Shen Sui's Puppet Rhapsody

Shen Sui had been thinking for a long time about how to quickly replenish Follower Cards.

The way Follower Cards were obtained naturally led to a certain threshold for acquiring them.

In some ordinary Soul Card worlds, you wouldn't even know where to capture followers that could become Follower Cards. However, without enough Follower Cards, it was easy to have an empty field and be seized upon by the opponent for a devastating attack.

This led many Soul Card Masters to deliberately guide Soul Card followers in the Soul Card world to find ways to obtain Follower Cards.

Some even guided Soul Card followers into pure battle maniacs, initiating wars or fighting fiercely, and obtaining Follower Cards by capturing enemies.

However, Shen Sui didn't need to be so drastic. He got inspiration from those sci-fi Soul Card worlds.

In sci-fi Soul Card worlds, Soul Card followers creating or buying robots could also become Follower Cards. So why not learn from them and have Alice create her own "robots" in the Dawn Continent?

So, within the worldview of the Dawn Continent, what things were similar in concept to "robots"?

The [Lucky Puppet Shali] card that Xin Yuan Ying Xue gave Shen Sui gave him inspiration.

Yes, puppets!

They could be made, given life, and naturally become Follower Cards.

In the game in his previous life, Shen Sui had used the magic of [Puppet Creation] to bypass the third condition for the arrival of the evil god by creating a large number of Sacrifice Puppets, thus successfully farming materials without any moral pressure.

You say you need to sacrifice the lives of a city.

Well, if a city is full of puppets, that's perfectly reasonable, right?

What? You say puppets aren't life?

That's discrimination! A puppet's life is also a life!

[Under your guidance, Alice began making puppets using materials.]

[Alice had been sewing cloth dolls for blessings since she was a child, and her craftsmanship was excellent. Beautiful and exquisite cloth dolls filled the room Alice rented.]

[Anna sat there, quietly watching Alice work, not reacting even when she was buried by the cloth dolls.]

[Alice completed the creation of one hundred cloth dolls.]

[Alice named them Aida.]

[You activated "Puppet Creation" on the cloth dolls on the ground.]

[Ding! You obtained Follower Card: Sacrifice Puppet Aida]

[Ding! You obtained Spell Card: Puppet Creation]

Shen Sui saw the appearance of the [Sacrifice Puppet Aida] in the Soul Card slot. The card showed a large number of cute cloth dolls with small bodies and cheerful smiles. With their blonde hair and blue eyes, they were clearly made by Alice in her own image.

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Card Name: [Sacrifice Puppet Aida]

Category: Follower Card

Star Rating: 5 Stars

Effect: ① This effect can only be activated once per duel. When this follower is successfully Normal Summoned or Special Summoned, generate one [Sacrifice Puppet] Token (5 stars, 0 Spirit Value) in each empty space in your follower zone;

② Can be activated when you use a Soul Card. Tribute this follower or its tokens on the field to reduce the Soul Points paid for using the Soul Card by X. (X is the number of [Sacrifice Puppets] on the field × 3).

Spirit Value: 0

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Okay, one Follower Card could be used as five Follower Cards. And this effect was worthy of the title of Sacrifice Puppet.

What Shen Sui modified was to add an extra effect to this card:

"③ When this follower or its tokens are destroyed by battle, if there is a [Sacrifice Puppet] on the field, the battle damage you receive is 0."

Soul Card duels had battle damage, but there was no concept of defense position. A Spirit Value of 0 was too dangerous; you could easily be caught off guard and defeated by the opponent.

It was a pity that the star rating of this card was not high enough, otherwise Shen Sui would have wanted to directly immune battle damage. At this time, he had to add the restriction that there must be a [Sacrifice Puppet] on the field.

As puppets specifically used in the game to replace living beings for sacrifice rituals, Sacrifice Puppets directly replaced the number of sacrifices required for the ritual.

That is, no matter how many sacrifices the ritual required, you only needed one Sacrifice Puppet, and it would self-replicate until the requirement was met.

After finishing the Sacrifice Puppets, Alice's work was not over, because she had to make three medium puppets to absorb the evil god's power according to Shen Sui's request.

This was, of course, Shen Sui's lie. Absorbing the evil god's power would not improve him, but it had an extra wonderful use, related to Shen Sui's plan to create the first terminal follower for this deck.

The requirements for these three medium puppets were very high. Alice spent a lot of effort and finally completed them with Anna's help.

Since they had not yet been activated by the evil god's power, these three medium puppets had not yet given birth to Follower Cards.

[Alice stretched her tired limbs. She saw that there were still many unused materials on the ground.]

[To avoid failure due to clumsy hands and lack of materials, Alice had purchased a lot of extra backups, which were now unused.]

There are still materials?

Shen Sui's mind stirred. Excellent! Let's make two more puppets.

[You suggested using these materials to make two more puppets as a gift to Alice, as a thank you for her help this time.]

[Alice's eyes lit up.]

[She only made a Sacrifice Puppet in her own image, so she wanted to make a puppet in Anna's image as well. Hmm! And Oshana!]

Uh, what are you doing...

[With your help, Alice quickly finished making the remaining two puppets.]

[You used "Puppet Creation" to give them different functions.]

The next moment, an editing box popped up in front of Shen Sui. Alice had already named the latter half of the card names: one was called Jamie, and the other was called Soya.

Due to material limitations, they were only 5-star, just like the Sacrifice Puppet.

So, this meant Shen Sui had to edit the card entries himself.

Give them different functions?

In the Dawn Continent, puppets created by the magic of [Puppet Creation] have different functions.

Sacrifice Puppets are used to replace sacrifices. Besides that, there are Substitute Dolls for saving one's life, Armed Dolls for assisting in combat, Maid Dolls for taking care of daily life, and Training Dolls for practicing various skills. (Training Dolls are set up to practice various skills. The developers once mentioned in the illustration book that noble young masters often used them to practice XX techniques. Of course, this sentence was predictably deleted in a certain update.)

The latter two were not very important to Alice at the moment, so Shen Sui chose the first two and assigned them.

[Ding! You have obtained Follower Card: Substitute Doll · Jamie]

[Ding! You have obtained Follower Card: Armed Doll · Soya]

The next moment, a pop-up window for modifying card effects appeared, meaning he had to edit the effects himself.

Holy crap?

Shen Sui suddenly discovered a new continent.

This was way more convenient than grinding for favorability points or catching magic beasts in the wild.

It's decided! I'll give Alice the form of a Puppet Mage, then control seven puppets and call them the Seven Warlords of the Rose...

What the hell is this?

Shen Sui patted his head, deciding to clear his mind. Just these few 5-star puppets had already used up the precious Magic Crystals he had collected in Pa Yin Jia Lake (Alice sold ordinary gems, Isabella's ruby was already the most special). If he really wanted to achieve the wish of having powerful puppets, even opening all his storage boxes wouldn't be enough.

Because as the only mechanism in the game where you could customize your wife, the material cost for puppets was extremely expensive. The Mother Stone, which could give puppets their own life, was even an in-app purchase item that required charging money.

And Shen Sui was a zero-Krypton player.