Chapter 307

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

Unlike the volcanic station, the Twelve-Star Duelists here should be more like those in the forest region—they are Spirit Duelists, so if one wants to find opponents, one must explore the real rainforest.

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

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

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

The visibility in the rainforest was quite poor, and with the dense woods and overgrown weeds, there were no proper paths; walking inside, one always felt that there were eyes watching them from everywhere.

"Awooooo——————"

Accompanied by a huge roar, the forest shook violently, and countless birds flew directly into the sky because of this roar, no longer visible; at the same time, Hikari Tenjou looked sharply toward his right.

Whoosh—

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

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

Hikari Tenjou and the other two scattered under the tiger's attack and were not injured, but at the same time, hidden arrows and traps in the shadows automatically sprang up, looking as if they were about to round up everyone here.

Just at this moment!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

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

Traps, cold arrows, tigers, warriors—all existences were caught by the strings in an instant; almost instantly, the entire rainforest froze in place as if time had stopped, unable to advance even a fraction of an inch!

Then, Tiera snapped her fingers crisply.

"Snap."

Blue flames rose up.

A huge 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 that it was about to swing its weapon at the tiger beside it, it seemed to want to kill it in one blow, cutting the tiger's head straight off!

"Stop!"

Another voice rang out.

An orange-haired, muscular female warrior jumped out from deeper in the forest, waving a spear to clash with the demon's weapon; with a 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 opponent—that silver-gray demon had only flown a short distance in the air.

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

"Foolish mortal thing." Tiera's eyes flashed with scarlet light. "Attacking proactively, never apologizing, and you dare to make demands of me?

Do you not want to live?"

Ugh!!!

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

"Unknown powerful spirit, it is my warrior who made a mistake, but we never intended to harm the lives of those who came; the weapons were all covered with cotton—" she hurriedly admitted defeat and lowered her head.

"Hmph." Tiera glanced at the ground, knowing this fellow was not lying; she waved her right hand, dispersed the demon, threw the tiger into the forest, then released the puppet strings and flew to Hikari Tenjou's side, too lazy to say anything else.

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

To protect Misawa and Serena, Tiera had tied them up along the way, but she certainly wasn't as careful and meticulous with these two; she just tied them up hastily to protect them from injury and that was that.

But Misawa didn't care about such details.

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

Can ordinary spirits do something like this, instantly killing over 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, Hikari Tenjou and the other two could communicate with them normally.

Misawa recognized at a glance that they were "Amazoness" monster spirits, and after introducing themselves, they also revealed 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, if one wants to pass their test, just coming over to challenge them 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 fighting and shooting; wisdom naturally refers to the duelist's dueling ability, including calculation and knowledge. And these two abilities also correspond to the two branches of the Amazoness deck in this world, namely the "Courageous Amazoness" that pursues power and the "Wise Amazoness" that emphasizes coordination.

They designed traps here mainly to look at the duelist's basic abilities; if one can't even handle this kind of scene, one 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 one loses the duel, the student can still get their recognition; it is a zone with relatively lower requirements, but it also has certain difficulties.

"This is the first time I've heard that dueling requires these abilities." Daichi Misawa couldn't help but complain.

"Is that so? Brother Misawa, when I was studying in the laboratory, 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 being frightened, the Amazoness would also give them some gifts—although it is said that they were all prepared by the Kaiba Corporation.

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

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

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

However, in most cases, the school only "teaches" students and won't require students to be proficient in everything. Just like when Professor Dadesi taught alchemy, it was just "teaching," not "making them proficient."

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

"Whoosh—" After Hikari Tenjou and the other two walked into the camp, a silver-white figure drew her 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 little bored."

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

The two are standard combat types; even Grace, who looks more elegant and wears a skirt, won't be vague when she takes action. Facing this kind of test, she naturally handles it easily.

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

"Ah." Grace saw Hikari Tenjou and directly lost focus; with a slip, she didn't hit the bullseye, missing slightly.

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

This pair of warlike sisters came to the rainforest zone and encountered Amazoness spirits; they thought there would be fierce battles, but didn't expect it to be this kind of test, so they were already very bored. Now that they found Hikari Tenjou, their mood suddenly became beautiful.

There's nothing good to fight with these spirits; Hikari Tenjou is still the most exciting—

But!

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

"Ta, Tania!!" Daichi Misawa screamed.

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

That is the person... spirit!... that Daichi Misawa dreams of and thinks about day and night!

The Amazoness Tiger, Tania!

(End of chapter)