Hu Tao touched the Duel Disk, grinning foolishly with delight as she waited expectantly for Luya to tell her the result.
Luya nodded at her words.
"These one thousand card packs, of course, were long prepared. How could I possibly forget Hall Master Hu's order?"
"Haha~"
Luya removed the Duel Disk from his arm and placed it on the counter.
Then he turned around, and under the cover of the counter, Luya took out the card pack box automatically generated by the system.
This card pack box...
It wasn't forged from ordinary iron. The box was seamless, cool to the touch, black-gray overall, inlaid with golden patterns.
Its dimensions were forty centimeters on each side, and grooves on both flanks glowed faint blue, as if condensed from solid ice, shimmering faintly, like holding a strand of moonlight in one's hand.
On top of the box, the number 1500 was displayed, indicating that inside, here were 1500 card packs.
Though the box didn't look big, its interior space was like a bottomless pit, and it was remarkably light to carry.
⌈Current Shop Level: 2⌋
╵Normal Duel Stages: 6
╵Area: 500 square meters
╵Daily automatic card pack generation: 1500
╵Remaining: 1500
╵Portable Duel Disk stock: 8
╵Available Mora: 8.9 million
Luya glanced at his Mora balance. Today's earnings seemed not to have been credited yet.
Earlier, renting Duel Disks to two customers, plus other customers using Duel Stages, had earned about 2 million Mora. However, that hadn't yet been counted in.
It seemed that the system only processed settlements and distributed rewards at the end of each business day.
Luya lifted the card pack box and placed it on the counter.
Hu Tao, from who-knows-where, pulled out a bag, then called out to Zhongli:
"Help me, Mr. Zhongli!"
Hearing her, Zhongli immediately stepped to her side and began stuffing card packs into Hu Tao's bag.
The surrounding customers, seeing Hu Tao suddenly buy a thousand packs were utterly shocked.
"Whoa!"
"So this is Hall Master Hu's wealth..."
"She just bought a thousand packs in one go!"
"Wangsheng Funeral Parlor must be insanely rich!"
"Of course..."
"Seventy-seven generations of accumulation—did you think it was a joke?"
"No, wait, that's not right!"
"If Hall Master Hu just bought a thousand packs, what are we supposed to buy?!"
"Shopkeeper, are there any packs left?"
"I want to buy too!"
Hu Tao's massive purchase of a thousand packs at once put immense pressure on the other customers in the shop.
One after another, they handed over their Mora to Luya to buy packs.
In just ten minutes, another 200 packs were sold.
Today's stock was down to 300!!!
Not even an hour since opening, and already 1200 packs sold!
A delightful haul of 24 million Mora~
At this rate, Luya might soon be able to open a branch store...
While Luya was busy selling card packs to the walk-ins, Hu Tao and Zhongli had already packed away her thousand packs.
Hu Tao planned to open them back at Wangsheng Funeral Parlor—she didn't want to reveal her deck just yet!
Moreover… Hu Tao also wanted to give some packs to Xiangling to pull her into playing as well.
After yesterday's duel with Luya, Hu Tao had realized that in Yu-Gi-Oh! in battles, the synergy between cards was extremely important.
Now, Hu Tao had already added plenty of cards to her deck that could help her Special Summon or clear her opponent's Spell/Trap Zones.
Compared to her previous deck, it was a major improvement.
And among the packs she had opened so far, Hu Tao had taken a particular liking to Zombie cards; She had built a deck combining Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and Zombies.
That said, it didn't yet have any powerful single cards… She would need to keep opening packs slowly.
Besides, alongside her full-Zombie deck, Hu Tao had also built a brand-new deck, made up of cards all bearing the [Gravekeeper's] name.
The words "Gravekeeper" gave Hu Tao a special feeling of kinship, like comrades in the same trade… Hu Tao guides spirits to the afterlife, while the Gravekeepers guard the tombs of the dead.
The Gravekeepers lived in seclusion in the Valley of the Kings, where pharaohs were entombed, passing down the will of the Gravekeepers through generations. For any tomb raiders who dared to intrude, they would punish—or kill—them.
The existence of these cards made Hu Tao marvel at the sheer variety of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards...
It was just that she wasn't very practiced with them yet.
Yesterday, back at the parlor, Hu Tao had opened more powerful Epic and Legend rarity cards—their effects were quite good.
Therefore, Hu Tao believed… if she were to duel Luya again, she now had the confidence to fight him evenly, instead of being utterly helpless like yesterday!
Even so, to truly defeat Luya, Hu Tao thought she still needed to refine her deck further.
She had the faint sense that many [Gravekeeper's] cards she hadn't yet pulled!
So...
First thing in the morning after breakfast, Hu Tao had rushed over with 20 million Mora to buy card packs!
Now, having bought them, she smiled at Zhongli beside her and said:
"Zhongli, let's duel!"
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