My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 399 - 368: Beast Taming Calamity: Spirit-Devouring Storm
"If it can’t be destroyed in battle, will it be pierced by Shen Sui’s Star Abyss White Dragon?" Jian Jia suddenly said. She is a rather dedicated commentator who did her homework thoroughly before the match. "I remember the effect of [Star Abyss White Dragon, Qishala] is that attacks that do not destroy followers don’t count towards the attack count."
"Yes, I remember that too," Canglan quickly added. "It’s truly an absurdly powerful follower. As long as the opponent is empty, Shen Sui can summon Qishala and definitely win. After all, direct attacks are also attacks that don’t destroy followers."
An Hai thinks much faster than the two commentators.
There’s no other choice; during a match, things change in an instant. You never know what strange cards your opponent might pull from their sleeve. If you can’t quickly find a way out of a random situation, you’ll face inevitable defeat.
An Hai immediately spoke, "There’s no need to worry about that. An Wei’s deck has several follower cards that can reduce the damage she takes this turn to 0. Just use Ma Liang’s Brush to copy their effects to get through the period when Shen Sui summons the Star Abyss White Dragon."
Though it sounds simple enough, the actual execution is not that easy.
Ma Liang’s Brush’s copying effect lasts only for one turn. The timing of when you use the damage immunity effect really tests a Life Card Master’s judgment.
As for whether Stripping Rain can absorb the effect of the Star Abyss White Dragon, that depends on whether Shen Sui makes a mistake.
In matches between experts, they generally don’t allow Stripping Rain to absorb powerful effects because this effect can only be used once per duel. It allows a follower to permanently gain the opponent follower’s effect, unlike Ma Liang’s Brush, which lasts only one turn.
Vivian was also quite satisfied with her endgame.
Though there was a bit of luck involved, reaching this point in the duel, she undoubtedly had taken the initiative.
But even reaching this stage, Vivian still felt uncertain.
She had played countless matches against Shen Sui back on the Dawn Continent.
Although during the Dawn Continent era, Life Card Duels did not have as complete or powerful Life Cards and effects as now, Shen Sui was already adept at pulling unexpected cards to turn the tables. Every time she thought she had a stable win, he could always pull out some strange cards to break through. Sometimes, a card would only appear strong when used at a particular moment, while at other times, it would just be a flimsy Life Card.
Vivian had suffered too many losses and had mentally prepared for Shen Sui’s miraculous draws.
No matter what, I must win this duel!
A thousand years ago, I confessed to him, yet I haven’t seen him confess to me!
When forming the contract, this guy skated by without saying sweet words.
Thinking of the shipgirl describing how Shen Sui doted on his wife during shipgirl time, even if Vivian were more forgiving, she felt a bit flushed.
Hmph!
This time, I won’t leave you any chances!
You want to pull a miracle draw to counterattack me? Let’s see if you can draw the cards you need!
With that thought, Vivian drew a card from her hand.
Anyway, at the end of this turn, all these cards will be discarded.
"Finally," Vivian waved the card, turning it towards Shen Sui, declaring its activation, "pay 8 Soul Points to activate from my hand, the Event Card [Beast Taming Calamity: Spirit-Devouring Storm]!"
An Hai, who had been focused on the match, suddenly widened his eyes.
"This card is in Wei’s hand?" he murmured to himself.
Not long ago, a very strange great calamity occurred in the Beast Taming World.
During this great calamity, all Beast Tamers’ beasts above level 8 fell into a slumber, leaving only beasts below level 8 able to act.
An Hai controlled himself to solve this crisis, but before he even landed, the strange storm had dissipated.
People named it the Spirit-Devouring Storm.
If the Event Card is in An Wei’s hand, it either means An Wei initiated it or resolved it.
An Hai felt some concerns rising.
With An Wei’s mischievous and unreliable personality, he couldn’t help but feel it was the former!
This girl better not have caused some big issue in the Soul Card World again!
Meanwhile, white storms erupted from the Life Card that Vivian activated.
Pure white mist instantly enveloped the entire duel arena, and Shen Sui felt a vaguely pressing sensation.
It felt very unsettling.
This card seemed to have a certain reality-affecting power.
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Card Name: [Beast Taming Calamity: Spirit-Devouring Storm]
Type: Event Card
Star Level: 8 Stars
Effect: After activation, until the start of the third player turn, both parties’ Soul Points maximum limit decreases to 8 points, and neither can exceed 8 Soul Points.
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A description that is simple to the extreme.
An effect that is simple and brutal.
Yet it gave Shen Sui a feeling of extreme disgust.
The Soul Point cap being reduced to 8 means that it is basically impossible for both parties to use Life Cards above 8 stars.
The two descriptions are not conflicting. Limiting the cap means that the Soul Points recovered at the start of a turn are halved, while the latter description prevents Shen Sui from forcibly elevating his Soul Points by liberating followers.
Disgusting!
Really disgusting!
After I’ve laid everything out and summoned a super-powerful big brother, you use this Event Card to suppress and disgust me, don’t you!
When did you start getting so wicked, Vivian!!!
The key is that this is an Event Card, meaning unless Shen Sui draws an Event Card to overlay its effect, he has to endure its effect until it ends.
Event Cards do not exist on the battlefield, which means Shen Sui has no way to use conventional field-clearing means like destruction, banishment, or bounce-back to counter this card.
"My turn ends," Vivian activated the effect of Ma Liang’s Brush, discarding all her cards, "Activate the effect of Imaginary Spirit Dragon, discard all cards, send [Fantasy Guardian Beast: Mud Monster] to the graveyard from your deck, and until the start of the next player turn, Imaginary Spirit Dragon gains Mud Monster’s effect."
Mud Monster’s effect allows Vivian to be immune to combat damage.
"Alright, you can start your turn now."
Vivian winked at Shen Sui.
This demeanor and expression were very much like the expression of Shen Sui bringing smiles to others.
