Chapter 2558: Teasing Lucine

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning, Time Vestige, Morningstar University 2nd Campus

"Why is that?" Lucine asked, genuinely puzzled at why anyone would choose not to comprehend the time-rule in the very place built for it.

"Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to," I replied, trying to sound cryptic for once. It was the only kind of answer that made sense without revealing the truth—something I couldn’t afford to do. Any other answer would only lead to more questions.

"And you say you don’t like to brag," Lucine muttered, only half listening to my supposed wisdom as she walked ahead with a confident sway, her curvy hips shifting left and right.

I couldn’t help the faint smile tugging at my lips as my gaze followed that rhythm. The moment Lucine’s intent sensed my intense gaze, she stiffened. Her playful stride snapped into a perfectly measured, elegant walk. Not daring to look back.

Arriving at the boundless space chamber, Lucine gestured toward it with a deliberately neutral expression. "If you need anything, ask the staff on duty. Someone will call you when we reach our present. All the best."

She kept her eyes averted the entire time. Then, without a backward glance, she turned and walked away. Clearly, my earlier gaze had crossed a line with her. So much so, she treated me like an acquaintance losing her original enthusiasm. I felt she was overreacting. Admiring her beauty didn’t mean my thoughts were impure.

Well, she had a very conservative and traditional worldview about these things. In this time and age, who else cared about seeming ungrateful, or felt even a flicker of embarrassment over a little hypocrisy? No one—except her. And despite the fact that no one but the two of us knew what had happened, it still bothered her enough that she was willing to part with her precious time-rule runes.

"One moment," I called out just as I stepped into the boundless space chamber.

"What is it?" she asked—appearing before me in a flash. Clearly, she hadn’t actually left; she’d been lingering nearby, still undecided about how she felt or how she wanted to act around me.

When she caught the subtle grin on my face, realization dawned. Her cheeks warmed, her eyes narrowed, knowing I was teasing her.

"You’re a beautiful grandma. Own it," I said simply, then closed the door of the chamber before she could react, fully aware this would only make Lucine act colder toward me later. Otherwise, teasing her wouldn’t be nearly as fun.

Shaking my head, I shifted my attention to the boundless space chamber. As the name suggested, it had boundless space within it. Not literally boundless, but under the influence of the boundless space array, the tiny space of the chamber had stretched so in all directions, enough to house a few cities in it. The stretching of space was the working principle behind the boundless space array.

It was essentially their testing ground for volatile experiments—the boundless space within its walls capable of containing almost anything without putting pressure on the time vestige itself. Of course, it came with one small side effect: time moved slightly faster here compared to the rest of the vestige.

But the chamber’s true value lay in the dense concentration of spatial forces produced by the boundless space array etched into every surface. That made it an ideal place to comprehend the space-rule. With my talent, the boost provided here was of no use to me, but ignoring a free opportunity like this would be nothing short of foolishness in the eyes of the other card apprentices. To avoid scrutiny, I choose to act normal.

Being too eye-catching had never stopped me before. But Lucine was different. She knew I was a time variable—something the timeline had absorbed instead of rejecting or trying to erase. I was certain she would use her parallel present meaning of time rule to observe various iterations of young Wyatt across multiple presents of the card world, trying to piece together what a Hybrid Celestial truly was and why Slay believed I was one.

I didn’t know how the younger Wyatt fared in those branches of time, but I knew Lucine would not find the answers she’d been searching for in them. But now she knew far too much to get lucky. I decided not to tempt my fate, I might end up giving her leverage over me.

After confirming that Hive AI had fully copied the boundless space array through my Primordial Soul Pupils, I settled into position and began my comprehension of the space-rule. Drawing on resonance through my dual presence across both planes and the power of my celestial origins, I allowed myself to dissolve—becoming one with the physical plane and the spiritual plane simultaneously. From there, I aligned with the space-rule stream of the card world and followed its current, using it as a guide until I finally connected with the space-rule source itself.

What I had just achieved wasn’t something ordinary people could even dream of. Even with my resonance and dual-presence abilities, becoming one with both planes should have been impossible. Mortals simply weren’t built to withstand that kind of strain. Even demigods and devils couldn’t accomplish it with just these two abilities; they would need to have reached the ruler class before their bodies and souls could endure the pressure of merging with both the spiritual and physical planes at once.

The reason I could achieve, as a mere card master, what even demigods and devils could not was simple: I wasn’t just any card apprentice—I was a Hybrid Celestial. It was the celestial half of me that made the impossible possible. It allowed me not only to merge with both planes simultaneously, but also to reach the space-rule source itself—the very place where true celestials like the Card Celestial, Dalie, and others comprehended their space rules.

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