Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2354  Glacier Bite

Date: Unspecified Time: Unspecified Location: Myriad Realms, Lil. Red Storm, Seed World, Trophy Section, Duel Realm, Crafting Sector, Venue: Chaos Dwarven Forge.

”Thatʼs time, contestants! Off your workshops!” the Judges announced, their voice amplified across the colosseum as the time-space array formation deactivated while they gestured with their tail to emphasize the end of the time to the contestants and the audience. The audience, however, was engrossed in a heated discussion, completely ignoring the Judgesʼ announcement. They were animatedly debating the bizarre skills the unknown demon merchantʼs frosling corpse puppets were demonstrating with their strange silks. They were pointing at the puppets, gesturing to each other while exchanging excited whispers.

This obviously soured the Judgesʼ mood. They glanced over the audience before grudgingly turning to eye the unknown demon merchant, who had been teleported back to his corner of the colosseum along with his corpse puppets. They narrowed their eyes at him. However, there was nothing they could do now. The rules were set; the crafting duel was set. All that was left was overseeing the match. Unless they were courting death, the Judges werenʼt going to create problems for the unknown demon merchant. So they let out a sigh under their breath and shift their tail in resignation.

However, they were still the Judges. Without them, the duel wouldnʼt progress to its second phase—the combat match between the corpse puppets crafted by the two contestants to decide the winner. As a consequence of being ignored, they decided to make the audience wait until they had everyoneʼs attention. The Judges stood tall in the air above the collosseum, their arms folded, looking expectantly at the crowd.

Seeing the unknown demon merchant return to his corner with his three Frosling corpse puppets, Dulas curiously eyed them. Their icy armor piqued her curiosity the most. As a chaos dwarf, she was no stranger to mechanical armor, but she was surprised to see one made entirely of snow. She analyzed their frame, armor plates, joints, etc., and found that the ice used to make the armor displayed properties similar to SS-rank black steel—from tensile strength and toughness to ductility, weldability, malleability, formability, durability, and general strength.

The more Dulas analyzed the armor, the more she realized its material was superior to SS-rank black steel. Multiple very thin layers of snow fused together to form the armor plates and the softer armor for the joints, significantly enhancing their strength and durability. Not to mention, the entire ice armor had thin threads woven into them forming an array. This was when she realized the mechanical armor was more like a golem—a golem made of glacier, with the Frosling corpses serving as their core.

Thoroughly mesmerized, Dulas wanted to touch it, but the oppressive power emanating from the corpse puppets stopped her. She reached out a hand but a little hesitant to touch it out her fear. Just then, she heard the unknown demon merchantʼs voice warning her, ”If I were you, I wouldnʼt try to touch them. Unless, of course, you want to be infected by a particularly lethal form of glacier plague.”

”Ah!” Dulas hurriedly held her breath and stepped back in fright. She gasped and stumble back, covering her mouth. Seeing her reaction, Wyatt shook his head and said, ”Donʼt worry, the glacier plague is controlled. You wonʼt get infected just by breathing the air theyʼve touched.”

Releasing her breath, she took a deep, satisfying inhale and then curiously asked, ”Did you give them the ability to control the plague? Considering the Froslingsʼ natural immunity to glacier plague, that would be a lethal skill for a corpse puppet to have.”