Chapter 1233: Showing Off Love in the Duel Arena, Huh? Time to Stack Your Wife! (Part 2)

So it was understandable that Vivian chose to say goodbye.

Of course, in Freymia’s words, Shen Sui probably couldn’t hold out that long.

He just likes going out to play once in a while; most of the time he still prefers playing cards with people.

If he doesn’t find any particularly fun world, once his urge to play cards kicks in, he’ll probably rush back to the real world and happily spam duels.

Thinking so, Shen Sui nodded and said, “Yeah, taking the whole family out for a trip. No idea when we’ll be back.”

An Hai gave Shen Sui a deep look: “You’re not that young anymore. You and Wei should have a kid already.”

Shen Sui, who was in the middle of building up his emotions, almost swore on the spot when he heard that.

What the hell do you mean, a kid.

Do you know how many times my blood pressure already spiked just from raising one Alice?

Wait? Why is this guy suddenly concerned about that topic?

Thinking this, Shen Sui shot An Hai a suspicious glance and said:

“You… don’t tell me you’re getting nagged to have kids too?”

An Hai’s mouth twitched: “Let’s just talk about the duel.”

“Damn! You really are getting nagged.”

“Shut up! Are you playing or not?!” An Hai’s forehead veins were jumping.

Shen Sui figured if he repeated the question just now, this guy would absolutely get tilted.

So he very decisively shut his mouth.

The duel’s procedure actually wasn’t much different from before.

An Hai and Shen Sui weren’t dueling on the aerial duel platform for the first time.

You could even say they were among the first Life Card Masters to duel on the aerial duel platform.

Returning once again to the familiar duel arena, Shen Sui deftly took his own position.

Wang Ming, as the referee, checked both players’ decks.

He glanced at Shen Sui’s deck and couldn’t help saying, “You changed decks again, huh.”

“Ahem, I just got a new card and couldn’t help wanting to try it.” Shen Sui coughed twice.

But the moment he thought of the [Ultimate Weapon: Celestial Thunder] he had added to the deck, he couldn’t quite suppress the curl of his lips.

This card is just too interesting.

Definitely an excellent card that brings a smile to your opponent’s face.

Once he got it, Shen Sui couldn’t help but build a deck around it.

And of course, the one to use it would be a Spiritual Ability Card Set that specialized in stacking materials.

He was in such a good mood that Shen Sui was having trouble managing his facial expressions.

Wang Ming and An Hai immediately saw through this kid’s bad intentions.

An Hai’s internal alarm bells instantly started blaring.

This guy is definitely going to pull some crap in this duel!

It wouldn’t be another Underworld-tier abomination like that [Broken Boundary Empress: Antipus], would it?

Although An Hai had never personally suffered under Antipus, he had watched the related videos.

That sense of despair came through even across the screen.

“Relax.” Shen Sui seemed to read An Hai’s thoughts and said with a grin, “This time I’m using a Spiritual Ability Card Set.”

Spiritual Life, huh?

An Hai recalled for a moment.

It had actually been a long time since Shen Sui used Spiritual Life in a duel.

But that didn’t mean this deck was weak.

If anything, with Alice’s expansion of the Spiritual World, Shen Sui’s Spiritual Life series had developed to a ridiculous degree.

When Shen Sui rebuilt his Spiritual Life deck, he realized there were so many cards it was about to overflow.

And the new Spiritual Life Followers were countless.

Shen Sui didn’t even need to tweak card effects in detail to fit his deck anymore.

Because you could always find exactly the card you wanted in the Spiritual Life card pool.

“Damn it—!”

While Shen Sui was about to start his duel with An Hai, Alice was sitting in the Exploration Bureau office, extremely annoyed.

“Why can’t even I go up?” Alice puffed her cheeks.

She had originally wanted to cheer for Claude in person.

The staffer beside her was drenched in cold sweat: “This is just the Promotion Tournament’s rules, sorry, Miss Alice.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m kind of participating anyway.” Alice wasn’t the overbearing type; though she was a bit unhappy, she wasn’t used to dumping her emotions onto others.

With that, she sprawled over the desk and started watching the duel.

This time, Shen Sui still didn’t get the first move.

That left Shen Sui with nothing to say.

Is my compatibility with going first just that bad? Why does it feel like my chance of winning the coin toss is so low?

Is it because my deck is too strong and too Underworld-tier, and if I go first my opponent can’t play?

So under the corrective force of the world’s will, my odds of going first got nerfed?

While Shen Sui was thinking that, An Hai had already started his combo.

He was still using that Rose Card Set.

Gotta admit, watching the roses bloom all over the field is pretty nice.

No wonder even some Life Card Masters who aren’t that strong still have fans.

Not to mention, An Hai is one of the strong ones.

Thinking this, Shen Sui saw An Hai suddenly perform the final Form Transformation on the Soul Card Lu Ya on the field.

“Descend!”

“Bride Rose: Lu Ya!”

Bride Rose?

Shen Sui didn’t react for a second.

Then he saw the Fairy Rose in a wedding dress appear on An Hai’s field.

Shen Sui fell into brief silence.

For fuck’s sake!

We’re just playing cards!

Why are you showing off your PDA?!

Shen Sui was absolutely sure this final Form Transformation was deliberate on An Hai’s part.

Dammit!

Shen Sui suddenly felt a bit of regret.

When he was building this Spiritual Life deck, he hadn’t put Vivian in.

Otherwise, I’d have to show at least one “summon your sister” on the field.

And Vivian even has a [Candlelight Illusion: An Wei] form.

You summon your wife, I summon my wife; that’s perfectly reasonable, isn’t it?

While mentally ranting like crazy, Shen Sui also had to admit how strong this wife card of An Hai’s was.

Lu Ya and Ji Yue were both Fairy Roses.

But because Lu Ya had Dragon Race blood flowing in her veins, her effect was more offensive compared to [Fairy Rose: Ji Yue].

With its board-wiping effect, it counted as a powerful control card.

An Hai was clearly very satisfied with the board he had set up. He looked at Shen Sui and smiled. “Alright, my turn ends.”

Shen Sui looked at An Hai’s field, mentally calculating the effects of those Followers.

Mm, at least nothing’s stopping me from performing Special Summons.

With that thought, Shen Sui drew and said, “My turn! Draw!”

He drew the top card of his deck, glanced at it, and couldn’t help but smile.

Seeing Shen Sui smile, An Hai’s heart skipped a beat.

Don’t tell me he really drew something busted?!

Shen Sui directly pulled out the card he’d just drawn: “Main Phase. I activate the effect of the Follower Card in my hand, [Spiritual Life: Lonely Dog]. Target one Follower on your field, stack it onto my field, and Special Summon that Follower.”

“???”

“What the hell!”

Hearing that effect, even An Hai couldn’t stop himself from swearing.

Lonely Dog?

A literal single dog, huh!

And you expect me to believe you didn’t just print this card on the spot?

Who was Shen Sui going to stack?

Obviously, Bride Rose!

“I won’t let you succeed!” An Hai quickly flipped a set card. “At this moment! I activate the Spell Card [Rose Care], negating the effect of the card you activated that targets my [Rose] Followers!”

“Heh, then you fell right into it!” Shen Sui had been baiting for An Hai’s Kang all along. “During my turn, when you activate a card’s effect, I can activate the effect of the Follower Card in my hand, [Spiritual Life: Hatred Counterer], sending the top five Follower Cards of my deck to the graveyard; negate the effect of the card you activated.”

What kind of fake card is this?

An Hai blinked at that effect.

Negation was one thing, but it also mills five Followers?

No, wait…

This is totally not the time to be thinking about that!

This guy stacked my wife!

“Relax, this card isn’t that broken.” Shen Sui seemed to see what An Hai was thinking and said with a smile, “Cards sent to the graveyard this way can’t activate their effects until the start of my next Main Phase.”

That’s still… somewhat acceptable…

“Which is why what I’m going to activate next is this!” Shen Sui glanced at [Ultimate Weapon: Celestial Thunder] in the graveyard and drew out a card from his hand.

“I pay 15 Soul Points and activate the Event Card [Great Rebuilding of the Spiritual World]!”

“After activation, until the end of my next turn,”

“At the end of the Battle Phase on either player’s turn, this must activate, and the turn player performs an additional Main Phase.”