Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2545: Triunion Four-Petal Viltronian Vine

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning, Time Vestige, Morningstar University 2nd Campus

With enough nutrition and time, a Viltronian could grow into a Devil-rank being and even reach the Ruler-class. Even with the bare minimum nutrition, they could survive in the harshest corners of the Myriad Realms. Their problem wasn’t capability—it was themselves. They were an overly aggressive race, challenging anything and everything with their nearly indestructible bodies, including their own kind. Because of that, most of them died long before they ever reached the age required to unleash their true potential and dominate the Myriad Realms.

Yes—age. All they truly needed was to live long enough. But this foolish race couldn’t even manage that. As far as I knew, not a single one had ever lived to see their full potential. Almost all of them died prematurely, usually at the hands of their own clansmen. They loved picking fights far beyond what their strength could handle. Jaya Keith was a perfect example of that.

In some ways, the Four Petal Vines were similar to Viltronians, though not nearly as exaggerated. With enough nutrition, a Four Petal Vine could survive almost indefinitely, even in the harshest corners of the Myriad Realms. However, their roots were highly coveted, so the moment they were discovered by anyone, they were harvested without hesitation.

By giving the vines a demonic core, my plan was to have Lucine feed them her blood inside the time-expansion chamber until they reached Devil rank and a semi-noble class. After that, I would harvest their roots—roots that would have taken on Lucine’s shape, since they had fed exclusively on her blood. I would then craft those roots and her incarnation together into her substitute and transfer the time-rule dementia into them, freeing Lucine from the disease once and for all.

However, because the time vestige didn’t produce enough refined time-rule power to support this plan, I shifted to using raw time-rule power instead, which was abundantly available. And the only beings I knew with the physique to withstand the temper of temporal forces were the Viltronians. Ahalya’s Taintless Physique was another option, but I didn’t have enough data on it, so I chose to stick with what I understood well.

A Four-Petal Viltronian Vine was far more domineering than a Four-Petal Demonic Vine. According to Hive AI and my calculations, Lucine’s body could barely keep up with the consumption demands of a Triunion Four-Petal Viltronian Vine created using my Fate Plunder Blood rule meaning and three Four-Petal Viltronian Vines. If she alone bore the burden of nourishing them to Devil rank, her demigod body would be damaged beyond repair. It would be basically useless.

So instead of extracting the disease from Lucine’s body, I chose to extract Lucine’s divinity from her body—transferring it into the need body crafted from the roots of devil-rank Triunion Four-Petal Viltronian Vine while using her old body and her incarnation to refine a perfect substitute, which would carry the time-rule dementia in her place.

Lucine had been yelling it from the start: there was no cure for time-rule dementia. Even celestials were helpless before it. She was right. However, she was forgetting that a celestial suffering from time-rule dementia in one timeline wouldn’t be suffering from it in another. She herself was a living example of that.

Yes, there was no cure for time-rule dementia, but their other methods to deal with it. The question was whether one was prepared to pay the price needed. In Lucine’s case, it was her old body and perfect incarnation created using soul sour fruit.

Going back to the basics. Lucine had received it as punishment for violating a time taboo. That meant that as long as there was someone there to bear the punishment in her place, she was free. Just like how the celestials use their alternate selves throughout the timeline to bare theirs. I.e. was to create a perfect substitute to bear this punishment for her. Not just any substitute would work; it had to be convincing enough to fool time itself.

To create something that was convincing, I had no choice but to use Lucine’s incarnation. And now that I could use her body as well, the chances of success increased dramatically.

Without wasting a moment, I got to work. Laying the ingredients onto my unranked grimoire’s crafting page, I started by refining the Clampedo cores and the Demon Face Mushroom beard strands into Viltronian cores for the three four-petal vines. Once the cores were ready, I infused them into the vines, transforming the three Four-Petal Vines into Three Four-Petal Viltronian Vines. Then, using my Blood Fate Plunder rule meaning—and the natural connection the vines shared—I pushed the mutation further, merging them into a Triunion Four-Petal Viltronian Vine.

Setting aside the soul pathways of the Triunion Four-Petal Viltronian Vine, I took the four tempered stones of the Millennium Titan and shaped them into large stone pots. I filled each one with 1,500 kilograms of Giya’s red Virgin Clay, then planted the bodies of the Four-Petal Viltronian Vines in three of the pots.

Next, I used the Breath of Erosion to refine 500 grams of Starfall Moss, thirty units of Lucid Temporal Petal, six units of Temporal Bloom Thyme with stems, eighteen units of Meridian Lotus, one hundred grams of Temporal Echo Resin, and thirty grams of Rift Glass Powder. After that, I ground everything into fine dust and mixed it into fifteen kiloliters of Dark Spring Dew collected at sunrise.

I used this mixture as fertilizer for the Triunion Four-Petal Viltronian Vine housed in the three pots made from the Millennium Titan’s tempered stones and filled with Giya’s virgin clay. Once everything was prepared, I summoned all four stone pots into the card lab.

Turning to the curious Lucine, I said, "Let’s take these pots to the time-expansion chamber and officially begin your treatment. Come, lead the way."