Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2152  Adaptive Resonance

Date- 18 April 2321

Time- 23:29 n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, Fine Gold Residential Area

"What is it?" Asong asked noticing the subtle change in Wyatt's expression. Then she observed that his eyes were wandering, scanning their surrounding instead of being focused on their conversation. She knew in her heart that the assassin was back for her but she could not help but ask hoping for a different answer. Just because the assassin failed on his previous attempts did not mean he would fail this time too, so she could help but be cautious. However, her expression remained nonchalant, appearing indifferent to the assassination attempt on her life and the fact that she was being used as bait to draw out the assassin. After all, all this was not new to her. She did not have a dozen semi-demigods protecting her for no reason. Only this time the stakes were much higher and she fell short. If not for Field Marshal Heatsend and Wyatt she would not be alive. "Everything is going to be alright, trust me," Wyatt said as his soul pupils locked onto a solitude 20 yards from the villa. For the naked eyes, this solitude was invisible but not for Wyatt's soul pupils. Not only was he visible but all his secrets were bare in front of the soul pupils. Wyatt continued to observe the solitude of the slowly approaching assassin with his soul pupils. He felt that this assassin's ability resembled the ability of someone he fought in the recent past, in the Southern Capital. He reminded Wyatt of Arnas who taught him the trick of Adaptive Resonance. Seeing Arnas use her unique gifts for music to manipulate the vibrations of her surroundings to display exceptional combat prowess was an eye-opener for Wyatt. Especially, seeing how she was able to use it to break the array formation protecting the southern capital and unleash the six devil and demon army into the Southern capital. The assassin's ability used a similar principle as adaptive resonance allowing him to move unnoticed and execute his task. 'No wonder the Field Marshal failed to catch him,' Wyatt thought to himself as his soul pupils unraveled the truth of the assassin's ability to him.

'This just incredible,' Wyatt uttered to himself in his mind, learning about the assassin's ability. It was something he had thought having learned about adaptive resonance after seeing Arnas but he stopped the development of this ability because it required too many calculations to be executed in a fraction of a second, which was hectic and near impossible even for Hive AI. However, the assassin's ability seemed to complete these calculations for the assassin instinctively. Allowing the assassin to use an ability that Wyatt found nearly impossible to execute. With this Wyatt knew that the assassin's ability wasn't pure talent like in Arnas's case but related to his physique or origin card. After all, talent alone wasn't enough to bridge this near-impossible gap if it was Wyatt would have long done it. Adaptive resonance was basically matching one's vibration to the vibration of their surroundings. One imagination and experience were the limit to the possibilities of how this ability could be used in real life. Arnas used this ability to break barriers and defense and dodge impossible attacks while the assassin used this ability to become one with his surroundings and become intangible, making himself immune to all attacks. Wyatt had also thought of using the adaptive resonance to become intangible like the assassin but the vibrations of the surroundings keep changing continuously with the introduction of various variables especially in case of a battle where the surroundings get bombarded with various energies and rule power. It's hard to keep up with the changing vibrations of the surroundings if you fail to keep even by a fraction of a second then game over. Changing vibrations of the surroundings meant the card apprentice would have to change their vibrations to match the vibrations of the surroundings which meant they would not only have to be able to calculate the changing vibrations but also be fast enough in their calculations such that they can continue to maintain the state of intangibility. This was why Wyatt halted research into this ability. Regardless, the assassin was able to use adaptive resonance to become intangible entering a state of being present but absent at the same time. Allowing him to dodge the Field Marshal's attacks and escape her grasp. But there was a drawback to this state as the Field Marshal pointed out earlier. In his intangible state, the assassin was not only immune to attack but also unable to attack. In his current state, the assassin was like a wandering ghost. Nobody could touch neither could he. As such could not even harm a hair on Asong's body in his intangible state except for giving her the feeling of being watched if he failed to hide his intent. This meant if he wanted to harm Asong, the assassin would have to exit his intangible state which would allow him to attack Asong but also make him vulnerable to attacks. This was why Field Marshal said that she needed to wait till the assassin attacked Asong for her to make her move and capture him. It wasn't surprising that the Field Marshal was able to come to this conclusion after a few heated exchanges with the assassin otherwise her unique eyes would not be worthy of their reputation. One had to know Henricks had used one of the favors Field Marshal owed him to get her to promise that she would not use her unique eyes on him. The Field Marshal's unique eyes had a very dreadful reputation on the battlefield, especially for card apprentices like Henricks who relied on trickery and momentary surprise to their advantage in their fight style. 

Though the Field Marshal had uncovered the trick to the assassin's ability she was putting Asong's life at huge risk.