Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 1166 Rectification

Date- 5 April 2321

Time- 04:15

Location- Southern Region, Blossom district, Sky Blossom City, St. Raymond Cemetery

[Rune Name: Verglas Speculum

Rune Type: Rule- Water, Meaning- Freeze & Reflection

Rune Rank: Ultimate Grade

Rune Effect: Verglas Speculum allows the user to freeze any state of water into a mirror domain using their rule domain.

Additional Effect: Cold Debuff, Freaky Mirror Image, Freezing Mirrorverse

Note: Energy consumption is high use at discretion.]

Cold Debuff- When activated the soul pathways of all enemy units within the user's range will grow narrower as a direct result of their soul pathway vibration slowing down.

Note: The debuff will grow stronger the longer the enemy is within the user's range.

Freaky Mirror Image: When the enemy unit's reflection gets reflected on the Verglas Speculum, a mirror image of the target gets generated and takes the appearance of the user. But the strength of the mirror image remains proportional to the target.

Additional Effect: Relative Cold Debuff

Note: The Freaky mirror image can exist in both the real world and the Freeing mirrorverse.

Relative Cold Debuff: The Freaky mirror image can cast cold debuffs when in contact with the target and the debuff can grow exponentially stronger based on the target's struggle.

Note: This debuff's effect also increases with longer periods of contact. And when used in the mirrorverse the effect stacks with the debuff of the mirrorverse.

Freezing Mirrorverse: the user can use the rune to freeze any state of water into a mirror and use the rule domain to create a domain known as Freezing Mirrorverse, an exact cold replica of the world but in a separate space. Here anyone without the Verglas Speculum rune will be severely affected by the cold debuff.

Note: The size of the Freezing Mirrorverse is a minimum of 50 miles but can increase depending on the energy provided by the user.

[Rune Name: Cyrosynthesis

Rune Type: Rule- Water, Meaning- Freezing & Synthesis

Rune Rank: Ultimate Grade

Rune Effect: This rune allows the user to absorb the energy released after the soul pathway collapses due to its vibration being slowed to the extreme and synthesizing energy for the user.

Additional Effect: Cyro-Adaptation

Note: The energy produced can be used by the user to recover lost energy or for their other capabilities or power boost.]

Cyro-Adaptation: The User's soul pathway can easily adapt to slow soul pathway vibrations.

Note: This effect can stack with any resistance or immunity gained from the Freeze Meaning of the Water Rule.

[Card Name: Glacier Martial Arts

Card Type: Rune Card

Card Rank: SSS-Rank, Legend Grade

Card Rate: 11-Stars

Card Durability: [94/100]

Card Effect: Glacier Martial Arts are an array of martial moves created by the user using their Rune Cyro-Synthesis and years of combat experience with one principle in mind, cause maximum damage to the target to recover the energy expended at the fastest speed while the remaining energy will be used at the user's discretion.

Additional Effect: Cyro-Synthesis, Glacier Punch, Glacier Palm, Glacier Fingers, Glacier Touch, Glacier Steps, Glacier Stomp, Glacier Dance, Glacier Drop, Glacier Buff.

Note: All the damage caused by these martial moves will contribute to slowing the target's soul pathway vibrations to the extreme.]

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Colleen and the mirror images kept chasing the three bodies of Uri all around the Freezing Mirrorverse, it has been five minutes of this, but Colleen was never near to catching any of Uri's bodies that were burning their life forces to increase their physical speed to the extreme. Uri's three bodies were simply too fast for Colleen to catch up to him with her curbed prowess. But these last five minutes were not wasted, Colleen had used them to understand the shortcomings of her ability and rectify them.

Uri was in no picnic either, pressed by the time he was panicking to find a way out of Colleen's domain. There were still a few minutes to spare to meet the promised time limit but Uri had suddenly lost contact with the outside world therefore he could not help but freak out. The most alarming thing was he could reach Agent Lois but she was not responding to him, with this only two possibilities came to his mind. Either she abandoned him or she got captured. He desperately wanted to contact General Baylor for updates but Baylor was still to be vetted and did not receive an official handle for the organization's secret communication channel.

Without any idea of what was happening outside, Uri could no longer stay calm, he grew desperate, so much so that was considering killing Colleen to leave her domain but in that desperation, he noticed that Colleen seemed to not resort to large area effect attacks as she used earlier, that one time. And only one thought came to Uri's mind that Colleen was not using big attacks to use her energy sparingly. Which meant Colleen was running out of energy maintaining her domain.

With this conclusion, Uri decided to stop defending and take the offensive route and help Colleen expend her energy. This way Colleen will not have enough energy to maintain the domain and he will be freed without having to kill Colleen. Keeping two of his bodies at bay, Uri had the third body of his to attack Colleen with everything it has got in its forsaking defense.

Seeing Uri no longer run away but rather had one of his bodies attack her, Colleen was surprised and a little delighted because she needed more energy to rectify the fault of her Freezing Mirrorverse and Uri was delivering that energy to her. Yes, she had top-grade soul jades, refined divinity, and other energy sources in her grimoire but she did not want to waste the food sent to her doorsteps.

The only shortcoming Colleen was facing was that if she were to use Cyro-Synthesis within Verglas Speculum's mirrorverse then she would be absorbing the energy she was using to maintain the Verglas Speculum, which was counterproductive as without the energy to maintain itself Verglas Speculum would collapse. Then Colleen thought that she could just feed more energy to her domain to heal and strengthen it, turning it into a closed loop of energy transfer.

Colleen would use energy to maintain the domain- Colleen would use energy to attack Uri as a result absorb energy from the domain- Colleen would feed the energy synthesized back to the domain to heal and strengthen it and keep repeating the process.

At first, Colleen thought this was a good idea but then she realized that a certain amount of energy was lost in this process. If she wanted to maintain this cycle then she would have to make up for the energy being lost in this process. Colleen wanted to use external help like soul jades, rule stones, refined divinity, etc but Uri taking an offensive route saved her the trouble of using external help.