Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

"Already... not even a drop is left..." Loki said weakly as he collapsed on the ground with his face up, as if everything was burned out. His entire body had lost all color and only white ash remained.

Next to Loki, Ale pulled up his trousers with a look of satisfaction.

Hayato looked at him with disdain. "I just asked you to extract the magic power from Loki. Why do you act like you just had a great time? You magicians are disgusting."

"It's all because of a scumbag like you, Aleister, that Hayato-sama has so many misunderstandings about us!"

Behind Hayato, the Water Sender of the Temple jumped out impatiently and clarified, "Master Hayato, you must understand clearly that we magicians are not perverts. Only Aleister is like that!"

"Hmph, you talk so nicely, but when it comes to the Master, you're just a pervert, eh?"

"I'm not a machine, and I can't suppress the desire to get closer to the past after seeing such a brilliant mind." [Water Sent by the Temple] retorted, and then suddenly showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, "Is that so? So you are also attracted to Hayato-sama?"

"Really? So what attracts me most about Master is his soul? I didn't realize this until now."

"Why is it that a magician like you is so narrow-minded!"

"Kobayashi Hayato is a man who can become my Master. How can you say such a thing when you try to compete with me for him!"

"Master? Lord Hayato? Uwaaa!"

After casually slapping the two of them onto the card, Hayato complained, "What a disgrace! You keep saying things that only NTs can understand."

“Maybe they are bound by gravity?” Mimir looked at [Summoner-Aleister] and [Water Sentient of the Temple] who were locked in their respective cards and asked, “You didn’t take me back too?”

"Guess why I wanted to kick you out before?" Hayato rolled his eyes at him, "I don't need a card spirit that doesn't have the determination to dedicate its life to me."

Some people might be ecstatic about Mimir running into their cards without permission and becoming a card elf, but Hayato is not impressed at all, especially since Mimir even has the ability to resist his command and decide whether to appear or not.

On the small hand, he might not obey orders when he is needed to fight or answer questions. On the big hand, if he pretends to be dead and does not respond to Hayato's cards in his deck during a duel, that would be a big problem!

——Well, I didn’t say the opposite. It’s true that playing cards is more important than fighting.

On the other hand, although Hayato's other cards often appear, it is actually Hayato's deliberate indulgence. If Hayato wants to [Disturbance·Yellow], they can only complain in the cards at most and don't even think about showing up without permission. Moreover, they are all willing to give everything for Hayato.

In short, if loyalty is not absolute, then it is absolutely disloyal. In this case, Hayato was naturally full of resistance to Mimir's behavior of running into his deck. As soon as the duel was over, he immediately took back the [Fountain of the Divine Monument] card before Mimir could react, and did not take out the card again to give him the chance to get in again.

——And all of this has nothing to do with the fact that [Fountain of the Divine Monument] where Mimir resides is just a Field Magic Card and not a Monster Card, and cannot be released by Hayato. Yes, absolutely not.

However, despite Hayato's resistance, the outgoing Mimir winked at him playfully and said, "Don't be so resistant, brother. Let's not talk about the distant future. I helped you obtain the power of the Gungnir Fragment, didn't I? You will need my help in your next journey."

"In this land." Mimir said confidently with his arms spread out, "I know everything."

"Then who is Odin?"

Hayato casually raised a question, choking Mimir's words. He said unhappily: "I've already said it, I've never heard of such a name. Even a wise man like me who has gained amazing wisdom doesn't know it. I can guarantee that no one on this earth knows what the 'Odin' you are talking about is-"

"Ha, on the contrary, I know this name." At this moment, as if deliberately slapping Mimir in the face, Loki suddenly said, "He is my blood brother who has made an oath to me. Of course I know who Odin is."

Although Loki, whose magic power had been drained, could not cast even a single spell at the moment, and even just sitting up from the ground consumed a lot of his energy, he sat on the ground with his hands tied up, his face pale and panting, "But if you want to gain, you must lose. How about using this answer as the spoils I owe you? Let's make sure we owe each other nothing."

Hayato was too lazy to negotiate with Loki. He was quite curious about what kind of background story the AI ​​could make up, so he asked, "Tell me about it?"

Seeing Hayato nod, Loki did not keep him in suspense and said immediately: "The world was originally in chaos, until three gods killed the ancestor giant Ymir and formed the heaven and earth. Among them, the world tree grew in Ymir's heart and connected the nine worlds. Odin was one of the three gods who created the world, representing 'wisdom', and the other two gods represented 'spirit' and 'will' respectively."

"Then, in order to bring wisdom back to the gods, Odin stole mead and drank it, gaining sharp eyes that could see through everything. He then exchanged his right eye for the Fountain of Wisdom, learned the most profound and mysterious way to obtain it, and hung himself upside down on the World Tree to offer himself, and found the existence of the Rune."

Hayato frowned, and when he saw Loki stop talking, he said, "I have heard what you said countless times in mythology. Is that all?"

"Don't be anxious, I haven't finished yet. What comes next is the most important thing, and I will only tell you." Loki raised his tied hands and waved to Hayato to signal him to come over. Although Mimir was very curious about what they were whispering about, he did not lean over to eavesdrop, but just looked around unhappily.

In Hayato's ear, Loki lowered his voice and said, "Actually, you are not from this world, but this world was created because of you. Don't you think the myth I just told you sounds familiar? The three 'gods' of wisdom, spirit, and will attack a target."

"Why can you understand the meaning of runes so easily?"

"Why are you attracted to the fragments of Gungnir made from the branches of the world?"

"Why can you easily control the Gungnir fragment you just acquired?"

"There is only one answer, a human named 'Danrito'!" Looking at the game ID displayed on Hayato's head, Loki couldn't help but raise his voice, "You are the true creator of this world - Ymir!"

"The Odin you're looking for? He pierced himself with Gungnir and hung himself upside down on the World Tree, dedicating himself to himself. While bringing runes to the world, he also made himself disappear from the world, becoming an existence somewhere outside the world, overlooking the entire world! The shattered Gungnir is the best proof!"

In the real world——

"Ah-"

The game cabin opened, and Kaiba sat up from the cabin. He easily adapted to the gravity that the earth exerted on him again after returning to reality, but he moved his arms somewhat impatiently: "My movements have become slower than in 'Duel-Links'? Damn gravity!" "Huh? Has that Hayato guy entered the game too?" Kaiba said, looking at the activated game cabin next to him.

The one who answered him was Keipi, who turned around in his swivel chair. "It was probably about ten minutes after it had been running, and at the same time as the students who were trying out the game and helping us with the test set off, Hayato-nii went in, and it's been almost ten minutes now. Didn't you run into Hayato-nii in the game?"

"Freed from the constraints of the flesh, and acting with pure thoughts and spirit, the human mind can speed up at least ten times within a safe range. This is the deepest secret hidden in the world of 'Duel-Links', that is, the time flow rate difference between the virtual world and the real world is as high as ten times. Even if there is only a one-second difference, ten seconds have passed in that world."

Kaiba walked out of the game cabin and glanced at the large screen in front of Keihei. "So even everything in the world of 'Duel-Links' that can be monitored here is not real-time. At most, it can only be regarded as a recording of what has already happened."

"Call up Hayato Kobayashi's actions over the past ten minutes, no, a hundred minutes, and divide them into ten-minute segments."

As Kaiba finished speaking, without Keipi pressing any buttons, he saw that the large screen had begun to automatically shrink the other images that were previously displayed and put them in a corner, leaving a large space to show Hayato's actions in the past hundred minutes.

With the technology of Haiba Group, it already has a fairly mature voice control system. Otherwise, how can the images of Duel Monsters be controlled by the Duelists? The intelligent monitoring system used to monitor the world of "Duel-Links" is also equipped with voice control.

And because the person who contributed the most to the editing of the system this time was Keipi rather than Kaiba, it was natural that Keipi took the naming rights away from Kaiba, the guy with only "Blue Eyes" in his mind, and named it "Hilidskeraf" after the supreme throne of Odin, the god king, in the Silver Hall in Norse mythology, which can monitor everything in the Nine Realms.

——Then Hayato complained that the name was too long and no one would remember it, so it would be better to just call it the Supreme Throne.

As if sensing something, Hayato frowned and looked at the empty space, then he said sarcastically, "Watching the entire world, Kaiba? Wait, if Odin, who represents 'wisdom', is Kaiba, then Yugi represents spirit, and Jonouchi represents will?"

"What kind of imaginary story? After Kaiba lost to me in a card game, he simply let the AI ​​create a world where I was defeated by the three of them, right?" Hayato looked at Loki again, "But how do you know so much?"

"Everyone has his own intelligence network, right? You don't need to know how I know this, you just need to know what I know." Loki spoke in a riddle, "Perhaps you are just asking me about Odin out of curiosity, but there is one thing you will definitely be interested in, that is, since Odin has dedicated himself to himself, then his position - the position of the God King is vacant!"

"The throne of the sky is currently vacant. Anyone in the nine realms who can defeat the other competitors can legitimately ascend the supreme throne and become the king of the nine realms. With your power, you can definitely do this and defeat the other nine world kings!"

"Odin is now a pile of bones in a grave. He can take his place!"

"Perhaps Judai and the others would be interested in such an epic adventure? But to be honest, I'm not very interested. You've got the wrong person to fool." Hayato had no interest in what Loki said about ascending the throne. Rather than playing games, he wanted to find out where the danger was that Darkness had threatened to threaten him.

What kind of enemy could this world attract? Thinking this way, Hayato glanced at Loki, or rather, Loki who was still in the guise of [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt].

"!"

"Judai? That's the child's name, but after hearing what you said, would it be more appropriate for me to find him?" In Loki's opinion, Hayato, whom he regarded as the "reincarnation of Ymir", obviously had a grudge against Odin and other gods who created the Nine Realms. However, he did not expect that Hayato had no interest in replacing Odin at all. He could not defeat him and could not take away the fragments of "Gungnir". It seemed that he could only find another way out and look for other candidates to defeat the king of the Nine Realms.

But when he was thinking about how to get away and find the kid named Judai, and what to use to replace the fragments of Gungnir, Hayato suddenly said, "By the way, Loki, what did you say just now?"

"Uh, would it be more appropriate for me to go find Judai?"

Hayato shook his head: "Not this sentence, move forward a little."

"Judai, what's the child's name?"

"It's okay, Judai's name isn't Camus, just move forward a little bit."

Loki looked at Hayato suspiciously and said tentatively: "Odin is just a pile of dry bones in a grave. Can he replace him?"

"Well, that's exactly right. His Kaibab's [Blue Eyes]. I mean his Odin's 'Gungnir' is invincible, but my sword is not at all disadvantaged!" Hayato patted the fragments of "Gungnir" and summoned back the "Novice Longsword" that he had thrown away before, "The time has come, let's start the war today!"

"What kind of guys are the world kings of the nine realms? Tell me quickly!"

Although Hayato suddenly spoke in a strange semi-classical language that Loki could not understand, and he could not understand why he suddenly changed his mind, but wasn't it good this way? He didn't have to rack his brains for changes in the plan, and he happily introduced Hayato to him, and even picked up a branch to draw auxiliary instructions on the ground.

"The nine realms are currently ruled by nine beings who have claimed to be kings since the disappearance of Odin. They are Frey, the god of sunlight who guards the fairy kingdom of Alfheim, but now he has changed his name to Frode;"

"The ruler of Jotunheim is Utgard Loki - I need to remind you that it has nothing to do with me, it's just a coincidence. It also took the initiative to remove the name 'Loki' and changed its name to Utgard;"

"The snow-covered Niflheim is now occupied by the creature that crawled out from under the roots of the World Tree. Yes, you guessed it right, the poisonous dragon Nidhogg. Even it has become the king of one of the Nine Realms;"

"As for Muspelheim, the kingdom of fire opposite to Niflheim, it was controlled by the fire giant Frim. After that fool became the queen, he arrogantly wanted to invade Niflheim to expand his territory. He often fought with Nidhogg and even renamed himself after the underworld ship 'Najirfar' that has not been completed yet;"

"In the middle courtyard, which is Midgard, Jörmungandr, the world-serpent, surrounds this place where the wealth of the nine realms is gathered and stores them in his own cave;"

"Frey went to the kingdom of elves, and his sister Freya naturally returned to Vanaheim, where the Vanir gods lived, and became the king. She also changed her name to 'Queen Mador'. The king of Helheim, the underworld at the bottom of the world tree, is named Hela, but now she has changed her name to 'Hel';"

"The dwarves of Svartalfheim are the most special. They successfully repelled the invasion of other countries by forging a huge machine together. That machine is the king of their world - the [United Dwarf King]."

"And the last one is Asgard, the highest place in the Nine Realms, where the Aesir live. Unfortunately, to get there, you have to pass through Alfheim, which is guarded by Frey. Even I don't know who the king of Asgard is who replaced Odin after his disappearance."

Throwing away the branch, Loki looked at the picture of the world tree on the ground and concluded, "The gods who control the power of creation and the kings who bring destruction to other countries and even their own world at will, these two contradictory sides exist simultaneously in these nine world kings."

"Some people believe that these nine kings should be called 'Generaider Bosses', which means 'Creation Kings', but I believe that these nine kings are just participants in the war for the position of King of the Nine Realms."

"I will call the participants of this battle of kings [King's War]!" [Shadow of King's War - Loput] said so. (End of this chapter)