My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

The next day, when Shen Sui woke up, he still felt that last night was a beautiful dream.

But soon, he was sure that what happened last night was absolutely real!

Because Qishala had shyly returned to the Soul Card World.

After a wild night, she couldn't face Shen Sui's gentlemanly gaze for a while.

Thoughtful as always, Qishala fulfilled her duties as a maid and made Shen Sui a week's worth of very hearty breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, preserved with magic. He just needed to break the magical seal to enjoy fresh, steaming dishes.

Qishala truly lived up to being the most professional maid. In a short time, she mastered a large number of dishes and her cooking perfectly suited Shen Sui's taste.

A week later.

Looking at the food in the fridge, Shen Sui more or less knew the time when Qishala would return to reality again.

After enjoying a wonderful breakfast, Shen Sui opened the dueling device and began to check his spoils from this session.

Alice was certainly still his caring little darling.

Her card swiping abilities were truly unbeatable.

In just the time of a Trial of the Dragon, she brought a large number of Life Cards to Shen Sui.

And perhaps due to Alice's enhanced abilities, the quality of Life Cards obtained this time was very high.

Just one "Blessing of the Dragon Scale" made Shen Sui feel the trip was worth it.

And although the "Elemental Life: Lava Fairy" is not high-star, it perfectly met Shen Sui's needs.

This is a hand trap card that can be discarded from your hand when your opponent activates a card effect, to negate the opponent's card effect.

Combined with "Blessing of the Dragon Scale," it was enough to give Shen Sui the capital to engage in chain fights with the opponent.

And Alice brought out more good cards this time. Not to mention the new form "Embers Clearer Alice," which is somewhat similar to the Great Cosmos, even just the "Hand-Crafted Storm" obtained at the beginning was enough to give Shen Sui the confidence to face Forbidden Cards.

Of course, after Shen Sui's modification, this card became even more powerful.

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Card Name: [Hand-Crafted Storm]

Type: Spell Card

Star Level: 6 Star

Effect: ① Once per main phase of your turn, select an opponent's Spell Card on the field to activate its effect, destroy it;

② During your turn, when your opponent activates a Spell Card effect, you can activate this card directly from your hand, negate and destroy the opponent's Spell Card effect.

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The original effect of this card was only the ① effect, and Shen Sui saw that it still had a high star level surplus, indicating that it could accommodate more effects without changing its star level.

This situation is rare, almost equivalent to Shen Sui being able to forcibly add an extra effect.

However, there are still restrictions, and additional effects must align with the card's initial effect. Considering Shen Sui's goal this time, he decided to add a rapid attack effect to this card.

To achieve this, he had to add a once-per-turn limit to the ① effect of "Hand-Crafted Storm" and narrow the target selection scope to only Spell Cards.

And because the star level surplus was limited, Shen Sui could not add effects to negate all card effects, only Spell Cards.

Moreover, the activation timing could not be written as "occasion" but as "time."

In a duel, "XXXX occasion" and "XXXX time" make a difference.

The latter can be interrupted by a timing card, causing you to miss the opportunity to activate the effect.

Let's just say, a 6-star card can only be this good.

Blame it only on Alice's level not being high enough, with her self-created magic being only 6 tiers.

But how could Shen Sui possibly blame Alice? She was the darling who brought him numerous Life Cards!

This time, Alice even brought him Environment Cards!

Environment Cards, similar to field cards in Yu-Gi-Oh, and unlike Event Cards, Environment Cards remain active permanently unless replaced upon activation.

Similar to early Yu-Gi-Oh animations, only one Environment Card can exist at a time during a duel; both players can't activate their own Environment at the same time.

Like Event Cards, an Environment Card, once successfully activated, does not exist on the field, has no tangible card, and therefore cannot be targeted by card effects, nor affected by any card effects, inherently possessing strong resistance.

Luckily, Environment Cards appear infrequently in the real world, otherwise when you draw an Environment Card, you'd have to worry about it being topped by the opponent, and if topped without extra Environment Cards, you'd just have to endure defeat under the opponent's familiar environment.

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Card Name: [Trial of the Dragon: Lava]

Type: Environment Card

Star Level: 12 Star

Effect: At the end of both players' turns, the card's owner draws one card and then reveals one card from their hand. If the revealed card's star level is ≤ 12 stars, destroy all cards on their field.

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A simple and brutal card.

But a very powerful Restriction Card.

It forces the opponent to consider keeping a high-star card in hand when expanding their field.

Yes, the only pity is its high star level, activating it costs most of your Soul Points.

If your own field isn't solid and you don't have high-star cards in hand, it can backfire on you.

But to Shen Sui, this was just a minor flaw compared to the benefits it could bring.

In comparison, the Equipment Spell Cards Alice brought out this time were quite varied, mostly gifts from the Giant Dragons to Alice. Although some are good equipment, they don't fit Shen Sui's deck very well. The only one worth mentioning is the "Supreme Level Storage Ring."

Each turn, it allows the selection of two cards from the Deck, Graveyard, or Exclusion Zone to stack under this Equipment Spell Card. When this card leaves the field, its controller gains all the stacked cards.

Paired with "Silver Moon Wolf King Hali," it's great for card replenishment.

Pretty good.

No wonder it's the most rare storage equipment in the game.

If the gains from Life Cards already satisfied Shen Sui, then Alice's multiple forms delighted him even more.

During this Trial of the Dragon, Alice astonishingly revealed three forms for Shen Sui.

[Dragon Witch Alice].

[Embers Clearer Alice].

[Flame Dragon Mage Alice].

Shen Sui was now gradually discovering the core of a Life Card Duel.

Even without an Extra Deck, as long as your Soul Card has strong and diverse forms, your deck has endless possibilities.

The number of Alice's forms now nearly matches an Extra Deck.

Of course, since they are the same card, it can't serve the fielding effect like an Extra Deck, but around form transformation, Shen Sui could now innovate in countless ways.

Excellent!

The preparations were almost complete.

Shen Sui picked up his phone.

An Hai's message came through.

It's time for me to attend the appointment.