Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Way Beyond, SSS-rank Titan Forest Field Dungeon.
"Redfall, go beat them till they’re a inch from death," I ordered, going back on plan to turn the Western Princess and her group into my calamity gems.
Apparently, one of them was a favored one, like Lois and Clown Mask. I went through Clown Mask’s future vision again to check which one of them was the favored one? But these guys weren’t even background characters in it. I wonder what the deal with these favored ones of the Card Celestial was.
Both Lois and Clown Mask had tragic fates in their own ways. Shouldn’t the chosen ones live life on easy mode, like Aba Windsor? Speaking of Aba, she had her difficulties, but who didn’t? Ultimately, she won and became the chosen one, the hero, while Lois and Clown Mask died tragic deaths. In their entire life only tragedy remained loyal to them.
Since I didn’t plan to kill them over trying to do something they believed to be greater good. Also, these guys didn’t totally disregard me and my criminal rehabilitation and reintegration program to do what they came here for. Instead, they tried to reason with me. I mean, if was in there position and was confident about my strength, I wouldn’t be as patient and tolerant as these guys were being with me.
So, instead of killing them, and helping the card celestial recycle one of its favored ones, I decided to force them to back off by showing Redfall was way stronger than the Redfall they knew. They weren’t even in his league and should give up their stupid, meritless agenda. I mean, they weren’t even being paid or praised for killing a scourge of the card world. I can never understand why people like them did what they did.
"Wait, what?" Kiren uttered in shock, wondering if the kid really did what he preached. Otherwise, why would he order a criminal he plans to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society to act as his thug? Was he fooling the five regions? Was he gathering the cruelest criminals the card world has to offer to secretly assemble the cruelest army the world has ever seen? Now, that would be diabolical.
"Here’s the third option: you guys duke out your differences with Redfall. The winner gets their way. If you guys win, you get to kill Redfall for the second time. If Redfall wins, you guys will leave him alone to live his second shot at life honestly," I spoke, making an excuse on the spot.
"Sound’s good," Ollie agreed, feeling that boy made things a lot easier. He wasn’t a big fan of kids anyway. He has always only been good with — his fists and his digging bar. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to maintain his virginity at his age.
"I mean, isn’t that why we are here?" Ollie defended, feeling his friends glaring at him with a look that said, ’Shut the heck up!’ His brain automatically filtered the obscenity.
"Since when did we let others decide for us?" Princess Christina declared.
Kiren was quick to agree. "I say we get to the bottom of his criminal rehabilitation and reintegration program."
"You’re thinking what I’m thinking?" Christina asked, her eyes locking with her girlfriend’s. Kiren nodded excitedly. With a shared grin, they announced together, "We’ll join your criminal rehabilitation and reintegration program. Where do we sign up?"
I and Lois looked at them as if they had a few screws loose in their minds. Then, turning to Redfall, who was awaiting my orders, I barked, "What the heck are you waiting for?"
Getting the green signal from his master, Redfall descended on the Western princess and her group of misfits like the red plague he was. However, Christina and others weren’t pushovers; they held their ground until Redfall began to use his primordial calamity daughter gem. But Cannibal Cam proved a tough opponent, assisting others in the nick of time. Man, he could take a beating.
Letting the fight take its course, I wondered why the Card Celestial didn’t call me out when I turned Clown Mask and Lois into my regular-tier calamity daughter gems, but it did when I turned them into my Bloodkin-tier calamity daughter gems.
I understood that an underdeveloped World Calamity Tree was of no threat to a Celestial. Therefore, it was able to separate our souls from my primordial calamity gems. However, I didn’t understand why Card Celestial was so concerned about the Cursed Bloodline. Now, I was beginning to wonder if there wasn’t any proper info on my Cursed Bloodline in the grimoire because the Card Celestial chose not to add it. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⟡𝕗𝗂𝗋𝖾⟡𝕟𝕖𝕥
Also, I couldn’t help but wonder if the Cursed Bloodline played a crucial role in Card Celestial’s generosity toward me. I would have asked the Card Celestial if it bothered to show itself to me, but it just summoned us to its womb and handed us our boons and sent us packing without showing itself.
I even had Lois use her Deliberation eye to contact it, but it flat out refused to answer. Making me wonder if Lois’s upgrade wasn’t as good as I made it out to be in my head. Ultimately, the Card Celestial’s actions only deepened my caution and curiosity towards the Cursed Bloodline. Only time would tell which among my caution and curiosity toward it would win.
As for the Card Celestial’s offer to me, obviously I chose to go further in my Celestial hood on my own. As for allying with it, I have come to think of Card World as my home, so yeah, as long as it didn’t restrict me, I didn’t mind allying with it.
However, what concerned me was the first option of ’True Son of Card World.’ That was the route the Emissary of Light seemed to have decided on to achieve Celestial hood. I wondered if he had the Card Celestial’s blessing. Was he one of the favored ones? That shouldn’t be possible based on Clown Mask’s future vision.
Again, I would have directly asked the Card Celestial about it if I knew how I could communicate with it when it didn’t bother to answer Lois’s attempt to contact it.