Card Apprentice Daily Log

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Location- Unknown, Blood Rule Source

The Devian Devil's laughter echoed in the blood rule source killing the echoes of the explosion earlier. Still, there was no word from the Elder Anesthesia Dragon, the one responsible for the explosion. Wyatt did not believe the Elder Anesthesia Dragon would sacrifice itself to take the Deviant Devil down. Things were not that desperate yet. Not to mention it could run any time using its Dream Escape.

The cloud of blood rule energy had yet to settle, so it was hard for Wyatt to navigate through the thick fog of rule energy and spot the soul pathways of the Deviant Devil and the Dragon. Still, with Hive AI and soul pupils working together, Wyatt spotted two soul pathways among the blood rule energy fog. With the quick study of this soul pathway, Wyatt not only figured out which soul pathway belonged to whom but also their status.

Despite detonating its amalgamation Dragonoid body earlier, the asleep Elder Anesthesia Dragon forged a new towering Dragonoid with itself as its core. The Dragonoid inside the core showed no sign of exhaustion. Even the faces of blood-rule slaves, which contributed to the creation of this amalgamation form, engraved on the Dragonoid's scale looked fiercer and more vivid. Wyatt wondered how these blood-rule slaves were still alive and where was the Elder Anesthesia Dragon conjuring so much blood-rule energy from.

That was when Hive AI pointed out to Wyatt, that the Dragon and the blood-rule slaves had comprehended blood rule's blood rebirth meaning. The blood rule domain deployed by the dragon also had the blood rebirth meaning in it. This meaning of blood rule allowed them to regenerate completely within a fraction of seconds even if all that reminded of them was a single drop of blood. This meaning of the blood rule held little significance to the ruler class strong outside the blood rule source but inside, it practically made them immortal with an inexhaustible energy source at their disposal.

This was why even though the Elder Anesthesia Dragon had just detonated the amalgamation Dragonoid, it was able to recreate its form with ease in under a fraction of a second. Now Wyatt knew why the Elder Anestheisa Dragon was not worried about defense. With such a regeneration hack combined with its innate defense ability, it had very little to worry about even if its opponent was the Deviant Devil with muscles so strong that put the tallest peak of the dark realm to shame.

If the Dragon was an impenetrable fortress with an instant repair hack who gave absolute defense a new meaning, then the Deviant Devil was nothing less. Its combat fashion embodied the saying 'offense is the best defense.'

The soul pathways of Deviant Devil showed that apart from a few flesh wounds it hadn't suffered any serious injuries despite being at the very center of the explosion. Wyatt could not fathom how the Deviant Devil managed that because even if its muscle absorbed all the damage how did it manage to protect its ears and other senses?

To understand how the Deviant Devil managed to survive the explosion with little flesh wounds Wyatt had to get the Hive AI to replay the footage of the explosion in slow motion. Where he got to see the Deviant Devil release the Dragonoid at an insane speed and throw a punch aiming at the explosion with its back resting on the blood rule source.

Seeing this video, Wyatt was astonished to find that the large mushroom cloud and the thunderous sound that echoed after the explosion were not because of the explosion but because of the clash between the Deviant Devil's punch and the explosion.

Not only did the Deviant Devil use a single punch to face the explosion head-on but their clash produced thunderous echoes that traveled the entire blood rule source and only died with its laughter.

The Devil's punch was so strong that it reflected the explosion resulting in a huge blood rule energy mushroom cloud that could be seen from any corner of the blood rule source.

Actually, it managed to reflect only ninety percent of all that energy with a single punch. It withstood the rest with its body, which along with the 60 percent counter damage managed to leave a few swallow flesh wounds at best.Even though the devil had only punched the explosion, the explosion was from the Dragon's essence. Hence activating the 60 percent counterdamage. The Devil was basically half responsible for its wounds.

This showed that had all the blood-rule energy bombarded with Deviant Devil's body it would not have exploded to smithereens even if the explosion contained so much blood-rule energy that the battlefield was still covered in the blood-rule energy fog, and from the looks of it, the cloud of energy was far from settling.

Understanding what actually had transpired during the explosion, Wyatt was impressed by the Deviant Devil's physical prowess. He was even more sure that Deviant Devil was not far from the absolute peak of the physical prowess. He could not wait to achieve such heights in physical prowess himself.

Wyatt also noticed that the Deviant Devil did not heal its shallow flesh wounds or more like it couldn't as these wounds were festered with blood curse meaning making it hard for it to heal even small flesh wounds.

Within the blood rule source, blood rule attacks were more efficient. However, except for the blood rule domain it had deployed earlier the Deviant Devil had only relied on its physical prowess and its reality-bending ability. It had yet to use any blood rule skills.

Seeing how the Deviant Devil was able to deploy a robust blood rule domain that could stand against the Elder Anesthesia Dragon's blood rule domain, it was safe to assume that the Deviant Devil's mastery of blood rule was not inferior to that of the Dragon.

Wyatt was beginning to feel that the Deviant Devil was playing with Elder Anesthesia Dragon as it claimed repeatedly. The only time it was serious was when it used its entire physical strength to lock the Dragonoid with its body. As for other times, it never gave its all, even during the explosion it only relied on its physical powers enhanced by its unique martial arts. Wyatt wondered if the Dragon would even have the chance to escape if the devil got serious.