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Chapter 1326 Oh my gosh, a monument?!

"Shh-"

As the "Legendary White Stone" game cabin - although Hayato is more accustomed to calling it "Cocoon" - started up, Hayato saw a flash of golden light before his eyes and successfully logged into the virtual world "Duel-Links".

However, unlike Juudai and the others who landed at the same time, Hayato arrived in a valley after entering the virtual world, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a valley.

"Is this the world of Duel Links?" With a magenta camera hanging on his chest, Hayato took a photo and said to himself.

In addition to the mass-produced game cabins used by students, the game cabins that Hayato and Yugi used when they assisted Kaiba in testing were specially reserved for them, and special permissions were also opened to Hayato and his friends. It was with this permission that Hayato chose to enter the position closest to the NPC in the game when entering the game, and edited his own character model by the way.

His original height of 1.95 meters was reduced by more than 1 centimeter to a standard height of 1.8 meters. His face was also simply adjusted to make it impossible to recognize him at a glance. At the same time, Hayato also carried a lot of special accessories on himself, such as the camera with the "absolute inaccurate focus" attribute hanging on his chest.

  But those are irrelevant. What's important is that Hayato chose an entry point where there are NPCs nearby. But when he looked around, he saw nothing but towering rock walls without any place for people to hide. Is there really someone here?

Or, do I need to move forward a little further along the road in the valley?

Hayato didn't want to choose the latter, because he didn't know which direction of his was considered "forward". After all, there were roads extending in front of him and behind him. If he made the right choice, it would be fine. But if he made the wrong choice and accidentally walked out of the valley by taking the road he had left, wouldn't he have to go back again?

He stood there and suddenly asked, "Do you want to come out now, or do you want me to raze this place to the ground and force you out?"

There was no sound around, only Hayato's voice echoing in the valley.

Summoner Aleister, who followed Hayato into the Duel Links world, poked his head out from Hayato's waist and said, "No one is coming out, Master? Isn't this a little embarrassing?"

"Anyway, I was just giving it a try. If there were people around, if I could trick someone, it would mean I succeeded in pretending. But if there was no one around and no one knew what I did, how could it be considered embarrassing?" Hayato blinked at Ale and took out a card from his body.

  (Tarot: The World)

The card was a tarot card found in the exhibition hall that was attacked by Saiou Takuma. It was undoubtedly left behind by Saiou who liked to use tarot divination. It seemed that he used tarot cards to predict the results of his actions before taking action. Although it is unknown what the result of the divination was, he failed to steal the game card at all, and was beaten up by Jonouchi who mistook it for a monster or something.

When cleaning the scene afterwards, the card was discovered by the staff and handed over to Hayato, who also accidentally completed an achievement at that time.

[Achievements unlocked: Immortality, Agelessness, and Stand-Power! ]

[Achievement Description: Get the special tarot card that best matches you (revealed: World)]

[Achievement Reward: 1000DP, special [Power of the Mysteries] card (limited to [Power of the Mysteries XXI-World])]

  The card that Saiou dropped was the card he regarded as the greatest proof that his actions would go smoothly. When in the upright position, it represented all positive symbols such as "perfection", "success", "good luck coming", etc. The 22nd Tarot card was also the 21st Tarot card representing "the end" - "The World"!

Although Hayato didn't quite understand why this "world" tarot card happened to be the tarot card that matched him the most, who would mind getting something for free? He didn't think about it at all and received the reward for the achievement at that time, and obtained the corresponding [Arcane Power] card - [Arcane Power XXI-World].

He stretched out his fingers and tapped the side of the tarot card in his hand. The pattern on it gradually cracked and turned into ashes, revealing the white background of the card. Then, the whole card was covered by golden light, removing all the coverings and revealing its true appearance.

In Hayato's opinion, this card modification in front of him, which was the same as that of a shameless con man, was not something worth showing off. He just let go of his hand and watched [Mystery Power XXI-World] stop in front of him, and the card surface started to rotate towards him.

Pointing in a direction, Hayato said, "Is this the right direction?"

The spinning card slowly stopped, but it was in reverse. Hayato said unhappily, "Tsk, this direction is wrong after all. I almost chose that direction."

"If that side is wrong, then this side is it?"

This time, when [Mystery Power XXI-World] started spinning again, it changed from reversed position to upright position when it stopped.

"Hehe, as expected of me, I actually wanted to choose this direction from the beginning." Hayato looked at the direction that seemed to be the correct direction in the divination of [Mystery Power XXI-World], took back the card, and said proudly, "Yeah, my intuition is really good."

"Wow, this is too much—"

"Boom!"

The staff hit [Summoner - Aleister] on the head, knocking him back into his own card. [Water Sender of the Temple] leaned on the staff and said angrily: "Urusai! No matter what Lord Hayato does, he must have his reasons. This is a great disrespect to Lord Hayato!"

"Alright, alright, forget about Alai. I'm here to do something serious." Hayato patted the Water Sender of the Temple on the shoulder and asked her to follow him. He started walking in the direction he had just chosen. "I'm quite interested in the status of the NPCs in this virtual world."

"Yes, Master Hayato!" After being patted on the shoulder by Hayato, the [Water Sentient of the Temple] decided to cut off the cloth of the clothes on his body that was patted and keep it as a treasure when he has time. He happily followed Hayato and walked deeper into the valley with him. Just as Hayato walked around a bend along the mountain road, near where he was just now, a small stone on the ground moved slightly on the ground as if it was blown by the wind at the bottom of the valley.

As he moved forward, Hayato could clearly see the air around him gradually becoming humid and full of water vapor from the slightly cool air at the beginning. At the same time, the rock walls on both sides gradually moved closer as he continued to move forward, making the path narrower little by little. At the beginning, the place where Hayato entered the game was like a small square that could allow nearly a hundred people to move freely, but now the road he was walking on was so narrow that only two people could walk side by side.

"It's getting clearer, Master Hayato. I can clearly sense that there is something filled with magic ahead." Behind Hayato, the [Water Sentence of the Temple] reminded him, "It may be dangerous."

"It's okay. This is just a virtual world after all. Kaiba didn't transform the game cabin into a microwave oven that can cook people's brains in reality if they die in the game." Hayato replied nonchalantly, "But don't you feel that there is magic from another world in this world?"

"Well, I'm so sorry that I couldn't fulfill Hayato-sama's wish." The Water Sentient of the Temple said somewhat disappointedly, "Because a large number of students have entered this world, the vitality they carry and emit can also be used by me as magic for reconnaissance. Although it is not as clear as my own magic, I can use them as my eyes to monitor everything in this world."

"This virtual world is obviously a so-called digital world, right? But for some reason, in addition to the real humans who enter the game and play the role of players, there are many other beings carrying life force, and some even further condense into magic power. However, there are no beings carrying heterogeneous magic power from another world."

With curiosity, the [Water Dispatcher of the Temple] asked Hayato, "By the way, Lord Hayato, what is that NPC you mentioned? Why do they have a human-like aura?"

"It's hard to explain the specific principles to you, but I can give you a rough idea of ​​the 'creation' process of this virtual world." Hayato explained to the Water Dispatcher of the Temple as he walked, without looking back. His fingers occasionally ran across the rock wall, feeling the weathered rock wall with his fingertips, which was rough at first, but smooth when he felt it carefully. "When I, Yugi, Jonouchi, and Kaiba entered before, Kaiba actually only used two parts of the whole process, namely construction and filling."

"We used real data to recreate the airship that the four of us rode, and then used the shared impressions in our minds to recreate all the feelings during the ride."

"But this world is different. Kaiba first used AI to automatically select topics on the Internet to complete the proposition he specified - a stage of fate that no one can predict. However, the AI ​​seems to be mentally retarded. It designed such a game world that combines dueling monsters and epic adventures based on the Norse mythology of 'fate will definitely come true'."

Looking up and looking out from the valley, even from where Hayato was, he could clearly see the giant tree whose branches and leaves blocked out the sun - the World Tree "Yggdraill".

After a pause, he continued, "AI has anchored the theme, so the next step is to use data to build the basic framework of the world based on this theme, such as a ninja continent, a pirate world that is mostly covered by the ocean and divided by a ring continent, or a special world where three worlds exist at the same time and someone needs to maintain the balance of souls. The basic rules of such worlds need to be set with various data."

"As you can see, based on the theme of 'Norse Mythology', this world is set as an adventure world with a super-giant world tree in the center, and then a lot of characters are stuffed into this world to create a world where everyone has their own life."

“And those ‘Non-Player-Character’ non-player controlled characters that are stuffed into this world are what I call NPCs.”

The Water Dispatcher of the Temple blinked, still not understanding: "But why does the non-real existence created by data have vitality and even magic power?"

"This is the last step required to create this world, and it is also the most important step to give this world a sense of reality - although some people say that 'people who seek a sense of reality in a virtual world must have a problem with their brains'." Hayato turned his head 45 degrees like a new house, "That is to fill the skeleton with fantasy, which comes from the fantasy of every player who uses the virtual game cabin."

"Just a simple action like reaching out to pick up a cup and drink water requires a huge amount of computing power. Kaiba is a human being after all, so how could he create a world with perfect rules that are no different from the real world out of thin air? But the human collective unconscious can do it."

"The collective unconsciousness of a huge number of players gives every plant and tree in this world a real existence and even life. This is why Kaiba only took me and others to fight on an airship before, because the consciousness of only four people is not enough to support a huge living world. The world of Duel Links was actually officially completed after the players entered the game."

Although it is said that way, in fact, in Hayato's opinion, it is more magical to give life to the world with human consciousness than to build a living world with pure data. The former may be achieved one day with the development of technology, but the latter is already in the category of black technology.

What is even more annoying is that the prototype Neurons helmet of the "Legendary White Stone" game cabin that applied this technology was actually developed by Kaiba five years ago. However, due to the limitations of the times, Kaiba sealed it in the "museum" of the Kaiba Group headquarters for a period of time.

  (The foreshadowing of the game cabin's startup words, Volume 9, Chapter 127)

At that time, because of the combination of the Neurons helmet and the then imperfect "Duel-Links" world, even if it was not a complete form, he still had the ability to interfere with the "Dimension Ascension" plan implemented by Diva, who went by the alias of "Blue God", and Sera and his group of Pranas, and was even targeted by Sera.

"I see. I completely understand!" Although he said this, Hayato could see that the Water Sender of the Holy Temple had a completely dazed look on his face. It was obvious that he didn't understand anything and was pretending to understand.

After all, it was a high-tech technology developed by Kaiba. It was normal for people in modern society not to understand it, let alone the [Water Dispatch of the Temple]. Hayato did not say anything to her, but continued to move forward, and finally reached the end of the road he was walking on after a few minutes.

After arriving here, Hayato also realized that the source of the humid air was the gushing spring water. However, when he looked at the fountain surrounded by a circle of bricks and stones engraved with strange words, and saw a scarlet left eye, goat horns on the head, wings and claws on the back, and sharp hands like a devil, he felt that his PTSD was acting up.

"Oh my god, a monument?!"

Everyone, please remember that when you teach a newbie, you must not teach her to play with the monument - a lesson learned the hard way