Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 16:09
Location Sky Blossom City, Fine Gold Resort, Hot Springs Bathhouse no.02
I was offered 100 million in fees for a single origin card creation.
Here I was planning different ways to milk Jaya Dry but she bombed my mind with hugeass digits.
100 million was a lot for me, even for Jaya but she was desperate enough to be willing to spend that exuberant amount of money.
This also said that the 100 million was not easy to take, as the condition was I would be paid only if I was successful.
I bet Jaya should have already consulted many renowned and powerful Card creationists for the creation of her origin card. I don't know why but something happened that I was her last choice for the creation of her origin card.
The more I thought about it the more I felt that Jaya was not telling me the complete story and she may even be lying to me.
What could make her so desperate enough to offer 100 million to a high schooler whom she just met to create her origin card?
I chose to ignore these thoughts as currently I had no option other than to help Jaya create an origin card.
"May I see your fate ingredient to get an idea of what I am dealing with here." I asked
"Here you go." Replied Jaya as she passed me a blue stone.
....
Jaya Keith an orphan, God may have taken one family from her but gave another in return, that is her sister Diana her only relative and family.
Jaya believed that even her birth parents would not have loved her as much as her sister did and never felt that she lacked a father or mother because of her sister Diana who fulfilled those roles excellently.
Jaya never thought about her parents or bothered to know who they were. She has very negligible feelings for them as she never met or knew them in person, as they were no more and all they left behind was a blue stone to remember them by.
She never felt an identity crisis like most orphans do, because she knew who she was, she was the younger sister of Diana Keith and the lone heiress of the Fine Gold empire.
Jaya had nothing to complain about the present life of hers and was satisfied with it until she contracted a grimoire and ascended to the Card student realm.
The blue stone, the last thing left for by her birth parents which she carried on her since her childhood, turned out to be her fate ingredient.
At first, Jaya thought nothing of it, she thought maybe her stronger emotional attachment to it turned it into her fate ingredient.
But when she consulted the Fine Gold card creationists to use the blue stone to create her origin card the company card creationists told her that her blue stone was no ordinary stone it contained a huge amount of soul power and they could not proceed with card creation until they knew what this stone was and what it was capable of.
Even though Jaya did not know who her parents were she always thought that they must be normal people with tragic fate. But finding that blue stone was no ordinary stone changed her opinion.
Jaya who did not care about her past or birth parents suddenly became curious about her past and her birth parents.
To quench her curiosity Jaya could only turn to one person, her sister Diana.
When questioned Diana did not hide anything respecting Jaya's decision she revealed everything she knew about Jaya's past.
She said that she did not know who Jaya's parents were and she found baby Jaya abandoned in a cleared B-rank field dungeon ground naked covered in dirt holding the blue stone.
It seems when Diana tried to take the blue stone baby Jaya would cry relentlessly. So she thought that the blue stone must be important to baby Jaya and let her keep it.
According to Diana seeing how baby Jaya was abandoned in a dungeon Jaya's birth parents may have fallen in the dungeon.
what puzzled them was why would any parent bring a three-year-old baby girl to the dungeon.
Getting no answers but more questions about her past Jaya who did not care about her origin now grew real curious about it.
Who were her parents? Why did they abandon her? Were they still alive? Was she left to die in a cleared B rank field dungeon?
Not just that ever since the blue stone became her fate ingredient Jaya always felt that a part of her was missing and it was calling to her from within the blue stone.
As time went by these feelings of missing a part of herself and calling from within the blue stone grew stronger within Jaya until it became unbearable and turned into agony.
Jaya started to suffer from insomnia and barely ever slept. she finally decided to turn the blue stone into an origin card no matter the cost.
But her sister thought it was not worth it because if the card creation failed then Jaya would permanently lose the missing part of her within the blue stone as the failure in card creation results in the destruction of the ingredients used for card creation.
Jaya had a different opinion as she would rather lose this part of hers than spend her life in agony unable to sleep and be haunted by the missing part in her nightmare.
When she went to the card creationist for the creation of the card they refused as they were threatened by Diana not to help Jaya in the card creation. Be it the company card creationist or the freelance card creationist they all refused to help Jaya.
When she heard Wyatt created an undead summon card with just a bone using the hypothesis of transferring the ram bull ability, a light bulb lit in Jaya's mind.
So Jaya did not hesitate to seduce Wyatt to help her create her Origin card using 100 million dollars.
Time to get serious!
(2/10) this week.
Backlog chapters (0/18).
Taskboard :
1- 200+ weekly power stones!
reward - 1 extra chapter this week
2- 300+ weekly power stones!
reward - 2 extra chapters this week
3- 400+ weekly power stones!
rewards - 4 chapters this week
Date 21 Mar 2321
Time 16:12
Location Sky Blossom City, Fine Gold Resort, Hot Springs Bathhouse no.02
Taking the Blue stone from Jaya I began to appraise it using my soul pupils. What I saw was so breathtaking and unbelievable that I almost forgot to breathe.
I saw all the soul pathways within the stone come together to form mini Jaya in the centre of the blue stone, the mini Jaya was very serene and tranquil similar to an angel from heaven so lifelike with her eyes closed it looked as if a real goddess was sleeping.
This...this how is this even possible, this blue stone was not any stone it seemed to be a soul core, soul core of Jaya at that. Only beasts are meant to have a soul core, not humans.
I mean the blue stone contained a part of Jaya's will and housed huge soul energy. Similar to a beast core which holds the beast's will, soul abilities and soul energy.
What's more unimaginable is that the mini Jaya in the blue stone was wearing some kind of uniform made of tight spandex along with a cape. This uniform was a lot similar to a superhero costume shown in superhero comics back on earth.
That was not important, only beasts summoned by dungeons have a soul core. So how come Jaya a human has a soul core. Is Jaya a beast in disguise? or is the stone an artificial soul core for humans?
Either of the two was a huge discovery, but the first one seemed less likely and the latter one was near impossible.
Jaya couldn't be a beast in disguise as I checked her with my soul pupils, the movement that thought crossed my mind. Her soul pathways were normal and similar to an average human being.
leaving me with only one reasonable explanation that the blue stone is an artificial soul core.
Artificial soul core could revolutionize the whole power system of humankind introducing a new power system to the world.
Right now humans use grimoire but if they can also have soul cores like beasts then a whole new door of possibilities opens up to be explored.
I had so many questions for Jaya yet I could not ask her because the blue stone was made in such a way that a card apprentice could not tell it apart from a normal stone.
Even the experienced eye could only tell that this stone holds a large amount of soul energy but they would never guess that this is soul core. There is no way one could tell it is a soul core unless they can perceive soul pathways.
If I questioned Jaya about the artificial soul core then I would be hinting to her that I can perceive the soul pathway in some way. It would not take her long to connect the dots and guess that my origin card is not aura sight but a mutated version of aura sight which allows me to see soul pathways.
I could ask her without spooking her or arousing any suspicion. I had to because artificial soul core for humans is a huge deal this meant humans did not need a grimoire or cards anymore they could just add soul abilities to their soul core similar to how beasts can.
"Can I ask where you got this blue stone?" I asked
"No" Jaya flatly refused with no room for further questions.
"Do you have more stones of a similar kind?" I had to ask, I could not just let go as my curiosity would not allow it.
"Why so many questions? Just do what you are told" Jaya rudely answered reminding me to ask fewer questions.
I seem to have said the same thing to Susan when I first met her, ah karma.
"This stone is very peculiar. It looks like a stone but contains huge soul energy, unlike a stone. If I had extra stones of a similar kind I could perform some tests to check what it is and what it is capable of. " I tried to reason with her.
Because, If I could get my hands on a couple of artificial soul cores I was sure I could uncover secrets behind them and make a soul core of my own using the soul pupil.
"No, this is the only one I have. can you create an origin card using it or not." Jaya impatiently answered.
"No, worries I can. I was excited to see a stone that could hold so much soul energy. I guess that is why it's worthy of being a fate ingredient." It seems I can not get any info, seeing how tight-lipped Jaya is I had to give up my investigations of the artificial soul core for now.
Unable to get any information on artificial soul cores from Jaya, I decided to focus on origin card creation and get the hell out of here as soon as possible.
A question bothered me if the stone is a soul core, why is it not inside Jaya like how beast cores are inside the beasts.
So I started to inspect the soul pathways of the stone to find an answer. It turns out the stone/soul core should have fused with Jaya on her 16th birthday but since she had contracted the grimoire beforehand it was unable to fuse with her.
The stone was unable to fuse with Jaya as the soul pathways in Jaya which were supposed to be fused with the stone were now occupied by the grimoire.
As I was further inspecting the soul pathways of the stone the mini Jaya suddenly opened her eyes and let out a huge soul howl.
I was unaffected by the howl but Jaya who stood in front of me fell to the ground covering her ears wailing in pain. Just when I thought the situation could not get any worse this happens.
Time to get serious!
(3/10) this week.
Backlog chapters (0/18).
Taskboard :
1- 200+ weekly power stones!
reward - 1 extra chapter this week
2- 300+ weekly power stones!
reward - 2 extra chapters this week
3- 400+ weekly power stones!
rewards - 4 chapters this week
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