Alice Was Unusually Well-Behaved

After sending Harley out to draw Rhine's attention, Alice hurried toward Pa Yin Jia Lake without stopping.

According to Oshana's intelligence, the Sinful Festival that the villains who had abducted Anna planned to attend would take place in a month and a half. At the festival, those villains would sacrifice the girls' souls to Sin God Flores, and until then, they had to preserve the girls' purity.

But that did not mean Anna was safe. Alice had to hurry.

Perhaps because her best friend's life was hanging by a thread, Alice did not cause trouble for Shen Sui over the next three days. She merely burned down five mountain bandit hideouts, eight Black Shops in the wilderness, and thirteen castles belonging to Low-Level Nobles who oppressed the common people.

Yes, compared to Alice's antics that could easily get herself killed, Shen Sui no longer considered such righteous, weed-clearing acts a big deal.

Over those three days, Alice had also contributed three Spell Cards to Shen Sui. By comparison, she truly had been well-behaved.

Most unbelievably, as Alice continued her practiced Arson, her Spell Card Arson actually gained stars.

On the Dawn Continent, magic had fixed star ratings. Even if Shen Sui used Fireball Spell with his max-level account, it was still only a 1-star spell. But Arson was not magic. It was an action-type Spell Card born from Alice's actions, not a manifested skill.

It was like the inhuman things some novel protagonists did. You could not call them skills, but those actions truly brought the protagonist many benefits and helped them defeat numerous powerful enemies.

After several days of research, Shen Sui had roughly figured out the rules for obtaining cards from the Soul Card World. Combined with the experience summarized by his predecessors, he more or less knew how to obtain more cards from the Soul Card World.

This required careful study, because selling cards had a very promising future.

Invincibility in the Soul Card World was an illusion. Only wealth in reality was real!

The cards obtained from the Soul Card World could roughly be divided into several categories.

The first category was origin-type Spell Cards, skills or equipment that already existed within the Soul Card World's power system. Once a Soul Card Follower learned or equipped them, this type of Spell Card would appear. However, Shen Sui discovered in practice that when he, as a Soul Card Master, used skills or equipment on a Soul Card Follower, he could also obtain similar cards. For example, Shen Sui's Resuscitation and other skills. This was not taught in textbooks, since the vast majority of Soul Card Masters did not have native identities in the Soul Card World and had to establish their characters first.

The second category was action-type Spell Cards, Spell Cards that embodied certain actions performed by Soul Card Followers in the Soul Card World. Examples included Alice's Arson and Crushing Blow Targeting the Groin. However, the Duel Instrument's judgment regarding action-type Spell Cards was strange. Sometimes they appeared, sometimes they did not. Some said that actions capable of producing action-type Spell Cards might have a significant impact on the future. Shen Sui was very curious what kind of impact Crushing Blow Targeting the Groin could possibly have on the future.

The third category was event-type Spell Cards. When a Soul Card Follower participated in a major event, they would obtain an event-type Spell Card when the event concluded. Event-type Spell Cards were usually permanent Spell Cards, similar to continuous Spell Cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! As long as the opponent did not destroy them, they could remain on the field and continuously produce effects. Thus, these Spell Cards were extremely powerful, but also very difficult to farm. Shen Sui planned to see whether he could trigger an event-type Spell Card during this trip to Modena City.

Those were roughly the three categories of Spell Cards. The rules for Follower Cards were much simpler: if someone followed a Soul Card Follower, or if their affection for the Soul Card Follower reached a certain level, a Follower Card would be born.

For Soul Card Masters unlucky enough to draw bottom-tier characters, Follower Cards were the most agonizing to farm:

How could poor trash from the bottom of society have followers? They did not deserve love or friendship either.

Therefore, these Soul Card Masters generally bought Follower Cards to get through the beginner stage. They were also the ones most terrified of the Duel Exam, often desperately grinding Spell Cards to strengthen themselves.

However, this was the first time Shen Sui had learned of an action-type Spell Card like Arson gaining stars.

As Alice continued setting fires along the way, the Arson card in his hand reached 12 stars.

A 2-star Soul Card had somehow farmed a 12-star Spell Card. It was hard not to question her mental state.

But this was not a bad thing for Shen Sui. As Arson's star rating rose, the strength of Shen Sui's modifications to the card increased as well. After all of Alice's antics over the past few days, he finally possessed a true field-clearing Spell Card.

Card Name: Arson

Category: Spell Card

Star Rating: 12 Stars

Effect: During your main phase, you may reveal and discard the top card of your deck, then destroy all Life Cards on your opponent's field with star ratings lower than that card.

Alice was still several days away from Pa Yin Jia Lake. After calculating the timing, Shen Sui realized it was about time for him to set out as well.

After doing the math, he had happened to gathered the required number of Life Cards for the Duel Exam. Once Alice reached Pa Yin Jia Lake and opened her Storage Box, he believed another batch of Life Cards would fall into his hands.

Considering that Alice might encounter some events along the way, Shen Sui did not play any more cards and decided to wait until after the Duel Exam.

"You've already gathered twenty Life Cards so quickly?" Lin Ke'er said in disbelief when Shen Sui came to bid her farewell. She had been writing lesson plans.

As the teacher of "Soul Card Cognition Basics" and a first-rank professional Soul Card Master, Lin Ke'er had taken the Duel Exam herself back then. She had a very direct understanding of how difficult it was to obtain Life Cards from the Soul Card World. Looking at the date, June 6 was still two days away. Completing the card collection two days ahead of time was absolutely unbelievable.

Many Duel Exam candidates only completed their Life Card collections right at the deadline.

Lin Ke'er had been the same back then. Only one second before the examiner inspected her deck had her Soul Card barely obtained the final missing piece, allowing her to pass the verification.

"Is your Soul Card really a Magic Apprentice?" Although Lin Ke'er was happy for Shen Sui's success, she still found it difficult to believe. "This efficiency in obtaining Life Cards is better than that of some rank-seven or rank-eight powerhouses."

"She's somewhat special." Shen Sui was a little embarrassed. He could hardly say she was a little brat who loved setting fires, could he? And an unlucky little brat who was especially prone to running into bad things.

Lin Ke'er did not ask further. Information about one's Soul Card was the most confidential intelligence for a Soul Card Master.

"Then I'll wait here for your good news." Lin Ke'er smiled.

Shen Sui said, "Actually, if possible, I'd also like to duel Teacher Lin once and test my deck. Aren't you a first-rank professional Soul Card Master?"

"Ah, I'm no longer a professional Soul Card Master. I won't play cards ever again." Lin Ke'er sounded regretful.

"Retired? Why?" Shen Sui asked instinctively, but immediately felt that he had been presumptuous. This was someone else's secret.

"I'll teach you one final lesson, Shen Sui." Lin Ke'er looked at Shen Sui very seriously and slowly said, "On the professional stage, there can only be one champion. Some people can betray everyone for the championship. Do not reveal information about your Soul Card Followers to anyone."

There were thirty-three Soul Card Worlds in total, and many Soul Card Masters had Soul Cards from the same world. If an opponent from the same Soul Card World learned information about one's Soul Card, they might use underhanded tactics outside the match.

Not many Soul Card Masters chose the Dawn Continent, but there were not none. At the same time, most who chose the Dawn Continent were gamblers with nowhere else to turn, making them even more likely to do something so extreme.