My Stubborn Soul Card Follower

Chapter 938 - 543: Alice Is a Deep Sea Spy! (Part 2)

Since the Deep Sea wants to plant a human traitor inside, and even make her a human hero, then he might as well help all the way through; that would be good for him too.Alice had absolutely no idea that someone would actually "canonize" her identity just because of their own self-brainwashing. Right now she was looking for related missions, the kind that could take her to Shen Gang.

"How reliable are you, really?" The Deep Sea North Residence, currently in the form of a loli battleship, held Alice’s hand and muttered under her breath, "Can you really get to Shen Gang like a normal person?"

"There shouldn’t be any problem..." Alice coughed twice, saying this to reassure the Deep Sea North Residence.

The Deep Sea North Residence grumbled, "You’d better hurry up, otherwise if Big Sis finds out I ran away from home again, she’ll totally blow her top. Red Maple Fortress might become the first place she searches."

"Again... you ran away from home before?"

"Ah... that was almost a thousand years ago." The Deep Sea North Residence fell into reminiscence. "I heard that bastard who always brought a whole bunch of shipgirls over to beat me up suddenly vanished, so I snuck out to see what was going on."

"Huh? Why?"

The Deep Sea North Residence rubbed her chin and said, "Because that guy’s one of the few people in this world who can actually beat me. If he disappears, where am I supposed to get inspiration?"

Alice was puzzled. "Inspiration? What kind of inspiration?"

"Inspiration for being humiliated, obviously." The Deep Sea North Residence put one hand on her waist, looking very proud. "I’m an experiential type!"

Hearing that, Alice was so startled she took a step back. "You actually have that kind of kink..."

"You bastard! I do not!" The little loli bared her teeth and hopped in place. "But if you want to depict the mental journey of someone being humiliated, firsthand experience is the best. That’s why I say Tyrpitz’s whole philosophy is just castles in the air! She’s never actually experienced pure love, so how could she possibly draw pure love?"

"Have you considered the possibility," Alice blinked and said, "that only people who’ve never been in love can imagine how beautiful love is?"

"...."

For a moment, the Deep Sea North Residence had no idea how to keep chatting with Alice.

Right at that moment, the military merit certification from Red Maple Fortress was delivered into Alice’s hands.

In the end, Alice had still underestimated this piece of military merit a little.

An entire fleet, driving back a Deep Sea Flagship as powerful as the Deep Sea North Residence—results like that would shine especially bright when placed against the past few decades.

It’s not that the Azure Federation had never defeated a fleet led by a Deep Sea Flagship. After all, if they didn’t even have that ability, they would have been steamrolled by the Deep Sea long ago.

But to achieve such results with just a single fleet—that was a first.

So the related honors came flooding toward Alice one after another.

Very soon, Alice received an invitation from Shen Gang to participate in exercises.

Exactly how Alice bragged about all this to the Deep Sea North Residence, let’s not dwell on for now; Shen Sui was already kind of numb to it.

Why does it always feel like even if Alice does nothing, everything still ends up developing in the direction she wants?

But in any case, Alice had, by her own efforts, found a path leading to Shen Gang.

If the intel he’d gotten before was correct, there should be information about his shipgirl there.

"Judging by that expression, looks like Alice’s progress is pretty good." Vivian walked over with a plate of bread and sat down beside Shen Sui, smiling as she spoke.

"Yeah, she’s about to head to Shen Gang now." Shen Sui reported the situation to Vivian, then casually took a slice of bread from the plate in her hands. "What’s with you suddenly eating toast?"

"Topping up my energy a bit." Vivian yawned as she spoke.

"Mm, not bad." Shen Sui tasted it. Even though he still wasn’t used to bread-type foods, he had to admit the flavor really was quite good.

Vivian beamed. "Tasty, right? Cost us one toaster."

"???"

"Qishala’s interrogating Mitole right now." Vivian said, "I figure she’s about to lose this hard-won chance to make toast."

Mitole, being a Dragon Maid with ideals, obviously couldn’t accept the fact that she’d been reduced to background decoration, so she lodged a very serious protest with Qishala.

Qishala herself also felt that denying Mitole’s abilities like this really didn’t fit a head maid’s professional ethics. Combined with Mitole’s performance in the Parasite Beast world, she finally relented and lifted Mitole’s work restrictions.

The new job she assigned Mitole, of course, was making toast—and specifically, making toast with a toaster as her specialization.

Qishala figured that with standards already lowered this far, there was no way anything could go wrong this time, right? Naturally, as expected, the unexpected happened.

Under Mitole’s meticulous handling, the toaster became a single-use appliance.

"Of course, that huge loss might actually be worth it." Vivian didn’t know whether she should laugh or not. "Because the bread really is pretty tasty."

After finishing the bread in her hand, Vivian finally moved on to serious business with Shen Sui.

Her work was basically about to enter the testing phase.

The first wave of tests would naturally go according to the original plan: recruit Life Card Masters from various ordinary worlds to participate, then plant the seeds of the Magical Girl project.

And this test wave would probably start showing results on the Life Card Master forums very soon.

Although this was a closed beta, it wasn’t a confidential one; a lot of the information was public.

In an era where people felt extremely confused and terrified about the future, properly releasing this kind of safety-building test information was very necessary.

Sure enough, once this test was announced, the various Life Card Master forums exploded.

Since it was about resisting the Extraordinary Invasion, the main force obviously couldn’t be these ordinary people with no Extraordinary Power. Once this method was rolled out, Life Card Masters from Extraordinary Worlds would be on the front line, so those Life Card Masters quickly entered prep mode.

First of all, of course, was building a good relationship with their Soul Cards. The projections of their Soul Cards were the key to surviving in that buffer world.

Second was using the remaining time to boost their own strength and that of their Soul Cards as much as possible.

Most of the efforts of these Life Card Masters didn’t actually have much to do with Shen Sui—except for those from World No. 8.

With the Recovery of World No. 8, a significant portion of the new generation of Life Card Master students chose World No. 8 as their Soul Card World. This massive influx of Life Card Masters formed a huge wave of momentum that blew Alice up to an almost legendary status.

Not long after news about the buffer zones was released, Alice was practically hoisted onto the imperial throne by a crowd of Life Card Masters.

She might not know it herself, but in reality Alice had already become the first emperor of a newly unified continent in the new era of World No. 8.

But clearly, the Life Card Masters under Alice weren’t about to let her expansion stop there.

If the Leonis Empire stopped expanding, how were they supposed to farm Life Cards? They couldn’t exactly start grinding their own compatriots at home, right?

Everyone was scraping guides off the internet; no one was inherently more "elite" than anyone else, so the competition pressure was easy to imagine.

But if the Leonis Empire kept expanding, everything would be fine again. War is the fastest way to rack up tons of Life Cards.

So, without Alice having any idea, these Life Card Masters were already preparing to hoist her up and march straight down the road to world domination.

Shen Sui wanted to see how far these Life Card Masters had gotten. Considering that Alice’s side was more urgent, he naturally wouldn’t bother her to help him switch perspectives.

As it happened, Martina was currently in World No. 8 checking on her big squid.

Shen Sui switched his point of view over to Martina.

[Martina was holding a bubble in her hand, treating the wound on her big squid’s head.]

["I told you that was a really nasty mine, but you just had to take a bite." Martina scolded the big squid. "They made that specifically to blow up sea monsters."]