CHAPTER 21: CHAPTER 21: LIFE CARD TRADE

The effect of [Flame Witch · Hozerville] is absolutely enough for her to become a core card.

But Shen Sui’s mind was filled with countless ideas, yet he couldn’t determine how this main axis would achieve victory.

Burning the opponent’s life points?

Wouldn’t that be a bit too Underworld?

Shen Sui pondered as he removed unnecessary Life Cards from his deck.

The duel exam had been passed, so these filler Life Cards no longer had value in the deck.

You ask how Shen Sui dares to add irrelevant cards to the deck? Isn’t he afraid of a dead draw?

Shen Sui is certainly not afraid, because the effects of these filler Life Cards are remarkably similar, such as the remaining three from the original twenty cards:

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Card Name: [Meaningless Whisper]

Category: Spell Card

Star Level: 1 Star

Effect: Can only be activated during your Main Phase, remove this card from the duel, gain 1 Soul Point, then draw one card from your deck.

(This was a Spell Card obtained from Alice talking in her sleep at night, and Shen Sui was very curious how a Spell Card could be acquired like this.)

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Card Name: [Useless Coal Ball Spirit]

Category: Follower Card

Star Level: 1 Star

Effect: During your Main Phase, discard this card from your hand to activate, draw one card from your deck.

(This Follower Card was gained when Alice burned down a villain’s castle, but since it had no combat power, Alice released it.)

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Card Name: [Malicious Gift]

Category: Spell Card

Star Level: 5 Stars

Effect: Once per turn, select one Life Card from your deck to add to the opponent’s hand to activate, allowing the opponent to choose one effect to activate:

① You draw two cards from your deck;

② Reveal your hand and allow you to choose one Life Card from it to gain.

(Acquired in a trade with a noble by Alice.)

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Except for [Malicious Gift], these seemingly meaningless yet harmless cards in the original deck were simply divine cards used for deck thinning while meeting the card count.

You can’t say it’s strong, but you definitely can’t say these cards are weak. Under certain conditions, their effects are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Shen Sui kept [Malicious Gift] and packaged the remaining two cards along with some direct damage Spell Cards Alice obtained from the storage chest to the online store.

This time Shen Sui was smart, no longer pricing his cards by the suggested price.

[Useless Coal Ball Spirit] and [Meaningless Whisper] were all priced at five thousand, targeting those specific users.

The direct damage Spell Cards were priced according to how much they exceeded the norm.

Most direct damage Spell Cards obtained from the Fishing Treasure Chest were of the overpowered category, and although the degree varied, it was enough to make these cards break through the suggested pricing.

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

As Shen Sui’s cards were uploaded one after another, notifications of funds received kept appearing in his bank account.

Except for the initial slight delay of the first two five-thousand-priced cards, the rest were purchased almost immediately after being uploaded.

No wonder there were so few cards in the online store; they were snatched up instantly.

Even those two seemingly meaningless cards were bought after a short delay of a few minutes.

"Nice!" Shen Sui stretched lazily.

After this wave of sales, Shen Sui’s bank balance reached fifty thousand, ensuring no short-term financial worries.

There was even spare money to upgrade his Dueling Device.

The Time Flow Speed Regulator is a very small application, displayed on the right side of the main page, showing the current time flow ratio, with the default being 1:8, meaning 1 day in the real world equals 8 days in the Soul Card World.

Opening the regulator’s control interface, the slowest time flow can be adjusted to 1:1, meaning the time in the real world and the Soul Card World would be synchronized, passing the same amount of time simultaneously.

The fastest can be adjusted to 1:16, allowing a Life Card Master to quickly grind cards in a short time, but under this time flow, the textual updates on the main page can become so rapid that you may not have time to input commands.

The most prominent place on the controller is the paid recharge button, allowing you to purchase usage time.

After a wave of Life Card sales, Shen Sui’s usable Life Cards decreased to thirty-one.

According to the Life Card Association’s regulations, a professional Life Card Master’s deck should be forty cards, no more, no less; otherwise, they are not eligible to participate in officially recognized tournaments by the Life Card Association.

Shen Sui leaving nine Blank Cards is in preparation for Alice’s journey to Modena City.

No matter if Alice intended to stir things up, Shen Sui himself wanted to make some chaos in Modena City.

The city I painstakingly built in the game had become the City of Sin, even the burial place of my in-game lover Vivian, anyone would be angry.

Shen Sui wants to purify Modena City.

Derrodel?

God of Sin?

Humph! If they dare to appear, they’ll end up as Follower Cards, and moreover, Follower Cards with their physical form dead!

Since there’s going to be chaos, the number of Life Cards gained will certainly not be few, so Shen Sui naturally left enough space to accommodate these new cards.

He even felt that nine empty slots were too few.

But there was really nothing he could do; the remaining thirty-one cards were all useful, and he couldn’t squeeze out any more space.

However, he still hadn’t figured out the win condition for another main axis, perhaps the upcoming journey to Modena City would offer him this answer.

Actually, [Fish King · Paiyiga] had already transformed into Shen Sui’s shape.

Shen Sui, following his ideas, directly modified Paiyiga’s effect to make this Follower Card’s effect align more closely with the Flame Witch’s main axis.

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Card Name: [Fish King · Paiyiga]

Category: Follower Card

Star Level: 8 Stars

Effect: This follower is considered a derivative on the field. ① During your Main Phase, you can release two followers on the opponent’s field to special summon this follower to the opponent’s field;

② As long as this card exists on the field, all derivatives on your field cannot be released.

Spirit Value: 2000

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I’m giving you a powerful follower with a Spirit Value of 2000, aren’t you happy?! Surprised?!

Originally, Shen Sui intended to set the Spirit Value to 2200 for a nod to the Sea Turtle Evil Beast, but unfortunately, the Liberation Fee system in the Life Card Duel meant giving the opponent an 8-star beast could make them very happy, releasing it on their turn to recover the fee in one go, potentially increasing their turn cost from 16 Soul Points to 24 Soul Points, a great delight.

Considering he might need to use this card to deal with the opponent’s low-star followers, to avoid aiding the enemy, Shen Sui could only add an effect to restrict the opponent from releasing derivatives to recover fees.

After reviewing the effects of the Life Cards in his deck and confirming he was satisfied, Shen Sui had some leisure time and picked up the Dueling Device to glance at Alice’s movements.

[Alice is on her way to the City of Sin...]

Things finally calmed down for a while.

Shen Sui sighed.

But he knew, this was the calm before the storm.

When Alice reaches the City of Sin, a bloody storm will sweep across the Dawn Continent.

Modena City! Your master is coming back!

Meanwhile, Shen Sui’s phone, where he just inserted a SIM card, lit up—it was a call.

The other party was a staff member from Tianyi Academy, and the content of the call was very simple but also very important to Shen Sui:

"Student Shen Sui, your coach is in place, please head to the teaching building room 302, she is waiting there."

"Not a substitute?"

"No."

Dawn Continent as a professional Life Card Master in the Soul Card World?

Truly rare!

Shen Sui’s eyes lit up.

A person who can help me grind Same Name Cards has appeared!