Chapter 103

After changing into basic daily necessities and supplies at the rainforest station, Tenjou Hikari and his group walked out of the station.

Unlike the volcanic station, the Twelve-Star Duelists here are more like those in the forest region; they are Spirit Duelists, so to find opponents, one must explore the actual rainforest.

And because of this, the level of danger has become much higher.

Walking through the rainforest, the roars of wild beasts occasionally ring out, accompanied by rustling sounds.

The three of them walked together, and as they moved, Misawa and Serena drew closer and closer to Tenjou Hikari.

Visibility in the rainforest is quite poor, and with the dense woods and overgrown weeds, there are no proper paths; walking inside, one always feels as if eyes are watching from everywhere.

"Awooooo——————"

Accompanied by a massive roar, the forest shook violently, and countless birds flew directly into the sky, no longer visible, while at the same time, Tenjou Hikari looked sharply to his right.

Swish—

The moment he turned his head, a feathered arrow shot out from the depths of the forest; at Misawa's exclamation, Tierra glanced at the arrow, and it was instantly ignited by blue flames, turning into powder in a flash and disappearing from the world.

This scene clearly exceeded the expectations of the person in the forest, but it did not stop its actions; accompanied by a shrill roar, a giant tiger stepped out from the rainforest and lunged at Tenjou Hikari and his group, while behind it, a team of scantily clad female warriors held bows and arrows, aiming at them.

Tenjou Hikari and the others scattered under the tiger's attack and were not injured, but at the same time, hidden arrows and traps in the shadows sprang up automatically, looking as if they were about to wipe out everyone here in one fell swoop.

Just at this moment!

Swish swish swish—

Countless purple puppet strings suddenly flew out from all parts of the forest!

Traps, hidden arrows, the tiger, the warriors—every existence was caught by the strings in an instant; almost immediately, the entire rainforest froze in place as if time had stopped, unable to advance even an inch!

Subsequently, Tierra snapped her fingers lightly and crisply.

"Snap."

Blue flames rose.

A giant demon with a right hand like a dragon's head appeared beside her, waving its weapon and howling.

It did not stop its actions; after the howling ended, seeing it was about to swing its weapon at the tiger beside it, it seemed to want to kill it in one blow, to chop the tiger's head off directly!

"Stop!"

Another voice rang out.

An orange-haired, muscular female warrior jumped out from deeper in the forest and swung her spear to clash with the demon's weapon; with a loud bang, the demon and she both retreated a few steps.

What terrifying power!

The warrior landed on the ground, stabbing her spear into the earth to eliminate the recoil as much as possible, then looked at the opposite side; that silver-gray demon had only flown back a short distance in the air.

"You have passed the preliminary trial, hurry up and let my warriors down!" she shouted.

"Foolish mortal." Tierra's eyes flashed with scarlet light. "You attacked proactively, never apologized, and you dare to make demands of me?

Do you not want to live?"

Ugh!!!

The orange-haired warrior was frightened by Tierra's aura and instinctively took a few steps back.

"Unknown powerful spirit, it was my warriors who made a mistake, but we never intended to harm the lives of those who came; the weapons were all tipped with cotton—" she quickly conceded and lowered her head.

"Hmph." Tierra glanced at the ground, knowing this fellow wasn't lying, waved her right hand to disperse the demon, threw the tiger into the forest, then released the puppet strings and flew to Tenjou Hikari's side, too lazy to say anything else.

"Hiss..." Misawa Daichi rubbed his wrists gently.

To protect Misawa and Serena, Tierra had tied them up as well, but she certainly wasn't as careful or delicate with them, just tying them up roughly to ensure they wouldn't get hurt was enough.

But Misawa didn't care about such details.

He was just marveling—how is this Midrash so, so strong?

Can an ordinary spirit do something like instantly killing a dozen spirits?

Isn't this too exaggerated?

The more he looked, the more he felt that this Midrash was not a normal spirit at all.

After all the spirits were untied, Tenjou Hikari and the others could communicate with them normally.

Misawa recognized them at a glance as "Amazoness" monster spirits, and after introducing themselves, they also stated their identities.

The Amazoness spirits, their collective assessment counts as one of the "Twelve-Star Duelists," a four-star duelist. And the orange-haired warrior leading them outside is the Amazoness Chieftain... the Amazoness Warrior Chief.

However, to pass their test, simply coming over to challenge won't work.

The Amazoness will test the challenger's two basic abilities.

The first is courage; the second is wisdom.

Courage refers to the duelist's combat ability, including hand-to-hand fighting and shooting; wisdom naturally refers to the duelist's dueling ability, including calculation and knowledge. These two abilities also correspond to the two branches of the Amazoness deck in this world: the "Courage Amazoness" that pursues power and the "Wisdom Amazoness" that emphasizes synergy.

They designed traps here mainly to look at the duelist's basic abilities; if one can't even handle this kind of situation, they should hurry to other areas and not come here to join in the fun.

And as long as one can pass these two, even if they lose the duel, the student can still get their recognition; it is a zone with relatively lower requirements but still a certain level of difficulty.

"It's my first time hearing that dueling requires these abilities too." Misawa Daichi couldn't help but complain.

"Is that so? Brother Misawa, when I was studying in the lab, they didn't just teach me fighting, they also taught me shooting, swordsmanship, and horsemanship." Serena felt it seemed quite normal.

Regardless, the three of them definitely passed the preliminary test, and besides, they wouldn't dare say otherwise.

As compensation for the fright, the Amazoness would also give them some gifts—though it's said they were all prepared by the Kaiba Corporation.

Walking into the Amazoness camp, one could see many students working hard at challenge items like archery and fighting.

The Duel Academy main school does teach these—of course, they didn't in the original work, but this world does have these items.

Tenjou Hikari knew this during his first exam; he estimated it was to let students cope with spirits, or perhaps because this world merged with "Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V," so there is a basic awareness of "Action Dueling."

However, in most cases, the school only "teaches" the students and doesn't require them to be proficient in everything. Just like when Professor Thelonius Viper taught alchemy, he only "taught" it, he didn't ensure they "learned" it.

They didn't expect all students to be proficient in everything.

"Swish—" After Tenjou Hikari and the others walked into the camp, a silver-white figure drew a bow and shot an arrow casually, hitting the bullseye with a clang, then couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, "Sister Gloria, I'm a bit bored."

"Grace, since it's a challenge requirement, we just need to do it well." The blonde Gloria replied, drawing her bow and shooting an arrow at the target, hitting the center precisely.

The two are standard combat types; even Grace, who looks more elegant and wears a dress, doesn't hold back when she takes action, so facing this kind of test, they naturally handled it easily.

Just after the two finished shooting their arrows, they heard that new challengers had arrived, so they turned their heads to look.

"Ah." Grace saw Tenjou Hikari, immediately lost focus, and missed, hitting slightly off-center.

Gloria was more straightforward, putting away the bow in her hand and laughing out loud: "Tenjou Hikari! Haha, you came just in time, we two were bored to death!"

This pair of warlike sisters came to the rainforest zone and encountered the Amazoness spirits; they had expected an intense battle, but didn't expect this kind of test, so they were already very bored. Now that they found Tenjou Hikari, their mood suddenly became wonderful.

There's nothing worth fighting these spirits for; Tenjou Hikari is much more exciting—

But!

Compared to them, there was an even more surprised voice.

"Ta, Tania!!" Misawa Daichi screamed.

In the very center of the camp, there was a muscular woman with a high, long ponytail and two claw marks on her right eye.

That was the person... the spirit, whom Misawa Daichi had dreamed of day and night!

The Amazoness Tiger, Tania!