CHAPTER 36: CHAPTER 36: ISABELLA IS IMPRESSED

[Isabella looked at Alice in surprise.]

[Still, she paid five thousand Demon Crystals.]

[Isabella’s admiration for Alice increased.]

Hey, hey, hey! She’s jacking up the price, why is your admiration rising?

Shen Sui sat there, feeling somewhat chilled in the air-conditioned room.

He suddenly thought of a question.

If Alice raises Isabella’s affection to a certain level, could he manage to get a Follower Card from Isabella? After all, Isabella is now someone else’s Soul Card.

Fortunately, Isabella and Alice’s interaction ended there.

Having regained the ruby that Claude gifted her years ago, Isabella seemed in a much better mood.

[In the future, you will certainly become famous across the continent, looking forward to the day we meet again.]

[Isabella bid farewell to Alice, not knowing that the blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl before her was already renowned on the continent.]

[The fame of Hozerville even reached the ears of the gods.]

[The Rebellious Witch entered the blacklist of all churches, prohibiting any congregation members from contacting the Rebellious Witch.]

[Alice acquired a large sum of money, and she bought new clothes for herself and Anna to evade the pursuit of other churches.]

[Alice did not forget her original purpose, nor did she get lost in material pleasures. She began to seek out various information brokers to buy intelligence, looking for news about Vivian.]

[Just as Arianna said, there seemed to be an inexplicable trend on the continent now, trying to shape Vivian into a powerful woman initiating the Twilight of the Gods to become a deity.]

[A movement to destroy gods was deconstructed into a ritual to becoming one.]

Bargas, is this your objective?

The gods may accept a new deity, but they will never allow another Vivian to emerge.

[Alice couldn’t obtain more intelligence about Vivian. Everyone knew of Vivian, but no one knew her information, as if all her traces had been erased, leaving only the high-hanging god statue.]

[From an information broker’s hand, Alice unexpectedly got a piece of news.]

[A girl named Alice, leading bandits in Paiyiga City, killed a sixth-level mage, Rein Zelie, and robbed the Zelie Clan’s property.]

[The Roland Empire and the Church of the Master of Thunder had already dispatched troops to suppress this group of bandits.]

[Alice expressed confusion.]

[She considered herself incapable of causing such a big scene.]

No, your ability to cause trouble is much greater than this....

[Alice immediately thought of her magical beast follower, Hali; it seemed like she did send Hali to lure away Rein Zelie.]

Oh.... right, I almost forgot about this if you hadn’t mentioned it.

Shen Sui coughed twice. He could command Hali as he pleased during the duels, but in the Soul Card World, he completely forgot about this wolf.

However, this matter had nothing to do with Alice; let’s first proceed with the normal plan and find Twilight City.]

From Shen Sui’s perspective, if it’s just a five-star magical beast, sell it if you must, abandon it if you must.

Alice is only at the third level, it’s too risky for her to get involved in the empire’s expedition.

[Alice was a bit concerned about Hali’s situation and decided to first head to Paiyiga City to check it out.]

[You appeared, advising Alice not to put herself in danger for a low-level magical beast.]

[Alice thought you made a lot of sense.]

[But she refused!]

[Alice would never abandon her companion, even if it was just a magical beast.]

[Alice refused your suggestion and decided to head to Paiyiga City.]

Seeing this, Shen Sui was also quite helpless.

The Soul Card World was a real world, not a game world, so the instructions a Life Card Master inputs to a Soul Card could only guide, while acceptance and compliance depend entirely on the willingness of the Soul Card.

People in the real world always have their own thoughts.

They’re not like protagonists in trash system novels who only follow tasks and orders.

Opening the Time Regulator, because Isabella had already left, he could activate the regulator again.

Without comparing time, Alice couldn’t detect the difference in the passage of time.

Looking at the waiting-to-download [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price], Shen Sui breathed a sigh of relief. This wave of plot only resulted in one Life Card, which should be upsetting, but Shen Sui felt particularly at ease.

The [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price] card wasn’t exactly weak, it could be activated when the opponent used a Life Card, increasing their cost. In the Life Card Duel rules system, an effect that causes additional cost to the opponent is by no means weak.

But after experiencing the [Star Magic Array] being banned, Shen Sui knew very well that for a Life Card Master, the Soul Card was the most important. Other cards were more of decorations, annotations.

Soul Cards cannot be listed as Forbidden Cards.

So if your Soul Card is strong enough, no matter how other cards are banned, it won’t affect your true strength.

Moreover, you can even use Forbidden Cards to exploit Gold Coins from the Life Card Association.

Dongye Youzai proving strong enough to return quickly despite being banned from half his deck was the best proof of this. Because of this, many people suspected he did it on purpose.

Know this, in the ban card review duels, if you hold back a bit and don’t seem so powerful, the reviewers will give the champion some face, so as not to ban half the deck like that.

Alice, you need to become strong!

Shen Sui quickly recalled in his mind, and suddenly remembered he had a storage box in Anlud’s sewer system not far from Jade City. So he mentioned this box to Alice.

[Why do you have a storage box in a sewer? Alice was puzzled.]

[Because you can fish the Mutated Fish King in Anlud’s sewers.]

[????]

[Alice was full of question marks, deeply shocked.]

[Can you fish anywhere with water? Alice was puzzled.]

Shen Sui coughed twice. Even though it wasn’t face to face, he still felt a bit guilty.

In fact, due to the setting of "Dawn Link," whenever he saw a bucket of water, he instinctively hooked it.

[Alice decided to first head to Anlud.]

[She mounted Little Horse, with Anna, heading towards Anlud.]

Finally, a Chapter ended.

Shen Sui asked the staff about the current competition status.

Amateur matches didn’t have many twists and turns, so a duel’s time passed quickly. By the morning, the quarter-finals were over, and even the semi-final match list was out.

Shen Sui took a look at his opponent, a girl named Tang Lili.

Then he looked at the other semi-final match; of course Yuan Youxin’s name appeared.

He wondered if he could face him in the finals.

Shen Sui looked forward to it.

His Soul of Duels already began yearning for the challenge of strong opponents.

"Are you my opponent?"

Shen Sui turned to the voice, finding no one behind him.

"Look down! Don’t ignore me!"

Only then did Shen Sui look down and find that the newcomer was a white-haired catgirl.

A petite and cute figure, a clean and cute face.

Her lips naturally curled up into a cute smile.

The short silver hair was somewhat messy, but most striking were the cat ears on her head.

"Whoa! A catgirl exists in reality?"

"It’s a hair accessory! It’s a hair accessory!" The loli probably guessed Shen Sui’s surprise, raised her hand, and took off her cat ear accessory, which was made so convincingly that it was completely indistinguishable.

"And didn’t you see that I have another pair of ears?" the girl named Tang Lili said, brushing aside her hair to show her ears.

"Don’t anthro-girls usually have two pairs of ears?" Shen Sui said matter-of-factly.

"Ooh~!" Tang Lili gave a sharp look, revealing small tiger teeth.

Such a tiny one.

If you make her cry, she’d probably be even cuter.