My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Chapter 887 - 522: Alice, Your Leveling Speed Is Still Too Slow (2)

When Vivian returned, at worst it was just that Candlelight Illusion had done too much, leaving her a bit dazed.In more down-to-earth terms, she’d worn too many vests at once and was about to forget which persona was which.

But Vivian only needed to recuperate by Shen Sui’s side for a while before she used him as an anchor point and fixed those little problems.

Baris was different, though. Over that thousand years on the Dawn Continent, what her memory and soul carried was no longer just the wishes of her two dearest friends, Shen Sui and Vivian, but also the more than two hundred students she’d taken in to fulfill those wishes.

She was someone who valued emotions to an extreme; otherwise she wouldn’t have stabbed the Gods she believed in in the back for the sake of friendship.

And because she took emotions so seriously, every life connected to her that faded away pressed another boulder weighing a thousand catties onto Baris’s soul.

Even after a thousand years, Baris could still recall the details of her time with Alois; likewise, she could remember any memory related to any of her students.

Immortality might not be a curse, but immortality plus absolute memory is a vicious curse.

Baris’s soul was in a terrible state now. Even with Vivian’s tools suppressing it, if they didn’t hurry to channel it out, the risk would still be enormous.

He looked at Alice, who had just finished the preliminary selection.

For the first time since he transmigrated, Shen Sui felt that Alice’s progress was too slow.

Not just her progress toward becoming the Daylight Saintess, but her cultivation progress as well.

Ninth-rank strength couldn’t bear too much Divinity.

Even if Alice became the Daylight Saintess, the work of channeling Baris wouldn’t proceed all that quickly.

He had to find a way to make Alice level up faster.

Granted, becoming a ninth-rank Mage in just two years starting from an ordinary mortal would make Alice a top-tier genius in any era, even any world—but for Shen Sui, that was still far from enough.

Fortunately, what gave Shen Sui a bit of comfort was that Alice wasn’t a Mage who needed to rely on traditional cultivation to advance; all her advancement came from stirring up trouble.

In other words, the bigger the mess Alice caused, the greater her chances of advancing.

The major events on the Dawn Continent were still brewing and would have to wait until after Alice became the Daylight Saintess before they could properly start.

So they had to begin with other worlds.

He thought about the other worlds Alice had experienced.

The Magical Girl World... hmm, its ceiling was too low. It worked fine as a world for Alice to relax and have fun, but if he wanted her to stir up enough trouble there to promote her, the whole Magical Girl system would probably collapse.

The Spiritual World... the entire Spiritual World regarded Alice as their savior and followed her lead. Unless Alice suddenly went dark and became the Demon God who destroyed that world, she probably couldn’t stir up much there.

Shen Sui was indeed a bit anxious now, but he still wouldn’t let Alice’s mental state collapse over something like that.

Besides, given how Baris felt about Alice right now, if Alice’s mentality collapsed, Baris’s would probably go with it.

World No. 8... hmm, that might actually have some potential. The fact that the Black Sea could spawn eight Dominators meant this world’s level cap wasn’t low. As a world to be reopened after destruction, this Soul Card World had been flooded with newbie Life Card Masters, and the Life Card Masters under the Leonis Kingdom were planning to unify the continent and found an empire. If they succeeded, it might help Alice advance.

The Dragon Princess World...

Shen Sui suddenly thought of something, glanced at Qishala beside him, and asked, "Why exactly did Delia and the others return to their original world?"

"A powerful creature tore open their world’s barrier and invaded their world," Qishala said.

"Like Alice?" Shen Sui asked.

After all, that was basically how Alice had made her entrance.

"More or less. I heard it was a creature from the Broken Realm."

Broken Boundary Creatures...

Shen Sui recalled Antipus’s warning to him.

It seemed that as the real world entered periodic fluctuations, the creatures in the Broken Realm were starting to get restless too.

Shen Sui suddenly felt that, for the current Alice, the Dragon Princess World might be a good place to boost her strength. After all, among Grafa’s Ancient Dragon Princesses, she’d only subdued a few.

But then he thought it over again. At the ninth rank, normal levels of trouble weren’t enough for Alice anymore; she needed to start seeking opportunities to construct her own Domain.

Even though Alice had also received the blessing of Twilight, Daylight, and even Star Night Power, the foundation of her strength was still Dawn Power.

Alice’s construction of her own Domain was absolutely crucial to enhancing Dawn Power.

This troublemaking girl had her own unique insights into deconstructing the old world, and she was practically a pro at it.

But constructing a new order required accumulation of knowledge—especially accumulation of knowledge at the level of rules.

Which meant Alice had to go see some different worlds.

If the worlds Alice had walked through, whether World No. 8 with its Dominators, the Dragon Princess World, or the Magical Girl World, all fundamentally used Fantasy World rules as their foundation, then even though their rules differed in many details, their Extraordinary Systems were similar enough that Alice had no difficulty integrating. Naturally, that meant she didn’t get much new supplementation at the rule level.

Of course, if you claimed Alice made no progress in constructing a new order after traveling those worlds, you’d be seriously underestimating her.

After returning from the Magical Girl World, when Alice used Dawn Power to reconstruct a new order, she added a rule concept: you had to transform before you could use Extraordinary Power.

And you’d better believe it—once you reconstruct the enemy’s Extraordinary System rules like that in the middle of a fight, everyone who’s never watched magical girl or tokusatsu shows will be completely baffled. "Why can’t I suddenly use my power? Who would think I need to transform first to use Extraordinary Power?"

The key point was that this new rule only rewrote the way Extraordinary Power was output. It didn’t fundamentally strip the enemy of their Extraordinary Power, so when she reconstructed it, the pressure on Alice was much lower.

Still, if they wanted Alice to grasp the construction of new orders more quickly, she definitely had to go to a world with an entirely new system.

And Shen Sui just happened to have two such targets on hand.

The Shipgirl World, leaning toward the tech side.

The cultivation world, leaning toward xianxia.

Shen Sui looked at the two Soul Cards in his hand and fell into hesitation and deep thought.

Qishala also noticed Shen Sui’s distress. She walked behind him and gently wrapped his head in her arms.

Shen Sui just felt the back of his head sink into a warm embrace.

Ah... that kind of feeling, those flat-chested girls could never provide.

Shen Sui’s brain instantly relaxed, and he actually started letting his thoughts wander.

All those tangled thoughts suddenly flowed clear.

Entering a world with completely different rules carried a certain degree of risk for anyone.

It very likely meant that all your existing strength, being at odds with the rules of that world, might not be able to exert its usual power, or might not be usable at all.

After all, not every world was like the real world, able to perfectly accommodate all Extraordinary Power.

He still felt it was practically a miracle that this world had yet to show any Extraordinary Power.

Given that possibility, sending Alice unprepared into the cultivation world would be extremely dangerous—borderline suicidal. The Extraordinary there were all very powerful beings.

If they were going, they had to at least wait until Alice had initially grasped Dawn Power’s reconstruction ability and could rebuild her own order in the cultivation world, allowing her to use Extraordinary Power normally.

At this stage, Alice was still more suited to taking a trip to the Shipgirl World.

Come to think of it... it wasn’t necessarily true that the level of Extraordinary Power in the Shipgirl World was low.

That world had people who could tank missiles with their faces and carry nukes on their shoulders.

Those shipgirls might act all shy, but they didn’t know their own strength. If you wanted to develop a relationship with a shipgirl that went beyond friendship, having too weak a body simply wouldn’t cut it.