Although Tianyi Academy was in its first year, it would begin holding its monthly Academy PK Competition starting from the second month after enrollment.
Duel academies were, in the end, youth training bases that supplied professional players to the competitive circuit. They looked glamorous on the surface, but the competition within them was brutal. Tianyi Academy was new, so it was somewhat better off. In those powerful duel academies with some history behind them, several students suffered mental breakdowns and were forced to withdraw every month after the PK Competition.
A stable path to becoming a professional only led to extreme competition.
Xin Yuan Tanchun used her own experience as an example. Tianyi Academy's first class had enrolled three hundred freshmen. Around fifty students managed to win three PK matches each month, and only around a dozen earned their coaches' recognition. Of those dozen or so, very few could pass the Ranking Tournament. On average, only one Tier 1 Soul Card Master would emerge after a full year of monthly PK matches.
Students who failed the Ranking Tournament would continue competing in the following month's PK Competition, over and over again. If they could not grind their opponents into the ground, they would grind themselves down instead.
"You know how difficult this year's Duel Exam was. Every student who passed has what it takes to become a professional player, so you'd better be prepared," Xin Yuan Tanchun told Shen Sui.
Prepared?
In Shen Sui's career plan, he would not actually stay at Tianyi Academy for long.
Once he completed the Ranking Tournament and became a professional Soul Card Master, he would have the right to apply for graduation and choose a club to join. Of course, Tianyi Academy's terms were there in black and white: he had to choose Tianyi Club first. Only if the club rejected him could he join another club.
That did not matter much to Shen Sui. Apart from club cup tournaments, most Soul Card Duel competitions were individual events. The club could not keep him on the bench; at most, it could withhold his slot and make him start from the qualifiers.
Of course, in this world, there was no problem that could not be solved by a duel. If there was, then two duels would solve it.
If you truly had a dispute with a club, you could invoke the Soul Card Association's protection clause and challenge the club. It would be best two out of three. If you won, the Soul Card Association would unconditionally rule in your favor and grant you freedom.
One month. First, win the PK Competition.
Then duel Xin Yuan Tanchun and obtain the qualification for the Ranking Tournament.
Shen Sui clarified his goal.
Alice was about to arrive at the City of Sin. For the next stretch of time, he would be unable to pull himself away from the Soul Card World.
The duration provided by the Time Regulator was extremely valuable. Shen Sui was still rather poor, and he was reluctant to spend time that had been piled up with money on something like this.
He needed to confirm the strength of the event-type Spell Cards obtained after causing major incidents in the Soul Card World. That way, he might need to start putting more effort into guiding Alice later on.
With such a talent for stirring up trouble, she might as well turn the whole world upside down!
Back in his dormitory, Shen Sui put down the large amount of instant food, drinks, and bottled water he had bought.
He had originally wanted to buy some blood pressure medicine, but unfortunately, the pharmacy would not sell it to him.
He stretched his limbs. It was time to cause trouble in his Modena City.
Shen Sui activated the Duel Instrument.
Soul Card World! Activate!
Isley Crowley used Life Burn on Alice. Alice was seriously injured and on the verge of death.
The Star Super Magic Array activated and used Revival on Alice. Alice regained her vitality.
Melchior Brin used Death Curse on Alice. Alice's life hung by a thread.
The Star Super Magic Array activated and used Revival on Alice. Alice regained her vitality.
The moment he opened the main page, Shen Sui was dumbfounded. In the brief time he had spent meeting Xin Yuan Tanchun, more than twenty alerts informing him that Alice was on the verge of death had appeared before his eyes.
Fuck!
Alice, what the hell had you run into?
Shen Sui scrolled for over a minute before he finally found information other than alerts about Alice dying.
Because Alice had caught the Spring Fish King Pai Jiade, she had become one of the High Priests of the Sinful Festival.
Her true strength—or rather, the apparent strength others saw—was only Tier 3. Thus, the moment she entered the City of Sin, countless factions came to test her. In just one day, Alice suffered more than twenty assassination attempts from various gangs, attacking from every possible angle.
Without exception, every assassination succeeded.
Shen Sui rubbed his eyes with a headache.
She could not keep relying on Revival like this.
In the game from his previous life, infinite Revival had been far too broken, so the developers later patched it. Once Revival had been used fifty times, it would trigger the descent of the Death Goddess.
This was originally a guaranteed-death punishment, but after the experts studied it, they discovered that the Death Goddess seemed killable?
And then the Death Goddess became the easiest god-tier boss to fight, because all you had to do was use Revival on yourself fifty times to summon her to your home.
And once the Death Goddess fell, Revival would no longer be a skill that could be used infinitely. The Star Super Magic Array would then be needed to reset its usage limit.
By now, nearly all the gods who were meant to revive on the Dawn Continent had already returned. Shen Sui estimated that, at Alice's rate of courting death, she would probably draw the Death Goddess here before long.
The Death Goddess was not particularly difficult to defeat. The question was whether she could be turned into a card.
As Shen Sui thought this, he continued scrolling down.
"Holy shit!" Shen Sui jumped to his feet the next second.
After dozens of consecutive Revivals, Alice had comprehended the true meaning of death. She would no longer fear death.
What the hell did she mean, she no longer feared death? That was the cheat I gave you! Calm down! People really die when they get killed!
Ding! You have obtained the Spell Card: Kiss of Death.
Good! Alice, that was an excellent realization! People should not fear death.
The miracle of returning from death made the criminals who worshipped Alice believe even more firmly that she was Drodell's Saintess. They swore their loyalty to Alice.
Ding! You have obtained the Spell Card: Win Over.
Alice obtained clues about Anna through her subordinates' intelligence network.
The gang that had taken Anna seemed to be preparing to begin a sacrifice.
Alice established the Pajia Gang. She began indiscriminately attacking the surrounding gangs, obstructing this hidden sacrifice.
Modena City fell into chaos. The gang shootouts added another layer of sin to this Sinful Festival.
Ding! You have obtained the Event Card: Chaos.
Event Card: A special type of card. Only one may exist on the field at any given time. Once activated, it remains in effect until its duration expires or it is replaced by another Event Card. It does not occupy a card slot and is unaffected by other card effects after activation.
****** Card Name: Chaos Category: Event Card Star Rating: 5 Stars Effect: Until the end of your third turn or until replaced by another Event Card, both sides' costs are halved, and both sides' follower Spirit Values are doubled. ******
An Event Card? What was that? Why did he feel like he had never heard of it before?
Shen Sui stared at the words on the screen and fell into brief silence. Still, it looked pretty powerful.
Also, I haven't even started causing trouble yet?
Alice, could you stop being so proactive?
Interspersed among these messages were numerous assassination attempts carried out by Modena City's underworld against Alice.
However, with Revival's support, Alice escaped danger every time.
Such miracles made the Pajia Gang believe even more firmly that Alice was the Saintess of Sin. Combined with her earlier crime of burning down the Church of the Lord of Thunder, Alice had become the hottest criminal in the City of Sin for a time.
Shen Sui finally reached the end.
He could not help but sigh. Was this really Alice, the country girl who had worried just months ago about whether she would have food for dinner?
What exactly had turned Alice into this?
Just then, another message lit up on the Duel Instrument:
Because the number of Revival uses had reached the warning threshold, Death Goddess Ariana had turned her gaze upon Alice.
She was here! My first god card!
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