A massive Black Dragon soared overhead, spewing flames as it streaked across the sky. Suddenly, it plummeted downward, its claws slamming into the molten lava with a thunderous impact that shook the entire cavern.
The colossal dragon transformed into a black-clad maid wielding a dark spear. She retained Ganyu's distinctive dragon horns and the Dragon race's characteristic tail, but her hair was now pure white.
Li Youyue's eyes lit up.
"The modeling is incredible! She looks exactly like a real person."
He approached Bahalom, scrutinizing her closely.
Bahalom turned to face him.
"Master, your orders?" she said abruptly.
"Holy shit... she can talk?" Li Youyue recoiled half a step in shock.
Venus smirked triumphantly. "Have you forgotten? I personally oversaw the creation of Katheryne at the Adventurers' Guild."
"The characters in these cards speaking and their human-like behavior? That was my own touch. They possess normal human thoughts and emotions."
"What do you think? Impressive, right?" Venus crossed her arms proudly, awaiting Li Youyue's praise.
*This is my masterpiece,* she thought, *something no one else in Teyvat has achieved.*
*Let those three women over there see who truly deserves to stand by Li Youyue's side.*
*Great Lord Rukkhadevata? Lesser Lord Kusanali? Just a tree branch.*
As for that Nilou girl, Venus didn't even consider her a threat.
*Just another Gini wannabe, nothing to fear.*
*So powerful? Then maybe I could...?*
Hearing Venus's words, Li Youyue reached out his hand, thinking how wonderful it would be to touch her. But it was impossible.
His fingers passed effortlessly through Bahamut's body.
Clearly, he had let his imagination run wild.
"What are you thinking?" Venus sneered, her voice dripping with disdain. "Do you think she's Katheryne? She's just a virtual projection now, without a real humanoid body."
"But if you like this character, I can order them to build one for you. They'll implant the data and give her to you as a maid, just like Katheryne."
"But no real intimacy. I know you truly love Katheryne, but they're not human. You'll never be able to take that final step."
In Li Youyue's heart, the matter of Katheryne remained a lingering regret.
He had confessed his feelings to her, and she had accepted him, even expressing her own affection—though she dared not voice it aloud, fearing she would hinder his progress as a mechanical lifeform.
Katheryne had been afraid of holding Li Youyue back.
*Long ago, sometime in Snezhnaya, at the Adventurers' Guild...*
Li Youyue arrived as usual to complete his commission and deliver the materials.
"Thank you for completing today's commission. Here's your reward," Katheryne said, handing him two bags of Mora.
"Miss Katheryne..." Li Youyue suddenly gazed at her with deep affection.
"Ah?" Katheryne met his mesmerizing eyes, their captivating charm momentarily stunning even her mechanical nature.
"Could I perhaps forgo the Mora reward today?" Li Youyue teased, a knowing smile playing on his lips.
"No Mora? Then what would you like?" Katheryne asked, genuinely puzzled. Mora was the standard currency used across all seven nations for commission rewards.
"Miss Katheryne, I want you..." Li Youyue said, seizing her delicate, snow-white wrist.
Katheryne's eyes widened in shock, her face registering utter disbelief.
"Huh...?"
Before Katheryne could react, Li Youyue pulled her into an embrace, his lips pressing against hers.
"Mmm..."
Katheryne froze, then blushed deeply, finally succumbing to the kiss with blissful surrender.
"Mmm... mmm..."
She savored the hard-won kiss with Li Youyue.
What is love?
To Li Youyue, it was an all-consuming blend of affection, longing, and fantasy.
And Katheryne was its embodiment.
Katheryne was incredibly important to Li Youyue, and she was the person he saw most frequently during his travels across the Seven Nations, making her deeply familiar to him.
Over time, Li Youyue developed a unique affection for Katheryne, even though he knew she was a mechanical puppet invented by the Tsaritsa Venus of Snezhnaya—a girl with the same thoughts as a human but without a heart.
Despite this, Li Youyue remained steadfast, ignoring Venus's warnings and spending time with Katheryne, though their relationship ultimately led nowhere.
Such was fate.
What surprised Venus most was Katheryne's extraordinary evolution. She grew increasingly human, her eyes filled with nothing but Li Youyue, and she even learned to feel jealousy.
Love is eternal, transcending all boundaries.
Whatever binds two souls together, that is love.
Li Youyue told Venus, "To me, Katheryne is simply Katheryne. She is my lover, and that will never change."
"You haven't changed a bit," Venus said with a hint of resignation. "No matter how I try to dissuade you, you always stubbornly follow your own path. That's precisely why I admire you." Li Youyue was too stubborn; once he set his mind on something, he would see it through, no matter what.
He's always been too serious, stubbornly clinging to his convictions.
"Enough talk. Let's begin," Li Youyue said, already prepared for battle.
"Hmph..." Venus smirked disdainfully.
"Then I'll attack first."
"My turn!"
"Draw!"
Venus, the chuunibyou girl, slid a card off the top of her deck with two fingers.
After examining her four cards, she quickly selected one and revealed it to her opponent.
"Activate Continuous Magic: Elemental Supremacy."
"This magic cannot be stopped once activated. It halves the cost of all Elemental Cards in the deck and doubles their attack power. This magic cannot be negated or banished."
The card floated to the side as Venus drew another from her hand.
"Activate Magic Card: Dolly's Loan Shark."
"This magic lasts only one turn. Immediately gain seven Mana, but lock your Mana at -7 next turn, recovering the turn after that."
And then another card.
"Summon Elemental Card: Seven Ancient Gods, Ice God Victoria!"
After a heavy snowfall, the falling snowflakes coalesced into a humanoid form, eventually transforming into a beautiful girl with ice-blue hair.
Li Youyue stared at Venus, almost believing she had summoned herself. He was surprised to discover it was the previous generation's Ice God.
*Still, she's quite pretty,* he thought. *What a shame she's gone.*
"Activate Quick-Play Spell: Seven Rulers of the Mortal World."
"This spell cannot be countered. If any Elemental Card of the Seven Gods is present, you may pay half your Main Battler's HP to summon the remaining six Seven Gods from your deck."
In the next instant, the remaining six Elemental Cards of the Seven Gods were summoned from Venus's deck.
The Wind God manifested as a wind spirit.
The Rock God appeared as an earth dragon.
The Thunder God materialized as a bird.
The Grass God took the form of a tree.
The Water God emerged as a fish.
The Fire God manifested as a mech.
"Hey, hey, hey! This is way too overpowered! And it only costs one mana!" Li Youyue exclaimed, watching her summon so many high-stat monsters in a single turn.
Since she couldn't attack in the first round, Venus ended her turn immediately after playing all her cards.
But the turn wasn't truly over yet.
"Activating the Wind God's passive effect: After my turn ends, I can draw a card from my deck."
"Activating the Thunder God's passive effect: After my turn ends, the stats of all Elemental Summons on the field double."
"Activating the Ice God's passive effect: After my turn ends, a random enemy summon is frozen. Your Bahalom counts as a summon, so she'll be frozen too."
Li Youyue watched helplessly as the Ice God waved her jade hand, conjuring an ice sphere that crashed into Bahalom, freezing her solid.
"This is so unfair!" Li Youyue protested.
"These cards are my own creations, my own designs. Of course they're powerful," Venus retorted smugly. "And what about your deck? Three Phantom Gods, Deathwing—aren't those God Cards completely broken too?"
"I am Ice Goddess Venus, the founder of Seven Saints' Summons. What's wrong with creating a card on the spot? You got a problem with that?"
"If you think it's too unfair, then you create one right here, right now."
Though that was impossible.
But if it were Li Youyue, he would definitely use a God Card.
"Alright, you said it yourself."
Li Youyue placed his hand on the deck.
"My turn!"
"Draw!"
After glancing at the drawn card, Li Youyue added it to his hand, then drew another and showed it to Venus.
"Activate Quick-Play Spell: Heaven-Sent Treasure."
"This spell cannot be negated or banished. Effect: Both players' maximum Mana Crystal capacity permanently increases to ten."
In an instant, both players' Mana surged to ten.
Venus's negative seven Mana immediately transformed into ten.
Li Youyue then drew another card from his hand. "Activate Field Spell: Phoenix's Courtyard!"
"This spell cannot be negated or banished. Effect: All card costs are halved, rounding up if necessary."
He repeated this process, playing another card.
With two Phoenix's Courtyards on the field, the maximum cost of any card in Venus's and Li Youyue's hands was now three Mana.
Li Youyue paused, drawing another card from his hand. "Just as you said, I would definitely use a God Card."
"Defensive Summon: Dragon Card, Deathwing."
"Entry Effect: When this summon enters the field, all other summons on the field, except those controlled by the Main Battler, are destroyed."
A colossal red dragon, its withered wings of death flapping, plummeted straight down onto the battlefield.
It unleashed a crimson torrent of flames that engulfed the Seven Gods, incinerating them completely. The earth beneath its passage cracked and shattered under the scorching heat.
The dragon, named Deathwing, roared into the sky, its wings beating furiously: "I am the embodiment of power!"
*Boom!*
The dragon's massive claws slammed into the ground, shaking the entire space with earth-shattering force.
The crimson behemoth finally landed before Li Youyue, beside Bahalom.
"Activating Despair Dragon Bahamut's Dragon Leader Effect: Whenever a new Dragon enters the field, it gains the Undying effect. This means Deathwing will now take zero damage from all sources."
Venus added, "Activating the Water God's Death Effect: When the Water God dies for the first time, it immediately revives once."
"Activating the Grass God's Death Effect: When the Grass God dies, it leaves behind a seed on the field. After three turns, it will return to the field."
"Activating the Ice God's Death Effect: When the Ice God dies, it summons a blizzard that freezes all enemy summons for one turn."
As Venus finished speaking, a blizzard descended upon Li Youyue's field, freezing Deathwing and Bahalom into solid blocks of ice.
"My turn isn't over yet..." Li Youyue declared.
"Summon Dragon Card: Zoe, the Great Mediator!"
Above the field, a celestial clockwork dial appeared.
*Click...*
*Click...*
As the minute hand slowly rotated, converging with the hour hand, blue light gathered inward from all directions.
Finally, the blue light dispersed in an explosive burst.
A lithe, short-haired beauty in tight-fitting armor materialized before them.
"Locking effect: Whenever Zoe enters the field, she reduces the Main Battler's HP to 1. Until the start of my next turn, the Main Battler is immune to all damage."
In other words, from now until his next turn, Bahalom would be invincible.
"Simultaneously, activate Bahalom's Leader Effect: Zoe gains Undying."
"Immune to all damage? Isn't that just invincibility?" Venus demanded. "You call me unfair? What about your cards?"
"Same to you," Li Youyue retorted, uninterested in arguing. He continued playing his cards.
After all, this duel was merely a test run, practically a staged performance. The main goal was to create a spectacle.
"Attack Position Summon: Osiris's Sky Dragon!"
Li Youyue placed an enigmatic card face-up.
After a flash of lightning and a thunderous roar, a crimson dragon, thousands of feet long, materialized in the sky above the arena, circling overhead.
"Entry effect: Osiris's Sky Dragon randomly fires a Thunderbolt Ball at the opponent. Its attack power is determined by the number of cards in my hand," Li Youyue explained.
"I currently have one card in my hand, so Osiris's Sky Dragon's attack power is 1,000."
"But that's not all!"
Li Youyue played his final card.
"Activate Quick-Play Spell: Flawless Calculation."
"Draw all remaining cards from my deck until I reach my hand limit."
"At this moment, I activate Main Battler Bahalom's passive effect, increasing my hand limit from six to nine cards."
Li Youyue drew the top nine cards from his deck in sequence, causing the remaining cards to vanish.
Simultaneously, Osiris's Sky Dragon's attack power surged to 9,000.
"But now you have no cards left to draw," Venus pointed out. "According to the rules, you'll automatically lose when you try to draw next turn."
Li Youyue drew a card, smiled at Venus, and said, "Didn't you say you could print cards on the spot? Let me show you how it's done."
"Huh?"
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