Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 120: Fall

Date 24 Mar 2321

Time 9:02

Location Sky Blossom City, Whiteburn Manor, East Wing, Family Arena

Just when everyone thought Pax was sitting ducks waiting for the inevitable, suddenly a pair of mechanical angel wings popped up on the back of the golem and it took flight the next second.

The appearance of the wings was another shock to the audience especially the demigod worshipers, they all started to express their faith in different ways some knelt some bowed while some prayed, all in all, they firmly started to believe that Pax was the messenger of the demigod Micheal Angelo.

Paul, who thought that he had already won was dealt with a heavy emotional blow seeing the golem grow a pair of wings and take flight. Now he started to blame himself for relaxing his guard, seeing the golem immobile and allowing it to escape. This way the field card white dwarf sun terra was useless no… gritting his teeth he thought out loud, “I thought of saving this but now I have no choice left.”

“Field card: White Dwarf sun core”

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[Caution: Iron Flesh is experiencing an imbalance due to the unresponsive arms and legs… current flight condition can only be maintained for 3 minutes maximum..]

[Caution: Due to imbalance and unstable flight accuracy of Iron Flesh has reduced by 66%…]

Hearing this prompt Pax did not think much and activated two cards at the same time, ” Skill card: Feather Weight, Skill card: Float”

[Card Name: Feather Weight

Card Type: Field Card (active)

Card Rank: C-rank, uncommon

Card Rating: 21-stars

Card Durability: [81/100]

Card Effect: when activated the target will gain the weight of a feather for 45 seconds, regardless of its mass.

Additional Effect: lesser Wind resistance.

Cooldown Time: 60 seconds]

[Card Name: Float

Card Type: Field Card (active)

Card Rank: C-rank, uncommon

Card Rating: 24-stars

Card Durability: [82/100]

Card Effect: when activated the target will float for 30 seconds regardless of its mass.

Additional Effect: Lesser Wind resistance

Cooldown Time; 85 seconds.]

There was a reason why Pax chose these two particular Cards even though they had such bad Card star rating and Card active period for a C-rank card, it was because of their additional effect lesser wind resistance and mostly because of the phrase ‘Regardless of target Mass’.

There are many featherweight and float cards in the market with better Card star rating and Card active period with amazing card effect but they all were useless for something weighing 20 tonnes.

Pax was a marksman and being restricted to an open plain arena was a disadvantage for him so he had planned to make use of Iron Flesh’s aerial system and gain distance from Paul by taking the battle to the boundless sky and bombard Paul with all the artillery power of Iron Flesh finishing the duel in flash.

As the two cards activated Iron Flesh became weightless making it easier for the Iron flesh aerial system to manoeuvre Iron Flesh more effectively and its flight became more stable reducing the error rate in Iron Flesh’s accuracy.

“Activate Weapon system, lock primary target Pual, Priority level: Elimination.” Ordered Pax to Iron Flesh’s A.I

[ Activating Weapon system…

Left shoulder-mounted laser cannon Online…

Right shoulder-mounted Gatling machine gun online…

Twin upper wrist-mounted laser cannons not responding…

Twin under wrist hidden laser blades not responding…

Hidden fusion chest Gatling cannon online…

Activating A.I base aiming system…

Calculating accuracy rate…

Accuracy rate 98% Error margin 2%…

Note: Error margin can be reduced by reducing the distance between mark.

Locking Target on Paul…

Accuracy rate 99.12% Error margin 0.88%…

Awaiting further command…]

Seeing that everything was set Pax was going to open fire on Paul but suddenly numerous prompts sounded in his head,

[Caution: Iron Flesh losing height….

Note: change in gravitational field detected…

Correction! Accuracy rate 97.12% Error margin 2.88%…

Correction! Accuracy rate 95.22% Error margin 4.78%…

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Correction! Accuracy rate 89.12% Error margin 12.88%…

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Recommended: switch to manual aiming…]

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“Field card: White Dwarf sun core”

[Card Name: White Dwarf sun core

Card Type: Field Card (active)

Card Rank: C-rank, uncommon

Card Rating: 49-stars

Card Durability: [82/100]

Card Effect: when activated 300 meters of land surrounding the host will exhibit the 1/3rd of White Dwarf sun gravitational field for 30 sec

Additional Effect: The host is immune to the card effect.

Restriction: can only be used along with Field card: White Dwarf sun terra.

Cooldown Time; 85 seconds.]

Once the White Dwarf sun core field card was activated the arena had completely turned into a White Dwarf sun, though the card info read it only displayed 1/3rd of the original White Dwarf sun core but once superimposed with White Dwarf sun terra this restriction was no longer valid.

The temperature in the field once again jumped to 10,800 Kelvin’s also this time around there was another surprise the gravity of the arena increased by 50 fold affecting the Iron Flesh’s flight and making it lose height rapidly.

It was basic science that weight was the product of the mass of an object and gravity. So the weight of a feather changes with the gravity applied to it, so the feather will fall faster on the surface of a White Dwarf sun compared to the surface of the planet. So a feather will fall a little faster on the surface of a White Dwarf sun compared to the surface of the planet, so Iron Flesh was losing height but it was comparatively slower than falling under its actual weight. As for the float skill card, it was useless and invalid as it was not made for the gravity of the White Dwarf sun.

Because of this even though the Iron Flesh was under the card effect of featherweight and float it still fell to the ground faster than before and rapidly lost height comprising its automated aiming system.

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Once the White Dwarf sun core field card was activated the arena had turned into small white Dwarf sun and the A-rank barrier surrounding it began to show signs of a breach. So the elites of the Whiteburn family stepped up to enhance the barrier so that it can withstand the thermal energy of a White Dwarf sun.

Seeing Paul’s ace and hidden card the crowd gasped in astonishment and started to whisper,

‘Wasn’t Paul supposed to be the black sheep of the Whiteburn’s.’

‘Black sheep, more like a wolf in sheepskin.’

‘Exactly! though he is shameless to use the loophole in the rules of deathmatch, when it comes to life and death I will rather choose to be shameless than dead.’

‘Yep, same here I would rather be a shameless person than a cold corpse.”

‘But I feel pity for Pax though..’

‘Shut up you heretic with Demigod watching over him nothing will happen to our messenger…’

‘Fuck off, you damned religious nut…’

‘Yes! Who allowed this religious frantic inside… throw him out…’

‘Forget about that mutt! Witness the legendary fall of a genius… not every day do you get to see a brother kill brother in an arena and the fall of a genius. This is so worth it.’

‘A 16-year-old card soldier fuck! At that age, I was still picking my nose’

‘Forget about 16 years old, I am 33 now and still not a card soldier…’

‘To think a talent like that will fall here today, such a loss.’

‘Doesn’t the Whiteburn family care losing such talent and genius over a small dispute?’

‘You new to the city buddy, haven’t you heard the saying in the Whiteburn family… genius come and go only tough people last.’

‘Genius come and go only tough people last… Interesting but only a barbarian would say that!’

‘Whiteburn family is a barbaric family…’

‘If only such genius was born in my family… sigh! This world is so unfair…’

While the crowd buzzed excitedly watching the Iron flesh slowly crash to its demise… the Whiteburn twins were at their wit’s end. The Iron Flesh was in worse condition once it falls to the ground it may be the end. By luck even if the Iron Flesh survives… losing both of its arms and legs it was just a defenceless turtle on its back waiting to melt or be roasted to death under the temperature of the white dwarf sun.

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While everyone thought the end was nearing, Pax who was inside the Iron flesh commanded, “switch to manual aiming system”

[Switching to manual aiming mode…

Switching to manual triggering mode… ]

Being a trained marksman the current situation was not a challenge for Pax but unfortunately, he could not test the capabilities of Iron Flesh’s automated aiming system.

Anyway utilizing insight forecast to its maximum Pax aimed at Paul as the Iron Flesh slowly fell to the ground…

Thanks to the insight forecast Pax was able to guess all the error and the escape routes of Pual from the area under fire, allowing Pax to prepare the contingency plans, hopefully, which he would not have to use…

With that Pax fired at Paul and suddenly within 0.01 seconds the Left shoulder-mounted laser cannon and Right shoulder-mounted Gatling machine gun popped out of Iron Flesh’s back… While the Iron Flesh’s cheat armour retracted showing the Hidden fusion chest Gatling cannon and started to open fire without any delay or gap….

Left shoulder-mounted laser cannon fired a continuous laser beam and the Right shoulder-mounted Gatling machine gun fired a total of 230 energy bullets per second at Paul while the Hidden fusion chest Gatling laser cannon fired 6 continuous laser beams which due to the spin of the Gatling mechanism of the Gatling laser cannon formed a laser beam drill… Together they blasted aiming at Paul and the smoke along with burnt smell filled the arena… Leaving the crowd blind and hungry for the results…