My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

The All-Star competition lasts only two days with a total of three modes, each mode requiring seven rounds of matches. Therefore, after Shen Sui secured victory in the first game by going first, his second duel with Ji Bubai began swiftly.

This time, Ji Bubai managed to grab the attacking turn.

In the unlimited duel mode, the advantage of the first turn quickly became apparent.

Since Shen Sui didn't draw any hand traps initially, he could only stare at Ji Bubai's deployment with five cards in hand.

Ji Bubai started his deployment with a Spell Card and then swiftly deployed five shipgirls on the field.

Judging by the loli forms of these shipgirls, they were undoubtedly destroyers.

"A shipgirl card set?" Shen Sui murmured as he looked at the five destroyers on Ji Bubai's field.

"This is a shipgirl card set I've spent a long time building," Ji Bubai said proudly. In the Soul Card World of shipgirls, shipgirls are the most scarce talents, with only one out of every hundred women being able to awaken the shipgirl talent, and only one percent of those talents being able to match with historically significant ship armors to become true shipgirls.

With the advancement of technology, many modern ship armors have been produced in the shipgirl world, but much of the shipgirl's power comes from the historical legacy, and historical ship armors are far more powerful than ones made with modern technology.

However, regardless, it still enabled many girls who couldn't earn recognition from historical ship armors to become shipgirls.

Even though every girl with shipgirl talent can become a shipgirl now, shipgirls remain exceedingly rare in this world.

Admiral, Commander, Captain... Whatever the title, the biggest issue for many command academy students who want to become shipgirl commanders upon graduation is finding an initial ship to form a contract with.

Typically, girls who gain recognition from historical ship armors and become shipgirls will change their names to that of the ship armor during their service and revert to their original names after retirement. However, girls equipped with modern ship armors generally use their real names.

Shen Sui had specifically learned about the shipgirl Soul Card world.

He knew the existing historical ship armor directory in that Soul Card world, filled with names unfamiliar to him. This was natural since newly made ship armors, if the equipped shipgirl achieved fame and accomplishments in battle, could potentially be converted into historically significant ship armors, with the armor named after the first-generation shipgirl.

Upon examining the historical ship armor directory, the oldest one originated over a thousand years ago from the Yamato Class.

Great, it's a ship he doesn't have because even after he quit the game, "Shipgirl's Stray X" hadn't yet introduced the Yamato Class.

This distinction between ship armor and shipgirl is reminiscent of the game settings in "Shipgirl's Stray X," yet Shen Sui didn't see any names familiar to him in the historical ship armor directory. There were two possibilities: either those familiar ship armors were left in the ocean undiscovered, or they never passed on to the next generation, remaining with the first-generation shipgirls without any transfer records.

Looking at the five destroyers on Ji Bubai's field, Shen Sui realized he hadn't heard of these shipgirls before and didn't see their corresponding names in the historical ship armor directory, deducing they were modern shipgirls.

"Impressive," Shen Sui couldn't help but praise, "to construct a deck purely with shipgirl followers."

Ji Bubai proudly replied, "Of course! I graduated as the top student of my academy."

Ji Bubai's pride and arrogance were justified.

To construct a deck entirely of shipgirl followers, a Life Card Master needs to have at least a dozen shipgirl Follower Cards. Without money or influence, obtaining that many shipgirls in the shipgirl Soul Card World is nearly impossible for a Life Card Master. Shen Sui had seen similar posts on forums, where many Life Card Masters lamented their struggles.

Many Life Card Masters had been in the Soul Card World for two to three years and still only had one initial shipgirl, having to form alliances with others in the same situation to barely accept assignments.

On that forum, those who owned five shipgirls independently were already regarded as bosses.

And those like Ji Bubai who owned over a dozen ships were considered bosses among bosses.

Clearly, Ji Bubai was showing off his shipgirls to Shen Sui.

One after another, he used cards, continuously summoning shipgirls from his deck to his field, time-ending the turn at the exact moment when all his shipgirls had been summoned.

All of Ji Bubai's shipgirls were newly born modern shipgirls.

But this was enough to make Ji Bubai the owner of the strongest shipgirl card set domestically.

As for shipgirls equipped with historical ship armors, Shen Sui hadn't seen any domestically. He did see many foreign Life Card Masters with such shipgirls, all hailing from former naval powerhouses.

Of course, "not seeing" doesn't mean "none exist," due to the rarity of shipgirls. Many Life Card Masters in the shipgirl Soul Card World designed their decks similarly to Yang Liguang's style, as they would pull some Follower Cards from Yang Liguang's Soul Card World to build their decks.