Chapter 15 - 2000LP Is as Thin as Paper
(The price of Emerald Dragon was not outrageous enough after being seen by classmates in the previous chapter. It should be changed to 1,450,000 yen. But you have to know that Emerald Dragon is only one more expensive than Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and Ryuzaki can see that even a student can buy Red-Eyes Black Dragon, so the price should not be set too high.)
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"I am Hakuba Ryota." The young man introduced himself, "I accept your invitation to duel, but there is one condition, that is, as part of the bet, the Emerald Dragon must be held by a third party."
In other words, you cannot add this powerful card to the deck.
"Damn it!" Honda looked at Hakuba Ryota hatefully, "Hey, you bastard! Do you only dare to face opponents who have not tried their best? This is not a duelist at all!"
Faced with Honda's anger, Hakuba Ryota was very calm. He said lightly: "I am a realist."
Honda was speechless.
"Okay, no problem." Hui agreed, and handed the Emerald Dragon to Yugi, "But I have a condition. After I beat you, I have to choose a card from your deck. Don't worry, I won't choose your trump card monster."
Hakuba Ryota frowned, but still nodded. After all, the temptation of the Emerald Dragon was too great, and it was worth his risk.
"Hui, is it really okay?" Yugi asked nervously, holding the Emerald Dragon.
"It's okay. I didn't plan to use this card. I bet with him because it's a sure win, so it doesn't matter how much I bet." Hui smiled confidently, turned around and walked onto the duel field, where Hakuba Ryota was already waiting.
"Come on, Hui-chan..." Anzi was worried while Hui cheered.
As soon as Hui (Li Zheng) entered the duel field, he handed over the control of his body to Hui (his true self) as agreed.
Everyone in the audience only saw Hui close her eyes, and when she opened them again, her eyes were already blank, as if she only had the opponent in front of her, and would not pay attention to anything else.
"Hui, very strong." At this time, Yugi suddenly spoke, and his temperament once again became that of a cold and confident king. He slowly said: "Although I haven't seen her game before, I can see from this look that Hui is not the kind of duelist who can deal with it casually."
Duel Monsters is, after all, a new competition; duelists are, after all, a new industry.
No matter how popular this game is around the world, it is a fact that its foundation is not very deep at present. At present, when the competitive system of Duel Monsters is not very perfect, the people attracted to join the "duelist" group are mixed, and many of them do not have the real competitive spirit - there are also many duelists who use "non-duel means" to gain the upper hand like the insect expert Yu Moth, and there are more realists like Hakuba Ryota who value the wealth brought by the card itself more than the duel.
But if this industry continues to develop, the real duelists can survive and grow stronger in this industry.
At this time, the duel has already begun!
"Duel!/Duel." by Hakuba Ryota & Hui.
"My first attack, draw a card!" Hakuba Ryota took the first attack, Hui nodded, no objection. Hakuba Ryota looked at his hand and took action: "Cover a monster, end the turn."
Jounouchi was overjoyed when he saw Hakuba Ryota doing this. He mocked Hakuba Ryota: "So you are just like that! Knowing that Hui has Phoenix God, you dare not use monsters in attack mode?"
Yugi frowned, he remembered that some cards are not powerful only when they are in attack mode, he reminded Hui: "Xin, Hui, I feel that the monster he covered is not ordinary, there must be a trap!"
But Hui did not respond, she just silently drew a card and started her turn.
Hui looked at her hand, thought about it, and then recalled the tactics that Li Zheng told her, and determined her own way of playing.
[The winner is decided. ] Looking at Hui's hand, Li Zheng, who was hidden in the bracelet, came to this conclusion.
"Magic, activate." Hui raised the magic card in her hand - Reinforcement, the effect is to add a Warrior monster of level 4 or below to the hand, "select 'Captain who cuts into the enemy'".
Yugi and Jonouchi frowned at the same time, and Hakuba Ryota was also puzzled. After all, the tactics used by the opponent now were completely different from her previous tactics. They didn't understand the purpose of Hui's doing this. After all, "Reinforcement" was a cabbage-priced magic card on the market, which was very weak in their eyes; and the Captain who cut into the enemy's camp that Hui searched was also a cabbage-priced monster. Although it had an effect, its effect was too weak in the eyes of Yugi and others, the opposite Hakuba Ryota, and even almost all mainstream duelists.
The monsters that can be retrieved by reinforcements are only Warrior-type monsters below four stars, and those monsters do not have much attack power, and can only be used as targets for the opponent's powerful monsters; and the captain who cuts into the enemy formation can summon a monster below four stars in his hand when the summon is successful, but there is a side effect, that is, the opponent cannot attack Warrior-type monsters other than the captain who cuts into the enemy formation. The attack power of the captain who cuts into the enemy formation is only 100, and the opponent can easily find a breakthrough in your formation on this card.
That's right, in the eyes of Yugi and Hakuba Ryota, the second effect of the captain who cuts into the enemy formation is just a side effect. In other words, these two cards are first-class weak cards in the eyes of mainstream duelists now. Not only do they have no effect that helps them summon powerful trump monsters, they will even create gaps on their own fields out of thin air. The power of these cards is mostly a means for duelists to enrich their defense.
As for Jonouchi, he didn't think so much. He felt puzzled only because Hui used "Reinforcement", a magic card that seemed weak to him. Although this card could search for Warriors, the powerful Warriors he liked, such as the five-star "Flame Swordsman", could not be searched by this card.
Hui, what exactly do you want to do?
"Summon the captain who cut into the enemy camp." Hui ignored the doubts of Yugi and others. She took out a card and started her turn in a steady and calm voice, although the volume was not loud.
"Effect, activate, summon the double sword destroyer in the hand." Hui did not stop the operation. She felt the deck that Li Zheng strengthened for her and knew that she could end the game in this round.
With her action, a tall warrior holding two strange swords appeared next to the captain who cut into the enemy camp.
At the same time, due to the special rules of the Duelist Kingdom, when the field is "Grassland", the attack power and defense power of Warrior monsters can increase by 0%!
[Captain who cuts into the enemy formation: Attack 100→1560]
[Double Sword Destroyer: Attack 1600→080]
Double Sword Destroyer? Yugi and Hakuba Ryota didn't know this card, but Hakuba Ryota instinctively felt fear from this monster.
"Equipment magic," Hui took out the third card in his hand, "Power of the Mage."
Power of the Mage! This card - to be precise, almost all magic and trap cards - are not very popular in the eyes of mainstream duelists in this era. After all, the rule that "players who do not summon monsters during their own turns and have no monsters on the field at the end of the turn will automatically lose" forces duelists to add a large number of monster cards to their decks. The power of this card can only be truly reflected with a large number of magic and trap cards, and if there are too many magic and trap cards, no one can guarantee that they will not be "killed by the rules".
If they really want to use equipment magic, duelists prefer "Power of Unity" that can cooperate with monsters and increase attack power.
Theoretically, as long as there are more than six Duelists in the deck, there will be a certain danger, so Duelists of this era still prefer monster cards. That's why the price of "Power of Unity" is often 5~50 times that of "Power of the Mage"!
"Equip 'Double Sword Destroyer' and set a card." As the power of the equipment magic is activated, the attack power of the Double Sword Destroyer increases.
[Double Sword Destroyer: Attack Power 080→080]
Jounouchi said excitedly: "Okay! That's it! Attack with powerful attack power, Hui!"
"Don't be careless." Yugi still frowned, "Even if the attack power is high, it's meaningless to hit a monster in defense position."
"He's right." Hakuba Ryota smiled calmly, "My monster is in defense position, no matter how much you attack, it's meaningless."
[And that's not all. ] Hakuba Ryota looked at his own set monster, [My set card is the invincible monster "Man-eating Worm"! It can destroy a monster on the field when it flips over! I expected you to summon a powerful monster in the first turn, but even if you summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Man-Eating Bugs is not afraid! And in my hand】 Hakuba Ryota looked at his hand, and the other two Man-Eating Bugs were clearly visible, [No matter how you struggle, it's useless, I'll take the Emerald Dragon! ]
"Fight." Hui pointed to the covered monster, "Dual Sword Destroyer Attack."
"Okay, go!" Jonouchi cheered Hui.
"Show him the color!" Honda was also on the side, with a smile on his face.
"Hui-chan!" Anzi was also excited.
Only Yugi, he looked at Hakuba Ryota with concern, his face unchanged - he was smiling! When the tall warrior holding two strange swords strengthened by the magicians attacked, Hakuba Ryota could no longer hide his smile: "You've been fooled!" Hakuba Ryota flipped the attacked monster over in ecstasy, "My monster is a man-eating worm!"
"Oh no!" Jonouchi, Anzi and Honda were all shocked, "It's actually a man-eating worm!"
It's no wonder they were so surprised. Man-eating worms are indeed very powerful in this era when monsters have almost no resistance to destruction. "Activate the effect of Man-eating worms! When flipping, choose a monster on your field to destroy! Dual Sword Destroyer, go to hell!"
But Hui not only put away the Dual Sword Destroyer, but also put away the cards in his hand, the four cards on the field, and even the cards in the graveyard.
The three-dimensional image on the field also strangely stayed at the moment when the warrior holding two strange swords chopped the man-eating worms, and the effect of the man-eating worms was not activated!
"What's going on? Hey, are you going to run away? Are you going to run away after my ace monster is destroyed by my man-eating worms?" Hakuba Ryota looked at Hui who looked like he had finished fighting, and said in disbelief: "If you run away, it means you admit defeat! I'll take the Emerald Dragon!"
"Idiot! Look at your lp!" At this time, Yugi on the side laughed, and he smiled and shook his head. He didn't expect that facing a powerful monster like Man-eating worms, Hui's way of cracking it was so... simple and crude.
It seems that the captain who was summoned to cut into the enemy formation was just to protect the Twin Sword Destroyer in the next round just in case, but he is no longer needed now.
"My LP?" Hakuba Ryota turned his head and looked at his and Hui's LP scoreboard, his pupils shrank, his mouth opened, and he was surprised and speechless.
Dongfeng Valley Hui LP: 000.
Hakuba Ryota LP: 0.
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Key Cards in this Chapter
Twin Sword Destroyer
Effect Monster
Warrior
Attack Power: 1600
Defense Power: 1000
Attribute: Dark
Star Level: 4
Effect: When this card attacks a monster in Defense Position, you can only continue to attack once. When this card attacks a monster in Defense Position, if the attack power exceeds the defense power, inflict battle damage equal to the opponent's basic points.
Mage's Power
Equipment Magic
Effect: Increase the attack and defense of the equipped monster by 500 for each Magic or Trap Card on your field.
Man-eating Bug
Insect
Attack: 450 (This attack is simply outrageous...)
Defense: 600
Attribute: Earth
Star:
Effect Flip: Select a monster on the field and destroy it.
Power of Unity
Equipment Magic
Effect: For each monster in open position under your control, the attack and defense of the equipped monster increase by 800.