My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

But Alice clearly doesn’t see it that way.

Even if she loses this duel in the end, she wants to showcase her own style.

Xu Tianzhi took out the other half of his deck from the card library, and then put them together into the card slot of the Dueling Device.

Once the duel starts, the deck will be automatically shuffled.

Alice, meanwhile, mimicked Shen Sui’s actions by first taking out the deck and manually shuffling it with her hands.

She firmly believed that there must be some kind of mystical bonus in this.

Once this was done, the duel between the two officially began.

This duel undoubtedly attracted the attention of everyone outside.

The viewers in the livestream were even more impatient to see the process of the duel.

A flurry of "Get moving!" comments flooded the screen.

Amidst this nearly unanimous attention, the two began the formal duel.

Without any additional chatter, and with the simultaneous announcement of "Let the duel begin," the duel exam commenced.

"My turn!"

Alice shouted a declaration.

Her voice was almost simultaneous with the landing of the turn card, giving the impression that she had shouted to seize the first move.

Alice quickly skimmed through her initial hand and immediately drew one card:

"Pay 10 Soul Points, to activate from my hand, the Permanent Spell Card [Magical Girl Grand Stage]."

"Once per turn, I can reveal a [Magical Girl] Follower from my deck and Special Summon it to my field."

"Followers Special Summoned by this effect are sent to the graveyard at the end of the turn."

With that, Alice searched her deck for a [Magical Girl] Follower Card.

"I choose to Special Summon from the deck, [Magical Girl Jupiter Mei]."

"Activate the effect of [Magical Girl Jupiter Mei], when she is Special Summoned, I can discard a card from my hand and Special Summon a [Magical Girl] Follower with 5 stars or less from the deck."

Alice opened her deck and decisively said: "I choose to Special Summon! My Soul Card!"

"[Newbie Magical Girl Shinno Keiko]!"

Shinno Keiko’s initial form thought was for Alice to shuffle her hand once.

Therefore, Alice needed to use up all usable cards in her hand.

Alice paid 6 Soul Points and set a Spell Card on her field.

Then she activated the effect of [Newbie Magical Girl Shinno Keiko], shuffled the remaining three cards from her hand into the deck, and drew five new cards from the deck.

Alice glanced at her newly drawn five cards and pondered for a moment.

She had already exhausted all her Soul Points and had to release a Follower Card if she wanted to continue using cards.

Naturally, Jupiter Mei, who was destined for the graveyard, became Alice’s choice.

Her choice of Jupiter Mei was not without reason.

Alice raised her hand to release Jupiter Mei from the field, almost immediately saying: "Activate the effect of [Jupiter Mei] from the graveyard, banish her from the graveyard, and I can add a [Friendship Magic] from the deck to my hand."

After adding [Friendship Magic] to her hand, Alice couldn’t help but smile.

𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Pay all Soul Points to activate the Spell Card [Friendship Magic]." Since it was publicly searched, Alice didn’t hide anything and directly activated [Friendship Magic].

"When there are [Magical Girl] Followers in my graveyard/exile zone, I can activate." Alice told Xu Tianzhi the effect of [Friendship Magic], "I reveal my hand and summon, in sequence, any [Magical Girl] Followers that can be Special Summoned."

"Followers summoned this way return to the deck at the end of the turn."

Alice directly revealed her hand.

Five cards: four [Magical Girl] Followers.

"I have four open slots for Followers." Alice giggled, "And such a coincidence, I have precisely four [Magical Girl] Followers in my hand. How lucky!"

Alice said and proceeded to summon the [Magical Girls] in her hand onto the field in sequence.

Looking at the full Follower Area Alice had created in an instant, Xu Tianzhi felt a familiar feeling.

Dang! My deck seems to unfold similarly.

Are you sure these are magical girls, not my Mechanical Tyrants?

Of course, Alice wasn’t going to stop there.

Since they would return to the deck at the end of the turn, she was certainly going to leverage them, not waste any resources.

And at this time, it was when the Permanent Spell Card [Magical Girl Grand Stage] took effect.

Alice first activated the effect of [Magical Girl Rinko Mizugami], sent her to the graveyard, allowing Alice to select a Spell Card from the deck, lower its star level to zero, and add it to her hand.

Then she stacked three Magical Girls into the graveyard with the grand stage, waiting for resurrection in the next turn.

Seeing the name of this Spell Card, Xu Tianzhi’s pupils slightly contracted.

Card of Radiance!

Alice activated the effect of the Card of Radiance without hesitation.

According to the effect of the Card of Radiance, Alice let a Magical Girl Follower on the field transform into Shinno Keiko’s form [Shining Magical Girl Shinno Keiko].

"Activate the effect of [Shining Magical Girl Shinno Keiko]." Alice pointed to Xu Tianzhi’s field, "Sending her to the graveyard, generate five random [Radiant] Derivatives on your field."

"Don’t worry, [Radiant] Derivatives don’t differentiate between the Follower and Magic Areas." Alice winked at Xu Tianzhi.

Ha ha...

Xu Tianzhi pursed his lips; he could already smell a hint of the Underworld.

Sure enough, Alice liberated the remaining two Special Summoned Magical Girls, converting them into Soul Points.

Then she paid the Soul Points, causing Shinno Keiko to undergo Form Transformation on the field.

This time, her target for Form Transformation was...

[Shining Magical Girl Shinno Keiko]!

The familiar process repeated.

Alice activated Shinno Keiko’s effect, sending her to the graveyard, and randomly generated five [Radiant] Derivatives on Xu Tianzhi’s field.

On Xu Tianzhi’s field, the Magic Area plus the Follower Area had a total of ten slots, all seemingly occupied by [Radiant] Derivatives.

The Follower Area wasn’t that bad,

He could use liberation to free up Derivatives and make space for himself.

But the Magic Area?

If he didn’t draw a Follower that could destroy his Magic Area Cards, Xu Tianzhi might not be able to play a single Spell Card!

And that was the purpose of Alice’s strategy.

Any card effect might be blocked.

She wanted to physically seal Xu Tianzhi’s Magic Area.

In this way, she almost entirely incapacitated Xu Tianzhi’s Spell Cards.

If he began with five Spell Cards, he would face a very clumsy turn.

This strategy essentially locked the slots; if Xu Tianzhi didn’t have a card to destroy his Magic Area, it was even more formidable than those slot-sealing Followers.

Followers can be removed; you still have a chance to resolve.

How do you deal with this?

Of course, even if you have a Follower card to destroy your Follower Area cards, it’s no problem.

What Alice would do next is to prevent any harm to herself as much as possible!

At this point, Alice activated effect from the graveyard of Magical Girl Followers to resurrect Shinno Keiko back to the field.

"When Shinno Keiko returns from the graveyard to the field, activate her form [Hell-returned Magical Girl Shinno Keiko] ability! Transform her into this form." Alice declared.

[Hell-returned Magical Girl Shinno Keiko] had a simple and direct effect.

When the opponent activates a card effect, Alice can banish X [Magical Girl]-related cards from the graveyard to nullify the activated effect.

X is the number of times this effect was activated.

Based on the pile grave in Alice’s opening turn, Alice could activate the effect at least three times.

"My turn ends." Alice said kindly and politely, "Begin your turn."

Xu Tianzhi glanced at the five Spell Cards in his hand.

Go on, my foot!

Is this truly Magical Girls?