After finishing his duel, Shen Sui chatted briefly with Louise, mainly about this year’s Thor’s Cup.

The Thor’s Cup is typically held around March.

As the most famous global tournament, Shen Sui, with his current rank, naturally cannot participate in this A-class competition, even if he holds a black card that grants direct entry into the main event.

However, Shen Sui hadn’t anticipated that in a world tournament, there would be this kind of backdoor black card.

"Don’t think it’s that simple," Louise said to Shen Sui. "Direct entry into the main event with a black card is actually a privilege for the organization’s founders, with only four slots each year. But since it’s a competition, the organizers will still review black card holders and list the reasons for their entry into the main event on a public notice."

Louise looked at Shen Sui and said with a smile, "But you don’t need to worry. As long as your rank meets the conditions for participation, the organizers will help you polish the notice." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

What Louise didn’t mention was that gifting a black card is one of the ways these founder families woo powerful Life Card Masters, so they wouldn’t easily give this card to a Life Card Master without significant strength. When they choose investors, they have already vetted the other party’s strength.

In Louise’s view, Shen Sui fully has the strength and qualification to participate in the Thor’s Cup.

"Rank, huh? I think it should be soon," Shen Sui mused, stroking his chin.

If this championship goes smoothly, Shen Sui could be certified through a rank-promotion match to become an eighth-tier Life Card Master and naturally meet the minimum threshold for an A-class competition.

But the prerequisite is that someone can spread the news of him winning this Pacific Cruise Championship.

If anything happens to this Saint Yimiti, and only Vivian and I survive, without other witnesses, the Exploration Bureau will find it hard to arrange Shen Sui’s rank-promotion.

Speaking of the Exploration Bureau, I seem to have forgotten something.

After contemplating for a while, Shen Sui was about to have a clue when the dueling device rang.

He glanced down at the dueling device.

[Alice walked out from the ruins, looking slightly embarrassed.]

[Ding! You have obtained the spell card: Crash]

"..." Shen Sui was speechless, how could you manage to cause trouble even while traveling.

[Harms stared blankly at Alice.]

["Haha, haha," Alice scratched her head awkwardly, "Sorry, I thought I could land safely."]

[Saying this, she turned her head and glared at the unconscious Lingyi with displeasure.]

[Who could have thought that, after evolving in the Spiritual World, Lingyi’s strength increased, but his landing skills showed no improvement.]

[Alice sighed, took out a treasure card, and placed the unconscious Lingyi into it.]

["Why do I feel like this scene seems familiar," Aivia pondered, stroking her chin.]

[Harms also felt it was familiar, but when Alice crashed at the War God Temple before, he was just a priest in charge of the Pseudo-Dusk Council and only witnessed Alice’s fall from the periphery of the ceremony. His impression of Lingyi was not that deep.]

[Aivia could recall how Lingyi looked back then, but now Lingyi has changed his appearance with his evolution, and it was hard to link the two without taking a closer look.]

["Let’s tally it up," Alice said to Harms, "whatever damage was done, the Thunder Church will cover it all."]

[Alice thought very clearly, after all, she didn’t need to pay this money; she could just file for reimbursement through the church.]

Goodness, seeing Alice’s thoughts, Shen Sui began to mourn for the Thunder Church.

He even felt that Alice didn’t need to do anything else to bankrupt the Thunder Church; she just needed to maintain her current level of destruction and then seek reimbursement from the Master of Thunder afterward.

Perhaps, the Thunder Church might become the first church in history to go bankrupt due to enormous compensation payouts.

[But to the War God Priests, Alice’s statement had an entirely different meaning.]

[Descending from the sky to destroy the sacrificial altar of the War God Temple and then pretending to be generous by offering full compensation, this was clearly a provocation to the War God Church.]

[This Pope of the Thunder Church, named Adoma, obviously intends to give the War God Church a tough lesson.]

[All of a sudden, the priests of the War God Church were incensed.]

[Some impulsive priests even drew their weapons, ready to duel Alice to the death.]

[Harms’ face was extremely grim.]

[Although he had converted to the Twilight Saintess and no longer cared much about the War God, and didn’t mind the destruction of the altar, Alice’s actions clearly seemed to him like a slap in the face.]

[This Pope Adoma probably didn’t come with good intentions!]

[Originally intending to tear down the War God Church, Aivia was delighted to see Alice’s actions. At first, she thought the Thunder Church would stay out of it, but she didn’t expect their pope to impose such an extreme insult on the War God Church right away.]

[Aivia found this amusing and greatly improved her impression of Adoma.]

[Such behavior made her think of Alice.]

[The moment Aivia thought of Alice, her original lighthearted watching attitude turned heavy again.]