Shen Sui activated the effect of [Junior Mage Alice]. When she appears due to form transformation, a spell card is chosen from the deck and added to the hand.
Immediately, Shen Sui drew a spell card [Puppet Creation] from the deck.
Activating the effect of [Puppet Creation], during this turn, discard a card from your hand and add [Sacrificial Puppet Ada] from the deck to your hand.
Because of the activation of [Puppet Creation], Shen Sui activated Alice's Magic Seeker form effect, switching Alice's form to Magic Seeker.
Then, due to form transformation, the effect of the Golden Ship was triggered. Shen Sui special summoned a 6-star follower from the deck with the same level as the Magic Seeker.
After strengthening the follower card once, Shen Sui's deck no longer only had Oshana as the only 6-star follower.
He special summoned [Spiritual Life: Fallen Bear] from the deck.
Fallen Bear has a self-restraining effect upon special summoning; all multi-form follower cards on the field must undergo a form transformation.
Now it was the first move of the turn, and the only multi-form follower on the field was Shen Sui's Alice.
Shen Sui immediately switched Alice to [Spiritual Embracer Alice].
This was the new form Alice acquired when she accidentally entered the Spiritual World. Of course, Shen Sui would have preferred [Spiritual Savior Alice], but unfortunately, this form couldn't be obtained without completing a task.
[Spiritual Embracer Alice] is one of the few forms of Alice that can be combined with other fields, and the field it cooperates with is naturally the [Spiritual] followers.
As long as [Spiritual Embracer Alice] is on the field, the release of [Spiritual] followers grants double soul points, and when a [Spiritual] follower is released, Shen Sui can draw a card from the deck.
When Alice hadn't created a stack of spiritual entities to give Shen Sui a massive pile of [Spiritual] follower cards, this form seemed ordinary, even somewhat weak.
But now, this form is the strongest means Shen Sui has to gain resources within the turn.
As long as Alice in this form is on the field, Shen Sui can basically start spinning the gyroscope without consuming resources.
Unfortunately, Shen Sui doesn't have much of a decent endgame in hand right now, otherwise, he would probably let his opponent taste the power of the blockade type.
Due to the occurrence of form transformation, the effect of the Golden Ship is triggered. Shen Sui opens the deck and special summons an 8-star follower [Spiritual Life: Destiny Blue Dragon].
2-star [Spiritual Life: Moonlight Fox], 3-star [Spiritual Life: Destiny Ring Snake], 5-star [Spiritual Life: Radiant Lion], 6-star [Spiritual Life: Fallen Bear], 6-star [Spiritual Life: Star Rabbit], 8-star [Spiritual Life: Destiny Blue Dragon], these are all the spiritual followers in Shen Sui's deck enhancement this time.
The effect of Destiny Blue Dragon, when special summoned, randomly places two spell cards from the deck under it. When it's released, the controller can choose to cover these two spell cards or add them to the hand, and the spell card added to the hand in this way will have its usage cost halved.
Of course, the stacked spell cards are public knowledge, so even if they are covered, the opponent knows what cards are covered.
Golden Ship, Alice, Moonlight Fox, Fallen Bear, Destiny Blue Dragon.
Shen Sui has already filled his field in an instant.
This kind of development is rare in the explosive domestic Life Card Duel environment, with such a high efficiency.
Kotov finally restrained his dismissive expression. Although Shen Sui's field doesn't show overly strong posture now, a deck with such efficiency is definitely not weak and worth taking seriously.
"Interesting." Kotov's lips curled up, "It seems you're well-prepared."
This duel has also attracted a group of spectators.
Because there's been essentially no suspense in high-end domestic Life Card Duels in recent years, many spectators have formed the habit of watching international matches.
Thus, Kotov was quickly recognized by someone.
At the same time, Shen Sui was also recognized by someone.
The duel between the former U.S. professional champion and the current domestic hot newcomer immediately attracted a large gathering of spectators.
"Holy shit! Has the God of Age's deck been strengthened again?" someone exclaimed in disbelief, "Why do I see him constantly pulling out new cards?"
"Not just that!" another person shouted loudly, "The fact that his Soul Card, Alice, has a new form is the most terrifying thing!"
"Wait...Spiritual followers, isn't that the field from Soul Card World No. 6?" someone discovered the point of interest, "Why is it in the God of Age's hands? Isn't the God of Age from the Magical Soul Card World?"
"With thirty-three Soul Card Worlds, there's no rule saying that only World No. 6 can have the [Spiritual] field, right? What if it's a world that's 100% Spiritual?"
"Damn! Are you crossing universes?"
While the audience was discussing fervently, Shen Sui's turn continued. The speed of the Golden Ship's gyroscope spinning was simply too fast, resulting in several summoned followers not yet having activated their effects.
Fortunately, he deliberately modified some of the followers' effects; otherwise, their effects would most likely clash with the timing of the Golden Ship's effect cards.
Shen Sui activated the effect of [Spiritual Life: Destiny Blue Dragon], randomly stacking two spell cards from the deck.
[Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price] and [Opinion Inquiry].
Both are very powerful backfield counter cards.
However, Shen Sui didn't rush to liberate the Destiny Blue Dragon to set these two cards, but instead activated the effect of the Fallen Bear first.
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Card Name: [Spiritual Life: Fallen Bear]
Star Level: 6 Stars
Effect: ① Must activate when this follower is specially summoned, causing all multi-form followers on both sides of the field to undergo a form transformation;
② Once per turn during your turn, you can draw X cards, then select the same number of cards from your hand and stack them under this follower. (X is the number of [Spiritual] followers on both sides of the field)
③ Must activate when this follower leaves the field, stacked materials return to the deck instead of going to the graveyard.
Spirit Value: 0
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In the form of the Spiritual Embracer, Alice also belongs to the [Spiritual] category, so Shen Sui got a satisfying draw, pulling four cards from the deck, and then chose four cards to stack under the Fallen Bear.
Although due to the effect of the Fallen Bear, he couldn't send its stacked materials to the graveyard, for Shen Sui, it was effectively a big balance of drawing four and discarding four, which was overwhelmingly profitable.
After finishing the Fallen Bear's effect, Shen Sui then liberated the Destiny Blue Dragon, setting two spell cards into the magic area. At the same time, according to the effect of the Spiritual Embracer Alice, Shen Sui restored 16 Soul Points and drew a card.
Shen Sui liberated the Fallen Bear, restoring 12 Soul Points, and then drew a card.
Finally, Shen Sui liberated the Moonlight Fox, and while restoring 4 Soul Points, drew another card.
After this wave of recovery, Shen Sui's originally depleted Soul Points unexpectedly reached 32 points.
The star level of the Moonlight Fox is not high, and the stacked materials are far less than those of other Spiritual Lives, but this follower has a special summoning effect on the field. This can allow Shen Sui to potentially modify powerful follower cards later on, adding a seemingly restrictive self-restriction to enhance the effect strength of the follower card.
For example, granting it the restriction that it cannot be specially summoned from the deck or graveyard, then using the Moonlight Fox to stack onto the field and liberate to special summon it.
Currently, Shen Sui's deck doesn't have such a follower, and the Moonlight Fox's special summoning does not ignore any summoning conditions. Therefore, Shen Sui settled for the next best thing and specially summoned the Holy Child Elf Aina. Using Aina's effect, he revealed a card from his hand, then searched the deck for a Life Card of the same type.
He revealed a Follower Card, so Shen Sui searched his deck for [Spiritual Life: Radiant Lion].
Then Shen Sui activated the effect of the Radiant Lion from his hand, stacking [Cursed Puppet: Natasha] and [Substitute Puppet: Jamie] from the deck, and special summoning them.
"Liberate [Spiritual Life: Radiant Lion]." Shen Sui without hesitation liberated the just summoned Radiant Lion, exchanging it for 10 Soul Points and a card.
And as the stacking materials of the Radiant Lion, the Cursed Puppet and the Substitute Puppet successfully entered the graveyard.
This way, Shen Sui smoothly transitioned from the [Spiritual] axis to the [Puppet] axis. However, he didn't rush to activate the effect of the Cursed Puppet, but instead activated the effect of the Substitute Puppet, removing it from the graveyard to select a multi-form follower from the deck and add it to his hand.
Shen Sui added [Elf Empress: Freymia] to his hand.
"Activate the effect of [Queen of Dragons: Qishala] in my hand."
Shen Sui drew Qishala, which he just added to his hand, and activated her Queen of Dragons form. Without a [Dragon] follower on the field, he special summoned her onto the field.
Activated Qishala's effect, summoning two 10-star Dragon Race derivatives.
Without a moment's pause, he liberated the two Dragon Race derivatives, exchanging them for 20 Soul Points, bringing Shen Sui's costs to 62 Soul Points.
"What the hell! What kind of number is this? Is this a Soul Points gauge?" Among the spectators, Life Card Masters attending this event began to appear.
As professional as they are, they had never imagined that in a duel, the Soul Points used for paying costs could reach such a terrifying number of 62 points.
This number basically means Shen Sui can do whatever he wants during his turn.
Shen Sui paid 14 Soul Points to normally summon [Realm-Breaking Elf King Freymia], and as long as she was on the field, Kotov could not activate any follower card effects below 14 stars.
He paid the cost to set three cards on the field, bringing Shen Sui's Soul Points down to 25.
"Pay all Soul Points." Shen Sui waved a hand, clearing the Soul Points gauge, "Transform my Qishala on the field to [Dragon Conqueror Qishala]."
[Dragon Conqueror Qishala]'s Spirit Value is the payment * 500.
Thus, a White Dragon with 12500 appeared on Shen Sui's field.
"My turn ends." Shen Sui said, "It's your turn."
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