Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 438: Blood

Date- 28 Mar 2321

Time- 16:14

Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon

“Hey, Bloodette, can I use the cave to comprehend the World rule ‘Blood’ ?” Seeing that Cortney and Bloodette would be busy refining the soul energy using the basic circulation method with the help of their cheat skill, soul energy manipulation, I decided to make use of this time to comprehend the blood rule and help my ego elemental Blood Swordsman heal its rune.

“Sure, go ahead make yourself at home.” Red-skinned Cortney, Who sat in the lotus position to practice basic circulation method, answered in Bloodette’s voice.

“Thank you,” thanking Bloodette, I did not waste time and summoned Blood Swordsman.

“Summon Blood Swordsman.”

Blood Swordsman is an Ego elemental whose rune is forged using the World Rule ‘Blood’. Its original owner developed this rune after gaining enlightenment in sword art and blood rule. Using the new knowledge in the sword art and his high tier Blood rule, he created the Blood Sword rune. And using this rune, the original owner acquired the title Blood Swordsman. After his death, the Rune broke, and its spirit took the shape of its owner and the title Blood Swordsman.

This rune is very powerful, and the proof of that is its owner was able to acquire a title using it. But as a Broken rune, most of its power has been lost, only a few basic skills and memories remain intact. Therefore Blood Sword rune is unable to display its true strength. Now that I got the chance to bring the Blood sword rune back to its glory, I did not hesitate to do so. After all, the stronger it was, the safer I was.

Usually, healing a broken rune means reforging the entire broken rune using the rule power of the new owner and in the image of his comprehension of the rule. But this also meant that the old rune was no longer there. Reforging is a very tedious and expensive method. The amount of resources spent to reforge a broken rune, or an existing low-level rune, one can forge a new rune instead. Therefore not many card apprentices chose to do this as it would be better to forge a new rune.

But there are a few Card apprentices who, in search of quick power, end up placing a broken rune in their ego gem. But once they reach a higher realm, these Broken runes become redundant. Yet they will continue to feed like a parasite in their ego gem. Having realized the cost of using broken runes, many card apprentices chose to rectify their past mistakes by reforging the broken rune and its spirit in their image. This way, the toll of the parasitic nature of the broken rune can be negated.

Since the Blood Swordsman is also a broken rune, I would also have to follow the reforge path like the other Card apprentices if not for my Calamity Soul Gem and Calamity Daughter gem. The broken rune blood sword has its personal ego gem, a Calamity daughter gem, which the broken rune’s spirit can use to connect with the world and comprehend the world rune ‘Blood.’ And using the blood rule it has comprehended, it can heal itself.

This way, I will not have to kill the Spirit of the broken rune meaning the enlightenment of its original owner will still be intact. As the spirit of the broken rune heals itself, it can regain its former glory. And the enlightenment of its original owner will relive as an Ego elemental Blood Swordsman and can genuinely showcase the strength of the Blood Sword rune.

If all my Ego elemental’s broken runes are able to heal themselves to their former strength, then my strength would rise by another fold. Unfortunately, the chances of me finding or getting a chance to visit a holy place of specific rules to comprehend a rule and heal broken runes like today are near zero.

The Ego elementals can still use their calamity daughter gem to comprehend their respective rules. But the synchronization rate of the calamity gem will drop by a lot to the level of average grade talent.

Basically, those who have my ego gem will get a synchronization rate of a Good grade talent or Excellent grade talent depending upon the original synchronization talent of the host of the calamity gem. Meaning if the original talent of the host is Average talent, then the calamity gem will promote his synchronization talent to excellent talent. If the original talent of the host is poor talent, then the calamity gem will promote his talent to the level of Good grade talent.

For example, Van’s original synchronization talent was poor grade talent. With that grade of talent, he should forget about forging runes or comprehending rules to a high level. Fortunately for him, he is my subordinate and has a Calamity daughter gem which boosted his synchronization talent to good grade talent. Calamity’s daughter gem is powerful but is not omnipotent. It also has limits to how much of a boost it can give.

Similarly, Broken runes have no ability to connect to the world, let alone a synchronization rate. It’s already a miracle that the calamity daughter gem has given it an average grade synchronization talent. The synchronization talent of the broken rune is not set to average grade talent, but that is the highest it can get. If the broken rune is heavily damaged, then the highest synchronization talent it can get is poor grade talent.

Therefore I could kiss the dream of me forming an army of ego elements who have healed their broken runes goodbye. It’s not impossible, but it will require a lot of time. Even with an average grade synchronization talent, it will take the broken runs nearly one to two years at the minimum to heal themselves to their former glory. If not for me finding this cave, I never planned to have Blood Swordsman heal itself.

On another thought, though, I can’t form an army of ego elementals who have healed their broken runes due to lack of synchronization talent and resources. Still, I could create an army of Blood ego elementals with complete runes. Yes, that was quite possible. With this blood cave, I could achieve that. And if Boodette cooperates by creating more of her blood pills, then I can have an army of Blood ego elements a lot faster.

But this would mean I would have to gather a lot of broken runes of blood rule. That is tricky. With Anna as my only source of acquiring broken runes, it gets trickier. I do not think the Blood rule and runes are popular. I have heard that after the incident with demigod Redfall the card apprentices have become wary of Blood rules and runes. The story of Demigod Redfall secretly cultivating humans as Blood slaves to make a breakthrough in his realm had sent a chill in the spin of many vile and good men that have heard this story. Come to think of it, Sarah is Demigod Redfall’s last successor. Will she also have an affinity to blood rule as he did? It would be interesting to see if that’s the case.

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Having ordered Blood swordsman to comprehend blood rule and heal itself. I also sat down in a lotus position and closed my eyes to enter the one with the world state to connect with the world. This is the second time I will be connecting with the world after my first try at the card stadium VIP box. My first experience with the world was not that memorable as it lasted for a short time. And the short time that I spent in the one with the world state, I spent most of it floating in the embrace of various energies, which apparently turned out to be the rules within the world that showed preferential treatment to me based on my synchronization talent grade.

Being the second time entering the one with the world state, I was looking forward to exploring more about the world and its various rules. My previous experience, if not for my vigilance, could have been much pleasant and informative. Due to my subconscious caution as a first-timer, I could not explore much. But this time, too, I can not allow myself to get lost in the world and its supernatural wonders as I had the Rule to comprehend.

Not just comprehend but to achieve high comprehension in blood rule. As higher the level of the blood rule I comprehend, I could use it to forge a higher tier of rune. Setting my priorities straight, I entered the one with the world state with a firm will to not be lost in the vastness of the world and its rules.

Due to my astonishingly high synchronization rate, It was easier said than done. Because of my near-perfect grade talent, I was able to enjoy the highest level of immersion with the world and the rules within it. Which meant I would comprehend rules faster than anyone else, but I had my problems, and they were very different from other card apprentices. Others had to find a rule with affinity to them, but for me, I had to choose out of hundreds of rules lining up to be comprehended by me. Thankfully I have a basic comprehension of blood rule, which will be my guide to Blood rule.