Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2814: Soul Trait: Myriad Ethereal Spirits

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Three Mischief Encampment, Limitless Celestial Blood Fate Rule Domain

My patience was wearing thin as the Supreme Leader continued to forcefully use the Eye of Prosperity on the primordial Calamity Daughter Gem—disguised as a black pill—burning through his life force instead of making a decision.

I had assumed I could turn his own crutch against him. Let the Eye of Prosperity guide him, corner him, and ultimately convince him to accept becoming a Calamity Daughter Gem, joining me as a bloodkin—with minimal effort on my part.

Considering the Eye’s ability and the Supreme Leader’s cowardly but greedy nature, I just had to throw the idea out there and the Eye would persuade the Supreme Leader for me. I would simply reap the result. What I hadn’t accounted for was the depth of his dependence on the Eye of Prosperity itself.

For a brief moment, I was surprised that he was willing to part with his life, but not the Eye of Prosperity. Never that. As soon as it came up, he had lost sight of the stakes. The moment he realized he couldn’t keep the Eye—let alone recreate the Tao Eye—everything else became secondary. Even his own survival. It was becoming clear that he couldn’t move past the fact that he would have to give up the Tao Eyes.

Honestly, watching Lucine, Petra, and now the Supreme Leader cling to their abilities—to the point they could barely function without them—was a wake-up call. I wasn’t any different.

I relied on my Primordial Soul Pupils just as much, even if I didn’t like admitting it. Sure, I had contingencies in place for the day I might lose access to them—but preparing for that felt less like strategy and more like bracing for amputation. Necessary, but never something you truly accept.

However, there was a difference between them and me. My Primordial Soul Pupils weren’t just tools I used—they were a part of me, bound to my Primordial Calamity Soul Gem. They weren’t something that could be taken away or discarded. If anyone wanted to strip me of them, they’d have to kill me first. Still, there was a possibility, if I couldn’t see it I was just as shortsight as them.

Also, just because it could break its wings one day, birds don’t stop flying.

I soon woke up from my thoughts, when I saw tears rolling down the supreme leader’s eyes. I stared at him in his disbelief. I have seen being driven into corners make people do many crazy things but to weep, the Supreme Leader was the first. I guess being able to calculate the worth of every action, reaction, and beings or object wasn’t great as it was cut out to be. I wonder what the Eye of Prosperity showed him this time to make him cry.

Then, without any warning, to my shock, the Supreme Leader swallowed the black pill giving up all worldly desires but one to severe me. I was shocked to hear his intent as the primordial calamity soul gem fused with him with zero resistance from him but with complete cooperation.

[Your cursed primordial bloodline has deemed the ’Karl Masters’ primordial calamity daughter gem worthy to inherit it.]

[Your ’Karl Masters’ primordial calamity daughter gem has inherited your cursed primordial bloodline.

Bloodline Purity: 98%]

[Your ’Karl Masters’ primordial calamity daughter gem’s authority tier has increased.

Partner-Tier >>> Bloodkin-Tier.]

[Karl Masters, primordial calamity daughter gem, has inherited your Ultimate comprehension of the Blood Fate Plunder meaning of the blood rule as his third blood rule meaning.]

[Karl Masters, primordial calamity daughter gem, has inherited a downgraded version of your soul trait ’Myriad Primordial Spirits,’ ’Myriad Ethereal Spirits.’

Myriad Primordial Spirits (↓) >>> Myriad Ethereal Spirits.]

[Trait Name: Myriad Ethereal Spirits

Trait Type: Inherited Trait

Trait Rank: Acquired Grade

Trait Description: The host’s soul mutates each time they fuse with one of their Womb Incarnations, increasing the number of ethereal spirits within it.

Note:

i) Upon acquiring this trait, the host will awaken ethereal spirits corresponding to all previously fused Womb Incarnations.]

”Holy shit—what the fuck is going on?” I cursed, perplexed by the turn of events. I thought I might have to settle for the Supreme Leader being a calamity daughter gem. But before I could react, the weeping Supreme Leader fused with the Primordial Calamity Daughter Gem—no hesitation, no warning—and joined the ranks of my bloodkin.

”Master,” Karl knelt before me, his head bowed in submission.

The tears were gone. In their place was a quiet, unsettling happiness—as if he had finally arrived where he was always meant to be. My bloodkins were usually glad to meet me for the first time, eager even, but this... this felt different. Off. It set something cold crawling up my spine.

I couldn’t help but wonder, worry even, what Karl had seen through the Eye of Prosperity. Whatever it was, it hadn’t just reduced him to tears—it had stripped away every last trace of hesitation, leaving behind nothing but absolute, unquestioning acceptance that made him worthy of inheriting my cursed bloodline and becoming a bloodkin.

”Master, please be at ease. I chose to serve you because only you can bring about the world my father promised my people. Though I am the last of them, I still wish to do my part—to help create a promised land where everyone has the right to live and be happy, regardless of their strength, realm, birth, wealth, status, or talent—”

”You... you’re a viltronian!” I blurted out, shocked, already sifting through his memories before he could finish explaining. I could never have guessed that Karl was a viltronian.

The reason he called himself the last of his people—even after learning there were other Viltronians, like the pureblood Jaya, hybrids like me and my Calamity Daughter Gems, and even many of my card boutique clients when he became my Bloodkin—was because he belonged to a different branch altogether.

His faction of Viltronians had long ago abandoned their invincible physique, choosing to live with the card apprentices of this world as one of them. In doing so, they severed themselves from the rest of their violent kind, and were no longer recognized as true viltronian.