My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

But in Shen Sui’s deck, she remains a very important component.

This is also one of the charms of a duel, no matter how old a card is, it could possibly get a new lease on life with the advent of new cards.

The Hali in Shen Sui’s hand today is already the third version of the alternate art.

However, the overall effect has not changed much, still revolving around the Equipment Cards.

As Shen Sui was contemplating, Kase had already officially started his turn.

Kase’s deck is a mill-type deck that is very popular in Britain.

The biggest characteristic of this type of deck is constant card drawing, and numerous Followers whose Spirit Values and effects are directly linked to the hand size.

When Shen Sui saw the duel videos from Britain back then, he remarked how everyone there seemed to have Little Sky Dragons.

However, Shen Sui would not let Kase get away with such a setup.

Looking at his hand once more, Shen Sui could hardly suppress a grin: "I have to say, you’re really unlucky."

Upon hearing this from Shen Sui, Kase was filled with question marks.

What do you mean by that?

Without intelligence support from Xinyuan Tanchun, Shen Sui usually wouldn’t actively construct counter decks for this match. The deck he used for dueling was a Dragon-themed deck based on Dragon Maids.

Since the number of Dragon Maid followers is not many, Shen Sui added a lot of Dragon Princess followers and other Dragon Race followers to his deck.

This mishmash type usually also follows its own development path, without deliberately countering the opponent.

But as luck would have it, Kase’s deck just happened to hit Shen Sui’s weak spot.

At the moment Kase summoned his first follower, Shen Sui drew the Life Card from his hand.

"In the situation where you successfully summon/special summon a follower, I activate the effect of [Loli Dragon Princess Mist] from my hand, discarding it to activate, and select a [Dragon] follower from my deck to send to the graveyard, then I can special summon a follower from my hand."

Shen Sui discarded Mist from his hand and then opened his deck.

After a brief search, he drew a card from his deck.

"I choose to send [Runaway Dragon Girl Lobelia] to the graveyard."

[Runaway Dragon Girl Lobelia], a second-generation rich from Dragon Island swindled over from Dragon Valley by Alice, possessing two extremely infuriatingly conflicting abilities.

Whenever she is summoned/specially summoned, she must activate her effect and send herself to the graveyard, yet her powerful second effect must be activated while she is on the field.

However, precisely because it’s almost impossible to activate, her second effect is also extremely powerful.

As long as she is on the field, when the opponent acquires a Life Card outside the Draw Phase, Shen Sui can reduce the number of Life Cards they gain by one, or draw one card from his own deck instead.

Shen Sui eagerly anticipated Kase’s reaction upon seeing Lobelia’s effect.

Of course, all of this is predicated on Kase still maintaining the old British duel style.

With this thought, Shen Sui had already drawn [Silver Moon Wolf King Hali] from his hand.

Utilizing Mist’s effect, Shen Sui special summoned Hali to the field.

"Activating [Silver Moon Wolf King Hali]’s effect," Shen Sui promptly declared as Hali made her appearance.

At this moment, Hali had completely changed her outfit.

She appeared not only as a girl wolf maiden but also dressed like a scout.

Indeed, this alternate art of Hali was born when Alice put her into the Treasure Card Magic Guidebook, and since her power wasn’t particularly strong, her usual role among the treasure cards was to carry out reconnaissance missions as a scout.

According to Hali’s effect, after she is successfully summoned/specially summoned, Shen Sui can select an Equipment Spell Card from the deck to equip to her.

And in the new alternate art’s effect, an additional line states that Hali can activate the effects of Equipment Spell Cards during the opponent’s turn.

The Equipment Spell Card Shen Sui intended for Hali, of course, was [Dragon Magic Stone].

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Card Name: [Dragon Magic Stone]

Category: Equipment Spell Card

Star Level: 10 Stars

Effect: The equipped follower is considered a [Dragon].

① The equipped follower’s Spirit Value increases by X. (X is the sum of the Spirit Values of both parties’ [Dragon] followers on the field)

② Once per turn, choose one [Dragon] follower from either graveyard to equip to the equipped follower as an Equipment Card; if you do so, the equipped follower is considered to possess the chosen [Dragon] follower’s effects.

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The instant Hali was equipped with the [Dragon Magic Stone], her Spirit Value began to soar.

This cute Wolf King, in the new alternate art, originally had a Spirit Value of 2400 points.

Because a follower card equipped with the [Dragon Magic Stone] is considered a Dragon Race follower, and Hali herself is included in the calculation for the magic stone’s Spirit Value boost, her Spirit Value easily rose to 4800 points.

And it didn’t stop there. Shen Sui very decisively activated Hali’s effect, triggering the magic stone’s effect during Kase’s turn.

According to the magic stone’s effect, Shen Sui could choose a Dragon Race follower from the graveyard to equip to Hali.

Kase’s graveyard was empty, but Shen Sui’s graveyard contained two Dragon Race followers.

Shen Sui opened the graveyard and equipped [Runaway Dragon Girl Lobelia] to Hali as an Equipment Spell Card.

Lobelia’s Spirit Value is 3900.

Even though she’s now in the role of an Equipment Card, according to the judgment of the magic stone, she is still considered a Dragon Race follower on the field. Thus, Hali’s Spirit Value shot up by another 3900 points, reaching 8700 points.

Kase, seeing this scene, was completely dumbfounded.

This is supposed to be my turn, right?

I just summoned one follower, and the opponent has already slapped a bunch of cards onto the field?

And looking at Shen Sui’s 8700 Spirit Value follower on the field, Kase fell into silence.

Who could understand this, having your opening turn, and the opponent immediately plays a behemoth with nearly nine thousand Spirit Value?

Kase had a brief impulse to flip the table.

Taking a couple of deep breaths, he quickly suppressed the negative emotions within.

Isn’t it just 8700 Spirit Value? As long as I stack up my followers’ Spirit Values, isn’t this number easily surpassed?

You should know that the record for the highest follower Spirit Value on the field in this world was created by us in Britain!

"Activate the effect of [British Sword Hero McLaren] on my field, once per turn, I can draw a card from the deck..."

"At this moment, I activate the effect of my follower on the field. When you acquire a Life Card outside of the Draw Phase, activate." Shen Sui didn’t plan to let Kase have his way, "The number of Life Cards you gain is reduced by one."

Kase’s hand, just placed on the top of the deck, was suddenly bound by an invisible force.

He couldn’t obtain any Life Card from the deck.

Reduce by one... Damn, I only draw one card in total!

Kase unwillingly retrieved his hand.

But it’s okay, it’s just missing one card.

Kase’s temper flared up too, he directly drew a Spell Card to activate it. According to the effect of the Spell Card, Kase could draw two cards from the deck, then discard one of them.

Having declared the effect, he proceeded to draw cards.

"Hold on a moment..."

Shen Sui’s voice came again.

"Activate the effect, reducing the number of cards you draw by one."

Originally, he could draw two cards, but now he could only draw one. While drawing one and discarding one wasn’t a loss, it still made Kase extremely frustrated, muttering: "Doesn’t this effect have a once per turn limit?"

Hearing this, Shen Sui couldn’t help but think to himself, why does it feel like I hear this kind of remark so often?

Oh~ It seems I also said something similar when dueling with You Wenqi or someone else.

But anyway, the one enjoying himself today is me!

In a game of duels, as long as one person is having fun, that’s enough!

Kase, after having two cards countered by Shen Sui, was very frustrated, though his duel strategy had not yet been completely cut off by Shen Sui.

After all, Shen Sui just made Kase draw one card less.

Once my big boss comes out, I’ll show you what it means to be the super card draw king!

Thinking this, Kase activated the Spell Card in his hand: "Paying Soul Points, activating the Spell Card [Hero’s Arrival]! Select one [British Sword Hero] follower from the deck and add it to my hand."

And then... there was no ’then’.

Shen Sui once again activated Lobelia’s effect, directly blocking Kase’s search.

Looking at his empty hand and the seemingly sealed deck that couldn’t be searched at all, Kase had only one thought:

Damn it, I’m not playing anymore!

Shen Sui also felt a bit guilty, coughed twice, and said: "Uh... you have to believe me, I really didn’t mean to target you..."