Date- 3 April 2321
Time- 01:24
Location- Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no.234, Card Lab
Visualizing a clear picture of how I wanted to shape Asong’s origin card I began editing the soul pathway and arrangements of the modified soul pathways of Asong’s fate ingredient in the origin core. After reaching the required result I stopped and without wasting any more time I excited the soul pathway that morphed the origin core into an origin card, with that the origin core shone brightly and raised to the ceiling of the card lad, feeling the disturbance Asong who was meditating opened her eyes to look at the source of the bright light only to find a brilliant core floating by the ceiling of the card lab.
“World’s Blessing” Asong blurted out looking at the core, floating by the ceiling of the card lab.
Hearing Asong I was shocked because the world’s blessing was not something anybody could receive, only the chosen few could receive it, and those that received it went on to become big figures in the history of this world. To think that Asong was one of them.
The World’s will doesn’t give its blessing to everybody, one has to have a very high contribution to the world. Contributing to the world was not something everybody could achieve, not because nobody wanted to contribute to the world but because nobody knew what could be considered a contribution to the world. Many people have tried different ways to contribute to the world but none were ever awarded, begging the question of what was considered a contribution toward the world by the world’s will, and on what basis did the world’s will judge whom to give its blessing. And the only answer the card apprentice could reach till now was killing devils. After centuries of trial and error, this was the only surefire way to be recognized as a contribution to the world.
Therefore it was astonishing to see that some like Asong who was of a card soldier realm and couldn’t cultivate any further because of her clogged soul pathway were being given the world’s blessing. I know Asong was a good person and had lived a life fighting to represent the oppressed and voiceless. But still, was this all it took to get recognized by the world’s will and be rewarded with the world’s blessing, did that mean that to gain the world’s blessing all one had to do was be good?
Yeah, right. As if the card apprentices of the past had not thought of this when they tried numerous methods to gain world blessing. If you ask me, I think that the world’s blessing was random. I say this because Asong did not receive a world blessing in the future vision seen by the clown mask. If considered that all it took to get the world’s blessing was to be good than the past Asong who had lived longer than this Asong and had done way more good yet she had not received a world’s blessing, why was that? This clearly proved that being good was not a criterion for a person to receive the world’s blessing.
The thought that Asong received a world’s blessing in this life could be because of the origin card I was creating for her did cross my mind but I shook my head scolding myself, ‘narcissistic much?’
It was not odd that Asong was receiving the world’s blessing through her origin card because in past the card apprentice has received the world’s blessing in different ways and in different circumstances such as forging an ego gem, healing people, completing a certain dungeon, etc so it would be arrogant of me to think that my card expertise was the reason behind Asong receiving the world’s blessing through her origin card.
Though it was a mystery as to what satisfied the conditions to be recognized by the world’s will and be awarded a world’s blessing, the benefits of the world’s blessing were not a mystery.
According to history, those who have ever received the world’s blessing so far each one of them has stepped into the demigod realm and stood at the top of the world’s power system. Therefore there was a rumor that if you receive the world’s blessing you were destined to become a demigod but the experts believed that the world recognized the people that it had given its blessing because they were worthy to become a demigod. Therefore the card apprentices that became demigods after receiving the world’s blessing were titled the true demigods.
The title true demigod was best suited to the demigods with the blessing of the world because compared to them the other demigods failed in every possible way, be it strength, be it the comprehension of the rules, or the divinity that they forged, True demigods were better than the regular demigods. It was as if the true demigods were the children of the world while the other demigods were adopted children. The treatment these demigods received from the world and the energies in it were totally different compared to what True demigods received, therefore in the past demigods tirelessly tried to find ways to contribute to the world and receive its blessing only to find that the only way they could get the world’s blessing was defeating the devils that invaded the world. So hunting for the demon worshippers was in full swing until the demon worshippers were dropped to their current state where they did not dare to reveal their presence to the world. Fearing that they will be forced by some desperate demigod to sacrifice and summon a devil for the demigod to slaughter and receive the world’s blessing which would help the said demigods with their active soul control, comprehension of the rules, and enhancing their divinity.
The benefits of the world’s blessing were not just for the card apprentice in the demigod realm but for the regular realms too. Let’s take Asong for example, now she could be considered the darling of the world, everything in this world would favor her, be it soul energy or the rules or something beyond mortal reaches like the entity luck and fate. Therefore I could not help but feel excited whenever I thought about how the world’s blessing would affect Asong’s origin card.
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