Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2490: Righteous Or Self-Righteous?

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

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

I sensed the vibration even before Dean Faust warned me, as the source of the vibration turned out to be the temporal anchor. Standing on the temporal anchor, I was the first person to notice it. As the vibration in the temporal anchor intensified, the surrounding space and time began to vibrate and morph into a cyclone of sorts. Only when I listened to Dean Faust’s warning did I realize that it wasn’t a temporal cyclone but a time tunnel used by them to send the time vestige and the other parts of the array back in the past.

"Hurry, young friend, get out of there!" Dean Faust exclaimed again. However, it was too late; he was in the eye of the time tunnel. The temporal and spatial forces during the time tunnel’s formation were too great even for their ex-Dean Lucine, a venerable Card Demigod. If she couldn’t escape it, how could a teenage Card Master possibly escape? Not to mention, he was at the eye of the time tunnel, where the acting forces were the strongest.

Just when Dean Faust was thinking his young friend will be sucked into the temporal and spatial forces from the formation of the time tunnel and get lost in unknown time and space, he noticed something astonishing, his young friend unharmed by the combined forces of time and space with the time tunnel’s formation.

"What are the odds of that," Dean Faust uttered in disbelief before he continued, "Young friend, the calm is fleeting, and you must be prepared to get out of there somehow. Let me think..."

The eye of the time tunnel was the dangerous place to be caught in. It was where the temporal and spatial forces converge and diverge with the formation and collapse of the time tunnel. But there was a small spot in the eye that expanded as the forces began to form the walls of the time tunnel. It was only calm until the time tunnel was formed. Then it becomes the bridge connecting past, present, and future. Anyone unfortunate enough to be‌ inside it would be lost in time.

Dean Faust didn’t know if his young friend was lucky or unlucky to have found that one safe zone in the eye of the circle. However, they didn’t have much time as only seconds remained for the time tunnel to be formed. Before that happened, the young man had to get out of there or get lost in time for eternity. That was easier said than done, as the walls of the time tunnel that kept him safe for now in that one spot were also what kept him trapped in that spot until the inevitable.

In just a fraction of a second, Dean Faust processed his comprehension and understanding of space rule, time rule, and the time tunnel, but everything said that he should say his goodbye to his young friend now because a couple seconds later it will be too late.

In the next fraction of a second, Dean Faust’s mind and heart underwent a huge turmoil. Suppressing his internal turmoil, Dean Faust finally bid goodbye to his young friend, pleading, "Wyatt, I’m sorry, there is nothing I can do to help you. Also, I hate to have to ask you this, but this is important. It concerns the fate of every card apprentice alive and to be born. So, I will be shameless and ask,

What will happen to the VR-universe after your demise? Have you made any prior arrangements? If not, if you can find it in you to trust me, I promise you I will use the VR-universe to usher the card world into a new era.

Wyatt, I am begging you, please don’t let our past differences rob the Card World of what could be the biggest leap for the entire card apprentice society since its foundation. I swear in the presence of the Card World, I will not only continue your legacy impartially but pass it on to a worthy heir when it is time."

"..." I, who was monitoring the formation of the time tunnel from within the safe spot in its eye, was left speechless listening to Dean Faust’s pleas. I could be shameless when I needed to be, but Dean Faust, he took to another level. What he was doing was akin to begging your dying enemy to give their will to you.

Wasn’t he supposed to be a brilliant mind of his time? I still didn’t understand what made him think that this would work. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. At least this way I got to understand his true thoughts. I guess he thought it wasn’t necessary to hide his thoughts from a dying man.

Why was I not panicking when my enemies were panicking for me? That was because of the simple fact that the time rules of the myriad realms didn’t affect me, and thanks to my celestial force, so did space rules. The only reason I didn’t move or try to leave the eye of the time tunnel was that I was afraid my interruption might cause the time tunnel to backfire, putting the time vestige and the souls of those inside it in danger. Therefore, in order to ensure their safe arrival, I decided to do something I wouldn’t recommend to anyone else: Using the forming time tunnel to travel to the past from where the time vestige was coming to the present.

Was I not afraid of getting lost in time for eternity? No, because I had saved the energy signature and the vibration frequency at which the temporal anchor vibrated before commencing the formation of the time tunnel.

I will use the temporal anchor’s energy signature to navigate through time and resonate at the frequency it did to summon the time tunnel, to find my way back to the present.