Alice is Dying

Lin Ke'er waited anxiously at the entrance of the sports field. Most of the students from her class who participated in the card draw had already come out, but Shen Sui was nowhere to be seen for a long time.

Could something have happened?

The moment she thought of Shen Sui's insistence on choosing the Dawn Continent, Lin Ke'er had a bad feeling.

Could it be that the follower Shen Sui drew has already died unexpectedly?

If it was the Dawn Continent, then something like that really could happen! There was once a lucky but unlucky fellow who bravely chose the Dawn Continent as his Soul Card world. He drew a powerful 12th-tier follower, but before he even walked out of the card drawing room, his follower was struck dead by divine punishment from the sky.

By noon, the sports field of Fourth High School was almost empty. With only seven days to collect twenty cards, students couldn't afford to waste any time.

Lin Ke'er kept waiting and finally saw Shen Sui's figure behind the dark green wire fence.

"How did it go?" Lin Ke'er asked cautiously, afraid of touching Shen Sui's sore spot.

In her heart, she had already prepared the words to comfort Shen Sui.

If the duel exam doesn't work out, we still have the regular college entrance exam.

"I drew a very good follower card," Shen Sui said with a smile. He wasn't the type to deliberately hide his abilities even in front of people who cared about him.

"A magic apprentice? That's pretty good." Lin Ke'er looked at the happy Shen Sui and didn't say what was on her mind.

In the Dawn world, magic apprentices were the lowest level of existence. This card wasn't really a top-tier draw.

"The card effect seems really good!" When her gaze fell on Alice's effect description, her eyes suddenly lit up. Alice's effect was very powerful and could completely serve as the core of a deck. "I didn't expect a 1-star follower to have such a powerful effect!"

Normally they wouldn't, so I printed it myself.

Shen Sui thought silently.

"But don't get complacent," Lin Ke'er quickly said. "A powerful effect doesn't mean your follower themselves is powerful. The Dawn Continent is very dangerous. You need to guide your follower well and not let them get involved in those dangerous things."

"If I don't participate in events, I won't be able to get enough cards to form a deck," Shen Sui said.

This was why very few people chose this world. It was dangerous, but to avoid being directly disqualified, you had to make your follower engage in enough activities.

"As long as your Soul Card follower is alive, even if you don't pass the duel exam, you haven't completely lost the possibility of becoming a professional Fate Card Master," Lin Ke'er said very seriously. After seeing Shen Sui's Soul Card effect, she felt that Shen Sui had a complete possibility of becoming a professional Fate Card Master. "Your Soul Card follower is very powerful. There's no need to risk her life to participate in the duel exam. You can accumulate enough cards over time and then debut through amateur duel competitions, becoming a professional Fate Card Master through promotion matches..."

Shen Sui shook his head and said, "That's too slow."

He was currently penniless and could only live in the school dormitory. His food expenses for the past few days were sponsored by Lin Ke'er out of sympathy. But he couldn't rely on Lin Ke'er forever.

"I have my own plan, Teacher Lin," Shen Sui said very seriously.

Lin Ke'er didn't say anything more and handed Shen Sui the relevant information she had collected about the Dawn Continent, telling him to study it carefully.

Although there were few Fate Card Masters who chose the Dawn Continent as their Soul Card world, the world was so big that there was never a shortage of reckless people who didn't believe in evil. The information collected by Fate Card Masters at home and abroad combined roughly depicted the appearance of this world of divine warfare.

Shen Sui was also very curious about what had happened in this world in the nearly thousand years since his save file was deleted.

What he cared about most was Vivian's cause of death.

As a romance option in the game, Vivian's ideal was the main storyline of the Dawn Link Ragnarok route. This girl, who vowed to eliminate all gods in the world and shouted "There should be no gods above all living beings," was ultimately burned to death by the very people she saved.

What exactly happened in between? Vivian was the strongest person in the game besides him. In the mission to kill the Lord of the Blazing Sun, she alone held off three main gods without falling behind. What was it that made her willing to be burned to death?

With these questions in mind, Shen Sui returned to the dormitory. Considering Shen Sui's reclusive nature and mental issues, the school didn't dare to arrange a multi-person dormitory for him, so this eight-person dormitory actually only had Shen Sui in it. And next to the dormitory was the dorm supervisor's room. As long as Shen Sui returned to the dormitory, the dorm supervisor would come over to check on him every hour.

Shen Sui didn't feel anything about it. After all, the school was also afraid of Shen Sui getting into trouble again.

His main task now was to quickly grind out twenty cards to qualify for the duel exam.

Opening the duel device, Shen Sui found that when he wasn't looking at the duel device, Alice was still moving around on her own. This was also true; the current Dawn Continent was a real world, not a game, and there was no pause button.

[Alice finished harvesting an acre of wheat using magic, but when she turned back to look at the village, she found that the village was already engulfed in flames.]

[A group of vicious thugs attacked the village, killing all the men in the village. They gathered the women in the village, calling out the name of the evil god they believed in. They wanted to take these women to the City of Sin for sacrifice.]

[Alice hid in the grass and saw all of this. She saw her aunt crying in pain, saw the desperate eyes of her good friend Anna, but she was powerless because she was just a magic apprentice.]

[The leader of the thugs sensed someone peeking. He cast a second-tier spell: Death's Favor in Alice's direction.]

[Alice couldn't dodge and was hit by the spell, rolling down the hillside.]

[Alice was seriously injured and on the verge of death.]

Shen Sui's duel device immediately issued an alarm.

Holy crap! I only looked away for a moment, how did my follower end up on the verge of death???

Save her, save her!

Quickly save her!

Shen Sui immediately entered command text on the duel device.

[You appeared beside Alice. You cast a 15th-tier spell: Resurrection on Alice.]

[Ding! You obtained the spell card: Resurrection]

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Card Name: [Resurrection]

Category: Spell Card

Star Rating: 15 Stars

Effect: Target one follower in your graveyard and special summon it to your field.

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[Alice regained her vitality. She sat by the stream, thinking of her aunt's painful cries and Anna's despairing eyes. She began to weep. She was homeless, had lost all her friends, and was powerless to do anything.]

Excellent! This is the moment I've been waiting for!

Shen Sui immediately seized the opportunity and entered a command on the dueling device.

[You used a spell to enter Alice's mage ring. You made a sound, startling the grieving girl.]

[Oh, sorrowful maiden! Do you desire power?]

[Who are you?]

[I am the Twilight Bishop, Clyde Modena. I can help you fulfill your wishes and gain great power.]

[What do you want from me?]

[Alice was very cautious. Since she was a child, people had told her that nothing in the world is free, and all gifts have a price marked behind them.]

Hey, hey, hey! I'm giving you a cheat, and you're asking what I want?

Does giving a cheat need a purpose?

Shen Sui complained inwardly, but he knew this was the key to gaining Alice's trust, so he immediately replied:

[I was ambushed by my enemy and lost my body. I need you to help me collect materials to reshape my physical form. In exchange, I can grant you great power, and if necessary, I can also solve some troubles for you.]

This was a lie!

Shen Sui's character could actually move freely, but Alice was his Soul Card follower, and he didn't dare let her out of his sight.

In fact, with just the items in his backpack, Shen Sui was confident he could make Alice a not-so-weak mage. However, doing so wouldn't yield many cards for him.

Someone had researched this before: the weaker the drawn Soul Card follower, the more behavior-based spell cards they would gain as they gradually grew, and the higher the quality of the cards.

Of course, considering the survival rate of Soul Card followers, most people still hoped their Soul Card followers would be slightly stronger.

[Really? I don't believe you.]

"Damn it! Are you sick?! You don't even want a cheat?!" Shen Sui saw Alice's reply and jumped up in anger on the spot.