Chapter 2265 Insignia Of Terror, Degraded Tao Eye
Date: 21 April 2321
Time: 22:04
Location: Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Blood Rock Dungeon Seal, Seed World
Without the soul pathways related to Tao Eyes, it was impossible even for Wyatt, with the aid of his soul pupils, to help Clown Mask regenerate a Tao Eye in her third eye socket. However, he was able to help her develop eyelids for the empty socket, removing the need for her to wear a mask to hide it. Despite this, Clown Mask still preferred wearing her mask as it made her feel comfortable. She had lived two lifetimes behind that mask-one in her future vision and the current life she was experiencing so the mask felt like an extension of her body to her. She was more at case with the mask on than with her own face, so much so that she continued to wear it even when alone. It was a psychological attachment, and as a partner-tier daughter gem, she could retain this personal quirk unless Wyatt willed otherwise.
Turning his gaze from Clown Mask"s third eye socket, Wyatt raised his hand and produced a handful of his innate plague. He charged it with primordial energy and added a pinch of pixie dust he had previously gathered from Dredre to it. The intent here was to turn the plague into a carrier of both primordial energy and pixie dust. Dredre had given the pixie dust to Wyatt and both plague and Clown Mask could be considered as extension of Wyatt so it would be work on them.
Once everything was prepared, Wyatt pressed his palm against Clown Mask"s ample chest. The blood-red plague cells immediately infiltrated Clown Mask"s body, heading toward her daughter gem. Upon reaching it, the plague cells fused with the mutated ego gem, and soon the daughter gem, along with Clown Mask herself, disintegrated into a cloud of blood-red plague cells, leaving her clothes behind.
Gradually, the cloud of blood-red plague began reintegrating, forming a new crimson daughter gem that developed cells, grew tissues, and soon shaped itself into a complete female body with alluring curves in all the right places. However, Wyatt wasn"t interested in these soft mounds of meat; his gaze went straight to her forehead.
Noticing that Clown Mask"s third eye socket was showing subtle changes as the daughter gem upgraded, Wyatt guessed it was lacking sufficient energy to complete the transformation. Though uncertain about what the transformation would entail, he a.s.sumed it might have something to do with her lost. Tao Eye. Thus, he decided to provide Clown Mask with ample primordial energy, adding a bit of pixie dust in hopes that the dust would re-trigger the stalled transformation and that the primordial energy would sustain it.
There was another reason he used his innate plague as an intermediary instead of directly providing Clown Mask"s daughter gem with primordial energy through the link connecting them and sprinkling pixie dust into her third eye socket. He wanted to see if his cursed primordial bloodline would deem Clown Mask worthy of becoming his bloodkin and elevate her to a bloodkin-tier daughter gem. Wyatt was fully aware that if his cursed primordial bloodline had considered Clown Mask or any of his other daughter gems worthy, it would already have shared itself with them, raising them to the bloodkin tier. However, Wyatt was greedy. After all, Clown Mask"s experience would make her an invaluable a.s.set in his grand plans if she were to become a bloodkin-tier daughter gem.
As Wyatt"s gaze fell on Clown Mask"s forehead, he was stunned. The horizontal eyelid slit on her forehead was now replaced by an birth mark similar to that of the Supreme Leader"s insignia, but it was blood red in color instead of the latter"s pitch black insignia. The resemblance was uncanny,
The empty third eye socket on Clown Mask"s forehead had vanished, replaced by a blood-red birthmark resembling a crimson tattoo of a vertical third-eye. At its center, where the pupil would be, sat a pitch-black jewel about the size of a one-carat diamond. This vertical eye birthmark was an exact replica of the Supreme Leader"s own mark, except his was black with a red jewel, while hers was red with a black jewel.
In Clown Mask"s alternate future vision, this birthmark was a symbol of terror-the insignia worn by the Supreme Leader"s allies and forces. Seeing it appear on Clown Mask"s forehead, Wyatt was visibly shocked. However, after calming himself, he felt this outcome was to be expected. After all, the Supreme Leader had gained his signature vertical third-eye mark after stealing Clown Mask"s Tao Eye.
According to Clown Mask"s memories, the Supreme Leader had created a card using her Tao Eye, but the result had been subpar. Dissatisfied, he gave it to one of his incarnations, who then used it as an ingredient in his own origin card creation, forming the vertical third-eye mark that the Supreme Leader later absorbed through his origin card.
Taking this information into account, Wyatt was no longer surprised that Clown Mask"s empty third eye socket had evolved into a vertical third-eye birthmark similar to the Supreme Leader"s. However, he was uncertain about what the color difference signified or why the empty third eye socket hadn"t simply regenerated a Tao Eye.
Considering that a Tao Eye wasn"t like other physiques and that only one card apprentice with that Tao Eye physique could exist at a time, Wyatt wondered if the power of the Tao Eye had been split between the Supreme Leader and Clown Mask. He speculated that the Supreme Leader possessed about ninety percent of the Tao Eye"s power, while Clown Mask retained only ten percent, as he had managed to steal her third eye but not the socket. Since the third eye socket was part of the Tao Eye physique, the Supreme Leader had never been able to claim the full Tao Eye. As a result, despite numerous attempts, he could not recreate the Tao Eye physique and had to settle for a degraded
version.
This was also the reason why Clown Mask had been unable to regrow her Tao Eye and was left with an empty third eye socket unable to get rid of it. However, by supplying her with primordial energy and pixie dust, Wyatt had compensated for much of the missing Tao Eye, allowing her to form her own version of the degraded Tao Eye.