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

Chapter 271 A Clash of Fates (1)

The seawater was icy cold, and the water level inside the more than two hundred safety bubbles rose slowly and visibly, soon covering the spectators' ankles.
In the center of the arena, Lin Chen stared expressionlessly at the five initial cards he had drawn, trying his best to control himself from cursing.

There are no monsters.

There wasn't a single monster; it was all spell and trap cards.

“Broken person, tsk…” Lin Chen muttered to himself, barely audible.

His gaze swept quickly across the five cards in his hand, pausing briefly as it passed over the rightmost card.

A bold idea arose.

Without the slightest hesitation, he drew three cards and, with three soft "snap" sounds, covered the three squares in his back row.

“Covering three cards.”

This move immediately ignited the "spectator stands" surrounding the arena.

"Holy crap! Three-pointer?!"

"Is your hand stuck? Or is it someone from the underworld?"

"This doesn't look good."

"Keep it up, bro!"

Li Guanqi looked at the three face-up cards opposite him, his brows furrowing involuntarily, his expression complex, neither good nor bad.

With three players in the back row, if he rushes forward, he usually treats it as if the opponent has a bad hand.

But clearly, this Biantana always manages to surprise him.

Just when everyone thought Lin Chen was about to end his turn, he flipped over one of the two cards he had left in his hand, and the eerie green magic card lit up.

"Activate the Spell Card: [Hand Exchange]!"

"Both players reveal their hands and each select one card from the other player to add to their hand." Lin Chen's voice was calm, revealing no emotion.

"Huh?" Li Guanqi was stunned. "Hand, [Exchange of Notebooks]?"

He certainly knew about this card.

In my memory, Yugi Muto, the president, and Malik often pulled off this kind of crazy card-swapping stunt in the DM anime.

Judging from its effect, this is a card that trades two for one, and there's no guarantee you'll get anything in return.

This was the first time he had encountered someone activating the "Handbook Exchange" in actual combat.

Urged by the duel system's prompts, the two had no choice but to reveal their remaining cards to each other.

Lin Chen only had one card left: [Magic Bullet - Endless Endorphins].

Meanwhile, Li Guanqi's side...

When he revealed his five cards, not only did Lin Chen's eye twitch, but even the bubble people watching from the outside were dumbfounded.

Five monster cards?!

Two Hand Traps, two Magic Shotguns, and one Red Tear Magician.

A full magic trap opening.

A game starting with all monsters.

The air seemed to freeze at that moment, leaving only the soft "whoosh" of seawater slowly flowing into the bubbles.

After a brief silence came an even more intense uproar.

"Hiss—what kind of starting moves are the Crouching Dragon and the Young Phoenix on both sides?"

"This [journal exchange] is hilarious."

"The most abstract start of the year!"

"No way, this is so choppy, isn't it going to be a slow game? We're going to drown!"

"A full monster is better than a full spell/trap, at least I can use normal summons."

"Mynah!" Tang Xin screamed desperately, clutching her head in the bubble. "Why are there monsters everywhere?! How am I supposed to fight them?!"

She subconsciously shook the fountain pen that had been with her for many years: "My magic pen! Did you get waterlogged? Why isn't it working properly at this crucial moment!"

In my memory, every time she sincerely prayed for "divine protection," she would always get a perfect hand at the start. How come she had such a disastrous turn of events at such a critical moment?
"Do their leadership abilities interfere with each other...?" Xia Sheng frowned slightly and looked around.

Monitoring room.

Langley watched the screen with great interest: "Hey, this is getting interesting. One is all monsters, the other is all magic and traps, and they even got a [Handbook Exchange]."

"It's better for the red side to have all monsters, at least they can transform into [Cut Demon]."

"I don't quite understand the Blue team's [Hand Exchange] move." The usually taciturn female team leader of Group 12 finally spoke up, her voice cool and clear. "Taking the opponent's cards doesn't necessarily mean they can use them, right? What deck is he using again?"

"I don't know. This guy's performance was mediocre. There were very few shots of him on the surveillance cameras, and he's not on the combat power rankings." The fat team leader of Group Five shook his head. "More than his card deck, I'm curious about why the Fate Bullet hit him before, and why his Fate Fluctuation was so small? He was like nothing happened."

“Yes, I noticed that too,” Langley stroked his chin. “That kid has a rather unusual constitution. Is his nerve dead? Doesn’t seem like it.”

“He looks like a dead man,” the group leader said coldly.

The group leaders couldn't reach a conclusion after their discussion. Their attention was mostly focused on the geniuses at the top of the combat power rankings and the needles like Chu Linfeng's. They didn't know much about Lin Chen, the "dark horse" who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Underwater arena.

The card exchange continues.

"I choose to add the opponent's [Endless Magic Bullet Endorphins] to my hand," Li Guanqi said. He had no other choice; Lin Chen only had this one card left.

I don't know what this thing is good for, but it's better than nothing.

Lin Chen looked at the five monster cards that Li Guanqi showed him, paused in the air with his finger, and finally pointed to the one of a girl in a dancing dress.

"I choose to add the opponent's [Magic Shot - Starr] to my hand."

"You want this one?" Li Guanqi was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously glanced at the [Effect Masker] and [Shuoye Shigure] in his hand.

Not a bad choice?
If he were to choose it himself, he would most likely take the [Effect Vanisher] card, which is a general-purpose card.

Select [Magic Shotgun - Starr]...

A thought flashed through Li Guanqi's mind.

"Could it be... that there is a [Carving Demon]?"

No, if you have the [Engraving Demon], you should get the [Crimson Tear Demon].

"No way"

Li Guanqi looked at Lin Chen with a complicated expression.

The two stepped forward and exchanged cards under the system's supervision.

After receiving the card, Lin Chen didn't hesitate at all and immediately placed it in his main monster zone.

"Normal Summon: [Magic Bullet Shooter - Starr]!"

A blue ballet dress spun with the summoning light, and a petite archer wearing a cowboy hat appeared on the field. She looked around warily, the silver revolver in her hand gleaming coldly.

Immediately afterward, Lin Chen pointed to the leftmost face-down card in his back row. "Open the face-down card, [Foolish Secondary Burial]!"

Gaika flipped open behind [Starr], revealing a green arm.

"Send one Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to the Graveyard." Lin Chen paused, checking his deck contents, "I'm sending [Song of the Marked Spell] to the Graveyard."

A trap card popped out of Lin Chen's deck, turning into a streak of light and disappearing into the graveyard of the Duel Disk.

"The Demon of Carving..." A warning bell rang in Li Guanqi's mind.

Just then, Starr on the field moved.

"Activate the effect of [Magic Bullet Shooter - Starr]!" Lin Chen pointed to his card, "Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower [Magic Bullet] monster from my Deck."

[Starr] raised his revolver, pointed it at the sky, and fired two shots in quick succession.

“It really is a civil war…” Li Guanqi’s eyes were serious. “What a strange structure.”

"Why would you bring something like the [Journal Exchange] which has no clear meaning?"

【Foolish Secondary Burial】I can understand it. He applied for this card when he didn't have enough credit in the early game. Now that it's late game, he can't afford to replace his hand traps, so he can only use these cards to make up the numbers.

He couldn't figure it out.

The structure opposite is particularly "strange".

But now is not the time to think about that.

Li Guanqi quickly drew a card from his hand and played it: "Activate the effect of the card in my hand, [Effect Veiler]!"

A white feather fell from the sky and landed lightly on Starr's shoulder.

"Negative effect of [Starr]!"

Starr frowned, his face showing distress, and the raised gun barrel drooped limply.

"Is that so?" Lin Chen wasn't surprised that [Starr] was neutralized, and he waved his hand.

"Use the [Starr] on the field to set a connection marker!"

【Kaspar】transformed into a blue arrow and shot towards the extra monster zone to Lin Chen's left.

"Connect Summon!"

"Link-1, [The Soul-Suppressing Coffin of the Carving Demon]!"

"Clang—" A heavy metallic clang rang out, and a rusty iron coffin appeared out of nowhere in the extra monster zone of the Forest Dust Arena, exuding an ominous aura.

Li Guanqi's pupils contracted slightly.

This was the first time he'd seen this [Soul Coffin] on an opponent's field in all the time he'd been in Biantana. Was facing [Cut Demon] really this stressful?

"Activate the effect of [Demon's Soul-Suppressing Coffin]!" Lin Chen pointed to the iron coffin on the field, "Release yourself!"

The iron coffin creaked and slowly opened, revealing a deep darkness.

Special Summon from Deck: [Crimson Tear Demon - Day of Tears]!

A figure slowly emerged from the opened coffin.

With long golden hair, a beautiful face, and a subtle, alluring smile at the corners of her mouth, she was the epitome of beauty for the [Carving Demon].

"It's really beautiful..." Li Guanqi muttered softly.

"Activate the effect of [Red Tear Demon]!" Lin Chen's voice rang out. "This effect can only be activated if this card is Normal or Special Summoned. Send one [Crest Demon] card other than yourself from your Deck to the Graveyard."

The Demon of Crimson Tears stretched out her fair hand, and a deep red spear, as if made of congealed blood, appeared in her grasp.

Her eyes narrowed, and she plunged the spear into the ground beneath her feet!

If the grave is successfully sent, the opponent will most likely focus on that man, and you're guaranteed to get at least one of [Raging Waves] or [Wrath of Fury].

We can't let him pile it up!
Li Guanqi's eyes sharpened, and without hesitation, he dropped another card from his hand.

"Chain activation, [Sakuya Shigure]!"

The card vanished in a flash of light, and a ghostly girl in a white kimono with a blurred face silently appeared behind the [Crimson Tear Demon].

"Target the [Red Tear Demon] on your field."

"The monster's effect is negated! Furthermore, if the monster leaves the field, the controller takes damage equal to the monster's original ATK!"

The white-clad ghost extended its illusory hand and gently patted the head of the [Red Tear Demon].

The Demon of Red Tears had his spellcasting interrupted, and his eyes suddenly became clear.

"Interrupt here..." Lin Chen frowned as he looked at the ineffective [Crimson Tear Demon].

The two hand traps were delivered with remarkable precision, directly disrupting two crucial aspects of his sustain and movement.

However, he can still move!

Lin Chen pointed to his graveyard: "Activate the effect of the graveyard's [Demon-Carved Soul-Suppressing Coffin]."

"Equip this card as an Equip Spell Card that increases your ATK by 600 to your 【Red Tear Demon】 on the field."

The phantom of the iron coffin emerged from the cemetery, transforming into a stream of light that wrapped around the [Crimson Tear Demon], forming a faint layer of black armor.

"Activate the Graveyard effect of [Carving Demon's Lament]," he continued.

"Ban this card, and use monsters on your field as Fusion Material to Fusion Summon 1 'Ceiling Demon' Fusion Monster."

"Back then, monsters equipped by 'Carving Demon' monsters could also be used as fusion materials."

"I will use the [Crimson Tear Demon] and its equipped [Soul-Suppressing Coffin] as materials."

"Fusion Summon!"

"Show yourself! [The Day the Demon Weeps]!"

A crimson light exploded, and a fierce figure took shape in the fusion vortex, with long, scarlet hair flowing like burning flames. It was a demon with an arrogant and unruly face.

"The effect of [Shuoye Shigure] is to absorb damage equal to the attack power of [Honglei]," Li Guanqi said calmly.

【Shuoye Shiyu】The soul drifted away from the cemetery and flew towards Lin Chen, waving its fist as big as a sand pot.

"Thump!" Lin Chen was punched by [Shiyu], making a crisp sound.

Blue team basic points: 8000 → 6800
At the same time, the thin lines binding the duel disk danced wildly in the sea, and the blue team's safety bubble was pierced by an energy pillar, allowing the seawater outside to find an outlet and accelerate its influx.

"Waaaaah! It's leaking! And it's leaking even faster!" Inside the bubble, everyone wailed.

"No way, how did taking some kind of effect damage blow through our 'house'?!"

"Is this how much participation the organizers are giving us?!"

"Stop forcing me, stop forcing me, I can't drink anymore."

"Playing like this? Don't let me drown before the duel is even over!"

The blue team's spectators screamed in panic, and the water level rose at a visible speed, almost reaching their calves.

Seeing this, Lin Chen frowned and suddenly waved his hand, shouting, "Activate the effect of [The Day the Demon Weeps]!"

(End of this chapter)