Chapter 125: Ice Princess Gradually Started Fearing The Happy Brothers
Team Beautiful Heart had strict tactical agreements. It was because the start of a Shadow World could separate them into different locations, resulting in random team member combinations. To handle various situations, they agreed on some cooperation that could be executed without communication.
For example, Dekan and Cornelia's actions - once Dekan stunned the enemy, Cornelia would immediately follow up with an attack. If Dekan and Croix, the two supports, were working together and Dekan stunned an enemy, Croix would use "Goblin Gangsters" to confiscate the enemy's cards should he not be able to finish them.
Since the enemies that Dekan couldn't kill often had high tiers, the cards on them were also of high tier. Being of low tier himself, he couldn't successfully bind and use the powerful cards he snatched. Therefore, the best user of "Goblin Gangsters" was naturally Croix, the highest-tier member in the team.
"Snatch all the cards she can be robbed of for me." Commanded Croix. The goblin gangsters had fierce grins on their faces, like predators targeting a juicy piece of meat. They rushed toward the unconscious Isabel on the ground.
As a result, the blue rarity cards on Isabel started decreasing one by one. The goblin gangsters joyfully returned these items to Croix's side, then ran back to Isabel to continue the plunder. After several attempts, they still hadn't snatched a single purple rarity magic card.
Croix's expression gradually turned somewhat bad because the goblin gangsters had brought several items that he didn't want at all! He felt the gaze of the Ice Princess beside him becoming somewhat disdainful.
With the intense efforts of the goblin gangsters, Isabel gradually felt a cooling sensation before, finally, purple magic cards began to burst.
Croix realized that his luck with using "Goblin Gangsters" was extremely poor! It wasn't until even stockings were brought by the goblin gangsters that Croix successfully snatched the last purple rarity card from Isabel.
"This..."
Ice Princess looked at the scattered spoils and the strange scene that just happened with her eyelids twitching. For a moment, she couldn't distinguish who among Dekan, Croix, and Isabel was the villain. And as a girl, even though she was a two-hundred-year-old beauty, the Ice Princess instinctively began to feel a bit fearful of these two good brothers!
...
It was unclear how much time passed when Isabel felt a biting cold wind blowing over her body. The skin-piercing chill made her shudder uncontrollably and abruptly woke her up.
Upon waking, she immediately covered her head. There was still a lingering intense pain. She quickly searched her memory and found that it was because of a severe headache that she lost consciousness. Without thinking, she knew it must be Dekan's doing! Even though she couldn't understand how Dekan could break through the "Spell Counter."
She glanced around at her surroundings. Since she could wake up alive, it indicated that the enemy couldn't threaten her life. But something must have been done during the time she was unconscious! Given Dekan's craftiness, he would never let her off easily.
However, before Isabel could fully survey her surroundings, she discovered the current biggest problem.
It was a feeling of coolness on her body, light and free. Besides the remaining tattered clothes, her armor was completely gone!
But that wasn't the crucial matter, what astonished her was her cards. Where were her cards?! Magic cards, due to their ability to soul-bind, possess high portability and can be hidden in the soul. Therefore, under normal circumstances, even if she was stunned, her cards shouldn't be taken away! The only way would be if she was killed or some special means were used to snatch the cards!
"Dekan!!"
Isabel quickly located Dekan. Dekan remained calmly standing not far away, watching her with indifference. It was as if he had never feared her. Isabel, ready to make a move and attack Dekan, felt a sudden sense of shame that stiffened her body and was unable to move. The brief feeling of shame quickly brought her back to composure.
Without "Pain Nullification," attacking Dekan recklessly would only result in unnecessary suffering. Once without magic cards, even a warrior of high rank would be as vulnerable as a blank slate in front of Dekan. So, Isabel temporarily restrained the impulse to rush over and kill Dekan and instead tightly wrapped her forearms around her chest and stared fixedly at Dekan.
"Let me make it clear, I really dislike fighting with someone whose clothes are in disarray as it will make you look like a rogue trying to sexually assault me," Dekan said with a slightly displeased frown.
"You, you?!" This statement finally seemed to infuriate Isabel, leaving her momentarily unable to formulate curses against Dekan. Not only were her eyes bloodshot with unconcealable anger and humiliation, her reddened eye sockets also seemed to be locking away her tears.
"I will torture you, torture you, and torture you!!" Isabel roared in madness, seemingly wanting to vent her frustration. With the cards taken away, capturing the Ice Princess seemed hopeless. Even if she herself was strong, without countermeasure cards, she couldn't escape Dekan's sinister manipulations.
However, Dekan overlooked one thing—Isabel had always had a way to capture and enslave him from the beginning! Isabel was unwilling to use "Blood Pact Incantation" on Dekan. If she could make the Ice Princess her slave, her position in the Resurgence Church would greatly increase, perhaps even rivaling the Cardinals! Evans might also try to nominate her as a new Cardinal!
However, just enslaving a Tier 3 Dekan wouldn't elevate her status to be on par with the Cardinals. But for now, she had to enslave Dekan! She wanted to enslave this damn man, torture him a thousand times, no, ten thousand times every day! Make him beg for life and wish for death! Let him regret forever for what he had done!
Isabel coldly snorted, her angry expression gradually turning ruthless. Although she had lost all her blue and purple rarity cards, she still had three epic cards bound to her soul that she could use. The first was "Shadow Silence," which she had previously used with the effects of "Spell Counter" and silence. The second was the crucial spell card "Blood Pact Incantation." The third was the sealing spell "Shadow Block," specifically designed to ensure the capture of Dekan as a backup!
[Shadow Block]
[Category: Spell Card]
[Rarity: Orange Epic]
[Tier: 3]
[Effect: After a brief casting period, casts a spell to imprison the target, entangling them in shadow for 30 seconds, making them immune to attacks below tier 7. Entangled target is unable to attack, move, or cast spells during this period. Upon release, this spell cannot be casted again within 1 minute.]
[Note: Shadow Cardinal Minos's innovation on the Ice Block.]
As long as she used this card in conjunction with "Blood Pact Incantation," she could directly initiate the ritual to enslave Dekan!