Bell scratched the back of his head sheepishly, a goofy grin spreading across his face. Joining one of the Four Emperors truly made him happy.
“You just became an adventurer yesterday. Shouldn't you be in the dungeon today? What brings you here?”
Wang Xiaoming looked at the grinning kid with curiosity.
“Well, I came to buy cards.”
“Hmm?”
Wang Xiaoming was taken aback.
“Buy cards?”
“That's right, I'm here to buy cards.”
Bell nodded earnestly, his eyes full of anticipation.
“I want to buy some card packs!”
“Oh? It seems you have a specific card in mind.”
Buying card packs so eagerly, he clearly had a goal.
“Hehe, yes.”
Bell couldn't help but scratch the back of his head again, then flashed another goofy smile.
“I want to pull the Dark Magician Girl.”
Good heavens, are you a weeb too?
Wang Xiaoming stared at the grinning Bell, inwardly rolling his eyes.
Many adventurers came to buy cards hoping to get the Dark Magician Girl. Wang Xiaoming had even spread rumors that she was indeed in the card packs, but in reality, only Hestia had one. The remaining card packs only contained one Dark Magician Girl, and that particular pack wasn't for sale yet.
This was all to attract people to buy card packs. He hadn't expected Bell to be lured in by the Dark Magician Girl as well.
“The Dark Magician Girl is a very rare card, you know. The chances of pulling her are very slim.”
“It doesn't matter. No matter how difficult it is, I'll pull her!”
Bell clenched his fist, his eyes filled with determination, like an African player who saved up stones before a banner release.
“Then good luck. I hope you can pull the Dark Magician Girl you want.”
Wang Xiaoming finished speaking, ready to watch the show.
Bell didn't disappoint Wang Xiaoming. He first spent 50,000 valis at the counter to buy a Duel Disk, then used the remaining money to buy twenty card packs. He opened them one by one, but after opening them all, he still didn't pull the Dark Magician Girl.
Bell scratched his head in frustration, then asked Ilena at the counter for another twenty card packs. He threw out 20,000 valis, opened the packs, and found that there was still no Dark Magician Girl.
Forty card packs in a row, but still no Dark Magician Girl. Bell felt a little helpless. He thought his luck should be pretty good. When he helped those people open card packs yesterday, the results were quite good. Many cards were quite good, and there were even very rare and powerful cards.
Today's situation was also pretty good. Although there was no Dark Magician Girl in these forty card packs, there were still many powerful cards, such as Fusion, Mirror Force, Swords of Revealing Light, and Monster Reborn. These all looked like very good cards.
But why was there no Dark Magician Girl?
Bell helplessly looked at his wallet, which only had 10,000 valis left.
The money he earned yesterday helping people open card packs here, plus the money he brought to Orario, was all that was left. Although the Familia would give him money, he had just joined the Freya Familia and was just a newbie, so he was too embarrassed to ask.
“It seems you're quite lucky today, pulling many useful cards.”
Wang Xiaoming watched the whole process of him opening cards from the side. He had to admit that his luck was really good. Without Wang Xiaoming rigging anything, the cards he pulled were all quite good.
“Too bad I didn't pull the Dark Magician Girl.”
How much do you like the Dark Magician Girl? This expression makes it seem like you lost hundreds of millions.
Wang Xiaoming looked at Bell's pitiful appearance, inwardly complaining.
“It's okay, these cards are also pretty good. As long as you use them properly, reaching King rank shouldn't be a problem.”
“But I only want the Dark Magician Girl.”
So you're an XP enthusiast, just wanting a waifu?
Wang Xiaoming couldn't help but wonder if this guy would awaken the [Liars Freeze] skill in the future because he couldn't pull the Dark Magician Girl. After all, in the original timeline, he awakened this skill because he admired Aiz. Now he liked the Dark Magician Girl, and like Aiz, he couldn't get her, so he could only yearn for her, and then rage-quit and cheat.
In fact, Wang Xiaoming was overthinking it. This Bell had already awakened [Liars Freeze], and the reason for awakening was that yesterday he saw the Dark Magician Girl and thought it was a real, existing cute girl. As a result, under the explanation of the clerk Ilena, he understood that the Dark Magician Girl was not a real, existing girl, but a character in a game!
In that instant, he awakened this cheat skill in his heart.
So, the current Bell was already a cheating Bell.
“Alright, not pulling her this time doesn't mean you won't pull her next time. I've put the Dark Magician Girl in the card packs, waiting for you to pull her out. So far, only my goddess has one Dark Magician Girl. You still have a chance to pull another Dark Magician Girl!”
Wang Xiaoming didn't know that Bell had already cheated, but he didn't care at all. He just earnestly taught him, letting Bell know that there was still a Dark Magician Girl waiting for him.
Sure enough, Bell's eyes lit up after Wang Xiaoming finished speaking.
“That's right, the Dark Magician Girl is waiting for me!”
“Yes, and there's only one left. Because the Dark Magician Girl is a popular card, I only put in two in total. Excluding the one owned by my goddess, there's only one left in the card packs. Whether you can pull her depends entirely on your luck.”
“Ah?”
Bell's face showed difficulty for a moment, but it quickly turned into determination.
“There's only one left? I understand. I will definitely seize the time to earn enough money, and then pull the Dark Magician Girl!”
Looking at Bell's determined appearance, Wang Xiaoming once again revealed a bright smile.
This kid is so easy to fool!
340. Wang Xiaoming's Bonus Recovery Plan
Wang Xiaoming's encouragement filled Bell with hope for the future. Although he didn't pull the Dark Magician Girl after forty card packs this time, he would still be able to pull her in the future!
However, there was only one in the future, which meant that he needed to seize the time and find a way to raise money. Otherwise, it would be bad if the Dark Magician Girl was pulled by someone else. The other one had already been pulled by the goddess Hestia of the Hestia Familia, but there was nothing he could do about that. After all, this card was released by the Hestia Familia.
But he must get the other one!
What Wang Xiaoming didn't know was that because of his words, Bell, who had already awakened [Liars Freeze], directly rushed into the dungeon to grind monsters.
Ohta, the senior adventurer in charge of guiding him, went to the dungeon with him to train. However, he didn't participate in the battle. He just watched from the side, ensuring that Bell wouldn't be in mortal danger. The rest was left to Bell to solve himself. Whatever monsters Bell could defeat, he would defeat. How well he could do depended entirely on his own ability. Only then would there be meaning in training.
Then, Bell, who had awakened the cheat-leveling skill, rapidly improved in a short period of time. At the same time, by grinding monsters in the dungeon, he also obtained many magic stones. He left some of the magic stones as batteries for the Duel Disk, and exchanged the rest for valis at the guild, then ran to the card shop in Pleasure Quarter to buy card packs, trying to pull the Dark Magician Girl.
But unfortunately, he couldn't pull her no matter what. However, he didn't feel discouraged, but thought that maybe his luck wasn't very good.
But his level was relatively low, so it was a bit difficult, or rather, a bit slow, to grind enough magic stones. He couldn't even go down to the 10th floor of the dungeon, and the magic stones that the monsters in front could drop were limited.
For this reason, he began to look for other ways to make money, and then he thought of the Duelist Tournament preliminaries currently being held in Orario.
The preliminaries would last for a week. After a week, the top 80 Kings would enter the group stage, and then the 8 people who won in the group stage would enter the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and then the finals.
There were still a few days before the group stage, so there was still a chance!
According to Wang Xiaoming's previous statement, the cards he pulled were all good cards. Because he had pulled those cards for others before, as long as they pulled one, those people would be very happy.
But Bell himself had many. These cards should be very good for dueling, right?
With this idea in mind, Bell began to use the cards in his hand to duel with others. As a result, after dueling, he found that it was surprisingly good. Perhaps it was because he was lucky, when he didn't know how to play at the beginning, he would be suppressed by others at the beginning, but he could always draw a key card at a critical moment, and then directly reverse kill.
Soon, Bell directly and forcefully reached the King rank in a short period of a few days.
Several of these matches even took place right in front of the Joy Street shop. Wang Xiaoming had personally witnessed Bell's playing style. Regarding Bell's style, Wang Xiaoming had only one comment: He's a lucksack!
Every time, he could draw the necessary removal card at a crucial moment, then directly take down the opponent in one fell swoop.
Bell even matched with Hestia in a duel when he was ranking up to Diamond. He then took down Hestia in one go, making her gnash her teeth in hatred. That was her third failed attempt to reach Master rank, and Bell was the one who prevented her from reaching it once again.
On the final day, Bell finally reached the King rank and even entered the top 80, precisely occupying the 80th position, thus qualifying for the group stage.
When Wang Xiaoming received the group stage list, he was stunned for a moment. This guy was too lucky! He truly lived up to the name of lucksack.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming specifically assigned him the title of 'Lucksack'.
Just like adventurers being assigned titles by the gods, Wang Xiaoming, as the game's organizer, naturally possessed various abilities, such as assigning titles to players.
Thus, the title of 'Lucksack' was assigned to Bell by Wang Xiaoming. Bell didn't resist it at all. In fact, after hearing his title, he scratched his head embarrassedly and revealed a silly smile.
In any case, Bell entered the group stage in this manner. After three days of continuous group stage matches, Bell successfully emerged as the top player in his group.
He entered the round of eight, and in the round of eight, he continued to maintain his lucksack status. Moreover, as he became more and more skilled, his card draws became increasingly effortless. It felt as if he could draw whatever card he wanted.
The remaining players, to varying degrees, would experience situations where they were stuck with bad cards, but after becoming skilled, he completely avoided such situations. Every time he drew a card, he could draw exactly what he needed.
In this way, Bell made it to the final four, entering the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, he defeated Bete Loga of the Loki Familia, also known as the 'Werewolf'.
Regarding the Loki Familia, they could be said to have participated in Wang Xiaoming's Duelist Tournament with their entire force. All the duelists in the familia participated. Anyway, the Loki Familia had money and didn't lack card decks. Especially Loki, after the release of Yu-Gi-Oh!, playing mahjong was no longer her favorite pastime. After all, playing cards was much more fun than mahjong. It only required two people to play, and finding four people for mahjong was quite troublesome, and she could only play with gods. As a goddess, she had to play with people of the same level. But Yu-Gi-Oh! was different. The opponents in ranked matches were all based on scores.
This time, six people from the Loki Familia entered the group stage, but by the round of eight, only three remained. In the round of eight, one was eliminated by Bell, and in the semi-finals, another was eliminated by Bell.
And the person participating in the finals was none other than Bell, facing Loki!
In the end, Bell relied on his lucksack draws to directly defeat three opponents in a row, defeating the head god Loki of the Loki Familia and becoming the ultimate champion.
From the round of eight onwards, the matches were held in Joy Street. Wang Xiaoming was spectating nearby, and even provided commentary from time to time. Of course, Wang Xiaoming didn't use Guan Zeyuan for commentary, so he didn't curse anyone.
Thus, Bell relied on his three-in-a-row victory to defeat the Loki Familia, successfully becoming the champion of this Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament and obtaining the title of King of Games, although other players preferred to call him Lucksack.
As the champion, Bell received a reward of 30 million Valis provided by Wang Xiaoming.
He then turned around and exchanged the 30 million Valis for card packs, hoping to pull the Dark Magician Girl.
This was what one might call the prize money recycling plan!
341. Ganesha's Watchful Eye
The heat of Yu-Gi-Oh! did not drop because of the end of the Duelist Tournament.
Because after the Duel King Tournament ended, the event to be held was a week-long half-price card pack event.
This was nothing to those wealthy large familia adventurers, but for those small familia adventurers who had no money, it was a very good welfare event, so Wang Xiaoming's wave harvested the leeks of small familia adventurers.
Joy Street was bustling in the first few days because of the round of eight of the Duelist Tournament, and the heat reached its climax during the finals.
After the finals ended, the half-price event was launched immediately the next morning, and the adventurers came one after another. In the next few days, the heat of Joy Street should not be able to go down.
The high popularity naturally brought trouble, and there were always some people who wanted to fish in troubled waters.
In order to ensure that no trouble would arise in Joy Street, Wang Xiaoming made a special trip to the Ganesha Familia to ask the Ganesha Familia, which was responsible for Orario's security work, to help maintain order. The Ganesha Familia was naturally unceremonious. Their god Ganesha liked the hustle and bustle, and he would basically participate in Orario's large-scale events and let the familia members help maintain order.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming asked him for help, and he agreed without saying a word.
He brought his familia's main force to Joy Street to carry out security work.
Because Bell was a member of the Freya Familia, this Duelist Tournament was only attended by the Freya Familia and the Loki Familia, while the Hestia Familia was responsible for hosting the tournament, and the Ganesha Familia was responsible for maintaining order. All four emperors of Orario participated in one event.
However, one thing made Wang Xiaoming a little embarrassed, that was, Bell used all his 30 million prize money to buy card packs, wanting to get the Dark Magician Girl. This was the craziest guy Wang Xiaoming had ever seen. He spent 30 million for a card, which was really crazy.
Wang Xiaoming was too embarrassed to cheat him.
If he couldn't get the card after spending 30 million and went back to complain, it would be embarrassing for Freya to come to him.
So, Wang Xiaoming put a Dark Magician Girl in the last card pack, so that Bell finally got the Dark Magician Girl.
Relying on the 30 million Valis prize money he got from Wang Xiaoming, Bell finally got the Dark Magician Girl he wanted!
The news that Bell had pulled the Dark Magician Girl was released by Wang Xiaoming, and the heat exploded even more.
Dark Magician Girl was originally the mascot of the Yu-Gi-Oh! game, and many people wanted to pull her, but currently only Hestia had one, which meant that even if some people wanted to buy it, there was no place to buy it. Now that someone had finally pulled the Dark Magician Girl again, a group of people rushed to the scene.
Some wanted to take advantage of the half-price event to see if they could pull the Dark Magician Girl like this new guy, and some rich people wanted to see if they could buy the Dark Magician Girl from Bell, and some even thought about whether they could snatch the card from Bell's hands.
However, those who wanted to rob the card gave up this option after learning that Bell was a newcomer from the Freya Familia. The Freya Familia was not to be trifled with. They honestly asked if he was willing to sell it.
But how could Bell sell it? This was his wife! His movable wife!
Therefore, those who wanted to buy the card and rob the card could only give up helplessly, and then, like Bell, took advantage of the half-price event and started spending money to buy cards. Therefore, after the end of the Duelist Tournament, the sales of the card store directly ushered in a surge.
The whole Joy Street was filled with all kinds of sounds. People who pulled good cards couldn't help but laugh and show off to the surrounding people, making everyone cast envious, jealous, and hateful eyes.
Those who spent a lot of money but didn't pull good cards wailed on the side, attracting people around to look over, either mocking, sympathizing, or recognizing them as kindred spirits.
In short, Joy Street was incredibly chaotic because of this half-price card draw event.
"It's a good thing you brought your familia here early, God Ganesha, otherwise something would really have happened here."
Behind the counter in the store, Wang Xiaoming sat on a chair, listening to the commotion coming from outside the store from time to time, and couldn't help but complain to the man sitting next to him.
Wang Xiaoming was not afraid of these adventurers coming to make trouble in the store. The Hestia Familia was now one of the four emperors, and adventurers who dared to make trouble had to have some weight.
