"The humans of this world are quite impressive." Vivian remarked as she gazed at the unfolding Duel Realm, "They've developed projection technology to this level."

On the Dawn Continent, Life Card Duel is merely a tabletop game based on cards. Although due to magic, there will be projections of Followers on the Life Cards, it's absolutely impossible to achieve the realistic special effects of the real world. The lifelike Followers and the immersive battle scenes are also one of the reasons why many people love watching Life Card Duels.

"Heh heh. Just so you know." Shen Sui shuffled his deck. In truth, inserting the deck into the Dueling Device would automatically shuffle the cards, but Shen Sui couldn't change his habit of shuffling his deck before a duel, "If you lose, it's not just a Life Card at stake."

Vivian smiled at Shen Sui: "Oh? You want to raise the stakes?"

"If you lose," Shen Sui pointed at Vivian and said, "then you must stay in this world."

Though standing before him was Vivian's Candlelight Illusion, it was the only channel of communication between Shen Sui and Vivian. Having found it with difficulty, Shen Sui couldn't let her escape.

"Ah, that shouldn't be a problem." Vivian replied casually, "Fortunately, I won't have to create another identity."

Vivian can descend onto her Candlelight Illusion anytime, making her original body the Candlelight Illusion.

This is also one of the reasons Shen Sui doesn't believe she can be killed.

"However." Vivian winked at Shen Sui, "Since it's a wager, I can't be the only one with stakes on the table. What are you wagering for this duel?"

"Uh..." Shen Sui hesitated.

"You're still the same, never wanting to take out the cards you've pocketed." Vivian's voice, tinged with temptation, reached Shen Sui's ears, "Then I won't take your cards."

"If you lose..."

Vivian smiled warmly at Shen Sui: "Then you'll have to wear a cat girl outfit."

"???"

Shen Sui froze: "No, I'm a guy..."

"A pink macho cat girl, it would definitely be amusing."

Vivian covered her mouth, giggling.

Damn!

Judging by Vivian's tone, she wasn't joking at all!

A drop of cold sweat trickled down Shen Sui's forehead.

"Then, let's begin!" Vivian raised her hand, lighting up her Dueling Device according to the knowledge and memories automatically filled into this identity by the world.

Shen Sui raised his right hand, and his Dueling Device lit up.

"Since that's the case, I absolutely cannot lose this duel!"

This was a duel where a man's dignity was at stake!

"I'll take the first move!"

Vivian glanced at her starting hand: "Don't be so confident."

"Paying 12 Soul Points, activating from my hand, Permanent Spell Card [Beast Taming Device for Young Beasts]."

Vivian directly placed her wager card for the duel onto the field.

A modern production line device slowly moved in Vivian's Magic Area.

"Then, paying 3 Soul Points, a normal summon from my hand, [Fantasy Beast Little Tea Pot]."

What appeared on Vivian's field was a teapot-shaped ghost.

Fantasy Beast...

Well, Vivian's current identity is the heir of the An Family, so using a Beast Taming Card Set is logical.

"By the way, how did you get this deck?" Shen Sui asked curiously.

Without specialized cultivation, forming a cohesive deck is very difficult, even for a Beast Taming Card Set, gathering enough Life Cards of the same archetype is quite challenging.

Vivian said, "As long as the setup I write for this identity is reasonable enough, the world will spontaneously fill in the missing parts of my setup."

At this point, Vivian waved her hand cards and said, "The setup for this identity is a seventh-tier Life Card Master with the strength of a nine-tier Life Card Master, also the heir of the An Family, and still enjoys wagering duels with others, a little witch, so the world provided me a Beast Taming Card Set."

Watching Vivian's proud expression, Shen Sui felt stifled.

Working hard to open doors for others, painstakingly accumulating a decent deck, while Vivian just needs to set up a character to effortlessly complete this task.

This huge gap between effort and reward left Shen Sui extremely envious.

But what can be done?

Vivian's Candlelight Illusion is just such a buggy ability.

After all, it's the embodiment of Twilight, one of the four Origin Powers of the Dawn Continent.

Thinking about it, White Day and Star Night, who also have Origin Power, are the two most challenging among the Dawn Gods, and Shen Sui could fully understand.

Vivian raised her hand, activating the effect of the Follower Card on her field: "Activating Little Tea Pot's effect, when it is normally summoned successfully, I draw one card from the deck."

Then, the selection device on Vivian's field activated. Vivian returned a card from her hand to the deck and made a draw.

The top card of the deck was revealed.

[Fantasy Beast Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed].

"According to the effect of my Permanent Spell Card on the field, I Special Summon [Fantasy Beast Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed] to my field!"

Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed was a divine horse with four legs adorned with white clouds, its noble and majestic demeanor rivaling the Golden Ship.

The 8-star, 3000 Spirit Value frame is by no means weak.

"Then, the effect of Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed." Vivian immediately activated the effect of the newly summoned Follower, "Once per turn, pay half Life Value to select a [Fantasy Beast] Follower from my deck to Special Summon!"

[An Wei, Life Value 6000→3000]

"Come forth!"

"My strongest familiar!"

Vivian spread out her deck and directly special summoned: "Special Summon! [Fantasy Beast · Spirit of Imagination]!"

With the activation of Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed's effect, Vivian once again returned a card from her hand to the deck.

The top card of the deck was revealed.

This time it wasn't a Beast Follower but a Spell Card.

According to the Beast Taming Device for Young Beasts' effect, Vivian added this Spell Card to her hand.

Shen Sui looked at the Soul Card mark on the Spirit of Imagination: "Soul Cards can automatically match your identity as well? Isn't this from another world..."

Vivian laughed: "You seem to have some misconception about the Candlelight Illusion. As long as it connects with my illusion, everything will be rationalized."

"That's truly a broken ability," Shen Sui couldn't help but comment.

Indeed, if not for this ability, the Twilight Saintess wouldn't be recognized as the most challenging character to conquer by players in the game. If you missed the point of acquaintance with the Twilight Saintess, you could never discern whether the person you encounter is the true body of the Twilight Saintess.

This was also why Shen Sui started a separate chapter for Vivian.

It was truly indecipherable, absolutely indecipherable.

"Activate the effect of my Spirit of Imagination on the field." Vivian pointed to her Spirit of Imagination, "Once per turn, discard a card from my hand to activate, then choose a Spell Card from my hand to set on the field."

Vivian set a card on the field.

With the activation of the Spirit of Imagination's effect, the effect of the Young Beast Device activated, and Vivian returned her last card to the deck and then made a judgment.

The Life Card was revealed.

[Fantasy Beast · Jade]

A white, soft, and round form was specially summoned.

"End of my turn." Vivian swiftly ended her turn.

Not to mention that An Wei herself was already endowed with strong dueling capabilities in the setting, Vivian's Life Card Duel skills were paralleled with Shen Sui's, making for a seamless combo.

"My turn! Draw a card."

Shen Sui, of course, didn't waste words; the two of them had dueled quite a bit in the game, even if this was in reality, they had an unexpectedly high level of coordination.

"Spend 2 Soul Points to set a Spell Card."

"Spend 7 Soul Points to set a Spell Card."

Shen Sui started by setting two cards and then drew a card from his hand, saying:

"Spend 2 Soul Points to activate from my hand, Spell Card [Multi-Link Frenzied Fireball Technique]!"

The effect of the Frenzied Fireball Technique was activated, randomly choosing three followers on the field as targets, reducing their Spirit Value by 500.

The Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed, Little Tea Pot, and Spirit of Imagination became the targets of this Fireball.

Cloud-Stepping Purple Steed, Spirit Value 3000→2500.

Spirit of Imagination, Spirit Value 2400→1900.

Little Tea Pot, Spirit Value 950→450.

"Activate the effect of [Multi-Link Frenzied Fireball Technique]," Shen Sui shouted, "Pay half of my Life Value to activate its effect again!"

{Shen Sui, Life Value 6000→3000}

The effect of the Frenzied Fireball Technique activated once more.

Spirit of Imagination's Spirit Value fell to 1400.

Jade's Spirit Value fell to 1100.

Little Tea Pot's Spirit Value fell to 0.

With the explosion of the Fireball Technique, Little Tea Pot was destroyed.

Yet Shen Sui wasn't done: "Activate the effect of [Multi-Link Frenzied Fireball Technique]! By spending all Soul Points, I can activate its effect once more!"

The effect of the Frenzied Fireball Technique was activated again.

This time, Vivian only had three followers left on the field, hence there wasn't much need to elaborate on the random outcome; however, since the Spirit Values of these three followers were still sufficient, this time the Multi-Link Fireball Technique didn't trigger follower destruction; even when activated once more, it wouldn't result in any follower destruction since the lowest Spirit Value on Vivian's field was 1100, enough to withstand another fireball.

Even so, Shen Sui didn't hesitate and directly activated the final Multi-Link Frenzied Fireball Technique.

He discarded all his hand cards, causing the Spirit Value of the three followers on Vivian's field to drop by 500.

The lowest Spirit Value of the [Fantasy Beast · Jade] directly dropped to 100.

"And then." Shen Sui opened the graveyard, finally revealing his true purpose.

Among the three discarded cards was [Malicious Puppet Natasha].

Shen Sui had no opening play and was relying on discarding Natasha.

Although he could achieve his purpose through summoning and releasing, if Vivian had a Life Card that could bounce the Malicious Puppet back, he wouldn't be able to continue.

Of course, if Vivian had a Graveyard-specific effect, Shen Sui would have no recourse.

"Activate the effect of [Malicious Puppet Natasha] in the graveyard, send three Puppet Follower Cards from my deck to the graveyard to activate, and choose a Spell Card from my deck to activate!"

"I choose to activate! Spell Card..."

"Cute and Pass!"

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