Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2139  Dominate Rule

Date- 18 April 2321

Time- 22:56

Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Celestial Mystic Dimension

What Wyatt needed most right now was more blood rule power to produce more cursed blood flame such that he could keep the toxic mist at bay without having to reduce the amount of flame he could feed to the network of natural nodes. However, Wyatt was producing the maximum cursed blood flame using the maximum amount of blood rule power his current power level allowed him to procure from the spiritual plane. Considering his current circumstances Wyatt did not have the luxury to be distracted even for a second, let alone try to increase his power level mid-confrontation. Even if he were able to do so, Wyatt wasnʼt sure he would be able to gain enough boost to his power level to meet the requirement of the blood rule power he needed to keep the toxic mist at bay without having to reduce the amount of flame he could feed to the network of natural nodes. Just when Wyatt was helpless and had no choice but to opt for the way out presented by Hive AI, Wyatt found the one variable that the HIve AI failed to take into account during its calculation of the Card worldʼs Blood Rule Stream. The Card worldʼs Blood Rule Stream was the source of Wyattʼs blood rule power in the spiritual plane. If he managed to get it to help him then he would not only be able to get enough blood rule power to keep the toxic mist at bay without having to reduce the amount of flame he could feed to the network of natural nodes beyond but to overpower the toxic mist. Was it possible for Wyattʼs cursed blood flame to overpower the deadly toxic mist produced by two and a half dozen undead golems when the toxic mist could extinguish his flames when in contact? By himself, no. But if he had the full support of the Card worldʼs Blood Rule Stream, then yes. Because then Wyatt would be able to produce ten times or even more cursed blood flame than the toxic mist produced by the undead golems. By then it would be undead golems panicking trying to produce enough toxic mist to keep Wyattʼs cursed blood flame. It was similar to how one fire truck was not enough to put out a wildfire. However, the question was, will the Card worldʼs Blood Rule Stream help Wyatt again when he had yet to fulfill his previous promise to it?

The deal between Wyatt and the Card Worldʼs Blood Rule Stream was that it would help him contain the power of the SSS-rank blood curse when he uses it to enter blood curse incarnation form during his confrontation with the kids from the southern capital in return for him delivering its message to Bloodette and Cortney. The Card worldʼs Blood rule stream has not only held up its end of the bargain but also went out of its way to help Wyatt contain the power of his SSS-rank blood curse the second time he entered the blood curse incarnation form even though Wyatt had yet to complete his end of the deal. Now asking for its help again without delivering on his part of the deal would be shameless on Wyattʼs part. However, Wyatt did not let the shame stop him from asking the Card worldʼs blood rule stream for help. He made use of the vibrations he had recorded from Bloodetteʼs soul pathways when she contacted the Card worldʼs blood rule stream and begged for a bailout. Yes, a bailout. That was what Wyatt shamelessly called it and he was very optimistic about it when he approached the blood rule stream for a bailout.

He planned to persuade the blood rule stream to help him by claiming that if he were to die here he would not be able to deliver its message to Bloodette and Cortney. So, if it wanted him to deliver its message to Bloodette and Cortney, then it would have to bail him out of his situation by providing him the blood rule power he needed to keep the toxic mist at bay without having to reduce the amount of flame he could feed to the network of natural nodes beyond their limit. Even though he couldnʼt die from the undead golemsʼ toxic mist because of Calamity Soul Gem and the privilege from Devil merchant code, the blood rule stream did not know that nor did anyone else. His did not burden Wyattʼs conscience. He believed he was just taking advantage of his situation to teach the blood rule stream about capitalism. However, Wyatt planned to stay moderate with his approach because he wanted to maintain a good relationship with the blood rule stream such that he could continue to rely on the blood rule stream as his backer in the Card world. With it on his side, Wyatt believed it would be impossible for him to face defeat in the Card world. Though he could never be the same as Bloodette or Cortney for the blood rule stream, he wanted to maintain a relationship of exchange with it. This time he was acting as its messenger in return for its help, next time he could offer it some other services. Even if the blood rule stream did not need his services anymore would find something it could not refuse. This might be the only relationship where Wyatt would have to go above and beyond to make it work and sustain, after all, he needed the blood rule stream more than it needed him. When Wyattʼs physical body concentrated all its strength and power to work at full throttle to produce enough flames to feed the network of natural nodes and keep the toxic gases at bay his spiritual body in the spiritual plan vibrated mimicking the vibrations that Bloodette made while contacting the blood rule stream of the Card world.

After breaking the limits of his mortal synchronization rate Wyatt not only gained celestial powers but like the celestials he too was able to exist in both spiritual and physical planes simultaneously. Which came in very handy right now as he was able to use his spiritual body to contact the blood rule stream in the spiritual plane while his physical body fought in the physical plane. Because of his previous deal with the blood rule stream, Wyatt did not have any difficulty contacting it. He did not waste time and immediately mentioned his dire situation to the blood rule stream and begged for its help. However, to his surprise, the blood rule stream neither agreed nor denied and it heard him out till the end. Wyatt did not expect such a reaction from the blood rule stream. He believed if it was willing to respond to his attempts to contact it, it would more likely agree to bail him out of his situation, or on the off chance that it refused to bail him out then he had prepared a contingency for it too. However, he never expected it to not express its opinion to his pleas. If it did not plan to respond to his pleas then why did it even answer his call? Wyattʼs years of experience told him that the blood rule stream was prepared to bail him out but he was not speaking the right words. He speculated that the blood rule stream did not want to bail him out for nothing. It had already helped him out once before to make sure he could pay his debt to it. Now that he was back at its door begging for a bailout, it no longer saw him as a potential stock but saw him as a liability, a bottomless pit of debt. Therefore, it wasnʼt willing to help him. However, since it still showed up when he tried to contact it then it meant that the bridge was not entirely burnt yet. If Wyatt showed that he was still an asset and not a liability then it might continue to offer him its assistance. This was what Wyatt learned from the blood rule streamʼs silence. Wyatt has been in enough negotiations to know what the blood rule streamʼs silence meant. Therefore, he was a little taken aback that a higher power like the blood rule stream would have such thoughts. However, from what he learned about the celestials in the infinity library, he knew that a realm gets shaped by the dominant rules of that realm. The dominant rules of the realm determine that realmʼs terrains, its flora, its fauna, its evolutions, etc. The stronger a ruleʼs stream the more dominate their influence was in shaping their realm. This was to say that the rule streams of the realms have a hardcore competition among themselves. Even though everything in the realm was in harmony contrary to that many believed that the rules of realm had a deep seeded competition among themselves to increase their influence in their realm.