My anime-style card deck is fine!

The student in the white coat was shouting at the top of his lungs, but despite being given names like giant, monster, and bloody, he was actually just a small goblin holding a hammer.

He cautiously approached, looking timid.

"Smack!" The dinosaur on the other side couldn't help but stick out its foot and stomp down, causing blood to splatter out.

The giant dinosaur tilted its head.

He didn't seem to be using much force...

"Ah!! Bloodthirsty monster giant!!" The man in the white coat cried out in great sorrow, kneeling on the ground in despair and grief, while the other students watching around him also looked grief-stricken.

"Amen, Bloodthirsty Demonic Giant..."

The students were praying.

"..." Because the image was too abstract, Professor Si, who had just made a grand statement, fell silent when he saw the state of his laboratory.

Then he turned his head as if he hadn't seen anything, and put on a gentle smile again: "Um, excuse me, Amon, my lab might be a little messy. Please wait a moment."

As Professor Si spoke, he walked into the laboratory, smiled at Amon in a friendly manner, and then shut Amon out of the door.

then……

Crackling!

The lab erupted in noise, with some young voices rang out: "The seniors made me go, what can I do? I'm the strongest in the lab!" "Amen." "The Bloodthirsty Demonic Giant is the Bloodthirsty Demonic Giant! Look at his towering figure and unwavering expression... Okay, I'll shut up." "There's no other way, if we don't let the junior go, we don't have anyone else." "Shameful? Whose face are we shameful to?" "What does it matter, Professor? It's just the group of us..."

"What?! Amon is right outside the door?!"

The voices of sophistry rose and fell behind the door.

Amon realized that these people were indeed in dire need of high-level card masters as assistants.

However, the fact that they insisted on sending the Bronze II researcher up instead of asking the duelists from the neighboring Duel Arena for help showed Amon's incredible pride.

I've seen this many times before...

Then came the sound of a cacophony of footsteps. The laboratory door opened again, and a large group of smiling faces appeared, crowding around Amon as they led him inside.

There was no difference between the lab and what Amon had seen before.

The robot with the duel disk was still standing in the center of the laboratory, but the upperclassmen who had previously been abstractly surrounding the center of the field as if performing some kind of strange ritual were now serious and elegant.

In short, it's the stereotypical image of a researcher.

"..."

It's too late to pretend now!

Amon inwardly scoffed, but what he was more concerned about was the robot in the center of the arena: "So, is this robot the result of our lab's research on artificial intelligence?"

"Yes!"

Professor Si was very pleased with Amon's use of "our laboratory," and his face beamed with a smile.

Although Amon said this every time he went to a lab...

“We are researching artificial intelligence for dueling.” Professor Si walked to the center of the field and patted the robot on the shoulder: “This thing is actually just a frame; the real core is the program running inside it.”

"Amon, do you know why only humans can be card masters?" Professor Si suddenly asked.

"Ok?"

Amon had never really thought about this question.

"Is it intelligence? Many card spirits also possess considerable intelligence, and some card spirits are even more intelligent than humans."

Seeing that Amon did not answer, Professor Si smiled slightly and began to explain directly.

Amon raised an eyebrow; he had a deep understanding of wisdom.

Because he learns by using highly intelligent card spirits, and then uses fusion to obtain the learning results—this is something that cannot be done if the card spirits are not intelligent enough.

“Is it spirituality? Of course not. While spirituality is the dividing line between followers and monsters, a follower with high spirituality is not necessarily less spiritual than a human.”

"Would that be fantasy? No, because fantasy is the right of all living things, including animals."

"That's not wisdom, not spirituality, not fantasy, so what is it?"

"—It's the spirit!"

Professor Si smiled and said, "To be more specific, it's the vast ocean of human collective consciousness!"

"From the moment the first monkey glanced up at the stars, humanity has been rushing headlong down this desolate path for 700 million years!"

"Of the past seven million years, only the last five thousand years or so have been given history."

"It has only experienced a period of vigorous development in the last hundred years or so."

"But are the past years worthless? Of course not. The spirit and consciousness that have settled in history and flowed through the past years still lie dormant deep within this planet."

That is the collective consciousness of humanity!

Professor Si didn't look at Amon, but instead looked gently at the robot beside him: "This power from our ancient ancestors has given us the ability to leverage the world with our minds."

"The spiritual power linked to the collective consciousness—that's what makes humans Card Masters!"

"Animals can't do it because they lack the intelligence to carry more spiritual weight."

“Card spirits cannot do it, because they have spirituality and wisdom, but they lack the soil called the sea of ​​collective consciousness to support the growth and development of their spirit.”

“Only humans.” Professor Si said, then looked at Amon: “Do you know what artificial intelligence for dueling is?”

Before Amon could answer, Professor Si began to explain on his own:

"It is an artificial duelist capable of expanding into the spiritual realm, relying on the world's internet, using the network as its soil, and endowed with wisdom and spirituality by humans."

"—This is [Artificial Intelligence for Duel]!"

……

So after all that, it's basically just a robot that can duel, right?

Amon thought for a moment, but didn't say it aloud.

Because not only Professor Si across from him, but also the senior students around him had expressions of pride, saying this might get him thrown out of the lab.

That won't work!

He also wants to duel with this artificial intelligence duelist!

"Alright, that's the basic introduction." Although the development of artificial intelligence involves deeper issues, even those closely related to national defense.

However, that was no longer within Amon's reach.

Research in that area is mainly concentrated in China—these studies abroad are primarily conducted in collaboration with other artificial intelligence research institutes overseas.

China's truly core research achievements are not allowed to leave the country.

Naturally, it won't appear among cherry blossoms.

"Any ideas?"

Professor Si looked at Amon with a smile, his eyes full of expectation.

"duel?"

Amon thought for a moment and said.

"Alright!" Professor Si seemed to have been waiting for this sentence, completely ignoring that Amon was actually asking a question, while the senior students behind him couldn't wait to push Amon onto the central dueling platform in the laboratory.

Professor Si also quickly stepped off the stage, a smile on his face.

"I'll leave the rest of the testing to you, Amon!" Professor Si said.

"..."

Amon is actually getting used to his role as a tool.

However, compared to the other research institutes' messy things like flying dueling skateboards, dueling toilets, riding dueling arenas, axe king's slashing formation, etc., Amon was quite interested in Professor Si's research on artificial dueling intelligence.

At the very least, this is a real duel!

Since you're going to be used as a tool anyway, why not choose one you like?

Amon was lost in thought when he saw an assistant push a machine that looked very familiar to him onto the field, while another one was placed next to the robot on the opposite side.

At the same time, Professor Si's voice rang out from below the stage: "Since we're already here, let's just take this opportunity to test the card-making capabilities of artificial intelligence."

"I heard you guys had a private get-together before and played a little game where you made cards on the spot?"

"I think it's quite suitable for this experiment. Would you mind doing it again?"

Professor Si looked expectantly at the robot on the stage... and the tool man Amon beside him, and nodded very seriously.

"Okay, it really is a card-making machine."

Looking at the familiar machine beside him, Amon noted that the card-making machine had been iterating at an unimaginable speed since its inception, and Amon had even managed to get a few handheld portable card-making machines through his connections with the military.

But looking at the card-making machine, which was still very rudimentary just a month ago...

But now everything has completely changed.

Seeing the much more advanced and sophisticated card-making machine, Amon was immediately eager to try it out: "No problem, it's just about using the newly made cards to duel with the opponent, right?"

"Yes, it mainly tests the AI's reaction ability, coping ability, logical thinking ability, and so on."

Professor Si nodded: "Don't be nervous, just treat it like a real duel. Leave the other issues, such as data collection, to us."

Chapter 246: One of these two players on the field has to end up in the hospital.

"I'm sorry, although I know you have many decks, please use the 'new' deck for this."

Despite saying that, Professor Si showed no embarrassment.

On the contrary, they were really looking forward to it.

"Using the new deck in duels will also test other abilities of artificial intelligence, such as the imagination, inspiration, wisdom, and knowledge required for card creation..."

"These are powers possessed only by [humans] and [high-level card spirits]."

"Or rather, even the card spirits possess these powers bestowed upon them by humans; they are [human privileges]!" Professor Si's voice trailed off, becoming somewhat dazed.

"And now, these privileges that belong exclusively to humans will be granted to other beings by humans themselves..."