CHAPTER 24: CHAPTER 24: ALICE’S MAD DEATHS

Although Tianyi Academy is in its first year, the monthly academy PK competition will begin starting from the second month after the school year commences.

In essence, Duel Academy is a youth training base for producing professional players for the professional arena. While appearing glamorous on the surface, it is highly competitive in reality. Tianyi Academy, being a new institution, is slightly better, but in those historically strong duel academies, several students suffer mental breakdowns and are forced to drop out each month due to the PK competitions.

The stable professional advancement channel brings extreme internal competition.

Xinyuan Tanchun used her personal experience as an analogy, saying that Tianyi Academy recruited 300 new students in its first year, approximately 50 students win three PK competitions each month, about ten of them gain the coach’s approval, and among these ten, very few can pass the ranking tournament, usually achieving the status of a first-level Life Card Master after a year of monthly PK competitions.

Students who fail the ranking tournament will continue the PK competition next month, repeating the cycle, wearing out opponents or themselves in the process.

"You’re aware of the intensity of our academy’s duel exams this year. You could say every student who passes has the potential to become a professional player, so you better be prepared," Xinyuan Tanchun said to Shen Sui.

Prepared?

In Shen Sui’s career plan, he doesn’t intend to stay in Tianyi Academy for long.

As soon as he completes the ranking tournament and becomes a professional Life Card Master, he will have the right to apply for graduation and choose which club to join. Of course, because of Tianyi Academy’s policies, he must first choose Tianyi Club, and only if the club doesn’t accept him can he consider joining other clubs.

This doesn’t matter much to Shen Sui, as aside from the club cup tournaments, most Life Card duels are individual competitions, and the clubs can’t bench him. The most they can do is start him from the qualifiers.

Of course, in this world, there’s no problem a duel can’t solve. If there is, then it just takes two duels.

If you really have a dispute with a club, you can invoke the Life Card Association’s protection clause and challenge the club in a best-of-three format. If you win, the Life Card Association will unconditionally declare you victorious, allowing you to gain your freedom.

One month, win the PK competition first.

Then duel with Xinyuan Tanchun to gain qualification for the ranking tournament.

Shen Sui has clarified his goals.

Alice is about to reach the City of Sin. In the coming period, he won’t be able to extricate himself from the Soul Card World.

The duration of the Time Regulator is extremely precious. Since he is still relatively poor, Shen Sui is less inclined to use up this duration, which was piled up with money, on such matters.

He needs to confirm the strength of the event Spell Card he obtained after causing a major event in the Soul Card World. In this way, he might need to increase his efforts to guide Alice.

With such a knack for causing trouble, let’s turn the whole world upside down!

Returning to the dorm, Shen Sui put down the bulk of instant food, beverages, and mineral water he had bought.

He originally wanted to buy blood pressure medication, but unfortunately, the pharmacy didn’t sell it.

After stretching a bit, it’s time to go cause some chaos in my Modena City.

Shen Sui opened the Dueling Device.

Soul Card World! Open!

[Isley Crowley used Life Burning on Alice, severely injuring her to the brink of death.]

[Star Magic Array triggers Recovery on Alice, restoring her vitality.]

[Melchior Brin used Death Curse on Alice, leaving her in critical condition.]

[Star Magic Array triggers Recovery on Alice, restoring her vitality.]

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As soon as he opened the homepage, Shen Sui was dumbfounded. In the brief moment he went to see Xinyuan Tanchun, more than twenty warnings that Alice was on the brink of death appeared before him.

Damn!

Alice, what on earth have you encountered?

Shen Sui scrolled for over a minute and finally found information other than the alerts about Alice’s imminent death.

Because she caught the Spring Fish King Paiyiga, Alice became one of the High Priests of the Sinful Festival.

Her true strength, the apparent strength seen by others, was merely third-level. Thus, upon entering the City of Sin, numerous forces came to test Alice, and in just one day, Alice endured more than twenty assassination attempts from various gangs from all angles.

Without exception, all assassinations were successful.

Shen Sui rubbed his eyes in frustration.

Constantly using Recovery isn’t a sustainable option.

In a past game, infinite Recovery was so overpowered that the developers later patched it. When the usage of Recovery reached fifty times, it triggered the arrival of the Goddess of Death.

This was initially a deadly penalty, but after some research by experts, it turned out the Goddess of Death could be defeated?

And then... then the Goddess of Death became the easiest Divine Level boss to fight, because as long as you used Recovery on yourself fifty times, you could summon the Goddess of Death at home.

Once the Goddess of Death was defeated, the skill [Recovery] was no longer infinitely usable, so the [Star Magic Array] was needed to reset its usage limit.

On the Dawn Continent, most of the deities that needed revival have almost all returned to life. Shen Sui estimated that the way Alice is courting death, the Goddess of Death will likely be summoned soon.

The Goddess of Death isn’t particularly difficult to defeat; the question is whether she can be turned into a card.

Shen Sui kept thinking while scrolling down.

"Damn!" Shen Sui jumped up in the next second.

[After experiencing dozens of instances of Recovery, Alice realized the truth of death and will no longer fear death.]

What does it mean to not fear death anymore! That’s cheating! Stay calm! People genuinely die when killed!

[Ding! You have obtained a Spell Card: Kiss of Death]

Great~! Alice, your realization is excellent! People shouldn’t fear death.

[The miracle of coming back to life made the wicked who worship Alice firmly believe that she is the Sinful Saintess of Derrodel, and they swore allegiance to her.]

[Ding! You have obtained a Spell Card: Luring]

[Alice got a clue about Anna from her subordinates’ intelligence network.]

[The gang that kidnapped Anna seems to be planning a sacrifice.]

[Alice established the Paiyiga Gang and began indiscriminately attacking the surrounding gangs to obstruct the hidden sacrifice.]

[Modena City fell into chaos, and the gang conflicts added a layer of evil to the Sinful Festival.]

[Ding! You have obtained an Event Card: Chaos.]

[Event Card: Special Class Card, only one can exist at a time globally. Once activated, it remains effective until its duration ends or it is replaced by another Event Card. It doesn’t occupy a card slot and is unaffected by other card effects once activated.]

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Card Name: [Chaos]

Category: Event Card

Star Level: 5 stars

Effect: Until the end of the third turn of your side or replaced by another Event Card, both sides’ costs are halved, and both sides’ follower spirit values are doubled.

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An Event Card? What is that? Why haven’t I heard of it before?

Shen Sui stared at the characters on the screen, falling into a brief silence, but it seemed quite powerful.

Moreover, I haven’t even caused any trouble yet?

Alice, could you not be so proactive?

Amid these characters, interspersed is the multiple assassination attempts perpetrated by Modena City’s gangs against Alice.

However, under the protection of Recovery, Alice always emerged from danger unharmed.

This series of miracles reinforced the belief of the Paiyiga Gang that Alice was the Sinful Saintess. Coupled with her earlier notorious act of burning down the Master of Thunder’s cathedral, Alice became the most notorious criminal in the City of Sin overnight.

Shen Sui finally reached the end.

He couldn’t help but reflect, is this really the same countryside girl Alice who, a few months ago, worried about whether she would have a meal for dinner?

What exactly turned Alice into this?

Just then, a message lit up again on the Dueling Device:

[Due to reaching the warning limit of Recovery usage, the Goddess of Death, Arianna, cast her gaze upon Alice.]

Here it comes! My first Divine Card!