Chapter 1101 - 617: You Actually Used My Card Against Me! (6K)_2

Chapter 1101: Chapter 617: You Actually Used My Card Against Me! (6K)_2

He raised his hand, released the two Substitute Puppet derivatives on the field as 10 Soul Points, and paid an extra 2 Soul Points to switch the Alice in his hand.

"By paying Soul Points, I normally summon from my hand, [Odd Witch Alice]."

Accompanied by childlike multicolored bubbles, Alice in her Odd Witch form made a shining debut.

Seeing Alice’s appearance, Zhang Fang laughed, "Got a new form again? That’s so Alice."

"Of course! She’s a very reliable Soul Card!" Shen Sui fired off Alice’s effect without pause, "Activate Odd Witch Alice’s effect: once per turn, target one Follower on your field, negate its effects, and treat it as [Illusory Bubble] by rule."

Illusory Bubble?

Zhang Fang was puzzled for a few seconds, then saw that Jia Yi, who had been standing there, turned into a cute cartoon bear.

"I really appreciate you helping me stack my grave~!" Shen Sui smiled at Zhang Fang.

Zhang Fang gave a helpless smile.

He had guessed Shen Sui would choose to remove Jia Yi, but hadn’t expected it to be in this way. If the effect gets negated, then the measures he’d put in his deck specifically to stack the grave and keep Jia Yi alive were rendered useless.

With Jia Yi’s effect negated, Zhang Fang also lost his means of stopping Shen Sui’s development. At the same time, the five-star Puppet Follower that [Sword-Beneath Fiend·Graveyard Ghost] had tossed into Shen Sui’s grave became Shen Sui’s greatest engine for unfolding his combo.

But Zhang Fang didn’t show any sign of discouragement.

Judging from Shen Sui’s opening turn posture, this probably wasn’t the kind of build that ends the Duel outright on the first turn.

If that’s the case, then he could just sit there and watch Shen Sui go off.

Funny thing is, even when facing You Wenqi’s opening turn, he had never felt this nervous. Because Zhang Fang was absolutely certain that You Wenqi didn’t have the ability to kill him outright on the first turn.

But Shen Sui did have that ability!

With the graveyard’s restraints undone, what followed was the standard unfolding of a Puppet Card Set.

Shen Sui first activated the effect of [Cursed Puppet Natasha] in the grave, sending three Puppet Follower Cards from his deck to the grave to activate, and from his deck activated the Spell Card [Puppet Repair].

According to [Puppet Repair]’s effect, Shen Sui added [Substitute Puppet Jamie] from the banished zone to his hand. And because of [Puppet Repair], any Puppet Follower Card that returns to Shen Sui’s hand will have its effect reset.

Shen Sui planned to use the Substitute Puppet to search for new Soul Cards.

[Dragon Conqueror Qishala] + [Realm-Breaking Elf King Freymia] might not be an invincible lockdown field, but classic is classic, and it’s also the easiest kind of end board to assemble.

Releasing all Sacrificial Puppets and their derivatives on the field, including the Sacrificial Puppet itself, Shen Sui gained ample Soul Points and normally summoned the Sacrificial Puppet he had just searched to his hand.

Zhang Fang didn’t even have time to see what the Sacrificial Puppet looked like before Shen Sui released her and sent her to the grave.

Watching [Puppet Repair]’s effect, Zhang Fang showed a look of yearning.

Even as the director of the Huaxia Exploration Bureau, he had scoured the national card pool and still couldn’t find a single card that resets effect usage counts.

And now, this was already the second such card to appear in Shen Sui’s hand.

It’s only because Duels currently don’t weigh heavily in the overall scoring system that Forbidden Cards have basically become a negligible restriction. Otherwise, this card would almost certainly show up on the Forbidden Card List.

While Zhang Fang’s thoughts were wandering, Shen Sui had already very neatly finished the remaining board-building sequence.

"Hey, could you not zone out during a Duel?" Shen Sui saw the vacant look in Zhang Fang’s eyes and couldn’t help complaining, "You’re making me feel completely nonexistent here, you know."

Shen Sui’s words finally pulled Zhang Fang’s consciousness back to reality. He looked at Shen Sui and grinned, "Your Duel career’s been too smooth. You haven’t suffered much from people torturing you with long-winded play-by-play. At times like this, if you don’t let your mind wander and just stare at the opponent’s combo, you’ll get depressed sooner or later—and that will become your opponent’s source of joy."

"Uh... so?"

"In a Duel, if your opponent doesn’t want you to have fun, you can’t let them have any chance for fun either." Zhang Fang glanced at Shen Sui’s field and said, "Of course, I’ve always upheld a win-win philosophy: the joy of a Duel should be shared. Your turn’s over?"

"Uh, my turn is over," Shen Sui said.

He was quite satisfied with this end board. Although he’d burned through his hand and had no resources for set cards, it was still a pretty decent suppression-type end field.

[Dragon Conqueror Qishala] can negate any effect that targets her or cards on her controller’s field.

[Realm-Breaking Elf King Freymia] prevents the opponent from summoning Followers of 14 stars or lower, and as long as she’s on the field, the opponent cannot activate the effects of Follower Cards of 14 stars or lower on the field.

[Illusory Bubble Alice], which emerged through Form Transformation from [Odd Witch Alice], can make Followers on her controller’s field unable to be released and unable to be chosen as targets by card effects.

Zhang Fang began his turn.

"My turn, draw."

Zhang Fang looked at the [Iaido Duel] he had drawn and pondered for a moment.

Zhang Fang paid 14 Soul Points to perform a Form Transformation on his Soul Card Jia Yi.

"Activate [Gale Sword Hero·Jia Yi]’s effect."