Chapter 1210 - 672: Alice and Tang Lili_2

Chapter 1210: Chapter 672: Alice and Tang Lili_2

On the table lay a duel mat for simulating duels.

Shen Sui spoke to Alice as he handed her two decks.

"Two sets of card decks?"

"Yes." Shen Sui nodded, "One is a follower deck, and the other is a spell deck."

"What’s this gameplay about?"

"I’m researching a world where revival matches can be played, but I’ve encountered a few minor issues." Shen Sui explained, "Just like Life Card Masters swipe cards, those departed souls want to build their own decks but need to obtain the corresponding cards in that world."

"Spell Cards are easier to discuss, but the number of Follower Cards is too small, which would definitely deform the constructed deck, so I thought about modifying the duel rules based on the current ones."

With that, Shen Sui took out two decks of his own and demonstrated to Alice.

However, unlike the decks handed to Alice, one of his decks only had five cards.

"In the new rules, Soul Points are no longer the cost of using cards, and the usage of all Spell Cards is unrestricted by costs."

"Isn’t that invincible?" Alice displayed a few Follower Cards, "Shouldn’t there be a limit on normal summons?"

"Naturally, there needs to be a limit. But currently, duelists can only draw cards from the spell deck." Saying this, Shen Sui picked up the follower deck, selected a Follower Card from it, and placed it in the Follower Area.

"During the main phase of a duel, duelists can view their follower deck and pick a follower to summon onto the field, treated as a normal summon."

"Eh? All cards in the follower deck can be seen, isn’t that the same as playing while holding the deck?" Alice asked in confusion, "The first move advantage is too overwhelming."

"That’s why there needs to be a restriction." Shen Sui took out a card from beside him, and said, "I’ve reduced the Soul Point maximum, and it doesn’t replenish automatically anymore, but rather you gain one Soul Point each turn. Duelists can pay 1 Soul Point to conduct a normal summon."

This indirectly restricts the number of normal summons.

"Now the problem is," Shen Sui continued, pointing at the cards filling his Follower Area, "I want to add a mechanic similar to the Life Card Duel, where releasing followers grants Soul Points so that duelists can perform extra normal summons."

"But, I’m still considering how many followers need to be released to restore one Soul Point," Shen Sui said.

"Why must this mechanic be added?" Alice was slightly puzzled.

"..."

"..."

Shen Sui was silent for a long time, then slowly spoke: "The focus isn’t actually on the Soul Points restoration mechanic, but on the release mechanism. Of course, removing Soul Points is also possible, what about directly releasing two followers and conducting an extra summon?"

Alice was speechless: "Why do you insist on adding a release mechanism..."

"Nonsense! Without a release mechanism, how am I going to feed my opponent’s followers to the fish!"

"Do you know why release is so powerful?!" Shen Sui began gesticulating as he talked about this, "Because it’s a rule! A game rule!"

With that, Shen Sui directly took out the Life Card Duel rule set from beside him and said to Alice, "The effect of regular cards only has two to three hundred words, but this rule set has a full thirty thousand words! The most powerful effects are within the rules!"

If release wasn’t a rule, then it would be just like destruction, banishment, and bounce, mere effects that are mocked at will by total immunity.

Seeing Shen Sui talking incessantly on the opposite side, Alice’s eyes drifted blank.

Evidently, our Miss Alice has yet to understand the true power of the rules.

After all, an opponent can hardly munch on her Life Card then report that her deck count doesn’t match the filed number, thereby awarding her a defeat by violating the rules.

By the way, in official Life Card Duel matches, there really is such a rule.

Life Card Masters need to file their decks with referees before a duel; if a Life Card different from the filed one is used in the duel, they are mercilessly judged to lose.

Thus, Alice was pulled along by Shen Sui to research the new rules for a full three hours.

During which they dueled a few times following the new rules.

However, every time there were minor issues, and Shen Sui started modifying the rules.

Damn it!

This made Alice very displeased by exploiting several rule loopholes.

Naturally, she put aside the trouble encountered in the promotion tournament.

By the time she reached the fourth and fifth tier promotion tournaments, Alice’s opponents became much more normal.

Of course, their strength had also increased quite a bit.

But Alice had long become a powerful Life Card Master surpassing this rank, so winning was still very simple.

"Hahaha! I’m already at tier five!" After finishing the last promotion tournament, Alice felt like her soul had ascended.

So she quickly dialed Tang Lili’s phone number.

Mm, the number wasn’t provided by Shen Sui, but rather Alice learned it when the two had a mutual disliking and exposed addresses in the Soul Card World.

Of course, it was then that Tang Lili came to know Alice was Shen Sui’s Soul Card.

Alice thus often found herself teased by Tang Lili in a senior’s demeanor.

Of course, Alice definitely would have her comeback later on!

"Tier five?!"

On the other end of the call, behind Tang Lili came a surge of musical background sounds.

"You’ve reached tier five so quickly?"

Alice glanced at the sky and said, "You’re still practicing? Not off work yet."

"That’s how it is for idol trainees."

"Wow, is being an idol this tiring?"

"Duh! I’ve just been here for a year." Tang Lili replied grumpily, "From what seniors say, idol training usually has a breakthrough point after two and a half years."

"Alright then..." Alice pouted, then suddenly remembered she was here to boast, "Don’t change the topic! I’m tier five! Tier five!"

"You’re the one changing the topic, aren’t you!" Tang Lili retorted grumpily.

"So, when are we dueling?"

"Huh? What?"

"Hey, hey, hey! The previous challenge! The challenge! You can’t be trying to escape, can you?"

"I definitely won’t escape." Tang Lili scoffed, "But I’m only tier three, we’re not in the same league."

"..."

"..."

"Eh?" Alice was silent for a while, then slowly blurted a word.

"Eh?!!!!!"

Her stalled brain finally started working again.

"Wait! Why are you only tier three?!"

"Because before I could advance, the promotion system changed." Tang Lili stated matter-of-factly, "With various announcements and performances, I haven’t had the time to accumulate points."

"..."

"So, dear Miss Alice." Tang Lili seemed to have stopped to rest, her voice carrying a hint of breathlessness, "You haven’t even asked my rank, yet you just self-advancing to tier five?"

"Uh~!" Alice fumed.

Alice originally wanted to say she progressed through the promotion matches, but she immediately remembered Shen Sui had once mentioned Tang Lili’s past to her.

She didn’t get into the Duel Academy, so advanced from amateur tournaments; her promotion path was nowhere near as easy as Alice’s.

If she said that, it would clearly hurt Tang Lili. ℴ

"So what about our challenge?" Alice remembered this concern persistently.

After all, despite appearances, Tang Lili was considered Alice’s first friend met in the Soul Card World and later in real life.

In one sense, she’s Alice’s first "online friend."

She naturally attached great importance to this agreement.

"Who said the challenge has to be in a match?"

Tang Lili thought for a moment, then smiled and said:

"I happen to be coming to Modu soon for a concert on the air duel platform, how about then we insert a duel before or after the concert?"

"Wow? You’re already performing on the duel platform stage?"

"Hehe, I’m pretty popular, meow~!"