Chapter 1138 - 636: Alice Can Also Be a Monster!

Chapter 1138: Chapter 636: Alice Can Also Be a Monster!

Hearing this, the alarm bells in Dongye Youzai’s heart instantly started blaring.

TM, people only say crap like this when they’re about to stop acting human, right!

Combine it with that guy’s smile and he’s definitely about to scam someone.

Dongye Youzai has been grinding on the tournament scene as a pro for a long time; he doesn’t believe in this "Resistance" nonsense at all.

He used to think full resistance might be strong, but ever since Shen Sui debuted, even full resistance stopped being safe.

Full resistance? Just fish food.

He absolutely didn’t think Shen Sui had no way to play around Fantasy Realm and clear his board.

That card just now, [Alice’s Kindness], was the best proof.

How is that "kindness"? You pull it out and it’s nightmare fuel.

While Dongye Youzai was still thinking about what line Shen Sui would use to get through his Fantasy Realm, Ye Zhou’Er pointed at Alice on the field and asked, "Is that you?"

"Yup!" Alice proudly lifted her chin.

Even though watching other people pilot her in a duel from off-stage always felt kind of weird, being able to help Claude in duels still made Alice feel really proud.

Alice had also been browsing the forums a lot lately.

She actually really enjoyed all the praise these Life Card Masters were showering her with.

"Must be nice..." Ye Zhou’Er said enviously.

After Shen Sui reunited with her, Soul Cards did condense, but just like Vivian and the others, she ran into the same issue: because Ye Zhou’Er was too strong, even after gaining Soul Cards, she still couldn’t obtain more forms.

Which meant her Soul Cards had basically no flexibility on the field.

While they were talking, Shen Sui had already started looping his plays.

First he changed Alice’s form into [Fox Immortal Spirit Alice].

"Wow! So cute." Seeing Alice in Fox Lady form, Ye Zhou’Er’s eyes lit up at once.

"Right? Right? Super cute, huh?" Alice said smugly.

Looking at Fox Lady Alice on the field, Ye Zhou’Er seemed to think of something. Her face turned slightly red as she looked at Alice and said, "Can you teach me how to change like that?"

"Eh?" Alice blinked in confusion.

Weren’t you just complimenting me for being cute? How did the topic suddenly turn into this?

On the field, Shen Sui wasn’t changing Alice into Fox Immortal Spirit because that form did anything special.

[Fox Immortal Spirit Alice] doesn’t really have any special effects.

Her Form Transformation doesn’t require paying Soul Points, and at the same time she can freely transform into other forms.

Of course, as a twelve-star form, while resolving those two processes Shen Sui also gets to draw a card from his deck.

Normally, this form is just there to stack Golden Ship’s special summon count, but this time Shen Sui transformed into it because if he didn’t, he’d end up bricking himself.

[Tomb Raider Alice], besides flipping both players’ graveyards when she enters via Form Transformation, as long as she remains on the field, any card that would go to the graveyard for either player doesn’t go there and is banished instead.

For Shen Sui, that was definitely disruptive.

After removing Alice as a source of interference, Shen Sui used Fox Immortal Spirit’s effect to draw a card from his deck.

"Looks like luck is still on my side."

Seeing the Life Card he drew, Shen Sui immediately knew the puzzle he’d been planning was complete, and he smiled at Dongye Youzai as he spoke.

Dongye Youzai looked at the card in Shen Sui’s hand, curiosity showing on his face.

What kind of card could slip past Fantasy Realm’s protection?

"Pay 5 Soul Points, activate Spell Card [Puppet Creation]." Shen Sui flashed the card in his hand, the corner of his mouth lifting as he spoke.

Anyone who’s watched Shen Sui duel before basically knows what he’s about to do the moment they see [Puppet Creation].

It’s coming—the Cursed Puppet!

Shen Sui didn’t do anything beyond Dongye Youzai’s expectations; he did indeed use that Spell Card to search out Cursed Puppet.

Using Cursed Puppet’s grave-dump effect, Shen Sui activated [Shining Debut] from his deck.

According to [Shining Debut]’s effect, Shen Sui discarded a card from his hand, then special summoned a 5-star-or-lower Follower from his deck.

Shen Sui opened his deck and pulled out [Loli Dragon Maid Mitole].

"Activate [Loli Dragon Maid Mitole]’s effect."

Shen Sui didn’t use Mitole’s mill effect, because he was afraid that idiot would dump his key card straight into the grave.

"Activate Mitole’s effect: return her to my hand, and I can choose a multi-form Follower from my deck and send it to the graveyard."

At the same time, Mitole’s leave-field effect triggered; Shen Sui could choose a Life Card from his graveyard and return it to his hand.

Shen Sui thought for a moment, then added [Shining Debut] back to his hand.

Per Mitole’s effect, Shen Sui sent the Soul Card [Mermaid Guardian God Martina] from his deck to the graveyard.

After that he paid Soul Points to normal summon Mitole again and tribute her. With Mitole’s release, her leave-field effect triggered once more.

Using that, Shen Sui fetched Martina from the graveyard into his hand.

By this point, Shen Sui was actually running a bit low on Soul Points.

So he could only pay Soul Points to activate [Shining Debut], special summoning Sacrificial Puppet from his deck, and use Sacrificial Puppet’s effect to patch up his Soul Point shortage.

After tributing two Sacrificial Puppet derivatives, Shen Sui normal summoned Martina.

Honestly, up to this step, Shen Sui’s line was nothing more than his standard, routine development.

Although he was still playing efficiently and raking in resources, Dongye Youzai couldn’t see any intention from Shen Sui to break through the Fantasy Realm’s Resistance...

"Activating Martina’s effect: I tribute her, send her to the Graveyard to activate, and choose a Spell Card from my deck to send to the Graveyard. It’s treated as using that Spell Card’s effect."

Shen Sui grinned as he spread out his deck, then fished out...[Racial Modification]?

"According to [Racial Modification]’s effect, I can choose a field that has appeared in this Duel, and make Followers on your field or mine be treated, rules-wise, as Followers of that field."

Hearing that, Dongye Youzai immediately understood what Shen Sui was about to do.

"That’s right!" Shen Sui’s lips curled up. "I’m changing Alice’s field to [Demon]!"

"Alice can be a demon too, you know!"

"...Don’t tell me you did this on purpose." Dongye Youzai complained weakly.

Granted, one of the reasons his deck was so easy to counter was that it didn’t have much room for variation.

But this [Racial Modification] still felt like something Shen Sui had printed just for him.

"You’re not secretly able to print cards or something, right?" Dongye Youzai said with a bitter smile. "How do you keep pulling these hard counters on me?"

When Shen Sui used Martina’s effect to search a Spell Card from his deck, he’d thought Shen Sui was going for [Alice’s Kindness], since that card was also a natural predator of the Fantasy Realm.

But he didn’t expect him to pull out a second one.

"How can you say that?" Shen Sui glanced at Alice in the distance and said, "When you’re sitting on a huge card pool, you can do this too. Just like the antibodies in your body—there’s always a suitable card to be found."

"Oh, right." Shen Sui gave Dongye Youzai a cheeky grin. "For this Duel, only one side needs to be a Demon!"

With that, Shen Sui opened his Graveyard: "Activating the effect of [Mermaid Guardian God Martina] in the Graveyard—once per turn, I can activate the effect of a Spell Card in the Graveyard."

"I choose to activate the Spell Card [Racial Modification]."

"This time..." Shen Sui raised his hand and pointed at the Followers on Dongye Youzai’s field. "The ones I’m changing are your Followers’ field."

"They’re no longer demons!"

"All of you, turn into Puppets!" Shen Sui declared the field.

As [Racial Modification]’s effect resolved, the thin mist covering Tsumura Chiba and the others gradually dispersed, while a layer of white mist gathered around Alice—this was the Fantasy Realm’s effect.

Seeing this, Dongye Youzai nearly coughed up blood.

His Followers had been stripped of the right to use the Fantasy Realm.

Alice was now under the Fantasy Realm’s protection.

He never imagined that Shen Sui, this bastard, could even dominate Environment Cards!

"Alice! Form Transformation!"

Shen Sui once again ordered Alice to undergo Form Transformation.

And this time, the form Alice transformed into was the Destroyer of the Earth!

[Destroyer of the Earth Alice], upon Shining Debut via Form Transformation, can destroy all cards on the opponent’s field.

Now that Dongye Youzai’s Followers had lost the Fantasy Realm’s protection, Shen Sui just straight-up flipped the table.

"Now! I flip my set card." Dongye Youzai decisively flipped his face-down.

"Not allowed to flip!"

"Huh?"

Dongye Youzai instinctively looked toward Shen Sui’s Graveyard.

He saw a card being pulled out from there: [Miniature Eavesdropping Puppet].

"When you flip a set card to activate it, I can activate the effect of [Miniature Eavesdropping Puppet] in my Graveyard, banish it from the Graveyard, and until the end of this turn, you can’t activate that set card."

This [Miniature Eavesdropping Puppet] was probably one of the cards milled into the Graveyard by Cursed Puppet.

Dongye Youzai’s mouth twitched: "What a scumbag..."

Before he even finished speaking, his field was completely wiped by Alice.

Because he’d previously activated [Demon’s Refutation] and paid half his Life Value, Dongye Youzai now only had 3000 Life Value left.

And [Destroyer of the Earth Alice] had 3100 Spirit Value.

With Shen Sui’s declaration of a direct attack, Dongye Youzai’s Life Value was straight-up busted.

"I kind of already saw this coming..." Dongye Youzai gave a wry smile and said.

"The [Demon] deck still isn’t complete enough," Shen Sui said. "You’re missing a few powerful Followers."

"No chance to finish it now." Dongye Youzai shook his head. "The demons over there have already been slaughtered to extinction by Immortals."

"What about [Sword Master] then?"

"Your country’s never giving back that half-deck of mine."

"What does World No. 2 look like now?" Shen Sui looked at Dongye Youzai and asked.

"You should ask Theis that. What I’ve seen is mostly the lower layers. Want to head to North America with me?"

"Stand trial together?"

"You haven’t really done anything."

"The demons in Tokyo were all blown up by my Soul Cards."

"Why do I hear a hint of pride in that?"

"Because I am proud." Shen Sui pulled the fallen Dongye Youzai up from the ground. "I’m still looking forward to seeing you at your peak. Since that half-deck can’t come out, interested in coming to Huaxia?"

Dongye Youzai looked out the window—Doron and Qiu Ende had already walked into the courtyard. "I don’t think I’ll get the chance."