Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

Chapter 1345: Kingdom Transmission Room

Many fantastic scenes flashed before Judai and the others who were sinking into the water.

  The giant stood up from the river, was surrounded and killed, and fell to the ground; the strong man faced many people's weapons and took the attack with his invulnerable body, but was easily killed when a blind man threw a mistletoe; the illusionist who was weaving a net was exposed and tried to turn into a fish to escape, but was caught by the net he had woven.

There were so many scenes that they could only see a few moments clearly and could not remember what they saw specifically. However, those scenes soon disappeared from their sight. They just realized that they were falling and wanted to scream, but the next moment they were standing on solid ground, as if they had been here from the beginning.

In the center of the huge and magnificent palace, there grows a hollow "tree" with a pool surrounding it. The roots of the "tree" not only extend into the pool to build a not-so-wide platform, but also extend all the way outside the pool to form a bridge made of roots, which faces the direction where the tenth generation and his friends are.

"Woooaaaaaah! We're going down - eh? Not sinking?" Marufuji Sho lifted his legs off the ground and hugged Maeda Hayato, looking like a baby koala being carried on a koala's back.

But Maeda Hayato was not much better. When he sank into the water, he immediately hugged Judai's arm tightly. He still held Judai's hand tightly even though he hadn't recovered yet. This was the only way he could feel a little safe. As for Judai's other arm? It was occupied by Daitokuji. He was a teacher, but he was hiding next to his student in such an embarrassing way.

  On the contrary, Judai, although he was also frightened at first, he felt relieved after coming to this palace. Although this palace seemed dark and mysterious at the moment because there was no light source, it was better than a simple cave, right?

Yes, Judai's amazing wisdom immediately reminded him of the experience not long ago, where he and a few others were enjoying a hot spring bath and then were dragged into a different world under the hot spring, and were forced to play cards with a guy who called himself [Seahorse Man]. Not only did he lose, he lost badly. Judai has always kept this incident in mind, always thinking about when he can go back to play cards with [Seahorse Man] to win it back.

And now, he sank from the water, and then suddenly entered a closed environment. The whole person did not seem to be soaked in water but was dry. How could the tenth generation's amazing wisdom not connect what he was experiencing at the moment with the elf world under the hot spring?

  This time it must have been done by the [Seahorse People]!

Although the process was completely wrong, the answer was correct to some extent. The temple that Judai and the others entered was indeed somewhat related to the true identity of Kaibaman - Seto Kaiba.

Although the overall framework of the virtual world "Duel-Links" was handed over to AI to automatically generate and fill in the content, Kaiba still arranged an overall storyline to guide the players entering this world. He personally came forward and directly pointed out that their destination was the World Tree, so as long as they continued to move forward normally, it would not take long for someone to easily discover this strange empty space on the road and the runes hidden around it.

Even if no one notices, when someone is smart enough to use a card monster as a mount and runs to the area around the World Tree that was deliberately blocked by Kaiba's design, they will know the existence of the teleportation array and will have to return the same way, or they will be willing to be killed once and teleport back to the resurrection point quickly.

As for the players who were killed instantly and had to return to the resurrection point because they entered the blocked area without knowing the existence of the teleportation array, Kaiba also arranged a special surprise for them. That is the two hostile NPCs who know how to open the teleportation array, namely the [Iron Realm King Battle - Dwarf United King] and [Light Realm King Battle] that appeared on Misawa's side.

Among them, the attitude of [Iron Realm King Battle - Dwarf United King] is completely hostile, and can only be conquered by fighting to obtain the props to open the teleportation array, while [Light Realm King Battle] is an object that can be communicated with. Whether defeating the former in battle or satisfying the latter by accepting and completing a series of side quests, players will soon be able to obtain the ability to open the teleportation gate.

In this way, with guidance from all sides, players will soon be able to learn about the existence of the teleportation array, acquire the ability to open the teleportation array, and find the location of the teleportation array, thereby embarking on a true journey towards the World Tree.

——However, the actual situation was not as different from what he expected, but rather as different as heaven and earth. Not long after Manjome and his men learned about the teleportation array, Misawa had already defeated the [Iron Realm King War - Dwarf United King] by force and obtained the item used to open the teleportation array from the treasure chest it dropped.

As for the tenth generation, he had no intelligence and no tools, but he relied on luck to find the teleportation array. Then, with the help of the help of a rare guy in Daitoku-ji who knew some runes, he opened the teleportation array by accident and came to the teleportation temple.

Manjome and his group who "took a shortcut" actually took the longest route, and their progress was not as good as Misawa who just stayed where they were. However, Judai who "took the long way" seemed to have taken a shortcut and was ahead of almost everyone else.

“Hey, Judai, don’t walk around, meow!” Seeing that Judai was not worried about the danger around him and had literally walked ahead of the others to explore the temple, Daitokuji said anxiously, “Who knows what dangers there might be here, meow!”

"For example, a few skeleton soldiers suddenly jump out from the corner and hack you to pieces, or the floor beneath your feet suddenly disappears and you fall on all fours, or a corridor with walls on both sides suddenly blocks your retreat and a huge boulder rolls towards you, etc.!"

"Although I also feel that this place might be a little unsafe, but Mr. Daitokuji, have you played too much of the recently released game called "Shadow of the Silver Tree"?" Maeda complained, "How long have you been resurrected?"

"About a month or so? I was actually resurrected when you guys started the college exchange competition, but it takes time to get used to a new body. People need a certain amount of time to recover and do rehabilitation training after having surgeries, not to mention that I have a new body, meow."

As they spoke, Daitokuji and Maeda saw that Judai had walked a distance without any danger, so they followed him. This made Marufuji Sho, who was originally a little hesitant, immediately follow the crowd because of his fear of the dim environment.

"Actually, we don't have to worry about danger, right? Although it's quite realistic, this is a game world after all. It's impossible that if we lose in this game, we will be killed in reality, right?" Judai was broad-minded and had the energy to say to Daitokuji and the others with a smile, "And since we can enter here, it must be part of the design. There's nothing to worry about."

"Even though you said that, big brother," Marufuji Sho felt a little safer after walking among the others, but he was still a little timid and afraid that something would jump out of the darkness, "It would be nice if there was a little more light here."

As he was talking, Judai, who was walking in the front, had already reached the roots of the "tree" that extended to the shore. Standing in front of the "root bridge", he called out to the three people behind him and said, "It's quite bright here, and it looks like there's something inside that tree."

As he spoke, he tested the load-bearing capacity of the "tree root bridge" with his feet, stepped on it to confirm that it was very stable, and immediately walked towards the gap in the center of the "tree" without waiting for the others behind him.

It's not that Judai forgot about his companions when he started the exploration, but he knew that although it seemed safe here, there was a possibility of danger from some inexplicable place. Instead of dragging others to adventure with him, it would be better for him to take action first and help them scout the possible dangerous places. The fact is that even when Judai had walked to the center of the tree and saw a pool of water with many miniature building models, he still did not encounter any danger.

"These are really well made. The things on them are really well made." Judai looked at the models curiously, but he didn't touch them. Instead, he counted them. "Two, four, six, eight, nine. There are exactly nine small building models, plus a soldier model. Is this some kind of board game equipment?"

"That sounds impossible. Don't move, Judai. Let us come over first, meow." Daitokuji complained. Seeing that Judai was very interested in the things in the pool, he quickly reminded him to prevent him from accidentally touching something and activating the mechanism.

Standing in front of the "tree root bridge", Daitokuji decisively let the heaviest person, Hayato Maeda, walk in the front, and planned to wait until Maeda walked to the other side before he and Maruto Sho walked. There are many such plots in movies, where the bridge suddenly starts to break when they are halfway through. They don't want to play the game of "walking lightly to avoid the bridge from being damaged faster". Anyway, there is not much time difference, so it doesn't matter if Maeda finishes first.

The sturdiness of the "bridge of tree roots" was far beyond their imagination. Although it looked like a bridge made up of several branches placed side by side on the shore, even when Maeda walked on it, the bridge did not shake at all. It was not until Maeda successfully reached the other side and walked to Daitoku-ji Temple on the bridge that he bent down and touched the "roots" on the shore. He found that it was more like some kind of stone with tree texture than a plant, hard, cool and very smooth.

However, when Daitokuji was stroking the tree roots, Maruto Sho suddenly noticed that some of the tree roots that formed the bridge behind him seemed to be trembling and about to be retracted? He quickly reminded Daitokuji, "Don't touch it yet, Master Daitokuji, that thing seems to have become shorter!"

  "Huh!?" Daitokuji also noticed something unusual, and turned his head to see that the tree roots were shrinking and moving away from the shore. If the two of them stayed on the shore, they would not have enough time to step onto the bridge. Even now, if they didn't hurry up, they would fall off the bridge!

Daitokuji had looked at the pool beside it, and the water there was so clear that one could see the bottom at a glance. However, due to the dim environment, it was difficult for light to penetrate too far underwater, so Daitokuji could only see the upper part. Even this part was about ten meters deep, and with the height of the bridge, if he fell in, he would never be able to climb out again. Because Daitokuji couldn't swim!

Without even needing Daitokuji's reminder, Marufuji Sho and Daitokuji had already quickened their pace, wishing they could grow two more legs so they could run faster. However, the roots were shrinking faster than they had imagined. Just as they were about to reach the center of the pool, the roots had already shrunk back to under their feet.

At the last moment, the two could only push against the ground with all their might and try to jump forward, while Judai and Maeda on the opposite side had been waiting for a long time and lived up to their trust by grabbing the hands extended by Daitokuji and Maruto Sho, grabbing them and pulling them up so that they would not fall into the pool below.

"Huh, huh! I'm saved, nya~" Daitokuji wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Thanks to you, Judai, I almost died for the third time."

"Daitokuji-sensei, are you still not used to it?" "Who can get used to this kind of thing, meow!"

Marufuji Sho was also very scared. Although he could swim, if he fell into the pool below, who knew if some aquatic monster would appear. He said with some fear: "It was just that close. Fortunately, we reacted quickly."

"But why did those tree roots suddenly disappear? They were clearly fine when Maeda walked over. When Daitokuji-sensei and I walked over together, there was no problem at first." As he spoke, he looked at Daitokuji who was also sitting on the ground, "Could it be that Daitokuji-sensei touched those tree roots with his hands?"

"Don't make it sound like my hands are dirty and that's why the tree roots hate me, meow." Daitokuji complained helplessly, "Maybe it has something to do with the pond that Judai saw?"

Hearing Daitokuji's words, Judai quickly clarified: "But I didn't touch anything, absolutely not!"

"I was just standing there looking at the pond... Huh?" Turning his head to look at the pond, Judai suddenly realized that among the nine building models, he clearly remembered that there were two models that were adjacent to each other with lights on in the center. Although he did not remember the colors carefully, there were indeed two models with lights on.

  But when he looked again, he found that only one model had a light on, and the light of the other model that was just on had dimmed and became similar to the other models. Could it be that this was the reason why the "tree root bridge" disappeared?

"Did you find anything, Judai?" Daitokuji asked curiously when he saw Judai looking at the pool seriously. Judai immediately shared his discovery. What they didn't know was that it was just the moment when Misawa used [General-Purple Flame] to clear the basic points of [Iron Realm King War-Dwarf United King]. Those who didn't know this information naturally couldn't use the existing information alone to analyze the truth.

However - although there is not enough information to uncover the truth, Judai and his men still have a secret weapon, and that is Judai's amazing wisdom!

"Since the bridge is gone, we can't go back to the other side for the time being. It seems that the only thing we can touch next is this pond?" Judai looked at the exquisite relief beside the pond, pushed it curiously, and found that the metal ring where the relief was located could actually rotate. At the same time, it also drove the soldier in the center of the pond to rotate, making it face other architectural models.

Moving from his original position, Judai rotated the relief and asked the soldier to point to the only lit building model and said, "My amazing wisdom tells me that now is the time to use my amazing intuition, and my amazing intuition says that this is the right thing to do!"

The moment Judai pointed his soldiers at the lit building model, the platform Judai and his men were on suddenly rotated, changing their orientation. They were no longer facing an empty wall, but a closed door. The tree roots that had shrunk before extended out again to build a bridge, and extended all the way to the closed door.

As a gem on the door suddenly lit up, the gap in the closed door began to glow, and then the extended tree roots pulled the door open on their own, revealing a figure with his back to the people.

Marufuji Ryo turned his head and glanced at Judai and others who appeared behind him, then slowly turned around with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

  As the title and illustration suggest, the temple here is actually based on the Kingdom Transmission Room in God of War 4.

Also, the voice actor of Manjomu, Taiki Matsuno, passed away, RIP