Chapter 9: It Makes so Much Sense that I Am Speechless

A week later, Douye Minoru City, a duel venue.

"My turn!"

You Yu drew a card from the deck and then swept his arm.

"I offer the Elemental Hero, Electro, and the Elemental Hero, Nendoroid, on the field as sacrifices... Come out! Elemental Hero, Golden Blade!"

A warrior dressed in pure gold alloy appeared from the three-dimensional projection card picture. He has green eyes, and his body structure is like steel muscle tissue, which reflects a unique metallic luster under the lights of the venue.

[Elemental Hero·Golden Blade Man, attack power 2600]

The passerby duelist in front of You Yu: "Wha...what!? It's actually a monster with an attack power of 2600?"

The passers-by Yi, Bing and Ding who were watching nearby also made a fuss: "A card with higher attack power than the legendary rare cards Red-Eyed Black Dragon and Black Magician!"

You Yu: "..."

The standards used by duelists native to this world to judge the strength of cards are really simple and interesting. The most important monster effects in the eyes of players are basically dispensable in the eyes of local NPCs, and even magic traps are not popular.

What they value is basically the monster's attack power.

And to be honest, the card pool in Yu-Gi-Oh DM's era was not very deep. The Mortal Bone Blue-Eyes White Dragon with an attack power of 3000 was already a monster that many duelists could not reach.

However, from a player's perspective, the attack power is only a drop in the bucket. The Five Emperors Dragon, known as the "highest attack power of duel monsters" and with a panel attack power of up to 5,000, is just a "bastard fish that is not even a wall" in the eyes of players.

Of course, Youyu, who is still in a serious card shortage situation, is not qualified to say so for the time being...

However, it is not difficult to defeat these nameless passerby NPCs.

"Fighting!" You Yu directly entered the fighting stage, "Elemental hero Golden Blade Man, attack the 'captain who cuts into the enemy's formation'!"

[The captain cuts into the enemy formation, attack power 1200]

The golden metal hero sprayed engine flames from its back, turning into a golden afterimage and swooping down in front of the warrior holding the sword.

The captain who cut into the enemy's formation gritted his teeth and raised his sword in an attempt to defend, but his strength was almost negligible in front of the Golden Blade Man, a superior monster.

The golden blade easily cut the silver sword in the captain's hand into two pieces. The latter groaned miserably and took the lunch on the spot.

Passerby A: "Uhhhhh!!!"

[Passenger A, LP 1400 → LP 0]

The onlookers all around began to cheer.

"Elemental Heroes...a deck I've never heard of before. It's so powerful!"

"What is the origin of this new duelist?"

"In this way, he has killed twenty people in one go, right?"

"It's so strong, it should be at a professional level..."

Yes, this week, You Yu spent all his free time after work every day in this dueling hall, dueling with various duelists in the venue.

As we all know, Domono Minoru City is basically a duel-oriented city in Yu-Gi-Oh! Thanks to President Kaiba's vigorous promotion, half of the people in the city have become "dueling brains" under his guidance.

Because of this, a large number of dueling venues were built in this city. Duelists can go to any venue to play card duels with duelists from the same city. Sometimes there are also some small private competitions held in the venue, and if you win, you can earn a little extra money.

But that is secondary to You Yu.

He comes here to play cards every day, rain or shine, mainly to gain experience and upgrade quickly so that he can earn more crystals to exchange for the cards he wants in the system card pool...

The early levels of Creation are the easiest to upgrade. Although the crystals you can get for each level up are pitiful compared to those in the later stages, at least they come quickly.

These days, You Yu has won twenty games in a row... The reason why he only has twenty consecutive wins is because he has to work every day and doesn't have much free time, and because he has physical strength. There is also a limit to the number of consecutive duels that can be played.

Brushing NPCs in the duel hall is one of the most common upgrade methods used by players in the early stages. Because the monsters in the decks of local duelists are basically all mortal bones, the Demon Trap also likes to add a bunch of cool-looking things but with unclear actual meanings, most of which are completely useless cards.

For players, these NPCs can be beaten easily even with purely entertainment decks that are not intended to increase points.

So after a week of fighting, although You Yu's image in the eyes of passersby has reached the point of being close to the God of War, he doesn't have much sense of accomplishment.

What sense of accomplishment does it feel to bully simple human functions?

...Hmm okay, except maybe President Kaiba.

Judging from the Yu-Gi-Oh! DM anime, President Seto Kaiba could never beat Yami Yugi at cards, so he was fond of developing artificial intelligence that imitated Yami Yugi to accompany him in playing cards, and thus gloriously won the title of "King of Humans and Machines" ...

You Yu had been playing cards for a week, and all the crystals he had saved were thrown into the system card pool. However, most of the cards he pulled out after opening the pack were either cards with unknown meanings, or cards that looked awesome but were actually useless at all. Something that goes into actual combat.

Only this elemental hero, Golden Blade, with an attack power of 2600, can barely be considered a big monster in this era (the era when even Golden Blade was considered a big monster now seems so simple), and the other cards can basically only lie in the card library and eat dust at this stage.

After this duel, today's physical strength has been almost consumed.

Youyu put away the duel disk, left the venue and began to return to his current dormitory.

At this time, the sky had darkened, and the street outside was chilly. Pedestrians walked in groups of three or two on the street, and vehicles passed by quickly on the road, and the taillights left a striking light path in the air.

When Youyu returned to the door of the store, the maid was standing at the door of the store, tiptoeing and trying hard to put up a poster.

But she was too... a little mini, and it seemed that she couldn't put it up smoothly without the help of a stool.

Youyu walked behind her: "Let me do it."

Ito Chinana only noticed him at this time, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she hummed and stepped back.

[Favorability +2]

You Yu was numb to this.

You Yu took the poster and helped her stick it on the door, then took two steps back to look at the effect.

It was a promotional poster for a newly released card. The poster showed a large number of newly-arrived cards, and the background was a black magician in a black robe.

You Yu was a little surprised: "Is there a black magician among the new cards?"

He remembered that the black magician should be a top-level rare card not only among players, but also among the natives of this world.

"Of course not." Qiannai said lightly.

"So the picture on this poster..."

"Then when you eat instant noodles, is there really beef and vegetables in the noodle bucket as shown on the box?"

You Yu: "..."

Fuck, it makes so much sense that I am speechless.