My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Chapter 892 - 525: Creating a Buffer Zone

Vivian stood at the door of the Duel Experience Hall, looking at the diverse crowd outside.Freymia’s duel had already fallen into a hard battle.

Before the Promotion Tournament, our former Elf Empress had specially sought Shen Sui’s help to build her deck, for which she paid a considerable price.

However, the strength of a Life Card Master does not solely depend on the strength of the deck but also on the skill of the Life Card Master.

You can’t say Freymia is completely lacking in skill; after all, when luck is on her side, she can easily defeat her opponents.

But when luck can’t support her winning comfortably by exploiting her advantages, Freymia always ends up performing some operations that leave Shen Sui completely puzzled.

For example, she wastes her hand’s resources, and when the opponent’s expansion point arrives, she has no means to respond.

Moreover, there’s frequent misjudgment of timing, always using her effects at points where they can’t be activated.

This habit of misusing effects makes Freymia’s performance in duels extremely unpredictable; sometimes she can prevent the opponent’s moves like a prophet, but often she uses her effects only to stand there dumbfounded while watching the opponent execute their strategy.

Freymia’s hard-fought duel is a typical case where effect misuse leads to both parties struggling, and it gives Vivian a headache, prompting her to step out for some air.

If she had known, she might have just stayed home to watch Baris’s experiences.

Shen Sui had previously asked Vivian about his intentions to investigate Baris’s experiences over the past thousand years to understand her current state, but Vivian had a vague suspicion in her heart. After all, despite traveling between worlds, her Candlelight Illusion would occasionally appear on the Dawn Continent, giving her a bit more understanding than Shen Sui, who knew nothing of the situation there.

Precisely because of this understanding, Vivian was somewhat afraid to face Baris’s past.

Baris’s current state is undoubtedly linked to her own once-naive beliefs.

So, Vivian found an excuse to accompany Freymia to participate in the Promotion Tournament.

Unexpectedly, watching Freymia’s duel was more tormenting than investigating Baris’s past.

Vivian looked at the pedestrians outside with a complex expression.

Her gaze discreetly swept over a few passersby entering the Duel Experience Hall.

The scent of Alien Parasitic Beasts was thick on them, clearly humans controlled by Parasite Beasts.

If it were Vivian’s previous character, she would never ignore such things.

Upon just leaving the Dawn Continent, Vivian still retained the naivety of her Twilight Saintess days, believing herself obligated to protect the lives of the weak due to her powerful abilities.

The resources of a world are limited, not just the resources for survival but also the resources for growth.

Extraordinary individuals wishing to become stronger will occupy the resources needed for latecomers to grow, objectively causing the vast majority of the world’s population to be weak.

In Vivian’s mind, powerful Extraordinaries become strong due to the resources originally meant for the weak, thus the strong inherently bear the duty of protecting the weak.

So in the early years, Vivian played roles similar to a "Holy Mother descending from heaven," using her formidable strength to sweep away the gloom in Soul Card Worlds and then leaving without asking for anything in return, like an altruistic saint.

But soon, Vivian realized she was too naive.

She could indeed use absolute strength to clear away evil and gloom in some Soul Card Worlds, but ultimately, she was not from those worlds, and she wouldn’t stay long.

Once she left, history inside the Soul Card World would replay itself.

Not all Dragon Slayers would eventually turn into Evil Dragons, but expecting all Dragon Slayers to remain noble forever is an unrealistic hope.

After the Dominator’s Recovery in World No. 8, Vivian saw through this reality.

She had wiped out all the Dominators in World No. 8, yet as soon as she left, the Dominators began to revive, much like the Gods in the Dawn Continent. World No. 8 remained unchanged.

Seeing such fruitless outcomes repeatedly, Vivian’s altruistic nature was gradually tempered; she still helped weak individuals needing assistance before her.

As for world-ending crises, she could assist, but only if the world had to cultivate the capacity to counter such extraordinary crises, even if the potential to do so was just visible.

The same applied to the real world.

However, due to Shen Sui’s influence, she was quite willing to help; Freymia’s proactive contact with the Exploration Bureau was encouraged by her too.

Shen Sui seemed busy preparing something as well.

According to him, it would be a shame for such an interesting world to be destroyed.

But what Shen Sui was truly planning was completely opaque to Vivian.

He seemed to be idly fooling around these days, showing no concern for the real world’s fate.

Vivian quietly mocked him in her heart.

Thinking this way, several Parasite Beast-infected people had already passed by Vivian, heading into the Duel Experience Hall.

Vivian had been to that world.