Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 5 April 2321

Time- 04:16

Location- Southern Region, Blossom district, Sky Blossom City, Outskirts

Lois who had entered the boundless celestial mode immediately healed the damage the boy did to her soul pathways. Then looked at the boy, his eyes attracted her attention. Those eyes, they felt like they could see her, not just her physical body but the part connected to a part of the world, her whole body. Lois immediately got a feeling that the boy’s eyes didn’t just have the ability Aura sight but there was more to those eyes maybe they had mutated into something never seen or heard before which could make her feel naked even though she was one with the world both physically and spiritually. She was in the highest state a being could achieve in this world excluding transcendence. Yet, in front of a card soldier pretending to be a demigod, she felt as if all her secrets were out in the open.

“Boy, don’t stare. Did your parents not teach you to behave,” Lois’s voice echoed from the surroundings. It was as if the world itself was speaking.

“You faceless freak, who wants to stare at you. I was stunned by your ugliness. Or was your plan to frighten your opponents with your ugly mug into stun, is that your ace? Color me impressed,” I was surprised to find that Lois’s left eye, nose, and mouth which seemed to have been engulfed by the crate of light on her face were still present but as soul pathway arrangements connected with the world. Therefore when she spoke it was as if the world spoke.

“My ace? Don’t think highly of yourself. You are not worthy for me to use my ace on you,” As Lois spoke I felt my surroundings closing in on me. It was as if my surrounding had gained life and wanted to bury me alive in them. Since my surrounding was part of Lois, so yes, in a way my surrounding had indeed come to life and was trying to bury me alive. Adding to that I heard Lois’s voice echo saying, “You should be proud to die like this, despite being a mere card soldier you died in the embrace of the world.”

‘Embrace of the world’ was this Lois’s attempt at a joke and it made sense because I was being smothered by my surroundings.

“Lame,” having uttered that word my third mutant slave consciousness had returned to me growing my two floating heads and four floating arms to three floating heads and six floating arms.

Then following my instructions the three pairs of floating arms struck the soul pathways of my surroundings, bringing their movement of my surrounding to a sudden halt, and then followed an echo, an echo of Lois’s painful screams. Forgive the insensitivity words I am about to use here but Lois’s scream sounded like she was going through labor.

“How the hell did you do that? How did you exactly pinpoint the nature’s soul pathways that I was manipulating in your surrounding?” Forcefully baring the pain transferred to her by nature’s soul pathways connected to her after they were destroyed by the boy, Lois asked the boy how he was able to do that. Even a diamond-grade array master would have a hard time achieving that yet how was the boy able to do that?

“If your connection to the world is only to this level then let me put an end to this charade,” Saying that I began to attack every soul pathway of the world connected to Lois’s physical body.

I meant it when I said that I planned to put an end to this fight because Hive AI’s decoding of Lois’s ability had finally begun to show some results. Though Hive AI still had to figure out how Lois’s physique was able to send the compressed physical body of a card apprentice into their spiritual channel, it has been successful in figuring out how Lois’s ability was able to compress a card apprentice’s body. It was something similar to Mass Alteration. Mass Alteration was the ability to increase or decrease mass in an object. And somehow Lois’s ability was able to achieve a similar effect as the mass alteration on themselves and others in a matter of seconds.

And this also meant that she did not have all the luxuries that the mass alteration ability had. That was, Lois’s ability could not compress its target when the said target was in physical contact with another being. Determining this flaw of Lois’s ability was all thanks to Hive AI simulation ability which using the data we collected on Lois using her ability was able to simulate Lois using her ability under various circumstances and after a lot of trials and errors, it was finally able to find a few flaws in Lois’s ability. Most of them were insignificant and could not be of any help to me but one flaw stood out, it was that Lois’s ability could not affect a target if the said target was in physical contact with other beings.

Now that I know how to stop Lois from hiding in her ability, I knew the only way I could bring Lois down was by forcing her into melee combat. But since Lois had connected her physical self to the world, she had foolishly forsaken her troublesome ability. And made it easier for me to attack her.

Now that Lois’s body was connected to the world in our surroundings, she was indirectly in physical contact with me, meaning she will not be able to use her ability to vanish into her spiritual channel. Allowing me to show her the terror of the Gigamite that Viltronians felt, who were popular for their indestructible physique. Gigamite’s strength plus my soul pupils I was sure I could put an end to my fight with Lois.

But just when I was attacking the soul pathways of the world that were connected to Lois’s physical body, they caught on fire engulfing me in a storm of flame.