Luo Bai: "Senior?"
Chen Xinxin: "Teacher?"
Both of them thought to themselves: "What kind of play is this now?"
...
"Ahem, let's continue the duel." Luo Bai coughed, changing the subject.
"I pay half my Life Points, banishing my Frenzy in my Graveyard, and activate the effect of Dinomorphia Kentregina, treating it as the same effect as [Dinomorphia Frenzy]..."
"Send the Dinomorphia Diplos and Dinomorphia Therizia from my Deck to the Graveyard..."
A surge of heat welled up inside him.
A somber, hoarse voice echoed through the illusory city:
"Frenzy, is it?"
"Roar!"
"This is our domain!"
"This is our era!"
"Fusion Summon!"
"[Dinomorphia Rexterm, 3000/0]!"
The last syllable had barely left his lips when an invisible energy surged through the air. Immediately afterward, the ground trembled violently, sparks flew, and a massive pillar of light shot into the sky.
After the beam of light dissipated, a majestic, metallic mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, tens of meters tall, stood solemnly beside Luo Bai. It let out a deep, rumbling roar, and a dazzling halo of patterned light surrounded its body.
"Ah—"
So cool!!!
LP: 4000-2000-1000.
"Ahem, you can continue now."
Luo Bai suppressed his excitement and waved to her.
Chen Xinxin, however, remained stunned, seemingly lost in thought, muttering to herself:
"Oh no, another epic card..."
Her mind was a mess; she almost forgot her own name. She wanted to stall for time, but didn't know a way to do so without offending anyone.
"Then, then I..."
She said timidly.
"Activate the Spell Card [Swordsoul Emergence], search for one Swordsoul Monster from your Deck."
Luo Bai ignored her, letting her take it.
Chen Xinxin displayed a card, [Swordsoul of Longyuan, 1200/2300], and said, "I discard [Swordsoul of Taia] to activate Longyuan's effect, Special Summoning it to the field and generating a [Swordsoul Token]."
"Synchro Summon..."
"Wait a minute," Luo Bai interrupted, raising his hand.
He had to intervene here. Synchro Summoning Longyuan would cost 1200 LP, and he only had 1000 LP left. He couldn't afford that. Longyuan's effect would activate in the graveyard, and even the Raging Tyrannosaurus Rex couldn't handle it.
"I pay half my LP to activate the Trap Card [Dinomorphia Brute], destroying my Scythe Dragon and your Sword Master Token."
LP: 1000-500.
Why didn't she activate Longyuan last turn?
Nervous?
Just drew it?
Luo Bai internally complained.
Chen Xinxin frowned, pursing her lips.
The only Tuner monster was destroyed, and the Synchro Summon was interrupted.
Resentment is rising...
"Then I'll activate the Spell Card [Swordsoul Sacred Summit] to Special Summon [Swordsoul of Taia] from my Graveyard."
"Activate Taia's effect..."
"Wait a minute." Luo Bai raised his hand again.
"While Dinomorphia Rexterm is on the field, you cannot activate the effects of monsters on your field whose ATK is higher than my Life Points."
"My Life Points are 500."
"Monsters on your field with ATK of 500 or higher cannot activate their effects."
"What did you say?!" Chen Xinxin blurted out in disbelief, then quickly covered her mouth, afraid of offending her senior.
This effect is outrageous!
Even monsters with an attack power of 500 or higher can't activate their effects...
This is too much...
How can we play like this?!
Her resentment continued to rise...
"Oh, right!" Chen Xinxin suddenly remembered something, opened her face-down card and shouted:
"I discard a card, activate the face-down trap 'Karma Cut,' destroying your 'Dinomorphia Rexterm'!"
"Wait a minute." Luo Bai raised his hand for the third time.
"What are you going to do now?!" Chen Xinxin finally couldn't hold back anymore, stomping her feet frantically, both frustrated and aggrieved.
Forget about politeness and respect, she threw them all behind her.
Luo Bai ignored her; a true duelist only sees cards, only duels!
"I pay half my Life Points to activate the Set card [Dinomorphia Sonic], negating and destroying [Karma Cut]."
LP: 500-250.
"Then, I destroy my Dinomorphia Kentregina."
"Just then, I activate another effect of Kentregina: If this card is destroyed, you can Special Summon one Level 4 or lower Dinomorphia monster from your Graveyard."
"Come back!"
"Special Summon, [Dinomorphia Therizia, 1500/0]!"
"I activate the effect of Therizia: If this card is Normal/Special Summoned, you can Set one Dinomorphia Trap Card from your Deck."
"I Set... [Dinomorphia Alert]."
After doing all this,
Luo Bai waved at her nonchalantly, saying in an extremely irritating tone, "Alright, you can move on now."
Click!
He seemed to hear the sound of someone clenching a fist.
That clenched fist sound.
It reminded him of the "happy times" when playing cards at the shop turned into real-life card games.
"No way, are girls these days really that fragile..."
"Can't handle it already?"
Seeing Chen Xinxin's gloomy, downcast head, Luo Bai felt a sense of foreboding.
"This one got bombed, this one got nullified..." Chen Xinxin lowered her head, her face dark, her voice choked with sobs, "I can't even send the effects..."
And she couldn't even swear.
She couldn't hold back any longer, squatted down, and hugged herself.
"Waaah~"
She burst into tears, feeling wronged.
"Wow~ no way." Luo Bai was shocked, realizing something was wrong.
In all his years of playing cards, this was the first time he'd made someone cry, and a girl no less.
But...
She was actually quite cute when she cried.
If he watched her cry a couple more times, he felt she could cry for even longer.
Chen Xinxin sniffed, biting her lip to force herself to suppress her sobs.
Finally, unable to bear the humiliation any longer, she snapped the surrender button in a fit of pique.
The moment she pressed surrender,
her father, Chen Wencheng, and fortress member Zhou Gu rushed into the room. Seeing his daughter's tearful face, Chen Wencheng was filled with confusion and anxiety:
"What happened?"
Chen Xinxin sniffed, pointing to the computer screen and choking back tears, "See for yourselves."
See for yourselves?
Chen Wencheng frowned, opened the duel record, and reviewed Chen Xinxin's match against Luo Bai.
"A new tactic?"
During the duel, neither player's information was visible; only after the duel ended could the opponent's basic information be seen. Luo Bai still had his classic new technique avatar frame.
"Two Epic Cards..."
After seeing Luo Bai use two Epic Cards in succession, his expression changed. His forehead furrowed tightly, and he became completely focused on the battle before him.
"Contact the other team members to suspend training and come watch the match," Chen Wencheng said to Zhou Gu without turning his head.
"Uh...yes!"
Zhou Gu hesitated for a moment before replying, pressing his phone to contact the other team members. His breathing was rapid, as if he hadn't yet recovered from the shock of the two Epic Cards.
"And you!" Chen Wencheng turned to Chen Xinxin, his face ashen as he reprimanded her, "Don't you know that surrendering casually is very impolite?"
"You didn't even say a basic goodbye."
"What if you offended a senior?"
The Duelist League doesn't allow surrender. With pain-sensing electric shocks applied, a person must endure it as long as they are conscious.
In online battles, even those with some reputation must observe duelling etiquette. Even when surrendering, they should first say something like "Enjoyable duel" or "Thank you for your guidance" as farewell.
As the captain of the fortress team, Chen Wencheng represents the entire Cangyuange Fortress. Everything he does under his ID carries significant weight. If his opponent is petty and uploads his lack of duelling etiquette to the league network, it will damage the reputation of the entire fortress.
In Biantana.
Monster duels are no longer just a game.