<h4>Chapter 445: Unexpected</h4>


    Date- 28 Mar 2321


    Time- 18:39


    Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon


    “Have you established a connection with your ethereal spirit?” I asked the red-skinned Cortney. It was nning to help Cortney friend her ethereal spirit using my Soul Pupils, but her being possessed by Bloodette helped a lot.


    “Yes, I did, but for some reason, she is grouchy. I think she is angry that I woke her up.” Red-skinned Cortney spoke in her original voice, asking about her concern with her ethereal spirit.


    “Awe! The grouchy mini Cortney is so cute.” Bloodette voiced her thoughts without anybody asking her to.


    “Oh, that. You have nothing to worry about. All the Ethereal spirits are stuck up and have individuality. Mine is cold and aloof.” I exined to Cortney that she had nothing to worry about with regards to her ethereal spirit.


    “Ok, what’s the next step to forging my ego gem?” Knowing that there is nothing wrong with her ethereal spirit, Cortney asked me about the next step to forging her ego gem.


    “Next step to forging an ego gem is the manifestation of your ethereal spirit to reality. To manifest your ethereal spirit to reality, you have to feed it your refined soul energy until it is full.” I exined to Cortney about the manifestation of the ethereal spirit.


    “Ok” Red-skinned Cortney nodded and closed her eyes. With that, Cortney’s consciousness returned to her ethereal spirit and began feeding it with her refined soul energy.


    …


    “Done?” I asked, seeing Red-skinned Cortney open her eyes.


    “Yes. What’s the next step in forging?” Cortney replied positively and asked the next step.


    “Now gather all your refined soul power with your ethereal spirit in the center. Compress that soul power with all your strength. Make sure there are no gaps. Because the ethereal spirit will use thatpressed soul power surrounding it to form a cocoon of refined soul energy, that cocoon is your ego gem. Go ahead, get creative with the same of your ego gem. I gave my Ego gem a spherical shape. And Bloodette, you can help herpress the refined soul energy and hold it all in one ce.” Having exined to Cortney the final step in forging an ego gem, I asked Bloodette to help her since she was avable.


    “Got it!” Both Cortney and Bloodette answered together. As a consequence, the red-skinned Cortney’s speech sounded like a spooky yell.


    “Sorry!” Again a shrill yell filled my ears as the duo apologized in unison.


    *nce* giving an apologetic nce, the red-skinned Cortney closed her eyes as the consciousness of Bloodette and Cortney returned to the mini grouchy Cortney.


    *sigh* letting out a sigh, I shook my head, seeing the bungling duo confirming that birds of the same feather flock together.


    …


    It’s been a while now. Cortney should have finished forging her ego gem by now. Add the help of Bloodette. They should have forged the ego gem long ago. But the red-skinned Cortney showed no sign of awakening. Meaning they are still busy forging the ego gem. This amount of time for thest step in forging an ego gem is totally unnatural unless there is aplication.


    Feeling a lot of time pass by, I decided to use my soul pupils to check on Cortney and her ego gem. When I was about to activate my soul pupils, a brilliant red light shed out of the red-skinned Cortney’s body and filled the cave.


    To protect my eyes from the bright red light, I closed them. And when I opened them, I found unconscious red-skinned Cortney floating in the air, still emitting red light, but this time, the light was not intense enough to hinder my sight.


    “Shit!” I cursed, realizing that something unexpected did happen with Cortney as she forged her ego gem. Whether it was a good sign or a bad sign, I could not tell yet.


    Just when I was contemting what was happening, I saw something miraculous. I saw the blood rule stream manifest outside of ‘the World’ into the physical realm and slowly pour into the unconscious floating red-skinned Cortney.


    Shocking! I could not believe what I was seeing. I saw a stream of rule manifest out of ‘the World’ into the physical realm. Not just the rule, the entire stream of rule, this is outrageously astonishing.


    In order toprehend a rule, card apprentices enter the one with the world state to connect with the world in the spiritual ne. And then, if they have an affinity, the rules grant the Card apprentices their presence so that the Card apprentice can explore the stream of rule andprehend the rule.


    Right now, the entire opposite was happening with Cortney. The blood rule stream manifested in the physical ne and descended on Cortney. Without waiting for Cortney toprehend, it started to house itself into Cortney’s body. If the rest of the Card apprentices were to see what I am witnessing, they would cry in envy, yell in madness and beg for justice.


    Yes, the heavens are unfair. While the rest of the world has to enter the spiritual ne to gainprehension of rules. The blood rule manifested in the physical ne and housed itself in Cortney’s body. Without even making an effort, Cortneyprehended the blood rule.


    “Fock!” Realizing what was happening with Cortney, I could help but curse out loud. This is too grand! I have a 95% synchronization rate, yet I did not get such a privileged visit from the rules. How heaven-defying should one’s ego gem be to receive such a treatment from the World rules?


    “Is it because of her special physique Tao Tongue?” I tried to think of various reasons for such a reaction from the world rule ‘Blood’ towards Cortney.


    ‘No, I don’t think that’s it. If Cortney’s tao tongue physique was the reason behind this spectacr and grand entry of blood rule, then there should be other rules manifesting, but they didn’t. Just blood rule did. There has to be another reason.’


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