Card Apprentice Daily Log - Chapter 2022: Monster Corpse Possession

Date- 18 April 2321

Time- 16:02

Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Air Space

“That crazy bastard, he is going all out.” “Run as far as you can as fast as possible.”

“Run for your lives.” The crowd began to run for their lives summoning the fastest speed they could muster seeing Cervos summon his Nine-winged devil dragon corpse. As the name suggests the corpse summoned by Cervos was the corpse of an SSS-rank dragon monster. It had the honor of having the word devil in its name because of its unfathomable strength that even regular demigods fear to go up against. During the demon invasion, many innovations were made in various fields. One such innovation was also made in corpse puppetry: Corpse puppet possession. The ability that allowed the living to possess and control a corpse puppet. This ability did not have any spiritual strength requirement. Corpse puppetry was a strong and famous field many wanted to join but could not because the puppetry field demanded a strong spiritual strength to control the movements of the puppet. As a result, many could not take up the field of puppetry or corpse puppetry even if they longed for it. However, Corpse possession changed that as a card apprentice did not require a strong spiritual power to use corpse possession to display corpse puppetry. Apart from this, the most alluring thing about corpse possession was that it allowed a living of the low realm to possess the corpse puppet made of a higher realm being’s corpse. How could a card apprentice control a high-realm corpse puppet despite lacking strong spiritual power? The living would act as the core of the corpse puppet becoming its power supply and command center. This was how a low-realm card apprentice controlled the corpse puppet made from the corpse of a high-realm being.

These points were more than enough to attract the attention of many card apprentices to this field during the demon invasion. However, it soon lost its popularity as fast as it gained it because it had a serious limitation. Though it allowed a card apprentice of a lower realm to possess a corpse puppet made of a higher realm being’s corpse and control it despite lacking strong spiritual power, the said card apprentice could not display the full power of the corpse and only display the prowess their realm could allow. This limitation was because the card apprentice was acting as the power source to the corpse puppet. After all, the corpse puppet can only display equivalent to the power supplied to it no more not less. This point was a serious limitation and disappointment for many who joined this field to gain strength quickly. However, the smart ones saw the hidden potential in this field. They saw that corpse puppet possession might not allow the lower realm card apprentice to display the complete prowess of the higher realm corpse puppet they possess in terms of soul energy and spiritual power, but it allowed them to utilize the complete physical prowess of the corpse puppet.

Imagine a card apprentice displaying the physical prowess of a higher realm than their actual realm, it would make them invincible in their realm. This discovery allowed the field of corpse possession to retain its initial popularity. However, this too had serious limitations as not all beings had strong physical prowess meaning their corpse did not possess the strong physical prowess sought for corpse possession. This was understandable as only a select few beings had strong physiques or trained their physical body. But this seriously reduced the pool of corpses that could be used for corpse possession. Lack of steady supply combined with the popularity of corpse possession, the prices of the good corpses began to rise to record highs. As a result, corpse puppetry especially the corpse possession field became a rich people’s monopoly. Still, the desperate people found a way around it. They began to use monster corpses from dungeons as corpse puppets, giving birth to a new branch in this field, the Monster corpse possession. There was the reason why card apprentices avoided monster corpses, it was because for a human card apprentice to manipulate a monster corpse puppet efficiently, they will have know the movements and fighting skills of the monster. Not to mention, turning a monster corpse into a corpse puppet would require them to do a lot of research into that race of monsters to perfect a way to turn them into corpse puppets. When someone’s desperate enough they find a way to achieve the impossible. The same happened with the corpse puppetry field’s monster corpse possession branch. The poor card apprentice came together and shared the information and their experience in refining different monsters into corpse puppets and using them. Over time the openness and sharing nature of the card apprentice allowed them to perfect the monster corpse possession branch. Soon the monster corpse possession branch overshadowed the corpse possession branch of the corpse puppetry field. Until recently when the monster corpse possession branch swallowed the corpse possession branch. This was because nowadays card apprentices preferred monster corpse puppets over regular corpse puppets. After all, even though it required them to get well-versed in their movement and fighting style the physical strength displayed by monsters was not something other beings could compare with. Especially, when the corpse puppet made from a monster corpse also displayed a strong self-recovery ability because of the monster’s strong physical recovery ability. Not to mention card apprentices have less experience fighting a monster corpse puppet compared to regular corpse puppets, this added an element of surprise to the battle. This allowed the monster corpse puppeteer card apprentice to have the upper hand in a battle. Card apprentices have experience fighting different monsters but now with monsters with the brain and a grimoire of a card apprentice. This factor alone made a lot of difference on the battlefield. Imagine a card apprentice going against a strong monster that also had a grimoire, this made the advantage of choosing a monster corpse puppet over a regular puppet clear.