Aggro Cyber Dragon or Control Cyber Dragon?

"All right, Minister Luo, keep searching. I can't wait to see what gets negated next," Youye said expectantly after explaining.

"..." Hearing Youye's reminder, Luo Hao did not know what to say. He felt completely numb.

Ever since becoming an Earth-level Duelist, aside from being relentlessly locked down when dueling Munin, when had he ever felt this miserable?

Times had changed. He still conducted the search, selecting Cyber Dragon Nachster.

"I activated Cyber Dragon Nachster's effect, sending Cyberdark Chimera from my hand to—"

"I don't want to see the effect or hear it. I discarded the Fairy-Type monster Diviner of the Herald from my hand and chained the effect of Herald of Orange Light to negate it," Youye replied.

Effect resolution: Chain 2, Herald of Orange Light's effect resolved successfully; Chain 1, Nachster's effect was negated and destroyed.

"Ha ha ha! Senior, you fell for it! Next turn, as long as you don't draw a Fairy-Type, you'll lose! My next—" Seeing his effect negated, Luo Hao broke into an excited grin. But halfway through his sentence, he saw Youye activate the effect of the monster he had just discarded. He fell silent, and his smile vanished.

The two people and one spirit behind Youye also fell silent as they watched him activate the card's effect. "Diviner of the Herald's effect: once per turn, banish two Fairy-Types from the Graveyard to add two Fairy-Types with different names from the Deck to the hand."

"I banished Benten and Eva from my Graveyard, then added Diviner of the Herald and Eva." In the strange silence, Youye spoke again.

Halfway through, he looked at Luo Hao's Graveyard and recalled the effect of the card sent there. "Oh, right. Your Cyberdark Chimera can chain to Diviner of the Herald too, can't it? Go ahead and chain it. I can't negate it anyway. By the way, what were you about to say? I activated Diviner of the Herald's effect, so I didn't catch it."

Luo Hao: (TT)

Luo Hao's mentality completely collapsed. What was there left to chain? What was there left to say?

The Heralds' starter was Diviner of the Herald. Even if Youye gave up on building a board and simply sent a Diviner of the Herald to the Graveyard before adding two Fairy-Types, what could Luo Hao even do?

Did he dare make a move? No, the question was whether he could make a move. He could not!

"I end my turn!" As expected of the minister of a Duel Association branch, Luo Hao quickly adjusted his mentality and immediately ended his turn.

When Youye drew for his turn, he did not even ask whether Luo Hao had any responses. This time, he drew Alpha Draconis again. With Diviner of the Herald, Drytron Alpha Thuban, and Eva as starters, he put on a show for Chang Xingge by summoning a five-thousand-ATK boss monster, assembling enough damage to defeat Luo Hao outright.

After winning, Youye turned to Chang Xingge. "So? Are you satisfied with Drytron's strength?"

"Satisfied, absolutely satisfied!" Chang Xingge was incredibly excited. With a deck this strong, reaching Earth-level would be easy, wouldn't it?

But then she thought of another problem, and her expression darkened again.

She only had one month left before her Earth-level assessment. With so many cards outside the Drytron archetype, by the time she collected them all, the assessment would already be over.

"What? Are you unhappy because I barely used any Drytron cards to make Herald of Perfection? I'll give you a deck list later. Until you get familiar with it, just follow the list for your plays. Or do you want me to show you a full combo?" Seeing his customer's smile disappear in less than three seconds, Youye was puzzled.

If she was dissatisfied with the build because he had compromised too much and barely used any Drytron cards just to bring out a "god," he did not mind spending a few more minutes matching into some sacrifice in Master Duel to demonstrate it for her.

"It has nothing to do with you, sir. My own ability is limited. From what I know, it would take at least several months to collect all the cards you mentioned, but I only have one month to prepare for the Earth-level assessment." Chang Xingge answered bitterly, then handed Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World and the Original Card of Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan to Youye.

"I see." Youye nodded, accepted the cards, and said nothing more. How she obtained the cards was her problem, not his.

Luo Hao had already been in a bad mood after losing the duel, and now he felt even more irritated. Chang Xingge was the second-in-command of their Hangcheng Duel Association. If she failed her Earth-level assessment, it would be a major loss for the Hangcheng Duel Association.

But he could not help with obtaining cards through communication with spirits. If he could have, he would have long since helped Chang Xingge acquire Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax, the Mekk-Knights' boss monster.

Thinking of this, Luo Hao looked at Youye respectfully and asked, "Senior Youye, could you make some simple adjustments to the Mekk-Knight build?"

"I can. But there'll be an additional fee." Seeing more business come his way, Youye naturally did not refuse and answered with a smile.

Hearing Youye's words, Chang Xingge did not even have time to be happy before she fell silent. Getting those three cards had been purely luck. She had no other cards that Youye wanted.

Luo Hao also fell silent. He still had two cards Youye wanted, but those were meant as payment for having Youye adjust his own deck later. Chang Xingge might be important to the Duel Association, but she was not important to him. Naturally, he would not sacrifice himself to help someone else.

Seeing the two remain silent, Wang Cheng understood that Luo Hao did not intend to give Youye the cards he had prepared to help Chang Xingge, while Chang Xingge herself had no suitable cards and had fallen into thought.

"Senior, could you adjust the Mekk-Knight build without using cards from the card list?" After a while, Wang Cheng asked Youye.

"I can." After considering it briefly, Youye answered slowly.

For Mekk-Knights, he only needed to add a few Kaijus, cut some Trash Cards for more starters, and pay attention to summon placements. It was practically effortless. As long as they were not cards from the wheelchair Tearlaments deck, he could accept cards that were currently useful or might be useful in the future.

Youye's words stunned Luo Hao. If they did not use cards from the card list, then what cards would they use?

As he pondered, he saw Wang Cheng signal him with his eyes and immediately understood. He promptly said to Chang Xingge, "Xingge, go retrieve our Hangcheng branch's card list and see whether there are any cards Senior likes."

"Yes, Minister!" Chang Xingge understood as well. Even in high heels, she ran out.

After Chang Xingge left, Luo Hao quietly closed the door and asked with a smile, "Senior, could you help adjust my Cyber Dragon build?"

As he spoke, he took out two more cards and handed them to Youye.

Youye accepted the cards and saw that they were the monster Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise and the Trap Card Rainbow Bridge.

"Easy, easy." Youye grinned and directly slipped the cards into his pocket. The earlier Little Rice, plus the current Emerald Tortoise and Rainbow Bridge—Luo Hao had handed over three cards in total. Then Youye asked, "Do you want Aggro Cyber Dragon or Control Cyber Dragon?"

"Aggro Cyber Dragon. What's Control Cyber Dragon?" Luo Hao looked at Youye with a puzzled expression.

Since when had Cyber Dragon been divided into Aggro Cyber Dragon and Control Cyber Dragon? He had never even heard of that from the Heaven-level Cyber Dragon Duelists.

Seeing his confusion, Youye was not surprised. From the cards Luo Hao had used earlier, it was obvious that his deck did not distinguish between Aggro Cyber Dragon and Control Cyber Dragon at all. He simply drew whatever he drew and made whatever plays those cards allowed.

It could only be said that this perfectly matched Youye's impression of Duelists in this world.

So, he began explaining it to Luo Hao.

"Aggro Cyber Dragon is the build that focuses on boosting attack. It usually relies on Fusion plays, using high-ATK monsters to OTK the opponent."

"Control Cyber Dragon uses boss monsters to hold the field, mainly Cyber Eternity Dragon alongside powerful monsters like Cyberdark End Dragon, focusing on suppression and disruption."