My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Chapter 844 - 502: The Duel Puppet Symbolizing Death

The puppet was extremely ugly, suspended by several strings. Its wooden mouth clacked as it spoke, and its joints creaked.According to the original plan, this puppet was supposed to be created by Shen Sui.

However, Shen Sui, accustomed to making exquisite puppets, couldn’t manage to craft a bizarre puppet capable of instantly intimidating people.

After seeing Shen Sui’s work, Freymia commented, "Are you making a puppet or a tool for actual combat?"

Vivian faced a similar situation as Shen Sui. As a perfectionist, all her creations had a very refined appearance.

In the end, this puppet was completed through the concerted efforts of Vivian and Mitole.

Vivian was responsible for crafting the puppet’s core, allowing it to initiate duels and automatically engage in them like a normal person. It also gave the puppet the extraordinary ability to kill the opponent immediately after losing the duel.

Mitole took charge of the puppet’s appearance.

Clearly, at least regarding the appearance, Mitole’s design perfectly met Shen Sui’s requirements.

For some reason, Shen Sui always felt that this puppet’s design somewhat resembled Qishala.

The puppet, in a very stiff tone, introduced the game rules to everyone present.

The duel game consists of four rounds.

The preliminaries, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final match.

"Since there are thirteen participants in this duel game, I will select among you, and only eight can enter the official duel game," the puppet explained the rules.

"To ensure everyone can wholeheartedly engage in the duel, we have set up a generous prize for this duel game." With that, the puppet turned and pointed to the most striking card on the stage.

This was a card meticulously crafted by Shen Sui and Vivian.

In the ideologies of different worlds, it can be considered different things.

It didn’t possess a particularly powerful extraordinary power; its sole function was to allow the owner to read this world’s rules through text.

Do not underestimate this effect.

This means you can utilize world rules as if reading a manual or a strategy guide.

Moreover, the world is never perfect; thus, the world’s rules inherently contain loopholes.

Once everything is textualized, these loopholes become easier to detect.

Those present are not fools.

Almost immediately upon hearing the card’s function, they realized its potential use.

A look of desire appeared in everyone’s eyes.

"Of course." The puppet’s voice rang out again, "As the price, the consequence faced by the loser of the duel game is... death."

As soon as the puppet’s words fell, the scene fell into a certain deathly silence.

Everyone present knew that those who dragged them forcefully into this world could easily kill them.

Especially since this space is completely different, the various life-saving measures they had in the original world might not work here.

Not to mention...

Some less skilled people had already looked up at the sky.

Ever since they entered this space, they felt a powerful pressure from above.

They didn’t even need to look; this fear and tremor emanating from the soul told them of a presence above that could completely kill them.

A gigantic spider-like monster was hanging high in the sky.

It’s the Broken Boundary Empress!

Li Zichuan roared in his heart.

Why is the Broken Boundary Empress here!

The cultivating world had deep research on the extraterrestrial, which began back when the cultivation world still held the concept of ascension.

At that time, the Broken Realm, in the eyes of cultivators, was equivalent to the Celestial Realm after ascension.

However, as more cultivators entered the Broken Realm, they realized it was a terrifying place.

Never mind the troublesome Boundary-breaking Worm, the Broken Boundary Empress, who surpassed the Immortal Emperor, is an utterly terrifying existence.

Thousands of years ago, a Broken Boundary Empress killed several of the most powerful Immortal Emperors, directly reshuffling the cultivation world.

Therefore, after confirming that the being above is indeed the Broken Boundary Empress, Li Zichuan didn’t even dare to move.

This wasn’t cowardice on his part.

This is the Broken Boundary Empress that can kill even Immortal Emperors! Li Zichuan was very cautious about his life.

"Next, I will randomly select a contestant to duel with me using Life Cards." After explaining the rules, the puppet officially began the game.

With a light curtain rising, the puppet activated the Dueling Device on its hand.

The next moment, an Extraordinary was transported in front of the puppet without any time to react.

His face turned pale instantly, but he quickly calmed down somewhat.

He had recently occupied this body, perfectly inheriting this body’s deck and rank.

However, before the duel game began, he took the time to understand the rules of the Life Card Duel game.

For someone who constantly dealt with complex alchemical formulas, the rules of this Life Card Duel game seemed almost like child’s play.

Of course, being familiar with the rules is one thing; an actual duel is another.

He didn’t believe his current level could directly face those top Life Card Masters in the real world.

But he felt that dealing with an automatically-operating puppet should be manageable.

From his perspective as an advanced Alchemist, the ugly puppet in front of him, although technically intricate and capable of easily killing him, was automated in dueling.

Being automated meant being inflexible.

Such an opponent should be easy to defeat.

As long as he found a loophole in its operating logic, he could easily win.

"Can we start?" The puppet issued its first warning when he delayed starting the duel. "If you don’t respond to my duel invitation in fifteen seconds, I’ll declare you lost the duel. According to the duel game rules, your life will be forfeited. Fifteen, fourteen, thirteen..."

"Let’s start the duel!"

Seeing the puppet had started counting, he dared not delay and immediately accepted the duel invitation.

The card to decide the first strike began to turn.

He was slightly disappointed that the puppet won the first strike.

According to his research on the Life Card Duel, going first had significant advantages.

But that didn’t matter.

After all, it was an automatic, dead program; even if it gained the first strike, it would stick to its rigid deck and proceed formulaically.

He was the first to duel, without any samples to reference, but it should be fine.

Our Alchemist thought confidently.

After the first strike in the duel, both sides began drawing cards from their decks.

"Alright! Let me test your automatic puppet’s strength!" The Alchemist glanced at his starting hand, smiling confidently.

It seemed his luck was good after all.

This starting hand was essentially a perfect setup.

Huh?

Why hadn’t the opponent begun its first strike turn?

What kind of card had a timing point at the beginning of the turn?

The Alchemist looked up in confusion, only to see the puppet revealing its hand card by card.

What was that? Just revealing its most recent hand?

"According to the effect of the ’Miracle Four-Color Flower’ in my hand," the puppet said in a wooden and cold voice, "when my hand contains the Yellow Petal, Blue Petal, Red Petal, and White Petal, I win the duel."

What?

The Alchemist hadn’t yet processed it when the words "Duel Victory" appeared.

His mind briefly blanked out.

Before he could recover, the puppet raised its hand.

The puppet pointed at the defeated opponent and coldly sentenced:

"You lost. According to the duel game’s rules, your life is forfeit."

Holy light flashed.

The next moment, the Alchemist lost his mind.