People in Yu-Gi-Oh! The hyper-converged audience is also integrated

Chapter 193 The History of the World in Biantana (X)

"Duel?" The puppeteer repeated the unfamiliar word, his gaze fixed on the mechanical disc atop the pile of bones. "You mean this... ritual is called a duel?"

Before she could finish speaking, a burly mercenary next to her couldn't contain himself any longer. He stepped forward and reached for the duel disk that was emitting blue light.

Perhaps thinking it was another treasure from some ruin, greed gleamed in his eyes.

However, the moment his hand touched the cold metal casing, the Duel Disk sprang open, snapping shut on his wrist with a "click."

The device is activated, and blue light flows.

"What the hell is that?!" The mercenary captain's expression changed, and he tried to tear the strange thing off his hand, but the duel disk didn't budge, as if it were grown into his flesh.

"Quick! Get it off me!" he shouted to his companion.

No one dared to step forward. Just then, the Duel Disk emitted a cold, mechanical announcement.

[Deck testing in progress...]

【mistake】

No deck detected

Please add the appropriate card deck.

"A suitable deck?!" The mercenary froze, then abruptly turned to look at the scavenging boy. "Hey! What do you mean by a suitable deck?!"

He picked up the Duel Disk just to study it, not to actually duel.

All eyes were once again focused on the scavenging boy. His face was still pale, and the toxins seemed to be still eroding his body, but his eyes were much clearer than before.

He took a breath, seemingly struggling to recall, and then said somewhat uncertainly, "The deck... needs forty to sixty cards."

"Forty cards?!" The mercenary's heart sank to the bottom. He subconsciously touched his pocket, his face drained of color. "I...I don't have that many cards!"

He looked around, his gaze sweeping over every survivor, his voice pleading, "Who? Who has cards? Lend me a few! No! I'll buy them! I have money!"

The cave was deathly silent, except for the cold hiss of snakes. Everyone protecting their companions retreated, their eyes darting away. In this hellish place, the card was their life; who would hand it over so easily?

"Hey!" When no one answered, the mercenary's pleas turned into a desperate roar, "Give me the card!"

His rationality was completely consumed by fear and the will to survive, turning his eyes crimson, like a mad beast, as he lunged at the crowd.

Almost simultaneously, hiss—!
A sharp whooshing sound rang out, and countless venomous snakes shot out from all directions like black lightning, engulfing the frenzied mercenaries.

"what--!"

The piercing scream lasted only a moment, quickly turning into the muffled sound of fangs piercing flesh. The venom took effect rapidly, his body convulsed, and soon fell silent. The sizzling sound of the snakes tearing and biting, the corrosive venom filling the air.

"Clang!" The Duel Disk fell off and hit the hard rocky ground with a crisp sound.

Within a few breaths, the number of skeletal remains on the ground increased by one.

"What the hell is this."

The cave fell into a suffocating silence. The explorers, their faces pale, stared in horror at the indistinct mass of flesh and bones on the ground.

"You know the rules?" The puppeteer remained calm as he turned to look at the scavenging boy.

The others also turned their heads, looking at the mysterious boy with surprise, fear, and a hint of barely perceptible expectation.

His previous solutions to endgame puzzles went beyond the realm of "intelligence," and now he's going even further by revealing the core rules, such as the name of the ritual and the number of cards in the deck.

The scavenging boy nodded weakly, then raised his hand to rub his forehead: "Um... I just had a dream."

His voice was hoarse, with a hint of bewilderment, "In my dream... there was a child, wearing strange clothes... who told me the rules of the duel."

"Tell me the details!" The sword-wielding girl excitedly surrounded them.

The scavenging boy, supporting his weakened body, explained the rules he had heard in his dream to everyone.

"This is called a Monster Card, this is called a Spell Card, and this is called a Trap Card."

"At the start of the duel, both sides have a base score of 8000. He also said it's 4000 in the anime, but I didn't understand that."

"But it doesn't matter, it's just a different number."

"The essence of a duel is to use all available resources and tactics to reduce the opponent's fundamental strength to zero."

“Aside from the first turn, players can draw a card each turn to replenish resources, and then enter a preparation phase to prepare for battle. During this phase, tactics are generally not available, which is equivalent to the calm before the war.”

"After the preparation phase, we will move on to the most important main phase." He said the word "most important," and the audience perked up.

“At this stage,” the scavenger coughed, then continued, “we can place monster cards in the monster zone to summon them.”

He drew the distribution of each area of ​​the duel disk model on the ground.

"By utilizing the effects of monster cards and combining them with some spell cards, we can make the battlefield increasingly powerful."

"The child in my dream said, 'This is called—doing a show.'"

The audience nodded in agreement; "doing a show" was indeed a simple and easy-to-understand term.

"After the setup is done, it's time for battle, right?" the puppeteer asked.

“That’s right,” the scavenging boy said. “After the main phase comes the combat phase, where we give commands to the monsters to attack enemy monsters or directly attack people.”

“This—” he said, taking out a monster card and pointing to the two numbers below it.

"The left side is called attack power, and the right side is called defense power."

"During battle, if both sides are in attack position, the monster with the lower attack power will be destroyed, and the duelist will take damage equal to the difference between the two values."

"For example, if I command the [Next-Generation Controller] to attack the [Next-Generation Neutron Man], 1400 attacks 1800."

"A reckless act," the sword-wielding girl blurted out. "The [Next-Generation Controller] will be destroyed, and the duelist will suffer 400 points of damage."

"Yes."

"I see, so attack power is very important."

“Well, not necessarily,” the scavenger boy said again. “For example, I can command the [Bombing Dragon] to attack the opponent’s [Next Generation Neutron].

No sooner had he finished speaking than someone retorted, "Do you even know how to duel?"

"Using the [Next Generation Controller] in battle is reckless enough, but you want to fight with the [Bombardment Dragon], which has even lower attack power? Won't the backlash be even greater?"

“The [Bombing Dragon] has special abilities, right?” the puppeteer guessed.

The scavenging boy nodded slightly and showed everyone the text on the [Bombing Dragon] effect panel: "Look, it clearly says—"

"①: The battle damage inflicted by this card becomes 0 for both sides."

"②: If this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, activate this effect. Destroy the monster that destroyed this card."

"Battle damage becomes 0, which means that if I command [Bombardment Dragon] to attack a more powerful monster, even though [Bombardment Dragon] will be killed by the enemy, the spirit of [Bombardment Dragon] will continue to protect me and shield me from the aftermath of the enemy's attack."

"Woo-boiling dragon!" The country girl holding a shovel had tears welling up in her eyes, deeply moved.

The sword-wielding girl remained puzzled: "But it's still a reckless move; the enemy suffered no losses."

“No, look at effect 2 again,” the Puppeteer said. “When the [Bombing Dragon] is destroyed in battle, the Necromancer will continue to attack, dragging the monster that destroyed it into the abyss.”

“Right?” She looked at the scavenging boy.

The scavenging boy nodded in surprise, amazed by her understanding.

"Yes."

"If the [Bombardment Dragon] is destroyed in battle, it will drag the enemy down with it and bury them in the abyss!"

"What?!" the crowd erupted in shouts. "So powerful! [Bombardment Dragon] is so powerful!"

"Doesn't that mean"

"No matter how high the attack power of the Snake Woman's ace monster is, we can use [Bombardment Dragon] to blow her up!"

"One-on-one, it was worth it!"

"You came up with this tactic? Are you a genius?!" The crowd looked at the scavenging boy with a hint of surprise.

"Isn't it too cruel to treat the [Bombardment Dragon]?"

"No! We will remember the sacrifice of the [Bombardment Dragon]!"

"Is this what a duel is?" The puppeteer stroked his chin, deep in thought. "If I were the snake woman, I wouldn't let my ace monster be traded away so easily." "Right." The scavenger seemed to have expected this. He laboriously pulled out another card from his pocket. The card was red. "This requires another kind of card."

He showed the card to everyone.

"Trap card."

"Monster cards and spell cards are mostly used to set up the field, while trap cards are often used for defense and to deal with unexpected situations."

He pointed to Katu.

"For example, this one, [Exploding Armor]."

"The effect is simple: when an opponent's monster attacks, activating this card will directly destroy that attacking monster."

Seeing everyone's tense faces again, the scavenging boy continued to explain.

"Imagine I command [Bombardment Dragon] to launch a desperate charge, targeting the Snake Woman's strongest monster. But the moment I give the order to attack, she activates this [Explosive Armor] that she had laid in ambush beforehand."

"As a result, [Bombardment Dragon] was destroyed by the trap's effect before it even touched the opponent. Its mutual destruction effect could not be activated because it was not destroyed by 'battle'. The Snake Woman's monster was unharmed, and our [Bombardment Dragon]... sacrificed itself in vain."

"Damn it!" A chorus of frustrated growls and sighs rose from the crowd.

"It's not that easy..."

"A cunning snake demon!"

Before the duel even began, the explorers unilaterally labeled the snake woman guards as "cunning."

The puppeteer suddenly recalled the scene when he solved the puzzle and excitedly shouted, "[Whirlwind]!"

"【Whirlwind】can destroy the opponent's ambushes!"

“Yes, yes!” The scavenger’s eyes lit up, but quickly dimmed again. “However, I don’t have this card.”

"I" hesitated, wanting to say something but then clutched my pocket tightly.

The scavenging boy smiled bitterly and continued to explain the other rules to everyone. Half an hour later, he had roughly explained all the rules he had heard.

However, there are still some questions I don't understand.

For example, there are some white cards, which the child in the dream called Synchro Cards. They can't be put into the main deck, only into the extra deck, but it doesn't say how to use them. There are also purple, blue, black, and colored cards, but it wasn't explained in detail. There might be some kind of taboo.

“That’s all. I’ve told you everything I know.” The scavenging boy looked at everyone and sighed, “These are the rules of the duel.”

"Now--"

"Who will fight the snake woman guards?"

The puppeteer turned to the country girl and said seriously, "You, go and kill the snake woman!"

"Me?" The country girl pointed to herself, looking completely bewildered.

You can ask her to mine, but asking her to duel? That's a complete waste.

Here comes the classic problem: these few thousand people want to leave, but magic cards can't be lent out casually.

The snake venom was spreading deeper and deeper, and they only had one or two hours left.

The Puppet Master called on everyone in the Serpent Cave to gather together, bring out their cards, and work together to think about and build the best deck.

No one objected to the puppeteer. Firstly, her suggestion was reasonable, and secondly, she was the strongest person in the snake cave. The corpses around her were under her control, and the more people died, the stronger she became.

Hundreds or even thousands of explorers, with their last breaths, gathered together to contribute magic cards and offer deck-building suggestions.

"Our [Heavenly Might Dragon] has high defensive capabilities and can protect the camp; we must win!"

"【Heavenly Dragon】can only use its enhancement ability if there is a monster other than an Effect Monster on your field. Do I have to find a Normal Monster for you?"

"It's still better than you, [Sword Master], who produces those derivatives that I don't even know what use they are!"

Tianweilong and Xiangjianshi both belong to the Level 6 fortress - Huanlongting, and the two have been vying for the title of 'Strongest Huanlong' for many years.

"If you ask me, adding more high-attack-power items is definitely the right thing to do."

"Bullshit! If you ask me, we should set more traps and play it safe."

"You talk like you're so great, have you ever actually fought a duel?"

"Have you ever dueled?"

"Come on, let's play a round!"

"Stop arguing!"

It's a pity there are only two duel disks, otherwise these people would love to play one right there to prove themselves.

“I have an idea,” the scavenging boy said slowly. The crowd stopped their noise, and he pointed to two cards and continued, “A token that is Special Summoned by the effect of [Swordsman].

"Do you consider it a monster other than an Effect Monster?"

The stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the sword-wielding girl and the fist-fisting monk were stunned on the spot.

“I think so,” the puppet girl chuckled. “It’s a truly amazing discovery.”

Everyone's understanding of 'duel' has broken through a small layer again, and a feeling of "duels can be played like this?" wells up in their hearts.

After an hour of building up their deck, the group, struggling to survive, finally assembled what they considered an "invincible" deck.

"A perfect deck!"

This deck contains over a dozen cards with attributes such as [Core Formation], [Diviner Princess], [Sword of the Cosmos], [Heavenly Dragon], [Ice Water], and [Demon Rescue]. It only includes two extra white cards; whether they're usable is unknown, but we'll put them in for now.

"Time is running out," the puppeteer said in a deep voice. "We only have one chance."

Holding a heavy deck of cards, she slowly pushed it into the crowd and asked, "Who wants to go up and fight?"

Normally, there's only one chance, so the "strongest duelist" should be chosen.

But none of the people present had ever actually fought, so how could they be the strongest?
The sword-wielding girl glanced at the puppeteer and said unwillingly, "You go ahead. I have to admit, you have a higher aptitude for this than we do."

The others tacitly agreed and did not object.

"Since none of you dare to go up."

The puppeteer took the deck, smiled bitterly, and said, "I really wanted to go up and play, but unfortunately, fate didn't choose me."

She handed the deck to the scavenging boy and said.

"Fate has sent you to fight."

"Go, young man, go and listen to the sound of the wind."

The scavenging boy paused, holding the card deck. He looked around, and no one else objected.

"Be prepared, everyone."

"Life and death." He turned to look at the sleeping girl with the scythe in the corner and said softly, "Let fate decide."

The scavenging boy, carrying a heavy deck of cards, picked up the Duel Disk from the ground. The Duel Disk automatically locked onto his wrist, and he placed the cards into the deck. The Duel Disk then emitted a broadcast.

[Deck testing in progress]

[Deck Correct]

Upon hearing the sound, the snake-woman guard's eyelids trembled slightly, and she slowly stretched her body, emitting an ancient and eerie sound.

"duel."

The snake cave mechanism was activated, and a strange energy spread out, repelling the others and leaving only the scavenging boy in a standoff.

【Attack first】

【Red Square】

【The duel begins】

The cold broadcast echoed between the stone walls of the snake cave, and a virtual number popped up above each of their heads—8000.

8000 base points, exclusive to The Dark Game.

In the first duel of the new Spirit Era, the scavenger boy went first. On such a memorable occasion, his starting five cards were [Three-Eyed Monster], [Ritual of Divination], [Heavenly Dragon - True Knowledge Coiled Dragon], [Ice Water Erosion], and [Witch's Strike].

(End of this chapter)