Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2796: Clash Of Titans

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Three Mischief Encampment

”Limitless celestial blood fate domain!”

As these words echoed, the Supreme Leader and Emissary of Light almost immediately made use of their time rule abilities to stop what they were doing and get out of the range of the domain as fast as possible. Despite making use of the time rule, the Emissary of Light didn’t have time to tell the Supreme Leader, ’I told you so!’ while the Supreme Leader didn’t have time to curse, ’That two-faced bitch!’

All they had was a fraction of a second before the boy entered the same time zone as them and reactivated his domain again. So, they used this fraction of a second to teleport out of the Southern Region. They weren’t prepared to face the boy on his terms, especially now that they knew Sansa was on his side. After all, facing him with a world-class assassin like Sansa helping him would be akin to begging to be killed.

However, just as they were about to teleport, they found a starry gaze landing on them. They didn’t actually see the eyes, but they just knew they were starry. In that fraction of a second, the space around them seemed to solidify, and their teleportation was canceled.

’Field Marshal Lorn!’ A name crossed the duo’s minds as they were dragged into the crimson domain.

The Emissary of Light tried to use his faith to break the domain like he did the last time, but found that the domain wouldn’t even budge for the amount of faith he had spent to fight the boy last time. Only then did he take a moment to take a second glance at the domain; it was different from the one the boy had used in his incarnation. This one seemed stronger and more stable. Knowing that it would cost a lot more faith to break the domain with brute force than the amount he was confident he needed to capture the boy in his own domain, he looked at the Supreme Leader.

The Supreme Leader also used an array of escape abilities and origin cards he had gathered over his entire career as a card apprentice but found that none seemed to help him escape the domain. Knowing that there was no escaping it, he looked at the Emissary of Light.

When their eyes met, they nodded in understanding. Finally, the duo stopped trying to retreat and slowly turned to face the boy, Field Marshal Lorn, and Sansa, but found that it was just the boy and Field Marshal Lorn. The traitor didn’t appear before them. However, they didn’t count her out. They believed she was in hiding, waiting to strike when she got an opportunity.

This was the first time I was seeing the Supreme Leader and the Emissary of Light in person. I didn’t strip them of their prowess yet because I wanted them to see that escape was impossible within my double celestial rule domain. Also, I knew that they would find a way to negate the influence of my blood fate plunder meaning. Instead of wasting it now, I planned to use it during a critical moment. It would be a lot more effective then. As for Sansa, she was using her memory clones to detain the captured card apprentices from the empire.

I didn’t kill the card apprentices of the empire because when people hear world domination, an image of death and destruction conjures within their minds. As a result, no matter how much they admired and believed in me, the moment they hear my name alongside the words world domination, they can’t bring themselves to support me on that, no matter what reasons I gave them. Therefore, I planned to keep bloodshed in world conquest to a minimum; that was, to totally avoid it if possible.

I wanted to change the public perception of my world domination campaign such that they would not fear it but look forward to it. And I had thought about just the idea to do so.

The idea was simple: by keeping the bloodshed to a minimum and bringing development through my innovation in the areas I conquer during my conquest, I wanted to change the image of death and destruction that conjured in one’s mind when they heard the words ”world domination” into development and innovation when they heard those words alongside my name. This way, the public will actively support my takeover of the card world.

I know it was easier said than done but if something like world domination was easier many before me wouldn’t have failed miserably and lost their lives.

”Interesting domain, kid. I see you have modified it since the last time I saw it. It is a lot sturdier than the last one, I will give you that. But it still cannot hold us if we want to leave,” the Emissary of Light was the first to address me, breaking the silence.

”Thank you, feel free to do your worst,” I said with fake politeness that was too obvious because of my sneer.

”Hahaha, you think I’m boasting?” the Emissary of Light laughed, as he and the Supreme Leader invoked their time rules simultaneously.

Instead of speeding up or slowing down, they did something far more unnatural. They synced onto the same time frame... then forced their personal time flows in opposite directions.

For a brief moment, nothing seemed to happen. The world just paused. Then the contradiction hit. Cause and effect got messed up. One action started demanding two completely different outcomes at the same spot. Reality could stretch and bend, sure, but it couldn’t deal with that kind of paradox, so it started breaking down.

Spacetime didn’t shatter like glass. It kind of unraveled at the point where the conflict peaked, like the rules holding it together just stopped working.

A region of null causality formed—where neither timeline could fully assert itself. And in that deadlock, reality gave away and with that my double celestial rule domain gave away. And just like that the duo made me eat my words.