Chapter 15: Known to be the Cream of the Crop Among the Rare Hunters
Yu Miao caught the scent of a Rare Card.
A delightful situation was unfolding.
Yu Miao crouched down and started plucking cards from Keith (Marik)'s deck, his movements growing faster and faster.
"I won the duel. According to Duel City rules, I can take one of your Rare Cards."
The eyelids of the 'playing dead' Keith (Marik) on the ground twitched slightly. He thought, exasperated:
"Hasn't Duel City not even started yet?"
But Keith (Marik) couldn't reveal his true identity; he had to keep pretending to be Keith.
This whole thing was so embarrassing.
Fortunately, no one knew about it.
Thinking this, Marik felt a sense of relief inwardly.
He was still that highly authoritative and impressive leader of the Rare hunters.
However.
Marik thought Yu Miao was unaware, but in reality, Yu Miao knew everything. For now, he could only pretend not to know.
Your performance, Yu Miao had to play along!
"I am an outstanding hunter of the Rare hunters, so taking one extra card isn't too much, right?"
"The spirit of the Rare hunters is about striving for excellence. It's perfectly reasonable for me to take a few more."
"Keith Howard, I heard you did all sorts of bad things in America, often selling other companies' secrets and engaging in 'zero-dollar shopping'."
"For the sake of world peace, I'll take a few more..."
"..."
The Keith (Marik) on the ground felt something was increasingly wrong the more he listened.
Why was he taking more and more?
Marik was greatly shocked. Yu Miao's thick-skinned and shameless had truly broken through a new lower limit.
This level of thick skin and skilled card-
removal was known to be the cream of the crop among the Rare hunters!!
Marik could only watch helplessly as Yu Miao did as he pleased, powerless to stop him.
Seeing the sweat on Keith (Marik)'s face, Yu Miao knew this guy was pretending to be unconscious.
However.
Marik could only swallow this bitter pill for now.
And honestly...
Keith's deck had quite a few good cards.
Yu Miao first took that card "invincible" in the anime - "Card of Sanctity".
In the original work.
After Marik manipulated Keith into playing the mystic to steal Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, they engaged in a duel.
Keith's deck was enhanced for that duel.
Aside from "Zera the Mant", there were two very versatile Spell/Trap cards.
"Graceful Charity" and the "Old Man" ("Solemn Judgment")!!
["Solemn Judgment": Pay half your Life Points; when a Spell/Trap Card is activated, or a monster is Summoned: Negate the activation or Summon, and destroy it.]
The Old Man possessed a powerful negation effect and was also a Counter Trap Card.
Counter Trap Cards could usually only be stopped by other Counter Trap Cards
.
Initially, Yu Miao thought the invincible "Old Man" would be a common card in this world.
Unexpectedly, the "Old Man" was actually a very rare Legendary Card.
And Keith's deck happened to have the "Old Man"!
This round, Yu Miao's harvest was plentiful, happily obtaining Graceful Charity, Card of Sanctity, and the Old Man~
After defeating Marik-controlled Keith.
Yu Miao naturally became the leader of this stronghold.
[Advanced Quest: Stage 1 (Become the leader of a Rare hunters organization stronghold), Task Complete!]
[Rewards distributed automatically, please check...]
Seeing the prompt before him, Yu Miao showed a satisfied smile.
The Stage 1 task wasn't difficult to complete.
But the next stage's task aimed to become a right-hand man within the Rare hunters organization.
This "right-hand man" status was roughly equivalent to the positions held by Pandora and the Mask of Lumis & Umbra in the original story.
Compared to ordinary Rare Card hunters, Pandora and the Mask of Lumis & Umbra clearly possessed more Rare Cards and held different statuses.
Marik often entrusted them with more important tasks.
As for the "Ryu-Kishin Powered"?
That thing was actually Marik's alternate account.
To reach this stage and become a right-hand man, one definitely needed recognition from Marik, the "Sunshine Boy".
Coincidentally, the Sunshine Boy was right beside him now.
The reason Marik was here surely meant he held some very peculiar feelings towards Yu Miao.
Marik just didn't know that Yu Miao was aware of his true identity.
Yu Miao planned to utilize this point.
If used well, it was possible to reach the status of a confidant to Marik (or rather, to Odion, as Marik often operated through him) in the short term.
"Let's check the quest rewards first."
For Stage 1 of the main quest, he received 5 random Card Pack rewards.
Including the dropped "Exclusive Character" card packs.
White Card Pack 2, Blue Card Pack 1, Gold Card Pack 1, Rainbow Card Pack 1.
Marik (Table) Card Pack 2, Keith Howard Card Pack 2.
"A bountiful haul."
"This wave of reinforcements should allow my strength to improve qualitatively."
Without much thought, Yu Miao opened the highest quality Rainbow Card Pack first!
Boom~
A brilliant light erupted. Yu Miao felt this meant he had drawn an UR-level Rare Card.
["Card Enthusiast's Soul" personal exclusive talent triggered...]
[Congratulations on obtaining, Effect Monster Card "Sky Striker Ace - Raye" (UR) *1]
[Congratulations on obtaining, Effect Monster Card "Triamid Sphinx" (SR) *1]
[Congratulations on obtaining, Normal Trap Card "Breakthrough Skill" UR *1]
Yu Miao: "..."
Grass, is a plant. (Chinese internet slang expressing speechlessness/frustration)
"Why is it you, silly woman..."
Yu Miao sighed, took out the "Sky Striker Ace - Raye" in his hand, looked at it a few times, his expression very complex.
Are the Sky Strikers strong?
Yu Miao would answer, Strong!
This archetype can accommodate a large number of hand traps...
The system includes versatile effects like "destroy cards", "negate", "steal monsters", etc.
Sky Strikers focus on resource accumulation.
The problem is, Sky Strikers is an archetype focused on "Link Monsters".
Link Monsters are a summoning method exclusive to the sixth series of Yu-Gi-Oh!.
Using Sky Strikers in the DM era...
Isn't that purely asking for trouble?
To take a step back.
Archetype-focused decks require a certain number of components to unleash their power.
Sky Strikers are no exception.
A single "Sky Striker Ace - Raye" is less practical for Yu Miao right now than a Level 4 monster with 2000 ATK.
Or, more greedily, getting one of the "Labrynth" sisters?
"This Striker doesn't even possess a Spirit Heart, truly disappointing."
"Triamid Sphinx" has the same problem as the Sky Striker.
Archetype decks are useless without their lower-level monsters and specific Spell/Traps to support them.
However, the Triamid series is quite interesting.
It's a deck that relies on its Field Spells to operate.
Each lower-level Triamid monster has a Quick Effect to replace the Field Spell during the opponent's turn.
Different Field Spells, when replaced and sent to the Graveyard, produce different effects.
These include searching, Graveyard revival, and Special Summoning Triamid monsters from the hand.
Furthermore, each Field Spell on the field provides different bonuses.
Such as effect destruction protection, draw + mill, and the most terrifying one - triple battle phase lockdown!!
If he had a complete Triamid system, it would probably be very comfortable during the DM period.
"What a shame."
Yu Miao put the Sky Striker and the Triamid Sphinx into his backpack
.
The only fortunate thing was drawing a "Breakthrough Skill"!
This Trap Card targets 1 Effect Monster your opponent controls; negate that monster's effects until the end of this turn.
Additionally, you can banish this
"Breakthrough Skill" from your Graveyard, then target 1 Effect Monster your opponent controls; negate its effects until the end of this turn.
"Breakthrough Skill", nicknamed... the lesser "Infinite Impermanence"!!
Yu Miao happily placed this "Breakthrough Skill" into his deck.
(End of Chapter)
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