Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 5 April 2321

Time- 04:16

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

Have you ever wondered what your flesh will smell like when barbequed? Well, trapped in a storm of fire I got the chance to do just that, I smell delicious. Ordinary fire regardless of its temperature would not be able to hurt the skin of a Gigamite demigod but the same could not be said for the fire rule power in its purest form.

Using my soul pupils I immediately deduced that Lois was using her spiritual channel to pore pure fire rule power into the part of the world connected to her physical body. She had turned the world connected to her physical body into a furnace to contain pure fire rule power. Unfortunately for me, I was trapped in this furnace with pure fire rule power. Which kept getting wilder with every passing second and I don't know if my Gigamite recovery would be able to keep up with it.

But I did not plan to stick around to watch if my physique's recovery could keep up, as I had the restructuring ability of the calamity soul gem. I used this ability to regrew the burnt part of my body faster than Lois's pure fire rule power burnt my body. However, this consumed a lot of soul energy in the process. So I did not waste time and continued to focus on attacking the soul pathways of the world that were connected to Lois's physical body. Turning the fight into a competition of who hurt whom more and who would be able to tolerate pain longer.

I cannot be the judge of who was inflecting greater damage to whom but I knew I would be able to tolerate the pain longer than Lois. Thank's to Hive AI acting as a replacement for my consciousness for my pain sensors, I did not feel pain. There were no side effects to this as Hive AI was processing the signals from my pain sensors and then feeding them to my consciousness. This way I had all the data from the pain sensors without feeling any pain.

While I am at this, I didn't just focus on attacking the world's soul pathways connecting to Lois's physical body but I also subtly drew closer to Lois's physical body. The damage I had done to the world's soul pathway would only drag Lois but not affect her overall because she could just shed the part of the world connected to her physical body if she willed it. So if I wanted to make some real damage to Lois then it had to be made to her original physical body. But knowing Lois was avoiding melee combat with me I had to be subtle about this.

"Aaah!" Soon I began to hear the painful screams of Lois, this meant that I was on the right track. Now all I need to do was get her in my melee range and put an end to this fight.

"How are you still alive? That is the pure fire rule power, even veteran demigods will avoid it. How is your body able to overcome it?" Lois asked the boy barely managing to hold in her pain.

Now that Lois had stopped underestimating the boy she had changed her battle strategy instead of going all out to kill the boy and escape within the time limit she had decided on a prolonged battle knowing that the boy's pact with the devil had a time limit. As for the threat of Field Marshal Heatsend, being a slave of the shadow ruler of the government came with many privileges and today she planned to use one if necessary.

The only reason Lois was risking her life by staying behind to continue with the mission despite one of her team members being a traitor and another teammate's situation being unknown was that she, personally, wanted to make sure that the boy dies, completing her mission. Now she had two ways to go about this but taking the strength displayed by the boy in consideration she was down to one option to make sure that the boy died, and that was to prolong the battle until the devil comes to take his soul. Everyone knew that the devil's power came with a lot of limitations one of them being the time limit. Instead of being headstrong about this Lois had decided to act smart. The privileges she had were there to complete the missions the organization assigned to her. Though so far she rarely had to make use of them today she will use them to complete the mission.

"Isn't it obvious? I am just that strong," I said arrogantly so that Lois would focus on what I said instead of what I was up to.

"Hahaha, fine let me see how long you last," Lois with her unlimited supply of pure soul energy and pure rule power was not worried about running out of power but it was different for me. The continuous restructuring of my body to regrow the burnt part of my body was using most of my soul energy. I was not an opponent of Lois in a prolonged battle and I never planned for a prolonged battle. Having stalled enough I had managed to find the flaw in Lois's ability as long as I got her physical body in my melee range then it was game over for her.

Nearing Lois, I felt a little uneasy as if something was wrong with this situation. The part of the world I was in was literally part of Lois, so how could she not know that I was subtly approaching her original physical body? Why was she not reacting to this, unless she wanted me to get close to her or was I overthinking it?

No, I wasn't overthinking it. Because I felt Lois introducing a second type of rule power into the furnace she created using the part of the world connected to her physical body. Before I could react to the second rule power Lois had introduced to the pure fire rule power, the fire rule power grew volatile leading to a disastrous explosion.

*Boom!*