CHAPTER 25: CHAPTER 25: THE FIRST DIVINE CARD

[Arianna sensed the aura of the Star Magic Array and recalled someone.]

Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry! We can’t let her get away!

Shen Sui quickly inputted commands.

[You felt Arianna’s gaze and turned your eyes towards her.]

[The esteemed Twilight Bishop, Arianna greets you.]

[A little girl dressed in a black robe and holding a scythe appeared behind you, humbly expressing her highest respect.]

[She is the Goddess of Death, Arianna, the most dignified deity on the Dawn Continent.]

???

How did Arianna become a little girl? I remember Arianna in the game was famously well-endowed, even considered average in some games.

[You express your confusion about Arianna’s current state.]

[Vivian cut away half of my divine essence to resurrect you.]

Arianna’s response left Shen Sui in temporary silence.

Vivian, huh...

[How did Vivian die?]

[The one she loved left her, the people she saved betrayed her, she went to her death in despair.]

[But if it’s you, you can indeed resurrect Miss Vivian. After nearly a thousand years of legends, the Twilight Saintess Vivian has become a mythical totem. As long as you ignite her divine essence, she will be resurrected as a deity.]

Resurrection?

Seeing that Vivian could be resurrected, Shen Sui’s mind was indeed stirred for a few seconds.

But the next moment, his face darkened somewhat.

Vivian Yimiti dedicated her entire life to eradicating the gods on the Dawn Continent.

Deifying her would be tantamount to killing Vivian once more.

How malicious of you, Arianna!

[Arianna sensed your anger and admitted her wrongdoing with fear.]

[It was all Bargas’s scheme.]

[Arianna revealed the mastermind to you.]

[Please don’t kill me; I can become your wedge among the gods.]

[Arianna expressed her loyalty to you.]

[Ding! You have acquired the Follower Card: Goddess of Death, Arianna.]

Here it comes! The Divine Card!

I can also summon Kami now!

[Ding! Due to the low tier of your Soul Card, you cannot extract this Follower Card; please upgrade your Soul Card tier.]

???

Why is there such a restriction? Shen Sui couldn’t figure it out.

No one told him before that a low Soul Card tier would prevent him from extracting high-tier Follower Cards. I extracted [Recovery] just fine, didn’t I?

Reluctantly, Shen Sui could only glance at the image of Arianna’s card for some visual satisfaction.

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Card Name: [Goddess of Death, Arianna]

Category: Follower Card

Star Level: 15 stars

Effect: This follower can only be summoned by tributing three followers on the field. This follower is unaffected by other card effects, and its effect cannot be chained by other card effects.

① As long as this follower is on the field, you cannot perform a normal summon, and cannot special summon from the deck or hand. At the start of your Main Phase, if the number of followers on the opponent’s field is greater than yours, you can special summon one follower from the graveyard onto the field, forcing the opponent to select one of their followers to send to the graveyard;

② As long as this follower is on the field, when a card effect causes a Life Card to leave either graveyard, you may activate one of the following effects:

〇 Discard a Follower Card from your hand to negate the activation of that effect;

〇 Send a Follower Card from your deck to the graveyard and execute that effect an additional time.

③ The Spirit Value of this follower is always the number of Follower Cards in both graveyards ×800

Spirit Value: ???

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Hiss——

As expected of a Divine Card, terrifying indeed.

TM, how tempting!

Shen Sui greedily touched the screen, but he couldn’t reach the reality of "acquiring this card".

Alice, you must strive harder!

Shen Sui, growing frustrated, decided to seriously push Alice in the future.

After over a month of being a mage, she’s still only a third-tier mage? Too weak! She needs serious pushing!

With a bit of anger over her lack of progress, Shen Sui looked again at Alice’s movements.

The chaos Alice stirred finally subsided a bit as time passed, and Modena City’s power structure gradually became clearer.

Paiyiga helped with a brutal expansion, annexing numerous small factions and, in a short time, showed signs of becoming the top faction in Modena City.

Alice did not care about the consequences of such a brutal expansion; she wasn’t here to develop a career.

[Alice’s goal has always been singular: to save Anna.]

Seeing this, Shen Sui couldn’t help but admire Alice. Although she always caused trouble for him, her ability to resist temptation far exceeded his expectations.

Oshana once invited her, and if Alice had accepted, she could have lived a prosperous life.

Even now, having built a powerful Paiyiga gang in a short time, theoretically, she could bask in glory.

Yet Alice was not driven by present desires; she consistently moved toward the goal in her heart.

This personality is much like Vivian’s.

Shen Sui thought to himself.

[You appeared, reminding Alice of the dangers of recovery.]

[Alice joyfully noted your awakening, and you reminded her of the threat of death.]

[Alice learned the reason she’s still alive now; your help solidified her belief that the malicious rumors about the Twilight Bishop are false.]

No, in a certain sense, they aren’t false. In the first round, I indeed did many inhumane things.

Shen Sui was thankful that he brought the second-round save file with him through the transmigration.

Nevertheless, Alice’s belief in him deeply moved Shen Sui....

[Alice abandoned the plan to clock in at the Modena clock tower—the rumored location where the Twilight Bishop XX〇〇d the Elf Empress.]

Darn it! Alice! Give back my trust!

[If I used frequent revival to attract the Goddess of Death and then you killed her, would no one die thereafter? Alice posed a question eagerly.]

What do you intend to do?! Shen Sui widened his eyes at the screen.

You’re just third-tier! How dare you have such thoughts?

[Death is a law; deities are merely extraordinaries who have stolen the power of laws. Death does not disappear with the fall of the Goddess of Death.]

In "Dawn Link", the strongest boss was level 159, while players could reach up to level 169. At this level, players could already do as they pleased in the game world. Moreover, as a single-player game, the developers didn’t need to consider how to limit players in the late game.

"Dawn Link", a JRPG in the early stages, a farming simulation in the mid-stages, and a hack-and-slash in the late stages.

If I’m at max level, won’t you let me enjoy it?

How strong were players after reaching max level? The cheats provided by the game made even cheat creators envious, leading all cheat resources to head towards creating ghs mods instead.

However, although Shen Sui had this ability, he couldn’t directly convert his power into real-world wealth in the Dawn Continent—he needed Alice’s growth to achieve that conversion.

Alice, grow up quickly!

Shen Sui rubbed his hands, eyes fixated on the screen.

For a Life Card Master, the growth of a Soul Card is absolutely beneficial. Some Life Card Masters who drew powerful Soul Cards on their first draw are sometimes not as powerful as those who drew beginner Soul Cards. This is because during the growth of a Soul Card, many Transformation Cards are born—the more forms a Soul Card has, the more possibilities you have in a duel.

In a Life Card Duel, there’s no fusion summon, no synchro summon, no xyz summon, no pendulum summon.... As there are no extra decks due to rules, the possibilities for miracles in Life Card Duels are not as rich as in Yu-Gi-Oh.

And Form Transformation is a supplement to this possibility for miracles.

Sometimes, a certain form of a Soul Card can bring about a miracle, instantly turning the tide of the duel.

Even though he had this ability, Shen Sui did not intend to directly interfere with Alice’s growth; he needed her to fully unleash her potential and create more miracles on the Dawn Continent to bring him more Transformation Cards.

What he needed to do was ensure Alice’s life was safe when necessary... and to prevent her from going down the wrong path.

It’s like raising a daughter....

While sighing, Shen Sui checked Alice’s latest movements.

[Alice invoked In the Name of God.]

[Alice delivered a speech.]

[Alice declared war against the Church of the God of Sin.]

Wait! Alice! In the blink of an eye, what are you doing again?!