Date: Unspecified
Ti: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Underground
"Aqualas, stop this already," Petra said through gritted teeth while continuously reinforcing the underground layers beneath Sky Blossom City.
Entire sections of fractured earth moved under her control as she desperately prevented the city from collapsing into the abyss below. Every ti she stabilized one fault line, Aqualas would rupture another. Every ti she sealed a collapsing underground chamber, water pressure would suddenly destabilize the surrounding terrain again.
Even for Petra, maintaining millions of tons of shifting earth while simultaneously fighting another Supre Being was exhausting.
"The ones who wronged you were either killed by you or died ages ago," Petra continued, trying to reason with her despite the chaos surrounding them. "These people above us had nothing to do with that era. Killing them now won’t change anything. It won’t satisfy you. Just let go of the anger already."
For a brief mont, Aqualas fell silent. Then her expression twisted into cold fury.
"They’re enjoying the fruits of their cris, aren’t they?" she replied bitterly. "Their territories, this peace and prosperity, all of it was built on betrayal."
The underground waters surrounding her surged violently as her emotions destabilized the environnt again.
"So if they can enjoy the rewards of those sins," Aqualas continued, her voice growing colder and colder, "then they can also suffer the consequences of them."
At that mont, she had already made up her mind. Before killing Petra and Bloodette, she would first destroy the city itself.
In Aqualas’s eyes, the greatest betrayal wasn’t rely Bloodette siding with humanity in the past. It was the fact that Petra and Bloodette still chose to protect these creatures even now, after everything that had happened between the Supre Beings and card apprentices over countless millennia.
To her, they had abandoned their own kind for beings who would eventually betray them all over again.
"You crazy bitch, how much longer do you expect them to remain slaves out of gratitude?" Petra snarled in frustration while stabilizing another collapsing underground layer with a wave of her hand. "Whether you accept it or not, they already paid their dues. They’re part of this world now. They have just as much right to this land as we do. Get that through your thick skull already."
Unlike many other Supre Beings, Petra had never truly hated humans or card apprentices.
Back when the other Supre Beings rejected Bloodette after her betrayal of Aqualas, it had been Petra and her faction who accepted her despite the backlash that ca with it. They had even gone as far as helping Bloodette establish humanity’s territories and protect the fragile foundations of what would eventually beco the Five Regions.
To Petra, humans weren’t invaders anymore.
They were simply another race rooted into the Card World, one that had suffered, fought, evolved, and earned its place through countless generations of struggle and sacrifice.
That peaceful understanding only lasted until the card apprentices began demanding far more than what the Supre Beings were still adjusting to having given to them.
At first, under a lot of persuasion from the card apprentice pro faction, most of the Supre Beings had agreed that every species deserved territory of its own. But as the card apprentices grew stronger, their ambitions grew with them.
They no longer wanted territories for survival. They wanted resources, influence, trade routes, sacred lands, and eventually dominion over regions already ruled by other beings. To many Supre Beings, it began to feel as though humanity’s greed had no limit. Every concession only encouraged them to demand more.
And that was when everything truly fell apart. The fragile coexistence between Supre Beings and card apprentices that Bloodette, Petra and group fought for shattered, and the conflict that followed eventually spiraled into a war lasting several millennia. And unfortunately, Bloodette and the rest of her group eventually found themselves standing on opposite sides of the war.
Even so, after the Five Regions were finally established, the card apprentices surprisingly honored the treaty and stopped expanding beyond the agreed boundaries. Seeing that gradually made Petra wonder if Bloodette had been right all along.
Maybe card apprentices truly only wanted land they could call their own, places shaped for their survival, culture, and existence rather than endless conquest.
But deep in the back of her mind, Petra also carried another unsettling thought. What if the card apprentices never expanded further not because they were satisfied... but because they feared the consequences?
Feared that if they crossed the line again, the Mountain God, Ocean God, Sky God, and the remaining Supre Beings would once more unite against humanity. And this ti, they might not stop until the card apprentices were completely eradicated from the world.
"Shut up! They will never beco a part of this world until I say so!" Aqualas snapped furiously.
The underground waters around her surged violently as she prepared to flood the entire subterranean region with enough pressurized water to liquefy the surrounding mud into unstable and runny clay despite Petra’s efforts to reinforce it. Once that happened, huge sections of Sky Blossom City would simply sink into the collapsing ground above.
Petra’s expression darkened as she hurriedly moved to counter her again.
But before either of them could act further, an overwhelming celestial presence suddenly descended upon the underground world.
The entire layer of ground froze. A crimson hue spread across the ground and water alike, dyeing the underground layers in an eerie celestial red. Aqualas and Petra’s expressions changed simultaneously.
Before they could properly react, both imdiately sensed sothing terrifying happening around them. The distance between themselves and their surroundings began stretching infinitely. It was a bizarre sensation impossible to properly describe.
Visually, everything still looked close. They could still clearly see the underground layers, hear the collapsing earth, and even sense each other’s presence nearby.
Yet at the sa ti, every bit of space around them felt endlessly far away. The closer they tried to move toward sothing, the further it seed to beco.
Before long, the infinitely stretching space forcibly dragged both Supre Beings upward and out of the underground layers entirely despite their resistance.
The two found themselves isolated within separate regions of distorted space, completely cut off from the city below and from each other.
Even their attempts to break through the spatial cages were endlessly delayed as the surrounding distance continuously stretched faster than they could cross it.
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