006. The Palace of Dawn
The temple of the village where the elves lived.
The girl who was the chief of the elves and the priestess who served their god was praying in front of the altar as usual.
The morning prayer was an important schedule for the girl, as she started her day with prayer.
But before she could finish her prayer, an unwelcome interruption came in.
“Chief! It’s a big problem!”
“……Didn’t I tell you not to disturb me during the prayer time?”
“I’m sorry! But I had no choice but to inform you of this urgent matter!”
“Is it another undead invasion?”
“This time, it’s different.”
“`
“Then what is it?”
“It’s an assassin sent from the Anubis temple!”
“Anubis…?”
The girl slightly frowned.
Anubis was not the god she served, but a god known to be equal to him.
Even though he had entered the path of decline, he was still a sacred god.
But why would such a god send an assassin to us elves?
We didn’t do anything to incur Anubis’s wrath.
The girl couldn’t understand it.
“It must have been a mistake. Anubis would not send an assassin to us. It must be a wicked person who uses Anubis’s name without permission.”
“I confirmed that they used Anubis’s priestess.”
“Then Anubis’s three-headed dog too…?”
“I didn’t see the three-headed dog. I briefly scanned them and found that they had a monster that manipulates black flames as their ace card.”
“Then they must be robbers who stole cards from the Anubis temple.”
“Now that you mention it, it seems like that.”
For the girl, the morning prayer was an important task, but not as much as the crisis of the village.
She was a shaman who worshipped the god, and at the same time, a chief who had to take care of the elves.
“I’ll go and see. You prepare for the worst and evacuate the weak and elderly to a safe place.”
“Are you going alone?”
“Don’t worry. I’ve never lost to a bad person before.”
“`
“I understand.”
The elf youth nodded his head, erasing his worried expression.
In his eyes, there was infinite trust towards the chief.
It was natural, since the elf he was talking to was someone who never knew defeat.
The village had faced countless crises, and each time, the chief led the elf tribe to victory.
To the elf tribe, she was the savior and the light of hope, and thus the world called her this.
The Dawn’s Archery, Artea.
***
“Ugh…!”
“Get up. You can still fight, can’t you?”
After easily knocking down the three elves who were provoking me.
I was forcing them to stand up and continue the duel.
The reason why I was dueling more even though I already won was very simple.
Every time I duel, my DP gets duplicated!
I’m still hungry for DP.
“Wait a minute!!”
“Oh?”
As the exhausted three elves collapsed completely, a new elf wearing a silver armor walked out.
“I’ll be your opponent, so release them.”
“Do you know them?”
“They are my precious subordinates.”
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“Really? But what are you going to do about this? I don’t listen to anyone weaker than me. If you don’t like it, try to beat me in a duel.”
“Fine. This is what I wanted!”
I don’t care who my opponent is.
As long as I can earn DP, I’ll even face a puppy.
““Duel!””
As soon as I declare a duel, a coin appears between me and the elf.
“Heads.”
“Then I’ll take tails.”
Ting-!
The coin makes a sound as it flips in the air several times before falling to the ground.
The result is heads, the right to decide the order of play is given to me.
“I’ll take the first turn.”
A hand that can summon Phineas in one turn.
If the viewers of the original world saw this, they would have booed me for being lucky, but I don’t care.
This is a world where duels are everything. It doesn’t matter how I win, as long as I win.
“Activate the effect of Alien Plant! Send a Field Fusion to the graveyard, and the fusion material to the exclusion zone. I summon Phineas from my extra deck!”
“You showed up pretty fast.”
“I’ll set one card and end my turn.”
“It’s my turn. Draw!”
As soon as he drew a card, the elf captain grinned.
He confidently threw the card he drew onto the field.
“I will summon ‘King of Beasts, Barus’ from my hand! This card is my ace monster that can be special summoned without any condition if the number of monsters on the opponent’s field is more than mine!”
“…….Phineas’s first effect activates. I choose Cetopsis and Barus and destroy them.”
“What?!”
The golden lion that roared majestically as it appeared was blown up along with the cute alien plant.
It’s Phineas anyway.
“Then I will normal summon ‘Emergency Relief Team, Kitty’ from my hand and activate its effect!”
[Emergency Relief Team, Kitty]
Level: 4 / Attribute: Earth (地) / Type: Beast
ATK / DEF: 200 / 200
The effect of this card name can only be used once per turn.
⑴: You can activate this by releasing this card on the field. Special summon 2 beast-type monsters with 200 or less ATK from your deck to the field. The effects of the monsters special summoned by this effect are negated.
“By releasing Kitty, I special summon ‘Little Squirrel’ and ‘Horned Rabbit’ from my deck. And then…!”
“The moment 2 monsters are summoned, I activate the face-down trap! Chain Explosion!”
[Chain Explosion]
Normal Trap.
You can activate this by targeting 1 monster on your field and 2 monsters on the opponent’s field. If the opponent’s monsters targeted by this have lower ATK than your monster, destroy the 3 designated monsters.
“Not a bad move. But your monsters are finished too!”
“Chain with Phineas’s second effect. By destroying Chain Explosion, I become immune.”
The chain explosion was destroyed, but the activated effect remains.
In other words, only your monster will explode.
Jezzalpines.
“You bastard who only does dirty things…!”
“Thank you!”
I received the first praise in the dual world.
I won the dual and made the opponent angry. Isn’t this the best situation for a duelist?
“I am…!”
“Captain of the guard.”
“Ah, Artea-nim?”
“Please step back now. I will deal with him.”
“Ha, but the dual is still…!”
“Don’t you get it yet? You have no monster on the field, so you will definitely lose the next turn. It’s a bitter story, but you are not his match.”
“Kuk!”
The elf captain of the guard raised his right hand and declared surrender.
It’s a pity. The finale was to bring his ace monster that I destroyed to the field next turn.
I’m sure there’s nothing better than casting “How about these four cards?” in front of the opponent.
“Thank you for your hard work. Leave it to me from now on.”
“I wish you luck, Artea-nim.”
The captain of the guard stepped back and a platinum-haired elf entered the spot.
The armor made of wolf skin gave the impression of a warrior who specialized in guerrilla warfare rather than a frontal fight.
But looking at the bow that was similar in size to the girl’s body, it did not seem like she would be weak in close combat.
More than anything, she had a proper quiver on her back, not a card.
The Dawn Archer, Artea.
She was one of the monsters that were implemented as cards, unlike the other elves.
She had a very decent effect and was used in many decks.
Her illustration was also pretty and received a lot of love from the duelists.
“Are you the scoundrel who attacked our forest?”
“How rude to call me a scoundrel right from the start.”
“Do you need to be polite to a scoundrel?”
“Well, if I’m a scoundrel, then you elves are barbarians.”
“Are you provoking me right now?”
“It’s not a provocation, it’s a fact. I was just passing through the forest and you tried to kill me without any reason. You said you came from the Anubis Temple. You disrespect the god in front of me, his agent, and ignore the people. You are the barbarians, aren’t you?”
“……Is that true?”
Artea’s face turned red as she heard the news for the first time.
She was doubtful, but not completely incredulous.
Was she considering it as a possibility?
She was not a stubborn person, so I felt relieved.
She was someone who could be resolved by dialogue, I thought.
“If you’re curious, wake up those three over there and ask them. What they did to the agent of Anubis, I mean.”
“I understand. We’ll look into the details later. But no matter what the situation is, it’s a fact that you have been dueling against the elves. So as the chief of the tribe, I need to face you.”
“So you want to duel with me.”
“Yes. Dueling will let us know each other’s true intentions.”
Did dueling have such a function?
The duels I knew were nothing but scams to trick the opponent with cheat cards.
“Of course, you will accept my duel request, right?”
“I don’t see any reason to refuse if you want to duel.”
“You don’t avoid dueling, you are a proud warrior too.”
I just wanted to earn some DP.
The elf smiled faintly, as if she took my defiance as a sign of courage.
I was glad that her favorability increased, but I felt ambiguous.
Is this another world?
“Then let’s begin.”
“Okay.”
““Duel!!””
As we declared the duel, a coin appeared and bounced again.
I got the head, Arteia got the tail.
But this time, the coin flipped and the choice went to her.
“I’ll go second.”
“Huh?”
I don’t know what kind of deck it is, but in the latest meta, going first has about an 80% advantage.
But still, he insisted on choosing to go second. Something feels uneasy, but I can’t just do nothing and let it pass.
If it’s a second-turn breakthrough deck, I have to build a wall to prevent him from breaking through.
“Then I activate ‘Designated Fusion’ from my hand! I summon Phineas by excluding monsters that are fusion materials from my deck!”
This is the strongest wall I can make.
I dominate the field with Phineas and magic and trap cards.
“Then I summon a monster card in face-down defense position, set one card, and end my turn.”
“Is it my turn?”
“Yeah.”
“Draw.”
Artea, who is serious and graceful in her duel.
Her dignified attitude makes her look like a noble queen rather than a chief.
What kind of deck does she use?
Artea has a fusion monster that requires a total of four link markers.
She can either use four monsters as materials, or use a three-material fusion monster and a separate monster as materials.
It’s relatively hard to summon four monsters in one turn.
So I guess she has almost no chance of summoning her ace monster in one turn like me.
“I activate the field spell ‘Forest Keeper’s Network’ from my hand.”
[Forest Keeper’s Network]
Field Spell.
This card’s (1) effect can only be used once per turn.
(1): If you have a “Forest Keeper” Normal Magic card that meets the activation condition in your Main Phase, you can send 1 of them from your Deck to the Graveyard and activate this effect. This effect is the same as the activation effect of that Magic card.
(2): As long as this card is in the Field Zone, the effects of “Forest Keeper” monsters on your field are not negated.
“Was it a second-turn OTK deck!!”
A card that can summon 4 monsters that gain 2000 ATK every time they attack.
It was a vicious deck that could Fusion Summon with 4 monsters if blocked.
Was Forest Keeper original? I forgot what else is 2nd turn OTK deck. I only remembered Numeron tbh..