Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 997 Deduction

Date- 4 April 2321

Time- 01:18

Location- Sun Blossom City, Circle Headquarters

Summoning six energy saber handles, tightening my grip on them I powered them with blood rule power, seeing this Mike chanted, “six armed ape monster – nine appendages,”

Soon Mike morphed Myriad Devil Body and grew two extra pairs of hands, now he had a total of three pairs of hands. And the number of appendages on his body grew to a total of nine appendages without counting in its horns, wings, and tail. Mike was not done there he chanted, “Hellfire Imp – Flame Forge.”

With his chant, Mike used Hellfire Imp’s Flame Forge to forge six swords using fire rule power. Showing that Mike had a wide range of monster and demon abilities stored to choose from. But I was not discouraged because the only way Mike could create a demon transformation card was by using a demon’s body parts as a card ingredient. Which meant someone had killed a demon with this ability, so it was not impossible for me to do the same. I need to be patient and deduce the limitation of Mike’s card’s ability and use it to my advantage. And so far all I have gathered was Mike cannot use the same type of ability simultaneously. This I inferred by witnessing Mike switch between the physique of the Echo slime to defend against my attack and the hardening physique to attack me. Later to gain the six-armed ape monster’s nine appendages physique he let go of the hardening physique instead of stacking both of the physiques. This showed that he could only mimic one monster’s physique at a time. I don’t know if the same was true for skills and traits but I would like to think it had to be. So in his demon form, Mike could copy the monster’s physique, skills, and traits from different monsters, simultaneously too, but he could not stack them.

Having deduced a rough idea of Mike’s ability, I decided to see if it were true in my fight against Mike without proper evidence proving that Mike cannot copy and stack skills and traits of different monsters similar to their physique I needed to be careful, because this could be something that Mike was leading me to believe and when I go after him believing the misleading information that he had fed me, he could suddenly burst out with unexpectedly high levels of power, catching me off guard and finish me when I am least expecting it.

Well, least expecting- sounded far-fetched but if I went after him then it would be that I was expecting a different result, something like me killing him certainly not expecting any surprises especially not me dying by Mike’s hands.

While I contemplated the shortcomings and limitations of Mike’s card he came at me while swinging his words, I used my sabers to clash with his swords enthusiastically. Honestly, I was kind of looking forward to something like this happening, and Mike did not disappoint me.

After clashing swords for a while, Mike and I separated, honestly fighting with six cards was taxing, even though I had two slave consciousness and Hive AI assisting me. I did not know how Mike was fair but considering that he has gained the physique of a six-armed ape, it should have come with perks that allowed the six-armed ape monster to maneuver its six arms. Still in the clash earlier, I held the clear advantage as unlike Mike’s extra arms that are fixed to his back, my extra pair of arms had more leeway when it came to mobility and freedom. Despite holding the advantage in the exchange, Mike was able to remain unscathed as he held the advantage in fighting experience. No matter how my floating arms ambushed him, he fended them off as if he was used to fighting multiple enemies. His fighting style gave me the feeling that even if I were to have another extra pair of arms Mike would still manage to fend off, but it would have taken a greater toll on him.

When I planned to engage again, I saw he was vibrant and filled with energy, as if he just got up from a peaceful and refreshing nap. Clearly, he had made use of some unknown monster’s trait to being his stamina and mental health levels back to their peak. Seeing this it became I started to get a feeling that Mike planned to prolong this fight. But this was more disadvantageous to him than to me. yes, he could instantly recover health, stamina, and mental health which allowed him to fight long battles but even though his abilities favored prolonged battles but his current circumstance did not. The extermination team and the stone viltronians had already annihilated two third of his bone dragon clone army, and it will not be long before they laid waste to the rest allowing join in this fight. Making prolonged battle unfavorable for Mike. Not knowing what was going on in his, I shook my head deciding to take initiative and engage him to deduce more about his card’s ability. But Mike suddenly spoke, “Kid, ever since I learned about you. I always wondered why the southern royal family was willing to accommodate you and your revenge despite the political shitstorm it would brew. But after fighting you, and personally experiencing you being able to stand toe to toe with me while I am in my demon form despite the vast realm gap between us, you have proved that you are every bit what I read about you, maybe even more. For that, you have my respect.”

Mike became chatty for someone who said he would come at me for real. I thought when Agatha left, Mike was going to go all out to try and kill me. But that wasn’t the case I could feel that he was not keen on fighting me and was a little distracted, the question was why was he continuing to stall? For reinforcements from Circle, if the Circle was planning on sending reinforcements shouldn’t they be here by now?

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