Why fight the Holy Grail War? Let's play cards!

"And like I said, your ability allows you to do anything. All the rules are meaningless in front of you. You can try to imagine a switch. Flipping it to OFF will block out all mental perception."

Jiang You did as he was told, but he didn't completely believe what Bubble said. Even if he asked her to confirm it, she would pretend not to hear it if she could still hear it.

"To make the impression more vivid and to prevent you from feeling too bored, let's have a duel."

Bubble returned to the original topic. She had transformed into this state precisely to complete her duel with Jiang You. With a wave of her hand, a long, rectangular desk rose from the water, its corners adorned with classical, intricate patterns. Immediately afterwards, two identical chairs gradually rose to their respective ends.

Paopao pulled out a seat for Jiang You and motioned for him to sit down.

Jiang You was not polite and let Paopao serve him. Then Paopao sat opposite Jiang You.

"Is this the way the game is played?"

Jiang You watched as Bubble pulled out a wallpaper with a Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Zone printed on it and couldn't help but grumble, "This is a bit too naive. The projection is obviously more stylish."

"Because it's just you and me in this fight, I'm not suitable for others to look directly at me. They're too weak, and you don't want to see them get hurt because of me, right?"

Bubble smiled and pulled out a stack of cards from the drawer and placed them in the deck area.

"Speaking of which, Illya and Nero were influenced by you. Don't you have anything to save them?"

Seeing that Bubble was so nice and his identity was so special, Jiang You naturally asked for something like an antidote.

"It's just a symptom of San dropping too quickly due to looking directly at something I can't understand. It's the same as seeing a Deep One."

Bubble replied nonchalantly, "I didn't do anything to them. Theoretically, they just need to rest for a while. There are still side effects, though, like increased clairvoyance. But for a magus, that's probably a good thing, right? It's like gaining a lower-level Mystic Eye."

"This isn't a scale that even a Deep One could describe."

Jiang You complained that Bubble didn't have the airs of the Three Pillars God at all and could respond to anything.

"Since you said so, I will believe you this time."

“If any problems arise, please feel free to complain.”

Bubble smiled and said that he had tried his best to restrain his power at that time, but the difference in the level of life was too great to allow them to be completely immune.

"Then it's time for us to start the duel."

"Wait a minute, is it okay for me to adjust the deck?"

Honestly, facing Bubble directly, Jiang You felt completely unsure. It was a tutorial, so theoretically, even if he lost, it would be fine. But Jiang You wanted to fight for it no matter what. What if he won? Maybe there would be extra rewards?

"That's not necessary. You can't use those cards in this game. To be more precise, you can't use other people's cards."

Bubble smiled and gestured for him to play. Jiang You tried, but found that there was really no way to put the cards on the table. As soon as the cards touched the table, they would automatically bounce back into the card library, as if they were not eligible.

"Are you kidding me? I spent real money on each of these... well, no money, I earned them through hard work."

Jiang You was a little dumbfounded. What was the point of playing without any cards? How about just throwing it in?

"They are not qualified to sit at this table yet."

Bubble explained, pointing to Jiang You's chest, "Only your own cards can play against me. Take them out. No need to rely on the power of others. Face your truth."

"what?"

Jiang You was stunned when he saw the extra deck in Kakuli. He actually had another deck? He took it out excitedly, and his eyes widened instantly.

There's nothing on it! Every card is blank!

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Chapter 422: Why don’t you just summon and win?

"Then let the duel begin."

Bubble didn't give Jiang You time to react and directly announced the start of the game.

Jiang You watched as the cards were shuffled and placed into their corresponding areas. Then, two hourglasses filled with blue sand appeared on both sides of the table. No sand fell from the tiny connecting openings, clearly acting as life indicators.

Jiangyou LP 4000.

Yog-Sothoth LP 4000.

"What does it mean?"

Jiang You looked at the five completely blank cards in his hand. It was not something he had not seen before. It needed to absorb corresponding things before it could be transformed into specific cards. Now he had no idea what to do.

"Do you want me to print the card myself?"

"Indeed it is."

Bubble nodded. "This is a tutorial to help you get used to your authority."

"In that case, these are five corpse pieces. The special victory conditions have been met. I win!"

Jiang You declared his victory without any shame, but nothing happened. The card was still a blank card, and Bubble just looked at him with a smile.

"...What about the promise that I can print the cards as I please?"

"Because that's something from another universe, it's across multiple works."

Bubbles explained, "Besides, do you think that even if you really summoned that thing, it would really work in front of me?"

"We agreed that the rules of the duel were absolute. And isn't this a Yu-Gi-Oh game? Why can't even a Dark Master be printed?"

Jiang You thought, even if it was a collaboration, it was still essentially Yu-Gi-Oh! Having a card that grants a special victory wasn't a big deal.

"If it were over there, it would indeed be absolute. But here, it's what you consider absolute, so it's also considered the truth. Besides, that's not how you use your authority."

Bubble smiled. If Jiang You could win easily, there would be no point in teaching him. But what he said was the truth.

"Cards, to put it bluntly, are rules derived from the 'reality' of this world. You can consider cross-game stuff when you reach that other universe. Let's continue. This is just a tutorial, after all. Don't worry too much about winning or losing. I'll start first."

"First, I activate the continuous magic card [Silver Key]"

Bubble gently placed the card Abby had used before on the table. This card originally belonged to him. "This card is a magic card that can special summon a Foreigner once per turn, but it won't be used now."

This duel felt like a real-life card game, with no way to use his mind to unfold the interface. Jiang You could only pick up the corresponding card and read the text description.

"If you're interested, I can definitely give you a few. It just so happens that your current job agency could use them."

Bubble continued his actions, "Next, it's the Quick-Play Spell Card [Voice of the Celestial Bodies]. When this card is activated, it negates the effects of all Servant cards on the field and destroys all cards on the field. Your opponent cannot activate card effects to counter this effect. Furthermore, for each card successfully destroyed, you draw a card."

"This card design looks like a Hearthstone card effect. It's so cool!"

Yu-Gi-Oh usually has strict restrictions on card draws, as there's no action point (cost) limit. Therefore, cards like this that allow you to blast X and draw X are basically only found in Hearthstone and SZB, and the cost is quite high. Jiang You glanced at the Silver Key in his hand, which happened to have the effect of leaving the board. "Are you trying to summon yourself?"

"That's right."

Bubble nodded. "Silver Key's effect: When this card leaves the field, Special Summon a Yog-Sothoth from your deck, graveyard, hand, or banished card zone! Since it's me, I can skip the summoning line."

Different from the scene that Gudako saw, after Bubble transformed into a silver-white literary girl, His card also changed into its current appearance. For Bubble, the current appearance is similar to an incarnation. Although the authority is not reduced, the damage to the San value is reduced to the minimum, and it can walk in the human world for a while.

【Yog-Sothoth】Outer God 12-star attack power?

"It's actually the Outer God? I thought it was a Foreigner."

Jiang You picked up the card and looked at it carefully. The first item was the conditions for a special victory.

"Hmm...weaker than I thought. Why is the special victory a delayed victory? This doesn't suit your status. It's worse than Exodia!"

"If you wish, you can change it so that if the summon is successful, you win immediately."

Bubble's eyelids lifted slightly, clearly dissatisfied. "But that wouldn't be enough to teach you. And take a closer look. Am I really that weak? Well, my turn is over."

Jiang You continued reading.

Yog-Sothoth

This card is not affected by the effects of other cards.

1. If this card is successfully summoned, you win the duel at the start of your next turn.

2. When this card is face-up, when your opponent plays a card, you need to discard a magic card to activate it. If there is no magic card to discard, you must banish the top 10 cards of the deck face-down and lose 1000 life points to activate it.

3 Once per round, you can declare a number from 0 to 8. The two players discard all cards and then draw the card with the declared number from the deck.

4. When the enemy draws cards outside of their turn, each card drawn will cause effect damage equal to the number of cards in hand × 100.

5 The attack power and defense power of this card are equal to 10 times the attack power of the servant with the highest attack power on the field except [Yog-Sothoth].

6 While this card is in the Deck's Hand/Graveyard, your opponent cannot obtain a Special Victory in any way.

"I always feel like your last one was just added."

Jiang You felt that this was Bubble's response to him saying that the corpse was stronger than him before taking revenge.

"But it's true that I spoke too quickly. You're too strong."

"Of course. It's freshly printed."

Bubble admitted without shame, "And then, I declare the number 0. Let's throw away all the cards in our hands."

Apparently, many of Bubble's effects rely on the number of cards in hand and the number of magic cards. If it weren't for the tutorial, Bubble would have simply declared the number 8 and the battle would have ended. But the situation wasn't much better. Bubble would have won the next round. How did Jiang You manage to win with just one card?

"How about letting me draw cards when these blank cards are discarded?"

Jiang You still hadn't figured out how to print the card. It was clearly unlikely that one card could solve the current situation.

"No."

Bubble smiled and refused.

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Chapter 423: Only I can play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Jiang You had no choice but to discard the cards in his hand. Where was the promised tutorial? Jiang You thought Bubble would let him print cards at will.

"So, my turn..."

At this point, Jiang You had no choice but to continue the duel, even though he knew that the next card he would draw would also be a blank card.

"Wait a moment."

Bubble interrupted again.

"No way, are you going to temporarily print an effect to target my card draw?"

Jiang You rolled his eyes. The opponent was so shameless that he dealt with all his cards in the first round. It would be better to just summon them and win directly if he created an effect that prevented him from drawing cards!

"Of course not. It's just that if you draw cards like this, you won't get the cards that can deal with the current situation. Have you ever seen Yu-Gi-Oh print cards directly on your hand?"

"No? Wasn't that the Kaka that Atum's real name was?"

Jiang You asked back.

"That card isn't so much a blank card as it is a card that seals the true effect. It will only be released when Atem finds himself."

Bubble explained, "Your cards are different. They're not finalized until the moment you draw them, or they need to be shaped in the deck. Let me give you an example. In your first scenario, during the duel with the Beast that shouldn't have occurred, that card, [Arrival from Beyond], was crafted with your own power. It was created to meet the needs of the moment. So, with the right strategy, this single draw could turn the tide of victory. Think about it, what kind of card would be suitable for such a situation?"

"One card reversal? Isn't that simple? I'm going to print a card that deals 4000 points of direct damage!"

Anyway, if you can't resolve the situation, just kill the main combatant and that's it. 4000 points of direct damage means there's no next round! Since you can actively print cards, of course you can do it as shamelessly as you can. Anyway, those anime protagonists don't have much shame when printing cards.

"..."

A speechless expression appeared on Bubble's indifferent face, but he did not stop Jiang You. Instead, he watched Jiang You try to draw the card.

After trying to draw the card several times, Jiang You found that he couldn't draw the card at all. He could feel that, just like what Bubble said, the card had not yet been finalized.

"why."

"Because there are no 'real' characters or stories to anchor this card, it is entirely constructed from your power."

Apart from Jiang You himself, Bubble can be said to be "omniscient" and he immediately gave the answer.

"Another point is that you don't want to believe that a card that can deal 4000 direct damage exists."

"You're talking nonsense! You can even beat 4000 with one card, why wouldn't I believe it?"

Jiang You tried again a few more times, but after no success, he had no choice but to give up.

"Okay, since I can't destroy your 4000 HP in one go, what should I do?"

"Like I said, everything, even time, is meaningless to you. From now on, it's up to you to figure it out."

Paopao interlaced his fingers and held his chin, waiting for Jiang You to give his answer.

"You've emphasized the time issue many times."

Because it happened too frequently, Jiang You couldn't help but pay attention to it.