My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

[Alice's barbecue party successfully won over the inhabitants of Dragon Island.]

[They unconditionally supported Alice in the Trial of the Dragon.]

[Thus, the next day when Alice woke from her dreams, the Silver Gray Extreme Dragon, Karfeng, leader of the Dragon Race Elder Council, found Alice.]

[With the unanimous decision of the Elder Council, Alice was granted the opportunity for the Trial of the Dragon.]

[The trial of the Molten Giant Dragon would commence today at noon, and they hoped Alice would prepare early.]

["Claude, what do I need to prepare?" Alice asked you nervously.]

The Trial of the Dragon, a dungeon in the game during the journey to Dragon Island, was also one Shen Sui had attempted.

The most difficult part of the Trial of the Dragon is not gaining the approval of the Ancient Giant Dragon.

The real difficulty lies in formally initiating the Trial of the Dragon.

This inheritance trial was originally meant for the Dragon Race; the first step to initiate the trial is to test the "dragon content" of the trial taker.

Bloodlines, of course, can't be faked. As a pure-blooded human, under no circumstance could Alice become a hybrid with dragon bloodlines.

Therefore, to pass the trial's initiation check, the best way is to wear items from the Dragon Race as much as possible.

However, many of these items from the Dragon Race are made from materials from the bodies of giant dragons, and using such items on Dragon Island is almost akin to insulting the deceased relatives in front of kin.

Not using giant dragon bodies as materials and yet owning items with dragon auras, which can enhance one's dragon content, leaves only the dragon scales given by the giant dragons to those they acknowledge.

These dragon scales are not just ordinary scales from giant dragons but often contain the power of the dragon's essence.

The most typical dragon scale is the one from the Star Abyss White Dragon given to Alice by Qishala, which possesses phenomenal long-distance communication power.

[You explained to Alice the general plan and recounted your process of collecting dragon scales back on Dragon Island.]

Shen Sui, during his own Trial of the Dragon, had almost fought all the residents on the island just before the trial began.

Those who loved Life Card Duels, he obtained dragon scales through card games.

Those who loved battles, he obtained dragon scales through combat.

It was much like side quests in some 3A canned games.

["Dragon scales, huh," Alice said happily, "That's not a difficult task."]

Not a difficult task...

Shen Sui was about to criticize Alice for taking this matter too lightly when he looked at the text below.

[Alice shook out hundreds of dragon scales from her storage ring.]

[They all contained power, dragon scales given to Alice by the giant dragons.]

[Among them, you even spotted the dragon scale of the Dragon of Resurgence, which could grant Alice an additional life.]

???

["What the hell! Where did you get these dragon scales from?" you asked in disbelief.]

Shen Sui genuinely couldn't comprehend it.

It's important to know, Alice had been acting entirely under his watch this time, and even though the Dueling Device omitted some details in the text transformation, this was just too outrageous!

Each dragon scale represents a kind of power.

Even though these dragon scales in Alice's possession didn't have lasting power like the one Qishala gave her, even a single-use boost was a significant increase in Alice's combat ability!

These hundreds of dragon scales meant that even if Alice had no other enhancements in the future, just by relying on the power of the dragon scales, she would be more than capable of standing up to most of the strong on the Dawn Continent.

The next moment, the Dueling Device experienced a rare lag.

Shen Sui immediately understood that the Dueling Device was determining whether these hundreds of dragon scales could become Life Cards.

With the Star Abyss White Dragon Scale as a precedent, these gifts from the giant dragons to Alice indeed had the potential to become Life Cards.

Suddenly hundreds of Life Cards, it's not that Shen Sui hadn't seen this before, but no one in the real world could have seen such a thing.

After a brief lag, the Dueling Device returned to smooth operation.

It didn't spit out hundreds of Life Cards for Shen Sui, but gave him just one card.

[Ding! You obtained the Permanent Spell Card: Blessing of the Dragon Scale]

Damn!

A few hundred cards compressed into one, is that it?

Although theoretically, these dragon scales were one-time-use items, there was a precedent for one-time-use tools being transformed into Life Cards.

Though Shen Sui knew it was unlikely, seeing the device give him only one Life Card still made him unhappy.

But upon checking the card's effect, Shen Sui's mood immediately calmed.

Ah well, for such a small matter, there's no need to get upset.

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Card Name: [Blessing of the Dragon Scale]

Type: Permanent Spell Card

Star Level: 15 stars

Effect: This card can only be used from the hand through Effect ①. As long as [Alice] exists on the field, this card is unaffected by other card effects.

① When [Alice] is summoned or Special Summoned successfully, you can activate this card from your hand;

② During your main phase once per turn, you can return a card from your hand to the deck to activate, recovering X Soul Points (X being the star level of the card);

③ Once per turn, during either player's turn, when your opponent activates a card effect, you can pay half your Life Value to activate, and negate the effect of the activated card.

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Looks like this Dueling Device still has a bit of a conscience.

Even though this card is also a fifteen-star one, this time there was no prompt of being unobtainable.

Looking at the unobtainable cards still in the Life Card Slot, Shen Sui roughly understood that the Dueling Device's compensation for consuming his hundreds of cards was this.

As for whether swapping those hundreds of Dragon Scale Equipment Cards for this one Permanent Spell Card was a loss or gain, Shen Sui already had his own judgment.

With recovery and strengthening, this card is powerful and versatile.

Even Shen Sui felt this card was a bit surreal, almost embarrassed to tweak it slightly.

Meanwhile, he couldn't help but sigh, such card acquisition efficiency could only be achieved by Alice.

["Given to me by those giant dragons during last night's barbecue party," Alice said, pointing at the dragon scales on the ground.]

Damn, these giant dragons were generous, weren't they?

Shen Sui thought to himself.

["They said it was an attendance gift for the party," Alice said, "Seeing how readily they gave them, I didn't think much of it. They should come in handy, right?"]

Of course, they're handy.

And extremely useful.

[You raised your hand and pointed at the dragon scales on the ground.]

[The dragon scales floated, one by one embedding into Alice's magic robe.]

[The massive number of dragon scales quickly turned Alice's magic robe into Dragon Scale Armor.]

[With a snap of your fingers, the previously glittering dragon scales swiftly became transparent and faded, making Alice's magic robe look as if it had returned to its original form.]

[However, its essence was now completely different.]

[It was a powerful Holy Dragon Robe.]

[Ding! You obtained Equipment Spell Card: Holy Dragon Robe]

[Ding! Your Soul Card Follower obtained a new form: Dragon Witch Alice]