodette not remembering her, or the memories they shared, didn’t bother Petra. It was a far more common occurrence than either of them liked to admit. They had both made their fair share of stupid mistakes and died leaving the other to clean up after them. But then again, what was the point of being immortal if you couldn’t afford to make a whole lot of stupid mistakes?

Now, those memories were among their fondest.

For example, it was because of Bloodette upbringing that Petra knew so much about card apprentices.

Every time Petra was reborn, Bloodette would always find her to shelter and watch over her, along with her card apprentice friends, until Petra recovered her memories or her Petruth rune, only to rain down her judgment on the card apprentices who were clinging to Bloodette for nefarious reasons.

There was one time when card apprentices kidnapped Petra and tried to raise her as their weapon. It was the only time Bloodette truly lost her patience with the card apprentices, massacring a lot of them to rescue her. But that cycle ended the same way it always did. More powerful card apprentices eventually hunted them down and killed them, claiming vengeance.

Petra, Bloodette, and their circle of friends always managed to find the stupidest ways to die among all the Supreme Beings. That was because Bloodette couldn’t help getting close to card apprentices, and they, in turn, couldn’t help getting close to her. It began to feel like a cycle they could never break.

Until one day, Bloodette helped the card apprentices kill Petra and their friends. And in the end, Bloodette herself was betrayed, sealed away in the card apprentices’ regions.

Yes, she had no idea what happened to Bloodette after her death. But wasn’t it obvious after seeing Bloodette had been trapped inside a dungeon seal long enough for a massive blood rule rock vein to form within it.

In any case, Petra was no longer angry at Bloodette for what she had done. What mattered now was being there for her friend in her time of need.

However, that didn’t mean her forgiveness came without consequences.

When Bloodette eventually regained her full memories, regardless of how convincing her reason for betrayal might be, Petra intended to kill her once. Not for herself, but for their group of friends.

Because of Bloodette’s betrayal, they had all died around the same time. None of them had been there to shelter the others after their rebirth when it mattered most. They had each gone through their own rises and falls alone, and the group they once had was no longer the same. Especially since Bloodette’s betrayal and disappearance still loomed above their minds and hearts. The weight of what had transpired that day had never truly been processed by any of them. Without solving this, they couldn’t seem to move forward together.

Therefore, it was important for Petra to bring Bloodette with her to the Way Beyond and far from these card apprentices. Now that Bloodette had been found, Petra believed she could gather their old group of friends once more. In time, she hoped things might return to the way they used to be.