Chapter 11: Chapter 7: Soul Card_1

In Duanmu Huai’s palm were eight different cards, each emitting a faint glow, appearing in front of him.

[Experimental Improvement (Bronze)]

[Cost: 0]

[Add one modified puppet to your hand]

[Puppeteer’s Cloak (Bronze)]

[Cost: 1]

[When a puppet enters your battlefield, add two puppets to your hand]

[Puppet Surgery (Bronze)]

[Cost: 1]

[Randomly enhance a puppet in your hand by +4/+0]

[Craftsman’s Faith (Bronze)]

[Cost: 1]

[Choose between a puppet, a modified puppet, and an armed enhancement to add to your hand]

[Scrap Selection (Silver)]

[Cost: 2]

[Add a card that was destroyed in this battle and has an odd cost to your hand]

[Puppet Room (Bronze)]

[Cost: 3]

[Add one puppet to your hand each turn]

[Scrap (Bronze)]

[Cost: 3]

[Attack: 1]

[Defense: 2]

[Add one puppet to your hand when entering/exiting the battlefield]

[Puppet Girl. Ogis (Legendary)]

[Cost: 6]

[Attack: 5]

[Defense: 5]

[Whenever fused with a puppet, you may summon a puppet to the battlefield and gain a +2/+0 effect]

[If fused with one puppet, summon ‘Ogis’ Puppet. Lloyd’ into the field]

[If three or more, automatically evolve two cards]

[Why do humans love humans? Why do humans hate humans? The answer must be somewhere in this world]

[Mission ‘Legacy of the Puppeteer’ Completed]

[Mission Evaluation: Unexpected]

[Reward: Soul Card +6, Extra +2]

[Trigger subsequent Mission ‘Heart of the Puppet Girl’]

[Mission Objective: Travel with Puppet Girl Ogis, guiding her on the path to the future]

[Mission Reward: Legacy of the Puppeteer]

[Current Progress: 1/5]

“I see.”

After looking at the Soul Cards in his hand and the mission instructions, Duanmu Huai nodded. The Soul Cards embody the items from the Fragmented World in reality. As long as he activates these cards with his spiritual energy, he can harness their abilities and use them in the real world.

However, the quality of the first batch of cards given to him weren’t very high. The quality of the cards are divided into bronze, silver, gold, and legendary. Among the cards given to him, they were all bronze, with only one silver. Regarding the ‘Puppet Girl. Ogis’ card, even though it’s legendary, it’s considered a story mode card. The reason is revealed in the ‘Heart of the Puppet Girl’ mission. It’s clear that the Puppeteer is afraid that Duanmu might deny his obligations, so he used this method to limit him. As long as Duanmu travels with Ogis, let Ogis see and understand the world, gradually understand her existence and significance, he will progress and get the Puppeteer’s other legacy.

As for the cost…

As mentioned before, excessive use of spells can cause subspace anomalies. The cost is designed for this. At present, Duanmu Huai’s heat limit is 100, and the cost of the ‘Puppet Girl. Ogis’ card is 6, meaning, when Duanmu Huai brings Ogis into play, his heat consumption will increase by 60. According to subspace overheating standards, 40% or less is within the normal range, 40%-80% is considered overheating and various subspace anomalies would occur, and 100%… depends on what kind of demon BOSS would appear.

So if Duanmu Huai directly summons Ogis, his subspace heat will persist at an overheating level of 60%, becoming a walking catastrophe, causing subspace anomalies wherever he goes. There were indeed players who would exploit this to turn themselves into humanoid nuclear bombs in the past.

Luckily, he is a Soul Walker, and… he has Subspace Armor!

“Hmph!”

Duanmu Huai tightly clenched his hand, putting away several cards. He then saw the cost of ‘Puppet Girl. Ogis’ instantly changed from 6 to 3, reducing by half!

Yes, this is where the Subspace Armor really shines. Although it can’t teleport or has powerful defensive capabilities, it can reduce the cost of all Soul Cards by half!

This is half of it!

You should know that the consumption of soul cards doesn’t work with small numbers like decimals. Say if a card has a consumption of 3, Subspace Armour can reduce it straight to 1, and not 1.5. As for cards with a consumption of 1, they can be reduced directly to 0!

This means that the consumption of the three cards, “Puppet Surgery,” “Puppeteer’s Cloak,” and “Craftsman’s Faith” dropped from 1 to 0. “Junk Selection,” “Puppet Room” and “Waste” dropped to 1, and “Puppet Girl Ogis” dropped to 3.

Among these cards, the puppets summoned themselves consume 0, the improved puppets consume 1, but under the suppression of Subspace Armor, it also becomes 0. Although these “Puppet” cards have the feature of being automatically destroyed after the battle is over, as long as they are on the battlefield, they are combat forces that don’t require consumption!

The quality may not be high, but the quantity is equally terrifying!

Don’t look down on the “Puppet” with an attack power of only 1, and the “Strengthened Puppet” with only 3. This 3 doesn’t just mean 3 points of damage, it means the level of enemies they can eliminate!

Actually, in soul cards, an attack of 1 represents the ability to eliminate enemies under level 10. An attack of 2 means enemies under level 20. Similarly, their defense represents how many levels of enemy attacks they can resist.

Currently, Duanmu Huai is only a level 10 Judge. In terms of attack power… well, it’s definitely stronger than a puppet, but certainly no match for Ogis. After all, Ogis’ attack and defense is 5, 7 after enhancement awakening, which means she can fight to the death with a level 70 enemy.

The attack and defense of the “Puppet” is 1, but after undergoing Ogis’ card fusion, their attack can be increased to 2, that is, they can eliminate enemies of level 20 and below. This means that Duanmu Huai now has an army that can wipe out level 20 enemies with almost zero consumption!

This is just a beginner planet, according to Duanmu Huai’s experience, the strongest here would not exceed level 40, level 20 is already considered mid-level.

“Indeed, being a Soul Walker in the early stage is so cool…”

After planning the whole process, Duanmu Huai felt so excited that he lost control. Before he transmigrated, he had only figured out the purpose of the “Soul Resonance” skill when he reached level 30. At the time, his enemies were level 30 and 40, and the ordinary low-level cards could no longer inflict enough damage on them. So Duanmu Huai had always wondered, what if he had this set of soul cards when he was level 10? Wouldn’t it be awesome to level up by beating higher level monsters?

A level 10 player challenging a level 20 dungeon, that would be amazing!

Now it seems that he finally got the chance to put his wild thoughts into practice.

With that thought, Duanmu Huai lifted his head, staring into the distance with a glint of coldness in his eyes.

Let’s see how much experience you can bring me next!

After that, Duanmu Huai took another round outside. Twenty minutes later, he returned to the spot. At this time, Elisa was sitting on a rock, blankly staring at the sky in front of her.

After a thorough cleanup, Elisa’s true appearance was finally revealed to Duanmu Huai. Before this, Elisa had always been a messy, dirty-looking little girl in Duanmu Huai’s eyes. But after washing off the stains and blood, the girl showed her beautiful side.

Her silky golden hair was so smooth it could be used to advertise shampoo; her small and cute face had delicate features that showed a hint of weakness. Her deep blue eyes gave her the look of a lady.

It’s a pity that her ragged clothes somewhat diminished this impression.

“Ah, Sir Black Knight.”

Maybe it was because she had taken a bath, Elisa looked much better. Seeing Duanmu Huai approaching, she quickly stood up and courteously saluted him.

“How are you? Feeling better?”

Duanmu Huai’s gaze swept over Elisa’s red-rimmed eyes – after all, she couldn’t see it through his helmet.

“I’m okay.”

Elisa lowered her head somewhat shyly, then hesitated for a moment, and looked up at Duanmu Huai again.

“Sir Black Knight, what should we do next?”

“Next, we stop running.”

“Eh?”

Hearing Duanmu Huai’s answer, Elisa was taken aback.

“Stop running?”

“Yes, we can’t run anyway, so we might as well stay here and wait for them. Let’s meet them head-on and wipe out those bastards!”

Now that he had the soul cards, Duanmu Huai was no longer afraid. With his own power plus the soul cards, dealing with the pursuers from the Evil God Cultist was no problem. It just depended on how much they were willing to sacrifice.

“…”

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s response, Elisa showed some unease. However, it seemed like she quickly came to terms with something and clenched her fists tightly.

“I, I understand, Sir Black Knight. If you say so, then we’ll do it… Also, I have a request…”

“What request?”

“If…”

At this point, Elisa seemed to hesitate, but finally made up her mind.

“If, we can’t hold back, then please promise me… you’ll kill me!”

“Oh?”

Upon hearing this, Duanmu Huai glanced at Elisa.

“Kill you?”

“Yes. Whatever those Evil God Cultists are planning for me, it’s definitely not going to be good! Falling into their hands, I won’t only be tortured, I might even endanger others. So… if there’s really no other way, Sir Black Knight, you can kill me, and then escape on your own.”

As she spoke, Elisa lowered her head again.

“But… but, Sir Black Knight, I hope… you can be gentle, not too painful…”

What an interesting girl.

Looking at the bowed Elisa, a smile flickered at the corner of Duanmu Huai’s mouth. He stretched out his hand, and gently tousled Elisa’s hair.

“Don’t worry, no matter who comes, I will protect you.”