"Senior, is something wrong?" Seeing Youye remain silent, Ouyang Yanyan grew even more nervous. She felt that her archetype had tremendous potential too. In fact, she had received every divine recognition that only Heaven-tier talents could obtain. Yet she had never been able to develop her own archetype or find a suitable direction. Right now, she could only trade blows with Mystic-tier Propaganda Trap Decks. Unless something unexpected happened, Earth-tier was beyond her reach in this lifetime.
That was why, after learning of Youye's existence through the Inspector Bureau, she had immediately wanted to find him. She was unwilling to remain this way and wanted to discover her own build, her own path.
"Snake-Eye isn't a problem," Youye answered. Snake-Eye was an archetype destined to stand at the pinnacle of the world in the future. There was certainly no issue with it becoming his servant.
"Senior, is Snake-Eye that strong? How does it compare to Tenyi Swordsoul?" Seeing Youye agree so readily, Sheng Ning fell into brief thought. Given Youye's strength and insight, he would not agree so easily to an ordinary archetype. She could not help asking curiously.
"Wouldn't it be strange for an archetype with no self-restrictions and such high field value to be weak? You just don't know how to play it or which cards suit it," Youye replied. At that, an odd smile appeared on his face. After a brief pause, he added, "Tenyi Swordsoul is far inferior. Their systems aren't even on the same level."
"Hiss—" Sheng Ning's expression abruptly changed. She was starting to regret bringing Ouyang Yanyan here and wanted to take her away.
After the Bureau's evaluation last night, Tenyi Swordsoul had been confirmed as Heaven-tier, the level duelists dreamed of most. It even had a great chance of reaching King-tier.
And Snake-Eye was a whole level above Tenyi Swordsoul. For a moment, she did not know how to describe Snake-Eye's potential. Wasn't this practically a future King-tier archetype!?
The problem was, she had already delivered the person here. Could she take her back?
No. Setting aside the likelihood of offending Youye, without his development, Snake-Eye would be a worthless Mystic-tier archetype. What use would it be?
"So? Are we still signing the duel?" Youye asked, but before he could finish—
"Yes!" Ouyang Yanyan answered excitedly.
Since last night, Tenyi Swordsoul had caused quite a stir in the Inspector Bureau. Who in the Bureau had not witnessed its power?
Yet such a powerful Tenyi Swordsoul was actually weaker than her Snake-Eye. She was at least one tier ahead. How could she possibly let such an opportunity slip away?
Becoming Youye's servant? What was so bad about that? Before coming here, she had overheard that Youye was a King-tier powerhouse. A powerhouse like him was guaranteed to reach Heaven-tier at the very least in the future. What was shameful about becoming the servant of someone guaranteed to reach Heaven-tier?
"Fine. Before that, let's duel. Signing the Dueling Rules requires a duel anyway, and I need to see how well you've mastered Snake-Eye," Youye said, nodding approvingly when he saw Ouyang Yanyan agree without the slightest hesitation.
If she had hesitated and been unwilling to become his servant, he would not have wanted her either. To put it bluntly, Snake-Eye was strong, but did he lack strong archetypes? No!
If he just put the word out, there would be countless people wanting to become his servants.
Then there was his own collection. His Wheelchair Tearlaments built around Merrli had already gathered around thirty cards. Aside from Stun Runick, he had just assembled a Self-Runick deck as well. Once he had two Fountain cards, more Runick cards, and some Spright Cards, he could build Spright Runick. If he completed the Spright Engine afterward, that would be even better.
After all, although Spright reliably served Tearlaments faithfully, its strength was beyond doubt. In a duel with full-power Spright and no banlist, the only deck that could reliably beat him was Ishizu Tearlaments. Kashtira and he would each have their wins and losses.
"Alright." Ouyang Yanyan nodded and took out her Duel Disk.
Youye (8000 LP) vs. Ouyang Yanyan (8000 LP)
The Dueling Rules allowed Ouyang Yanyan to choose, and she chose to go first. Both sides drew five cards. The duel began.
"Senior, do you have anything during the Draw Phase or Standby Phase?" Ouyang Yanyan asked, looking at Youye.
"No hand traps. Go all out and build the strongest board you can. I want to see how well you've mastered the Snake-Eye deck," Youye said after glancing at his hand and seeing no hand traps.
"Alright! My hand can just about make the strongest board I know of!" Ouyang Yanyan said with a very serious nod.
"Mm. I'm looking forward to it," Youye said, nodding.
"I activate the Normal Spell Bonfire, adding a Level 4 or lower Pyro-Type monster from my deck to my hand. I add Snake-Eye Flamberge Dragon from my deck to my hand. Then, Flamberge Dragon's first effect: when it is added to my hand other than by drawing, I can Special Summon it. I Special Summon it in Defense Position."
"When Flamberge Dragon is Summoned or Special Summoned, I can add a Snake-Eye Spell or Trap to my hand. I add the Field Spell Snake-Eye Temple to my hand. Then I activate the Field Spell Snake-Eye Temple. Its effect lets me place a Snake-Eye monster in my Spell and Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell. I place Snake-Eye Great Flame Demon."
"Next, I activate the Normal Spell Original Sinful Spoils - Snake-Eye from my hand. By sending a face-up card I control to the Graveyard, I can Special Summon a Level 1 FIRE Attribute monster. I send Snake-Eye Temple to the Graveyard and Special Summon Snake-Eye Ash from my deck. When Ash is Summoned or Special Summoned, I can add a Level 1 FIRE Attribute monster to my hand. I add Snake-Eye Ash from my deck to my hand!"
Youye: ???
"Wait, what did you add to your hand?" Youye had merely thought her earlier plays were a pure in-archetype line that was barely passable, but he could not hold it in anymore when he saw this. What was this? Ash's effect was once per turn by card name. She had just used it, so even if she summoned it again, it would have no search effect!
So the question was, if its effect had already been used, why search it? Even if she wanted extension, Snake-Eye Oak could serve as an extender. Wouldn't that be better than Ash?
"Snake-Eye Ash, of course~ For next turn's plays." Ouyang Yanyan hesitated for a moment, but remembering that she would be Youye's servant from now on, she directly explained her plan.
"Awesome. Keep going!" Youye said helplessly, unable to find the words to complain.
She had only made a few plays into building her board, and before even putting out a single end-board monster, she was already thinking about next turn? Shouldn't she think about that after she had mostly finished her end board? Besides, with Snake-Eye's resource generation, did she even need to worry about resources for next turn?
".Alright!" Seeing Youye's displeased expression, Ouyang Yanyan felt pressured. Soon, however, she smiled in relief. She was confident that the card about to appear would satisfy Youye greatly!
"I use the effect of Snake-Eye Poplar in my hand. Since there is a FIRE Attribute monster on the field, I can Special Summon it, so I do. Then I activate Ash's effect, sending it and one card to the Graveyard to Special Summon a Snake-Eye monster. I send it and Great Flame Demon to the Graveyard and Special Summon Snake-Eye Flamberge Dragon from my deck."
"Flamberge Dragon's effect lets me place a monster from my field or Graveyard in my Spell and Trap Zone. I choose Great Flame Demon in my Graveyard." After saying that, she looked at Youye and slowly spoke.
"Senior, now you'll see the strongest trump card I earned through three years of effort in the Inspector Bureau!"
"Mm." Youye nodded upon hearing that, though he had a bad feeling. It felt like when Bai Yun'er had summoned Blue-Eyes White Dragon before, but Ouyang Yanyan had three monsters on the field now. There was no way she could summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Just as he thought that, the three monsters on Ouyang Yanyan's field vanished, and a pale blue pillar of light appeared. The corner of Youye's mouth began twitching.
He remembered now. There was a certain Bilibili uploader who, whenever he gathered three monsters, loved summoning this thing and then punching the opponent to death in one blow.
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