"Alright, Minister Luo, you keep searching. I can't wait to see the Effects that come after the negation." After explaining, Youye looked at Luo Hao with anticipation and reminded him.
"..." Luo Hao was speechless upon hearing Youye's reminder. He felt completely numb.
Since becoming an Earth-level Duelist, besides the insane Stalls he experienced dueling Munin, when had he ever felt this frustrated?
Things were different now. He still searched, targeting Cyber Dragon Nachster.
"I activate Cyber Dragon Nachster's Effect, sending Cyberdark Chimera from my hand to the—"
"I don't want to see the Effect, I don't want to hear it. I discard Diviner of the Herald, a Fairy-Type Monster from my hand, and Chain 2 activate Diviner of the Herald's Effect to negate it," Youye replied.
Effect Resolution: Chain 2 Diviner of the Herald's Effect successfully activates; Chain 1 Nachster's Effect activation is negated and destroyed.
"Hahahaha! Senior, you fell for it! Next turn, as long as you don't draw a Fairy-Type, you lose! My next—" Seeing his Effect negated, Luo Hao showed an excited smile. But halfway through his sentence, he saw Youye activate the Effect of the Monster he just discarded, and he fell silent, his original smile disappearing.
The two people and one Spirit behind Youye also fell silent, watching Youye activate the card's Effect.
"Diviner of the Herald's Effect, once per turn, by banishing two Fairy-Type Monsters from the Graveyard, I add two Fairy-Type Monsters with different names from my Deck to my hand."
"I banish Benten and Idaten from the Graveyard. I add Diviner of the Herald and Idaten." Youye spoke amidst the eerie silence.
Midway through, he looked at Luo Hao's Graveyard and remembered the Graveyard Effect of the card sent there: "Oh right, your Cyberdark Chimera can also Chain to Diviner of the Herald, right? Go ahead and Chain, I can't negate it. By the way, what were you about to say just now? I was activating Diviner of the Herald's Effect and wasn't paying attention."
Luo Hao: (TT)
In an instant, Luo Hao's mindset completely collapsed. What was there to Chain? What was there to say?
Diviner of the Herald was the starting point for Herald. Even if Youye slacked off and didn't build a board, just sending Diviner of the Herald and then adding two Fairy-Types, what could he do?
Could he even make a move? No, could he not make a move? He couldn't move at all!
"I end my turn!" As expected of a Duel Association branch minister, Luo Hao quickly adjusted his mindset and directly declared his End Phase.
It was his turn to draw. Youye didn't ask him if he wanted to make a move this time. He drew Alpha Draconis again, then used Diviner of the Herald and Drytron Alpha Thuban as his starting points, plus Heralds of Orange Light, to show Chang Xingge a 5000 ATK boss Monster appear, gathering enough attack points to directly defeat Luo Hao. (This part was written, but felt like filler, so it was deleted.)
After winning, Youye turned to look at Chang Xingge: "How is it? Are you satisfied with the strength of this Drytron Deck?"
"Satisfied, absolutely satisfied!" Chang Xingge was very excited. With such a strong Deck in her hands, passing the Earth Level assessment would be a breeze, right?
However, she thought of another problem, and her expression began to look troubled again.
She had only one month left until her Earth Level assessment. With so many cards outside the Drytron Archetype, by the time she collected them all, the Earth Level assessment would be over.
"What's wrong? Are you not satisfied because I didn't use many Drytron cards to make Divine Light? I'll give you a public decklist later. Before you get familiar with it, you can just follow the public list for your combos, or maybe I can show you a sample combo?" Youye was puzzled, seeing his customer's smile disappear in less than three seconds, replaced by a long face.
If it was because she felt he compromised too much by not using many Drytron Archetype cards and was dissatisfied with the Deck Build, in order to obtain the 'God', he didn't mind spending a few extra minutes matching with a victim in Master Duel to give her a demonstration.
"It has nothing to do with you, it's my limited ability... The cards you mentioned, from what I understand, will take at least half a year to collect, and I only have one month to prepare for the Earth Level assessment," Chang Xingge replied with a bitter expression, then handed Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World and Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan's Original Cards to Youye.
"So that's it!" Youye nodded, took the cards, and said nothing more. How she obtained the cards was her problem and had nothing to do with him.
Luo Hao was already in a bad mood from losing the duel, and now he was even more troubled. Chang Xingge was the second-in-command of their Hangcheng Duel Association branch, and failing the Earth Level assessment would be a significant loss for the Hangcheng Duel Association.
But he couldn't help with the matter of obtaining cards through Spirits. If he could, he would have helped Chang Xingge get Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax, the boss Monster of the Mekk-Knight Archetype, long ago.
Thinking of this, Luo Hao looked at Youye respectfully and asked, "Senior Youye, could you make some simple modifications to the Mekk-Knight Deck Build?"
"Yes. But there will be an extra charge." Seeing another business opportunity, Youye naturally wouldn't refuse and replied with a smile.
Hearing Youye's words, Chang Xingge's brief moment of happiness vanished, and she fell silent. Obtaining those three cards was purely luck; she had no other cards that Youye needed.
Luo Hao also fell silent. He still had two cards Youye wanted, but those were his payment for having Youye modify his own Deck Build later. Chang Xingge was important to the Duel Association, but not to him personally. He naturally wouldn't sacrifice himself for others.
Seeing that neither of them was speaking, Wang Cheng, who was nearby, understood that Luo Hao wasn't going to give Youye the cards he had prepared to help Chang Xingge. Chang Xingge, on the other hand, was also lost in thought, lacking suitable cards.
"Senior, can the Mekk-Knight Archetype Deck Build be modified without using cards from the card list?" After a while, he asked Youye.
"Yes," Youye replied slowly after a moment of thought.
Adding a few Kaiju to Mekk-Knight, removing some dead cards to increase consistency, and paying attention to the summoning locations was all it needed. This was a trivial matter. As long as the cards weren't for the wheelchair Herald of Purple Light, and were currently suitable or potentially useful in the future, he could accept them.
Youye's words stunned Luo Hao. Without using cards from the card list, what cards would he use?
Just as he was thinking, he saw Wang Cheng give him a look, and he immediately understood. He quickly said to Chang Xingge, "Xingge, go pull up our Hangcheng branch's card list and see if there are any cards Senior likes."
"Yes, Minister!" Chang Xingge also understood. 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 me modify my Cyber Dragon Deck Build?"
With that, he took out two more cards and handed them to Youye.
Youye took the cards and saw that they were the Monster Card Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise and the Trap Card Rainbow Bridge.
"Easy, easy," Youye's mouth curved upwards. He put the cards directly in his pocket. With the Midrash from earlier and now the Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise + Rainbow Bridge, Luo Hao had given him three cards directly. Then he asked, "Do you want Aggro Cyber Dragon or Control Cyber Dragon?"
"Aggro Cyber Dragon? What's Control Cyber Dragon?" Luo Hao looked at Youye, utterly confused.
Cyber Dragon, when did it split into Aggro and Control? How had he never heard of this from the Heaven-tier Cyber Dragon Duelists?
Seeing his confused expression, Youye wasn't surprised. From the cards he had just used, it was clear that Luo Hao's Deck didn't distinguish between Aggro and Control Cyber Dragon at all. He just drew cards and played whatever he could, whether it fit Aggro or Control.
It could only be said that this perfectly matched his impression of the duelists in this world.
So, he began to explain to Luo Hao.
"Aggro Cyber Dragon is the version that goes for high attack, mostly relying on Fusion summons and using high-attack Monsters to roll over the opponent for an OTK."
"Control Cyber Dragon, on the other hand, focuses on establishing a boss Monster field, primarily using powerful Monsters like Cyber Eternity Dragon paired with Cyberdark End Dragon to focus on disruption and suppression."
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