Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 983 Asura's Boon

Date- 4 April 2321

Time- 00:42

Location- Sun Blossom City, Circle Headquarters

The reason why having Ji Feng reconstruct his body to rid of the effect of Mike’s card on him was not ideal was because Mike’s card was too powerful. It not only turned Ji Feng’s body appearance into a pebble but his soul pathway arrangements, vibrations, and signature were also morphed to match that of a pebble. Due to this, Ji Feng’s soul also thought it was a pebble and remained unresponsive. Even his calamity daughter gem had morphed as part of the pebble.

Due to this reason, even my calamity soul gem had a hard time pinpointing its location and my soul pupils failed to differentiate it from an ordinary pebble. Despite having most of him morphed into a pebble Ji Feng’s abilities were still present in him, this was the reason for the minute difference noted by the Hive AI in the soul pathway vibrations of Ji Feng morphed pebble when compared to soul pathway vibrations of other regular pebbles.

What I am getting at was that even if I use my authority to trigger a restructure of pebble Ji Feng’s external body, the calamity daughter gem part will still remain the same. By using restructure I am not undoing what Mike did but actually destroying what Mike did and regrowing a new body in its place. With the exterior body restructured the interior part will still be the same. Meaning even if the exterior of the pebble was destroyed to form a new body of Ji Feng, his calamity daughter gem will still be a pebble. Since the calamity daughter gem house’s his soul, it too will think and be a pebble. Meaning even though I have managed to get the external shell back to normal using the restructure ability of the calamity daughter gem, the gem will still be under Mike’s card’s effect as I cannot use the restruture ability on the calamity daughter gem itself because, once the gem gets destroyed its ability does too, stopping the restruture process of the calamity daughter gem mid way. Therefore, even though it was possible to use restructure ability on the gems themselves I never used it to restructure them. Now that would be idiotic on my part.

There was a story back on earth which told the tale of an asura who manages to please the god with his penance and was granted a boon. The asura used the boon to gain the power to incinerate anybody by placing his hand on their head. Asura being an asura, he doubted the authenticity of the power granted to him by the god as a boon. So he decided to use his new ability on the god to check the genuineness of the power granted to him. Enraged by the asura’s audacity, god tricked the asura into placing his hand over his own head, as a result, the asura got incarcerated into ash by his own power.

Many lessons can be learned from this story but one I was talking about was to never forget the possibility that the gun in your holster can not only be used to protect you but can also be used to kill you. The same applied to the restucture ability of the calamity soul/daughter gem. Using it on my mortal body was fine since unlike mortals card apprentice had an active soul but using it on our soul would kill us. Because for the restructure to work it would have to destroy the existing one to create a new one.

So the problem with my second plan was even if I were able to get Ji Feng’s body back his calamity daughter gem will still be a pebble and his soul in it will continue to be unresponsive thinking that it was a pebble. This meant the Ji Feng I will get after the use of restructuring ability will be in a vegetative state.

Here was where it got interesting, I know this but Mike didn’t. So I will remotely control Ji Feng’s vegetative body to pick up pebble Mike and place him in a storage card. This would force Mike to take action because once he was in the storage card it was game over for him. The storage card does not store living beings for a reason, but right now Mike was not a living being he was a pebble so he could be stored in a storage card and it would also mark his end. If he did not want to die like this then he would have to take action which I will use as an opportunity to study his card and think of a way to counter. This was too much work for a battlefield but without it, I and my team were sitting ducks. And once Mike knows that I had a hint about his card’s ability, he will become more aggressive with his attacks, leaving me little time to come up with a way to counter his card’s ability.

Therefore as per my plan, I gained access to Ji Feng’s calamity daughter gem through Hive AI and instructed it to destroy its exterior pebble body and reconstruct it into its original appearance. If it were normal time this would have happened process would have been completed in under a minute at tops but right now Ji Feng’s calamity daughter gem was morphed into a pebble and it was proving difficult for me to remotely activate its ability. Despite the desperate circumstance I could only take my time to proceed further because one mistake could mean the death of pebble Ji Feng.

Trying to deduce Mike’s card’s ability I had grown to be impressed by it. This ability of Mike’s card reminds me of the old fairy tales back on earth where the witches and fairies could morph a being according to their will. The possibilities of this ability were numerous, but the question was whether there was a price to pay for using such an ability. Was Mike’s card without any drawback? If yes, then I cannot help but covet it for myself.

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