My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

With just a card carrying such power, if we could get close to her, wouldn’t we be reaching the heavens?

Looking at the crowd quickly gathering, Wang Ming instantly felt overwhelmed.

"Hold on, guys! You must withstand this!" Wang Ming said to his colleagues behind him.

"Rest assured, Director Wang." One person said seriously, "We will never let these people steal away our luck!"

"???"

Wait! Isn’t there something wrong with what you just said?

"Yes, yes! We will absolutely protect Lady Alice!"

The agents underneath him unanimously expressed firmly.

What? How did it become Lady Alice?

What’s with the fanatical expressions on your faces?

Damn it, could there really be some kind of contamination on Alice?

Wang Ming suddenly felt like he was caught in some strange urban legend.

Under this legend, everyone would become Alice’s devoted followers?

"I didn’t believe it before." One of the agents said matter-of-factly, "I didn’t expect that just now my Soul Card went to the Library Pavilion and instantly produced three Life Cards for me."

"Yeah, me too, almost the same."

Listening to these folks whispering, Wang Ming’s face turned dark: "Don’t discuss matters irrelevant to work while working! Besides, we should strengthen our beliefs and not let these rumors sway our opinions."

"Director, why don’t you also check your Dueling Device? Perhaps your Soul Card might surprise you too?"

"Hmph! No way? That lazy thing..."

Although Wang Ming talked tough, his actions were very honest as he opened the Dueling Device.

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

The few sounds of Life Cards being obtained were particularly loud.

Wang Ming turned off the Dueling Device without expression.

"What exactly are you guys talking about?" As the so-called protagonist of the legend, Alice didn’t quite understand what they were discussing, curiously blinking as she asked.

Wang Ming coughed twice and protected Alice behind him: "Just some countryside legends. We’ll escort you into the venue now."

Alice wore a suspicious look, feeling the people’s behavior around her was quite odd.

Under the escort of Exploration Bureau agents, though the examiners really wanted to get close enough to brush against Alice’s luck, they couldn’t find any opportunities no matter what.

Wang Ming, a former assistant lecturer at Tianyi Academy, knew its structure like the back of his hand.

Under his guidance, the group successfully... got lost.

"I say... how much longer are we going to circle around?" Alice looked at Wang Ming leading the way ahead, "Is this guy really reliable?"

"It’s not my fault." Wang Ming said with an unchanged look and confidence, "As people get older, memory tends to slip a bit, it’s normal."

"I feel like you’re doing it on purpose."

"How could that be? I’m an honest person!"

"I think an honest person shouldn’t be a fool, right?" Alice speechlessly pointed to a nearby sign that said, "Clearly it’s supposed to go left here..."

"..."

Dammit! Which guy let a gap open, allowing Alice to see the sign?

Now that Alice had noticed something was off, taking detours was meaningless.

Under Wang Ming’s guidance, Alice quickly arrived at the exam venue.

The exam classroom was well equipped, but in Alice’s eyes, a bit cramped.

Her home’s basement was larger than two classrooms combined.

"Is this where Claude took his exam back then?" Alice curiously looked around the classroom.

Just like last year, live broadcasters surely wouldn’t miss the heat of this exam wave.

Alice quickly spotted live reporters holding long and short cameras among the crowd.

In the live chat rooms, viewers roasting Tianyi Academy’s facilities suddenly saw the image of a blonde girl in the footage.

[Wait! Are my eyes deceiving me? I think I just saw Alice?]

[Alice? Where? Where?]

[I saw it too! Iconic blonde hair! Right at room 402’s door!]

The chat, which was casually chatting from all corners of the world, suddenly turned completely Alice-themed after her appearance in the stream.

The director, very perceptive, acted immediately upon seeing the chat’s reaction and connected to the on-site reporter without hesitation.

Soon, Alice’s figure appeared in the live broadcast footage.

[Oh~! It really is our great deity, Alism~!]

For a while, the entire live chat was flooded with "Alism".

Though Alice had lived in the modern world for a long time, clearly she wasn’t entirely familiar with this kind of broadcasting device.

Seeing someone pointing an equipment at her, she politely smiled at the camera.

[Alice smiled at me! AWSL]

[Damn it, she smiled at me!]

[Scram, scram! Alism belongs to everyone!]

As more people discovered Alice, the corridor began to get a bit chaotic.

Fortunately, Tianyi Academy was prepared for this, and several teachers quickly stabilized the situation.

It wasn’t until then that the belatedly aware Alice realized what was happening.

She looked at Wang Ming nearby, curiously asking: "Do I have something special on me? Why does everyone act weird when they see me?"

This question seemed to stump Wang Ming.

He thought for a long time, then slowly answered: "Maybe everyone thinks you have an additional card bonus?"

"Huh? How’s that possible."

Alice felt this was somewhat ludicrous.

She knew well she constantly stirred mischief in the Soul Card World out of curiosity and disbelief, drawing out some Life Cards.

But such personal bonus was only for Claude and herself.

Those folks were even saying following her in the Soul Card World produced more Life Cards.

That rumor, though a bit ludicrous, had some basis at least.

But now this, it’s purely imagined out of thin air, right?

Alice didn’t really believe she had such magical power; it was merely people attributing success to faith.

Just like some believers, who always attribute their achievements to their faith, rather than personal effort or the tides of times.

Honestly, Alice didn’t favor such phenomena.

She was originally aiming to overthrow gods, how could she mysteriously become a god in others’ eyes?

Even if it was just a joke to many, it made Alice a bit uncomfortable.

Well, after this exam, it’d be best to lay low in some other Soul Card World...

Such thoughts crossed Alice’s mind.

The Dream World’s empire was about to begin expansion.

The Spiritual World was also at the final stage of advancement.

Not to mention the last wrap-up on Dawn Continent.

Decision made. After the exam, back to Dawn Continent, clean up those little gods.

Then she could gather strength to knock the Master of Thunder off his pedestal.

While Alice was planning her next moves, Xu Tianzhi observed Alice sitting on the corridor chair from the classroom window.

He looked down at the candidate list he was responsible for.

Among the names was Alice Hozerville.

Xu Tianzhi couldn’t help recalling several encounters with Shen Sui.

Unexpected, truly unexpected.

Even after a year, even though he’s now in a completely different league from Shen Sui, he still couldn’t escape that shadow.

"Hehe, are you ready? Next up is your duel with Alice."

At this moment, the admission office teacher whispered to Xu Tianzhi.

Xu Tianzhi glared at him without good humor: "You, you’re definitely trying to mess with me!"

Key point is, this guy was his closest friend.

"How can you say it’s messing with you? Isn’t this a chance for close contact with Alice that many people dream of?"

"Then tell me, am I winning or losing this duel?" Xu Tianzhi gritted his teeth.

If he wins, Alice’s fans might tear him apart.

If he loses, where does his celebrity Life Card Master status go?

The close friend teacher thought for a moment, then asked Xu Tianzhi: "Losing is easier, are you sure you can win?"

"..."

"It’s not that I doubt you, but last year during the exam you seemed to lose to the newly-become Life Card Master God of Age, right?"

Xu Tianzhi’s eyelids twitched wildly, after a long time, he squeezed out one word:

"Get lost!"