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Chapter 409: That year, the Abyss Beast was hunted down; do any of you bear any responsibility?
The smile on Big Bubble Reef froze.

"how come……"

It wasn't that she didn't recognize the card, but rather that she couldn't understand it.

In her database, this card's appearance rate has dropped to below 0.01%.

Why? Why would you include such an "outdated" card in your deck?
Humans are so hard to understand.

"Activate the effect of [Moonlight Rabbit]!" Yue Tong's voice was clear and firm as she pointed to the opponent's field spell.

"Target the card 'Sea Crystal Maiden's Battle of the Sea' on your opponent's field, return that card to its owner's hand!"

"Ah~~~No!" The Great Bubble Reef let out a melodious yet helpless wail. "Human, I'll give you a bubble to play with, just don't bounce my [Fighting Sea] away, okay?"

However, the Moonlight Rabbit ignored her. She simply tilted her head, then suddenly pushed off the ground, her petite body transforming into a white streak of light that shot straight into the sky.

She didn't use any weapons; she simply flipped gracefully in the air, her small toes striking the illusory deep sea with precision and ruthlessness.

"Snapped!"

A sound of shattering glass.

The deep-sea illusion that enveloped the entire battlefield shattered instantly, and countless light blue data fragments rose and dissipated like bubbles.

Without the protection of its habitat, [Big Bubble Reef] became uneasy, and the light around it dimmed.

[Big Bubble Reef] Attack Power: 8200 → 6200
"Resistance and strength built up by others," Yue Tong said coldly, looking at the weakened [Big Bubble Reef] opposite her, "are ultimately just false strength."

"Woo..."

Big Bubble Reef puffed out its cheeks in a pitiful manner, its big eyes brimming with tears.

"Let me show you the true power forged by bonds!" Letong raised her hand and sent a card from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard.

"Send [Moonlight Lion Princess] from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard, and activate the effect of [Moonlight Lion Princess] on the field!"

In an instant, a bright full moon rose in the sky, its cool moonlight spilling over the entire area like mercury.

【Moonlight Dance Lion Goddess】slowly raised her hand, her slender fingertips tracing the long sword in her hand, the blade emitting a clang and bursting out with dazzling white light.

"Destroy all the monsters Special Summoned by your opponent!" Letong swung her arm down suddenly.

"Moon Wheel - The Final Slash!"

As soon as the command was given, [Moonlight Dance Lion Goddess] vanished from her spot, leaping into the sky. In the next instant, a dazzling moon-white blade of light swept across the sky, drawing a perfect arc in mid-air.

The speed of the blade was beyond the computational limits of electronic beings.

"Boom!" Without the protection of [Fighting Sea], [Big Bubble Reef] couldn't even struggle as its body was cleaved in half by the arc-shaped blade light.

"no, do not want……"

The Great Fountain Reef shed tears, which quickly transformed into strings of code.

"Battle Phase!" Le Tong gave her no chance to breathe. "[S:P Xiaoye], direct attack on the player!"

The effect of [Saya] is nullified, but this also removes the self-restraint that prevents direct attacks.

The female ninja's figure transformed into a blue afterimage, rushing to the front of the Great Bubble Reef, her short blade flashing coldly!
"Pfft!"

Data sparks exploded, and the virtual representation of the Great Bubble Reef flickered violently.

Big Bubble Reef base score: 8000 → 6400
"It's not over yet!" Yue Tong raised her hand again. "Next, the attack of [Moonlight Lion Dance Goddess]!"

"Moon Rush - Sirius Flash!"

The dancer under the moon charged forward once more. This time, she carried immense force, her longsword unleashing a torrent of data as it slashed fiercely at the Great Bubble Reef!

"Ugh—!"

Big Bubble Reef let out a short scream as it was blasted backward by the immense force, its clothing being torn off in large pieces.

Big Bubble Reef base score: 6400 → 2600
Before she could regain her footing, [Moonlight Lion Dancer] performed a magnificent spin and appeared in front of her again.

The cold, long sword slowly slashed towards her chest, its sharp blade reflecting a face pale with fear.

Le Tong delivered her final verdict.

"【Moonlight Dance Lion Princess】can perform a second attack within the same battle phase."

She raised her hand and pointed: "Moonlight Consecutive Slashes!"

The blade flashed once more.

"Crack—!" The long sword slashed down diagonally.

The Great Barrier Reef let out a painful groan, its brow furrowed, and its fundamental score plummeted again: 2600 → 0
【The winner is】

【Red Square】

【Duel ends】

The cold, automated voice faded away.

【Ding--】

[Red team's battlefield capacity increased by 100]

[Blue Team Battlefield Capacity -100]

As the light faded, Le Tong's battlefield returned to calm.

Li Guanqi looked at the victory notification that popped up in the system, and his tense nerves relaxed for a moment.

That's good, he's a reliable teammate.

He subconsciously brought up the entire battlefield's capacity panel, ready to see the results of the two generals' heroic efforts to turn the tide.

However, the situation remains far from optimistic.

[Blue square capacity: 3144]

[Red Square Capacity: 2856]

"It's going to be difficult." Li Guanqi frowned.

When he wins a game, his capacity increases by nearly 200 squares; when Letong wins a game, his capacity also increases by nearly 200 squares.

How come we're still nearly 300 grids behind?
Ten minutes into the game, a pawn lost 688 squares? Is there really such a big difference in skill between the AI ​​and the human players on both sides?

He quickly glanced at the system records, and his face darkened completely.

In the ten minutes that he and Letong fought fiercely, their nearly two thousand AIs had already played four rounds!
With 3,000 soldiers, they lost 1844 and won 1156, resulting in a net loss of 688 and an overall win rate of less than 40%.

Li Guanqi even suspected that these AIs might be infected with a virus, otherwise how could they be both bad and fast?

The general is risking his life on the front lines, while the soldiers are feeding kills like crazy in the rear.

How can we fight this battle? Letong also noticed this, and her victorious laughter immediately vanished.

Above Li Guanqi's screen, two countdowns were relentlessly ticking.

[Remaining preparation time: 00:01:08]

[Remaining time in the war: 23:50:44]

Including the preparation time for deck adjustments, their general's match takes about ten minutes.

As for those AIs, they expand and die at the speed of light; ten minutes is enough for them to finish four or five games.

"There's no hope for them."

Li Guanqi exhaled a breath of stale air, his eyes turning cold.

Since the soldiers can't be relied upon, we can only rely on the general.

They can kill faster and win more.

Without further hesitation, he swiped his fingers rapidly across the virtual panel, beginning to adjust his deck construction.

If we are to pursue efficiency, then we must be more extreme and more violent.

"Come on, players of Elvira..."

Li Guanqi adjusted his deck while muttering to himself.

Level 7 Fortress, Dream Collapse.

When it comes to technology, Elvira is unmatched, but then again, the Dream Collapse is an enemy from the heavens.

Very few people know that the Dream Collapse Realm was originally a branch of Elvira.

Four hundred years ago, after Bai's death, Elvira was leaderless and quickly split into two factions.

Most people are still conservatives, continuing to be a part of the alliance, collecting the alliance's funds, and providing technological services to the alliance. The only difference is that the highest authority has changed from Bai to Dr. Immovable.

As for the other group, influenced by a certain person, their thinking is relatively radical and crazy.

The conservatives are studying [mechanics], [psychic powers], and [electronic worlds], while the radicals are studying [demons], [spacetime], and [souls], and even claim they want to break away from the alliance, arguing that truth cannot kneel before politics.

When Dr. Li and Bai were alive, they had a little bit of a private relationship. They would complain about each other, but they could still work together.

But both of them passed away.

These two factions have fundamentally different principles and cannot work together.

The radicals, taking their team resources and manpower, left Elvira and the alliance, deciding to go it alone.

Without the league's financial support, they had a difficult start.

However, they have the recipe for Angel's Tears.

According to the Alliance Law, once they leave Elvira, they are no longer part of the Alliance and cannot sell Angel Tears privately.

But they inherited Dr. Li's radical style.

Since they've chosen to be stimulating, they'll see it through to the end; the so-called "Alliance Law" is just a piece of waste paper in their eyes.

Finally, they chose to settle down first and then spend a lot of money to release hunting missions for the Abyss Beasts.

The alliance also noticed the anomaly and intensified its hunt for the abyssal beasts.

The consequences of the short-term, unrestrained hunting of abyssal beasts have emerged.

In just five years, the beasts of the abyss collectively faced extinction.

Both the Alliance and the radicals have stockpiled a large number of Angel Tears, with the former stockpiling six million and the latter four hundred thousand.

Both sides have entered a war for survival.

From a dominance standpoint, the Alliance priced Angel's Tears extremely high and only accepted negative cubes, making them inaccessible to ordinary people and ensuring their perpetual dominance. However, the radicals clearly did not share this view.

All they want is to make money.

One bottle of Angel's Tear from the Alliance is priced at one gram of negative cube crystal, and it sells out every time.

The radicals, however, took a huge cut, selling a single piece of negative cubic crystal for only 0.3 grams, and even then, the profit margin was 3000%.

In the early stages, when there are enough Abyss Beasts, the cost of Angel's Tears is extremely low. As its name suggests, the medicine is the tears shed by angels out of pity for humanity.

The news that radicals were secretly selling Angel's Tears at a discount quickly went viral.

The alliance disregarded any old friendships and mobilized a large number of troops to conduct a thorough investigation.

In response, the radicals chose to—

The recipe for Angel's Tears has been revealed.

The public was stunned when they saw the recipe, and they finally understood the mysterious person's high-priced mission to hunt down the beasts of the abyss.

The alliance was overrun; they sold something that cost 10,000 to produce for 1 million.

Their eating manners are so unsightly, they should be hung on a streetlight.

Fortunately, the beasts of the abyss were wiped out, so ordinary people can't verify the formula.

The alliance could only deal with public opinion, adjust the price of Angel's Tear, and crack down on radical groups all at the same time.

The price war raged fiercely.

The combined total of Angel's Tears from both sides is only a little over six million.

Three more years passed, and the radicals finally sold off all 400,000 Angel Tears they had.

After deducting all costs and losses, there is a surplus of 100,000 grams of negative square crystal.

Over the course of eight years, the team, originally consisting of 120 people, was reduced to only 30 core members due to being hunted down by the alliance.

If thirty people were to divide 100,000 grams of negative cubic crystal among themselves, they could enjoy wealth and honor for several lifetimes.

But if they continue on this path, the league certainly won't let them off easy.

"Dr. Fujiki."

They hesitated, their gazes all turning to the leader, a man who looked to be in his forties or fifties. He was wearing a standard white lab coat, but had an extremely unconventional head of purple hair.

Fujiki Ai, who was in charge, did not answer immediately; he was also undecided.

If it were up to him personally, he would definitely continue, but the thirty people around him were all his true, die-hard fans.

He could die, but he didn't want his brothers to suffer too.

Withdrawing now will allow some people to survive.

But
He was unwilling to accept it; he was very unwilling to accept it.

"Ai," Fujiki Ai's second-in-command spoke, his voice hoarse, "Can we...do it?"

Upon hearing this, several scientists of similar age were taken aback, and a strange light flashed in their cloudy eyes. Fujiki Ai also froze on the spot.

The other twenty-odd younger researchers looked bewildered, not understanding why the older researchers were reacting so strangely.

However, these people have one thing in common—

They were all participants in the "Metaverse" project, though not throughout the entire process, but they all experienced the darkest period of that time.

I heard those words at the scene.

That seemingly "unscientific" statement that inspired countless scientists during the darkest of times.

Fujiki Ai did not answer immediately. He slowly took out an old silver pocket watch from the inner pocket of his white coat.

"Clap."

The watch cover popped open, revealing not the hour hand, but a carefully cropped, slightly yellowed candid photograph.

The man in the photo is Dr. Li.

At that time, Dr. Li no longer deliberately covered up the other head; after decades of getting along, everyone had long since become accustomed to it.

He was focused on looking at something and was completely unaware that he was being secretly photographed.

Wherever Bai is, Dr. Li always stares intently at Bai, and no one else can catch his eye.

You can't blame him. To be precise, the moment Bai appeared, all the scientists were drawn to him.

Fujiki Ai was like that before; everyone admired capable people, until Dr. Li appeared.

He was more interested in people like Dr. Li, who was not only capable but also aligned with his ideas, even though Dr. Li didn't even know his name.

In Elvira, a place teeming with talent, he was just a small carambhava.

"It will succeed," Fujiki Ai said softly.

He knew who had spoken those words, and as he recalled them, he murmured, "I am the god who controls time and space."

"I'm from the future."

"A hundred years later, we have forged our own path and built our own home."

“Truth—” he said firmly, sweeping his gaze across the crowd, “is no longer bowing to politics.”

The eyes of the thirty people shone brightly, and their expressions became increasingly fervent.

"A cage," Fujiki Ai whispered.

"We'll break it."

"PhD."

"PhD!"

The assistant's voice rose a few decibels.

Fujiki Ai snapped out of her reverie, carefully closed her pocket watch, tucked the yellowed photograph away again, and looked at her assistant: "What's wrong?"

The assistant quickly brought up the data panel and reported, "The first battle report is out. Our soldiers have a net victory of 688 squares, a significant advantage."

She paused, her tone hesitant, "But... both Generals [Fiery Phoenix] and [Great Bubble Reef] have been defeated."

The reason why Dream Collapse defeated Elvira is simple.

Elvira is a part of the Alliance; they are dedicated to serving and researching all of humanity.

The Dream Collapse Realm is different; they only need to study Elvira.

The two sides are not on the same level in terms of intelligence and focus.

“I understand.” Fujiki Ai’s tone was devoid of any emotion. “Bring in the battlefield data.”

"Yes."

The assistant responded and a huge virtual screen unfolded in front of Fujiki Ai, displaying macro data of the real-time battlefield.

Standing at the very front were Elvira's two generals.

Fujiki Ai's gaze swept past Letong and settled on Li Guanqi.

He spoke softly, issuing instructions in coded language.

In an instant, the screen rapidly magnified Li Guanqi, and all publicly available information about him poured down like a waterfall.

His resume is impressive: a genius duelist with a somewhat mysterious background but an astonishing record, but that's all.

However, there was one thing about his resume that made Fujiki Ai very curious.

This person, named Li Guanqi, completed an SS-level mission for the Soul Binding Division: "Finding the Lost Recipe - Angel's Tears".

But his resume has nothing to do with being a researcher.

Fujiki Ai lightly tapped her finger in the void, and a golden dragon-shaped key appeared out of thin air and disappeared into the light screen.

[Access Permissions: Dragon]

The next second, he bypassed the Alliance's layers of firewalls and infiltrated the Soul Control Division's top-secret archives.

He forcibly retrieved an SS-level mission file marked in deep red.

【Quest No. 047: Angel's Tears Recipe Restoration】

There is also a "Completed" mark on the right.

Fujiki Ai's gaze became focused.

He was very curious about what kind of genius could reconstruct this thing from a pile of discarded data fragments.

You wouldn't know unless you looked into it, and even someone like Fujiki Ai, who has lived for hundreds of years, had a strange expression on his face.

The report clearly details the completion of this task—

[Application materials dated October 25, 1067]

[Recycled materials.]

[Application materials dated October 26, 1067]

[Recycled materials.]

The so-called task details had no theoretical basis whatsoever; there wasn't a single paper or report. They simply applied for and collected materials every day, and that's how they came up with the formula.

If Fujiki Ai hadn't already lost most of his emotions, he would have muttered, "Crazy."

Fujiki Ai then used her Dragon-level privileges to try and find out the recipe for Angel's Tears and compare it with what she remembered.

However, the system displayed a message: "Insufficient permissions, unable to query."

The recipe details are protected by another Dragon-level access level and cannot be viewed.

However, he didn't seem to care much about it.

Centuries have passed, and he doesn't remember the exact contents of the recipe, but he is certain that one of the ingredients is the bone marrow of an abyss beast, which is also mentioned in the materials submitted with the mission details.

But the beasts of the abyss were hunted down too badly that year, and the Magg Dragon and the Druid Scale Worms have not recovered to this day.

There's been some news lately about Baldurosaurus; they've found a new nest.

(End of this chapter)