Yu-Gi-Oh!: This card wants to go to you.

"Is it you?" Albus asked in confusion.

He knew this cave; after dozens of spirits arrived, not one of them dared to break down the door and enter.

I thought there was some kind of monster hiding inside, but it turned out to be this guy.

“You…” Luo Bai thought for a while, but couldn’t remember the other person’s name, only that it was Lao Deng. “Oh, it’s you.”

"What's going on here? We're stuck on the fifth floor?"

A group of people were blocking the way, and that was the only thing he could think of.

“No,” Albus said after a moment of thought, “I’m stuck on the sixth floor, the last floor before the trial.”

"The darkest layer."

The seventh floor is a trial floor, not a regular duel floor. Moreover, the seventh floor has a medical center and a magic card merchant, so it is actually the most comfortable floor.

Therefore, the sixth level is also known as the "Darkness Before Dawn".

"If we're stuck on the sixth floor, why are we gathered on the fifth floor?" Luo Bai asked, voicing his doubts.

If you're stuck on the sixth floor, shouldn't you be gathering on the sixth floor to figure out a solution?

Albus paused for a moment and then said, "Because... staying on the sixth floor will affect us in the duel."

"Huh?" Luo Bai was taken aback. "Even the spectators are fighting?"

He knew that duels in this world were brutal, but he never expected that the audience would also fight this time.

Albus turned his head and glanced at a nearby wounded soldier, and said with a wry smile, "Look, he just got to the sixth floor and was unlucky enough to run into the direct attack."

"It's been shot down."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Luo Bai looked at the wounds and felt a chill run down his spine.

"Do you have any information about the guards?"

He was now very curious about how crazy the guards on the sixth floor must be, that they even attacked the spectators.

Albus nodded slightly, recalling, "It was too dark to see clearly, but—"

"It has heterochromatic eyes, one blue and one orange."

"The killing intent was terrifying, and there was something strange about it..."

He hesitated, unsure how to describe the term "yandere".

"I see." Luo Bai nodded thoughtfully, then asked, "So, what brings you here?"

When he first started climbing the mountain, he was very unresponsive to the other party's advances.

They ignored it completely, saying things like, "Dead and living spirits can't be partners."

So this is coming to us on its own?

Albus awkwardly turned his head, pulled down his hat, and said softly with boyish shyness, "The sixth level guard is..."

"A doubles match between biological types and staff."

"Shared perception plus a dark game..."

"When one side is attacked, the entire sixth floor is impacted by darkness."

Chapter 618 Encounter

"One person is injured, and the whole group suffers." Luo Bai clicked his tongue repeatedly. "As expected of Biantana, they're really going all out."

Are there any other entrances?

Each level of the snow mountain has multiple ascent points, and the outer and inner layers begin to connect after the fifth level.

“Yes, there is…” Albus said hesitantly, “I confirmed with that person that there are three doors. We are standing in the middle. There is an entrance on the left, the Hall of Light, and another entrance on the right, the Thunder and Fire Boiling Intersection Machine.”

"They correspond to elemental and technological types, respectively."

“Among us is a biological type, possibly a guardian leader, whose perception and empathy have spread throughout the entire sixth layer.”

"For every guard that exists, the pain of the commander's rebound doubles; three guards triple it."

What else might she say...?

He hesitated, as if he wanted to say something very abstract.

"What did you say?" Luo Bai frowned, puzzled.

What could be so difficult for someone to say?

Albus sighed deeply and said awkwardly, "Every time she experiences pain, she says... it's love."

"I understand." Luo Bai's face went blank. "I roughly know who it is."

With her heterochromatic eyes of blue and orange, coupled with this intense, passionate love, it could only be her.

"From this perspective, our subject is both the most difficult and the easiest."

The most difficult part is because there is a leader, while the easiest part is because it only suffers from the [Shared Perception] debuff. The other two gates also suffer from the effects of [Destruction Deck] and [Absolute Back Attack].

He was genuinely afraid of the Explosive Deck.

It's an absolute back-attack strategy, and without source cards, I'm a bit uncertain.

He wasn't afraid of the dark games, since he didn't feel anything about them anyway; the difficulty lay in the fact that it was a doubles match.

He can hold on, but his teammates might not.

If your teammate falls down halfway through the fight and you keep missing opportunities, it becomes a one-on-two situation.

"Shall we go take a look together? It's not far," Albus suggested.

It's not far, only a few dozen meters, but the steps are nearly a hundred meters high.

Luo Bai nodded and he and Albus cautiously approached the entrance to the sixth floor, their footsteps so light they were almost silent, their adrenaline surging.

Albus gently pushed open a crack in the door, and the two peered through the crack at the scene inside.

The sixth-floor guardhouse was dimly lit, with a misty fog filling the air. In the central arena, four figures were engaged in fierce combat, which was impossible to see clearly from such a distance.

Only a pair of bright yet menacing heterochromatic blue-orange eyes flickered in the darkness, their faint glow reflecting her eerie yet captivating smile.

"This is love!"

A morbid and maniacal laugh exploded like a bomb in the darkness.

The atmosphere inside the guardhouse suddenly changed. A pair of heterochromatic blue-orange eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness, as if igniting the entire space, and a strong sense of oppression swept over us.

"Get back quickly!" Luo Bai turned around and was about to run away.

A powerful dark shockwave erupted from the center of the arena, sweeping through the entire room like an invisible giant wave. The two human challengers were involuntarily thrown into the air by the shockwave, like kites with broken strings, and were violently thrown out of the room.

"This is love!"

The maniacal laughter continued to echo, and the dark impact, like a tangible wave, crashed down with endless pain and despair.

Two challengers collapsed to the ground, seriously injured, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood.

Luo Bai and Albus were also affected by the impact and were almost blasted off the steps.

The two men scrambled to their feet, exchanged a glance, and were filled with wariness and apprehension.

At the same time, Yi Lan and Nan Yang Yu Zi, who were spying, saw the challenger being blasted out of the room.

They successively leaned back tactically, taking half a step back.

This battle proved to be far more difficult than they had imagined.

“16000 base points…” Luo Bai came back to his senses, looking at the wounded at his feet, his heart uneasy.

In YGO doubles, 16000 base points is common, but this is his first time playing in Biantana.

His brain started working at lightning speed.

"16000... pulling against each other, that's 32000 on both sides..."

"The three guards are still standing, and the numbers have tripled... 96000?!"

“Not only that…” Albus gasped, “If we’re unlucky and run into people from the other two gates who are challenging us, we’ll have to take damage from them too.”

"In the worst-case scenario, it could triple."

"A Dark Impact that dealt 288000 damage... This is the hardest level I've ever climbed..."

"Two hundred and eighty-eight thousand." Luo Bai read the number aloud, and even he couldn't help but feel a chill.

"Now I understand why no one can climb to the twelfth floor."

Under these rules, it's not surprising that a few people can withstand the impact of darkness, but finding more than sixteen would be extremely difficult.

There is no bye mechanism for levels eight and above.

If you can't gather sixteen people to pass the seventh level, then by the time you reach the eleventh level, you'll only have one person left. Without any opponents, you won't be able to advance any further.

You can only lose half of your spiritual potential for reincarnation, or give up reincarnation and try again next time.

"Can you hold on?" Albus asked in a deep voice as his breathing gradually stabilized.

Luo Bai, panting, didn't even turn her head: "That's what I should be asking you."

“To be honest…” Albus frowned, “If there were only two guards, I should be able to…”

With one less guard, the damage from Dark Impact will be significantly reduced, and the risk of being hit simultaneously will be avoided.

With three guards, once one falls, things will be much easier.

Someone has to come and take this first step.

"It's better to rely on yourself than on others." Luo Bai gradually regained his composure, looked up at the direction of the Hall of Light, and said some hurtful words.

"She doesn't seem to have that kind of intelligence..."

This final stage is a great test of both fighting ability and physical strength.

The sixth level of the snow mountain, the left central hub, above the Hall of Light.

Yi Lan's mind raced, and a sharp glint flashed in her eyes.

She clapped her little hands together and said in a wise voice, "Never mind, let's eat first!"