"Your opponent knows my card's effect?"
"A master?!"
Chen Xinxin confirmed that she had selected a random match, not a ranked duel.
She thought she might know, so she clicked on [Card Check].
This button can be clicked three times per duel, each lasting one minute, allowing her to view cards revealed on her opponent's field, graveyard, banished zone, or hand.
She suspected her opponent was using a fake card!
Otherwise, how could there be a trap card activated from their hand?
Even activated during her turn.
Chen Xinxin examined the trap card that had just been activated and murmured:
"[Infinite Impermanence], if you have no cards on your field, this card can also be activated from your hand..."
"Negating monster effects, blah blah blah... Set activation... Negates other Spell & Trap Cards activated in the same row!"
Her eyes widened instantly, as if she had just learned something new.
"Holy crap, how can there be such an OP card?"
"Oh no, I've been taught a lesson."
"Trying to show off but ending up getting wrecked."
"I never expected to run into a senior using an alt account."
Chen Xinxin closed the card list to check, her heart churning with embarrassment.
Covering her flushed cheeks, she wanted to disappear into a hole.
So embarrassing!!!
With the [Swordsoul] deck, she only knew how to play after Moye's effect was activated.
It's been negated, what can she do?
She was completely bewildered.
"I... um... I'll set a card face down and end this turn."
Chen Xinxin forced a smile.
She felt so ashamed... using her dad's account to stomp on newbies, only to run into a senior using an alt account.
Wait, that's not true.
Chen Xinxin thought for a moment.
"It's Chen Wencheng who's losing face, what does it have to do with me, Chen Xinxin?"
On the other side, Luo Bai was also quite shocked, even full of praise.
At first, he didn't understand the deeper meaning of [Guidance duel], even thinking it meant he was supposed to guide his opponent. When he wasn't playing cards, people often came to the shop asking him about deck building and duelling details.
But he immediately encountered a mature competitive deck like [Swordsoul].
"Tsk tsk, a new strategy and you get matched with [Swordsoul]."
"Not bad, this is pretty good compared to the duelling level back home."
"But why did your opponent spend so much time studying a single Imperm(Short for Infinite Impermanence)?"
"Never seen it before? That's unlikely, they can even play a Swordsoul deck."
Somewhat confused, Luo Bai decided to give up thinking about it.
He was about to begin his first round of duelling in this other world!
"My turn..."
"Draw!" (Flash effect)
"Standby, main."
Luo Bai stared at Chen Xinxin's face-down card, his eyes filled with worry.
If it's [Swordsoul Blackout], it'll be quite troublesome; two cards will be destroyed.
The highest attack power of a lower-level Dinosaur-Type monster in the Dinosaur deck is only 1500, which can't beat Mo Xie's 1700, making it impossible to force out a face-down card at Battle Rank.
"I activate the Spell Card [Fossil Dig] to search my Deck for one Level 6 or lower Dinosaur-Type monster," Luo Bai shouted after thinking for a moment.
Chen Xinxin didn't counter.
Zhongxin was silently thinking: Dinosaur-Type? There's a Dinosaur-Type deck?
Luo Bai sighed inwardly: Thank goodness, it would have been troublesome if it had just been Ashed.
"I add [Dinomorphia Therizia] to my hand."
"Summon [Dinomorphia Therizia, 1500/0]..."
In a VR duel, seeing the 3D projection of Therizia for the first time, Luo Bai was stunned.
A dreamlike illusion washed over him, his voice trembling with excitement.
"Activate the effect of the Therizia, Set one Dinomorphia trap from the Deck."
Not only that, he was also a little apprehensive, afraid of being hit by [Effect Veiler].
Chen Xinxin was still stunned; she had never heard of this set, never heard of this effect.
No counter, the effect passed.
"Then I'll Set [Dinomorphia Frenzy]."
Luo Bai said leisurely.
Then, before the opponent could react.
Snap! So fast.
Four cards were set in the back row, and the turn ended.
Chen Xinxin was startled, exclaiming, "Such a fast set!"
But she didn't activate the set card from the previous turn. Luo Bai breathed a sigh of relief: "Luckily, it wasn't a Blackout."
If the Frenzy set in the back row had been destroyed, it would have been troublesome; five set cards in the back row, but only one card to fusion summon with.
"My turn, draw!"
Chen Xinxin, oblivious to his inner thoughts, drew her card with a rather hardcore style.
Entering the Main Phase.
She glanced at her newly drawn card, a smug smile playing on her lips:
"I activate [Mystical Space Typhoon]!"
"Destroy your set [Dinomorphia Frenzy]!"
"Swordsoul with Mystical Space Typhoon? And you even drew it?" Luo Bai was slightly surprised, sighing softly, "Unfortunately, it wasn't enough..."
"Chain with, pay half LP, activate [Dinomorphia Frenzy]!"
Mystical Space Typhoon only destroys the card; it doesn't negate the activation of Frenzy's effect.
"Send both Dinomorphia Diplos and Dinomorphia Stealthbergia from the Deck/Extra Deck to the Graveyard, Fusion Summon..."
"[Dinomorphia Kentregina, 4000/0]!"
As the words fell, a mechanized humanoid dinosaur woman appeared before Luo Bai.
She wielded a red-bladed, nail-shaped scimitar, her body covered in metallic scales, each scale resembling a precisely sculpted work of art, shimmering with silver and purple light, as if countless stars were being nurtured in the universe.
Her long, powerful, and agile body displayed a perfect blend of dinosaur majesty and mechanical technology. Her strong, powerful limbs had every joint meticulously designed and optimized, and the end of her tail was a complex mechanical device capable of firing powerful energy beams.
"Holy crap…"
The moment he saw the projection, Luo Bai felt like he was in love, his eyes glazed over.
"So cool!"
Unfortunately, it was just a projection, lacking a certain liveliness.
"Huh? Why does Kentregina have a halo?"
Luo Bai noticed that after the [Dinomorphia Kentregina] was projected, unlike Therizia, she had a faint halo around her, shimmering with golden patterns, but he didn't understand its meaning.
Decoration?
It's strangely beautiful.
A newbie should ask questions when they don't understand.
"Hello, duelist on the other side, do you know what's going on with this aura?"
Luo Bai asked, beckoning to Chen Xinxin with a blank expression.
Chen Xinxin was completely stunned, her breathing rapid, a far cry from her previous shock.
She quickly paused the game, took off her helmet, and, trembling, contacted her father, Chen Wencheng, who was chasing after her.
"D-Dad, something terrible has happened..."
"I encountered a new... an epic-level card, one that hasn't been registered before..."
The epic-level card catalogue is essential knowledge for [Academy] students; it's on the exam.
[What did you say?!]
A furious roar came from the other end of the phone from Chen Wencheng.
[Hold them back, I'm almost there!]
"Okay, okay…" Chen Xinxin pouted, her expression tense.
Her voice was choked with fear.
She hadn't expected that just coming to play cards would lead to such a big deal.
It involved epic-level cards, which could easily escalate into a fortress war, and she was afraid that mishandling it would bring disaster to the people of Cang Yuange.
"I wonder if pausing will anger the senior…"
Pausing only buys two minutes; her father wouldn't be back for at least several more minutes.
After throwing out his question, Luo Bai was also quite confused when the other end paused the call.
"This???"
"Was I impolite?"
"Did I break a taboo?"
"It seems I didn't use a respectful address…"
"Indeed, it was impolite."
"Next time you ask someone a question, you should add 'teacher'."
He was still completely unfamiliar with this new world; until he got up, he really needed to keep a low profile.
Humility in seeking knowledge.
Concealing one's talents and biding one's time.
Two minutes later.
"Senior!"
"Teacher!"
The two called out in unison.
...
The atmosphere instantly became awkward.
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The translating for yugioh fanfics is so hard, gotta recognize what stuff like "Dorphin Peptide Mad Dragon. Nail-shaped Dragon Queen" is in the middle of the story lol (It's Dinomorphia Kentregina)