Moreover, while she was tangled up with the Abyss Diver, Scarlett, hidden inside her shell, had already rebuilt her field and used Abyss Summoning to summon new Magic Spirits. This duel had been extremely unfair from the very beginning.
Hidden within her shell, Scarlett Bessie was completely invincible. Her racial ability could even continuously refresh the shell's state, removing every abnormal status Emma had inflicted upon it.
And within that absolutely safe environment, Scarlett could do whatever she wanted with ease.
However.
On closer reflection, one would realize that Carola Marjorie essentially possessed such a "turtle shell" as well. The Sea God's Protection she could casually deploy also made her invincible from the very start of a match.
Moreover, Carola could repeatedly deploy Sea God's Protection. Even if it were accidentally shattered, she could immediately erect a second barrier.
She was actually far more troublesome than she appeared on the surface.
It was only because she had encountered the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, whose attack power was off the charts, that she had not had much opportunity to show it.
But now, when facing Scarlett Bessie, Emma finally experienced that feeling for herself.
She did everything she could to deal with the Magic Spirits Scarlett had summoned. But as her hand was steadily depleted, the Magitech Cards capable of threatening Scarlett's shell grew fewer and fewer. In the end, they were completely exhausted, and it became utterly impossible to break through that shell.
Meanwhile, even after Scarlett Bessie, hidden inside the shell, had run out of Magitech Cards, she could still manipulate water elements into all manner of weapons to attack Emma.
As a result.
The final duel of the first round of the Academy Championship was forcibly turned into an extraordinarily prolonged war of attrition.
The audience still watched with