"Are you ready?" Yuei Vu looked serious.
"Hmm… um." Dark Magician Girl nodded.
"Then…then I'm going to press harder."
The Dark Magician Girl tightly closed her eyes and lowered her head, biting her lips.
...
"Dark Magician!" Yuei Vu ordered, "Directly attack the Dark Magician Girl!"
The image of the Dark Magician flew into the air, and the green staff pointed forward. The wave of magic power turned into a dark red shockwave, and the explosion swept through everything, creating a black smoke that soared into the sky.
The Dark Magician Girl was overturned by the impact, and her LP was also dropped to 0 with this attack.
She bent outwards, making a standard squat on the ground, touched her little golden head, and stuck out her tongue in embarrassment.
"Yeah, I lost again." She smiled, "Sure enough, I still can't beat the master."
This was only discovered by Yuei Vu not long ago. It turned out that the duel monster spirit could also play cards with him.
At first, he thought about whether he could let the Dark Magician Girl accompany him to farm EXP—let her deliberately keep losing to him to achieve the purpose of quickly gaining experience, but it was obviously too good to be true.
A duel with one's own spirit partner was similar to a battle between friends, and there is no experience reward. You could only duel for entertainment or test the strength of the deck and familiarize yourself with the operation of the new deck.
For example, right now, he was testing the strength of the Dark Magician deck he just built with the Dark Magician Girl.
Although from the scene, it looked like he was bullying a helpless girl…
"Are you okay?" He stepped forward and extended his hand.
"Um!"
The Dark Magician Girl nodded, and her delicate little hand held his hand and stood up.
After all, spirit's physique was different from ordinary humans, and it was not so easy to be hollowed out.
Although she could only materialize for a short time, it's still enough to do many things, like playing poker with the master…or doing something else that couldn't be described here.
At the same time, Yuei Vu also noticed that the girl's Favorability seemed to have risen again during this period…
Sometimes it even made him wonder if the Favorability system was broken.
"Master, your deck is so strong, I have no chance at all."
Dark Magician Girl dematerialized and turned back into a spirit body, floating behind Yuei Vu.
"Master, whatever deck you use is amazing!"
"Ahem, it's too much for praise."
Yuei Vu responded casually while checking the deck construction.
If it was the earliest Dark Magician, the strength of the deck would definitely not keep up with the version's changes, but the Dark Magician has released a lot of powerful new card enhancements since 2014. If those cards could be drawn from the system card pool, they would definitely be able to be tier 1 in the environment of this era.
But in fact, he didn't have much hope for this at first.
As an online game, World Link Online must have updated versions. Although there may be some future cards in the card pool, in theory, the strength of a single card should not exceed the existing environment too far.
Sure enough, after more than 80,000 crystal stones were spent, the most powerful cards of the Dark Magician series such as Dark Magical Circle and Eternal Soul did not appear. Either these cards were too rare, or may simply not exist in the current card pool, and to obtain these cards, you have to wait for the version update.
(Dark Magical Circle (Continuous Spell Card) – When this card is activated: Look at the top 3 cards of your Deck, then you can reveal 1 of them that is "Dark Magician" or a Spell/Trap that mentions "Dark Magician", and add it to your hand, also place the remaining cards on top of your Deck in any order. If "Dark Magician" is Normal or Special Summoned to your field (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 card your opponent controls; banish it. You can only use each effect of "Dark Magical Circle" once per turn.
Eternal Soul (Continuous Trap Card) – Every "Dark Magician" in your Monster Zone is unaffected by your opponent's card effects. If this face-up card leaves the field: Destroy all monsters you control. You can only use the following effect of "Eternal Soul" once per turn. You can activate 1 of these effects;
● Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician" from your hand or GY.
● Add 1 "Dark Magic Attack" or "Thousand Knives" from your Deck to your hand.)
But unexpectedly, Yuei Vu actually opened two future monster cards from the card pool, "Magician's Robe" and "Magician's Rod".
(Magician's Robe (Level 2, ATK 700, DEF 2000) – During your opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can discard 1 Spell/Trap; Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician" from your Deck. During your opponent's turn, if you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use each effect of "Magician's Robe" once per turn.
Magician's Rod (Level 3, ATK 1600, DEF 100) – When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand, that specifically lists the card "Dark Magician" in its text. During your opponent's turn, if you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Tribute 1 Spellcaster monster; add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Magician's Rod" once per turn.)
And he got a trap card that was quite powerful in the current environment.
Magician Navigation (Trap Card) – Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician" from your hand, then Special Summon 1 Level 7 or lower DARK Spellcaster monster from your Deck. If you control "Dark Magician", except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 face-up Spell/Trap your opponent controls; negate its effects until the end of this turn.
With these card enhancements, the power of this Dark Magician deck became quite impressive.
In Yuei Vu's opinion, the main problem with this deck was the lack of a powerful finisher, and there were not enough powerful monsters to bring enough suppressing power.
The core of this deck lied in the Dark Magician himself and the various spell traps used by the Dark Magician, giving full play to the variable spells of the "top magician".
In contrast, the characteristic of the HERO deck in his hand was that using fusion to quickly summon powerful monsters like Shining Flare Wingman, Great Tornado, and Gaia.
In comparison, the HERO deck was more focused on relying on high attack power to quickly suppress, while the Dark Magician deck had more variable effects.
In a complex actual combat, it was difficult to say which of the two routines was stronger or weaker. It could only be said that each has its own emphasis and could be switched in real-time according to the opponent.
...Well, thinking about it carefully, maybe only a mortal like him needed to worry about this kind of pain.
If you are a powerful draw machine like the protagonists of Yu-Gi-Oh, who cares about the deck construction? It must be a combination of two systems in one deck!
Isn't it common sense that the more strange things are stuffed in the deck, the more awesome it is?
Don't believe me? Take a look at Yuki Judai, who mixed a lot of things into Elemental HERO to the point each episode could be a new deck, but he never dead draw.
So it's still the problem of bonding with your deck. If you believed in the Heart of the Cards, why did you need to be headache about this?
...
By now, there was only one week left until the official opening of Battle City.
The minor adjustments to the dueling rules he proposed were finally completed under his own supervision and were released by Kaiba Corp a week in advance.
The main change was that spell cards could not be activated in the opponent's turn (but they could still be used in the Battle Phase due to the president's own insistence), and the concept of "battle replay" has been added.
The duelists didn't find it particularly strange when the new rules were adjusted. After all, this new rule was a new thing. As long as it has not been officially applied in the competition, for the duelists, it was still in the test server debugging stage.
It was not surprising to make some minor adjustments before the version update was officially implemented.
As Yuei Vu was walking back home, he casually browsed the forum.
The opening of the player forum really provided him with a lot of distraction for his free time, and it was interesting to watch screwball players brag and tell stories. Especially watching them repost the video and GIF of Yuei Vu's duel over and over in the forum, and a group of people lined up to lick it below, it was extra interesting…
It didn't take long for him to notice a new post on the forum that was only popular today.
"Big news! I run into a vampire! It's been a terrible pit. The rare card that I got a few days ago was taken away by the vampire!"
"Really? Where did the vampires come from in Yu-Gi-Oh?"
"It's true, I also met it!" A player quickly replied, "I lost the duel with her, she also said she wanted to grab the rare card but I didn't have it, and then she just sucked me dry, I'm so stupid …"
"Shit, a woman?"
"Where did she suck? Is it good? You said that I also want to try my luck."
"I know what you're thinking! It's really sucking blood from your neck. I lost one of three lives this week…"
Three lives a week was said to be an anti-addiction setting for the game. Players could only be revived three times at most in 7 days. Losing one more and they would be forced to go offline until the week was over…
...That was to say, but it was a card game after all. How could you easily encounter a game that bet life? The upper limit of three lives was basically inexhaustible. (Lord of Thunder gave a like)
"Wow, worthy of being the Yu-gi-oh world, are all vampires in this game so disciplined? Do you really have to play cards first and then suck blood?"
"Ask the thread starter if the vampire is good-looking or not? If you win the game, is that mean you can do whatever you want with her?"
As expected of a screwball player, even the first reaction to seeing a demon was so different.
Yuei Vu flipped through the post, and it seemed that there were quite a few players who said they bumped into a female vampire last night. Many of them are still customers in his store. They just exchanged some useful cards with the crystal, and were robbed by the vampire…
Yuei Vu thought about it. Huh? What if the cards these players just bought were stolen…wouldn't they just come to me and buy them again?
Does that mean I can make double their money?
...Bah! What am I thinking about?
Yuei Vu quickly stopped his evil thoughts.
This couldn't be done. When a customer encountered such a thing, he, as the seller, must do his after-sales service properly. If there was a chance, he would meet this vampire.
There were really not many businessmen like him who have such a conscientious after-sales service.
Since this kind of thing happened in Domino City's territory… Then there must be news from the Nightcrawlers World?
Yuei Vu simply stopped by the Nightcrawler World headquarters and asked the president for information.
"…It's Tilla Mook! It's definitely Tilla Mook!"
President Kawasawa Gai paced back and forth in his office, scratching his bald head, which had few hairs.
"President, do you recognize her?" Yuei Vu asked.
"Yes, of course, I do!" Kawasawa Gai said angrily, "She is just a jerk, who has no sense of honor! She worked under Pegasus before, but after Pegasus's underground organization collapsed, she ran away quickly and joined Ghouls."
"Ghouls? So she is Marik's underling?"
"Of course." The president snorted coldly, "We have to send a message to Marik and let him know that what he has done has crossed the line. It must be condemned! Strongly condemned!"
"So is that useful?" Yuei Vu asked.
Kawasawa Gai thought about it and admitted that he was right.
Whether strongly condemned was useful or not, they knew best, otherwise, everyone would not feel that the United Nations was a piece of paper mask.
"Leave this matter to me." Yuei Vu said, "I just need to know the whereabouts of that vampire, then… I will deal with her personally."