Chapter 116: Chapter 115: Fairy Rose · Ji Yue
Shen Sui couldn’t have imagined that before he started looking for them, the people from the Exploration Bureau came to find him first.
They also brought with them a device for trading cards.
Ye Qing’s intention was that if Shen Sui wanted, he could select his desired rewards right away.
Zhang Fang had fulfilled his promise.
Along with compensation for taking part in the Ranking Tournament early.
Shen Sui could choose any Life Card below 10 stars and one 15-star Life Card from the Exploration Bureau’s card library.
"So, what’s going on?" Shen Sui asked Ye Qing while browsing the Exploration Bureau’s card library.
Ye Qing, who was pretending to admire the white wall, felt a weight lifted off his shoulders upon hearing Shen Sui’s question and quickly said, "Actually, this time, I’ve come with a mission from the Exploration Bureau."
"Mission?"
"Yes, there are two in total," Ye Qing said. "Both are missions in World No. 1 of the Dawn. You know...."
"Oh, alright, let’s hear it," Shen Sui didn’t refuse. It’s rare to encounter such an amicable official, willing to let him exploit their resources, so he felt it was necessary to maintain a good relationship.
Task One: Investigate the War God Temple to determine the current status of War God Bargas.
Task Two: Collect information regarding the Twilight Saintess Vivian.
Shen Sui felt quite moved looking at the paper document before him.
Zhang Fang was indeed a leader with outstanding action potential. After verbally entrusting Shen Sui, he immediately put it in writing, giving Shen Sui the basis to ask the Exploration Bureau for rewards.
Indeed, people with the soul of dueling can still be trusted.
Task Two was a long-term mission, and it was unclear whether the mission was genuinely important or just Zhang Fang’s personal desire. Besides the rewards for achieving a breakthrough (including tax exemptions, bonuses, and Life Card selection), Shen Sui would also receive a monthly execution reward of eight thousand yuan.
The task didn’t specify what the completion criteria were, which meant Shen Sui could earn this monthly salary even if he did nothing.
Is this an attempt to win me over?
Of course, Shen Sui was aware that there are no free gifts in the world.
Although Zhang Fang seemed easygoing, being the director of the Huaxia Exploration Bureau, he certainly wasn’t a good man.
Either Zhang Fang noticed something unusual about Shen Sui that day and wanted to use this to win him over.
Or, this was hush money from the Exploration Bureau to ensure he didn’t talk about the Otherworld invasion that occurred that day.
Either way, Shen Sui felt that the Exploration Bureau’s sincerity was commendable. As one of the departments with violent enforcement rights, they didn’t use force to make Shen Sui submit, which already surpassed most of the official high-ups in novels, films, and games.
Not to mention, they offered substantial benefits.
Eight thousand yuan monthly, plus the monthly allowance for a fifth-level Life Card Master, meant Shen Sui could lead a pretty good life even if he stayed at home all day.
He could even find a third- or fourth-tier city, and with his monthly income and the five million in his card, spending a lifetime wouldn’t be an issue.
Shen Sui’s ambitions would naturally not end there.
In fact, as financial issues were no longer a concern, his ambitions had only grown.
Upon opening the Exploration Bureau’s card library, Shen Sui realized he’d underestimated this repository. As a byproduct of Huaxia’s official large-scale exploration of the Soul Card World, the number of Life Cards the Exploration Bureau acquired was considerable. Sometimes, they had to proactively explore high-risk events (a duty for Exploration Bureau staff, not something one could refuse to do), thus obtaining many high-quality cards.
For example, Follower Cards like [Surfing Prosecutor] — Shen Sui even spotted several of them.
Even among Shen Sui’s first choices for sister cards, there were three.
Gazing at these three cards, Shen Sui didn’t hesitate at all and chose the one with the largest bust.
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Card Name: [Fairy Rose · Ji Yue]
Category: Follower Card
Star Level: 15 stars
Effect: This Follower can only be summoned through a normal summon.
① During either player’s main phase, if a Follower effect is activated on the field, this Follower must accumulate one Rose Marker until the end of that turn; the opponent cannot activate Follower effects;
② As long as this Follower has a Rose Marker, it is unaffected by other effects;
③ At the start of the opponent’s turn, the opponent can choose to skip their draw phase and battle phase to remove all Rose Markers from this Follower. If they do, this Follower will lose its ① effect until the end of that turn;
④ Once per turn, you can remove any number of Rose Markers from this Follower to activate the effect, gaining X Soul Points (X equals the number of markers removed * 5).
Spirit Value: 4500
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Fairy Rose comes from World No. 10 of the Soul Card World.
That world is a Beast Taming World, where birds, beasts, plants, mountains, rivers, and even natural disasters can be transformed into Spirits controlled by humans.
On the card, a gorgeous maiden bathes in a sea of flowers.
Even just through the card, one can feel the Spirit of this maiden.
It’s almost unimaginable that this maiden is actually a rose.
But... just what part of the rose became this large?
Fairy Rose is a legendary existence in World No. 10. Surprisingly, it ended up in the Exploration Bureau’s card library. Shen Sui was curious which generous soul contributed it.
It wasn’t until Ye Qing told him that it was the legacy of a Life Card Master legend from Huaxia.
After her death, she donated all her Life Cards to the state, and among them, Fairy Rose was the most precious one.
"Is it inconvenient if I choose this card?" Shen Sui asked, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"Not at all," Ye Qing replied. "I think that legend wouldn’t want her card to lie permanently in the Exploration Bureau’s card library. She was a pioneer in promoting Life Card Duels in Huaxia. In her own words, if these Follower Cards can’t come to life on the duel field, it would be a great pity. We’ve listed it as a reward, but until now, no one has become its next owner. In that sense, it’s actually the Exploration Bureau that owes something."
Shen Sui stared at the card in his hand, feeling like he was inheriting a legacy.
He never expected his first 15-star Follower Card wouldn’t come from the Dawn Continent but from reality.
Bring Follower Cards to life on the duel field?
Well, I guess I’ll give it a try.
With that thought, Shen Sui inserted the card into his dueling device.
A card without an owner like this could be directly inserted into the dueling device for recording.
Thanks to this mechanism, a certain kind of malicious person had emerged.
While Huaxia had more card scammers, in the United States, where Life Card trading was thriving and Life Card prices were high, there was another profession — Card Hunters.
These Card Hunters were the pure kind, gaining their opponents’ cards through duels.
Of course, they didn’t use Life Card Duels.
It was American-style duels.