Chapter 8: The Cold Barricade
――Mutoya's Game Store――
A white-haired girl and a brown-haired young man sat staring at each other, surrounded by a nervous crowd of onlookers.
"I'll attack first, draw cards." Li Bai took the lead in drawing the sixth card from the deck on the table.
The girl didn't really want to take the lead...... She was more superstitious about "if you don't attack first, you won't die, why don't you understand", but after the start, she saw that her brother didn't say anything, and understood that the other party deliberately gave up the right to attack first, so she had to bite the bullet and take the first attack.
Li Bai first checked his hand:
【Purple Jade Dragon】Light/Dragon, Level 4, Attack 2000, Garrison 100
【Ancient Pot】Earth/Rock, Level 1, Attack 400, Garrison 200
【Moon Goddess Elusem】Light/Angel, Rank 3, Attack 750, Garrison 1100
[One-Eyed White Tiger] Wind/Beast, Level 3, Attack Power 1300, Garrison Power 500
【Nun of Great Compassion】Light/Angel, Level 4, Attack 850, Garrison 2000
And the card she just drew is one of her few magic trap cards:
【Sword of Dagula】
Magic/Equipment: Only angelic monsters can be equipped, and the attack power of the equipped monster is increased by 500 points, and when the monster equipped with this card causes combat damage to the opponent, it will restore the LP of the same value.
Equipped with magic, Li Bai noticed the playful gaze of the seahorse and frowned.
The only people I can manipulate this card in my hand are the Moon Goddess Elusem and the Merciful Nun, but their initial attack power is too low, even if they are strengthened by the Sword of Dagula, they can't exceed 1350, and they are too easy to be knocked down......
So let's do it for now......
"I summon the Ancient Pot, the guard said." (Note)
"End of round."
"To me." The seahorse also drew a card from the deck and found that Li Bai was looking at him a little nervously, "What, I'm afraid that I will suddenly call out a powerful monster that you can't knock down?" ”
"Don't worry, you don't have that qualification yet, let me use my real strength to fight."
"Even if you're my sister."
That's right, the seahorse Seto didn't think that this little sister who had just been sober for a short time didn't think that there was any strategy of a duelist, this kind of rookie who just got the card, I think it should be something wrong, no tactics, no purpose...... "Eh? remote antiquity
The pot? "Seahorse was a little surprised to find this monster strange...... Weak; The attack and garrison values are quite low, and it can be said that it is one of the worst cards in the card he handed over to Li Bai.
The current duel mode is still very primitive, there are not too many magic and traps, ninety percent of the cards in each person's deck are monster cards, if Li Bai does not have a monster stronger than this card in his hand, Seahorse is absolutely unbelievable.
Then there are only ...... possibilities
"Use your weakest subordinates as bait to purposefully transform the passivity brought by the first attack?" Slowly speaking the girl's intentions, Seahorse smiled a little appreciatively, "It seems that I underestimated you a little, my sister." ”
"But this kind of Cheng dù's strategy is useless in front of me. My card is a gargoyle! ”
【Gargoyle】Demon/Dark, Level 3, Attack Power 1000, Garrison Power 500, This is a red-skinned demon with a single horn and demonic wings.
"The gargoyle attacks the Ancient Pot." There is a lot of difference in the values between the two sides, and the garrison power of 400 points is obviously not enough in front of the attack power of 1000, and the seahorse calmly gave the order to attack.
"The Ancient Pot was broken by a gargoyle and sent to the graveyard." Li Bai also understands this, her original intention is the same as what Seahorse said, just to use this weakest monster to block the opponent's attack, but Seahorse only sent a monster with an attack power of 1000 to attack, and it was obvious that it was the same idea as her.
He definitely has stronger monsters in his hands.
I just don't know how strong that monster really is...... If it's blue-eyed, she's really hard to deal with at the moment.
Speaking of which, it was really risky enough to challenge the boss of the first act with 3 blue-eyed white dragons, and Li Bai felt a little excited while breaking out in a cold sweat, which was a special thrill when facing a powerful opponent.
"End of round."
"To me." Li Bai looked at the cards drawn, and his eyes lit up: "Electric Dragon!" ”
This is the strongest card she currently has, but her attack power of 2500 is still not very confident in front of the blue-eyed white dragon.
The card that Seahorse carries with him definitely has a blue-eyed white dragon, but it's doubtful whether he joined the deck, referring to the first battle when he was defeated by another game in the original plot, and the possibility of having blue eyes in the deck is not high.
Just because it's not very likely doesn't mean it's zero...... The girl smiled wryly, she could only pray that even if there were blue eyes in the opponent's deck, she would draw them later.
There are a full 4 of the few magic traps he has that are cards that increase the offensive and defensive values, and the seahorse has no idea that he has this card, so it is the safest thing to leave the electric dragon and wait to get more magic cards to grab all the health at once.
From this scene to the end of the kingdom journey, the LP of both sides of the duel, that is, the amount of blood, is only 2000 points, which is also the fundamental guarantee for the establishment of Li Bai's tactics.
The attack power of the electric dragon can be stacked up to 3400 points by her magic card, and as long as you attack a monster with an attack representation and an attack power of less than 1400, you can use up 2000 points of LP in the seahorse at one time.
I hope there won't be any changes until then......
"I summon Elusem, the goddess of the moon, the guard."
"End of round!"
"Why didn't she fight back?" Regarding the girl's repeated defense, Jonai said that he really couldn't understand it.
Obviously, this is the person at the level of "rookie who has just gotten the card" in the eyes of the seahorse......
"White her...... It should be planning, that kind of look is not like someone who is blindly waiting to admit defeat. Apricot said with some hesitation, "And...... I don't know if it's my delusion, but I always feel like she's been jealous and afraid of something......"
"Apricot is right." A calm, magnetic voice sounded.
This is the voice from the soul of the pharaoh 3,000 years ago; Unconsciously, he and the watch game have exchanged the control of the body, and the game's originally short body became erect with his takeover, and an aluminum-blonde hair stood high in the middle of the hair.
It looks like a crown.
"Li Bai is indeed afraid of something, I can see it." The game folded her hands in front of her chest and affirmed, "And judging from the way she challenged the seahorse, this fear should not have come from the seahorse, it should have been something else, the most promising."
If you can, it's a card. ”
"Game!" Everyone was stunned to see his change, although it was not the first time they had seen the game suddenly become like this, but they still thought it was very amazing, like two people.
"The garrison power of 1100 is only 100 points higher than the attack power of the gargoyle." The game squinted his eyes and looked at the girl with a stern expression, "She's forcing the seahorse to expose her hole cards as much as possible!" ”
Everyone listened to the analysis of the game and couldn't help but become solemn, especially in the city, in the eyes of this newcomer who has just come into contact with the world of duelists and is not very talented, Li Baiguang is already very powerful with the three cards he just opened, and his own background should be
It's not low, it's inconceivable for him to have a fear of the cards his opponent might have.
How strong does it take to make her so jealous?
Blue-eyed white dragon?
Jonai didn't know that he had inadvertently guessed a third of the result, and he was now very anxious about Li Bai's bad situation, the other party's excellent appearance was one thing, and he could also see the girl's kindness from the fact that he received cards and got along all the way,
Compared with the seahorse who scolded himself for being garbage, of course he hoped that Li Bai could win.
"Hahahaha!" Haima looked at Li Bai's card and laughed, "Are you actually trying to test my bottom line with this garbage?" What are you afraid of? What are you waiting for? ”
"......" Li Bai was silent, or she didn't understand how to answer at this time.
"Don't you speak, you think you can hide like this forever?" Seahorse shook his head, casually placed a card on the table, and then took out a monster from his hand again, "You think too simply, summon the Frost Brachiosaurus!" ”
【Frost Brachiosaurus】Water/Dinosaur, Level 6, Attack Power 2600, Garrison Power 1700, This is a powerful dinosaur with scale armor covered in ice and snow.
"Crush it! Frost Trample! ”
“……!” Faced with an attack power of 2600, Li Bai had no choice but to send the destroyed monster to the cemetery; She then looked at the fold that Seahorse had placed on the table and waited for Seahorse's turn to end.
"To ...... I did. Slowly exhaling, Li Bai pulled out the next card:
【Elven Light】
Magic/Equipment: Only light-attribute monsters can be equipped, and the attack power of equipped monsters is increased by 400, and the defense power is reduced by 200.
After Li Bai drew this card, the tension in his heart was slightly less, after all, the attack power of the opponent's 2600 had surpassed his ace Electric Dragon, and whether there was a solution in his hand would definitely affect the layout.
With the Elven Light equipped, the Dragon's attack power can be increased to 2900, and if the Gargoyle is killed like this, the Seahorse's LP will only have 100 points......
"......" seemed to be trying to find a reason for herself, and after glancing at the fold again, the girl still decided to implement her own tactics: "Guarding means summoning the one-eyed white tiger." ”
There's only one left, and if there's one more card that increases her attack, she'll get ......
"Open the trap." Before Li Bai's words fell, he saw Haima open the card that had been covered in the previous game!
No...... Attack the trap of reaction? The girl's eyes widened, and they were full of horror.
"Seal Guard! As long as this is stuck on the table, you can't shrink back any longer. The brown-haired young man looked at her with satisfaction, "I don't want to waste any more time, let's finish it early, my sister." ”
Seal Guard is a card that is activated when a monster declares defense, and can force that monster and all subsequent summoned monsters into an attack representation.
The girl gritted her teeth and swung the one-eyed white tiger from horizontal to vertical.
"To me, Frost Bracher Attack." The seahorse pulled out a card, and without looking at it, he uttered the attack declaration. "If the One-Eyed White Tiger is defeated, the difference between the attack power will be deducted from your LP according to the rules, which means ......"
“…… You only have 700 lives left. ”
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Note: The rules of the duel still respect the original book, at least for the most part.