Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Roar of the Weak

Chapter 157 Selection Tournament Begins

Di Xing's face immediately turned bright red.

"Haha, what would you call this in a novel? Low attack, zero defense?"

Di Xing cursed inwardly: Zero defense is true, but its attack is not low. I'll show you one day.

At this moment, Lunya and Ai Xiao also came out of the house in the Immortal Chronicles.

Since there was a match tomorrow, everyone exchanged a few more pleasantries before heading back to their rooms to sleep.

As Di Xing walked towards his bedroom, he passed the glass corridor and glanced casually at the swimming pool outside the window. He turned back, rubbed his eyes, and discovered that there was more than just Zhu Lei's family in the pool; there was also a blue, transparent mermaid.

"Isn't this the [Dreamy Shadow Mermaid]?"

Di Xing flung open the glass door and rushed to the edge of the swimming pool, pointing at the Dreamlike Collapsed Mermaid, his voice trembling, "What... what's going on?"

The Little Mermaid's flat voice rang out, "Melo found it when she was bored at home and went for a stroll. Melo said she felt a special connection with it because it was blue and we were both mermaids, so she took it in."

Di Xing's lips twitched violently: What happened? Has his own swimming pool turned into a dark room? Every single one of them is a forbidden card.

The dreamlike, shadowy mermaid stared at Di Xing with her faceless features, truly expressionless.

Indeed, according to the card art, it is the Azure Knight of the Machine World, which was corrupted after its core was taken by Evalice of the Dream Collapse World. Naturally, it has no thoughts. But this one is a heavyweight with all five bans!

Di Xing called Melo over, and Melo timidly swam over. Di Xing patted her head and said, "Melo, I don't object to you picking up card sprites, but could you please pick up some cards that aren't prohibited? Picking up these kinds of cards is just taking up space, they're useless."

Melo looked completely bewildered.

The Siren crossed her arms and looked at Di Xing, her face clearly saying, "Just spoil her!" The Little Mermaid, on the other hand, had her mouth submerged in the water, lost in thought.

"Sigh~" Di Xing could only wave to the Dreamy Shadow Mermaid, who obediently swam over. Di Xing then successfully turned it into a card, but unfortunately, he couldn't use it.

After this incident, Di Xing returned to his bedroom, lay down on the bed, and quickly fell asleep.

At this moment, the figures of the six little ones and Lei Xi appeared.

Yashiki-dō said, "Nai-shiki-nee, if you don't speed things up, big brother will be seduced by that vixen!"

Tears welled up in her eyes, her face flushed.

"That's right, there are more and more vixens around Brother Di Xing these days. If you don't make a move soon, someone else will beat you to it."

Lei Xi remained silent, but it seemed she had made some kind of decision in her heart.

At this moment, Di Xing rolled over, startling Lei Xi and the others so much that they vanished on the spot. However, Di Xing was merely turning over in his sleep, still immersed in his dream of drawing the Divine Bow and Togahime through gacha pulls.

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The next day, everyone arrived early at the candidate selection competition venue, in front of Scrap Metal Plaza. Under the watchful eye of the Red Dragon, the long-awaited grand competition in the Scrap Metal District finally began again.

District Chief Tie Nanzhe took the microphone and walked to the statue of the scrap metal.

"Hello everyone, I apologize for keeping you waiting. The much-anticipated Scrap Metal Zone candidate selection competition is now officially starting. This time, we have two heavyweight guests participating in the selection competition. One is the supernova who recently saved the entire fourth floor—Di Xing! The other is our candidate from the last Scrap Metal Zone competition, and also the winner of the final star-up competition, Lunia of Magic Key!"

Cheers erupted from the crowd.

Although the people below were in high spirits, Lunya knew that many of them still harbored resentment and other negative feelings towards her. This was the reason for Lunya's deep disappointment when she was first driven down from her position.

But then, Di Xing tightly grasped Lunia's hand. It seemed Di Xing had noticed this as well. Lunia gratefully squeezed Di Xing's hand back, no longer confused.

"So, since the Star-Up Competition is approaching, we've decided to complete the selection process as soon as possible. Therefore, we've decided to use a tournament format, with two arenas set up, and Di Xing and Lunia serving as the champions."

"If a champion wins three consecutive matches, they can enter a one-to-many match. If the champion can defeat 15 challengers in a row, they will qualify as a candidate!"

"Then, the competition begins now!"

"These rules are interesting. Luckily it's just cards; if it were a martial arts competition, the defenders would be exhausted," Di Xing thought to himself. Just then, the first challenger stepped onto the stage—a man in overalls.

"Wow, it's Lei Gong!"

"Keep it up, Lei! Don't embarrass our Third Scrap Steel Plant!"

"You must be Di Xing. You're a truly formidable young man. Thank you so much for saving the fourth level, but I won't hold back."

Di Xing nodded to him.

"Duel!"

Rock-paper-scissors, Di Xing goes first.

"I summon Mechanical Hunter, set one card, and end this turn."

"Wow, as expected of Raikou, he actually has such a powerful card as Mech Hunter!"

"But the opponent is the hero who saved the fourth floor, I wonder what cards he has."

"My turn to draw cards!" Di Xing breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the combat power of ordinary people on the fourth floor wasn't as exaggerated as it appeared.

"I activate the Call of the Mummy, Special Summoning Singing Zombie from my hand. Singing Zombie's second effect upgrades itself by one star. I send Bone Roast King to the Graveyard. Bone Roast King's effect takes two cards and discards one. I take Bone Prince and Bone Lord, discard Bone Prince, and his effect sends Bone Couple to the Graveyard."

"Activate the effect of Singing Zombies 1 again, discard the Bone Prince card from your hand. This card gains one star, and the Bone Prince goes to the graveyard. The Bone Couple also goes to the graveyard. Then discard the Bone Lord. There are eight Bone cards in the graveyard. Send all eight cards to the graveyard. Banish the Horse-Headed Demon to revive the Bone King. The Bone King's attack power is equal to the number of Bone cards in the graveyard multiplied by 1000, which is 1 point."

The White Bone King, the point of attack, appeared on the field.

"A monster with high attack power!?"

"It's fake, right?"

"That was incredible! No wonder he's the hero who saved the fourth floor!"

"The Bone King attacks the Mechanical Hunters"

"Don't even think about it! I can activate [Universal Mine - Broadsword Style], destroying your highest-ATK card on the field when you attack."

"I banish Troll Ghoul Morjera from my hand instead of destroying it."

Lei Gong took a punch from the Bone King, and his health points instantly dropped to zero.

"Wow, so impressive!" Lei Gong exclaimed in disbelief.

"Next up is me!" A young man covered in paint ran up.

"Hello hero, my name is Jiang Fenshua. I am your fan. Please give me your guidance!"

Di Xing hurriedly said, "I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it either, and I hope you will give me your guidance."

The duel began, with Di Xing attacking from behind.

"I summon [Painful Painter], set two cards, and end this turn!"

"A miserable painter? You mean your job is miserable?" Di Xing complained.

"No, I'm very happy. Although life has been a bit tough, I'm still healthy. Overall, I'm very happy. I'm even planning to paint your portrait on the wall of the scrap metal district government building."

"No need, DUCK," Di Xing hurriedly waved his hand.

"Then why use the 'painful painter'?"

"Because of all the cards I know that are related to paint, this is the only one."

Hehe, no doubt about it, there really is only this one picture. A certain author who's still diligently writing has checked it.