Let you print cards, not let you kill gods.

Chapter 673 Alice and Tang Lili

Alice defeated her teacher.

According to the newly added special rules, she is automatically qualified to start the qualifying tournament.

When Shen Sui heard the news, he couldn't help but complain: "Could this be a rule made specifically for Alice?"

But on second thought, the freshmen nowadays are actually amazing.

The fortune tellers back then all wanted to compete for first and second place in the competition, and they were all competitors to each other, so even if they had some tricks about swiping cards, they were kept secret.

But with the reform of the new system, the life card duel competition is now more entertainment-oriented, and the real big players are in the buffer zone.

The buffer zone involves the safety of everyone.

What would happen if the overall strength of the fortune-tellers weakened and the buffer zone was broken through by the extraordinary people from the outside world?

In this environment where all of humanity is advancing and retreating together, fortune tellers no longer hide their secrets and post their card swiping skills online for everyone's reference and discussion.

Not everyone's soul card is a holy card, but through the personal efforts of the fortune teller, some card swiping experiences can be changed.

This can be seen from the admission examinations of various duel academies this year.

In previous entrance examinations, considering that students’ decks may not have that many life cards, restrictions were also placed on the examiners’ decks.

As a result, this year there were a large number of students who directly defeated the examiners in the exam.

This shows that the overall level of students is much higher than last year.

Most importantly, this level of improvement will continue over time.

In this context, the rule that students can advance to the next level by defeating their teachers in a duel makes sense.

Alice is at most the first beneficiary of this rule.

After completing the points competition, Alice started the qualifying competition almost immediately.

Although the start date of her next journey has not been determined yet, it will definitely not be delayed for too long.

Alice also didn't want to delay the recovery of the company because of her personal affairs.

She has a good relationship with Enterprise's sisters Yorktown and Bumblebee.

According to the rules of the promotion tournament, Alice began to challenge fortune tellers of different ranks one by one.

These opponents are all selected randomly.

However, considering Alice's strength, it should be no problem for her to reach the fourth or fifth level.

She is now completely familiar with the rhythm of the fate card duel and is familiar with the characteristics of her own deck.

But for some reason, every time Alice came back, she looked exhausted.

And it's the kind that makes me feel tired.

"What's going on? Is the promotion tournament so difficult?" Shen Sui looked at Alice lying on the sofa in confusion.

"That shouldn't be the case. With your deck construction, even if you play with your eyes closed, you can pass the third-tier qualifying tournament if you find a bright spot, right?"

Powerful decks are not actually scary.

What’s really scary is that not only is it powerful, but the entry threshold is also very low.

Can you imagine a scenario where a newbie duelist can easily beat an old duelist who has been dueling for years just by getting a deck like this?
If a deck like this were put into a game where cards could be copied and printed, it would be a disaster.

The entire dueling environment will be ruthlessly destroyed until everyone duels with this deck.

Alice’s Magical Girl already has a similar flavor, but it still requires some learning threshold.

But even so, you shouldn't be so exhausted after playing the first, second, or third level qualifying matches.

"You do not understand……"

When Shen Sui asked Alice the reason, she didn't even have the strength to raise her head.

With his head buried deeply in the pillow, the words he spoke had a muffled echo.

"Speak nicely!" Shen Sui put his hands on his hips.

"Why are you talking to me in your father's tone..."

Alice grumbled, but sat up very obediently.

Shen Sui's mouth twitched slightly, and he asked helplessly: "So, what happened?"

Alice pouted and finally told Shen Sui about what had happened in the past few days.

"Can you imagine? The opponent in the duel is one of my fans." Alice clenched her hands, and there seemed to be black lines on her head. "Every time I play a card, they will scream and shout something like Miss Alice is great! You played this card really well... and so on."

Shen Sui put himself into the role of Alice, and suddenly he couldn't hold back his laughter and burst out laughing.

Alice glared at Shen Sui unhappily: "This is a very serious problem! If the opponent is a fan, my duel will be greatly disturbed!"

"So you won or not."

"Won."

"But!" Alice put her hands on her hips, "But I feel bad about defeating my fans, okay?"

"Oh~ So you always calculated the damage and won at the right time."

"No, I always kill with 20,000 damage."

"Why the hell are you so sad there!" Shen Sui grabbed Alice's ear in annoyance and dragged this whining guy to the basement amid Alice's wailing.

"Waaaaa! Are you going to teach me a lesson with a duel?"

Alice saw Shen Sui walking towards the duel venue and said with a twinkle in her eyes.

"..."

No, why does your tone sound like that of a female devil?
Shen Sui thought silently in his heart.

"Please help me with some questions."

Shen Sui brought Alice to a table next to the duel arena.

On the table was a dueling mat for mock duels.

As Shen Sui spoke to Alice, he took out two decks of cards and handed them to Alice.

"Two decks?"

"Yes." Shen Sui nodded, "One of them is a minion deck, and the other is a spell deck."

"What is this game about?"

"I'm researching a world that can host a resurrection match, but I've encountered some minor problems." Shen Sui explained, "Just like a fortune teller swiping cards, those dead souls who want to build their own decks need to obtain the corresponding cards in that world."

"Spell cards are fine, but there are too few minion cards. The deck constructed in this way will definitely be deformed, so I'm thinking of using the current duel rules as the mother model and modifying the duel rules."

As he spoke, Shen Sui took out the same two sets of cards and demonstrated them to Alice.

However, unlike the deck handed to Alice, one of his decks actually only had five cards.

"In the new rules, soul points are no longer the cost of using cards, and the use of all spell cards is no longer restricted by costs."

"Doesn't that mean they are invincible?" Alice displayed a few follower cards. "Should we put some restrictions on summons?"

"Of course there are restrictions. But duelists can only draw cards from spell decks now." Shen Sui picked up the minion deck, selected a minion card from it, and placed it in the minion area. "During the duel, duelists can check their minion decks during the main phase, and then select a minion from it to summon to the field, which is considered a normal summon."

"Eh? All cards in the minion deck are visible. Isn't that the same as playing with the deck in hand?" Alice asked in confusion, "The first-strike advantage is too great."

"So, we need to make restrictions." Shen Sui took out a card beside him and said, "I reduced the upper limit of soul points to . It no longer automatically recharges, but instead gains one soul point each round. Duelists can pay 1 soul point to perform a normal summon."

This is a disguised way of limiting the number of calls.

"The problem now is," Shen Sui said, pointing to the cards in his minion area, and said, "I want to add a mechanism to gain soul points by liberating minions, just like the fate card duel. In this way, duelists can gain additional summons by liberating existing minions."

"But I'm still considering how many followers I need to liberate to restore one soul point," Shen Sui said.

"Why do we have to add this mechanism?" Alice was a little confused.

"..."

"..."

Shen Sui was silent for a long time, and then he slowly said: "The key point is not the mechanism of restoring soul points, but the mechanism of liberation. Of course, it is also possible to delete the soul points. How about directly liberating two minions and then summoning them once more?"

Alice was speechless: "Why do you have to add a liberation mechanism..."

"Nonsense! If there is no liberation mechanism, how can I feed the opponent's minions to the fish!"

"Do you know why Jiefang is so powerful and invincible?!" Shen Sui said this and began to gesture, "Because it is a rule! The rules of the game!"

As he spoke, Shen Sui took out the Life Card Duel Rules that was placed aside and said to Alice: "The effects of ordinary cards are only two or three hundred words, but this rules set has a full thirty thousand words! The most powerful effects are all in the rules!"

"If liberation isn't a rule, then it's just like destruction, banishment, and bounce, which are just effects that can be easily mocked by all resistances."

Looking at Shen Sui who was talking incessantly opposite her, Alice's eyes were empty.

Obviously, our Miss Alice does not understand the true power of the rules.

That's right. After all, the opponent can't eat the life card in her hand, and then report that the number of cards in her deck is different from the reported number, thereby violating the rules and giving her a defeat.

By the way, in regular life card duel competitions, there really is such a rule.

The fortune teller must report his deck to the referee before a duel. If he uses fortune cards different from the reported ones in the duel, he will be mercilessly judged as the loser.

Alice was forced by Shen Sui to study the new rules for three hours.

We also had several duels according to the new rules.

But there were always some minor problems, and then Shen Sui started to modify the rules.

Damn it!
This made Alice, who had exploited loopholes in the rules several times, very unhappy.

Naturally, I put aside the frustrating things I encountered in the promotion tournament.

By the fourth and fifth level promotion matches, Alice's opponents finally became much more normal.

Of course, the strength has also increased a lot.

But Alice had already surpassed this level of powerful fortune teller, so it was very easy for her to win.

"Hahaha! I'm already at level five!" After Alice finished the last promotion match, she felt that this person's soul had been sublimated.

So she quickly dialed Tang Lili's number.

Well, the other party’s phone number was not told to her by Shen Sui, but Alice found out when the two of them revealed each other’s addresses when they couldn’t stand each other in the Soul Card World.

Of course, it was also at that time that Tang Lili found out that Alice was Shen Sui’s soul card.

Alice was often teased by Tang Lili because of her status as a senior.

Of course, Alice will definitely be called back later!
"Fifth level?!"

On the other end of the phone, there were bursts of background music behind Tang Lili.

"Have you reached level five so quickly?"

Alice looked at the sky and said, "You're still practicing? You haven't gotten off work yet."

“Idol Producer is like this.”

"Wow, is being an idol so tiring?"

"Nonsense! I've only been here for a year." Tang Lili said unhappily, "I heard from my seniors that for idol training, two and a half years is the starting point for great success."

“Okay…” Alice pouted, then suddenly remembered that she came here to show off, “Don’t change the subject! I’m at level five! Level five!”

"It was obviously you who changed the subject!" Tang Lili retorted unhappily.

"So, when are you going to duel with me?"

"Huh? What?"

"Hey, hey, hey! The fight we had earlier! A fight, hey! You're not going to run away, are you?"

"I definitely won't run away." Tang Lili complained, "But I'm only at level three. We're not in the same division."

"..."

"..."

"Huh?" Alice was silent for a long time, and then she slowly uttered a word.

"well?!!!!"

Her broken brain finally started to work.

"No! Why are you only at level three?"

"Because I haven't had time to get promoted yet, the promotion system has changed." Tang Lili said as a matter of course, "I have various announcements and performances on weekdays, so I don't have time to accumulate points."

"..."

"So, my Miss Alice." Tang Lili seemed to have stopped to rest, and there was a hint of panting in her voice, "You haven't even asked me about my rank yet, so how come you have already reached the fifth level?"

"Woo~!" Alice huffed.

Alice originally wanted to say that she won in the promotion tournament, but she immediately remembered that Shen Sui had told her about Tang Lili's past.

She didn't get into the Duel Academy, so she played her way up from the amateur competitions, and her path to promotion was not as easy as Alice's.

If I said this out loud, it would obviously hurt Tang Lili.

"So what about our battle?" Alice couldn't stop thinking about it.

After all, although they seemed to be incompatible, Tang Lili was the first friend that Alice met in the Soul Card world and then became good friends with in reality.

In a sense, this was Alice's first "online friend".

She naturally took this agreement very seriously.

"Who said that a fight must be in a competition?"

Tang Lili thought about it, then smiled and said:
"It just so happens that I will be coming to the Magic City in a while. There will be a concert on the aerial duel platform. How about inserting a segment of our duel before the concert starts or ends?"

"Wow? You're already qualified to be on the Duel Platform?"

"Hey, I'm very popular, meow~!"

(End of this chapter)