Date: Unspecified
Ti: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning
"What in the actual hell?" I blurted out, watching in disbelief as Slay—who should have been completely powerless inside my Celestial Blood Fate Domain—summoned a massive wooden stake. She drove it straight into the very fabric of space and ti of the physical plane, piercing directly into my celestial domain.
As Slay nailed the stake into space and ti, my Celestial Blood Fate Domain burst like a soap bubble. The blood-red hue that had drenched the world began to run and fade, dripping away like paint washed off by rain. As the domain shattered, Slay rose steadily to her feet, releasing the overwhelming aura of a Semi-Ruler-class being. Both Lucine and I were taken aback. Dread could be seen in Lucine’s eyes.
This chain of events, none of it made sense. Inside my Celestial Blood Fate Rule Domain, Slay shouldn’t have been able to access her storage treasure—let alone summon a stake of that size and muster the strength to force it through dinsional layers and rupture my domain as if it were nothing.
Only after activating my Primordial Soul Pupils did I understand. The stake called the World Calamity Stake was actually crafted from a single twig of an actual and fully grown World Calamity Tree. Refined through dark arts, it was made to resist and even negate suppression from the Will of the realms themselves—Celestial forces included.
There was a reason why World Calamity Trees were capable of devouring and destroying entire worlds. They possessed an innate resistance to the will of any world they invaded. No matter how overwhelmingly strong a world’s will was, it could not suppress the tree’s realm or existence the way it would suppress any other foreign invader.
The World Calamity Stake was crafted specifically to exploit this trait. By refining a twig from a fully grown World Calamity Tree, the devils created a tool that could negate or resist the suppression of a world’s will. They ca in a set of nine stakes, used to set up the celestial binding array. In it, celestial force and other celestial abilities beco useless. With it, they could easily destroy realms’ wills and harvest fragnts of those realms’ wills without being hindered by the world’s will suppressing their realm.
The array was required to suppress an entire realm, but nailing a single World Calamity Stake was enough for a small part of it.
In other words, it was the power of the World Calamity Stake that allowed Slay to resist my Celestial Blood Fate Domain and drive that wooden stake through the fabric of space and ti. By doing so, she not only shattered my domain but also nullified every celestial ability within the stake’s area of influence.
This ant I could no longer use my celestial force, nor could I borrow the Card Celestial’s celestial force. I couldn’t even re-establish my Celestial Blood Fate Domain. At the sa ti, the world’s will suppression that had been limiting Slay’s realm vanished entirely. As a result, her true strength was fully released—allowing her to display the complete might of a Semi-Ruler-class being.
With the limit on her realm removed, Slay rolled her neck and shoulders with a satisfied expression before releasing a long, refreshed sigh. This was the first ti she truly felt whole in a long while.
Lucine’s mind simply shut down. She had barely begun to grasp my strength when the battlefield shifted again in Slay’s favor—within re seconds. The sheer, incomprehensible power radiating from Slay made Lucine question everything she thought she understood about the world’s power system.
Morningstar University had indeed docunted that there were subdivisions and classes within the Card Demigod—or Devil—realm. They had learned this after centuries of observing the devils imprisoned within the Labyrinth of Myriad Pasts. But no one had ever expected the gap between those classes to be this massive.
So it was no wonder that Lucine, as an Upper Chivalry-class being, was left utterly stunned the mont she sensed the full presence of a Semi-Ruler-class entity for the first ti. The gulf of power between them was not just large—it was vast, imasurable, and beyond anything she had ever conceived possible.
"Hey, you still sane?" Slay sneered, glancing at Lucine—who looked as though her very soul had slipped out of her body. The sight amused her. If Lucine was already breaking down just from her unrestrained presence, Slay wondered how the girl would react once she discovered what Slay could truly do with this power.
"..."
Lucine could only stare blankly at her, beyond even the ability to respond to mockery. She appeared hopeless and even as if she had surrendered when actually, all of her attention and focus were on figuring out a way out of their predicant, knowing Slay wouldn’t risk damaging her.
"Hehehe." Slay chuckled, taking her ti and savoring the mont. In her eyes, the two card apprentices before her were not enemies—they were blessings handed to her by fate. One was a miracle potion, and the other was a shortcut toward her ideal, perfected body. She had already broken one of them, and the other still had so fight left in his eyes. As expected of a Hybrid Celestial.
Slay approached slowly, step by step, with the ease of soone who believed the battle was already over. There was not a shred of caution in her movents—only confidence. She t my gaze with a playful glint and spoke, "You’re small, and definitely not my type... but I suppose I’ll have to settle for you, my prince."
Then she straightened slightly, as though making a formal introduction.
"Your Highness, allow to introduce myself properly. The Commandnt of Negative Passion, Covetous Devil ’Slay Saleos’ — one of the Ten Leaders of the Ten Commandnts faction."
The sudden change in Slay’s tone caught off guard. But it beca clear she may not have respected as her next mate, but my identity as a Hybrid Celestial clearly ca with a different kind of acknowledgnt.
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