Chapter 848: Chapter 504: You’re Seriously Shuffling Cards with Supernatural Powers in a Duel? (Part 2)

Shen Sui thought to himself while staring intently at the puppet’s hand.

At his level, other situations don’t really scare him, as long as the words "Duel Victory" haven’t appeared, he still has hope for a comeback.

What truly frightens him is the puppet might, like in the first duel, pull out five cards right at the start to fulfill the conditions for a special victory.

Although, since this special victory is a Follower Card effect, theoretically it can be countered, unlike the Dark Grandmaster’s, which is a rule-level special victory that can’t be countered.

But in an actual duel, who would happen to have a counterable trap card at that time?

Just as Shen Sui was contemplating, the turn card indicating the first turn had fallen, and the first turn came to Shen Sui’s hand.

Shen Sui quickly drew five cards and then stared at the puppet’s hand.

After confirming the puppet hadn’t activated a special victory effect, he felt a sigh of relief and decisively began his own setup.

This time Shen Sui entered this duel game in disguise. ——In a sense, this was Shen Sui’s first time pretending, wearing a vest.

Given it’s a disguise, he definitely couldn’t use decks well-known to the audience.

Puppets, Dragon Race, Spiritual Life, Elemental Life, and even Marine decks were excluded because their core builds required Shen Sui’s frequently used Follower Cards, which might be recognized by others.

Shen Sui even decided not to use any Soul Cards related to Alice and Hozerville in normal duel games.

With these thoughts, Shen Sui entered his first turn.

"My turn!" Shen Sui drew a card from his hand.

Various forms of Soul Cards unfolded, but before these forms fully unfolded for Shen Sui to choose, Shen Sui directly made his choice by reading the card name.

"Pay 9 Soul Points to normally summon from my hand, [Leonis Lord · Finist]."

Finist, Alice’s Candlelight Illusion.

It was also Alice’s vest in World No. 8.

Because of this, Alice also possessed many forms related to Finist.

Since Alice’s forms were too numerous, and some powerful form-related Life Cards hadn’t made it onto the Forbidden Card List, the existing Alice’s forms were already sufficient, so naturally, Shen Sui had no motivation to expose other Alice disguises in the duel.

As long as throughout the duel, Shen Sui kept Alice attacking in Finist’s form, and quickly operated so the Life Card Masters wouldn’t notice the specific number of Soul Card forms, then in the eyes of these Extraordinaries, Finist was an independent Soul Card.

"Activate [Leonis Lord · Finist]’s effect: once per turn, I can discard a card to activate, view the opponent’s hand. Then I can draw Life Cards equal to the number of Life Card types in the opponent’s hand minus one."

With this type of Old Ai deck, before the corpse pieces are fully gathered, the most torturous part is guessing how many corpse pieces the opponent actually holds.

[Miracle Four-Color Flower] is the same.

The follow-up draw is not Shen Sui’s aim; confirming the number of four-color flowers in the puppet’s hand is the key.

After confirming the puppet only had a blue petal, Shen Sui’s heart slightly calmed down.

Due to the deck’s construction removing many Life Cards Shen Sui had previously used, with no Golden Ship, no Puppets, no [Shining Debut] or [Puppet Creation], Shen Sui’s first turn setup wasn’t very smooth.

The Leonis deck was also just recently created, and supporting Life Cards were still in the early stages.

But Shen Sui felt, with such a deck, dealing with the puppet in front wasn’t too much of a problem.

[Leonis Lord · Finist]’s effect saved Shen Sui a lot of Soul Points.

After summoning two followers from the Snowfield Tribe, Shen Sui set two cards on the field and ended his turn, using up all his hand cards.

Yes, upon activating Finist’s effect earlier, he hadn’t drawn a single card, the puppet’s hand only contained Follower Cards, minus one, Shen Sui had zero cards to draw.

"My turn ends."

Shen Sui said, ending his turn.

There’s suppression if you need suppression, there’s clearing the field if you need to clear the field.

Although it’s not a perfect first-turn setup, it’s enough to deal with the puppet.

Your deck can’t even bring out followers capable of defeating a Fish King, only by gathering five follower cards related to the Four-Color Flower for a special victory can you possibly defeat Shen Sui.

And just now, Shen Sui had already confirmed the number of related cards in the puppet’s hand through Finist’s effect.

Although it’s not zero.

But there’s only one!

Starting with five follower cards, with no effects to draw other parts from the deck, it can only rely on the draw phase hard draw, it has no way to prevent itself from winning.

Yet just as the puppet drew its card, Shen Sui clearly saw the puppet’s smirk.

The puppet’s face unlike a puppet, which is carefully crafted.

A puppet’s face still possesses numerous small Magic Arrays to make the expression more vivid.

While the puppet’s face is more of a single block of wood carved out, how can it reveal expressions?

Immediately after, Shen Sui saw the puppet draw three cards from its hand.

Originally thought, the puppet intended to summon all the powerful followers from the hand to deal with Shen Sui.

But the puppet didn’t summon cards from the hand through paying Soul Points, instead, it directly held them in its palm, rubbing them like superpowers manipulating cards.

Shen Sui sensed the aura of Extraordinary Power, and this aura was from this very puppet across from him.

He was secretly astonished, what exactly had just happened.

Although this aura of Extraordinary Power flashed by, Shen Sui was very certain, just now the puppet must have done something to the cards in hand.

While Shen Sui was still pondering, the puppet had officially started its turn.

In truth, Shen Sui really did not intend to embarrass these Extraordinaries during the preliminaries, he had put a lot of thought into controlling the power of the puppet’s deck construction, lest it accidentally sweep others because the deck strength was too high.

Although, Life Card Duel can also become a Soul-type game, letting all Life Card Duel participants experience real "joy."

But this is a duel game, a competition; it must leave a way out for the participants.

Yet Shen Sui never imagined even after lowering the water to such an extent, these Extraordinaries would still find the puppet’s deck too overpowering to defeat, leading them to annihilate each other?

You say, a deck that can only summon one follower in its turn, set a card to end the turn, what’s there to fear?

Shen Sui ridiculed in his mind, yet still puzzled over what exactly was the puppet’s inexplicable card-rubbing action?

"My turn, draw card."

After the puppet ended its turn, Shen Sui quickly began his turn.

He drew a card, entered the main phase, immediately choosing to activate Finist’s effect, wanting to directly view the puppet’s hand.

But to his surprise, the puppet turned over the only set card on its field, attempting to counter Shen Sui’s card-viewing effect.

Not this, such a precious counter, yet you use it to counter such an effect.

Shen Sui became increasingly curious about the puppet’s current hand, thus directly flipping over the card on the field.

I counter your counter!

As the chain settled in sequence, Shen Sui ultimately succeeded in activating Finist’s effect.

The puppet’s hand slowly unfolded before Shen Sui.

[Red Petal], [Blue Petal], [Yellow Petal], and [White Petal].

For the Four-Color Flower’s special victory, just one [Miracle Four-Color Flower] card short.

Wait...

TM isn’t right! I checked the puppet’s hand last turn, there was only one blue petal!

Shen Sui instantly understood the puppet’s previously inexplicable expression.

Sincerely, you truly used Extraordinary Power to manipulate cards during the duel!