My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 506 - 404: The Absurd Return of the Star Magic Array to Its Faithful Arena (4K)

Chapter 506: Chapter 404: The Absurd Return of the Star Magic Array to Its Faithful Arena (4K)

Complete domination, unmatchable domination.

Xu Tianzhi has now given up on the idea of taking revenge on Shen Sui; this wish is probably impossible to achieve in this lifetime.

Now his only wish is for Shen Sui to hurry the hell up and promote to the eighth rank! Stop messing around in the B-class tournaments! There are already so few domestic competitions, and if you keep dominating in the B-class, us old folks won’t be able to win a single championship anymore!

"Enjoy." Qishala brought Xu Tianzhi a delicious-looking dessert and a steaming cup of milk tea.

Looking at the exquisite feast before him, Xu Tianzhi’s mood improved significantly.

The dishes and desserts made by Shen Sui’s beautiful maid were one of the reasons Xu Tianzhi decided to stay.

Absolutely delectable!

"Speaking of which, everyone else has gone to the next match; aren’t you going to join?" Shen Sui also sat down, asking curiously.

Xu Tianzhi took a sip of milk tea, shook his head, and said: "I’ve accumulated enough points. I planned to take a break and see if there’s a chance to push for the eighth rank."

Even though he thought about urging Shen Sui to quickly ascend to the eighth rank so he could continue to reign in the B-class tournaments, Xu Tianzhi still wasn’t ready to give up the chance when the eighth rank was within reach.

"You definitely need to prepare well for that." Shen Sui, already considered a qualified professional Life Card Master, was knowledgeable about the professional system of this world.

When you have enough points, you can apply to the Exploration Bureau for a Promotion Tournament. There are no mandatory requirements; as long as your points are sufficient, anyone can apply and initiate the tournament as soon as a suitable opponent is found.

If you win the Promotion Tournament, you ascend in rank. However, if you lose, there is a penalty; if you fail the Promotion Tournament, your points will be forcibly reduced by twenty percent.

This is quite similar to the promotion matches in games.

Since we mentioned ascending in rank, the concept of rank drop naturally follows. In the past, demotions were mostly penalties by the Life Card Association for Life Card Masters who violated rules, but it has now become a permanent mechanism.

However, in general situations, it’s not commonly used. Even if you do face the threat of rank drop, you can avert it by completing tasks from the Exploration Bureau.

It’s clear what kind of purpose the Exploration Bureau is aiming for with this system.

While they were talking, Tan Song came over angrily and sat down beside Shen Sui with a thud.

Qishala seemed accustomed to this and brought Tan Song a glass of water.

"Thank you." Tan Song grabbed the glass and gulped down the water.

"What happened? Lost to Old You again?" Shen Sui said with a chuckle. The sparring partner Tan Song found was, of course, You Wenqi. Judging from Tan Song’s frustrated look, he lost quite a bit.

"You Wenqi is just unbelievable," Tan Song grumbled, "I was about to win, and then he hit me with a perfect draw."

"Hahaha." Shen Sui laughed gloatingly, "You can always count on You Wenqi outside of the finals. See, even Theis doesn’t dare to spar with him."

In Huaxia’s competitions, the training match environment is more favorable for compatriots like Shen Sui and Tan Song, because they can always find someone to practice with. But for foreign players like Theis, finding a suitable sparring partner in the country is very difficult, so often they can only duel with their coaches.

Given You Wenqi’s relationship with Theis, he could actually be Theis’s training partner, but Theis ultimately didn’t invite You Wenqi.

The main reason was that You Wenqi is a Huaxia person. Worry about leaking tactics is one thing, but the main concern is that if Theis eventually won the Huashan Invitational Championship, public opinion in Huaxia would be very unfavorable to You Wenqi as his sparring partner.

This friend already suffered collateral damage from a family cheating scandal and had to give up a year of competition, so completely sacrificing his career for being a sparring partner for Theis is unacceptable.

Finding suitable opponents is difficult, especially formidable enemies that you might meet on the competition stage.

After a while, You Wenqi also came over.

The group started discussing the recently issued Forbidden Cards regulation.

"Starting January 1st next year," You Wenqi said to Shen Sui, "any Life Card Master who owns a Forbidden Card can apply for the Ordeal’s removal at the nearest Exploration Bureau, who will assess based on its performance in previous professional duels to judge whether it meets the requirements for unbanning."

The broad impact of a complete unban was too much, even Zhang Fang couldn’t push it through, so they had to settle for the next best thing—conducting unbanning reviews to release qualifying Life Cards.

"You can try applying for the unban of your [Star Magic Array] then," You Wenqi suggested.

"Can this card pass the unban review?" Xu Tianzhi was really at a loss, because Shen Sui actually used this Forbidden Card in a training match before, "This card can wash away usage restrictions, which is a ridiculously powerful effect."

You Wenqi took the coffee handed over by Qishala, added some sugar cubes, and said, "Anyone who’s seen this card’s effect knows it’s absurd. Dropping a once-per-turn limit is one thing, but even lifting a once-per-duel effect is outrageous."

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Card Name: [Star Magic Array] (Forbidden)

Type: Permanent Spell Card

Star Level: 13 Stars

Effect: ① As long as this card exists on the field, when your Spell Card resolves and enters the graveyard outside of your own turn, you can return it to the deck and remove its usage limit;

② At the start of your turn, you can add a Spell Card from your deck that was returned by effect ① to your hand;

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Shen Sui chuckled, not denying it, because it was true.

Just taking the current Life Cards as a nearby example:

Both [Insomnia Treatment] and [Fiery Fire Awakening] have a restriction of being used only once per duel. If you activate these two cards during your opponent’s turn, the effect of [Star Magic Array] will return them to the deck and remove their usage restriction, meaning as long as Shen Sui draws them again, he can continue to use their effects to skip the opponent’s turn or gain an extra turn himself.

The most critical point is, [Star Magic Array]’s effect doesn’t have a once-per-turn limit or even a card name limit, which means if Shen Sui finds a suitable search card, he can potentially keep activating [Insomnia Treatment] or [Fiery Fire Awakening] to skip the opponent’s turns continually.

This is why Zhang Fang, although he intended to befriend Shen Sui after the Exploration Bureau seized power from the Life Card Association, ultimately didn’t go through the process to unban Shen Sui’s Forbidden Card.

Although, he genuinely wanted to be on good terms with Shen Sui.

But as a ninth-rank Life Card Master, when seeing the effect of this card, he simply couldn’t, in good conscience, say that this card’s "power level is not high and doesn’t meet the Forbidden Card criteria."

"But..." You Wenqi glanced at Shen Sui and said, "When this card was banned, he wasn’t even a professional player yet, letting alone banning the Life Card of a non-professional player, just the fact that this card has never seen professional play fits the unbanning criteria."

"Moreover," Tan Song added from the side, "also because it has never appeared on a professional stage, its match data is zero, so you can’t discern its power level from professional competition records. Therefore, the unbanning review result will only be one: approved."

Xu Tianzhi suddenly looked at Shen Sui:

"Could this be your conspiracy?"

Shen Sui took a sip of tea from his cup and smiled awkwardly yet politely, unable to tell them he was originally financially strapped and wanted to benefit from the Forbidden Card’s compensation.

But honestly, when this card was first banned, although it was somewhat outrageous, its strength wasn’t fully realized due to a lack of complementary cards.

However, times have changed, and with the increase of powerful Life Cards in Shen Sui’s deck, the strength of various powerful cards with usage restrictions gives [Star Magic Array]’s strength an infinite rise.

It seems like all card games undergo a similar process.

The emergence of new cards makes originally inconspicuous old cards shine brightly.