Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2507: The Commandment Of Negative Passion - Covetous Devil ’Slay Saleos’

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

”What in the actual hell?” I blurted out, watching in disbelief as Slay—who should have been completely powerless inside my Celestial Blood Fate Domain—summoned a massive wooden stake. She drove it straight into the very fabric of space and time of the physical plane, piercing directly into my celestial domain.

As Slay nailed the stake into space and time, my Celestial Blood Fate Domain burst like a soap bubble. The blood-red hue that had drenched the world began to run and fade, dripping away like paint washed off by rain. As the domain shattered, Slay rose steadily to her feet, releasing the overwhelming aura of a Semi-Ruler-class being. Both Lucine and I were taken aback. Dread could be seen in Lucine’s eyes.

This chain of events, none of it made sense. Inside my Celestial Blood Fate Rule Domain, Slay shouldn’t have been able to access her storage treasure—let alone summon a stake of that size and muster the strength to force it through dimensional layers and rupture my domain as if it were nothing.

Only after activating my Primordial Soul Pupils did I understand. The stake called the World Calamity Stake was actually crafted from a single twig of an actual and fully grown World Calamity Tree. Refined through dark arts, it was made to resist and even negate suppression from the Will of the realms themselves—Celestial forces included.

There was a reason why World Calamity Trees were capable of devouring and destroying entire worlds. They possessed an innate resistance to the will of any world they invaded. No matter how overwhelmingly strong a world’s will was, it could not suppress the tree’s realm or existence the way it would suppress any other foreign invader.

The World Calamity Stake was crafted specifically to exploit this trait. By refining a twig from a fully grown World Calamity Tree, the devils created a tool that could negate or resist the suppression of a world’s will. They came in a set of nine stakes, used to set up the celestial binding array. In it, celestial force and other celestial abilities become useless. With it, they could easily destroy realms’ wills and harvest fragments of those realms’ wills without being hindered by the world’s will suppressing their realm.

The array was required to suppress an entire realm, but ‌nailing a single World Calamity Stake was enough for a small part of it.

In other words, it was the power of the World Calamity Stake that allowed Slay to resist my Celestial Blood Fate Domain and drive that wooden stake through the fabric of space and time. By doing so, she not only shattered my domain but also nullified every celestial ability within the stake’s area of influence.

This meant I could no longer use my celestial force, nor could I borrow the Card Celestial’s celestial force. I couldn’t even re-establish my Celestial Blood Fate Domain. At the same time, the world’s will suppression that had been limiting Slay’s realm vanished entirely. As a result, her true strength was fully released—allowing her to display the complete might of a Semi-Ruler-class being.

With the limit on her realm removed, Slay rolled her neck and shoulders with a satisfied expression before releasing a long, refreshed sigh. This was the first time she truly felt whole in a long while.

Lucine’s mind simply shut down. She had barely begun to grasp my strength when the battlefield shifted again in Slay’s favor—within mere seconds. The sheer, incomprehensible power radiating from Slay made Lucine question everything she thought she understood about the world’s power system.

Morningstar University had indeed documented that there were subdivisions and classes within the Card Demigod—or Devil—realm. They had learned this after centuries of observing the devils imprisoned within the Labyrinth of Myriad Pasts. But no one had ever expected the gap between those classes to be this massive.

So it was no wonder that Lucine, as an Upper Chivalry-class being, was left utterly stunned the moment she sensed the full presence of a Semi-Ruler-class entity for the first time. The gulf of power between them was not just large—it was vast, immeasurable, and beyond anything she had ever conceived possible.

”Hey, you still sane?” Slay sneered, glancing at Lucine—who looked as though her very soul had slipped out of her body. The sight amused her. If Lucine was already breaking down just from her unrestrained presence, Slay wondered how the girl would react once she discovered what Slay could truly do with this power.

”...”

Lucine could only stare blankly at her, beyond even the ability to respond to mockery. She appeared hopeless and even as if she had surrendered when actually, all of her attention and focus were on figuring out a way out of their predicament, knowing Slay wouldn’t risk damaging her.

”Hehehe.” Slay chuckled, taking her time and savoring the moment. In her eyes, the two card apprentices before her were not enemies—they were blessings handed to her by fate. One was a miracle potion, and the other was a shortcut toward her ideal, perfected body. She had already broken one of them, and the other still had some fight left in his eyes. As expected of a Hybrid Celestial.

Slay approached me slowly, step by step, with the ease of someone who believed the battle was already over. There was not a shred of caution in her movements—only confidence. She met my gaze with a playful glint and spoke, ”You’re small, and definitely not my type... but I suppose I’ll have to settle for you, my prince.”

Then she straightened slightly, as though making a formal introduction.

”Your Highness, allow me to introduce myself properly. The Commandment of Negative Passion, Covetous Devil ’Slay Saleos’ — one of the Ten Leaders of the Ten Commandments faction.”

The sudden change in Slay’s tone caught me off guard. But it became clear she may not have respected me as her next mate, but my identity as a Hybrid Celestial clearly came with a different kind of acknowledgment.