Clear the first level of the trial in one round?
The ancient magician guarding the gate was also somewhat dumbfounded.
According to the ritual rules, in the first round... aren't both sides unable to fight? How did he do it?
Unable to see Youyu's clearing process, they couldn't even dream of imagining how to instant-kill such a tough opponent on the first move.
The card deck themed around "Exchange of the Spirit," although always owned by Youyu, had never been used as his main deck.
Firstly, as the key card of the entire deck, he only had one "Exchange of the Spirit," only one "Temple of the Kings," and just one "Makyura the Destructor." It's unrealistic to build a deck with this strategy as the theme.
If he's unable to seize the first move, the deck's instant-kill capacity will be significantly affected. If critical cards like "Exchange of the Spirit" are invalidated by the opponent upon activation, the deck is basically rendered powerless, and he might as well surrender directly.
Even in the heyday of the physical card environment, the current Netherworld deck couldn't achieve a 100% foolproof success rate. With so many key components missing, if Youyu wasn't relying on his high Duelist level, this incomplete deck wouldn't be playable at all.
Therefore, in this world where losing a single match under the Dark Duel backdrop leads to total defeat, Youyu didn't think of using it as his main deck.
But tackling a dungeon boss should be no problem.
After all, it's not a life-gambling Darkness Game when clearing a trial; if it fails once, just return next time.
Using the current Netherworld strategy, the opponent's life points don't matter. As long as there's remaining life, they can be killed in one round.
Thus, the people outside saw a bizarre scene unfold.
Youyu cleared the first level in just one round.
Youyu cleared the second level this time in two rounds.
Youyu cleared the third level again in merely one round.
All the NPCs in the Land of Trial were attracted. Each person, upon seeing Youyu's name continuously refreshing on the stone slab, had their mouths agape like emoticons, their brains crashing on the spot.
Unable to see Youyu's clearing process, they broke their heads thinking and still couldn't imagine how it's possible to clear something like the third level, deemed hellishly difficult by them, in just one round.
Indeed, if one were to honestly deal output, depleting fifty thousand life points in one round is nearly impossible without relying on "Infinite Chain."
Fortunately, by the fourth level, Youyu came out again. He didn't look excited as someone who cleared four levels in one go but seemed a bit annoyed instead.
The fourth-level trialist had one million life points—but that's not the point.
The point is, Youyu got randomly backhanded this time. Then, the backhand-activated "Exchange of the Spirit" was negated by a BOSS's "Seven Tools of the Bandit"...
Instant death.
But it doesn't matter; encountering such unexpected issues at dungeon exploration is foreseeable. If it fails once, just try again.
Thus, after a slight pause, Youyu turned around and dove back in.
After exploration, he found that the so-called "trial" only had five levels in total. Each level not only increased in life points, but the trial opponents also saw increases in deck construction and summoned Monster strength.
...approximately from roadside level in DM, ascending to town tournament participant level.
Actually, aside from the current Netherworld strategy, Youyu also had other trick-oriented Infinite Chains to succeed, such as the "Eternal Cannon" combo used once during a duel with Kaiba.
But the problem is, chains like the Eternal Cannon only reduce the opponent's life by 400 at a time, and to reduce two million life points to zero would require repeating the mechanical process five thousand times. Even Youyu, confident in his stamina, worries he might collapse during this lengthy process...
After several repetitions, the stone slab outside emitted a surge of golden light, and the originally empty position there miraculously revealed the fifth-level trial's clearing record. Behind, in clear gold engraving, suddenly appeared Youyu's lone name.
Even the once first-place Priest Set was overshadowed by him.
"D*mn it, finally cleared." This was Youyu's true thoughts.
In his view, it was just a matter of time. He didn't expect it to take so long, probably owing to his bad luck, always getting backhanded with the Nether Exchange strategy every round, painfully annoying...
He even felt that some unnecessary time was wasted.
Yet, simultaneously, he was curious about how Kaiba and the game from three thousand years ago cleared these levels with super thick life BOSS. Can't just slowly hack with a Normal Monster, right?
Then he suddenly related it, asking if President Haima's fondness for machine players might somehow tie back to this trial from three thousand years ago?
While Youyu deemed his clearing ordinary, other NPCs didn't think so.
Their mood now... "How could one adequately express with WTF?"
The Land of Trial's never-before cleared five-level trial... cleared in one day?
This person breaks through boundaries akin to eating and drinking?
Incredibly terrifying!
This child should never...
...oh, sorry, wrong script.
A group of NPCs seemed to consider this a world-shaking event, each one more excited than the main character. But Youyu frowned, appearing somewhat unhappy.
Because after muddling through these five trial levels, aside from experience and Crystal Stone rewards, he only received a few seemingly meaningless items like the "Legendary Sword" obtained from the apprentice priest just now, utterly useless.
Unable to hold back, he approached the ancient magician: "By the way, is there no reward for clearing the trial?"
The magician at this point was even more respectful: "The names of people who clear the trial will be eternally inscribed on the stone slab in the Land of Trial, admired by all warriors of the future!"
Youyu: "...Anything else?"
The gatekeeper froze.
What else do you want? Everyone scurrying around, isn't this the ultimate honor?
"Nothing more." He answered honestly.
Youyu felt somewhat frustrated.
Something's off, it's not what was promised! Remember back on the forum, they talked about super rare card series upon clearance?
He reopened the task panel to confirm, finding that the side quest "Clear the Trial" had turned to completed, but below, there was an additional comment.
The comment read, the task could be repeatedly completed, with each clearance of each level having a probability of gaining various rewards.
Of course, these rewards might seem priceless in the native NPCs' eyes, but to Youyu, most had relatively unclear significance. But the point was in the further supplementary note.
The note further stated, completing the trial process offers a certain probability to summon the "Legendary Warrior."
A certain probability... God knows if it's 1% or 0.1%.
Youyu expressed his exasperation, meaning you have to gamble on your luck?
Clearly, it's a luck-based task.
However, Youyu reckoned he's got looks, got money (assuming Haima is rich means he's rich too), got card skills, but precisely, his luck... is bad...
Yet, it doesn't matter.
Encountering such a scenario, he had considered beforehand.
Though his luck was somewhat poor, there were still a group of European tools beneath him!
As long as one of the tools he brought hits the probability and gains the final reward from the Land of Trial, rounding it off, it equals Youyu himself having it?
Prying open these fools' mouths is easy?
Once Youyu desires, prying any mouth wouldn't be a problem.
Even before entering this Memory World, Youyu had prepared a series of tasks for those tools. The first link is "Find a way into the Memory World," and after completing the first link, the subsequent task is "Head to the Land of Trial to find Youyu."
Yes, even though the tools hadn't come online, Youyu had schemed for them clearly.
And so, on this night, a flock of the joyful fools flocked over, each one dashed into the Land of Trial excitedly.
"Youyu-san! Here we come!!!"