For his four Epic Boon feat choices, he selected "Boon of Flourishing Life," "Boon of Radiant Splendor," "Boon of Soul-Shattering Terror," and "Card Diviner."
"Card Diviner" was not an Epic Feat, but it had some distinctive features.
A Card Diviner could use playing cards as a focus for the Art, perform sophisticated "Card Trickery," or infuse spells into cards to serve as a "Hidden Ace."
They were essentially card versions of Spell Scrolls, with no restrictions on spell type.
However, cards imbued with magic could only last eight hours.
But Anse could keep upgrading the feat, transforming it into a more powerful signature ability.
He used all of his "Arcane Bloodline" upgrades to improve his two time-related mythic abilities, leaving "Derived Metamagic" untouched for now.
"This will do for now."
[Charisma +3, spells: Iron Body, Bewitching Mirror, Shattered Mind..., Signature Spells: Meteor Swarm, Dimension Door, Looking Back, feats: Card Diviner..., Arcane Bloodline: Breath of Time, Flowing Time. Confirm?]
"Confirm."
Anse's bloodline surged, divine light blossomed, and rings of iridescence rippled outward for thousands of meters. Even [Star-Eye] hummed.
The changes to his attributes were immense, driving simultaneous improvements in his Hexfire, Psionics, cultivated power, sacred power, and Sands of Time. A sense of tremendous strength welled up within him. By contrast, those spells and feats barely stirred his emotions. "In the later stages, power comes back to extraordinary essence," Anse observed with sudden insight.
When he had been weak, a single spell or feat could send his combat strength soaring. Now, however, they offered relatively little improvement. Ultimately, spells, feats, and skills were merely methods and techniques for expressing extraordinary power. At the later stages, no one lacked them.
The true foundation of strength still lay in the essence of one's life and power.
After a long while,