Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2644: The Viltronian Calamity Titan In Thousand Curse Incarnation Form

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Guild Association Mall

The golden index finger came down on me, as though the sun itself were descending to crush me. I took it as my cue that the Emissary of Light had reached the peak of faith he could wring from this display, and that he now intended to kill me to push it even further.

I let out a chuckle before unleashing my fourth transformation, the viltronian calamity titan, in my thousand curse incarnation. He wanted to turn this into a war of good versus evil. Fine. I would give him exactly that, where the victorious one was the good and while the defeated one was the evil. That was a universal truth.

My body rapidly grew in size, expanding at a pace faster than the naked eye could follow, as my innate calamity, the world devouring plague, oozed out of my swelling form. The moment the Emissary of Light’s index finger struck my world devouring plague, it was immediately infected. The plague began to eat away at the faith sustaining his form, even as my body continued to expand, soon overtaking his height.

In no time, the immediate vicinity around my growing body was completely filled with my innate calamity, the world devouring plague, spreading alongside my growth until the Emissary of Light was fully submerged within it.

My innate calamity, the world devouring plague, had once been able to fight Dalie on equal terms, granted that back then she was still a celestial array spirit and not yet a true celestial. That fact alone did not change the reality that she had been far stronger than the present Emissary of Light.

When even she had struggled against my world devouring plague, he stood no chance unless he intended to empty his entire faith reserve in this single battle. And if he did that, he would have no choice but to abandon his ambitions of world domination and go into hiding, because the Masters would never let go of such an opportunity to root out a potential future threat.

Soon, my figure grew to eight times the height of the Emissary of Light and still showed no sign of stopping. Meanwhile, he struggled against the world devouring plague, trapped quite literally beneath my vast shadow. That shadow plunged the entire city below into darkness, blocking out the moonlight, while the radiance of the Emissary of Light was steadily swallowed by my innate calamity.

Was I afraid that revealing my innate calamity, the world-devouring plague, would make the Card Celestial wary of me? No, I wasn’t. The Card Celestial was far too intelligent for such narrow-mindedness. I wasn’t being a kiss-ass. It was simply the truth. I say this because the world calamity seed and the dungeon calamity seed were products of the dungeons themselves and had existed for a very long time.

There were numerous records among card apprentices of dungeon calamity trees reaching their third and even fourth forms. Yet the Card Celestial had never taken action against them. Instead, the card apprentices or the supreme beings would step in, dealing with them and disposing of them with care.

What did this tell you about the Card Celestial? It knew that these dungeon calamity trees, or world calamity trees, would never grow strong enough to threaten it within the ecosystem it had painstakingly created. Rather, they would eventually become nutrients for it. And even if one came close to becoming a genuine threat, the Card Celestial would act without hesitation, as it did in the case of Slay and her stake forged from a ruler-class world calamity tree branch.

As for me? I was still far from being a threat to it. I couldn’t even defeat the celestial array spirit Dalia, let alone the Card Celestial, a veteran true celestial. If not for her willingly accepting my primordial calamity daughter gem and becoming my kin, that battle would have ended with my defeat and the Field Marshal’s death.

Even now, I was still nowhere near being a threat to the Card Celestial. Not to mention, it had already shown its approval of me carving my own path as a newborn celestial, albeit a hybrid one. That was why I wasn’t afraid of revealing my innate calamity, the world devouring plague, to it.

”What heresy is this? How can such an abomination exist?” the Emissary of Light yelled in shock as my growth spurt finally came to a halt, my body rising taller than a mountain. More than a thousand heads and pairs of hands floated behind my form as part of me, while my entire body was shrouded in my red innate calamity, the world devouring plague.

The red plague churned around me from top to bottom, and combined with my towering form, it made it impossible for anyone to see me clearly. All they could make out was a silhouette with a thousand heads and countless arms, hidden deep within a sea of red fog.

Not just them. From up here, even I could only vaguely make out their forms with my naked eye unless I enhanced my vision with soul energy. This was the first time I had ever publicly unleashed my complete true form. I felt liberated and all-powerful. I supposed this was the World Calamity Tree, celestial, viltronian part of me.

Fortunately, there was still my human side, keeping me grounded and humble, not letting me lose myself to this power or allow it to corrupt my mind. I recalled an old saying. There was always a taller mountain out there. This power might place me at the top of the food chain in the card world, but out in the myriad realms, I was still back at the beginning.

”Heresy? Abomination?” I said with a chuckle. ”My dear nephew, I am your Uncle Wyatt. Did your father not tell you about me?”

Then my tone hardened as I warned the Emissary of Light, ”Be a good little boy and leave that poor man’s body. And go wait for me at the Empire... Don’t make me come over there right now.”