The magic cards I made are absolutely flawless!

Cynthia removed her blindfold on the other side and peeked at Dekan. She was tense and excited, but also a little afraid of being discovered by him, so she pretended to pay attention to the battle and muttered to herself.

She could clearly sense that Icardinos had stolen the [Netherworld Astrology] from Kozmo, the High Priest of the Cult of Calamity.

Generally speaking, stealing epic cards is unacceptable. Even if a captive dies and perishes with the epic card, they will not be willing to break the soul bond.

Unless it's a particularly vicious scheme, involving inhuman cruelty in torturing and abusing the captives to force them to hand over the epic card.

Forcibly removing the binding of an epic card in this way will almost cripple the cardholder, and in the worst case, the cardholder will suffer soul damage and permanently lose an eight-cost card slot.

This [Netherworld Astral Sign] will take up a full eight mana slot for Icardinos and cannot be easily unbound.

Its buffs do not work on itself, and logically speaking, this epic card with a group support effect is not suitable for Icardinos, who is good at fighting alone.

However, at this moment, Icardinos can use the weakening effect of [Pluto's Astral Sign] to target Menellios!

Without a doubt, Icardinos worshipped the goddess of reincarnation and fate, while Menelius clearly did not believe in the sun god and even harbored great hostility towards the goddess!

"I don't think so. She can't defeat Menellios, who beat her once, with just this. Her real trump card is probably a spell card that Mier specifically created to achieve a kill on the first encounter..."

Pritzker pondered, glancing at Dekan as if seeking his opinion.

However, Dekan smiled without saying a word, as if he already knew the answer in his heart.

There was a harmonious feeling of two children watching their father from the referee's stand.

……

Several minutes passed, and the duel between the two top experts had reached a fever pitch.

The battles between the two sides so far seem to be a replay of the main storyline of their last confrontation!

They have yet to reveal the move that will truly determine the outcome!

Even with the help of the [Netherworld Star Astrology], Icardinos was still at a disadvantage due to her poor physical condition on the battlefield.

After playing for so long, she not only looked exhausted, but her old injuries also started to flare up.

To make up for her disadvantage, Icardinos even used her trump card, "Painful Annihilation," which she had not used against Menellios in the previous battle, early on.

As expected, Menellis seemed to have anticipated her deadly attack and prepared a countermeasure, perfectly avoiding it.

This time, not to mention forcing Menelios to unleash [Chaos Release], even killing Menelios in his unreleased state will be extremely difficult!

However, by this point, the key cards for Icardinos and Menellios had almost all entered a cooling-off period.

If neither side reveals their hand, another round will be played.

However, she can't afford to lose her form, and the offensive pressure is on her!

Icardinos took a deep breath.

The time has come.

At this moment, she changed tactics, no longer caring about the heavy pressure from the [Black Worm], and desperately approached Menellis.

As countless cursed seals rushed towards Menelios, Menelios did not choose to dodge. With his back against the [Black Insect], he used the [Material Authority] to pull Icardinos closer, intending to crush her!

Finally, just as the distance between the two had shrunk to within two meters, the magical storm formed by the intertwining of the heavy pressure and the curse seal seemed about to distort everything around them.

Icardinos suddenly raised her left hand, as if to strangle Menellis from a distance, and activated her strongest mental magic, Absolute Mental Control!

Menellis seemed to be gradually losing control of his body, as if his body had been restrained by a puppeteer, becoming extremely stiff.

Despite the excruciating pain of Menelius's [Chaos End] attack ravaging her body, Icardinos managed to forcibly control Menelius!

This time, however, Menelios had a strategy in place, recalling the [Black Worm] and [Material Authority] well before Icardinos could take control of his mind.

Lacking the ability to finish off enemies, Icardinos would certainly be unable to kill Menellios within this short period of control!

Clearly, she's about to reveal her true trump card once she has Menellis under control!

Menellios's expression was cold, filled with disdain for Icardinos.

He had actually been calculating Icardinos's positioning all along.

To date, Icardinos has used and shown cards with a total cost of 82.

In other words, the only thing she had left that could secure victory was an eighth-tier card.

The eighth rank must be a highly targeted epic card that Mie created for Icardinos.

This is also the upper limit of Mier's card-making ability!

However, Menellis had already prepared a counter-card that could completely counter all poison magic.

[Divine Dispel]

[Category: Spell Card]

[Grade: Purple Rare]

[Class: 9]

[Effect: This card can be activated by thought even when under any controlled state, dispelling all status effects on the user, and the user will be immune to abnormal status effects for 10 seconds after the status effects are dispelled.]

[Note: Forever flawless.]

This card is highly effective against Icardinos, who rely on curse magic, and it can also defend against all poison magic!

No matter what kind of Mier's card Icardinos played, it couldn't change her fate of defeat!

however.

Menellis sneered inwardly when he saw Icardinos reveal her trump card.

Stopped abruptly.

What she pulled out was a Tier 4 card?!

[Summoned Item Recall]

[Category: Spell Card]

[Grade: Blue Rare]

[Class: 4]

[Effect: Forcefully pulls all summoned creatures within 200 meters of the caster back to their side.]

[Note: Back to work!]

It's not even an epic!

It's just a generic card that's easy to buy on the market!

"what are you doing?"

Menelios, seeing the enigmatic card in Icardinos's hand, growled uneasily.

This situation, which he couldn't understand, actually made him worried despite his seemingly sure-win advantage!

As far as Menelius knows, Icardinos's card distribution is an extreme pure mage build; aside from a few pieces of equipment, she never even carries any summons!

But even Menelios didn't understand what she was trying to do with this summoner's function card!

But let's take a step back and say...

If even an eighth-tier card can't solve the problem, what situation can you possibly reverse with four plus four?!

"Humph,"

A sly smile curved Icardinos's lips, and a rare smile appeared on her tired and aloof face:

"I am invoking the gods."

As she spoke, another Tier 4 spell card appeared in Icardinos's hand—[Demon Mark].

It was launched at the Elector on the judges' stand!

This card can grant friendly units the "Summon" attribute and a small attribute bonus equal to one-tenth of the user's attribute!

The next second, while the entire audience was completely bewildered.

The referee has arrived on the field!

352 The End of Dekan's Long Mission

"What the hell?! Why did the Imperial Election Minister go down there?!"

"That's not a foul? Referee? Where's the referee?! He's the referee!"

"Wasn't that spell card Your Majesty Icardinos just now from the missing Pain Pope?"

"Could it be him?!"

The stands in the arena erupted in a cacophony of panicked shouts.

At this moment, not far from the two strongest warriors who were about to determine the victor in the battle, the figure of the Emperor Elect also appeared!

Pritzker, who had been in the referee's seat, stood up, his face filled with shock, and looked down at the center of the arena.

Damn it, what happened to absolute fairness and neutrality?!

Isn't this a corrupt referee?!

Were all those high-sounding words they uttered in the church just an act? They've lost all shame!

At this moment, after "Elector" was turned into a summon by Icardinos, Pritzker finally identified the attributes of his summon!

[Dekan (Elector)]

[Category: Summoning Card]

[Rarity: Orange Epic]

[Class: 6]

[Effect: Allows for a demonic deal, granting the summoner's wish.]

[Note: Imperial power is unparalleled, and the empire is a faith!]

Pritzker stared wide-eyed, feeling as if his previous obsequious attitude towards the "Elector," or rather, the "Painful Pope," this charlatan, made him seem like a toy of Dekan!

But Pritzker dared not speak out against it.

The cooperation between Icardinos and the Elector shows that these two unscrupulous men had conspired to outmaneuver Menellis from the very beginning.