My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Shen Sui realized something was wrong the moment he saw the flash in the distance.

The next second, the light of the explosion flared to life.

Fortunately, this time Shen Sui was on-site.

At the instant the explosion occurred, he reacted on instinct.

However, because it was a subconscious reflex, and because he’d kept his power-saver mode on for so long, he only included the important buildings and all living beings in Shen Gang within his protection range.

The explosion surged like a tide, directly sweeping across the entire Shen Gang, and the massive shockwave even flipped the ships in the harbor.

Alice had already reacted the instant the Fireball hit.

She’d caused so much trouble before that she’d gained experience from it, always ready to clean up after herself, and this time it finally came in handy.

It was just that the power of the nuclear blast still exceeded her imagination; the first defensive line she’d constructed didn’t even hold for a full second before being shattered by the explosion, and the unstoppable force of the blast swept out in all directions.

Just as Alice was falling into despair, Shen Sui’s skill spread over them, wrapping everyone in protection.

But this was not the end.

Alice sharply noticed that something had burst out of that crate along with the explosion.

She was no longer the girl who would be thrown into a panic by sudden disaster.

With the Dawn Power flowing, Alice watched everything around her.

The entire course of the explosion unfolded clearly before her eyes.

This kind of power...

Alice had never seen such purely distilled power before.

It was completely different from any offensive Magic she knew.

If ordinary Magic came from the elements themselves, then this power was more like it came from within the elements. It was just that in this world, these element-like things simply didn’t possess Extraordinary Power.

So, if she applied this method of energy release to the elements, what would happen?

As Alice pondered, her hands never stopped moving.

She burned through all of her Spiritual Power, even chugged several bottles of potion, and finally managed to suppress the core of the nuclear blast.

To call it suppression wasn’t entirely accurate; more precisely, she patched part of the mistake—most of the explosive power had already been unleashed in that very first instant.

By the time Alice came back to herself, the vast majority of the harbor district’s buildings had already turned into ruins, and the shipgirls were crawling out from all sorts of places in a sorry state.

They stood with one hand on their hips, looked at the scene before them, and sighed.

"You okay?"

Just as Alice was about to collapse, someone propped her up from behind.

"Claude... did the blast blow your legs off? Why’d you get shorter?"

"I’m Venezia."

"Ah, sorry, it’s so flat I thought you were a guy..."

Alice was tossed onto the ground by Venezia.

Above her head, not a cloud marred the sky.

This wasn’t because it was a nice day, but because the explosion just now had wiped the clouds clean from the sky.

What a terrifyingly powerful weapon.

I wonder if I can develop a Fireball like that.

Alice thought to herself.

"So, did I cause trouble again?" Alice asked Venezia, who was standing beside her.

Venezia’s expression was stern, looking very dignified.

The big sister’s composure also calmed the panicked Destroyers around them.

"More or less, but it doesn’t look that bad," Venezia said, taking off her gloves. "We’ve been through worse. This doesn’t even register."

"Huh..." Alice couldn’t understand it—there was actually something worse than this?

Just as she was letting her thoughts run wild, Shen Sui had already walked over.

"You okay, Alice?" Shen Sui glanced at Alice lying on the ground and asked.

The shipgirls had already started methodically clearing away the rubble.

"I’m sorry..." Alice pursed her lips. "I messed up again..."

Shen Sui scratched his head and looked at the ruins around them. "Could be worse. At least I managed to save most of it."

He had indeed wanted to blame Alice.

After all, this habit of lighting things up without knowing what they were was really terrible.

But in terms of actual loss, it wasn’t that bad.

The nuclear blast just now was indeed massive, even affecting the whole of Shen Gang, but under Shen Sui’s protection, aside from many buildings in the core harbor area suffering varying degrees of damage, the vast majority of areas suffered no casualties or property loss.

As for the harbor district, Shen Sui had originally planned to discuss relocating with Lexington anyway; now this incident gave Shen Sui a legitimate reason to persuade the shipgirls to leave this Guardian Mansion they had held for more than a thousand years.

Most importantly, that nuclear blast just now had also given Shen Sui several Life Cards, and they were all pretty good.

Shen Sui reached out and grabbed Alice off the ground.

When Alice stood up, she was still a bit cautious. "You really don’t blame me?"

"More importantly," Shen Sui asked Alice with a smile, "you can already use Magic in this world?"

The Indianapolis’s mysterious cargo really did have some subtle connection to nuclear weapons, but it was mostly just materials; a normal attack wouldn’t be enough to directly trigger a detonation.

The fact that Alice had managed it could only mean she had just used a high-density Fireball.

"Yeah." Alice nodded. "I cheated this world’s rules."

Hearing Alice’s words, Shen Sui was instantly full of question marks. "Cheated the world’s rules?"

"Yeah," Alice explained. "Elemental Magic is rooted in the elements, and in this world elements don’t exist at all, but I used the Dawn Power to cheat this world’s rules, made it believe that elements are supposed to exist here..."