Let them print cards, not slay gods 10

Chapter 10: Alice’s Uncharacteristic Calm

After sending Harley out to distract Rhine, Alice immediately headed towards Lake Paynga.

According to Osana’s intelligence, the criminals who kidnapped Anna were going to participate in a sinister festival in a month and a half. These criminals planned to sacrifice the girls’ souls to the evil god Flores at the festival, and before that, they needed to ensure the girls’ purity.

But this didn’t mean Anna was safe; Alice had to hurry.

Perhaps because her best friend’s life was hanging in the balance, Alice didn’t cause any trouble for Shen Sui for the next three days. She merely burned down five bandit lairs, eight roadside black markets, and thirteen castles belonging to low-level nobles who oppressed the people.

Yes, compared to Alice’s actions that could easily cost her own life, these acts of grass-cutting (a metaphor for easily achieving victory) and justice were nothing in Shen Sui’s eyes.

During these three days, Alice also provided Shen Sui with three magic cards—relatively speaking, she was exceptionally well-behaved.

Most surprisingly, with Alice’s proficient arson, her magic card, [Arson], actually leveled up.

On the Dawn Continent, magic has designated star ranks. Even if Shen Sui’s maxed-out account used a Fireball spell, it would only be a 1-star spell. But [Arson] wasn’t magic; it was a behavioral magic card generated by Alice’s actions, not a materialized skill.

It’s like some protagonists’ outrageous actions in novels. You can’t call it a skill, but these actions did bring the protagonists many benefits and helped them defeat many strong enemies.

After several days of research, Shen Sui had a general understanding of the rules for obtaining cards from the Soul Card world. Combined with the experience of his predecessors, he now knew how to obtain more cards from the Soul Card world.

This needed careful study because selling cards was a very lucrative business.

Invincibility in the Soul Card world was an illusion; only real-world wealth was real!

Cards obtained from the Soul Card world were roughly divided into several categories:

The first category was innate magic cards, skills, or equipment that inherently existed in the Soul Card world’s power system. These magic cards appeared after a Soul Card follower learned or equipped them. However, in practice, Shen Sui discovered that as a Fate Card Master, he could also obtain similar cards when his Soul Card follower used skills or equipment. For example, Shen Sui’s use of [Revival] and other skills—this wasn’t taught in books, as most Fate Card Masters didn’t have native identities in the Soul Card world; they needed to create characters first.

The second category was behavioral magic cards, which were the objectified magic cards of a Soul Card follower’s actions within the Soul Card world, such as Alice’s [Arson] and [Crushing Blow Targeting the Groin]. However, the Dueling Instrument’s judgment of behavioral magic cards was peculiar, sometimes appearing and sometimes not. Some say that the actions that create behavioral magic cards may have a significant impact on the future. Shen Sui was curious: what impact would [Crushing Blow Targeting the Groin] have on the future?

The third category was event magic cards. When a Soul Card follower participated in a significant event, they would obtain an event magic card when the event ended. Event magic cards were usually permanent magic cards, similar to continuous magic cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!. As long as they weren’t destroyed by the opponent, they could continuously output effects on the field. Therefore, these magic cards were very powerful, but also very difficult to obtain. Shen Sui planned to see if he could trigger an event magic card during his trip to Modena City.

Magic cards were mainly these three types, while the rules for follower cards were much simpler. A Soul Card follower’s followers, or those who had a certain level of affection for the Soul Card follower, would generate follower cards.

For Fate Card Masters who were unlucky enough to draw bottom-tier characters, follower cards were the most agonizing to obtain:

Bottom-tier poor people have no followers and don’t deserve love or friendship.

Therefore, these Fate Card Masters usually purchased follower cards to get through their beginner stages. These Fate Card Masters were also the most anxious about the duel exams and often desperately grinded magic cards to enhance their strength.

However, this was the first time Shen Sui had encountered a behavioral magic card leveling up like [Arson].

As Alice continued her arson spree, his [Arson] reached 12 stars.

A 2-star Soul Card actually produced a 12-star magic card. It was hard not to question her mental state.

But this wasn’t a bad thing for Shen Sui, because as the star level of [Arson] increased, so did Shen Sui’s ability to modify the card. After Alice’s rampage these few days, he finally possessed a truly effective field-clearing magic card.

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Card Name: [Arson]

Type: Magic Card

Star Level: 12 stars

Effect: During your main phase, you can reveal and discard the top card of your deck, then destroy all opponent’s Fate Cards with a star level lower than the discarded card’s star level.

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Alice still had several days’ travel to Lake Paynga. Shen Sui calculated that it was about time for him to embark on his journey.

He had just enough Fate Cards to meet the requirements of the duel exam. Once Alice reached Lake Paynga and opened her storage box, he would receive a batch of Fate Cards.

Considering that Alice might encounter some events along the way, Shen Sui didn’t draw any more cards and waited until after the duel exam.

“You’ve collected twenty Fate Cards so quickly?” Lin Ke’er exclaimed incredulously as Shen Sui came to bid farewell, busy writing lesson plans.

As the teacher of the “Basic Fate Card Cognition” course and a First-Rank professional Fate Card Master, Lin Ke’er had participated in the duel exam years ago and had a very intuitive understanding of the difficulty of obtaining Fate Cards from the Soul Card world. Looking at the date, the 6th of June was the day after tomorrow. Completing the Fate Card collection two days ahead of schedule was absolutely incredible.

Many duel exam candidates completed their Fate Card collection right on time.

Lin Ke’er was one of them, receiving her final card just before the examiner checked her deck, passing the verification.

“Your Soul Card… is it really a magic apprentice?” Although happy with Shen Sui’s success, Lin Ke’er was still incredulous. “This efficiency in obtaining Fate Cards surpasses some Seventh-Rank and Eighth-Rank strong individuals.”

“She’s… a bit special,” Shen Sui said awkwardly. He couldn’t say it was a pyromaniac child who was also incredibly unlucky and prone to trouble.

Lin Ke’er didn’t ask further; Soul Card information was the most confidential information for a Fate Card Master.

“Then I’ll be waiting for your good news here,” Lin Ke’er smiled.

Shen Sui said, “If possible, I also want to duel with Teacher Lin to test my deck. Aren’t you a First-Rank professional Fate Card Master?”

“Ah, I’m no longer a professional Fate Card Master. I won’t play cards anymore,” Lin Ke’er said regretfully.

“Retirement? Why?” Shen Sui asked instinctively, but immediately felt he was being abrupt; this was someone else’s secret.

“Teacher will teach you one last lesson, Shen Sui,” Lin Ke’er looked seriously at Shen Sui, slowly speaking. “In professional competitions, there’s only one champion. Some people, for the sake of the championship, can betray everyone. Don’t reveal information about your Soul Card follower to anyone.”

There were a total of thirty-three Soul Card worlds. Many Fate Card Masters’ Soul Cards were in the same world. If an opponent from the same Soul Card world knew their Soul Card information, they might use foul tactics.

Few Fate Card Masters chose the Dawn Continent, but it wasn’t completely unheard of. Those who chose the Dawn Continent were mostly desperate gamblers, therefore more likely to resort to such extreme measures.

(End of Chapter)

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