Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 3097: Fossils

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Lil’ Red Storm Realm, Freedom Megalopolis

‘Your Highness, I am sharing the location of the original body and everything I have gathered so far,’ Sansa mentally relayed to the visibly fuming Dalia, who was trying her best to hold herself back. ‘I’ll inform you immediately if anything changes.’

A stream of information flooded into Dalia’s consciousness through Hive Spirit, a series of spatial coordinates across the surrounding void. It was the location of the Snow Elven Crown Prince’s original body and his clone army, along with information regarding the clones and their individual abilities. And, most importantly, the strategic details of Snow Elven Crown Prince’s plan. Sansa had managed to uncover all this after using her Innate Calamity to infiltrate the memories of the clone standing before Dalia.

For a moment, Dalia stood completely still. Then a smirk slowly appeared on her face. Her lips stretched almost from ear to ear as her gaze hardened on the clone, blurting loudly, “Finally.”

The single word made the Snow Elven Crown Prince’s clone pause. This entire time, Dalia had allowed him to stand there and yap about the pathetic state of her realm.

She hadn’t bothered interrupting him, hadn’t attacked, hadn’t even attempted to defend her pride… because she had been waiting. Waiting for Sansa to use her Innate Calamity to infiltrate the clone’s memories and locate the original body of the Snow Elven Crown Prince. And now she had it.

Even after everything the Crown Prince had learned through the curse implanted within the Half-Bloods, he had refused to personally enter the Lil’ Red Storm Realm. Instead, his original body remained hidden in the void, far away from the realm itself. It was another display of his cautious nature.

Dalia couldn’t even blame him for it. After all, the Snow Elven Crown Prince had already learned the price of recklessness once.

At a very young age, at least by Snow Elf standards, he had made the mistake of entering Winter Valley and paid heavily for it. That experience had left a mark on him. Ever since then, he had learned not to trust appearances. Not to rush into unfamiliar territory, not to assume that an enemy was weaker simply because everything suggested that they were. Which was precisely why, even now, he had refused to send his original body anywhere near the Lil’ Red Storm Realm.

He had gathered information, sent a clone to test the waters, and while the clone arrogantly evaluated Dalia and her realm as potential loot, the original remained safely hidden in the void, ready to retreat the moment something went wrong.

Unfortunately for him, caution only worked when no one could see through it. Sansa had seen through him. And now, Dalia finally knew exactly where the real Snow Elven Crown Prince was hiding.

“Finally, what? Are there dimwits among Celestials too—” Before the clone could finish, the space around it tore open and swallowed him.

In a fraction of a breath, he was buried deep within the crust of the Lil’ Red Storm Realm and turned into a fossil before either the clone or the original hiding in the void could react.

Dalia had completely activated her Celestial array formation. She was no longer using it subtly, as she had when burying the Frost Elves within the realm’s crust to keep them out of the reach of the Snow Elven Crown Prince and his clone army.

This time, she had nothing left to hide. She went all out to show her brother that he can count on her.

The Crown Prince’s original body, who had yet to react to the sudden loss of connection with his pathfinder clone, suddenly felt an overwhelming invisible force seize him. It dragged him toward the barren realm known as the Lil’ Red Storm Realm.

It wasn’t just him. Every one of his clones hiding in the void felt the same powerful tug. No matter where they were, an invisible force locked onto them and began pulling them toward the Lil’ Red Storm Realm at an incredible speed.

The Snow Elven Crown Prince and his clones immediately resisted. They tried to fight against the pull, but quickly discovered that they couldn’t break free from it. At most, they could only slow their descent. The weaker clones, however, weren’t strong enough to resist at all.

Some had already been dragged into the realm’s atmosphere. The moment they entered the Lil’ Red Storm Realm, its thin space tore open, swallowing them whole, burying them deep within its crust. Before they could escape, they were turned into fossils.

Even before the fight could truly begin, Dalia had already wiped out nearly three-fourths of the clones the Snow Elven Crown Prince had brought with him.

The only clones that remained were the ones created using the various special snows he had collected from different corners of the Myriad Realms. Unlike the ordinary clones, these possessed far greater strength and resistance, allowing them to slow their descent and survive the pull of Dalia’s Celestial array formation.

“Now, who is the dimwit, you buffoon?” Dalia watched with a smug grin as the original body of the Snow Elven Crown Prince and his remaining clones were dragged in a beeline toward her realm under the influence of her Celestial array formation.

The core foundation of Dalia’s Celestial array formation was attraction.

Its original purpose was to draw passing meteorites, asteroids, and other space rocks toward the Lil’ Red Storm Realm, allowing the formation to capture and collect them within the realm’s crust.

Unlike most array formations, whose influence was largely limited to their immediate premises, Dalia’s array possessed an exceptionally long range. As her comprehension of the Space Rule continued to deepen, she had gradually learned to extend that range farther and farther into the Myriad Realms.

At this point, the effective range of her Celestial array formation extended well beyond the immediate void surrounding the Lil’ Red Storm Realm. For Dalia, pulling a few Ruler-class entities hiding in the nearby void was no more difficult than pulling in a few particularly stubborn space rocks.

The Snow Elven Crown Prince had assumed that hiding his original body and clone army in the void would keep them safely out of reach. Unfortunately for him, he had chosen to hide within the operational range of a formation specifically designed to pull objects from space into Dalia’s realm.