"My turn for the first move."

Both parties acted extremely quickly, without any unnecessary chatter. After all, they had privately exchanged plenty of pre-match banter, and there was no need to perform just to please the audience.

The first move belonged to Shen Sui.

For Shen Sui, this was a major advantage.

Xinyuan Tanchun's deck nature meant she would definitely summon Isabella in the first turn, otherwise this match would become very difficult for her. In this formal event, the probability of Xinyuan Tanchun summoning Isabella in the first turn was one hundred percent!

This could no longer simply be attributed to her good luck.

Xinyuan Tanchun had clearly awakened; she had found the dueling style most suited for her.

For a Life Card Master, this kind of awakening is a transformation that can instantly elevate your dueling strength by several levels.

"Pay 5 Soul Points to normally summon from my hand, [Pure White Holy Steed Golden Ship]."

"Activate the effect of [Pure White Holy Steed Golden Ship]. Once per turn, during your main phase, I can draw a card from the deck."

Shen Sui activated the Golden Ship's initial effect, drew a card from the deck, and revealed it.

Since this card was not [Magic Apprentice Alice], Shen Sui could special summon [Magic Apprentice Alice] from the deck.

"Then!" Shen Sui immediately paid the cost to perform a form transformation on Alice on the field, "Pay 5 Soul Points to transform the form of [Magic Apprentice Alice] on my field!"

"Form Transformation!"

In Shen Sui's mind, he quickly ran through the star levels of all followers in the deck.

The search effect of [Pure White Holy Steed Golden Ship] was indeed powerful; every time Alice undergoes a form transformation, it can special summon a follower from the deck.

However, the special summoned follower is restricted by Alice's star level.

And since at this time, Alice's rank wasn't high, just barely at the sixth level, there weren't too many followers Shen Sui could specially summon.

The highest 6-star follower was only Oshana.

The star level with the most followers was 5-star.

Besides the Golden Ship itself being a 5-star, all the initial Puppet followers are 5-star followers.

Then there's Hali.

Meanwhile, Alice's 5-star forms have three in total.

[Red Lotus Fire Alice].

[Gem Merchant Alice].

[Ghost Cold Flame Alice].

Shen Sui certainly wasn't foolish enough to transform Alice into Gem Merchant in his main phase, that would only restrict himself.

Shen Sui raised his hand, and pale flames rose from Alice's body.

Form Transformation! [Ghost Cold Flame Alice].

"Due to the effect of the Golden Ship, [Magic Apprentice Alice]; when leaving the field I must activate, placing one card from my hand on the top of the deck."

Since further search and special summoning were needed next, Shen Sui placed one of his least important hand cards back, then activated another effect of the Golden Ship allowing Shen Sui to special summon a 5-star follower from the deck.

"Special Summon from my deck! [Armed Puppet Soya]."

With Shen Sui's call, [Armed Puppet Soya] appeared on the field.

"Activate the effect of [Ghost Cold Flame Alice] on my field." Shen Sui once again activated the effect of Ghost Cold Flame. "Once per turn, pay 2000 Life Value to activate, discard one card from the opponent's hand. If the discarded Life Card is a Spell Card, both players each discard a card."

Against Xinyuan Tanchun's style of player, a preemptive hand elimination was very effective in the first move.

If her searched special summoned Life Card gets sent to the graveyard, it could potentially cut off her search methods entirely.

This is why Shen Sui had to first transform into Ghost Cold Flame form.

Shen Sui's Life Value dropped from 6000 to 4000.

He raised his hand and chose a card from Xinyuan Tanchun's hand.

The card was discarded to the graveyard.

[True Ancestor of Vampires Isabella]...

"???", Shen Sui was immediately filled with question marks.

And Xinyuan Tanchun was quite pleased: "Thanks for the help! Shen Sui!"

Damn it!

Shen Sui was filled with regret.

How could he have known, Xinyuan Tanchun's luck would be so bad today, drawing Isabella right at the start.

Isabella can only be special summoned from the deck by a [Vampire] follower.

This meant that if this follower card was in the hand, and there weren't good ways to return her to the deck, it's a dead hand.

In reality, not everyone is like Shen Sui who can modify effects to some extent, so naturally, it's impossible to easily encounter those precisely fitting effects.

Although Xinyuan Tanchun's deck had similar effect Life Cards, there were only a few, and none were in her hand. Initially, she was worried about how to return Isabella from the initial hand back to the deck, not expecting Shen Sui to send it to the grave so conveniently.

That was just perfect!

The means of returning from hand to deck are limited.

But the means of returning from the graveyard to the deck are plenty!

Shen Sui had watched many of Xinyuan Tanchun's duels before, and he knew the composition of his coach's deck well.

If his previous plan was to find every way possible to prevent her from special summoning Isabella from the deck, now, Shen Sui's plan was to prevent Xinyuan Tanchun from returning Isabella to the deck.

He immediately altered his original plan.

"Then! Pay 4 Soul Points to activate from my hand, the Spell Card [Fearless in Crisis]."

"Destroy one follower card on my field to activate, allowing me to set two Spell Cards from my hand to the Magic Area."

"Destroy [Armed Puppet Soya] on my field."

Due to executing the effect of [Fearless in Crisis], the destroyed Soya couldn't activate her effect to return [Fearless in Crisis] to the hand.

But her other effect can be triggered!

"When Soya leaves the field! Activate her effect. I can select one follower card on the field with multiple forms to perform a form transformation!"

Shen Sui pointed at Alice.

"I choose to transform Alice into [Witch of Destruction's Truth Hozerville]!"

As the flames rose, a girl standing in front of a burning building appeared in the audience's view.

And Zhang Fang, who was watching the match, dropped the coin he was twirling from his hand.

Witch of Destruction's Truth Hozerville?

No, don't even say anything else, the [Roland Empire Magic Academy] sign is still in that backdrop!

Before, we only speculated but didn't dare think Shen Sui's Soul Card was linked to the notorious Witch Hozerville because Shen Sui's Soul Card's rank didn't match the deeds of that infamous witch.

Lack of strength, no one dared to believe these two were the same person.

But now, it's confirmed!

Shen Sui's Soul Card is indeed the one who recently burned the Roland Magic Academy!

The most powerful and malevolent witch of Dawn Continent:

Alois Yimiti Hozerville!

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