"What? Marik?!"
Mokuba Kaiba shuddered at those words. His fingers abruptly stopped on the holographic screen, and he turned to his older brother with a look of shock and concern.
"Big brother, this is the system's very first live integration test against a real person! Isn't starting with Marik setting the difficulty a little too high?!"
It was hardly surprising that Mokuba Kaiba looked so shocked.
After all, this AI virtual dueling system, which Kaiba Corporation had spent an astronomical sum developing, was nothing like the ordinary training machines on the market that only played cards according to rigid code.
Instead, through deep neural networks and a vast archive of past matches, it could perfectly recreate a given duelist's Deck construction, tactical psychology, and even dueling style!
And who was Marik Ishtar?
He was a top-tier duelist who had once commanded the underground dark organization known as the Ghouls, spread boundless terror at the Battle City tournament, and truly possessed-and single-handedly wielded-a legendary [God Card]!
With Marik's terrifying capabilities, even an AI projection replicated by the virtual system could hardly be weak.
More importantly, once Deck data on the level of [God Cards] was involved, the load on the entire virtual dueling system's underlying infrastructure would become unimaginably enormous. One small mistake, and the core servers of the entire Venue Zero could overload and crash on the spot at any moment!
After all, outsiders might think Kaiba Corporation's virtual dueling system was purely a product of computer science and holographic projection.
But only the Kaiba brothers, as members of the corporation's core leadership, knew that what truly supported this virtual dueling system at full power was far more than supercomputer algorithms and technological might!
The true foundation supporting the entire system was an enormous array of ancient ruin tablets gathered