124 Dekan had started predicting a year ago.
“Naive!”
In the end, Dekan was still only this competent.
A flicker of this thought crossed Isabel’s mind.
Fortunately, she had activated [Spell Counter] earlier.
[Mental Collision] was a first-ranked spell card, and there was no doubt it would be nullified by Isabel’s preemptively activated [Spell Counter].
When Isabel thought Dekan’s final struggle was about to be erased and the situation was tilting in her favor again,
she suddenly felt a slight tremor in her brain.
It was as if she had been bumped into.
It seemed that a much weaker spirit had just collided with her own.
In the next instant,
an unknown pain nearly tore apart her brain nerves.
“Ah!”
Isabel screamed in agony.
Her body convulsed violently, and then she collapsed on the ground like a marionette whose strings had been cut, not even realizing what had happened.
“Stupid kitty.”
Dekan the Cat nimbly leapt out of the dummy’s belly.
It raised its front paw to cover its mouth, looking at Isabel who lay unconscious on the ground, its pupils gleaming with cunning.
“Cost cannot be canceled kitty!”
Apart from a slight headache, Dekan the Cat was otherwise unscathed.
He didn’t even faint as the loser of [Mental Collision].
Because the dizziness effect was negated by the [Spell Counter].
But the mental collision between the two was not nullified by [Spell Counter].
Dekan was always someone who prepared in places “the enemy could not guess.”
He had already considered the possibility that the enemy might use spell-breaking spells against him when he first created [Mental Collision].
[Mental Collision] could be said to be one of Dekan’s ultimate means.
Ordinary enemies could be easily dealt with without needing to use this card.
Once Dekan needed this card, it was almost always at the decisive moment against a strong enemy.
If this card were to be countered, Dekan might lose everything.
So, he had already begun to consider methods against [Spell Counter] while creating [Mental Collision].
As a seasoned card player, Dekan quickly found the obvious weakness of the countering spells in this world—
These countering spells could only nullify the “effect part” of the spell cards.
But they could not counter the “activation cost part” that had already been paid when the spell cards were activated!
Theoretically, only time-based counters could possibly undo the activation cost paid upon card activation.
But cards involving time were already essentially not the same thing as [Spell Counter].
Throughout the history of this world, time-based and space-based cards were akin to red legendary cards—whether they even truly existed could not be determined.
After finding the method to counter the countering spells,
Dekan immersed himself in research. After repeated attempts, he eventually created [Mental Collision].
Dekan deliberately made “triggering a clash of mental powers” the activation cost,
separating it from the “causing strong dizziness effect” of the spell effect.
Thus, Isabel’s [Spell Counter] only countered the dizziness effect but had no impact on the intense mental collision between the two.
Dekan successfully inflicted the pain he received from Isabel 60 times back on her.
“Gee, if all duel arenas were 10,000 meters up in the air, it would be great.”
Dekan reverted to his human form, sighing helplessly.
He was currently facing an issue.
Places without advantageous terrain were too troublesome.
Seventh-rank Isabel was too tough.
With her armor set, she was probably tougher than Bachelor and Olive.
With Dekan’s means, only [Purification of Blood] could slowly grind Isabel down.
However, Isabel was not the pitiful vampire in the snow mountain mansion; she had troublesome magical cards.
Should [Purification of Blood] awaken her from pain,
and before he could knock her out again,
she would activate pain suppression and counterattack.
Against an enemy like Isabel, the same trick couldn’t work twice.
It would be almost impossible to knock her out again.
At this moment, Dekan needed help from his teammates.
So he looked towards Chloix.
In the distance,
Ice Snow Princess, holding the chain staff, widened her eyes.
She knew she should focus all her attention on suppressing the [Destruction Demon King].
But since just now,
no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t avert her gaze from Dekan.
The entire exchange between Isabel and Dekan lasted only a dozen seconds.
When Ice Snow Princess saw Dekan falling into a disadvantage, just seconds away from being killed,
she unconsciously bit her lips, not even noticing the blood that trickled.
A few seconds later, Isabel fell helplessly without any resistance.
Ice Snow Princess suddenly relaxed her tightened heart.
Every move Dekan made was beyond her understanding.
Even with over two hundred years of experience, Ice Snow Princess’s curiosity towards Dekan was growing uncontrollably.
“Did he win?”
Ice Snow Princess asked vacantly.
Even now, she found it hard to believe.
“Not yet. We both lack finishing moves as auxiliaries.”
Chloix helplessly shook his head.
If Chloix recklessly summoned sixth-rank creatures, it would only awaken Isabel and not kill her.
“I’ll do it.”
The Ice Snow Princess’s expression turned icy.
If Isabel woke up, it would be another disaster!
However, just as the Ice Snow Princess was about to channel her power to release her strongest ice magic to instantly kill Isabel,
“Roar!!”
The [Destruction Demon King] suddenly started violently struggling, attempting to break free from the suppression during this opportunity.
It seemed that as long as the Ice Snow Princess was slightly more distracted, the battle would be lost!
Grinding her teeth, she forcibly diverted all her strength back to the chain staff with a look of regret.
“Damn, I have to finish off the Destruction Demon King before I can take out that woman.”
Even while saying this, Ice Snow Princess knew well.
Dekan and Chloix, who couldn’t even defeat Isabel, certainly couldn’t defeat [Destruction Demon King].
“Regrettable.”
Chloix sighed, pulling out a few cards.
If any other student from Hewenlit Academy were here, they would surely recognize that these cards were exactly the ones that had brought them a terrible experience a few months ago—[Bandit Goblin]!
[Bandit Goblin], when inflicting damage on the enemy, would prioritize changing the inflicted damage to forcibly stealing one item from the enemy!
What was stolen could be candy, keys, wallet-like items.
Of course, it could also directly steal the enemy’s magical cards, along with forcibly disbinding their soul-bound status!
If the rank was sufficient, it could bind and use it directly!
However, it could only steal up to purple rare-quality cards.
Since orange epic cards couldn’t have their soul bindings forcibly removed without the owner’s consent.
