Chapter 119: Chapter 118: My Chain, Your Chain, the Effects I Chain!
"My turn, draw a card."
Xu Tianzhi quickly drew a card from his deck.
This time, he set aside his demeanor as a star player, entirely viewing Shen Sui as a formidable opponent.
Shen Sui deserves this recognition.
Reaching the fifth tier in the ranking tournament, whether by luck or strength, places one among the elite duelists.
Moreover, Shen Sui had once defeated him in a duel.
No matter his condition at that time, it is an indisputable fact.
An unseen form of Soul Card.
Three set cards.
7-star, 3-star, 4-star.
Xu Tianzhi looked at Shen Sui’s field. Compared to those famous Life Card Masters who have competed for years, Shen Sui’s first turn lacked suppressive power.
But this does not mean Shen Sui is weak; it’s just that the depth of everyone’s deck is different. You can’t expect a student who became a Life Card Master less than two months ago to have the same deck depth as a professional star player.
That would not be called genius, but rather a monster.
Acquiring Life Cards from the Soul Card World often relies on time accumulation.
Of course, if you can obtain a large number of Life Cards domestically through trading or purchasing, that indeed is impressive.
Without strong suppression power, yet managing to win four ranking tournament matches...
Trap-heavy gameplay.
The first thought in Xu Tianzhi’s mind was exactly this.
If so, then let’s use this card.
Thinking of this, he squinted his eyes, drew a card from his hand: "My turn, pay 3 Soul Points, activate the Spell Card [Intelligent Mechanic Scout] from my hand. Target a set card on the opponent’s field to view and destroy it."
Xu Tianzhi decided to wade into the trap.
He naturally chose the 7-star Spell Card.
In the next moment, a chain event appeared on Shen Sui’s field.
Shen Sui immediately flipped open the Spell Card chosen by Xu Tianzhi and said, "At this moment, flip the set card! Activate the Spell Card [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price]."
"You can activate this when Soul Points are paid to use a Life Card, flip the top card of my deck to reveal and add it to my hand." Shen Sui flipped the top card of his deck, [Lucky Puppet·Shari].
This card was put back through the effect of Little Pony, so it wasn’t surprising. Anyway, [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price] was going to be destroyed, which also counted as minimizing the loss.
This was a card given to Shen Sui by Xinyuan Yingxue through Xinyuan Tanchun as compensation for that Forbidden Card incident.
According to [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price]’s effect, Xu Tianzhi needs to pay an additional 4 Soul Points to continue using [Intelligent Mechanic Scout].
Since the purpose was achieved and there were no casting targets for the card, Xu Tianzhi naturally wouldn’t pay the cost and directly chained [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price]’s effect: "At this moment! Activate the effect of the Follower Card [Intelligent Mechanic Sentinel - Engineer Ant] in my hand, during the main phase when the opponent activates a Spell Card, I can activate it, discard it from my hand, and special summon a multi-form Follower Card from my deck to my field."
"I choose to special summon! [Powerful Intelligent Mechanism·Alpha]!"
"At this moment! Flip open the set card!" Shen Sui did not yield to Xu Tianzhi, he had seen this person’s duels, estimating that the next moment he would transform into a big shot to destroy his field, so why not use up the set card quickly, "Activate the Spell Card [Flow State]. During both main phases, when a Follower is special summoned, I can activate this and select a Follower Card of the same star level as the special summoned Follower from my deck to add to my hand."
"The star level of [Powerful Intelligent Mechanism·Alpha] is 5-star, so I select a 5-star Follower from my deck." Shen Sui opened his deck and added a [Armed Puppet·Soya] to his hand.
Initially, there wasn’t much feeling when the card was printed, but after many duels, he found that this Puppet Card had practicality far surpassing other Puppets, particularly when combined with [Vivian’s Hairpin] to execute many infinite chain routines.
"Then! Activate [Lucky Puppet·Shari]’s effect."
During the opponent’s main phase, if one’s Spell Card is resolved and enters the graveyard, discard this Follower from the hand to activate, selecting a Spell Card from one’s graveyard to return to the deck.
After the [Flow State] resolution, Shen Sui discarded Shari, recovering [Sitting on the Ground and Raising the Price] from the graveyard.
Even though the 7-star card is a face-up card when set, as long as it has deterrence, it’s sufficient.
"At this moment!" Unexpectedly, at this time Xu Tianzhi also had a chain effect, "Activate the effect of [Powerful Intelligent Mechanism·Alpha] on my field. Once per turn, when the opponent activates the effect of a Follower Card during my turn, I can activate this to draw a card, then discard two cards."
This effect is actually quite good.
At first glance, it seems like a card disadvantage operation by drawing one and discarding two, but in duels, resources in the graveyard can be utilized, and since it’s draw first then discard, it’s considered useful.
And Xu Tianzhi’s deck happens to utilize a lot of resources from the graveyard.
"At this moment!" Shen Sui flipped open the last set card, "Flip the set card, activate the Spell Card [Contempt]!"
"Activate this when the opponent activates a card effect, negate the activated card effect, then I must perform a Spell Judgment."
Contempt requires strength, therefore, sometimes it also requires some sacrifice.
Along with the activation of the effect, [Powerful Intelligent Mechanism·Alpha]’s effect is countered, followed immediately by two facedown cards jumping out from Shen Sui’s deck, needing Shen Sui to make a choice.
Shen Sui discarded one of them.
Unlucky, it’s the Follower Card [Bound Holy Artifact Puppet·Naphitaya].
At the same time, another card was flipped; since it’s a Spell Judgment, this card is naturally a Spell Card.
Spell Card [Arson].
Shen Sui executed the follow-up effect of the Judgment, putting [Arson] on top of the deck; he needed a Clearing Card.
Meanwhile, the effect of failed judgment was also triggered; Shen Sui needed to choose three Follower Cards from the deck to send to the graveyard.
A set of chains directly exhausted all three set cards on Shen Sui’s field.
Xu Tianzhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, at least he wouldn’t have to worry about Shen Sui’s set cards in his subsequent operations, it was indeed a great value.
"My turn." Xu Tianzhi’s turn was not over yet.
He paid 10 Soul Points to perform a Form Transformation on [Powerful Intelligent Mechanism·Alpha], and the transformed form was none other than [Intelligent Mechanical Tyrant·Alpha], which Shen Sui was very familiar with, the same card Xu Tianzhi used to deploy his field during the duel exam against Shen Sui.
Right after that, Xu Tianzhi used the effect of Tyrant Alpha to special summon four 1-star Intelligent Mechanic Followers from his deck.
Because it was indeed a dazzling display of moves.
Shen Sui had no hand traps nor set cards left, so he could only watch helplessly as Xu Tianzhi continued his deployment.
In this regard, Xu Tianzhi’s goal was considered achieved.