Date 22 Mar 2321
Time 10:31
Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no. 234
[ Soul Scissors - $25million
Soul Incubator - $30million
C-rank Mandragora roots - $13.9million
C-rank Mandragora core - $19.7million
C-rank Matango spores - $12million
C-rank Matango core - $20.8million
E-rank High Wood Wisp core x100 - $10million
Unique grade Origin core - $125,000
Total cost - $131.525million]
The total cost of ingredients amounted to near $131.5million, I could not use ingredients higher than C-rank as both I and Elliott were only silver rank grimoire holders, limiting my choices.
But for the origin card, I had in mind these ingredients were more than enough. Not to mention I still have the Gemini and Para share cards from Fine Gold, which I forgot to return.
Susan had prepared the ingredients and also invited the guild management to set up the card lab equipped with the soul scissors and incubator in the warehouse.
Soul scissors is not an ingredient, it is a machine that a Card Creator uses to split the patient's soul, which the soul incubator houses and narture the split soul.
While the guild management was setting up my very own card lab equipped with Soul scissors and Soul incubator, I was learning how to use them through their user guide and Susan was entertaining the guest.
Gotta commend this world's occupation cards, they built the card lab equipped with soul scissors and incubator in one and a half hour to be precise it is one hour 20 minutes. But they were not cheap, I was not worried as all the cost was paid by Elliott.
Soul Scissors is a very expensive and special machine its primary use is to observe the wavelengths of the soul pathway to identify and differentiate each of them individually. Once identified then the Card apprentice can use the machine to cut the required soul pathway.
Thanks to my soul pupils I do not require a machine for this, I needed this machine for its advanced use that is to split Elliott's soul to make a false human core just like the one Jaya had.
Using my soul pupils I had already deduced Jaya's false human core but I was not certain if the soul pathways arranged in the false core were familiar to Jaya's normal soul pathway arrangement.
Therefore I went back to the bathhouse to collect Jaya's hair, which fell when she was rolling on the ground in pain.
The soul pathway arrangement of a person is unique and the same in their entire body, similar to DNA.
Comparing the soul pathway arrangement in me and Jaya's hair and the false core I began to deduce the secret behind Jaya's false core and the Viltronian powers it gave her.
But this was not enough to deduce the secrets of the false core and Viltronian, thankfully I was an expert on Viltronian DNA and had successfully created Viltronian's back on earth.
Using my knowledge I gained of Viltronian DNA back on Earth and the unique soul pathway arrangements of the false core I was finally able to deduce all the secrets behind the false core and Viltronian powers.
Turns out Viltronians are humans who under million years of evolution had their DNA and soul pathway arrangement cleverly evolved to give them their current prowess and false soul core.
I hated Viltronians more than anyone else out in the universe but I had to acknowledge their prowess and their long life span, therefore I wanted my second origin card to be a variant of the Viltronian card that Jaya had.
But being an inventor I knew nobody gets the best results on their first try therefore I decided to experiment *ahem* I mean I let Elliott have the honour of being the first human to have a soul core. Jaya was excluded as she was not human, to begin with.
To be clear I was not going to make Elliott a Viltronian origin card but an origin card that followed the example of Viltronian evolution and soul core. And to make things easier Elliott's fate ingredient was the clear scale earthworm core.
I was not going to cure Elliott's gene defect using the origin card I planned for him but I was going to use his gene defect as an advantage to create him a perfect origin card.
…
"Wyatt, the card lab is set up and ready to use" Susan informed me as I was busy learning how to use the soul scissors and incubator.
"I am done here too, are the ingredients in place," I said closing the user manual.
"Yes, Corey is placing them in the card lab as we speak."
"Great! then what are we waiting for, let's get started."
…
Inside the card lab, Looking at the operating bed of the soul scissors machine Elliott nervously asked, "how sure are you about this?"
"100%" I replied
"even though the machine has a 22% error rate and its manual highly recommends to avoid soul splitting if not necessary."
"Don't sweat the small stuff, my skill reduces the error rate to zero. Now get on the bed."
The machine has such a high error rate because its lens was not that accurate and also making it cheaper and affordable.
But this error rate did not hinder me as I was going to use my soul pupils rather than the machine lens.
"Remind me how old are you again?" Asked Elliott comparing my skill to experience.
"17."
"Aren't you a little young to operate a soul scissors?"
"No, I am not"
Time to get serious!
(1/10) this week.
Backlog chapters (0/27).
Taskboard :
1- 600+ weekly power stones!
reward - 1 extra chapter this week
2- 800+ weekly power stones!
reward - 2 extra chapters this week
3- 1000+ weekly power stones!
rewards - 4 chapters this week
Date 22 Mar 2321
Time 10:51
Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no. 234, Card Lab
Gathering his courage Elliott finally laid on the soul scissors operating bed, connecting the apparatus to Elliott and monitoring that his stats are at optimum condition, I activated my soul pupils.
With my soul pupils, I found Elliott's soul. It was the origin and end of all the soul pathways in his entire body, the soul was this huge mass of bright light in which a mini Elliott laid peacefully.
The light blue threads originated from the mini Elliott spreading throughout the body and returned to merge with it again, these threads were the soul pathways.
The other card creationist use soul splitting usually to make Clone cards, Doppelganger cards, Horcruxes cards or curse cards. But I was using it to make a false soul core for Elliott.
Now that I had located the soul I had to cut and split it in two in the ratio of 1:10. The part of the soul I will be cutting is not just any part but the part of the soul over which Elliott has active control.
Since Elliott had suppressed his realm to the card scholar realm, his active soul control percentage is 29%. Now I had to split this 29% into the ratio of 1:9, so I had to cut 2.9% rounding off to 3% of the actively controlled soul.
It was easy to differentiate the actively controlled soul from the normal soul as the actively controlled soul is brighter than the normal soul.
After splitting the actively controlled soul according to the ratio, I extracted the smaller soul and incubated it in the soul incubator to nature and to maintain it in optimum conditions until I completed the other part of the card.
Though this procedure seemed easy and clean it was not, splitting a person's soul is a taboo art and one can damage their soul trying to do so and enter a vegetative state.
Not to mention the pain the soul undergoing the procedure will be facing, if not for the soul-numbing gases the patient is put under the patient would lose himself to the trauma and pain.
Disconnecting the soul scissors apparatus, waking up Elliott I pass him a soul jade to recover the lost part of his active soul control.
The reason I split the soul which is under Elliott's active control because he could easily regenerate it with enough time and soul power. Thanks to the soul jade, Elliott could now recover his lost soul within minutes.
Once Elliott had recovered I formed a party of two with him and equipped Gemini and Para share cards. Placing the ingredients on the creation page and closing my eyes to concentrate I begin the card creation.
First I take Elliott's fate ingredient Clear Scale Earthworm core and origin core to fuse them to form a normal-sized core with both the abilities of a Clear Scale Earthworm and origin core.
Earthworm's notable abilities are to burrow through the ground, its elastic and highly resilient physic with full-body regeneration function.
Clear Scale Earthworm is an evolved variant of the normal earthworm. Be it size or abilities the Clear Scale Earthworm is nothing but a normal earthworm if not for its special clear scales.
According to popular belief, earthworms don't just dig tunnels into the soil using their body but they do so by eating up the soil in front of them.
After extracting the necessary nutrients from ingested soil the soil is then excreted with mucus to caste burrow walls. These casted tunnels are not permanent and don't last long, their lifespan depends on the various species of earthworms.
The Clear Scale Earthworms like normal earthworms also digs tunnels not just in soil but any normal form of matter. But unlike normal earthworms, clear scale earthworms do not have a mouth to eat soil or any form of matter in front of them.
Instead, their clear scales fuses and ingests anything that it touches—gases, liquids, solids, or even energy sources to extract nutrition and duplicate the properties of that particular matter.
Making these clear scale earthworms a very difficult infestation to fight with. Because of their ability, they are usually attracted to eat special metals and ores with soul energy which is an expensive habit to cultivate. But this also makes them easier to trace as they leave a trail of excrement in their path.
To protect important, expensive materials and machines from these worms they are usually laced with diluted soul poison just enough to kill these worms but not enough to harm humans.
Thankfully these clear scale earthworms are small in size samiliar to normal earthworms making their appetite small and enough to notice before they cause any serious damage. And also their core is of a small bead in size.
Time to get serious!
(2/10) this week.
Backlog chapters (0/27).
Taskboard :
1- 600+ weekly power stones!
reward - 1 extra chapter this week
2- 800+ weekly power stones!
reward - 2 extra chapters this week
3- 1000+ weekly power stones!
rewards - 4 chapters this week
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