Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2491: Selfish Bastard!

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning

It was a rule of thumb that all soul pathways were always in motion, and this motion often takes the form of vibration. Even if the temporal anchor appears motionless and in a state of rest, its soul pathways were always in motion, that was the natural vibration of the temporal anchor. When it activates to summon the time tunnel, its vibration frequency increases.

I was planning on using the temporal anchor’s energy signature and natural vibration frequency as a point in time to navigate through its temporal currents. This way I will always know where in time I was and not get lost in it. Then, resonating at the temporal anchor’s active state’s vibration frequency, I can summon the time tunnel and return to the present.

Both Hive Spirit and my calculations predicted that with the energy signature and vibrational frequencies of the temporal anchor, I have a good chance of going into the temporal currents of the card world and returning without getting lost. Especially with my immunity to the myriad realm’s time rule.

Why go into the time and risk getting lost in it? Surely, there must be another solution that allowed me to move out of the time tunnel’s way without affecting its formation.

There were many reasons, and to name a few,

The first reason was obvious. I didn’t want to do anything that would harm Ahalya.

The second reason was my curiosity. I wanted to find out if the time vestige really traveled to the past. If it did, how come Morningstar University wasn’t ruling the entire card world by now? Am I wrong to assume that if a greedy organization can go into the past, they would obviously do everything to be in power and maximize their profits, like rewriting the past in their favor?

The third reason was my thirst for power. I wanted to begin comprehending the time rule. With my mutated ego-gem’s synchronous rate, I didn’t need to put my life at risk to comprehend the time rule. I could do it normally by picking into the Card World’s womb or into the time rule source. This was also the reason why I dared to go into the Card world’s temporal currents. If all my preparations fail, I could just begin comprehending the time rule until it was strong enough to get out of the temporal currents and bring me back home.

The fourth reason was I am part celestial. Getting lost in the temporal current might be scary, even a mind breaking experience for the other card apprentices, but for me it was just a maze waiting to be solved.

I could go on about why I chose this solution over any other solution I could think of, but I had already made my decision and the time tunnel was here.

”Be right back, buddy,” I mouthed to Dean Faust as the time tunnel formed, sucking anything and everything in its path into the realm’s temporal currents.

Dean Faust stared blankly as his young friend was sucked into the temporal currents of the Card World as the time tunnel formed and spit out the time vestige above the lightning-struck tree before leaving.

”Damn you, you selfish bastard, Dalton Wyatt!” Dean Faust roared in agony, with bloodshot eyes, seeing the future of the Card World die without leaving them a ray of hope for the world to recover from losing him. He appeared to have lost his academicians’ aura and looked more like a madman.

”Damn you, Wyatt!” haggard Dean Faust uttered in a daze, until the six demigods he arranged to tend to the selfish and arrogant bastard’s needs rushed to his side and tried to console him, ”Dean, control yourself.”

”Dean, what’s done is done. We can’t waste time crying over ‌spilled milk.”

”Yes, Dean. We need to hurry and use the news of his death to our advantage.”

”Sir, I suggest that we liquidate all our assets and investments in the VR-universe while VR-universe is still hot in the market.”

”Also, we need to discuss how we are going to reveal this information to the world. After all, by now all the five regions know that Southern Hope is on our campus, and we invited him to stay as long as he pleased.”

”The Southern Royal Family is going to be a problem. Let us not disclose anything until we have liquidated our assets and investments in the VR-universe and made the necessary preparations against the Southern Royal family.”

”Yes, I agree and purpose that no eight soul knows about what happened here until we have cut our losses and are ready to face the consequences.”

”That’s a wise idea.”

”Here, here.”

”I agree.”

”I agree.”

”I agree, but can we spread the rumors about us collaborating with Wyatt on VR-Universe before we liquidate our investment in the VR-Universe?”

”That’s a brilliant idea, but will we face backlash when we finally reveal his death?”

”There is bound to be a backlash regardless of what we do, but the question is, if we stand to make enough such that the backlash is worth it?”

”Considering the popularity of the VR-universe, a collaboration between us and Wyatt will definitely increase the public investment into the VR-universe. Based on the trend so far, I wouldn’t be surprised if we make twice what we invested in the VR-universe.”

”Fuck, that’s a lot of money. Imagine how many researches and experiments we can fund with that kind of money.”

”I hate to break it to you, but that’s nothing compared to what we would stand to make more if we had actually managed to collaborate with Wyatt. Or if he bigheartedly trusted his legacy to our Dean.”

”Keep dreaming. We saw first-hand how spiteful, arrogant, and narrow-minded he can be. He would never collaborate with us for orchestrating his kidnapping in cahoots with the central government.”

”Yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if he collaborated with the other top universities just to spite us. In a way, his death is good for us—”

”Shut up! All of you ungrateful, narrow minded bastards, shut up. We still have time to save Wyatt. Go get the 3rd Dean, we need her to go into past again,” Dean Faust finally awakened from his daze, having figured out a way to save the future of the Card World.

”Dean, Madam Lucine is—”

”Just do as I say and don’t question me. One more word from your mouths and I will strangle you guys,” Deen Faust warned his staff and then reminded them who their 3rd Dean really was, ”I know Madam Lucine, she would rather sacrifice her life for the future of the five regions than continue living as a loon. Just go get her before it’s too late.”