Chapter 141 Keeping an Appointment
Next, Keipi once again generously showed Yugen their current abundant inventory at the headquarters.

When the combination lock was unlocked and the heavy military alloy door slowly opened in front of him, You Xuan had to admit that the scene was quite shocking.

Almost everywhere you look is filled with cards.

It might not be an exaggeration to say that he was a romantic card player. It was the first time for him to see such a huge space almost entirely spread out by a sea of ​​various duel cards. It was like an alluring treasure cave.

Towering display cabinets lined the walls on both sides, like glorious guardians standing in neat rows. There were many types of cards in the cabinets, listed in order by year and type, starting with the early versions made from the Duel Monsters slabs first discovered in Bekas, and with the progress of scientific research and development every year, there were more and more cards and newer series.

The place feels more like a library than a warehouse.

What you can see here is not only a wide variety of cards, but also traces left by time. The numerous display cabinets store not only cards, but also freeze every era that Duel Monsters has gone through so far, and the trajectory of countless explorers' discovery and progress.

Guiping didn't say how much he could take away, just that he could take whatever he wanted. But Youxuan knew that he still had to have some basic self-awareness. After all, emptying someone else's entire warehouse was a bit of a stretch.
So it’s still the top priority on the list.

However, after all, the cards in this world are extraordinary, and even Kaiba Corporation's regular inventory does not have everything. But this is indeed a holy place that thousands of duelists dream of, and many things that have long been out of print and even the academy department cannot get them are also available here.

For example, President Kaiba’s favorite trap during his DM period was the ancient banned card, [Death Deck Destruction Virus].

Moreover, the effects of the deadly poison and real card used by President Kaiba are also different.

The old version of the real card's Destruction Virus has the effect of sacrificing a dark attribute monster with an attack power of 1000 or less on your field to destroy the opponent's hand and all monsters with an attack power of 1500 or more on the field for three turns.

The effect was banned due to being too powerful, and was not released until 2015 when its effect was weakened.

However, even the old version has different effects from the original animation. In the animation, Kaiba's Deadly Poison effect can only be triggered when a Dark attribute monster with an attack power of 1000 or less on your field is destroyed by battle, and then all monsters with an attack power of 1500 or more in the opponent's hand, field, and deck are destroyed.

From today's perspective, this effect may not be as powerful as the old version of the real card. First of all, it requires your own monster to be "destroyed by battle" to trigger it, which is a bit troublesome.

Moreover, "destroying all monsters with an attack power of 1500 or more in the opponent's deck" is equivalent to filling up the opponent's entire deck's graveyard in one go. If you are facing a deck whose graveyard resources are equivalent to second-hand cards, this action is almost suicide, and you can be carried away on the spot.

But in the early stage when the utilization rate of graveyard is not so high, the destructive power of this deck is still very strong.

President Kaiba, who always likes to attack and suppress others, rarely has such a shady set of tactics, and he has even used it more than once or twice.

After considering it, You Xuan decided to put the card in his pocket. Although this kind of powerful weapon can easily kill you if used carelessly, it can also be very effective in certain situations.

Most of the cards he picked after that were nothing special. They were mainly to expand the inventory of fusion decks, but he didn't have any fusion-focused decks at the moment. These were all designed for the system built around the magic card "Sudden Mutation".

The remaining cards I collected were mostly those that I thought were useful in certain builds, or those that were rare and valuable enough to fetch a good price.

But as expected, most of the fusion monsters without summoning restrictions in this era are small fry. The main purpose of bringing them is to allow monsters of commonly used levels in the [Chaos Mutation Phoenix God] deck to use "Sudden Mutation" to transform.

Another rare card that caught his attention was a Soul Monster.

Monthly reading of fortune.

A 1100-star monster with an attack power of . Its effect is that when summoned, it can cover a face-up monster on the field to face-down defense position. And after she summons it, it will return to the owner's hand at the end of the turn.

In other words, it is basically equivalent to "Book of the Moon" once per turn, but it only takes up one call. It looks like an ordinary monster, but it is a very versatile card with excellent performance in the early days of the real card. Later, it was designated as a restricted card because of its active record in many different systems of top decks.

From the perspective of its impact on the environment, the increase in the appearance rate of this card has directly led many players to lower their evaluation of monsters with excellent hits and effects but defense strength below 1100.

Among them, the famous Emperor deck series was criticized. The superior monsters in the Emperor series all have excellent and powerful effects, but the biggest weakness is that their defense is all 1000, which is 100 points lower than the "Tsukuyomi" known as the human-shaped moon book.
That is to say, if you use a sacrifice to summon a high-level emperor, the opponent only needs to summon Tsukuyomi to turn the emperor into face-down defense position, and it can be knocked out with one punch. Moreover, Tsukuyomi can be recycled by itself, and returned to the hand for reuse in the next round.

It is equivalent to consuming only one summon resource to replace a higher-level monster, which is quite profitable from the perspective of resource exchange.

Anyway, this trip to Kaiba Corporation was very fruitful. Not only was Chaos one step closer to evolving to its full form, but the key material for ritual Chaos was also obtained, which greatly enhanced the deck terminal.

However, he remembered that this deck had another key monster back then, a powerful terminal that could easily turn the tables in desperate situations and was once banned due to its high investment rate and simple and crude Minotaur effect.

Thousand-eyed demon.

The ace monster of Rebekas in the Duel Kingdom, and also a rare level 0 fusion monster. Let's not talk about the monster effect, just looking at this thing's attack and defense are both , you know it is definitely not a good thing. Its main iconic effect is that it can absorb the monster on the opponent's field, equip it as equipment, and gain the attack and defense of the monster. It is not only a chaos deck, but also a bus-shaped thigh that many competitive decks would have plug-ins.

But unfortunately, even the warehouse of Kaiba Corporation seems to have none.

You Xuan also consulted Guiping specifically, and Guiping shook his head to indicate that this was really not the case.

That's right. After all, it is the trump card of the rival Pegasus. It is an exclusive card printed by the father of Duel Monsters for himself. It is unlikely to be found anywhere else.

"But I do remember that Becas seemed to have released a reprint, maybe a tournament gift card or something like that."

Keipi recalled.

"The International Illusion Society might have it."

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You Xuan was in deep thought.

Even so, he didn't know anyone in the International Illusion Society.

Oh, I just beat up a mecha professor, so maybe that counts as half a mecha professor. But that guy doesn't look like he wants to have a friendly conversation with me.

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Before he knew it, he had spent most of the day in the warehouse. Yu Xuan came out with another box of cards, feeling satisfied, and went back to his previous office to find Guiping.

"It looks like you've picked a card that you're satisfied with." Keiping smiled.

"Yes, thank you very much." You Xuan also said.

Keipi still waved his hands generously: "It's okay, it's okay. As I said, I really want to thank you. Just don't let your brother down on the court.

As long as you give him a satisfying duel, this little investment doesn't matter at all."

It really sounds like a CEO.

After all, people build satellites and chase souls in the underworld just to have cards to play. In comparison, if investing in just a few cards can relieve the card addiction, the cost is really negligible.

Keipi stood up: "Well, it's almost time for me to go."

You Xuan understood: "Go to the Pegasus Night Walk Foundation?"

"Yeah, I haven't had direct contact with that guy for a long time, so I went to see what he was up to. But it was quite unexpected."

Guiping looked at Xiayouxuan.

"That guy actually named you. If possible, I hope to meet you."

"I?"

"Yes, maybe the duel just now also left a deep impression on him." Keiping said, "But don't take it too seriously. If you don't want to go, I'll help you refuse.

So, are you going straight back to college now? Or.”

You Xuan thought about it.

There's nothing to do even if I go back to the academy at this time. I'll probably just go back and rest.

"I don't have anything to do." You Xuan shrugged, "Since they have invited me sincerely, I should go and take a look."

(End of this chapter)