My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

This poses a huge restriction for Shen Sui.

He can’t repeatedly activate the effect of the Golden Ship to quickly unfold in a single turn.

He can’t even have Martina repeatedly activate Spell Cards.

Under such constraints, given the current high-star cards in his hand, Shen Sui indeed finds it difficult to summon followers with resistance in a single turn.

But no matter what, this Environment Card must be dealt with.

Otherwise, he’ll be dragged into Theis’ familiar game of high-star card brute strength skirmish, where the powerful effects of his Life Cards wouldn’t be able to perform.

The crux is, unlike Event Cards, Environment Cards don’t have turn limits—they persist unless countered by another Environment Card, meaning the "Dark Grand Rift" will keep existing.

Shen Sui quickly reviewed the Environment Cards he had in his deck.

Environment Cards are extremely rare in Life Card Duels, even Alice, with her impeccable card selection, has only given Shen Sui around eight Environment Cards from the start until now.

However, Shen Sui has never specialized in playing Environment Cards, so his usage frequency for such cards is not very high.

To avoid opponents blocking Environment or Event Cards, he always includes one of these types of cards in his deck.

Bad news, Shen Sui hasn’t drawn an Environment Card, nor does he carry a Life Card to search for Environment Cards.

Good news, he has drawn an Event Card.

Gazing at the Event Card in his hand, Shen Sui made up his mind.

Damn it, are you not letting me play cards!

Screw it! Then nobody gets to play!

Thinking thus, Shen Sui was forced to proceed with his Main Phase under the Dark Grand Rift.

After being messed with by the Inca Mountain God Apu, the star level of the Life Cards in Shen Sui’s hand surged, and sixteen Soul Points only allowed him to use one Life Card.

But fortunately, the Puppet girls still loved him.

Shen Sui first paid 14 Soul Points to normally summon the originally 5-star Cursed Puppet Natasha onto the field.

Immediately after, he activated the effect of the Puppet Dragon in his hand. When there is a follower Puppet on the field, Shen Sui can reveal this card from his hand and special summon it onto the field.

Then, Shen Sui sacrificed the Cursed Puppet on the field and restored his Soul Points to sixteen.

As the number of Puppet followers in the graveyard increased by one, Puppet Dragon’s Spirit Value rose by 500.

Since this belongs to a passive effect, following the rules of Life Card Duels, it isn’t counted as activation, thus somewhat bypassing the effect constraints of Dark Grand Rift.

Shen Sui didn’t let the Cursed Puppet linger in the graveyard for long.

He decisively activated the effect of the Cursed Puppet, banished her from the graveyard, chose three Puppet followers from the deck to send to the graveyard, and then chose a Spell Card from the deck to activate.

This time Shen Sui activated the Spell Card Shining Debut.

According to the effect of Shining Debut, Shen Sui discarded a card from his hand and special summoned Magic Apprentice Alice from the deck.

Pay Soul Points to have Alice undergo Form Transformation.

"Pay 12 Soul Points to transform Alice into Forced Contractee Alice." Shen Sui’s eyes were already set on Theis’ field.

Calculating quickly in his mind.

If Theis has no means to stop him, then this duel might conclude this turn.

If that’s the case, it seems a bit boring...

Though he thought so, Shen Sui wouldn’t let boredom give the opponent any opportunity.

After confirming he reached the cut-off line for a potential kill, he boldly initiated the operation per his plan: "Activate the effect of Forced Contractee Alice, once per turn, let the opponent choose a follower on their field and transfer its control to me!"

Theis felt a stir upon hearing this effect.

Having been in the arena for so long, he understood Shen Sui’s intent to kill.

With Forced Contractee’s effect activated, Theis had to relinquish control of his only follower, Inca Mountain God Ken.

+ 4200 + 4000...

Shen Sui calculated the Spirit values of all the followers on the field.

Undoubtedly, this lethal damage was more than sufficient...

However, speaking of Theis, when he activated Ken’s effect earlier, which cards were shown from their hand?

Before Shen Sui could recall the fleeting glimpse of those Life Cards’ effects, Theis had already drawn a card from his hand.

"During your turn, when I lose the last follower on my field, I can activate the effect of the follower card Inca Sea Guardian God - Kocha Mama from my hand, discard it, and until the end of this turn, I’m immune to all battle damage I receive."

Alright... Seems like the kill won’t happen.

Shen Sui felt slightly disappointed but... as long as I activate that Event Card, victory in this duel can only belong to me.

If Theis can’t eliminate these followers...

Shen Sui wanted to be optimistic, but he found the timing for reading the progress bar still existed.

Wait? Another card is going to be activated?

Shen Sui was startled, then saw Theis drawing a second follower card from hand: "Then, when five or more follower card effects are activated during the opponent’s turn, I can activate the effect of the follower card Inca Moon God Contiraya from my hand!"

Moon God?

Ugh! Why is it a guy?!

Seeing the card art, Shen Sui felt slightly disappointed.

Alright, let me see, as a fifteen-star Divine Card, what effect can you have...

Can be activated when five or more follower card effects are activated during the opponent’s turn.

Sacrifice all followers on the opponent’s field and special summon this card to the opponent’s follower area.

What the—!

Meteor!

Accompanied by the sound effect of follower release, all followers on Shen Sui’s field suddenly turned into light.

"Wait..." Shen Sui said speechlessly, "I’ve only activated three follower effects, right?"

"My activations count too." Theis breathed a sigh of relief and replied.

𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"..."

"Oh, forgot to remind you." Theis chuckled, "At the end of this turn, Contiraya will return to my field."

Looking at the 6000 Spirit Value Contiraya, Shen Sui fell silent.

Disgusting, huh!

Shen Sui pursed his lips, then directly liberated Contiraya.

Out of sight, out of mind.

"You didn’t think everything would be fine with just liberating, right?" Theis looked at Shen Sui confidently, "Once Contiraya is successfully special summoned, until the end of the next turn, neither of us can special summon."

Saying this, Theis flipped his Life Card from hand, patting his cheek with it: "Next turn, with no followers on the field, how will you survive."

Good lord, trying to imitate Shen Sui’s taunting action, he’s evoking quite a villainous vibe.

Shen Sui couldn’t help but roll his eyes but said, "Then let’s see. My turn ends."

"Then! My turn begins!" Theis almost immediately said.

Then he heard Shen Sui’s voice: "At the start of your turn, I activate the Event Card in my hand, Black Sea Calamity!"

"This card can only be activated at the start of the opponent’s turn."

"After activation, until the end of the next opponent’s turn, if a follower card is summoned, special summoned, or card effect activated, and it’s debuting or used for the first time this duel, its effect is negated and destroyed."

"???" Theis looked at Shen Sui, bewildered.

Due to the effect of Environment Card Dark Grand Rift, all Life Cards can only activate their effects once.

Simultaneously, due to the effect of Black Sea Calamity, all first debut followers and first activated card effects are directly negated and destroyed.

Can any card still be used?

Shen Sui’s lips curled into a smile as he spoke to Theis, "Well~! Since that’s the case, none of us get to play then."

Dang!

Directly flipping the table, huh!