Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 828 Clear Water Oyster Monster

Date- 2 April 2321

Time- 00:19

Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234, Card Lab

After adding the soul pathways of the boulder back turtle monsterʼs ability to the modified fate ingredientʼs soul pathway, I grabbed the thorny shelled snail monsterʼs core and shell. This shell monsterʼs cleansing mechanism was the same as the boulder back turtle monster but there was one change, instead of the accumulated sticky chemical fluid deposit hardening into a boulder it hardened into thorns, forming a thorny shell that the snail monster is named after. The thorny shell was not just used for defense but also exists to be used for attack purposes. The snail monster can shoot these thorns covering its shell whenever it feels threatened.

Though I do plan to use this ability of the snail monster to give Asongʼs origin card more features and options to choose from, this wasnʼt the main reason I chose it as the ingredient for the creation of Asongʼs origin card. The ability of the snail monster that I took fancy to was its unique mucus secretion, which not only aids the sticky chemical fluid with the cleansing of the monsterʼs shell and body but also gets used by the snail monster for mobility but the card creationists use it to create skincare cards that can rejuvenate the cells of the human skin cells, helping them keep the youthful look. This ingredient I had specifically chosen to help Asong regain her youthful appearance. I have other more permanent solutions but this ability here not only helps human skin maintain its youthful appearance but also makes it glow like newborn baby skin. With this feature in Asongʼs origin card, she would never have to worry about zits or wrinkles. I know that this ability will become redundant with the increase in Asongʼs realm but I was hoping that it will get enhanced by the baptism and help Asong to prolong her life by rejuvenating her cells allowing them to overcome the natural lifespan limit of Asongʼs realm.

I am going to add this unique mucus of the thorny-shelled snail monster to take care of Asongʼs momentary problem and to give her a chance to overcome the natural lifespan limit set by the card apprenticeʼs realm. The ability to overcome the natural lifespan limit set by oneʼs realm is something every card apprentice longs for at the end of their life.

I wasnʼt doing this based on a hunch but the researchers of the top 10 universities believe that the answer to breaking past the natural lifespan limit set by the realm was with the unique mucus secreted by the thorny shelled snail monster. They have been doing research on this for a year now, though they had not reached a definite answer yet but they had enough reason to believe in this research and invest a butt load of resources and funds for this research. But itʼs not like every research funded by the top 10 universities has yielded results. So therefore I wasnʼt sure if baptism would awaken the mucusʼs ability to help Asong break past the lifespan limit set by her realm. The only reason I was giving Asongʼs origin card this opportunity was that her fate ingredient is very compatible with the snail monsterʼs ability.

After transferring the soul pathway of the thorny shelled snail monster into the origin core I isolated the soul pathways belonging to these two abilities of the snail monster and fused them to the soul pathways of the modified soul pathways of Asongʼs fate ingredient making sure that it will not affect the other abilities of the modified fate ingredient.

Next, I grab hold of the E-rank Clear Water Oyster monster core and shell, then I transfer the soul pathways of these two ingredients into the origin core.

I introduced the Clearwater oyster to the creation of Asongʼs origin card because of its various axillary abilities. But the abilities I am after were its ability to purify soul energy and the other ability that allowed it to display near immortality.

The Clearwater oyster has a hard luminous bivalved shell, the bioluminescence displayed by the shell of the Clearwater oyster was not without purpose. Its purpose was to attract prey. When the prey neared it, the bivalved shell would suddenly open releasing a paralytic gas and numerous tentacles would crawl out of the shell to bind the immobilized prey, drag the prey into its shell, and then the Clearwater oyster monsterʼs bivalved shell would enclose with the prey within it.

This way the Clearwater oyster monsterʼs prey was trapped inside the shell which was filled with paralytic gas which continued to keep the monsterʼs prey immobilized while its digestive juices try to digest the prey.

I wasnʼt interested in the way the Clearwater oyster monster hunted its prey but how it was able to display near immorality. The secret remained in its shell.

When the Card apprentices first found this monster in a dungeon they were unable to break through its shell so they decided to kill the monster by entering into its shell. For this plan to work they made many preparations keeping in mind to equip themselves with the cards that would counter the monsterʼs paralytic gas and strong digestive juices. But unfortunately, the Card apprentices werenʼt able to kill the monster. And this was when the card apprentices realized that this monster had an ability that closely resembled immortality.

The card apprentice failed to kill the monster from inside despite all the preparation because no matter how many times they hacked and burned the innards of the monster it would grow back, especially the tentacles hiding in the monsterʼs shell. Some smart card apprentices tried to find the core of the monster believing that once they could destroy the monster core the monster would die automatically but that wasnʼt the case because they found numerous monster cores within the shell of the monster by the time they were able to destroy all the monster cores the monster would recreate another set of cores making it impossible for the card apprentice to destroy the monsterʼs core to kill it, they had to find another way.

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