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Chapter 1369 Untitled

"Ark, show your script progress."

"It's being put on screen for you, it's done."

As Kaiba finished his words, ten vertical progress bars immediately appeared on the screen in front of him, with red as the background color and green representing the specific progress. Three of the bars were in a state where the red had completely disappeared and were filled with green.

"No. 00, 'Spring Water', story completed."

"No. 03, 'Forging Hammer', story completed."

"Number 07, 'Green Strain', story completed."

Just after the report was finished, the mechanical synthesized voice on the screen said again: "Error, Error, recalculating——"

"No. 04, 'Black Dragon', the story has been interrupted; No. 05, 'Flame', the story has been interrupted; No. 08, 'Death', the story has been interrupted; No. 09, 'Fantasy City', the story has been interrupted."

"Unable to repair, querying the cause of the failure"

Along with the report of the synthesized voice, four of the ten red progress bars completely dimmed and were replaced by gray, almost blending with the background color, indicating that the story could no longer continue.

"Huh? No way, that's it?" Keipi pulled out a Pocky and put the chocolate biscuit between two fingers into his mouth like he was smoking a cigarette. "I made up ten stories, three of which were successful and four failed. It's really unreliable to let artificial intelligence make up stories. It's better for you to write a story yourself. For example, a masked ball that can only be attended by invitation, a world called 'Mujica', etc."

"I'm not interested in that kind of inexplicable stuff. Being secretive has never been my style. A true king should be aboveboard." As always, Kaiba, who had separated the [Seahorse Man] from himself, said this, frowning and looking at his brother, "Have you been watching too many girl band-type animations recently, Keipi? Didn't you prefer watching special effects videos before?"

"I didn't want to do it either, but Hayato-san recommended them to me, such as 'Rock and Roll', 'This is Me', 'The Girl Who Cried', and so on. I suddenly feel that band shows are quite interesting." Keipi said with a smile, "Why don't we let Bekas design some Duel Monster cards with band themes?"

(Officially designated band (confirmed)

"That third-rate duelist hasn't even finished his own idea from five years ago, and you still expect him to help you design new cards? Humph, you might as well expect Yugi to draw a few cards for you when he's free." Kaiba snorted coldly and said disdainfully, "Even the card designer he hired at the Duel Academy is more efficient in designing cards than him."

"That's true, but it would be a shame if such a good idea was not made into cards. I have already thought about it. I can make seven different band girls based on the seven notes, or make musical instrument monsters based on instruments such as keyboards, guitars, and drums."

(When the performance was over, the bassist couldn’t bring himself to say that he forgot to plug in the power cord (laughs)

Counting on his fingers, Keipi thought that he had "accidentally" left out the bass.

"You should make better use of your Thunder Dragon deck first."

"That's true. After all, not everyone can use so many different decks as skillfully as Hayato-kun." Keipi shrugged. In fact, he was just saying it casually. If he really let Pekas design the cards, he would probably continue to use the [Thunder Dragon] deck that has been with him for five years.

Although he cannot be compared with the achievements of Kaiba, Hayato, and Yugi at the same age, Keipi actually has a very good talent in playing cards. He even jumped in the queue and participated in the annual Professional Duelist World Championship halfway through by relying on his status as the organizer. He even easily defeated his opponents and left a deck construction of "World Championship Winning Rate 100% [Thunder Dragon]" on the Internet.

"The cause of the failure has been identified."

The voice of the artificial intelligence "Ark" came from the screen, making Keipi and Kaiba look over. Four pictures were displayed corresponding to the four invalid side stories. Then, although the background and the objects being beaten were different in each picture, they were all scenes of Hayato sweeping away everything without exception. The two brothers fell silent.

"See, what did I say?" Keipi looked at Kaiba, "I told you before, brother, when you wanted Ark to help you write an epic adventure story as the stage for the duel, that kind of story requires the strength of both sides to be equal. But the problem is, when Hayato-nii also participated in this game, the epic adventure became a cool story like "Kobayashi Hayato Speedruns the World in One Day"."

".Tsk. What a mess. He cleared all the challenges from other players by himself. He is basically ruining the game." Kaiba rubbed his forehead with an unhappy sound. "Even if I said before that my game will attract special enemies, this is too..."

"But everything is still being calculated. After all, these are just side plots, not the main plot I planned." Looking at the three red progress bars numbered 01, 02, and 06, Kaiba said confidently, "Those before were just preliminary preparations for the duelists to get familiar with the world of 'Duel-Links'. The real duel has not yet begun."

"The atrium is locked, so they can only bypass it and seek ways to get closer to the World Tree from other worlds. After defeating the rulers of each world, the strong will gather on the stage of destiny that no one can predict, and then head towards the top of the World Tree." Looking at the progress bar numbered 02, codenamed "Victory", Kaiba rarely revealed his expectations for the next development. "The only shortcut in front of them seems to be passable, but in fact there is no chance at all, because there is a powerful gatekeeper with overwhelming power that I designed myself."

Operating the screen, Guiping clicked on the progress bar numbered 02. Looking at the heroic warrior holding a sword, he couldn't help but complain: "Although the mask, armor, wings and other things have been added, it's better to take them off and look again."

"Isn't this Jonouchi Katsuya? I was wondering why you suddenly had the urge to collect duel data from our Kaiba Group's duelists a while ago." Pointing at the image of the [Sword King War] in front of him, Keipi complained.

"It turns out that you, brother, actually quite agree that Jonouchi Katsuya is a strong duelist."

"Hmph, what do you misunderstand, Keipi? I have never recognized that mediocre person. It's just that he took the money from Kaiba Group, so I want to squeeze out his usefulness, so I used his data to create this NPC." Kaiba said stubbornly without changing his expression, "As the gatekeeper guarding the shortcut to the World Tree, there is no one more suitable than him."

"That's what you said, but you didn't even design the moves." Keipi pulled up the data of another card, "You just switched the left and right hands of this card and adjusted the angle."

"Humph, there are only a few sword-holding moves. This is not plagiarism, just the most basic reference." Kaiba crossed his arms in front of his chest and said confidently, "To reach the final competition venue, unless someone can defeat the gatekeeper designed based on that mediocre person head-on, they can only take a long detour to other worlds to obtain the 'key' to the top of the world tree." "But that is absolutely impossible, because Kobayashi Hayato is still wandering in the other nine realms and did not take the route of the atrium. Without his threat, the existence of the gatekeeper is a barrier that other students will never be able to overcome."

Keipi glanced at the screen after hearing this and said, "I agree with you on this point, brother, but there is one thing you have forgotten. In addition to Hayato and the teachers, there are other people who have entered the virtual world."

Before Kaiba could react to Keipi's meaning, a picture popped up on the screen in front of him under Keipi's operation. It was the [Sword King War] that Keipi had just called up the information for - to be precise, it was [Sword King War - Frode], an extremely powerful NPC designed with the framework of Frey in Norse mythology as the prototype, and then filled with the duel data of the legendary duelist Katsuya Jonouchi.

Even Kaiba was full of confidence in him and gave him the most important task in the entire game, "Preventing others from speeding through the main storyline." [Sword Realm King Battle - Frode] did fulfill his duty and guarded the [Sword Realm], which was the fairyland of the light elves originally - Alfheim. At the same time, he sent his soldiers out to descend on the courtyard Midgard, forming an encirclement to hinder the players' progress.

In Norse mythology, Frey and Queen Mador of the Light Realm are siblings. Kaiba may have taken this into consideration when choosing Frey as the duel ally of Frode and filling in Jonouchi's duel data. After all, Jonouchi also has a sister.

Moreover, [Sword Realm King War - Frode] is also the most suitable one to be selected as the representative of the Warrior Clan in the [King's War] of the Nine Realms, and the Warrior Clan is the deck that Kaiba thinks is most suitable for Jonouchi - after all, no matter how much he recognizes Jonouchi, Kaiba still stubbornly believes that [Red-Eyes] is far inferior to [Blue-Eyes]. Even if it is fused with [Dark Magician] to become [Super Magician Dragon Knight - Red-Eyes Dragoon], Kaiba still believes that the main credit for that strength lies with the [Dark Magician] in the game.

But at this moment, the [Sword World King War - Frode] who was entrusted with an important task by Kaiba and arranged in the [Sword World], in front of the entrance to Asgard at the top of the world tree, was dueling with one person. Obviously, [Sword World King War - Frode] had a large number of subordinates assigned by Kaiba to serve as obstacles to hinder the players' progress.

As for the man who was duelling with [Sword King Battle - Frode], the veins on Kaiba's forehead bulged, and he glared at the other person angrily across the screen: "That mediocre person!?"

Perhaps this is also part of Kaiba's wish for a "stage of destiny that no one can predict"? The basic character of [Sword King War - Frode] was constructed using Jonouchi's duel data, and his opponent at this moment is Jonouchi Katsuya!

"A-choo!" Jonouchi sneezed as if he had heard Kaiba's words outside the game world, and said unhappily, "It must be that bastard Kaiba who is saying bad things about me!"

"Speaking of Kaiba, he actually created such a troublesome game. Can't he let people experience the fun of the virtual world? How many times have I entered the virtual world? If this continues, I will soon develop a resistance to the virtual world."

Hearing Jonouchi's mumbling, Kongquewu behind him said, "What are you talking about over there, Jonouchi? Move faster, it's so boring here."

"I know, I know. It will be over soon." Jonouchi turned his head and looked at his opponent - [Sword King Battle - Frode]. "That Kaiba guy must have secretly used my duel data to design the characters in the game. His duel style is too similar to mine. It feels really weird to duel with such an opponent."

“I’ll give you the same thing.” Across from Jonouchi, [Sword King War - Frode] spoke, his voice surprisingly similar to Jonouchi’s. “You actually have the same duel style as me. You really lived up to my expectations.”

"But I will never let you break through here and reach the top of Asgard. I will gamble my dignity as the ruler of the [Sword Realm]!" Glancing at the locked world gate behind him, [Sword Realm King Battle - Frode] looked towards the city, "Besides, I want to avenge my subordinates who were defeated by you, so come on!"

[Sword King Battle - Frode: 2000 LP, 3 cards in hand]

[Mighty Phoenix Sword Saint - Kia Freed] (Red-Eyes Black Dragon) [ATK 3500]

[Phoenix Sword Saint - Kia Freed] (Phoenix Armed Sword - Kia Sword) [ATK3100]

[Sword King Battle - Frode] [ATK2500]

[Captain of the Charge] [DEF400]

[Captain of the Charge] [DEF400]

  【Gate Card】X3

Looking at the completely covered field of [Sword King Battle - Frode], Yugi, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was not worried about Jonouchi at all.

After they followed the others into the game, they chose to use Duel Monsters as mounts to travel quickly, just like Manjōme and the others, and were also intercepted by the soldiers under [Sword King Battle - Frode].

But compared to Manjome and others, Jonouchi and his companions chose to break into the area leading to the World Tree after knowing that it was blocked. Then, under the command of Jonouchi and Yugi, and the guidance of Peacock Dance and Rebecca, Anzi had a good time commanding monsters to fight, and broke through the siege all the way to the foot of the World Tree.

Then, they followed the portal there and came to the blocked [Sword Realm]. With the help of [Dark Magician] and [Red-Eyes Black Dragon], they made their way here and encountered [Sword Realm King War - Frode]. Anzi had a great time, but Jonouchi hadn't had enough fun yet, so he faced [Sword Realm King War - Frode].

As a result, halfway through the duel, from the various small details during the [Sword King Battle - Frode] duel, Peacock Dance was the first to notice that the opponent seemed to be fighting in Jonouchi's style, and awakened Jonouchi, who also felt something was wrong.

Even Jonouchi had a difficult time because of the dueling style that was too similar to his own, especially since the opponent even took out the cards of [Phoenix Swordmaster - Kia Freed] and the advanced [Mighty Phoenix Swordmaster - Kia Freed] that Baron had given to Jonouchi in the past, and even one of the [Red-Eyes Black Dragon] was accidentally taken away.

But, it was just a slight trouble. Jonouchi was not an opponent who could be defeated so easily. After briefly adapting to the subtle feeling of "dueling with himself", the smile on Jonouchi's face let Yugi know that the duel seemed to be over.

Looking at the cards in his hand, Jonouchi was already confident of victory: "Well, let's start the last round. It's my turn, draw a card!"

  Poseidon's new card emmmmm

It has to be the Fire King, the Fire attribute is the first attribute of the Yu-Gi-Oh