Among the cards of the Natural Disaster type, only one can be used per turn.

The effect is to alter the natural terrain or cause damage in a local area, ignoring friend or foe.

For example, a Flood can wash away bridges, sandstorms can obscure vision, and meteors can destroy everything within their impact zone.

In addition, there are numerous resource nodes on the map that can be used to upgrade soldiers, improve the level of engineering buildings, or unlock technologies. For instance, consuming 10,000 resource points can enhance technology to draw one extra card per turn.

Each resource node is guarded by wild creatures, requiring both sides to strategically use their soldiers to occupy them.

The gameplay specifics are that after drawing cards, both sides need to decide within the current turn which soldiers to place in the empty areas on the map. Placement must avoid the zones occupied by the opponent’s resource points and functional buildings. If our soldiers are adjacent to the opponent’s soldiers, combat will automatically be triggered in the next turn, and the side with higher combined military strength wins.

Cards of the defeated soldiers become void, while the victorious soldiers suffer some damage but can be restored through functional buildings.

The rules for capturing resource points are straightforward: just place our soldiers near the resource point, and if there are no wild creatures or enemy soldiers in the area, you can harvest the corresponding resources at the end of the turn.

The victory condition is to lead our army of soldiers to capture the opponent’s camp crystal.

After understanding the game setup, Life Throat asked Guidance about the cheating principles You Ai used in this round of the match.

However, the answer was that You Ai did not cheat in this round at all.

Realizing that You Ai had completely given up the idea of winning by cheating, Life Throat was exceptionally calm.

He decisively activated the Brain Overclocking Attribute of the Fifth Star Vein Slot.

Instantly, the War Sand Table slowed down in his eyes.

The energy trails flowing above became clearly visible; each streak of light, every map node information, seemed to be decomposed into countless pieces of data that pieced together in his mind.

His senses could keenly capture the frequency of energy fluctuations emanating from You Ai, and he could even deduce You Ai’s mood at the moment from changes in the frequency.

His logical thinking ability rapidly improved, at the cost of wildly consuming spiritual power every second.

But at this moment, Life Throat didn’t care.

You opened it, then I also opened it.

The game began, with five cards automatically floating from both card piles, displayed as their back to the opponent.

Life Throat activated the Eagle-Headed Demon Attribute at this point.

Instantly, You Ai’s five cards turned their backs on him in his mind.

They were: Shadow Stab (Three-star Soldier Card), Rotting Swamp Trap (Natural Disaster Card), Siege Hammer (Six-star Soldier Card), Arrow Tower (1 Star Functional Building Card), Phantom (Group Amplification Card).

With Decoding Scan, he clearly understood the specific function of each card.

The confrontation thus commenced.

This was inevitably an unfair confrontation.

You Ai abandoned cheating, but Life Throat chose to respond to this round’s challenge with cheating.

With the support of the Eagle-Headed Demon + Decomposition feature, You Ai was entirely exposed, every move visible to Life Throat.

As the game progressed, Life Throat continually occupied resource nodes on the map.

After another card draw ended, You Ai’s energy-infused fingers hovered over the cards, hesitating to even decide what to do next.

The originally meticulously crafted tactics were utterly ineffective under Life Throat’s nearly foreknowledge-like suppression.

Whenever it attempted to mobilize troops, the opponent’s soldiers had already preemptively cut off its advance route or even set ambushes ahead of time.

When it tried to use a disaster to reverse the situation, Life Throat’s soldiers had already anticipated it and quickly withdrew.

When it attempted a sneak attack with an "Event Card," functional building cards had already spawned defenses at critical positions it targeted, causing its sneak attack to lose substantial troops instead.

The situation on the sand table looked to You Ai like a slowly tightening net.

Every struggle made the encirclement laid by Life Throat even more stringent.

Resource points on the war sand table were gradually being devoured after each turn ended, while Life Throat’s offense advanced steadily like the tide, finding no flaws and offering no opportunity for a counterattack.

No method seemed effective anymore.

This stirred a chill in You Ai’s heart. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

It confirmed previous suspicions.

The opponent possessed mind-reading-like abilities, allowing it to comprehend its innermost thoughts.

This led to the war rhythm being grasped by the opponent with total clarity.

For instance, when it prepared for a last-ditch effort, the opponent’s soldiers suddenly retreated, with various layouts enticing it to waste precious battle energy.

This was not a confrontation, but a unilateral suppression.

The energy fluctuations dissipating from You Ai’s body became more intense during this time; it had never experienced such suffocating pressure in strategic contests before.

Its every intention was presaged, while the opponent seemed to stand at a higher dimension, arbitrating its every move effortlessly.

The light and shadow on the sand table reflected on the obscure visage; You Ai couldn’t decide the next move for a long time.

The countdown also ended at this time.

Under intense frustration, You Ai wasted a valuable layout turn.

Life Throat continued to calmly place one card after another after exhausting his action points, looked at it with a smile, and then turned his gaze toward the camp crystal hovering in front of it.