Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2650: Emissary Of Light’s End Game

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Heatsend Royal Palace

”What kind of transformation card is that? Is that the true form of the devil he is borrowing power from?” Ann exclaimed in terror, seeing Anna’s groom finally transform against the Emissary of Light’s soul projection, whose radiating form was no longer visible within the huge shadow and was completely covered by the red fog. ”There must be more than a thousand floating heads and pairs of arms behind his giant form, hidden within the fog.”

”How is he even sustaining that form? It looks taller than a mountain. That’s a lot of soul energy and rule power for a card master,” Colleen cried in awe, wondering how the live stream could even capture his entire form within the grimoire’s small video frame. She was surprised to learn that the Western Princess possessed such skill in live streaming; the angles at which she filmed her grandson-in-law were nothing short of spectacular and breathtaking. What surprised her even more, however, was her grandson-in-law himself. He made her wonder if he was even human. If not for him having contracted a grimoire, she would have thought otherwise.

”There’s no such devil that I’ve read of,” the Southern Princess said, only for Anna to retort, ”Why do you all keep associating his power with the dark races? Why can’t it be that he cultivated that power himself? Considering everything he has done and achieved so far, is it really that hard for you to believe that a card master can cultivate such power without following the card apprentice power system?”

”Well, honey, that would make him even more suspicious,” the Southern Princess remarked, only to see her lovely daughter’s face scrunch up in worry. A subtle sadistic smile formed on her face, finding her daughter cute. She loved how Anna would suddenly become more thoughtful and intelligent when it came to her beloved.

Anna was worried about understanding what it meant for her beloved to have come up with a whole new power-system that could co-exist with the card apprentice power system. She was just trying to defend her beloved against claims that he was borrowing power from devils and ended up thinking of far more worse than that. Now, she could only pray that what spouted in the heat of the moment was not the truth. Otherwise, things were only going to get worse.

”A whole new power-system that can be cultivated along with the traditional power-system, now that could explain his abnormal power scaling,” Colleen mulled over what her granddaughter said, trying to make sense of her grandson-in-law’s prowess.

”It’s not a whole new power system. It’s just a card he created. You saw that his subordinates also have those cards. We even placed an order for our armies,” Anna hurriedly denied, trying to make sure that the idea of a new power system didn’t stick. She didn’t want this to come and bite her beloved in the ass.

Listening to her, the Southern Princess and Colleen couldn’t help but stare at Anna, realizing that if there were ever a need, she would not hesitate to sell them out for her beloved.

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Just like them, the whole of the Card World was shocked by the gargantuan form of the Southern Hope. The more than a thousand floating heads and pairs of arms, shrouded in red fog, invoked a primal dread in their hearts and minds, making them question reality as they knew it. It was as if they were seeing an entire goddamn mountain come alive, like a deity with more than a thousand heads and pairs of arms.

Before the Southern Hope, the Emissary of Light looked like a fake deity. Even most of the fanatics thought he looked more like a deity than the Emissary of Light.

In Sky Blossom City, on the rooftop of the TSR Guild, Susan, Jill, Corey, Corey Park, and little Baem observed the huge silhouette with a thousand heads and pairs of arms, shrouded in red fog. It wasn’t just them; everyone in Sky Blossom City had gathered on the streets or rooftops to witness the majestic figure of the Southern Hope. Even without watching the live stream, most had felt the presence looming above their city and had rushed out to learn what was going on from others.

Meanwhile, the Emissary of Light was burning through faith faster than he was accumulating it, despite the hype surrounding the live stream. At this rate, he would barely be able to earn back the faith he had spent to break the Celestial Rule Domain, achieve his form, and maintain it. Right now, he was stuck in a dilemma. Turns out the Southern Hope was more trouble than he bargained for.

The Emissary of light had two options before him either he retreated and stopped wasting any more faith, risking the sowing of doubt in the hearts and minds of his followers, or he went all out, at the risk of emptying his faith reserves fighting someone several decades younger than him.

However, the boy’s taunts were making it harder for the Emissary of Light to choose rationally. He believed that the boy was doing it on purpose, seeing how he was taunting him instead of trying to finish him off.

Also, even though it was only his soul projection, the fact that he lost or secured a desperate win against a teenager would remain, planting seeds of doubt in his followers’ hearts and decreasing their faith in him. Therefore, he could neither retreat nor continue to fight. He regretted choosing to intervene using his soul projection. He had seriously underestimated the Southern Hope. No, the whole world had seriously underestimated the southern hope.

Knowing he was trapped in a no-win situation, the Emissary of Light came up with a way to handle it while saving face and preserving most of his faith reserves. No longer hesitating, he burned a large amount of faith and teleported both of them out of the public eye to a secluded location far, far, from the Sky Blossom City.

”Master Wyatt, let us take our battle elsewhere, where no innocent lives will be caught in its wake. Shall we?”

At first, he had planned to teleport the Southern Hope somewhere far away and declare to the world that he had won, but then he changed his mind, knowing the Southern Hope would use that to defame him, calling him a Humbug Herald. He couldn’t leave room for such a possibility. Therefore, he teleported both of them out of Sky Blossom City; this way, everyone would speculate about what had happened, but no one would know what actually occurred.