Card Apprentice Daily Log - Chapter 2023: Artificial Energy Core

Date- 18 April 2321

Time- 16:02

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

As the monster corpse possession puppetry became famous there were bound to be a few geniuses in the field that made a name for themselves with their unique talent or approach to the field. Such was the case with Cervos’s family. They did not have a unique talent for monster corpse possession puppetry, but rather a unique approach. One of Cervos’s predecessors was adept in Golem Cards. He used his expertise in the golem cards to specialize in a unique approach to monster corpse possession puppetry. That was to make up for the lack of the card apprentices’ realm which hinders them from displaying the full strength of the corpse puppet with a substitute energy source, something like a golem core or to be exact an artificial energy core for card apprentices themselves. The purpose of this artificial core to the card apprentice would be the same as that of a golem core to a golem, power supply. Initially, the idea was to use the artificial energy core as the backup power supply for the card apprentice, allowing the card apprentice to use corpse possession on a monster corpse puppet for a longer time.

This concept was not new, many renowned card researchers have worked on it and created practical mock-ups of the artificial energy core that card apprentices could use as a backup power supply. However, they never commercialized it because there was a huge limitation to card apprentices using artificial energy cores as backup power supply, it was that they would have to stop doing everything else and focus on using the artificial energy cores to charge their energy. This was basically impractical, especially when in a decisive fight. Not to mention this was no different than them using soul jades to charge their energy. Now this begs the question, why go through the trouble of buying an artificial energy core when they have a natural energy source called soul jades with similar functions?

Therefore, the card researchers did not see a future where artificial energy cores would ever be used as a backup power supply by the card apprentices especially when they had elixirs and potions to help them recover soul energy without interrupting what they were doing.

However, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Where the card researchers failed to find any application for the artificial energy core they created Cervos’s predecessor succeeded in finding a perfect application for the artificial energy core. The answer was none other than monster corpse possession puppetry. When card apprentices possess and manipulate a corpse puppet their physical bodies will basically lay dormant inside the corpse puppet or in a remote location based on the type of corpse possession while their spiritual body manipulates the corpse puppet. This allows the card apprentices’ physical bodies to use artificial energy cores to charge their soul energy overcoming its limitation. Why choose artificial energy core over soul jades or potions and elixirs over here? Artificial energy cores can be programmed to automatically charge the physical bodies of the card apprentices without any supervision. However, the soul jades cannot be programmed to do so as they need the card apprentices to mobilize their spiritual power to draw the energy from them and charge themselves. As for potions and elixirs, they were just too expensive, and one needed to have a certain level of connections to get their hands on them. After all potion and elixir card creationists were rare and sought after. These two reasons made the artificial energy core a perfect backup power supply for the monster corpse possession puppetry over soul jades and potions or elixirs. Cervos’s predecessor was an opportunistic person, when he discovered the application of the artificial energy core in the field of monster corpse possession puppetry, he immediately contacted the central government to buy all of the artificial energy core research work of the late card researchers and all the rights associated with it for a cheap price. After all, artificial energy core research was seen as dead-end research with no promising area of application.

Crevos’s predecessor bought the artificial energy core research and all its rights before revealing his findings to the monster corpse possession puppetry community betraying the very core principle that allowed the monster corpse possession puppetry branch to grow to prominence in the corpse puppetry field. Once Cervos’s predecessors had bought the rights to the artificial energy core he was not short-sighted, he willingly shared the research on artificial energy core with the monster corpse possession puppetry community for free and defended his action saying that he did it so that the central government would not monopolize the research on the artificial energy core after learning his discovery.

However, this was just another part of Cervos’s predecessor’s grand scheme as the research on the artificial energy core though complete was not economical. He needed the help of the monster corpse possession puppetry community to make the creation of the artificial energy core more economical and also public accept method so that he could commercialize it. This idea of Cervos’s predecessor was a great success, the great minds in the corpse possession puppetry came together to find a creation method for artificial energy core cheaper than the price of a low-grade soul jade. They were able to do this by taking inspiration from low-level golems such as vehicles. However, the capacity of the artificial energy core used by the corpse possession puppetry was different from the energy cores in the cars and bikes. Hence, only the lowest of the lowest capacity of the artificial energy core was priced cheaper than a low-grade soul jade, their price increased with the capacity of the artificial energy core. Now that the monster corpse possession puppetry community had helped Corvos’s predecessor find an economical way to create an artificial energy core and publicize the use of artificial energy core in the monster corpse possession puppetry community, he was prepared to show his true colors by monopolizing production and sales of the artificial energy cores that can be used as an auxiliary power supply by card apprentice. After all, he had bought all the rights to this concept. Even though he had shared the research with the public, he still held the rights to produce and sell them. Therefore, he would have no competitors in the market. However, before Cervos’s predecessor prepared to do so, a genius monster corpse possession puppetry card apprentice had found a new kind of artificial energy core that would allow the card apprentices to not just recover their lost energy but help them temporarily rise their realm to a higher realm causing an uproar not just in the monster corpse possession puppetry branch but in the entire world. However, soon the whole world lost interest in this new variation of artificial energy core because it had a similar limitation as the old artificial energy core. The card apprentice would have to stop everything else they are doing to use this artificial energy core and temporarily raise their realm. What was the point of temporarily raising their realm if they could not use it in a fight or for another purpose it was not surprising that the card apprentices lost interest in it? However, this invention was a huge breakthrough for the monster corpse possession puppetry community. After all, this limitation of the old or variant artificial energy core did not affect them as their physical body would be dormant when they possessed the corpse puppet. This allowed them to use the variant artificial energy core to temporarily raise their realm during fights. However, before the inventor of this variant artificial energy core could share his research work with the rest of the monster corpse possession puppetry community he was approached by Cervos’s predecessor. Together they came to an understanding and the inventor of this variant artificial energy core married into Cervos’s family making the variant artificial energy core the protected intellectual property of Cervos’s family. Still today it’s not known what Cervos’s predecessor promised the inventor of this variant artificial energy core to betray the principle of the monster corpse possession puppetry community and handover his life’s work to Cervos’s family. Many in the monster corpse possession puppetry community speculated that Cervos’s predecessor offered him shares in the production and sales of the artificial energy core with the young inventor in exchange for this invention. Greed and power would explain why the young inventor betrayed the monster corpse possession puppetry community and joined Cervos’s family in their treachery to the monster corpse possession puppetry community. This act of Cervos’s predecessor destroyed their family’s reputation for generations to come. Its reputation was ruined to the point that it could not be salvaged by their descendants even today. However, that treachery allowed Cervos’s family to lay a firm foothold in the Southern Capital as one of the top families in the Southern region and also become a part of the world leaders. This came at the cost of stomping the progress of the monster corpse possession puppetry community.