I'm playing cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Xuelang was walking on the busy street, looking at the pedestrians going around, the colorful neon lights, and the beautiful young lady (crossed out) in cool clothes, and she couldn't help but be shocked for a moment.

Wow, the details are so realistic and accurate, right? Is this really a card game?

How could a certain unscrupulous consortium that only thinks about selling cards be willing to spend a lot of money to make such a conscientious game? I'm afraid I haven't traveled through time, right?

He suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to touch his body nervously...

...Phew, okay, okay, the tools are still there.

I just don’t know how it functions, and whether there are any restricted-level play items in the game.

However, he didn't seem to see any other players all the way from outside the city.

This is nothing surprising. It is said that the total number of people in the internal beta test is less than a thousand people. Throwing such a small number of people into such a big city is basically looking for a needle in a haystack. It is normal that you will not find it.

The places for the internal test are randomly selected from players in many countries around the world. With such a huge base, less than a thousand people are selected in total. If the black-box operation is excluded, those who are selected are all European emperors among European emperors.

However, although players come from all over the world, language and writing will not be a problem.

This is a problem that has been solved long ago after the development of immersive online games. Players can choose the language and interface they are familiar with in the game. Everything players come into contact with during the game will be translated into words they are familiar with, and communication and dialogue are also handled by the game's built-in translation system, so there are no obstacles.

In addition, it is quite easy for players to judge each other’s identity. First, players have IDs on their heads. In theory, only players can see each other's IDs.

Second, the players walk differently from normal people. It's like there is hot magma under the floor in the game. Players like to jump after taking a few steps, and occasionally they may even roll in place.

It is said that this inexplicable tradition is left over from before the popularity of submersible technology. Players back then could only rely on keyboard and mouse equipment to play games. Players back then were particularly fond of the two commands "jump" and "roll".

Later, although immersive technology became popular and everyone no longer used keyboard and mouse to play games, this "good tradition" was still passed down like feelings by generations of players.

Xuelang wandered around the city streets with a curious expression on his face, looking around like a countryman entering the city, as if everything he saw was novel.

For a moment, he even forgot that he was playing a card game...until he wandered aimlessly to a dueling hall in the center of the city.

Only then did Xuelang suddenly realize - wait, I seem to be here to play cards?

"The duelist over there."

Xue Lang, who had just walked in and looked confused, looked around and saw a man with a square face, a passerby's appearance and a formidable build walking slowly towards this side.

"There's a new face that I've never seen before in the museum. Did he just come to this area recently?" the man asked.

Is it a plot?

Xue Lang was puzzled and nodded at the same time: "Yes."

"Then do you want to have a duel?"

"OK!"

As a player, there is certainly no reason to refuse the NPC challenge. He speculates that this may be part of the game's newbie tutorial.

The two sides quickly came to the open field and stood at each other's designated positions.

"Duel!" x2

It wasn't until the duel disk was unfolded and five starting cards were drawn from the deck that Xuelang suddenly realized a shocking fact——

——He forgot to confirm what cards were in his initial deck.

When he created his account, the system asked him to choose the initial deck, but after a quick glance, he felt that every deck seemed to be similar, so he picked a deck and started the game directly. He has forgotten to check it until now.

Now let's see what he drew with the five cards in his starting hand...

Green worms, thunder eels, earth warriors, angry sea kings, mountain warriors...

Aren’t all these meows mortal? ?

Even if they are all mortal bones, why is there not even one with an attack power over a thousand?

Looking at it, the strongest monster in his hand seems to be the "Angry Sea King". It is also a blank slate without any special effects. The card description is "The great Sea King, summons an endless tsunami to engulf the enemy." .

Xuelang wanted to complain at that time - you are a fish monster with only 800 attack power, who do you want to devour?

As the great king of the sea, isn’t it too bad to not even have the effect of a “talking to fish” monster?

By the way, this bad deck doesn’t even have a single monster with an attack power of over 1,000...

No, no, it must be because he had a bad face this round... Yes, that's definitely the case.

Now let the opponent see the bond between a real duelist and the deck!

"I'll take it if you attack first, draw a card!"

Adhering to the principle of working hard to create miracles, Xuelang used the greatest strength in his life to pull out the sixth card of his miracle from the deck... and then everyone was dumbfounded.

Telekinesis Kappa, attack power 400, defense power 1000. Card description: A kappa who can use a variety of attacks to avoid super powers.

Xuelang: "..."

Forget it, give it to me. Anyway, the first time a newbie takes the first step, it’s time to pay the tuition.

"I summon Telekinesis Kappa in defense position. The round is over."

[Psychic Kappa, defense power 1000]

Xuelang was too lazy to struggle. He just hoped that the NPC on the opposite side would knock him down quickly so that he could confirm what was going on with his initial deck.

"It's my turn, draw a card!"

The opponent looked at the cards in his hand and showed a very troubled expression - Xuelang couldn't help but wonder why there was a mortal bone with a defense power of 1000 on his side worth worrying about.

Then I saw a card played by the opponent: "...I summon the fighting warrior - Artimit, in attack mode!"

[Fighting Warrior-Artimite, attack power 700]

Then the opponent gritted his teeth as if unwilling to do so: "Hey, the fighting power of the fighting warrior is not as high as that of the telekinetic kappa. My turn is over."

Xuelang: "?"

Brother, are you kidding me?

You can't even clear my whiteboard with a defense of 1000?

"My turn," Xuelang said, "Then I summon the angry Sea King!"

[Angry Sea King, attack power 800]

"Come on, attack from the Angry Sea King! Explosive kill!"

The angry Sea King roared and rushed forward. Without saying a word, he raised the harpoon in his hand... Oh no, it was the artifact trident. With one blow, the fighting warriors on the opponent's field were killed by the harpoon.

"Ugh!" The NPC duelist raised his hand to protect his face.

【Passenger, LP 4000 → LP 3900】

Xuelang suddenly realized that maybe this one could still be used.

Because the card on the other side...maybe even worse than myself!

...

After twenty rounds of dragon (cai) fighting (ji) and tiger (hu) fighting (zhuo), the battle between the two sides officially entered a white-hot stage! The entire duel was extremely thrilling. The duelists on both sides were killing each other fiercely, holding on to each other's LP without letting go...

In the end, Xuelang was superior and won the duel in a thrilling way.

(In fact, I finally drew a Great White Shark with an attack power of 1600, and then the opponent couldn't solve it...)

After the duel was over, Xue Lang wiped his sweat and felt that it was the first time in his life that a duel involving mortal bones could be fought so fiercely...

He then walked around the dueling hall for a short time and found that most of the duelists here seemed to be similar.

When playing cards, the NPCs seemed to just keep hitting the monsters on the white board to attack them. The deck was just a pile of cards, with no structures or combos at all, and there didn't even seem to be many magic and trap cards.

Those stronger passers-by are just monsters with high attack or high star levels. After watching the battle for just a moment, I couldn’t help but think——

——As long as I have an electronic dragon in my hand...

Soon he noticed a large group of people gathered in the battle area not far away, with three floors inside and three floors outside blocking the venue.

what's going on? Is there a competition?

Xuelang quickly got closer and casually asked a passerby in the crowd: "Well, may I ask what's going on here?"

The man explained enthusiastically: "Tonight someone is challenging the new duel king of this duel hall! The fight has already begun!"

Duel King?

Xuelang's eyes lit up.

Could it be the protagonist Muto Yugi?

He didn't realize that he had automatically ignored the prefix "this dueling hall".

Xuelang squeezed in with all his strength, and barely managed to see the duelists on both sides through the cracks in the crowd.

In the left field area is a bare-chested, dark-skinned, muscular man (by the way, why do you need to take off your clothes when playing cards). But this guy looks like a bitch and can be ignored.

As for the duelist standing on the right, Xuelang's first reaction when he saw it was——

——Damn, he’s so handsome!

He could clearly tell that this person's style of painting was different from other NPCs at first glance. At first glance, he was the one the artist had paid special attention to, and he had a high probability of being an important character in the game.

Is it an important plot NPC?

"Fight!" The young duelist on the right spoke and shouted loudly, "Elemental Hero Nova Lord, attack directly!"

Xuelang almost fell down in shock.

He just said elements...what! ?