Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Capital, City Outskirts
"She is fine and busy polishing her skills in seclusion. I’m sure she will reach out when she’s out," I assured Colleen calmly. Not surprised that she would try to contact Field Marshal using the grimoire network even though she knew the latter was in Lil Red Storm.
Now that I owned Lil Red Storm, and it had enough card apprentice population, I hosted the grimoire network and VR-universe in the demon merchant’s personal realm network of Lil Red Storm. Meaning now one could use the grimoire network and VR-universe in the Lil Red Storm and Ceed World.
Otherwise, no matter how advanced and beautiful the Freedom Megalopolis was, the Freedom Fighters and their families would be bored out of their minds. Also, it would be impossible for the Freedom Megalopolis to become a trade and tourist hub if card apprentices couldn’t use the grimoire network and VR-universe in Lil Red Storm.
This made the hefty fortune I spent to register Lil Red Storm as mine with the Devil Merchant Code worth it. These incredible perks of the Devil Merchant Code made its insane pricing reasonable. No wonder it has been dominating the entire Myriad Realms.
"I guess she finally got the vacation days she was applying for through you. Hopefully, she achieves the breakthrough she was seeking," Colleen prayed for her sister-in-law’s breakthrough and then, got to the point, "Wyatt, you know that I can’t allow you to go to the Central Academic City, right?"
Before I could reply, Lois appeared right behind the cloud Colleen was sitting on and warned, "Your Highness, it’s not up to you."
The surrounding temperature dropped to dangerous levels, to the point where the time seemed to have slowed down — no, the vibration of the soul energy and pathways in the surrounding and our bodies seemed to have decreased drastically, causing us to perceive time slower than we usually would. Messing with our responses and reactions.
One had to know that the perception of time of a card demigod was different from that of a card emperor or a card student or a mortal. Our perception of time was one of the factors highly influencing our body’s response and reactive time.
Compared to the time rule, this rule of Colleen’s was more like a party trick. But Colleen’s rule wasn’t just about messing with enemies’ perception of time. Its strength lay in slowing the soul energy and pathways in the surrounding. Effectively decreasing the attack speed of all soul energy and rule power based cards and abilities. In a card combat, every fraction of a second was important. A slight delay in casting their cards or abilities could cost them their lives.
Also, it was highly effective against array formations, rule domains, and other soul energy and rule power based defense abilities, especially like barriers. After all, when the soul energy and rule power were slowed, all these mentioned measures would collapse by themselves or be riddled with flaws. Honestly, for a party trick, this rule of Colleens was deadly, especially in her hands, who happened to be a close combat expert. Not to mention, if Colleen were to use this rule meaning of hers to deploy a pseudo-celestial rule domain, I don’t think their many demigods in the card world that could be her match.
There were too many similarities between Colleen and Anna’s fighting styles. Considering that Colleen trained her as the next Southern Emperor, her influence on the latter’s combat style wasn’t surprising. Anna’s numerous field cards made more sense now. The grandma and granddaughter duo weren’t afraid of pain or dying, but afraid of their enemies escaping. They were like soldiers, prepared to kill for their nation at any cost.
Soon, the surrounding temperature had returned to normal, so did our perception of time. However, Colleen was no longer seated on her cloud but hovering in the sky, grasping Lois by her neck, while the latter’s skin had turned pale blue in color under the effect of her ability.
Having caught Lois, Colleen concentrated her attack on the former, completely subduing the target by drastically slowing her perception of time. For example, a fraction of a second for us could be a second or a couple or even an entire minute. Only Lois and Colleen knew that, as I didn’t plan to intrude because Colleen was testing my aides. If she were serious, based on her nature, she would have deployed her strongest attack, her pseudo-celestial rule domain, to destroy her enemy as quickly as possible.
To Colleen’s bafflement, Lois’s dangerously pale blue body disintegrated and vanished from the physical plane. Then, she heard a play voice from behind her, "Boo!"
Had it been old Lois, Colleen’s attack would have indeed rendered her helpless, but she now had a Bloodkin-tier primordial calamity daughter gem. Not only was she incredibly strong, but versatile too. The moment Colleen caught and subdued her physical body on the physical plane, Lois immediately switched to her spiritual body on the spiritual plane.
Becoming a Bloodkin, Lois has not only gained celestial vision from the cursed bloodline but dual existence too. Like me, Lois can exist on both the physical and spiritual planes simultaneously. That was to say unless one didn’t subdue both our bodies in both the planes simultaneously, they couldn’t truly catch us especially due to the reconstruction ability of our primordial calamity gems.
Once on the spiritual plane, Lois was like a fish in the water. However, if she wanted to enter the physical plane, she had to create a new physical body because the old one was captured by Colleen. Therefore, abandoning the old physical body, she created a new one in her spiritual channel that connected/anchored the spiritual body to her physical body in the physical plane. Latest content publıshed on 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹·𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒·𝗇𝗲𝘁
Once her new body was complete, Lois appeared on the physical plane behind Colleen, quietly watching the latter’s astonishment as her old physical body disintegrated in the latter’s hand.