Print the card! Then summon the Shura Field.

While Shen Yi was chatting with the boy, Vera used a small knife to forcefully dig Nia out of the golem, who had completely merged with it.

But that's all she can do.

Nia's body has been completely destroyed by the power of fusion.

Although Vera managed to dig out her flesh, some golem fragments inevitably seeped into her body, giving it a strange, golem-like texture.

Compared to Nia, her brother Roca's situation was clearly much worse.

Due to the backlash from the demon god's power, his body has entered a completely irreversible state of dimensional reduction.

Ultimately, he accepted Vera's suggestion: rather than painfully forcibly remaining in the original dimension, it would be better to autonomously complete the dimensional reduction with a clear consciousness, thereby preserving his clear consciousness.

With the help of Vera and Shen Yi, Roca was sealed inside a card.

"So, you mean this attack was intentionally orchestrated by the Gu family?" Shen Yi asked, looking at Loca, who was warming herself by the fire in her sister Nia's arms.

Loca flipped over, feeling the heat from the flames.

Shen Yi was a little skeptical.

It's not that I think the Gu family wouldn't do something like that.

Is it possible that Gu Jia is so careless in his work that even a boy like Roca, who is not even eighteen years old, can see it?

However, considering Cai Yu's behavior, Shen Yi suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

That guy openly ordered Loca to kill the other duelists.

It's either a makeshift operation or a makeshift troupe.

Either they're just too lazy to pretend anymore.

If Shen Yi leans more towards the latter, then that's even more terrifying.

"But what is their purpose in doing this?" Shen Yi asked, looking at the flickering flames.

"In order to launch a full-scale war and legally occupy this Soul Card world," Vera answered Shen Yi's question.

Shen Yi looked at Vera with some surprise.

When did our own puppet become so smart?

Vera seemed to see Shen Yi's confusion and said with a shrug, "This kind of tactic has long been standard practice for those companies."

"According to the 'Soul Card World Development Guidelines,' large companies are not allowed to develop the Soul Card World through forceful means. Once a violation of the regulations is discovered, the enforcement agency will close the corresponding company's points channel."

"So they usually have to circumvent the guidelines in this way."

"Heh, so there are laws governing this?" Shen Yi grinned and sneered.

"You know what, these regulations are actually quite effective. In most Soul Card worlds, those big companies really don't resort to force." Vera blinked.

"They simply used benefits to bribe the higher-ups in those Soul Card worlds, getting them to betray their own world's interests. Just like Ilovena and the others."

At first, the Elf World simply engaged in normal trade with the Starry World, exchanging minerals for goods from the Starry World.

However, the top elves at the time were all bought off by various companies, allowing these companies to overthrow and acquire local industries.

With the depletion of mineral resources and the lack of local industries, the Elf World naturally has no choice but to sell its labor in order to continue obtaining goods from the Starry World.

When Ilovena's mother came to power, all the males in the entire elven world had already been sold to various Soul Card worlds.

"Especially little boys, who are said to be very popular in those theocratic worlds," Ilovena said with a wry smile when talking about why there weren't even any elven boys.

In this situation, Ilovena's mother, who later rose to power, could only continue the path of her predecessors. Then, the adult women of the elven race left their original world and went to various Soul Card worlds to become maids.

The Elf World is a prime example of a Starry World that has completely devoured other Soul Card Worlds.

These companies did not use any violence throughout the entire process; everything was a very natural "capital operation."

However, it would be an oversimplification to say that these companies are completely unregulated.

There is no official government in the Starry World; this was decided by the people of Starry World themselves through a vote three hundred years ago.

In order to free themselves from government constraints, capital uses AI to create a set of exclusive rhetoric for each citizen to ensure that they can be persuaded to vote in favor of dissolving the government, and uses AI robots to create a public opinion environment on the Internet that supports the dissolution of the government.

Amidst the massive flood of information generated by AI, everyone feels that the disappearance of government is an inevitable trend of the times.

The executive body Vera mentioned is officially called the Human Morality Executive Body, which was established by the last Starshine Government on the eve of its dissolution.

The three thousand most elite and hardest-working federal officials of the Starshine Federation voluntarily underwent cyber ascension, uploading themselves as intelligent entities to form a special agency called the Human Moral Enforcement Agency.

Faced with the overwhelming tide of AI, even the most hard-working and incorruptible people are unsure whether they will be deceived or persuaded, so they can only maintain humanity's last moral bottom line in this way.

It has no physical form, yet it is omnipresent, because theoretically it can command any intelligent robot.

By controlling the points system, it constrains the behavior of capital to some extent.

After humans are produced, they undergo normal education and are then integrated into society. They decide for themselves whether to become followers. This set of regulations is the work of the implementing agency.

Otherwise, given the nature of those conglomerates, it would be more efficient to brainwash children during their education and directly package them into follower cards.

With current technology, they have more than enough children to go around, so mass-produced consumables shouldn't try to steal the duelists' spot.

However, enforcement agencies are not omnipotent.

It is, after all, a product of the self-sacrifice of a group of human elites three hundred years ago. While its rules uphold the moral bottom line of humanity, they are already outdated.

Moreover, once there are explicit rules, humans have unlimited potential to exploit loopholes in those rules.

For example, right now.

Because the Starry Sky People were attacked by the local natives in the Soul Card World, according to the "Frontline Defense Regulations," in order to ensure the safety of the Starry Sky People in the corresponding world, the relevant companies can send unmanned troops into the corresponding world.

The Enforcement Agency is the executive body of the Starry World, and its primary responsibility is to protect the citizens of the Starry World.

"So," Shen Yi stopped what he was doing, "the Gu family will then use this attack as a pretext to forcibly enter this world?"

Vera nodded.

"Is no one able to stop it?"

"All actions are reasonable and legal, and the enforcement agencies have no reason to obstruct them," Vera said. "The troops deployed are all unmanned war robots, so there will be no casualties. As long as we use AI to control online public opinion, the people of Starry World won't even know what's happening here."

"...Heh." Shen Yi chuckled coldly. "It's so dark."

Hearing their conversation, Nia trembled as she held Loka close, and cautiously asked, "Is a war about to break out?"

Hearing Nia's words, Vera, who was thinking about how to comfort her master, suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said:

"However, the world of Soul Cards is not entirely without means of resistance."

As she spoke, she looked at Nia.

"But it mainly depends on the wishes of the local people themselves."