Shen Sui unhesitatingly destroyed the [Cold-blooded Dragon Princess Kulin].

There was nothing to feel sorry for, Kulin's effect could only be activated once per turn, and now it can be considered that her mission is complete.

Although this [Dragon Princess City's Compromise] is Bai Ye's card, when Shen Sui acts as the initiator, the deck referred to for effect activation is Shen Sui's — of course, the [Cold-blooded Dragon Princess Kulin] that was destroyed as a cost will still return to Bai Ye's graveyard.

Shen Sui flipped over the top two cards of the deck.

[Loli Dragon Maid Mitole].

Shen Sui happily added [Loli Dragon Maid Mitole] to his hand: "According to the effect of [Dragon Princess City's Compromise], I add this Follower Card to my hand."

Due to Kulin's effect, the effect of the Holy Rose was negated, and then the card effects began to resolve upwards along the chain.

In the end, the effect of the Rose of the End did not activate.

An Hai seemed unbothered, without a hint of disappointment on his face for the tactical failure.

He released the Rose of the End directly, then opened the graveyard: "I activate the effect of [Holy Rose - Gan Lin] in the graveyard. The turn she is sent to the graveyard, if I have no [Rose] or [Roses] in play, I can special summon her onto the field."

"Rose blooming in the sacred land!"

"Cleanse this world of its impurities!"

As the words fell, the beautiful, pure white Holy Rose slowly appeared on the field.

No wonder she's an individual on the same evolutionary line as the Fairy Rose. From her, Shen Sui saw many aspects reminiscent of the Fairy Rose.

"Activate the effect of [Holy Rose - Gan Lin] on my field. Once per turn, special summon up to three [Rose] or [Roses] Followers from my deck. The total star level of the Followers special summoned this way cannot exceed that of the Holy Rose. Followers special summoned this way are sent to the graveyard at the end of the turn."

"Activate the effect of [Silent Dragon Princess Kari]," Shen Sui wasn't lenient. No matter what An Hai planned to summon using this effect, Kari's effect must be activated, sending the recently summoned Holy Rose to the graveyard first.

An Hai seemed to be waiting for this moment, but just as he was about to say something, Shen Sui spoke first: "When an opponent's Follower is sent to the graveyard, I activate the effect of Cheryl on my field to return that Follower to the owner's deck."

With that, he stuffed the Holy Rose back into An Hai's deck.

Even as calm as An Hai, he was stunned for a moment at this scene.

When his Follower was sent to the graveyard, there was a card effect timing point. An Hai had long since seen this. Even if Shen Sui clicked to not activate the effect very quickly, the fleeting progress bar couldn't escape the experienced An Hai's eyes.

But he never expected Shen Sui to activate the effect at this timing point.

His original plan was to recover the Holy Rose sent to the graveyard back to his hand for continued use as a hand trap.

Did Shen Sui know about the effect of his Holy Rose?

But this was a newly evolved Follower that he had just cultivated not long ago; it was the first time on the official duel stage, how could its effect be known?

To this, An Hai could only chalk it up to a certain intuition as a Life Card Master.

Because the duel stage was very large, and the card text under the Follower Card wasn't very large, An Hai didn't even think Shen Sui had read the card effects with his eyes.

"Heh heh, I helped you return the Follower Card, happy?" Shen Sui cheekily grinned.

Ji Bubai's mouth twitched slightly, but An Hai showed no expression.

He had already experienced such words from Shen Sui more than once on the air duel platform.

"Thank you." An Hai surprisingly answered Shen Sui's question seriously.

Uh...

Shen Sui didn't know how to respond for a moment.

To answer the other party's taunt and insult seriously, in a sense, could also be considered a kind of retort.

The audience burst into laughter at An Hai's serious response.

Feeling bored, Shen Sui pouted, then executed the latter half of Cheryl's effect, searching his deck for a [Dragon] Follower Card to special summon to the field.

This was the advantage of teammates using related archetype decks. Bai Ye's Follower and Spell Cards could be maximally utilized by Shen Sui.

Shen Sui special summoned [Grafa's Dragon Princess Onira] from the deck.

"Activate the effect of [Grafa's Dragon Princess Onira]." Shen Sui directly activated Onira's effect, "When she is special summoned, I can send one [Dragon] Follower on my field to the graveyard, to destroy all opponent Followers whose star level is lower than this [Dragon] Follower."

Shen Sui sent the Silent Dragon Princess Kari, who had used her effect five times, to the graveyard, directly targeting An Hai's three Followers on the front field.

These three Followers were specially summoned by An Hai through [Holy Rose - Gan Lin]. Due to Holy Rose's star level limit on special summoned Followers, these three Followers' star levels were far lower than that of [Silent Dragon Princess Kari], so they were unsurprisingly destroyed.

But An Hai didn't show the slightest discomfort, as if the demise of these small pieces of grass had little effect on him.

"This really helped me a lot." An Hai not only didn't feel bad, but even spoke to Shen Sui, "You saved me the procedure of releasing."