Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2684: Sansa’s Calamity

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Guild Headquarters

Erasing all memories related to Sansa and shutting down every one of my senses, I handed my body over to the Hive Spirit.

I could have used the Celestial Blood Fate Domain to sever Sansa’s soul energy and rule power, making it impossible for her to activate her origin card, then rendered her immobile and finished the job. It wasn’t as though I had time to spare.

But I didn’t. Instead, I did something far more daring. I had done something similar once before—with Agent Lois Forger.

I baited Sansa into my calamity daughter gem using the memories of a clone of the Hive Spirit housed within it. I knew I didn’t have the time for experimentation, but I had to try. After all, there was only one Sansa. If I didn’t try now, I would never get the chance.

And fortune favored the bold.

Sansa not only took the bait, she entered the calamity daughter gem willingly, settling herself within the memories of its Hive Spirit and beginning to lay her roots there.

Without realizing it, she had started to fuse with my calamity daughter gem. She misunderstood what was happening, believing she was merely synchronizing with the entity’s memories, allowing her to sink deeper and deeper into them—deep enough that I wouldn’t be able to find her, or harm her, even if I erased the entity’s entire memory.

In fact, she would have preferred it that way. Because if that happened, it would give her an opening to enter my memories.

After all, I had erased all memories of her and sealed off my senses to protect myself from her origin card. If I were forced to act in that manner, it would mean I remembered her. And the moment I remembered her, she could use her origin card to take refuge within my memory, securing her safety.

Such was her confidence in her origin card—and her fatal misunderstanding. In that second, she had willingly become primordial calamity daughter gem, and was immediately accepted by cursed bloodline becoming a bloodkin.

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

[Your ’Sansa Baylor’ primordial calamity daughter gem has inherited your cursed primordial bloodline.

Bloodline Purity: 95%]

[Your ’Sansa Baylor’ primordial calamity daughter gem’s authority tier has increased.

Partner-Tier >>> Bloodkin-Tier.]

[Sansa Baylor, primordial calamity daughter gem, has inherited your innate calamity ’World Devouring Plague’ by modifying into its innate calamity ’Memory Devouring Plague.’]

My eyes widened as I read the prompts informing me that Sansa Baylor had become my bloodkin.

Suppressing my questions and doubts, I called Sansa out and released her from my Celestial Rule Domain, ordering her to deactivate all Memory Bombs and instruct her Paw Clan to cease their actions and retreat.

After Sansa left to clean up the mess she had created, my mind was in chaos, unable to decide where to begin.

Should I try to comprehend how Sansa had managed to gain an innate calamity of her own despite only being capable of wielding the third form of the World Calamity Tree? Or should I celebrate the fact that I had successfully tricked my cursed bloodline, by having Sansa willingly become my calamity daughter gem, accepting her as a bloodkin? Or should I reflect the fact that I was forced to break my resolve and turn Sansa into my calamity daughter gem?

Either way, the situation was anything but simple. Sansa’s final confrontation with me had brought far too many surprises.

"Master, the situation is under control," Sansa reported as she returned.

I glanced at her, disappointment heavy in my gaze. She was the strongest bloodkin I had created so far—and at the same time, a mark of my failure. I was supposed to kill her. Instead, she had forced my hand, turning herself into my calamity daughter gem.

As if sensing the turmoil in my thoughts, Sansa lowered her head and bowed silently, as though awaiting punishment.

As a bloodkin, she was still the same Sansa I had known—only now bound by new priorities and restrictions, equally possessing far greater prowess.

I looked at her and asked, "I see you’ve mastered the Blood Memory meaning of the Blood Rule to its ultimate mastery. Why didn’t you use it to implant a Memory Bomb—or hide within my bloodline itself?"

"Master, your cursed bloodline wouldn’t allow it," Sansa replied calmly. "Whenever I tried to edit the memories of your bloodline to implant a memory bomb or hide within it, it attempted to devour me instead. I was at my wits’ end."

She paused briefly before continuing, "In truth, when I entered the Hive Spirit’s memory within the calamity daughter gem, I was grasping at my final straw. Compared to certain death outside, I chose to take my chances within those memories. In the end, I was no different from anyone else—I was afraid of dying."

Her voice softened as she recalled and shared her intimate feelings, "Especially now that Baylor has decided to move on and truly accept me, and my love." foreseeing she was about to continue sharing vivid details about her marital bed, I raised a hand, signaling her to stop.

"Go and give your answer to the Supreme Leader. Make sure all three of them gather tonight. None of them should escape," I ordered Sansa, dismissing her as I instructed her to execute the very plan she had prepared in case I chose to ally with her. "Choose a battlefield that won’t affect the city too much."

"Yes, Master," Sansa replied, bowing as she prepared to leave.

As a bloodkin, Sansa retained all of her original cunning and now understood the full extent of what I was capable of. With her mind, she should be able to modify her plan accordingly and ensure that the Supreme Leader, the Emissary of Light, and the Handsome Fox would not leave the battlefield alive.

Just as she was about to depart, I called out to her, "Wait. Why did you suddenly take an interest in my love life?"