Chapter 1372 VR Saferoom

Date- 7 April 2321

Time- 14:54

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Card Creationist a.s.sociation, Auction House

The virtual city was ready. I had my mutated consciousness keep it simple and detailed. After all, this was just a demo version to create hype. 

While my other two mutated consciousness were also done extracting the soul pathway of coc.o.o.n spinning ability from the soul pathway arrangement of the Sleepy Caterpillar Core. 

I too had managed to separate the soul pathway related to the fragrance ability of the Sandalwood tree monster from its soul pathway arrangement. Which was only half of the task I took on. Now all that remained was modifying these soul pathways to fit the card I was planning to create. 

By modifying I meant to edit the soul pathways of the fragrance ability as per my requirement. 

The fragrance of the sandalwood tree monster not only separates the consciousness of the victim from their body but puts them under a hallucination, not to forget the addictive nature which causes the victim"s body to near the tree monster in search of more fragrance. 

I only needed the part of the fragrance ability of the sandalwood tree monster that separated the victim"s consciousness from their body and not the hallucination and addictive part of this ability. 

So I had to edit the soul pathways of the fragrance ability of the Sandalwood tree monster to just get the part of the ability I wanted without compromising the ability"s efficiency in any way. Otherwise, the soul pathway would be useless to me. 

It was a lot harder said than done because without putting the victim under a hallucination, it was near impossible for the fragrance of the Sandalwood tree monster to separate the victim"s consciousness from their body. 

However, the only reason the victim needs to be put under hallucination was that there would be no resistance from the victim when it separates the victim"s consciousness from their body. This would not be a problem for the card I was creating as it would ask the permission of the card apprentice before separating their consciousness from their physical body and entering the virtual city through their grimoire. 

Since there would be no resistance from the card apprentice when they use the card, I did not require the hallucination part and I could edit it out or keep it but render it dormant such that it doesn"t show as a part of the ability of the card I was creating. 

However, I decided to keep the hallucination part of the ability but keep it dormant because removing it would only decrease the effectiveness of the part of the soul pathway I wanted so this was the best choice to get the maximum of the consciousness separation ability. As for the addictive part, I removed it as it did not help in consciousness separation ability in any way. 

With two sets of consciousness separation ability soul pathways separated and modified, I had all the soul pathways required to create the VR coc.o.o.n card. 

This time I did not plan to add many effects to the card I was creating as I did with the b.l.o.o.d.y La.s.so of Prohibition item card because I wanted to keep the card simple such that the focus of the audience with remain on the new concept I was introducing to them. The simpler the card the easier for the audience to understand what the card actually did. 

Since Virtual Reality was a relatively new concept in this world, I knew there was a possibility of the audience giving a mixed reaction. However, I believe during the card demonstration part of the trial, once they see the virtual city and the infinite possibilities within it. I think the audience that was against will have a change of heart. Especially when they see PvP fighting action I had added to the virtual city. This was why I decided to create two cards instead of one. 

There were two parts to the cards I planned to create the VR coc.o.o.n and the virtual city. I say two parts because the virtual city will not be a part of the VR Coc.o.o.n card. As the Virtual city will be nothing but huge data on the Grimoire Network which one could only access through the VR Coc.o.o.n card. 

Aside from helping the card apprentice transfer their consciousness to the Virtual city safely, the VR coc.o.o.n card also allowed the transfer to a small virtual room where the card apprentice could experience the grimoire network as a virtual reality. Nothing grand, instead using the network in 2-D form they will get to experience it in 3-D form. 

Once the virtual city and virtual safe room were established on the grimoire network, I verified them for bugs. Hive AI was thorough so no bugs were found. 

Then I began combining the soul pathways of the coc.o.o.n-spinning ability with the soul pathways of the consciousness separation ability following the most efficient combination the Hive AI came up with, creating a near-perfect soul pathway arrangement in the first common core. While my mutated soul consciousnesses repeated the same for the second common core. Then we tugged on the transforming soul pathways of the common cores morphing them into cards. 

The audience gasped seeing the grimoire of the representative of the Southern card creation a.s.sociation shine brilliantly and witness two golden cards float out of it while Chris was still busy creating his card they were all sh.e.l.l-shocked and could not believe their eyes. 

The fraudster had not only managed to complete his card creation faster than Chris but he created two cards using the ingredients for one card. The viewers who were watching the trial on the grimoire network were buzzing unlike the audience in the auction hall who did not dare to say beep as they did not want to be thrown out of the auction hall without seeing the end result of the trail especially the card demonstration of the representative of the Southern card creationist a.s.sociation.