Duel? The kind that brings smiles (Seeking follow-up reading!))

The turn marker flipped, signaling the start of Xu Tianzhi's turn.

Xu Tianzhi glanced at the two spells in Shen Sui's back row with a slight wariness.

Although only one turn had passed, Xu Tianzhi already knew that the examinee opposite him was definitely not a simple novice.

If a spell could be activated during the opponent's turn, there would be a fleeting moment of lag when the activation timing arrived.

Xu Tianzhi thought to himself that this turn, he must constantly pay attention to the timing lag.

"My turn." Xu Tianzhi declared the start of his turn, and then he immediately noticed the timing lag.

What?

He was slightly taken aback, and then he heard Shen Sui's voice from the opposite side: "Now! Flip the face-down card and activate the spell card [Feigned Weakness]!"

Shen Sui flipped the 5-star face-down card, which was indeed the spell card [Feigned Weakness].

"Pay half of your life points and discard one card from your hand, then select [Alice's Little Mare] on my field as the target for activation. Until the end of the duel, its Spirit Value becomes 0. After that, until the end of this turn, you cannot activate card effects of the same type as the discarded hand card!" Shen Sui explained the effect of [Feigned Weakness].

As he spoke, Shen Sui's life points began to drop rapidly, from 1000 to 500.

Then, Shen Sui drew a card from his hand.

The card flipped open, revealing the Follower Card [Silver Moon Wolf King Harley].

"Discard [Silver Moon Wolf King Harley]. Until the end of the turn, you cannot use the effects of Follower Cards!"

Shen Sui's words were like an ice hammer in winter, striking Xu Tianzhi's heart.

What?!!

His pupils constricted, and for a moment, he was lost in thought.

One must know that a large part of his deck's strategy relied on the effects of Follower Cards.

This was going to be difficult.

"Next, activate the effect of the permanent spell card [Star Super Magic Array]." The magic array beside Shen Sui lit up. "When my spell card is sent to the graveyard during my opponent's turn, I can return it to my deck."

[Feigned Weakness], which had just entered the graveyard, was bounced back to the deck.

[Wow, he turned the tables! This novice looks really strong!]

[Could another Xingyuan Yingxue appear? A Tierless defeating a Tier 5.]

[My little Xue is still the best, she defeated a complete Tier 5 Soul Card Master.]

[Damn it! Bastard! Little Xue is clearly mine!]

The barrage of comments instantly devolved into chaos.

"My turn, draw." Xu Tianzhi drew a card from his deck.

However, when he entered the main phase, the familiar timing lag appeared again.

Hmm?

Xu Tianzhi was startled, but he saw that Shen Sui had no intention of making any moves.

There's a timing lag, I need to be careful.

Xu Tianzhi secretly reminded himself, but when he saw the card he drew, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. With this card, he would definitely not lose!

"Pay 12 Soul Points!" Xu Tianzhi activated the card almost without hesitation. "Activate from my hand! Permanent spell card [Mecha Crisis]!"

Along with the light of the spell card, layers of metallic sheen appeared on Xu Tianzhi's field, surging metal parts, pulsating program code. At that moment, he felt as if he was in a wondrous science fiction era.

[Here it comes! Here it comes! Xu Tianzhi's ace, the invincible Mecha Crisis is here!]

[Come on! Let the newcomer feel the terror of a Tier 5 professional Soul Card Master!]

[Your field clearing and restriction abilities are indeed powerful, but what if, and I mean what if, I use the core spell card of the Mecha deck, [Mecha Crisis]? How will you respond?]

However, the next moment, before Xu Tianzhi could even explain the effect of [Mecha Crisis], he saw Shen Sui slowly flip the spell in his back row: "Now! Flip the face-down card and activate the spell card [Friendly Fire]!"

"Can only be activated during either player's main phase. Destroy one follower on my field, then activate one spell card from the graveyard or deck."

"I choose to destroy [Novice Magician Alice] on my field and activate the spell card [Resurrection] from the graveyard!"

"Select one follower in your graveyard as a target and special summon it to your field."

"I choose to special summon [Silver Moon Wolf King Harley] from the graveyard to the field!"

[Silver Moon Wolf King Harley], Spirit Value 1600.

"Next!" Shen Sui raised his hand, and the Star Super Magic Array beside him lit up. "Activate the effect of the Star Super Magic Array, returning [Resurrection] and [Friendly Fire] to the deck."

Xu Tianzhi's mouth twitched slightly. I say, isn't this my turn? Is it really appropriate for you to narrate like this?

However, what made him feel despair was that Shen Sui's narration was clearly not over.

"Now, activate the effect of [Novice Magician Alice] which entered the graveyard! Once per turn, when she is destroyed by an effect and sent to the graveyard, I can pay half of my life points to special summon her to the field." Shen Sui paid half of his life points, and his life points dropped to 250. "Then, her form changes to [Magic Apprentice Alice]."

"Now! The effect of [Novice Magician Alice] activates! When she leaves the field due to a form change, destroy one Soul Card on the opponent's field! I choose to destroy [Mecha Crisis] on your field!"

With a crisp sound, the just-activated [Mecha Crisis] instantly shattered into pieces and entered the graveyard.

"..." Xu Tianzhi fell into a brief silence.

[???]

[666]

[Hahaha, amazing!]

[This guy is awesome.]

[Is the Mecha Crisis really that good? Why don't I feel it?]

[Shut up with your storytelling, let me do it!]

[Hahaha! Xu Tianzhi must be so depressed.]

[New here, don't understand. Can someone tell me whose turn it is now?]

The barrage was going wild, and even the audience felt depressed for Xu Tianzhi.

Who was the professional Soul Card Master here? It felt like Xu Tianzhi was the one being dominated.

[It's over, he was smurfing in low ranks and hit a whale. What to do? Waiting online, urgent!]

[Everyone, look at the dean's face, it's like he's constipated, I'm dying of laughter!]

Liang Hui's face was indeed not looking good.

He was proud that the academy could recruit such a powerful student.

But thinking that this student's Soul Card world was the Dawn Continent, he could lose his chance in the Soul Card industry at any time due to the death of his Soul Card.

At the same time, he also deeply regretted it. He originally wanted to let the club's rising star, Xu Tianzhi, represent Tianyi Academy, but instead, Xu Tianzhi was humiliated across the entire network.

If he had known, he wouldn't have brought reporters and the live broadcast team to the third examination room.

On the duel field, Xu Tianzhi only felt his blood surging. Fortunately, having been in many matches, he still had the necessary pressure resistance. Taking two deep breaths to suppress the surging blood in his chest, he drew another card from his hand: "Pay 2 Soul Points, Normal Summon from my hand, [Mecha No. 3 Aken]."

However, just as his summon was completed, the moment that made his heart palpitate appeared again.

"At this time, I activate the effect of [Magic Apprentice Alice] on my field. When you successfully summon a follower, I can target one follower on each side of the field and destroy the selected followers."

"I choose to destroy the follower on your field and [Magic Apprentice Alice] on my field."

Bang!

Aken, who had just appeared, was destroyed and sent to the graveyard along with Alice before he could even unfold his form.

However, this was not the end. Shen Sui then said:

"According to the effect of [Magic Apprentice Alice], if the follower destroyed by this method is her, I can activate a spell card from my deck after she enters the graveyard."

Shen Sui's deck slowly opened.

"I choose to activate the spell card [Resurrection]."

"Special Summon [Magic Apprentice Alice] from the graveyard to the field."

Alice, who had just entered the graveyard, appeared again with the flash of resurrection.

Her smile was still lively and cute, but in Xu Tianzhi's eyes, it was full of coldness.

"Then, activate the effect of [Star Super Magic Array], returning the resolved [Resurrection] to the deck."

It's useless! The unfolding of the Mecha deck is unstoppable!

"Pay 1 Soul Point, Normal Summon from my hand, [Conventional Power Machine No. 28011]!"

"At this time!" Before Xu Tianzhi's follower could even finish unfolding, Shen Sui's voice rang out, "Activate the effect of [Magic Apprentice Alice]..."

"Doesn't this thing have a once per turn limit?!" Even with a good temper like Xu Tianzhi's, seeing Shen Sui activate the effect again made him lose his composure a bit.

Then he watched helplessly as Alice was destroyed, activated her effect, and returned to the field through [Resurrection].

"I think so," Shen Sui replied.

Infinite loop! As long as he didn't have a way to get rid of that follower or that permanent spell card of the opponent, he would never be able to summon even a single follower.

This deck was too damn sinister!

The blood that Xu Tianzhi had finally suppressed surged again. He had an impulse to beat the opponent to death. If his body wasn't usually very healthy, he might have had a cerebral hemorrhage by now.

Damn it, I really want to beat the opponent to death.

His eyes kept searching the examination room, looking for even a single weapon.

Unfortunately, considering the emotional fluctuations of candidates after failure, there would be nothing in the duel examination room that could harm others or themselves.

Xu Tianzhi withdrew his gaze with a slight regret and began to think about what to do next.

Did his deck have a way to get rid of those two cards of the opponent?

Or a way to deal direct damage to Shen Sui's remaining 250 Life Points?

Xu Tianzhi knew it clearly: No!

He had never encountered such an opponent before, so it was impossible to put cards with direct damage effects that took up slots in his deck.

And the Spirit Values of the followers on the opponent's field were not very high, but turn after turn, they were enough to grind him to death.

Persistence was meaningless. Dragging out a losing game would also make others look down on him as a professional Soul Card Master.

Xu Tianzhi calculated, took two deep breaths, and finally accepted reality, as well as the future where he would be relentlessly mocked. He gritted his teeth and said, "I surrender."

[Holy crap? He actually won.]

[Who says academic underachievers aren't powerful? Didn't he just crush a fifth-tier Soul Card Master?]

[Damn it! How did this guy win?! I wanted to bend that cat girl over!]

[This chain reaction is too messed up, isn't it? I feel like Xu Tianzhi's eyes are full of killing intent.]

[Of course, if it were me, I'd want to beat this guy up too. What kind of messed up deck is this!]

Xu Tianzhi retrieved his Soul Cards into his Duel Instrument and walked towards Shen Sui, declaring his surrender. "You are very strong. Congratulations. I hope we can meet on the competition stage in the future."

Shen Sui's eyes lit up. He passed!

"Thank you." He stepped forward and shook hands with Xu Tianzhi. "I won by luck today. If your deck wasn't incomplete, I might not have won."

Xu Tianzhi suppressed the urge to beat the other party to death and forced out a very strained smile. "No need to be modest. With your strength, you will definitely shine brightly in the future."