Ariana sensed the aura of the Star Super Magic Array, and she recalled someone.
Hurry, hurry, hurry! We can't let her get away!
Shen Sui quickly entered a command.
You sensed Ariana's gaze and looked back at her.
"Greetings to you, esteemed Twilight Bishop."
A petite girl in a black robe, holding a scythe, appeared behind you and humbly offered you her highest respect.
She was Death Goddess Ariana, the most majestic deity on the Dawn Continent.
???
How had Ariana become a little girl? Didn't he remember Ariana being famous in the game for having huge boobs? Even in certain games, they would have counted as an average size.
You expressed doubt over Ariana's current state.
"To revive you, Vivian cut away half of my Godhead."
Ariana's answer left Shen Sui briefly silent.
Vivian?
How had Vivian died?
"The one she loved left her, and the people she saved betrayed her. She died in despair."
"However, if it is you, then you truly can revive Miss Vivian. After nearly a thousand years of legends, Twilight Saintess Vivian has become a mythological totem. So long as you ignite her Godhead, she will be reborn as a deity."
Revive her?
Seeing that Vivian could be revived, Shen Sui was genuinely tempted for a few seconds.
But in the next moment, his expression darkened.
Vivian Imiti had spent her entire life striving to eradicate the gods of the Dawn Continent.
Deifying her would undoubtedly be killing Vivian all over again.
How vicious of you, Ariana!
Ariana sensed your fury and fearfully admitted her mistake.
"This was all Bargus's scheme."
Ariana revealed the mastermind behind it all.
"Please do not kill me. I can become the nail you drive into the gods."
Ariana pledged her loyalty to you.
Ding! You have obtained Follower Card: Death Goddess Ariana.
It was here! A divine card!
I can summon card waifus too!
Ding! Your Soul Card rank is too low. You cannot extract this Follower Card. Please raise your Soul Card rank.
???
There was a restriction like this too? Shen Sui could not quite understand it.
No one had ever told him that a Soul Card rank that was too low would prevent him from extracting high-rank Follower Cards. Hadn't extracting Revival been perfectly normal?
Unwilling to give up, Shen Sui could only inspect Ariana's card art to satisfy his craving.
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Card Name: Death Goddess Ariana Category: Follower Card Stars: 15 Stars Effect: This Follower Card can only be normally summoned by releasing three Followers on the field. This Follower Card is unaffected by the effects of other cards, and this Follower Card's effects cannot be chained by the effects of other cards. ① While this Follower Card exists on the field, you cannot perform a normal summon or special summon from your deck or hand. At the start of your Main Phase, if your opponent controls more Followers than you do, you may special summon one Follower from your graveyard to the field and activate this effect: your opponent chooses one Follower on their field and sends it to the graveyard; ② While this Follower Card exists on the field, when a card effect would cause a Life Card to leave either player's graveyard, you may choose and activate one of the following effects: 〇 Discard one Follower Card from your hand to activate: negate the activation of that effect; 〇 Send one Follower Card from your deck to the graveyard to activate: resolve that effect one additional time. ③ This Follower Card's Spirit Value is always equal to the number of Follower Cards in both players' graveyards ×800. Spirit Value: ???
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Hiss—
As expected of a divine card. It was utterly terrifying.
Damn, I want it so badly!
Shen Sui touched the screen with reddened eyes, yet could not make "obtaining this card" a reality no matter what he did.
Alice, pull yourself together!
Shen Sui could not contain his frustration and decided to push Alice harder from now on.
She had been a mage for over a month, yet she was still only a Tier 3 Mage? Too weak! She needed proper motivation!
With a trace of disappointment at her failure to live up to expectations, Shen Sui once again checked on Alice's movements.
The muddy waters Alice had stirred up finally settled somewhat as time passed, and the situation in Modena City gradually became clearer.
The Pajia Gang expanded savagely and annexed a large number of smaller gangs. In an extremely short time, it had begun to show signs of becoming the number one gang in Modena City.
Alice did not care about the consequences of such brutal expansion. She had not come here to build a career.
Alice had only ever had one goal: rescue Anna.
Seeing this, Shen Sui could not help admiring Alice. Though she was always causing trouble for him, her resistance to temptation far exceeded his expectations.
Oshana had once invited her, and if Alice had accepted, she could have lived a comfortable life.
And now, after building the formidable Pajia Gang in such a short time, she should theoretically have been enjoying limitless glory as well.
Yet Alice was not driven by the desires before her. She continued moving toward the goal in her heart.
She really was a lot like Vivian in that way.
Shen Sui thought to himself.
You appeared and warned Alice of the dangers of Revival.
Alice was delighted by your awakening, and you warned her of the threat of death.
Alice learned why she was still alive. Your aid made her even more certain that those vicious rumors about the Twilight Bishop were false.
No, in a certain sense, they were not false. During the first playthrough, he seemed to have done plenty of inhumane things.
Shen Sui was glad that the save file which had crossed over with him was from the second playthrough.
Still, Alice's faith in him moved Shen Sui deeply.
Alice abandoned her plan to visit Modena Clock Tower—it was rumored to be where the Twilight Bishop had XX〇〇'd the elven Empress.
Fuck! Alice! Give my trust back!
"If I lure out the Death Goddess through frequent Revivals, and then you kill her, will no one ever die again?" Alice raised the question eagerly.
What are you trying to do?! Shen Sui stared wide-eyed at the screen.
You're only Tier 3! How do you dare think something like that?
Death was a law. Gods were merely extraordinary beings who had stolen authority over that law. Death would not disappear just because the Death Goddess fell.
In Dawn Link, the strongest boss was only level 159, while players could reach level 169. At that level, players could already do whatever they pleased in the game world. And since it was a single-player game, the developers did not need to consider how to limit players in the late game.
Dawn Link: JRPG in the early game, farming and management in the midgame, mowing down hordes in the late game.
I'm already max level, and you still won't let me have fun?
Just how strong were max-level players? The cheats the game gave players were so absurd that even cheat developers could not compare. As a result, every cheat resource for the game ended up being used to make ghs mods.
However, although Shen Sui possessed that strength, he was not currently on the Dawn Continent. His own power could not be directly turned into real-world wealth. He had to realize its value through Alice's growth.
Alice, grow stronger quickly!
Shen Sui rubbed his hands together, his eyes fixed tightly on the screen.
The growth of a Soul Card was absolutely beneficial to a Soul Card Master. Many Soul Card Masters whose first draw gave them a powerful Soul Card were sometimes worse off than those whose first draw gave them a beginner Soul Card. That was because the growth process of a Soul Card could produce many Form Shift Cards. The more forms a Soul Card had, the more possibilities you had in a duel.
Soul Card Duels had no Fusion Summoning, no Synchro Summoning, no Xyz Summoning, and no Pendulum Summoning. Because the rules had no Extra Deck, Soul Card Duels had fewer possibilities for miracles than Yu-Gi-Oh!.
Form Shifts were the supplement to those miraculous possibilities.
Sometimes, a certain form of a Soul Card could bring about a miracle and instantly turn the tide of a duel.
Therefore, even though he had the ability, Shen Sui had no intention of directly interfering with Alice's growth. He needed Alice to fully unleash her potential, create more miracles on the Dawn Continent, and bring him more Form Shift Cards.
What he needed to do was protect Alice's life when necessary. And make sure she did not go astray.
Just like raising a daughter.
As Shen Sui sighed to himself, he checked Alice's latest movements.
Alice activated In God's Name.
Alice delivered a speech.
Alice launched a war against the Church of the God of Sin.
Wait! Alice! I only looked away for a moment—what are you doing again?!
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