643. Piracy Resolved
Although Wang Xiaoming obtained a new world from Su Mo, he wasn't in a hurry to explore it, because he still needed to resolve the issue of piracy!
Leaving Su Mo's Familia, Wang Xiaoming dragged Sannes along, under the puzzled gazes of passersby, all the way to Pleasure Quarter, dragging Sannes directly to the entrance of the card shop.
As a star leader, Wang Xiaoming's appearance in Pleasure Quarter immediately attracted the attention of many adventurers, especially since Wang Xiaoming was dragging a person, which made them very curious about who that person was, being dragged like a dead dog by the [Magic Sword Knight].
Although Wang Xiaoming had the title of Hero, more people knew him as the Magic Sword Knight, after all, the title of Hero was too broad.
Therefore, ordinary adventurers still called Wang Xiaoming the [Magic Sword Knight].
As for Sannes, who Wang Xiaoming was dragging, many people didn't recognize him.
Of course, as the leader of Su Mo's Familia, some people still recognized him, so the adventurers immediately started discussing curiously.
"What's going on? Isn't that Sannes, the leader of Su Mo's Familia? How is he being dragged by the Magic Sword Knight?"
"I don't know, maybe Sannes offended the Magic Sword Knight."
"He's crazy, Sannes is just an LV2, but the Magic Sword Knight is LV6, and I heard that although the Magic Sword Knight is LV6, he possesses the power of LV7, as strong as the Fierna Familia's Berserker."
"No, I heard he's even stronger than the Berserker."
"So exaggerated? Then why would Sannes dare to offend him? Doesn't he want to live? That's one of the Four Emperor Familias!"
"Who knows? Maybe he's crazy, don't you know what Su Mo's Familia is like?"
"Tsk tsk tsk, so pitiful."
Amidst the discussions of the crowd, Wang Xiaoming dragged Sannes to the entrance of the card shop, and then threw Sannes directly onto the ground, lying there like a dead dog.
"Everyone!"
Taking out a small loudspeaker from his space pocket, Wang Xiaoming stood at the entrance of the shop and began to explain.
"Thank you all, adventurers, for your love. Our Hestia Familia's Yu-Gi-Oh! has many players, but recently our players have encountered some problems, that is, they have purchased some special cards in various places in Orario."
"I know everyone wants their favorite cards, but please pay attention to one thing, that is, cards purchased outside our store may have the risk of not being usable. The simplest example is that cards purchased outside are not recognized by our Duel Disks and cannot be displayed. I think some players should have experienced this recently."
"Yes!"
"That's right!"
Several duelists who had discovered they had been scammed these past few days immediately responded. They had come to the store yesterday to demand compensation, but the person who received them said that those were not the store's cards and could not provide compensation. It could be said that they were very annoyed.
However, due to the fact that the Hestia Familia was one of the Four Emperors, they could only make a fuss at the door before finally leaving, but they were still very unwilling in their hearts and always wanted to cause trouble.
Now that they heard Wang Xiaoming, the boss, take the initiative to speak, they naturally had to say something.
"That's because some people have imitated our cards and are selling them at high prices outside. Although the cards look very similar to the cards in our store, in reality, those cards cannot be used with Duel Disks, and the person who made these fake cards is this person."
Wang Xiaoming pointed at Sannes on the ground.
"Sannes, the leader of Su Mo's Familia, an LV2 adventurer, he is the one who had members of his Familia imitate the cards and then sell them all over Orario to make huge profits."
"What!"
"You bastard, you actually used such methods to cheat my money!"
"Damn it, you're just an LV2, how dare you cheat me!"
Among the adventurers, the scammed adventurers were all filled with righteous indignation and wanted to chop up Su Mo. Cheating money in this place was simply a matter of life and death for adventurers. They were all living paycheck to paycheck and had no savings. They finally managed to get some money to buy cards, but they were cheated. This was unacceptable!
"Please wait a moment, everyone!"
Seeing that the adventurers all wanted to take action, Wang Xiaoming spoke again.
As a member of the Hestia Familia, Wang Xiaoming's face was very valuable. After all, Hestia was now the god with the most face in Orario. As the leader of the Hestia Familia, Wang Xiaoming's face was naturally also very big. As soon as he spoke, the adventurers stopped.
"I know you all want to punish him, but there's no rush now. Before punishing him, we must first get our money back. People who have purchased fake cards from him can come here to confront him. Our Hestia Familia will provide services. After you all get your money back, then consider how to punish him, at least this can minimize everyone's losses."
"The Magic Sword Knight is right!"
"That's right, we must get our money back first!"
"The Hestia Familia is so great. After I get my money back, I want to buy a hundred card packs!"
Hearing Wang Xiaoming say that he would help them get their money back, they immediately became happy. After all, no one wanted to go against money, especially since it was their own money. Being able to get it back was naturally the best!
So, an exchange service began at the entrance of the Hestia Familia store. Meli had already been in the store to testify. With her various magics, she could easily determine whether the person exchanging money was lying.
Of course, the money was definitely not coming from Wang Xiaoming, but from Sannes. After Wang Xiaoming handed Sannes over to Meli, he had his clones capture the other members of Su Mo's Familia and have them bring the money over. They had no way to deal with Wang Xiaoming. Even if Wang Xiaoming's clone took them to Su Mo's Familia and saw the god Su Mo in the Familia's residence, it was useless, because the god Su Mo agreed with Wang Xiaoming's approach, so the clone taking the money didn't bother him at all, after all, he was preparing to start over and change his Familia.
In this way, under the auspices of Wang Xiaoming and Meli, Sannes and his subordinates confronted the victims of the piracy one by one, and then stated the amount of money they had cheated. Under the witness of the Hestia Familia, they began to exchange one by one.
This wave of actions raised the reputation of the Hestia Familia again. After all, the Hestia Familia personally helping them recover their losses was simply impossible in other places. At the same time, it also made the Hestia Familia's business better, because after Wang Xiaoming exchanged all the losses, he also announced on the spot that he would start holding the second Duel King Tournament.
The duelists, who had been waiting for some time, immediately cheered, because the holding of the Duel King Tournament meant that they had another chance to compete for the highest prize money!
644. New Duel King Tournament
A new round of the Duel King Tournament has begun!
This time, in order to allow more people to participate in the Duel King Tournament, the number of participants in the Duel King Tournament will be increased. Originally, 80 people could participate, but this time it has become everyone in the entire King rank can participate!
That's right, everyone in the entire King rank can participate.
For a time, the entire Orario became lively again, and everyone was working hard to enter the King rank, after all, that represented the qualification to participate, and the qualification to participate meant that they had a chance to win the final prize money, especially since the prize money Wang Xiaoming gave this time was twice the previous time!
Therefore, throughout Orario, there were players matching up and playing cards everywhere, all in order to reach the King rank, and the people who were originally in the King rank also had to continue to rank and play cards, because if they didn't play cards, they wouldn't be able to maintain their score, and then be squeezed down by the people below, and then they wouldn't be qualified to participate in the competition.
Originally, if you were to say that the top 80 people, the people behind would be a little more casual, then it wouldn't be anything, but now everyone in the King rank can participate, even if it's the last place in the King rank, then it's different. The King rank, even the last place, is very valuable!
Therefore, everyone who plays Yu-Gi-Oh!, or wants to participate in the Duel King Tournament, has to participate in playing cards.
Of course, in order to stimulate consumption, Wang Xiaoming released a new batch of card decks, expanding the original monster card deck range, as well as some corresponding magic cards and trap cards, in short, he made a matching card deck.
Moreover, the strength of these matching card decks is not low, which led to everyone buying new card packs in order to have new routines to beat others.
But this was just the beginning. In addition to this, Wang Xiaoming also announced that the champion of this Duel King Tournament will receive a card that is only available once. This card is very special and very powerful!
This made everyone curious about what this very powerful and extremely special card was.
As for what this special card is, of course, it is the three phantom gods that are very important and very well-known in Yu-Gi-Oh!
Osiris's Sky Dragon, Ra's Winged Dragon of the Sun, Obelisk the Tormentor, the three God cards!
This time, Wang Xiaoming only gave out one Obelisk the Tormentor, making Obelisk the final reward for this Duel King Tournament.
Through this method, the Duel King Tournament can be held continuously for three times, and each time there will be corresponding prizes.
In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, Wang Xiaoming specially prepared to hold an opening ceremony in Pleasure Quarter this time, to make this competition look more standardized and more patterned, so that everyone would feel that this competition is awesome!
Then there's the Giant God Soldier card. Wang Xiaoming will release it at the opening ceremony, allowing the contestants to witness the power of a God card firsthand. At that time, the 200 Kings who can participate in the competition will definitely be extremely excited, while the players who can't participate will shout in regret.
What he wants is for them to feel regret. Because after they feel regret this time, the next time Wang Xiaoming holds a competition and announces that a new God card will be given out, they will all scramble to enter the King stage. By then, during the preparation phase before the competition, Wang Xiaoming's cards will sell very, very well!
Selling cards, making money, it's not shameful!
Wang Xiaoming entrusted all these plans to Meili, asking her to be responsible for the operation. After all, Meili is now the general manager of the Hestia Commerce, while Wang Xiaoming is the chairman. The chairman doesn't need to do everything himself.
After arranging this matter, the original Yu-Gi-Oh! card piracy storm was considered quelled by Wang Xiaoming.
While the pirated card issue was being resolved, Wang Xiaoming also began to pay attention to Hestia's situation.
As his main wife, Hestia now has a very high status in Orario. However, with high status comes the dissatisfaction of other gods. After all, Freya can play all sides, and has "good" relationships with all the male gods. Even with her as the boss, some people have opinions. Hestia, this complete nouveau riche, is even more likely to attract hatred.
Especially since Hestia is very high-profile, always saying "Give me some face" wherever she goes. Normal Familia would give Hestia face, but if it's an abnormal Familia, then it's very troublesome.
Therefore, after resolving the pirated cards, Wang Xiaoming immediately returned to the Familia's residence and began deploying Sky Circuits on the roof of the Familia's building.
The Sky Circuits created with time in the High School DxD world can also be used in Orario, because Orario already has a server built by Wang Xiaoming himself, and there's also Meili, a super-strong signal receiver, which allows the Sky Circuits to operate perfectly.
Moreover, Orario, an ancient city with super-high walls, can also reduce the consumption rate of the Sky Circuits, allowing most of them to remain stable in the high sky within the city, and then observe the entire city.
Furthermore, the creations of technology make it impossible for the gods to easily identify them. Even gods with divine power wouldn't notice nano-level things unless they specifically observed them. After all, they don't have this concept. Who would have thought that air could actually monitor people?
The Sky Circuits are like colorless, transparent air, drifting out from the rooftop of the Hestia Familia's residence. In his underground laboratory, Wang Xiaoming, through Meili's network connection to the Sky Circuits, easily monitored the entire Orario.
And it has to be said, this monitoring revealed a lot of things. For example, on Pleasure Street, the battle prostitutes and those male adventurers fighting in the rooms; for example, on West Street, duelists occupying the street to play cards; for example, on North Street, Hestia was chatting with Takemikazuchi while accompanied by Lamia and Lamia.
Hestia, who didn't know that a new round of the Duel King Tournament was about to begin, wasn't in a hurry to participate in card games, but was chatting with Takemikazuchi, who was working on North Street.
In this way, with Lamia and Lamia's guarantees, and his own backstage monitoring, Hestia's safety was sufficiently guaranteed. Of course, Wang Xiaoming would also use this method to monitor other Familia members. After all, the Hestia Familia isn't just Hestia alone. Wang Xiaoming also cares about the other members, especially Chigusa Chayose and Tiona. Although their levels aren't low, they are actually considered weak in the Familia. If they were alone, it would be possible for them to be targeted and captured.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoming also needs to observe them at all times.
After arranging all of this, Wang Xiaoming opened the new dungeon provided by Soma in the laboratory. He wanted to go in and see what kind of world it was!
★ Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors ★
645. A New World of Heavy Snow
New dungeon world, this time, Wang Xiaoming did not bring Meili over, because he had just asked Meili to handle the Duel King Competition, Meili, as the general manager, had to be responsible for all-round processing, so Meili was sitting in the main store of Pleasure Street, so Wang Xiaoming did not call her back, but took his lovely head maid Leticia for a trip.
The blue spatial gate appeared on the wasteland, Wang Xiaoming took Leticia out of the spatial gate.
Leticia, who walked out of the space gate, began to observe the surroundings at the first time, wanting to figure out where she was, which was her duty as the head maid.
"Master, it looks like a snowfield here."
Wang Xiaoming was also observing, he squatted down and reached out to touch the white snow on the ground.
"It's snow, but it contains magic, not ordinary snow."
"That is to say, this is a man-made snowfield?"
"You can understand it this way, we have come to a world with magic."
Wang Xiaoming clapped his hands, scattered the snow on the ground, looked up at the distance, not only the snow all over the ground, but also the heavy snow shrouded in the distance, the visibility was very low, the whole world looked like a white expanse.
"This time's world has something to do with the moon god Soma. Considering that we went to a world without gods last time, there may be no gods this time, only some guys whose abilities are related to the moon."
"Master, why don't we fly up and take a look like last time?"
After observing the surrounding situation, Leticia suggested to Wang Xiaoming that no matter what the new environment is, looking down from the sky will definitely have a better view, and naturally be able to observe more information.
"Okay, let's go up and take a look."
Wang Xiaoming naturally agreed, to go to a high place to see what was going on with this snowfield.
With the previous experience in the Naruto world, Leticia had no intention of spreading her wings and flying into the sky, but walked to Wang Xiaoming's side, and very consciously raised her right hand towards Wang Xiaoming.
Wang Xiaoming was also very happy to squat down and let Leticia's right hand rest on his shoulder, and then directly reached down with his left hand, hugged Leticia's small waist, and hugged Leticia's legs with the other hand, directly holding her horizontally.
After picking up Leticia, Wang Xiaoming's black dragon wings spread out behind him, and with a stomp of his feet, he directly left the ground. As the wings behind him fluttered, the snow on the ground was blown away, and Wang Xiaoming took Leticia into the sky.
However, at the moment Wang Xiaoming left the ground, the snow on the ground suddenly exploded, and a black vine suddenly spread out from the snow, directly rising into the air, trying to grab Wang Xiaoming.
Wang Xiaoming looked at the black vine suspiciously, and then immediately dodged the opponent's entanglement with a flash, and with an acceleration, instantly raised a large height, dodging the opponent's attack.
And this dodge seemed to have stepped on a minefield, the snow on the ground began to explode one after another, and one black vine after another emerged from the ground, frantically entwining towards Wang Xiaoming.
"What's the situation?"
Wang Xiaoming was a little confused, was he just standing on top of a monster nest? So many suddenly popped up?
"It should be that the movement of taking off just now disturbed them. They should have been in a dormant state."
Leticia, who was being held by Wang Xiaoming, was very calmly analyzing. As for worrying that Wang Xiaoming would not be able to cope with this lineup? Impossible, absolutely impossible. Although there are a lot of these vines, for Wang Xiaoming, this is nothing at all. Leticia can feel the energy contained in these vines, but the energy level is not high. For her level of existence, it is just a random kill with one hand, let alone Wang Xiaoming.
Therefore, she was just calmly analyzing why these things suddenly appeared.
"Then let's fly a little higher. They look like terrestrial plants. As long as we fly to a high enough position, they shouldn't be able to reach us."
After saying that, Wang Xiaoming flapped his wings and took Leticia directly into the high sky, but because the heavy snow was too exaggerated, even if Wang Xiaoming flew up, he couldn't see anything below, and what he could see was still a white expanse.
"This level of heavy snow is already a super snowstorm, right? How thick will it be overnight? Did we arrive at the North and South Poles?"
Looking at the white snow around him, Wang Xiaoming couldn't help but complain.
"If that's the case, it's useless even if you fly higher, Master, because the clouds will always block the terrain below."
Leticia also added a comment.
"It seems we have to clear this snow away."
Using fire won't work, it's all snow here. If you use fire, a lot of it will definitely evaporate, and then it will be all water vapor, and you still won't be able to see anything.
"Use wind."
