CHAPTER 46: CHAPTER 46: SHEN SUI’S PUPPET FANTASIA

Shen Sui thought for a long time about how to quickly replenish Follower Cards.

The way to obtain Follower Cards naturally creates a certain threshold for obtaining them.

In some ordinary Soul Card Worlds, you don’t even know where to capture followers that can become Follower Cards. However, without enough Follower Cards, it’s easy to have an empty field, giving your opponent an opportunity to strike hard.

This led to many Life Card Masters deliberately guiding Soul Card Followers in the Soul Card World to find ways to obtain Follower Cards.

Some even turned Soul Card Followers into pure battle maniacs, launching wars or fighting frantically to capture enemies and obtain Follower Cards.

However, Shen Sui didn’t need to be so extreme. He got inspiration from those science fiction Soul Card Worlds.

In science fiction Soul Card Worlds, making Soul Card Followers and purchasing robots can also become Follower Cards. So, like them, why not have Alice create her "robots" on the Dawn Continent?

So, in the worldview of the Dawn Continent, what is similar to the "robot" setting?

The [Lucky Puppet·Shari] that Xinyuan Yingxue gave to Shen Sui provided inspiration.

Yes, puppets!

They can be made, can be given life, and naturally can become Follower Cards.

In his previous life’s game, Shen Sui bypassed the third condition for the descent of the Evil God through the magic [Puppet Creation] and by making a large number of Sacrificial Puppets, thus successfully and without moral pressure farming materials fervently.

You say to sacrifice the life of a city.

What if the whole city is full of puppets? Does that sound reasonable?

What? You say puppets don’t count as life?

That’s discrimination! A puppet’s life is still a life!

[Under your guidance, Alice used materials to make puppets.]

[Alice has been sewing dolls for blessings since childhood. Her craftsmanship is excellent. Her rented room is full of beautifully crafted dolls.]

[Anna sat there quietly watching Alice work, not reacting even when she was buried under dolls.]

[Alice completed the making of a hundred dolls.]

[Alice named them Ada.]

[You activated "Puppet Creation" on the dolls on the ground.]

[Ding! You obtained the Follower Card: Sacrificial Puppet·Ada]

[Ding! You obtained the Spell Card: Puppet Creation]

Shen Sui saw the appearance of the [Sacrificial Puppet·Ada] card in his Life Card Slot. The card featured numerous adorable dolls with small bodies and cheerful smiles. Clearly, they were made to resemble Alice with her blonde hair and blue eyes.

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Card Name: [Sacrificial Puppet·Ada]

Category: Follower Card

Star Level: 5-star

Effect: ① This effect can only be activated once per duel. When this follower is summoned or special summoned successfully, generate one [Sacrificial Puppet] derivative in each empty spot in your Follower Area (5-star, 0 Spirit Value);

② When you use a Life Card, you can activate this, freeing this follower or its derivative on the field to reduce the Soul Points paid for the Life Card by X. (X is the number of [Sacrificial Puppet] on the field times 3.)

Spirit Value: 0

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Alright, a Follower Card can be used as five Follower Cards. This effect indeed lives up to the title of a Sacrificial Puppet.

The modification Shen Sui made was to add an extra effect to this card:

"③ When this follower and its derivative are destroyed in battle, if there is a [Sacrificial Puppet] on the field, the battle damage you receive becomes 0."

There is battle damage in Life Card Duel, but there’s no concept of defense mode, and having a Spirit Value of 0 is really too risky. You could easily be caught by the opponent and get penetrated.

Unfortunately, this card’s star level isn’t high enough. Otherwise, Shen Sui wanted to make it immune to battle damage, but had to add the condition of having a [Sacrificial Puppet] present on the field.

As a puppet specifically used in the game for substitution in sacrificial rituals, the Sacrificial Puppet directly replaces the required number of offerings for rituals.

That is, no matter how many offerings the ritual requires, you only need one Sacrificial Puppet. It will self-replicate to fill the demand.

After making the Sacrificial Puppets, Alice’s work wasn’t over as she needed to make three more puppets to absorb the Evil God’s power as directed by Shen Sui.

Of course, this was Shen Sui’s lie since absorbing the Evil God’s power wouldn’t improve him, but it had an additional clever use, related to Shen Sui’s plan to create his first terminal follower in this card deck.

The requirements for these three medium puppets were very high, and Alice spent quite some effort, but finally finished them with Anna’s help.

Since the Evil God’s power had not yet activated them, these three medium puppets did not generate Follower Cards.

[Alice stretched her weary limbs and noticed many unused materials on the floor.]

[To prevent failure from clumsiness due to lack of materials, Alice had purchased many backups, which now went unused.]

Still have materials?

Shen Sui had a bright idea, great! Let’s make two more puppets.

[You suggested using these materials to make two more puppets as gifts for Alice, to thank her for helping you this time.]

[Alice’s eyes lit up.]

[She had made Sacrificial Puppets to resemble herself, so she wanted to make a puppet in Anna’s likeness as well. Hmm! And Oshana too!]

Uh, you this is...

[With your help, Alice quickly finished making the remaining two puppets.]

[You used "Puppet Creation" and gave them different functions.]

In the next moment, the edit box popped up in front of Shen Sui. The latter part of the card names was already chosen by Alice, with one called Jamie and the other Soya.

Due to the material limit, they were both 5-star, just like the Sacrificial Puppets.

This meant Shen Sui had to edit the card name entry himself.

Assign them different functions?

In the Dawn Continent, puppets created by the magic [Puppet Creation] have different functions.

Sacrificial Puppets serve as substitutes for offerings. Besides them, there are Substitute Puppets for survival, Armed Puppets for combat assistance, Maid Puppets for daily care, and Training Puppets for skill exercises. (Training Puppets are set to train various skills, as introduced in their encyclopedia, often used by noble sons to hone certain skills, though this was removed in a later update.)

The latter two were not very important for Alice at this time, so Shen Sui chose the first two and assigned them accordingly.

[Ding! You obtained the Follower Card: Substitute Puppet·Jamie]

[Ding! You obtained the Follower Card: Armed Puppet·Soya]

In the next moment, the edit card effect window appeared, meaning he could edit effects.

Damn?

Shen Sui suddenly discovered a new land.

It’s so much easier this way than grinding for affection or catching Magical Beasts in the wild.

Decided! He would give Alice a Puppet Mage form, then control seven puppets and claim the title Rose Seven Warlords of the Sea...

What the hell is all this?

Shen Sui patted his head to clear his mind. Just these few five-star puppets already consumed all the precious Demon Crystals he had stored in Lake Paiyiga (Alice sold ordinary gems, Isabella’s ruby was the most special). To achieve the goal of owning powerful puppets, he’d have to empty all his storage boxes, and even that wouldn’t suffice.

Because...as the only in-game mechanism to create a waifu, the material cost for puppets is exorbitant, and the Holy Mother Stone that grants puppets self-living is an in-app purchase, requiring microtransactions.

And Shen Sui is a zero-spending player.