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Chapter 8: Card Creation

Date 18 Mar 2321

Time 17:11

Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Adventure Guild Mall Card Lab

Card lab is just a fancy name for the empty room with good lighting and better soundproofing. Card creation requires the complete concentration of the card apprentice as the card creation process is the most mentally tedious work. 

The card apprentice has to completely map out the whole process of card creation in his mind. Slight disturbance can lead to failure. Therefore card apprentices tend to create cards in the place where they feel most secure, that is their home or office. 

Let's take an example of item card steel sword, in this card creation process the card apprentice has to mentally imagine the incredible temperature of furnace required to melt steel, cast to give shape to the sword, the pounding of casted steel sword to refine it, the sharpening of blade etc all these steps have to be mapped out in the mind of the card apprentice and with the help of grimoire he has to mentally refine the card ingredients following this process to get the end product, the card. 

Now coming to the gale rabbit leather boots Item card that I choose to create, first I need to have a clear picture of the end product I am going to make that is how the gale rabbit leather boots will look? design? how comfortable will they be? what kind of model boots will they be made after?

After thinking hard I settled on the model, a pair of ultra fly boots sold in my previous world, those boots were normal but they still cost me 3000$. They don't judge me, every man likes..no! Respects a good pair of ultra fly boots. 

After deciding on the model of the boots comes the cutting of leather according to the requirements of the boot design. 

Then comes the stitching part, this part is the trickiest as various stitching techniques are required to get the perfect shape and design to create a good pair of ultra fly boots. 

Most important of all the boots should be built around the common core as the centre. The core is named core because it is the core of any card. After all, they house the soul abilities of the card. 

Once the boots are ready then I have to transfer soul abilities from gale rabbit core to the common core of the leather boots. 

All the aforementioned steps have to be carried out very carefully and precisely, otherwise slight mistakes can lead to a decrease in the durability rating and an increase in star rating. 

Decreased durability rating means low quality while increased star rating means the card apprentice has to use more star power to activate the card. 

This will lead to a decrease in the price of the card. This is also the reason why most of the card apprentices do not prefer to use complicated models leading to most cards having just plain design. 

And also the reason why card apprentices choose to create cards in the safety of the environment that they are familiar with. 

After mapping out the card creation process I took out the first set of card ingredients and placed them on the card creation page of the grimoire. 

After that, I closed my eyes and poured my mental strength into the grimoire to guide me through the process of card creation.

Since I had already chosen the model of boots, I immediately started to cut the leather as per the design requirements mentally. 

But to my surprise this step turned out to be much harder than I had thought, the leather pieces were not cut cleanly, did I not apply enough mental strength or was it something else I don't know. 

If the leather pieces are not cut neatly then it will hinder the stitching process, so we will not get the desired design leading to the creation of a cheap knock off version. 

I tried to trim the edges of the leather neatly but it made it worse, finally, I was beginning to understand why the card apprentice chose to go for plain models with less complicated design. 

I began to sweat because at this rate the leather will be damaged before I even started the true process of card creation. I was frustrated since all the solutions I came up with didn't seem to work. 

Suddenly I had an epiphany, I remembered that once papa Wyatt said I should not focus on shaping and refining the ingredients itself but shaping and refining the aura of the ingredients and the card creation will become a lot easier. 

What is the aura? When young Wyatt asked, papa Wyatt said that aura is like the soul of the ingredients, one can only feel it with enough concentration and experience but never see it. 

Soul of ingredients, was he talking about the string pathways of everything I saw earlier using the soul pupils. I wasn't confident but I decided to give it a try


Chapter 9: Ultra Fly Boots

Date 18 Mar 2321

Time 17:27

Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Guild Association Mall, Card Lab

After activating soul pupils, I could see that the soul pathway of the leather pieces I cut earlier was messy leading to unclean cut and dull edges. 

I mentally try to arrange this messy soul pathway to define the boundaries of leather pieces as I desire to refer to the aforementioned design. 

Finally, I was able to cut all the pieces neatly, perfectly fitting the design requirements. I did not turn off the Soul pupils but kept them activated as I proceeded to the stitching part of the card creation process. 

And I was right to do so, thanks to soul pupils I was able to see the soul pathways meet and converge as I stitched the leather pieces together enabling me to blend the soul pathways of each piece perfectly. 

The most important and stressed part was where I had to blend the soul pathways of the common core to the soul pathways of leather.

Cores are the most important part of the card because not only do they house card abilities but also help the card to morph between the actual item and the card itself. 

Then finally came the time to transfer soul abilities from the gale rabbit core to the gale rabbit leather boots core. 

With the help of soul pupils, I could see this bright mass of light within the gale rabbit core and just a speck of light in the gale rabbit leather boots core. 

If I was right, this bright mass of light within the gale rabbit core should be its soul abilities. The speck of light in the gale rabbit leather boots core should be the card morphing ability. 

Now all I have to do is to make sure that the bright mass of light within the gale rabbit core is perfectly transferred to the gale rabbit leather boots core without any leaks.

Because leak of the bright light would lead to more than just decrease of durability ratings and increase in star ratings, it would lead to incomplete transfer meaning loss of some of the soul abilities inside gale rabbit core or even incomplete soul abilities inside the gale rabbit leather boots core. 

Using my mental strength as a medium I slowly began to transfer the bright mass of light from within the gale rabbit core to the gale rabbit leather boots core. 

Once the bright mass of light was out of the core it became exciting and wild unlike its tranquil self within the core. Making it harder for me to complete the transfer process without any leaks. 

Thanks to my soul pupils unlike other card apprentices I could see the bright mass of light, instead of relying on my senses to feel the bright mass of light. So making it easier for me to avoid any leakage during transfer but still, it was Stressful. 

Card Creation Complete! 

Finally, I deactivated my soul eyes to see the card I had created, the three ingredients card in the card creation page had vanished and left behind only one card [Gale Rabbit Leather Boots]

[Card Name - Gale Rabbit Leather Boots

 Card Type - Item Card

 Card Rank - F rank, Common grade

 Card Rating - 1star

 Card Durability - [ 97/100]

 Card Effect - Touched by gale spirit(passive), additional effects - Sprint( active), Double Jump(active) ]

Touched by Gale spirit - agility +1(passive) 

Sprint(active) - Increased agility for a minute.

Cooldown time 120 seconds. 

Double Jump(active) - ability to jump second time by step on air.

Cooldown time 10 seconds. 

"X X" I cursed out loud seeing the specs of my newly created card, I got goosebumps seeing how overpowered this card was compared to the same one's being sold in the mall. 

Three abilities with the lowest possible star ratings and near-perfect durability rating, this card was the definition of the perfect card. I had not seen an F rank card with three abilities and such perfect star and durability ratings. 

I understood why my card was better than the ones sold in the mall because unlike me other card apprentice did not have a cheat like an origin card ability. If not for my soul pupils I would not be able to create a single Item card even after using all three of the card ingredients sets.

The only thing that I was not satisfied with was the lack of colour to the boots, instead of ultra fly boots they looked like wood ultra fly boots. And I was not a fan of wood boots. 

Thinking of this I called the Saleslady using my grimoire, 

[Please wait your allotted sales representative will reach you soon]

[Expected wait time 1 minute.]

Knock! knock! 

"May I come in sir?"

Soon I heard the knock on the card lab door and the same bob cut brunette in office attire from earlier walked in. 

"How may I help you, sir?"

"I need good quality dyes for my gale rabbit leather, what would you recommend?"

"I would recommend Henna generic dyes, they are natural, long-lasting, more dust resistant and have a glossy touch to them. But they cost 50$ a can."

"Okay get me four cans of blue, black, white and red colour."

"Sure sir."

After receiving the dyes, I recreated the first Gale rabbit leather boots card again but this time with a white body and red sole but regrettable-ly its durability decreased to [92/92].

I created two more Gale rabbit leather boots cards with the remaining two sets of card ingredients, one with a black body and blue sole while another one was completely red. this time both the cards had a perfect durability rating of [100/100].

'Now these what I call ultra fly boots' I thought looking at three pairs of Gale rabbit leather boots in front of me.


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