Date: Unspecified
Ti: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning, Ti Vestige, Morningstar University 2nd Campus
"It’s too late for that. Stop arguing. I don’t understand why you’re so resistant to my treatnt. If sothing goes wrong, at best you’ll lose your life, and at worst you’ll lose your mory and spend the rest of your days as a loon living off the good will of the people," I said, trying to get Lucine to willingly cooperate.The next step of the treatnt required her full participation to achieve the best results; forced cooperation would only distort the outco irreversibly. And knowing myself, if I could achieve better, I would never settle for rely good.
Therefore, I needed her to stop resisting and wholeheartedly cooperate with the treatnt. Just because she had sworn an oath before the Card World’s will to undergo and comply with my plan didn’t an she had to like it. I could have added a clause requiring her not only to like it, but willingly participate in it, but I doubted she would have sworn the oath if I had. Just because she had caved didn’t an I could force her to swear unreasonable oaths; that would be counterproductive.
"Easy for you to say when it’s not your life on the line," Lucine shot back as she got to her feet and walked over, her curiosity overriding her fear. Her eyes lingered on the mutated four-petal vines, and she couldn’t help but ask, "What did you do to them? They look even more sinister than before."
"So, you’re afraid of death. Is that it?" I asked, not bothering to wait for her response. I continued with a sneer laced with disdain, "So the entire Morningstar University will face the backlash of your oath simply because you’re too afraid to die. Impressive. I didn’t expect this from the last living descendant of the Morgenstern family. If your ancestors could hear this, their bodies would be rolling restlessly in their coffins."
"Who said I was afraid of death? Why chase death when I still have a few good years left?" Lucine shot back. "Wyatt, don’t think I don’t see what you’re trying to do. But fine—I’ll bite. Out with it. What do you want from ?" she asked with a smug grin, refusing to fall for my trick. She had fallen for them enough tis to know better now.
She had seen through . She was beginning to understand that if I bothered to take an interest in soone, it ant I wanted sothing from them. Otherwise, I wouldn’t waste my breath. She now knew I wasn’t a con artist—just overly calculating and practical acting only to protect my interest, unless the other party had proved themselves worthy of my trust and ti. She had once done that, but then ruined it by pushing her luck with .
"That’s the Triunion four-petal demonic vine I just created. I’ve shared all the information about it, along with the instructions for what I need you to do with it. Go through everything now, and ask if you have any questions," I said, pointing at the three mutated four-petal vines.
Lucine eyed the mutated vines with clear skepticism, repeating the na I’d given them under her breath as she summoned her grimoire and opened the file I’d shared. It took her less than a minute to scan through and fully grasp the few hundred pages of introductions, followed by the instructions detailing exactly what she needed to do with the mutated vines.
"You want to help them grow to the devil realm by feeding them my blood inside the ti-expansion chambers? Even if I overlook whether that’s remotely possible for a mutant four-petal vines to achieve devil realm, do you have any idea how much ti-rule power it would take to elevate them to the devil realm? That’s more than what Morningstar University earns in net profit over three whole years!" Lucine exclaid in utter disbelief. She couldn’t believe I had the audacity to shalessly ask her to do sothing that would cost Morningstar University its three years’ net worth. Even if she were willing, it wasn’t a decision she had the authority to make. And beyond that, such an astronomical amount of capital wasn’t sothing the university could mobilize at a mont’s notice, let alone inside the ti vestige.
Even though they were in the Temporal River, surrounded by ti-rule and temporal forces, those energies were far too raw and violent to be used directly.
They had to undergo a refinent process before they could power the ti-expansion chambers or applied for nurous other things in the ti vestige. And while their source of ti-rule power was technically limitless, there was still a cap on how much they could refine within any given period, an unfortunate limit due to their lacking level of their arrays.
Most of these arrays were established by their ancestors and have aged. Despite the tily maintenance the ti was taking a toll on the arrays and their efficiency was decreasing. It was a growing concern for Morningstar University. Therefore, about a third of the research in the ti vestige was based on reverse engineering their ancestor’s array formations or creating new array formations to replace their ancestor’s array formation.
Many strategies were proposed to handle the situation, but the most viable one was to search their Labyrinth of Myriad Pasts for a tiline where their ancestors’ teachings remained intact and had been passed down for generations—or, even better, a past where their ancestors were still alive. That way, they could directly seize the information they needed from that version of the card world’s past. And since the array would be used within the ti vestige, they didn’t have to worry about that version of having past having altered ti rules; they could apply the knowledge here without worrying about any such constraints.
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