Date- 27 Mar 2321
Time- 12:35
Location- Sky Blossom City, Sky Blossom Card Stadium, VIP Box no.1
“Something is wrong with Wyatt, he has been staring at the severed head for five minutes and he is not responding.” Susan noticed that Wyatt has been staring at the severed head for quite a while now. Worried she called out to him. Receiving no response from him Susan asked for help.
“Wyatt! Wyatt! Wyatt!” Elliott and the rest tried calling him but they too did not get a response and finally realized the anomaly in Wyatt’s silence.
“What a baby! Is he so frightened by a severed head that he turned dumb?” mocked Jaya looking at the lifeless statue like Wyatt.
“You shut up. If you do not know how to be helpful, at least know the time and place to make your bad jokes.” Elliott rebuked Jaya for untimely humour. While Jaya felt that Elliott was waiting for a chance to rebuke her.
“Looks like he found the dead card emperor’s Ego Gem.” Corey imparted the obvious known to her from Wyatt’s current condition.
“I do not know whether to call the kid lucky or unlucky for having found the ego gem. Did you help him? Aren’t you cruel?” Lorenzo blamed Anna for revealing the location of the ego gem to Wyatt even though he was not prepared enough.
“…” Anna remained silent towards Lorenzo’s accusation. She just wanted Wyatt to realise how important the severed head was by using his Aura Sight. But she never expected for his consciousness to be full in the ego gem of the cloud emperor Claude.
…
Old Green did not want to go to war with old Red because he knew that his alliance with the other three prevailed due to the presence of a bigger threat, old Red. With the old Red out of the picture, there was no longer a need for the alliance to exist. If he was the strongest of the other three then he would not mind killing old Red but he was not the strongest after old Red, it was old Purple.
Right now if he got rid of old Red then old Purple would fill his shoes. So, allying with the other three to kill the old red would all be in vain. Seeing how old purple is arrogant of his might, old green was sure that killing old Red will only result in replacing a tyrant with another one. Therefore at any cost old green wanted to avoid going to war with old Red and convince him into a comparison.
“Old green, what are you waiting for? Let’s smoke this red fool.” Said old Purple eagerly seeing old Green engage in a staring contest with old Red.
“Old Red, it doesn’t have to be like this.” Old green ignored old purple and continued to persuade old red to share the boy.
“Enough, do not blame me.” Having said that, the inscription on the forehead of the old man glowed brighter as if he was preparing to attack.
“Fuq this. old Blue, old Yellow Cover me. Raging thunder fist. This is the new move I came up with within a few decades. I will make you regret your decision. ” old Purple decided to act on his own accord and not wait for old Green’s command.
“Now you’re speaking, blood fiend.” Old Red enthusiastically shouted and took on old purple’s incoming fist head-on.
“Whirlpool” at old Blue’s command a huge water blue whirlpool formed under old Red slowing his moment down and making him unable to dodge incoming attacks.
“Divine Might” a bright light was summoned by old Yellow and he showered it on old purple giving a huge boost to him in terms of speed, defence and speed.
“You fools, stop it.” Old Green yelled in alarm but he was too late that impulsive old bastard purple had already begun and old Blue and old Yellow followed in suit.
Seeing none of them heeds his words and his allies being suppressed by old Red, old Green clenched his fist and shouted, “screw it, typhoon”
…
As the 5 spirits Red, Purple, Blue, Green and Yellow were busy confronting each other old black who said he would not participate suddenly turned into a blurry shadow and hurried towards me before even I could shout for help and alert the other spirits old black came next to me and said, “to think that me dying would result in a blessing to get my hands on genius who can see rules.”
“Old black, what are you doing?” Yelled old Red in anger seeing old black standing next to me.
“Haha, you suckers. You guys are the dumbest people I have ever seen. You were so busy fighting for the loot that you guys lost sight of the loot. Haha, you guys were my bitch before and you will continue to be my bitch again.” Old black laughed maniacally unlike his previous suppressed self.
“With this new body, I will be able to control you bitches even better. No, maybe I won’t need you old fools. I can comprehend my own rules and do not have to depend on your broken rules left behind by your past self.
Those damned fools would always mock me that I was a domesticated card emperor, homegrown by feeding broken rules of the fallen card apprentice.
I will show those bastards who is the domesticated pig. With this new body, I may even reach the fabled demigod realm. Yes, I can reach card emperor realm in a decade and card demigod realm in a century. And even become the youngest demigod ever.” Old black seemed to be lost in his fantasy forgetting what he was set out to do.
“Lightning charge” old purple did not hesitate to take action seeing old black lose his focus. Old Red followed his example and attacked distracted old black, ” Blood lance”
“Sayonara suckers. Become mine, Engulf.” Old black was not a fool to let go of the bone in his mouth. When he saw old red and purple attacking him. Old black took his queue to exit the stage.
“Noooo!” All the spirits yelled and raced towards me at their fastest speed they could fathom.
*Engulf* old black turned into a pitch-black cloud that wrapped me completely from head to toe into himself. Before everything went dark I saw desperate faces of the old spirits trying to reach me before it was too late.
Just when I thought that’s the end of me, several notifications sounded in my head from the grimoire.
[Calamity Soul Core detected a threat to the host consciousness.]
[Calamity Soul Core activating]
[Calamity soul core active]
[Host soul returning to Calamity Soul core]
[Calamity Soul Core engaging the threat]
[Calamity Soul Core eliminated remnant spirit, Claude]
[Threat neutralised]
[Calamity Soul core swallowed a broken Rune ‘Cloud’]
[Broken Rune ‘Cloud’ now available in Calamity Soul core]
[Calamity Soul Core seeking hosts permission to sacrifice broken Rune ‘, will you allow it?]
[Yes/No]
…
“Fuq! That was dangerous.” I yelled as I opened my eyes hurriedly only to be greeted by the worried faces of Susan, Elliott and others.
“Wyatt, you are awake.” Exclaimed everyone seeing me finally snap out of the dazed state.
“Incredible, not only were you able to enter a dead man’s ego gem but also returned unharmed, despite not having an ego gem of your own. Interesting.” Lorenzo commented, witnessing me make it back alive from the damned empty space.
“I thought you were gone for good and I would no longer have to share mama… big sis Susan with you. Damn it, why didn’t you get possessed, you cockroach.” Corey bawled, expressing her sadness at me coming alive from the empty space instead of being possessed.
“Anna, what was that godforsaken place? I almost got killed there.” I ignored Corey and Lorenzo and directly questioned Anna as she had directed me to that empty space.
“Yeah, how did you make it back? On a more serious note, how were you able to enter the ego gem without opening your ego gem?” Instead of answering me, Anna interrogated me. Lorenzo and Corey looked at me very intently waiting to hear my answer.
Thankfully it cleared one of my suspicions about Anna and her loyalty towards me. It seems she did not send me to that space knowing the dangers in them, it was my soul pupils. It seems the bean-sized gem I found in the cloud emperor’s head is termed as ego gem. And one can enter it if only they have opened their ego gem.
“Forget it, it’s your secret. You can tell me when you start to trust me. What matters is that you are back alive.” Anna did not force me to answer the questions she asked me earlier.
“Thank you for being so understanding. Now, will you explain to me what an ego gem is? And who were the people inside it?” Thanking Anna for not prying into my secrets I asked her about the questions that continued to bother me even after my return from the empty space.
