Chapter 89: The Programmer and the Magician (Part 1)

[Li Zheng: lp4000]

[Pachuli Norreki: lp4000]

Sure enough, this time it is still the local rules, so cards such as Synchro and Hyper cannot be used.

The two duel disks flashed against each other, which was to determine the order of attack. Li Zheng and Patchouli's duel disks should be "system products", which use a random mechanism to determine the order of attack. Li Zheng believes that this mechanism can be introduced to the duel field or duel disk in the future world. Compared with the most commonly used coin tossing to determine the order of attack, it can avoid those coin tossing masters using coins to ensure the first attack in every game.

After all, duels in this world often involve a lot of interests. He mentioned these things when chatting with Becas. Becas told Li Zheng and Hui about the huge gambling and huge interests involved in this "Dueler Kingdom" competition - especially the final duel between Hui and Yugi. The draw even caused several people to jump from the top of the casino in Las Vegas.

Duels involve so many interests, so when the first-attack advantage becomes greater in the future, such a mechanism will be even more needed to ensure the fairness of duels. After all, Li Zheng knows that there was a period of time in his previous life when Yu-Gi-Oh was about to become a "rock-paper-scissors game" (the first-attack in Li Zheng's previous life was determined by rock-paper-scissors).

The flashing of the duel disk stopped, and Li Zheng got the first attack.

"My turn, draw a card." Li Zheng drew a card, looked at it and said, "I summon 'Sonic Bird', use its effect to search the 'Advanced Ritual' in the deck and then cover a card, and the turn ends."

[Li Zheng: 6 cards in hand → 5 cards]

[Sonic Bird: 4-star, wind attribute, bird-beast, attack power: 1400, defense power: 1000, effect: When this card is summoned, when it is reverse summoned, select a ritual magic card from the deck and add it to the hand. 】

【Advanced Ritual: Ritual Magic, Effect: Player Card 1 Ritual Monster, until the total level of the card is the same as that card, send Normal Monsters from the deck to the Graveyard. After that, Special Summon the selected Ritual Monster. 】

Above the duel between the two, a bird flying fast landed in a storm. Its arrival was not just a simple arrival, but also brought a mysterious ritual magic power.

【If nothing goes wrong, Patchouli's deck should be that one, so this time I should use my real skills. 】 Li Zheng looked at Patchouli in front of him and thought: 【She is not like Tokiomi who will let her go when she comes. Patchouli is likely to show her strongest state directly, right? Not allowed. 】

"My turn, draw a card." Patchouli drew a card from the deck, took out a monster card from her hand, and placed it on the crystal duel disk, "I summon 'Spellbook Bart', and use his effect to search the 'Mystery Spellbook' in the deck."

"Ding~" A purple magic circuit appeared on the field, and the power of arcane echoed. A boy with a rather bored expression on his face stepped on the magic circuit and appeared. He held a heavy spellbook in one hand and handed another spellbook to Patchouli with the other hand.

[Spellbook Bart: Effect Monster, 2-star, Water Attribute, Magic User, Attack: 500, Defense: 400, Effect: When this card is summoned or reversed, add 1 magic card with Spellbook/Spellbook in its name from the deck to your hand. 】

[Mystery Spellbook: Normal Magic, Effect: Add 1 card with Spellbook in its name from the deck to your hand, except for Mystery Spellbook. The Secret Magic Book can only be activated once per turn. 】

Magic Book! The deck used by Patchouli Noreki, the immovable Great Library of Gensokyo, is the magic book that once competed with the Dragon Slayer! In the era when "Dragon Slayer and Magician flew together", the magic book deck performed exceptionally well. Patchouli's deck is a combination of the rich knowledge contained in the countless magic books she compiled in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. The "magic book" is indeed the most suitable deck for her, just like the "Gem Knight" is suitable for Tohsaka Tokiomi.

[Did Patchouli not search for the Divine Judgment? It seems that there is already a Divine Judgment in the hand? Or...] Li Zheng frowned slightly. It was not unexpected that the opponent used the magic book, but Patchouli's operation did not seem to unfold as he thought.

"Then, use the effect of 'Spellbook of Secrets' to retrieve 'Spellbook of Water Fortune' from the deck, and then use 'Spellbook of Water Fortune' to increase the ATK of 'Spellbook Master Bart' on the field by 1000."

[Spellbook Master Bart: ATK 500→1500]

[Spellbook of Water Fortune: Normal Magic, Effect: Select 1 Spellcaster-Type monster on your field to activate. Until the End Phase of this turn, the ATK of the selected monster increases by 1000. If you destroy the opponent's monster by battle, you can add 1 Magic Card with Spellbook in its name from the deck to your hand. You can only activate 1 Spellbook of Water Fortune per turn. ]

Pachouli still did not use Divine Judgment, but directly started the battle phase, "Battle, 'Spellbook Master Bart' attacks 'Sonic Bird'."

The magic boy who had obtained the power of water divination closed the magic book in his hand, and the book slowly entered one of his portable magic devices. After doing all this, he impatiently threw an arcane missile and shot down the rapidly flying bird in the sky.

[Li Zheng: lp4000→900]

"Add the 'Magic Book of Mystery' to your hand, and the battle ends. Enter the main phase, activate the magic card 'Magic Book of Mystery' to add the 'Magic Book of Creation' in the deck to your hand, and then cover two cards, and the turn ends."

Pachouli's turn ended, but Li Zheng felt that something was wrong. After he drew a card, he said to Patchouli: "Pachouli, do you have the card 'Divine Judgment of the Magic Book' in your deck?"

Hearing Li Zheng's question, Patchouli shook her head and asked back: "'Divine Judgment of the Magic Book' ? I've never heard of this card. "

"I see..." Li Zheng understood a little, he nodded and said: "Indeed, your deck is made up of the knowledge you accumulated in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, so if there is knowledge that can correspond to the power of God's Judgment, you don't have to worry so much about changing your race. "

[God's Judgment of the Spellbook: Quick-attack Magic, Effect: At the end of the turn this card is activated, add a number of Magic Cards with Spellbook names other than God's Judgment of the Spellbook from your deck to your hand, up to the number of Magic Cards activated by yourself or your opponent after the activation of this card. After that, you can Special Summon 1 Magician-Type Monster with a Level less than the number of cards added to your hand with this effect. You can only activate 1 God's Judgment of the Spellbook in 1 turn.]

It is not difficult to see from the effect of "God's Judgment of the Spellbook" that this card is a summary of all magical knowledge. That is, it is necessary to integrate all magics and finally achieve unity of all methods to achieve part of it. Moreover, its second effect symbolizes the control of God's Judgment over all magicians in the world. If Patchouli can do it, she should at least be at the level of Yakumo Yukari and Kazami Yuka.

Obviously, Patchouli can't do this now, so her deck does not have the powerful card "God's Judgment of the Magic Book" that can destroy the entire environment.

But this does not mean that the magic book without God's Judgment is easy to bully. In fact, even without "God's Judgment of the Magic Book", the magic book system is still very complete. It is a card deck with strong explosive power and endurance. God's Judgment just greatly accelerates its operation speed.

"My turn continues," Li Zheng said: "I summon 'Ten Thousand Hands God' and activate its effect to add the ritual monster 'Proclaimer of Divine Light' to my hand."

In front of Li Zheng, a statue of ten thousand hands broke out of the ground, and then it slowly moved, posing various strange postures to attract the power of the ritual angel.

[Ten Thousand Hands: Effect Monster, 4-star, Light Attribute, Angel Type, Attack: 1400, Defense: 100, Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned/Flip Summoned successfully, you can add 1 Ritual Monster or Ritual Spell Card from your Deck to your hand. 】

"Next is 'Advanced Ritual', whose effect allows me to select Normal monsters from my deck as materials for ritual summons. I send a 'Holy Sphere' and a 'Harp Spirit' from my deck to the graveyard, and Special Summon 'The Herald of the Divine Light' from my hand." Li Zheng used the card he had just retrieved, and the duel field was shining brightly. An angel who looked like a large, shining gourd with colorful wings and white arms... fell from the sky. "The Herald of the Divine Light' has low attack power, but it happens to be one of the nemesis of your 'Grimoire' deck."

[The Herald of the Divine Light: Ritual Monster, 6-star, Light attribute, Angel, Attack: 1800, Defense: 800, Effect: Ritual: The Prophecy of the Herald is Coming. You can activate this by sending 1 Angel monster from your hand to the graveyard. The activation of the opponent's Effect Monster's Effect, Magic, and Trap Cards is negated and destroyed. 】

[Li Zheng: 6 cards in hand → 4 cards]