Location- Sky Blossom City, Card stadium, Arena no.2
Winning, how important is it to you? How much are you willing to sacrifice for it? What are you willing to sacrifice for it? Wealth? Health? Friends? Family? Soul? Wealth is volatile, one day you lose it another day you earn it but the other four are irreplaceable. You have to be aware of what you are willing to sacrifice.
In Corey’s case, she decided to sacrifice her health to win over me by exploding the whole magma domain she had created. The power from the explosion of the magma domain was more than enough to incinerate me but the only problem was it was enough to incinerate her too.
What was Corey thinking? Did she feel that she could survive this explosion? I would survive the explosion but my Calamity Soul Gem would be exposed. Hiding it from the general populace for me was as important as not losing Susan to Corey.
There was a split-second period for judgment between Corey’s mental command to explode the magma furnace and the magma furnace actually exploding.
I did not know what Corey was planning with this suicide move but I did not plan to reveal my must-take to grave secrets because of her crazy decision. Therefore I did the only sane thing even if it cost me this battle,
“Summon – Cloud Lord – Claude” to not fall with Corey’s suicide move I summoned the Name Calamity daughter Rune Card Cloud Lord and had him free the exploding magma with the condensation part of his world rule ‘cloud’.
To my surprise, I was not the only one who was thinking of making use of world runes. Corey summoned her Ego flames to protect her from the magma explosion. Which also indirectly saved her from being frozen by Cloud Lord’s condensation.
Unlike me who used my rule to freeze the entire magma from exploding, Corey chose to use her rule to just save her ass hoping the exploding magma would incinerate me.
“Did you just try to kill me?” I asked Corey with frigid eyes.
“No, I knew you would survive that. But hey look on the bright side we both used the rune cards simultaneously. So our score is still a draw.” Corey replied nonchalantly while the evo flame covered her entire body and danced with the passing wind.
Hearing Corey I realized what she tried to pull off by exploding the whole magma domain was to force me to use rune cards before her.
Being constrained by my floating arms and her small magma explosions unable to get rid of them, Corey had no choice but to make use of her rune cards but by doing so it meant that she would lose a battle to me. Which she did not like so she created a scenario where we both would be forced to use rune cards.
And having the entire magma domain explode was it. But this also provided Corey a slight chance of winning. That is to see which one of us would cave first and use their rune card. This tactic I had seen in a racing movie back on earth. Where both the car racers drive towards each other at the fastest speed possible and the first one to cave and deviate from the path would be the loser.
An impressive judgment on Corey’s part. Not only did she manage to turn a sure loss into a draw but she had a fighting chance that she could win by outlasting me.
Corey’s plan may have worked in her favor if I was not sensitive to her magma explosion and suspected her motives for a suicide move. Thanks to soul pathway echolocation and soul pupils I could easily tell when the Magma was going to explode. Thus was the reason I was able to not use the rune card until the last second to the magma explosion.
And I always suspected that there was more to Corey’s move of exploding the magma domain so I had to make sure if she was really going to explode the magma domain and was not just bluffing. Which led to me not using the rune cards till the last second. Seeing me wait to the last second Corey had no choice but to explode the magma and protect herself with her Ego Flame. Which led to us both using the rune cards simultaneously. And the skill card battle ended in a draw.
“Wait, is that created using the rune of the Card emperor that southern emperor had killed? How were you able to use a broken rune to create an elemental summon rune card? How did you manage to achieve that with your strength?
Broken runes are very unstable and cannot be used to create an elemental summon rune card. Was it Anna who helped you create that rune card? Even if she did, you should not be able to command it so perfectly. How are you doing that? ” This time it was Corey’s turn to be shocked. The feat of using broken runes to form elemental summon rune cards was not something a low-level card apprentice can achieve. No matter how good my Ego Gem quality is this was impossible for someone of my realm to achieve therefore Corey believed that Anna helped me forge an elemental summon rune card using a broken rune.
Even if Anna helped me to forge the elemental rune card then how was I able to control this elemental summon? Rune cards are not like normal cards they have sentience. And do not easily accept a new master. The sentience of the rune is way more advanced than the Beast Will. Comparing the sentience of Beast will to rune was like comparing a child and a graduate.
Location : 3 km above card stadium.
“Wow, this kid is something else. I thought Corey was a genius to create a dimensional portal with a bunch of skeletons but he has an elemental rune summon card at Card Soldier realm. These two are monstrous geniuses to be able to create their ego gem at card soldier realm. Remind me again when did you form your ego gem cousin?” Luna was impressed by the talent displayed by Corey. But to her surprise, there was another monster genius who not only forged an ego gem but also forged an elemental rune summon card.