Yide was so startled by this guess that he immediately dislodged himself from the soul possession.
He never expected that a casual remark he made using Loveland’s body could affect a girl thousands of miles away.
“Wait, no, that’s not right.”
He instinctively denied it.
The war criminal was definitely not him.
Because, objectively speaking, what he said at the time was not wrong.
The dueling rules in this world state that each person has twenty health points, and both duelists can only play cards during their own turn, with no out-of-turn actions.
This rule makes duels generally shorter, and minions that can deal damage in the current turn can almost certainly hit the opponent’s face, naturally favoring aggro.
And a best-of-one duel makes it very difficult to target an opponent in advance.
Not to mention that in this world, everyone obtains different cards and duel spirits, making it almost impossible for two decks to be exactly alike.
In this situation, aggro, which can defeat a master with wild punches, has an advantage.
However, the above judgment has a prerequisite.
Aggro may win more easily than other deck styles, but that’s only if the strength of both decks is similar!
Yide wanted to slap his own face, but then remembered he was in Sonia’s body and decided to stop, though his tone was hard to describe.
“This statement simply describes a phenomenon; it’s not encouraging duelists who aren’t good at aggro to force themselves into it.”
“The premise of aggro having an advantage is that the gap between the two sides shouldn’t be too large, not that deck strength doesn’t matter as long as you play aggro.”
“On the contrary, aggro also needs card strength to support it.”
“You misunderstood.”
Sonia blinked: “But after switching to an aggro system, situations where I almost completely cleared the opponent’s health indeed increased. Before, many times I couldn’t even reach the lethal range.”
“Also, how do you know what that princess said wasn’t what she meant?”
Because I was the one who said that!
“Ahem… how should I put this.”
Yide didn’t expect that he would have to clean up his past remarks before convincing his new host.
“Aggro can push the opponent’s health lower purely because aggro’s only goal is to convert all resources into damage.”
“If you don’t believe me, think about it: after switching to an aggro deck, although situations where the opponent is left with only a sliver of health increased, did your win rate actually improve?”
Sonia’s face turned pale.
Although she said nothing, the answer was already obvious.
Yide shook his head, slapped Sonia’s deck on the table, and spread it out.
In fact, regardless of whether Sonia was a fire-focused duelist or not, Yide had no intention of letting her continue using this deck tomorrow.
When he was with Loveland, to hide his existence, Yide had not used any decks other than dark-element ones.
But in reality, because there were no restrictions like duel spirits, he could research freely, and coupled with his experience from card games in his previous life, his research on all five elements was no worse than that of S-rank duelists.
So, the moment he saw her deck, Yide was already certain.
The strength of these cards as aggro cards was simply too low.
Despite being aggro, half the cards in this deck shouldn’t be in an aggro deck.
Not to mention, Sonia even put vanilla cards into it just to make up a fire-element aggro deck.
Vanilla cards are one thing, but they even lose value, can you believe it?
It would be strange to win with a bunch of vanilla cards whose attack power is lower than their star rating.
“Your opponent tomorrow is also a fire-element duelist, right?”
Sonia hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Yide shook his head: “In aggro duels, it’s about who deals damage faster; it’s a battle of individual card strength.”
“For the same cost, dealing three damage immediately is more valuable than dealing two.”
“Not to mention you, even I couldn’t win tomorrow’s duel with a deck like this.”
Sonia’s hand, resting on her leg, suddenly clenched.
Sure enough… it’s still not possible?
Right, no matter how strong the duelist themselves is, the key is still the deck.
In the end, I still have to leave…
“What, giving up?”
Hearing the voice ring in her mind again, Sonia looked up.
At this moment, she seemed unable to bear it any longer, petulantly venting all her accumulated grievances.
“I don’t want to give up either! But what can I do!”
“Even you said it’s impossible to win…”
“I said it’s impossible to win with ‘this deck’.”
Yide’s voice echoed in Sonia’s mind, simultaneously controlling her hands.
“So, I never intended to go into battle with this deck.”
“But I don’t have any other decks!”
Sonia’s emotions were already somewhat out of control: “I only have fire-element cards. This deck is the strongest I can piece together.”
“Even if I wanted to change it, I have no way of getting new cards now.”
“These on the table… that’s all there is.”
“That’s enough.”
Sonia’s eyes widened.
Enough?
How could that be?
These cards, they were clearly all the lowest-grade cards!
Yide smiled: “Just change your deck strategy, then add the cards refined by magic power, and it will be enough.”
“Don’t you have enough magic power to refine a few more cards?”
Sonia was stunned, then realized after a moment that Yide was thinking about magic power refinement.
Because she had been dealing with one emergency after another for the past few weeks, Sonia hadn’t even had time to refine cards daily.
Theoretically, unrefined cards had infinite possibilities.
But Sonia wiped the corner of her eye and still shook her head: “It’s no use, Mr. Yide.”
“I only have enough magic power to refine five cards now.”
“Tomorrow’s opponent is a D-rank duelist, with a duel spirit.”
“I… can’t win.”
“Duel spirit? What the hell is a duel spirit!”
Yide rarely swore.
Looking at Sonia’s bewildered eyes, he said fiercely, “Listen to me, I guarantee I’ll help you crush him tomorrow!”
He had long been annoyed with these protectors.
And now that he had some personal grudges, he was even more annoyed.
Hearing Yide’s confident tone, Sonia was completely shaken.
Could it really be possible to win?
Yide’s tone was full of confidence: “If you don’t believe me, do as I say and refine one card first.”
“But… how do I do it?” Sonia was a little confused.
“Summon your Refinement Catalog.”
Sonia obediently did as she was told.
A magic book appeared in her hand, automatically flipping open.
The magic book recorded the names of a dozen or so cards; these were all cards Sonia had refined before.
There were two modes of refinement: random refinement and duplicate refinement.
For cards that had already been refined or owned, the duelist’s Refinement Catalog would record them, so duelists wouldn’t need to repeatedly gamble for the same card.
This explanation was summarized by ancient duelists, and when Yide transmigrated, he also took this alien world senior’s summary as truth.
But he only recently discovered that this statement was not accurate!
And now, what he wanted to try was the BUG of duplicate refinement!
“Mr. Yide, what should I do next?”
“Now, empty your mind, I’m coming in!”
Mr. Yide, please don’t say such strange things.
Sonia instinctively wanted to retort.
But the next moment, she couldn’t.
Just as Yide’s soul entered Sonia’s body, the Refinement Catalog in her hand seemed to sense something and suddenly began to flip open page by page automatically.
And what shocked Sonia even more was that every page of the Refinement Catalog was filled with card names!
“Eh? Wh-what happened!”
Sonia’s voice became flustered.
Why did the Refinement Catalog suddenly record so many cards!
Oh no, oh no, could it be broken?
“Don’t panic, these are cards I once ‘owned’, but they are temporarily recorded in your Refinement Catalog now.”
Looking at the familiar names recorded in the Refinement Catalog, a look of “just as I thought” flashed in Yide’s eyes.
Although some card names and effects had changed to adapt to the rules of this world, and although these card names were all appended with the unique card levels of this world.
All these cards were cards he had owned in his previous life!
“Mr. Yide owned… wh-what does that mean?”
Looking at the densely packed card names recorded in the Refinement Catalog, Sonia’s little head couldn’t process it.
This… there must be tens of thousands of cards here, right?
Are all these cards that Mr. Yide once owned?
Yide showed a strange smile in the mental space: “It means you can now refine cards I once owned.”
He could bring smiles to his opponents again.
However, the first small goal should be set a bit lower, after all, although his entire card list was unlocked, Sonia could still only carry E-rank cards and a small number of D-rank cards.
So, let’s start with playing cards during the opponent’s turn.
Sonia was still unaware of Yide’s dark thoughts.
At this moment, the girl was still immersed in happy troubles.
So many cards, which one should I print first?
So many unlocked at once, but she didn’t recognize any of them.
“Mr. Yide, which one do you think I should print first?”
“My suggestion is, print this one first.”
Yide chuckled, making the Refinement Catalog flip to one of the pages, and pointed to the name of one of the cards on it.
Sonia happily looked at the card’s effect.
But after reading the card effect, she fell silent.
A moment later, the girl’s voice broke the quiet of the night.
“No, no, no! This card is absolutely impossible!”
“What’s impossible? Just put it in!”
“Wuwuwu, but, but, this effect is too insidious!”
“What insidious? This is called sunshine!”