By lunchtime, 99% of the duelists still haven't stopped matchmaking.
Everyone is thinking that while they can skip a meal, they can't skip a game of KC, striving to finish 300 matches first before eating.
At the headquarters of the Five-Factions Alliance.
Via cyber consciousness meeting, the five representatives are watching the duel record of Luo Bai and Melonica.
The atmosphere is eerily quiet.
"Didn't they say that world-shaking fluctuations were detected?"
[Yeah~~ It was detected at the beginning.]
[But once he entered our observation, he had already changed his Deck.]
[Not only that, there's also another team sniping the target. I had to squeeze into the spectator slots as much as I could.]
"There's another group sniping him?"
[From their technique, it's Wanji.]
"The Knightmares are involved in this matter too?"
"The target used Heroic Spirit
"And neither you nor Wanji could locate the target's location?"
"What level of technical skills does that guy have? Is he really from Biantana?"
[Hmmm... They have quite a powerful program.]
[It's isolating the target's connection with the real world.]
[It's like they're making use of a completely new programming language, and neither Wanji nor I can crack it.]
"Thus far, the target has used
"First is that
"Hey, hey, the heck are you imagining there?"
Someone's speculation shocked the other four.
"He just has two types, just a weak Candidate."
"Are you being too worried?"
"What, are we just going to wait until he has 5 or 6 types of Machine Epic Cards? Why don't you just go and say we wait until he becomes a Commander and celebrate his rise to power?"
With that mocking voice, the atmosphere fell silent again.
For the higher echelons of Biantana, the term
He might be the hero representing the people in a war against the gods.
Similarly, it's also possible he'd go berserk and become the reason for the world's destruction.
"Continue sniping and try to match against him first."
[I want to, but it seems he's not within the matchmaking roster anymore.]
"Eh?"
"Eh?"
"Eh?"
"Did something important happen?"
[No, it's just... couldn't he have gone to eat?]
"........"
"........"
"........"
"Think of something, you're the genius."
[What do you expect me to do? I can only rely on luck to match against him.]
"Wouldn't it be easier to match in doubles?"
[Statistically speaking, that would indeed make matching against him a bit easier.]
In a circle of a hundred people, normal matches are 50 tables, while doubles are 25 tables. There's a higher probability of matching the target, whether as a teammate or opponent.
"Then, let's go with that."
"If you're short on money, just say so."
[You illiterates, do you know what kind of workload it is to temporarily add a 16-billion-user doubles program? Do you know how much burden it will place on the server?]]
"But you're a genius."
"A great genius."
"Biantana's most pronounced genius."
[Yeah, you're d*mn right I am.]
[President, come on, we need more funding!]
......…..
Bianyuelong card shop, dining area.
Luo Bai looks at the freeloader sitting across from him with a disdainful expression.
"You're trying to screw me over, aren't you?"
He's been conned out of 50,000 again!
"You%#&" Melonica sucks onto her blood pack as if she hadn't eaten in years.
Then, seemingly noticing how she's been acting, she stops sucking, combs her hair to the back of her ears, and occasionally casting a "I'm just having a little taste" glance, with a mix of greed and longing, showing a hint of playful charm.
"Don't even think about it. I'm not going to let you drain me." Luo Bai gave her a dismissive look.
"And hurry up."
He slapped the table, feeling no pain. He wouldn't even know if he was being drained to dangerous levels, and it could easily lead to a fatal situation.
Pain is usually the body's way of protecting itself, suppressing the inner self from doing anything too reckless.
"Cheapskate." Melonica pouted, biting into her blood pack, looking as pitiful as a mosquito.
Her brows furrowing, she looked troubled, sighing, her gaze moving up and down, murmurs leaking out of her lips.
"You know..."
"I've actually lost a lot."
Luo Bai nodded, remaining silent, listening to her.
"Sometimes..."
"There are just some things..."
"That we can't hold onto."
Luo Bai took a sip of his milk tea, nodding to show he was listening.
"All the effort and care we put in..."
"It can all be destroyed in an instant."
"But there's absolutely nothing we can do."
"I really want to save them..."
Melonica choked up, her eyes reddening.
"But there's just no way."
"How do I hold onto what was meant to leave..."
She said this as she covered her face, tears falling uncontrollably.
"So..." Luo Bai said with a flat expression, indifferent, and a commanding tone.
"Do you really have a freaking chain!?"
He slapped the
"Hurry up, I've been waiting for a while."
This wasn't a mechanical table duel, and there was no AI referee to sound time alert. It was just a casual game at the dining table.
Melonica, with a sorrowful face, turned over the five cards she had set aside in the back row, one by one to confirm.
The more she turned, the more bitter her expression became.
"Waaaa————"
"I- I'll chain
Struggling was useless, but she still had to try to chain it.
This
In a real-world Magic Card Duel, due to the dedication of card spirits, players with certain conditions often use single-axis decks with empty card slots.
So, many versatile magic and trap cards are used.
Among them, the most popular is
A P-card, cheap and practical, commonly used.
"Well then, bang bang bang, all blown up———-" Luo Bai said with a sneering look.
"I'll summon
"He repeated the arrogant line twice. Any response? Any response?"
An arrogant line should be said twice.
"Hmph—" Melonica said, collapsing in frustration. "I'm not playing with you anymore, you're bullying me."
With that, she stood up to go back to continue her KC grinding.
In the real-world Magic Card realm, she was cautious, but in online duels, she strikes hard and is a hard-core smugfest.
"How high are you ranked now?" Luo Bai asked casually.
"Around 300s." Melonica suddenly thought of something and quickly added, "I'll definitely make it into the top 100!"
"I'll pay you back!"
She thought Luo Bai was worried she wouldn't repay the money.
"And you?"
"What's your rank?"
The ranking in KC duels has become a criterion for various enterprises and institutions, with phrases like "Top 100,000 KC rankers exempt from exams" added to recruitment requirements overnight. The topic's popularity rivals that of Earth's college entrance exams.
"Me?" Luo Bai paused, trying to recall his rank.
"Around 105."
"One... One hundred and five!?" Melonica exclaimed in shock.
"Then... You're about to reach Silver?"
She knew this "teacher" was strong in theoretical knowledge, but didn't expect him to be so good in practice.
"Frick!"
A sudden outburst of angry curses filled the restaurant.
"Is the duel system down?!!"
"I *insert the most civilized phrases here*!!!"
The few hundred people eating and dueling felt like ants were crawling all over them, as if they were going through withdrawal.