My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 441 - 382: My First-Move Field Is Invincible, No Need for Adjustment! (5K)
Then, he casually summoned two more Elemental Followers to fill the remaining slots, allowing Lide’s effect to fully play out, nullifying the effects of the first four cards Shen Sui played during his turn.
Uninteresting, truly uninteresting.
Formulaic approaches are simply the nemesis of dueling.
"Come on! Come on! Start your duel!" Wang Hongjing was still there, full of smug satisfaction, feeling that his setup was quite good.
Shen Sui didn’t even know if he should cooperate with this silly kid’s performance.
"A pretty good opening field." Theis had never seen Wang Hongjing’s duels, so his first impression of this opening field was quite positive.
You Wenqi’s mouth twitched slightly but he didn’t reveal it.
He had heard of Wang Hongjing primarily from rumors in chat groups, where people mentioned him as a typical representation of the stagnating domestic competition environment.
Previously, he had clashed with Yang Liguang, insisting on competing with her in the same rank segment, causing him to miss the good opportunity for promotion when the Promotion Tournament was under the Life Card Association’s management.
Now that the Exploration Bureau controls the Promotion Tournament, it won’t be lenient with this kind of rot in competitions. The opponents sent for the Promotion Tournament will certainly target Wang Hongjing’s deck mercilessly, and if he doesn’t change his strategies, his chances of advancing to the eighth rank are slim to none.
Theis didn’t know You Wenqi’s thoughts; with a duelist’s instinct, he pondered how to respond to such an opening field.
The best approach would be to start with [Elemental] Life Cards or special type Life Cards, but if the opponent has tailored his build to counter these areas, it completely blocks the opponent’s chances of victory.
Of course, he didn’t know that Wang Hongjing knew just these three moves.
Shen Sui began his turn, and as expected, Wang Hongjing activated the effect of his Follower Card, sending Lide to the graveyard while simultaneously blocking Shen Sui from special summoning non-[Elemental] followers and activating card effects.
Having achieved this, Shen Sui was even wondering if Wang Hongjing ever considered the possibility of him using Fish King to break his field.
Probably not.
Because if he had considered this, he might have restricted Shen Sui’s special summons and then taunted him, saying how Shen Sui couldn’t use Fish King to break his field, since although Fish King’s effect can break all resistances, its entry method is special summoning, and once special summons are blocked, it indeed cannot be activated.
As for [Elemental Knight Commander·Lide]’s effect, it’s rather a disgusting restriction.
The first four card effects are nullified...
It’s known that starting second, you only have six cards; having four nullified usually leaves no room to expand.
It can only be said that there’s a certain logic to becoming a formulaic expansion.
However, Lide’s effect is a mandatory effect, meaning that no matter what card effect is activated, no matter who activates it, be it Shen Sui or Wang Hongjing, all are nullified.
This makes it easier to handle.
Shen Sui first paid Soul Points and activated the [Puppet Creation] in his hand, discarding a card from his hand, and then [Puppet Creation]’s effect was immediately nullified by [Elemental Knight Commander·Lide], preventing him from searching the [Puppet] Follower Card from the deck.
Just at this moment, Shen Sui timed and activated the effect of the Follower Card [Elemental Life: Lava Fairy] from his hand to nullify Lide’s effect.
"Useless! Any card effect you activate will be nullified!" Wang Hongjing seemed to be mocking Shen Sui’s act of futile resistance.
As expected, the Lava Fairy’s effect quickly triggered Lide’s effect and was nullified as well.
Twice now.
Shen Sui calculated in his mind, then paid Soul Points and normally summoned the Golden Ship from his hand.
The Golden Ship’s effect has two segments; the first segment is to draw a card from the deck, which, unsurprisingly, was nullified by Lide’s effect.
Immediately following, Shen Sui activated the effect of [Substitute Puppet·Jamie] that he had just discarded into the graveyard, banishing it, trying to search for a polymorphic follower.
Lide’s effect triggered again, nullifying Shen Sui’s search effect.
Up to this point, all four nullifications had been consumed.
"Such a pity." You Wenqi had studied Shen Sui; this duel start for Shen Sui was exceptionally favorable – Golden Ship, [Puppet Creation], and [Substitute Puppet·Jamie] are among the top-tier strong Life Cards in his deck, yet all were nullified by Lide’s effect.
With only two cards left in hand, how would Shen Sui complete the upcoming duel?
Wang Hongjing thought the same: "Looks like you’ve reached the end of the line! With only two cards left, you’ve lost your ability to resist!"
"Oh?" Shen Sui’s lips curved upward, "Is that so?"
Upon finishing, he drew a Life Card and said, "Paying Soul Points. From my hand, I activate, the Spell Card [Elemental Descent]!"
The effect of [Elemental Descent] is to discard a card, and special summon an [Elemental] follower from the deck. The follower summoned by this method is sent to the graveyard at the end of the turn.
Shen Sui promptly discarded his last card into the graveyard.
Accompanying [Elemental Descent]’s appearance was [Wind Element Empress: Sitaia].
"[Elemental] follower?" Wang Hongjing certainly didn’t know the details of Shen Sui’s deck; his surprised expression was especially comical.
However, it wasn’t his first time seeing this duel scene; many of his opponents chose to add [Elemental] Life Cards to their decks to counter his first-turn restrictions.
But what good does it do?
"Hmph! Temporarily added [Elemental] Life Cards won’t improve your...."
Wang Hongjing wasn’t even finished talking when he saw the stats of the Wind Element Empress, and was taken aback.
"14 stars?!!!"
