Chapter 1068: Chapter 255: The Last Time Underground—Farewell (Part 2, Chapters Combined)
Brand remembered the scene outside, which almost confirmed what the elder sister said. However, although the Clockwork Man killed those grave robbers, it didn’t make Leder take the cards back, indicating that it might not be entirely against Yi Lian’s plan, but had its own considerations. If not, Brand thought he wouldn’t be here today.
The confusion in his heart got somewhat explained, and he nodded, listening to the Deer Demon Sister continue speaking.
Yi Lian continued to explain the Adversity Heaven deck, saying: "Every deck has its core tactics. These tactics vary depending on each Travel Mage’s mindset. Some Travel Mages favor offense, and their decks can form extremely strong combat capabilities in a short time, using some direct attack spells and quickly summoning creature armies to create suppression, simply and directly eliminating the enemy; but some Travel Mages prefer to strike later, their decks are skilled in control, establishing victory through the advantages of defense transformation, these decks are generally more stable, first not losing then defeating the enemy."
"However, Adversity Heaven is different from these mentioned above; it has both means for forming rapid offense and defenses for counterattack," the Deer Demon Banshee said, with a bit of pride: "Adversity Heaven has two cards, Nightmare Furnace Construct and Lightning Storm, the Nightmare Furnace Construct has both the attributes of Divine Artifact Creature and Spirit Statue. They are considered dead things on the field, immune to all instant death effects, and have very low costs, allowing them to quickly take the field; the Lightning Storm Spell can copy an Electric Ball for each Nightmare Furnace Construct on the field, the more Nightmare Furnace Constructs, the greater the power of Lightning Storm. Furthermore, Nightmare Furnace Construct can self-replicate, quickly forming a scale."
(Nightmare Furnace Construct (Adversity Heaven IX), 1 Dark; [Treasure—Divine Artifact Creature/Nightmare Furnace Spirit Statue, Level 26 Biological]; Effect: Pay 1 Light, copy a derivative of itself. ’In every tiny container, a real soul is wailing.’)
(Lightning Storm (Adversity Heaven VI), 4 Energy; [Spell—Instant]; Effect: Tap all Nightmare Furnace Constructs on the field, target causing 5 points of true damage for each Nightmare Furnace Construct. Goes to the graveyard after use. ’Volley!—Ekronia Legion Commander, Talin’)
"This spell often takes effect within minutes, and in fact, this is not its full power." The elder sister was slightly proud, "You are relatively lucky, only Pure White Heaven cards can provide enough Light Elements for Furnace self-replication. Moreover, the owner did not seal the Anxiety card in the Array due to some considerations; otherwise, relying on the repeated filtering of spells early on, ’Anxiety’ could quickly replicate dozens of Lightning Storms simultaneously appearing on the field, which is one of the true killing moves of Adversity Heaven."
Hearing this, Brand broke out in a cold sweat. That Lightning Storm was something he had seen the Clockwork Man wield repeatedly, and its power was terrifying. But at that moment, he realized for the first time that it was because the opponent didn’t have the Anxiety card; he could completely imagine the effect if Anxiety replicated dozens of Lightning Storms simultaneously appearing on the battlefield, a scene of gods being killed and Buddhas being extinguished!
"This is the first killing move of Adversity Heaven, but like all fast attack decks, it has obvious weaknesses. Firstly, spells are easily countered, secondly, the Nightmare Furnace Construct itself is too fragile, and once this killing move is countered, the Adversity Heaven deck will enter the process of adversity," the Deer Demon elder sister continued, "because the deck also includes the Desperate Trojan card, which is prepared for this counterattack."
"The role of Desperate Trojan is to filter four Creature Cards from the player’s deck and move them out of combat until there are more than forty non-black biological deaths on the field, where these moved-out creature cards can be placed into the field for free. You might think exchanging forty for four is not worth it, but just consider, if the four creature cards in your hand are expensive and powerful like the Eternal Wound, how would that be?" the Deer Demon elder sister smiled mysteriously, "So Adversity Heaven’s two methods, one before the other, each is almost a kill means. My master ranks among the top of the thirteen Travel Mages with this deck, second only to Tu Men and a few others like Odin."
