NOVEL NEXT chapter 1
001. The Monster Duelist
Han Se-yoon.
If you search on the portal, the link to the Gomok Wiki was at the top.
When I clicked on the link and went to the page, my profile caught my eye with a cool picture of me.
Below that, there were summaries and detailed descriptions.
‘World Championship 2-time winner.’
‘Pro Duelist’
‘World Championship 2020, 2021 Winner.’
There was a description that made me proud.
‘Patrap Ilso.’
‘Pro Clown’
‘World Championship 2022 Runner-up.’
‘World Championship 2022 Runner-up.’
There was also a description that annoyed me as soon as I saw it.
“What, why is this written twice!”
Bababababam-!
Unable to hold back, I vented my anger and a heavy donation sound came from the speaker.
[You’re a conline now too! You’re a conline now too!]
A rare donation worth 100,000.
But the actual donation content was a mockery of me.
“This damn…! Thank you for the 10,000!!”
I wanted to express my anger as it was.
But with the huge donation, I couldn’t say anything and just suffered while holding my head.
A monster born of capital, that’s me.
[This guy, he changed his attitude after seeing the amount www]
[Sick, are you a human? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[The reaction for 100,000 won is so damn sweet lololololololol]
They say other people’s pain is one’s happiness, right?
Bastards. I wanted to ban them all permanently, but I couldn’t.
There was no tournament schedule right now, so the only thing that filled my bowl was the viewers.
“Phew…!! I’ll stop exploring the Gomok Wiki here and play some games soon.”
The TCG game that I’ve been enjoying lately has been transformed into an online game and has become a global hit.
Until now, I had to buy cards and build decks offline every day.
But now, I could build the deck I wanted in the game with just a little bit of money.
That’s why the number of users skyrocketed and the world was full of TCG-related memes and jokes.
I couldn’t help but row the boat when the water came in. All the famous pro duelists, including me, were playing this game.
“As I announced earlier, today I’m going to climb to the master tier.”
The game had just started its official service, so there was no tournament, but there was a rank system.
The rank was divided from bronze 5 to master 1.
For the master tier, which was updated today, I decided to make it my broadcast content.
[Owner! Open the door!!]
[Reverse bet, let’s go!!]
[Bro, you’re not going to do the pat-lab today, right? Right? Right? Right?]
The viewers’ reactions were explosive.
They wanted to gamble on points and asked me to open the door.
Some people looked at the duelist and pointed their fingers at him as if he was a gambler, but I didn’t understand.
There are people who show serious gambling addiction symptoms, but that’s another story.
By the way, I personally banned the guy who offended me.
“So, what deck should we climb with today?”
I’ve used various decks with different themes so far, and I knew how to roll most of them.
Rush, aggro, one-turn-kill, midrange, control, hamtteok, etc.
I could handle any type, and some of the popular theme decks were master-level.
So, my broadcast was conducted by using the viewers’ request decks.
[Please, do the gravekeeper!]
[Wizard punch! Wizard punch! Wizard punch! Wizard punch! Wizard punch!]
[Let’s go for the six assassins deck!!]
[Oh, why are they all dicks? Bro, let’s be manly and do the hamtteok’s platinum-out sergeant deck]
[Daughter-clicker arrest]
Before I could even read them one by one, the chat window rose up like crazy, mentioning various decks.
I wanted to do them all, but I didn’t have all the cards.
So, I had no choice but to select a deck through the donation mission.
Then, not as much as the chat window, but a considerable amount of missions came in one after another.
“Then, let’s start with the first mission, the paladin deck…”
Bababababam-!
As I was about to enter the deck editing and make a deck.
Once again, a huge donation sound came into my ears.
“`text
I saw six zeros in front of my eyes. It was a whopping one million won worth of donation.
[Please use the Three Beast Gods deck]
The theme name mentioned by the electronic sound was Three Beast Gods (三獸神).
It was a famous theme that anyone who played card games would know.
However, it was a very old theme, and even if it received some support cards, it was hard to use in the current meta.
It was not a ‘deck’, not even a ‘duck’, but a ‘dick’ that did not work.
To be honest, if I wanted to climb to the master rank with this deck, 24 hours would not be enough.
“Mongmongi God, thank you for the one million won donation!! Then, as you requested, I will try to roll with the Three Beast Gods deck for about 10 games!”
But I couldn’t ignore it when I received a one million won donation.
I expected countless defeats, but I had no choice.
I could climb anytime, but when would I get one million won again?
[Bro, are you really going to climb with that Three Beast Gods deck?]
[Three Beast Gods is not a romance, but almost a dung beetle level ㄷㄷ]
[Jeongbae is always right]
[Yeokbae: Ah, this is a bit……]
All kinds of dissuasion and opposition poured out from the chat window.
Most of the viewers already knew. How gloomy the Three Beast Gods theme was.
But I was not a pro duelist, but a broadcaster.
I had to accommodate the donor’s wish, even if I had to accept defeat.
“I know it’s a one million won donation, so I can’t ignore it. Then, let’s start rolling!”
“`
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And so, a dreadful duel began.
***
“Wow….”
He knew it, but the reality of the Three-Headed God was more dismal than he expected.
His current record was 1 win and 8 losses.
Of course, the Three-Headed God was extremely slow to develop, and had no means to deal with the opponent’s interference.
Despite being the Three-Headed God, he often failed to summon even one god.
Even if he somehow managed to summon one, it was cleared by the opponent’s turn.
‘It’s frustrating.’
The only win he got was from the opponent’s first turn surrender, which seemed like a pity.
In the end, he didn’t win a single game by his own merit.
[Is this a god?]
[The god dies too easily www]
[You’re wrong! The Three-Headed God is not a god!]
[It would be better to sacrifice him as an offering]
He did his best to play, but the result was not good.
To develop, he needed a lot of cards, and he had very few ways to earn ads.
No matter how good his first hand was, it was not enough against the tier decks.
It seemed like it was time to let go of the Three-Headed God.
“Um, this seems hopeless.”
“`
The last game.
On the opponent’s field, there was a monster with an effect that destroyed the opponent’s turn and a trap card that was set.
And a card that was revealed by the patrap was in the opponent’s hand.
On the other hand, I had cards called ‘Anubis’s Cerberus’ and ‘Resurrection of the Dead’ in my hand.
And the field was neatly cleared.
[Just surrender and play with a different deck]
[Honestly, you fought well at this point. You lost well, right?]
[Right]
[LOL]
The chat window was full of voices saying there was no hope.
It was a game that I had to surrender no matter how I looked at it.
But there was something that didn’t make sense.
Should I say it bothered me?
“Wait a minute. I think I can kill him if I do this well?”
Time left 120 seconds.
I quickly drew out the development in my head.
[You’re not even clearing the field, you’re saying you can kill him?]
[Are you kidding me?]
[Where is the smell of happiness circuit coming from?]
[If I win this game, I’ll take off my panties and dance at Gwanghwamun]
Viewers who only give negative opinions on the game even though they cheer for me.
They are too harsh. Even if it’s a crappy deck, I should at least beat a tier deck once.
“You all don’t trust me. Fine, I’ll show you from now on.”
First, I summon Anubis’s Priest from the graveyard with Resurrection of the Dead.
I try to get a magic card from the deck with the Priest’s effect, but it’s blocked by Traptrix.
But I activate the effect of Anubis’s Avatar that was in the graveyard. I release the Priest to special summon the Avatar.
The Avatar’s effect makes two Avatar tokens appear, but the opponent’s monster’s effect sends the Avatar back to the graveyard.
But I use the two Avatar tokens that remained on the field as materials to fusion summon Anubis’s Guide from the extra deck.
I activate the Guide’s effect, but it’s also negated by the opponent’s trap.
“You all expected this, right?”
The Guide’s attack power is not enough to clear the opponent’s monster.
[There’s nothing I can do now.]
[Wouldn’t it be better to put the Guide in defense mode?]
[What’s the point of defense mode when it’s going to be destroyed next turn?]
[Quit]
[Water]
They doubt me too much.
“Did you all forget? The monsters that were released by the Avatar’s effect are not sent to the graveyard, but banished. That’s why I have three cards in the banished zone right now.”
I showed the viewers the list of the banished zone.
‘Anubis’s Pet’, ‘Anubis’s Priest’, ‘Anubis’s Priestess’.
There were three monsters that had been banished, and there was a card that could be activated from the graveyard if three Anubis-related cards were banished.
[Call of Anubis]
You can only activate one card with this card name per turn.
⑴: Add one card with “Anubis” in its name, except “Call of Anubis”, from your deck to your hand.
⑵: If you have three monster cards with “Anubis” in their names banished, you can activate this card by banishing it from your graveyard. Return two of the banished monster cards with “Anubis” in their names to your deck, and add the remaining one to your hand.
A search card that is essential for every deck.
But this card had one more effect.
By banishing this card, you could send two of the banished Anubis monster cards to the deck and take one to your hand.
The opponent had no more means of interference.
And I had not used my normal summon right this turn.
I took “Anubis’s Priestess” to my hand and immediately normal summoned her.
The priestess could summon one Anubis’s Avatar token when she was successfully normal summoned.
Moreover, she could normal summon once more by sending three cards from the top of the deck to the graveyard.
On my field, there were the leader, the priestess, and the avatar token. A total of three monsters.
“What are three monsters to the triune god?”
The ace monster in my hand.
The appearance of Anubis’s Cerberus.
[Anubis Punch! Anubis Punch! Anubis Punch! Anubis Punch! Anubis Punch!]
[Wow, I never expected the Call of Anubis;;]
[Without the Avatar effect, there is no way to banish monsters]
[It was a big deal that the opponent used the Designated Graveyard in the beginning]
[The guy who said he would dance naked at Gwanghwamun, prove it]
The chat room was heated up by showing just one move.
[Anubis’ Cerberus]
Level: 12 / Attribute: God / Race: Illusion
Attack / Defense: 4000 / 4000
This card cannot be Special Summoned. To Normal Summon this card, you must release 3 cards.
⑴: This card’s Normal Summon cannot be negated.
⑵: When this card is successfully Normal Summoned, the opponent cannot activate the effects of Magic / Trap / Monster cards.
⑶: This card can attack 3 times in one Battle Phase.
⑷: When this card attacks a Defense Position monster, it inflicts battle damage equal to the difference between its Attack and the Defense of the monster times the number of heads.
Cerberus’ attack power was a whopping 4000.
Moreover, it could attack 3 times in one turn and had a piercing effect, making it a finisher card.
On the other hand, there was no card on the opponent’s field that could stop Cerberus.
-Win!
The opponent, who had exhausted all his moves, faced Cerberus.
He sensed his defeat and surrendered before he even got hit by Cerberus.
This made his total record 2 wins and 8 losses.
It was a laughable performance, but it was important that he won against a tier deck.
“Mr. Fluffy God, I did my best. So can I use a different deck now?”
As promised, I filled up 10 rounds and tried to talk to the big sponsor who had been begging me to use the Three Gods deck.
[That was honestly a million won worth of duel]
[The end was really awesome]
[Wow!]
[I’ll go change my panties]
The chat window that was full of disbelief was soon flooded with praises for me.
I was quite satisfied with the duel myself. I was planning to ride this momentum and climb up with a different deck. That was when it happened.
Babababababam-!
The sponsor who had been pleading with me to use the Three Gods deck sent me another thank you donation.
But there was one strange thing that was different from before. The donation amount was 0 won.
What was this? A new bug?
I rubbed my eyes and looked at the screen. Suddenly, I heard a voice from the speaker that was not an electronic sound, but a flustered woman’s voice.
“Thank you! Thank you so much!! How can I repay this favor…!”
“What, what is this?”
“Okay, I’ve decided! As a reward, I’ll invite you to our world!”
“Wait, what do you mean by that…!”
“Be careful, it might be a bit dizzy!”
“Ack!!”
Suddenly, a bright light burst out of the monitor.
I reflexively closed my eyes and quickly covered my face with my arms.
I had just bought a computer not long ago, but had it already gone bad? Or was it someone’s hacking program?
As I was making various uneasy guesses, the light gradually faded.
And when I was able to open my eyes again…
“……Crazy.”
I was in a world I had never seen before.