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Dalton Wyatt, a world-renowned scientist and inventor, is transmigrated into the body of a high school student, also named Dalton Wyatt, who had tragically committed suicide due to unfortunate circumstances and a complicated life. The enchanting world of cards he finds himself in is vastly different from Earth, yet eerily similar in certain aspects. Unlike the peaceful Earth, where humans fought only amongst themselves, this new world is plagued by dungeons and monsters. Here, humanity's survival hinges on battling these mythical and legendary creatures. Ordinary mortals lack the strength to stand against such formidable foes. Thankfully, a select few are blessed with the ability to harness their souls, manifest soul power, and become card apprentices—humanity’s last hope against extinction. Card apprentices are individuals who form contracts with grimoires, mystical artifacts that allow them to wield powerful and versatile cards to fend off monsters and conquer dungeons. A grimoire provides card apprentices with abilities such as card creation and card fusion. Most importantly, it enables them to unlock their full potential in card battles. While this world shares the concept of science with Earth, its focus is not on electronics or industrialization. Instead, cards replace the need for most technologies, fulfilling even the smallest of daily necessities. This world revolves entirely around the grimoire’s abilities, particularly card creation and card fusion. Transmigrated to a place where strength can be bought with money, Dr. Wyatt is forced to earn a living to ensure his survival. Fortunately, with his otherworldly knowledge and expertise, card creation comes naturally to him, setting him apart from other card apprentices. Dr. Wyatt crafts and sells perfect, powerful, and resourceful cards, steadily growing stronger in this monster-ridden world. --- "What did you say? Making good cards is hard? Bah! Card creation is a breeze." "My friend, let me enlighten you—there are no 'trash card ingredients,' only incompetent card creationists." [Commencing card creation using ingredients, i)Bloody Veins - G Rank, Mortal Grade ii)Nyon Rope - G Rank, Mortal Grade iii)Common Core - G Rank, Mortal Grade Card creation… complete! Card Name: Bloody Rope Card Type: Item Card Card Rank: E Rank, Common Grade Card Rating: 3 Stars Card Durability: 100/100 Card Effect: The Bloody Rope can bind and incapacitate its target. When in contact with a target’s wound, it triggers paralysis and blood drain effects. Additional Effect: Paralysis, Blood Drain] "This can’t be real! You used G-rank mortal-grade ingredients and yet crafted an E-rank common-grade card with full durability and a three-star rating? This isn’t real—I must still be dreaming! I couldn’t possibly have woken up today—this has to be a dream!"

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Soul Scissors and Incubator

Date 22 Mar 2321

Time 10:31

Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Mall, Warehouse no. 234

[ Soul Scissors - $25million

 Soul Incubator - $30million

 C-rank Mandragora roots - $13.9million

 C-rank Mandragora core - $19.7million

 C-rank Matango spores - $12million

 C-rank Matango core - $20.8million

 E-rank High Wood Wisp core x100 - $10million

 Unique grade Origin core - $125,000

 Total cost - $131.525million]

The total cost of ingredients amounted to near $131.5million, I could not use ingredients higher than C-rank as both I and Elliott were only silver rank grimoire holders, limiting my choices.

But for the origin card, I had in mind these ingredients were more than enough. Not to mention I still have the Gemini and Para share cards from Fine Gold, which I forgot to return. 

Susan had prepared the ingredients and also invited the guild management to set up the card lab equipped with the soul scissors and incubator in the warehouse.

Soul scissors is not an ingredient, it is a machine that a Card Creator uses to split the patient's soul, which the soul incubator houses and narture the split soul.

While the guild management was setting up my very own card lab equipped with Soul scissors and Soul incubator, I was learning how to use them through their user guide and Susan was entertaining the guest.

Gotta commend this world's occupation cards, they built the card lab equipped with soul scissors and incubator in one and a half hour to be precise it is one hour 20 minutes. But they were not cheap, I was not worried as all the cost was paid by Elliott. 

Soul Scissors is a very expensive and special machine its primary use is to observe the wavelengths of the soul pathway to identify and differentiate each of them individually. Once identified then the Card apprentice can use the machine to cut the required soul pathway. 

Thanks to my soul pupils I do not require a machine for this, I needed this machine for its advanced use that is to split Elliott's soul to make a false human core just like the one Jaya had. 

Using my soul pupils I had already deduced Jaya's false human core but I was not certain if the soul pathways arranged in the false core were familiar to Jaya's normal soul pathway arrangement.

Therefore I went back to the bathhouse to collect Jaya's hair, which fell when she was rolling on the ground in pain. 

The soul pathway arrangement of a person is unique and the same in their entire body, similar to DNA. 

Comparing the soul pathway arrangement in me and Jaya's hair and the false core I began to deduce the secret behind Jaya's false core and the Viltronian powers it gave her. 

But this was not enough to deduce the secrets of the false core and Viltronian, thankfully I was an expert on Viltronian DNA and had successfully created Viltronian's back on earth.

Using my knowledge I gained of Viltronian DNA back on Earth and the unique soul pathway arrangements of the false core I was finally able to deduce all the secrets behind the false core and Viltronian powers. 

Turns out Viltronians are humans who under million years of evolution had their DNA and soul pathway arrangement cleverly evolved to give them their current prowess and false soul core. 

I hated Viltronians more than anyone else out in the universe but I had to acknowledge their prowess and their long life span, therefore I wanted my second origin card to be a variant of the Viltronian card that Jaya had. 

But being an inventor I knew nobody gets the best results on their first try therefore I decided to experiment *ahem* I mean I let Elliott have the honour of being the first human to have a soul core. Jaya was excluded as she was not human, to begin with. 

To be clear I was not going to make Elliott a Viltronian origin card but an origin card that followed the example of Viltronian evolution and soul core. And to make things easier Elliott's fate ingredient was the clear scale earthworm core. 

I was not going to cure Elliott's gene defect using the origin card I planned for him but I was going to use his gene defect as an advantage to create him a perfect origin card. 

"Wyatt, the card lab is set up and ready to use" Susan informed me as I was busy learning how to use the soul scissors and incubator. 

"I am done here too, are the ingredients in place," I said closing the user manual.

"Yes, Corey is placing them in the card lab as we speak." 

"Great! then what are we waiting for, let's get started." 

Inside the card lab, Looking at the operating bed of the soul scissors machine Elliott nervously asked, "how sure are you about this?"

"100%" I replied

"even though the machine has a 22% error rate and its manual highly recommends to avoid soul splitting if not necessary."

"Don't sweat the small stuff, my skill reduces the error rate to zero. Now get on the bed." 

The machine has such a high error rate because its lens was not that accurate and also making it cheaper and affordable.

But this error rate did not hinder me as I was going to use my soul pupils rather than the machine lens. 

 "Remind me how old are you again?" Asked Elliott comparing my skill to experience. 

"17."

"Aren't you a little young to operate a soul scissors?"

"No, I am not"

Time to get serious!

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