Chapter 101: Dreams Return to Egypt

The cards were all played, taking only a few minutes. Yet all the elves gathered around the campsite fell utterly silent.

How to put it?

The Hero’s duel was nothing like they had imagined.

In fact, two elves who had returned from the Bone King’s cave were present; when they saw their captain attempting to duel the Hero, one of them had initially intended to warn him.

But another elf held him back.

That elf chuckled and said, “No rush—let’s watch first. It might be quite entertaining.”

The held-back elf thought it over and realized his teammate was right.

So they stayed silent, sitting side by side, cracking sunflower seeds and grinning as they watched their captain get crushed.

As expected, it was hilarious.

The captain, who had just been cut down by his own sword, closed his eyes and carefully replayed the duel in his mind.

Now that he recalled it, he suddenly realized he had done absolutely nothing during the entire duel—his hand of cards had either been discarded before he could play them, or landed face-down and immediately destroyed, or simply stolen outright by his opponent.

Honestly, if not for his respect toward the Hero, he might have just ripped up the dueling field and drawn his sword to kill the bastard right then.

But now, calm after the duel, as he savored the memory again—especially imagining if he could master such a technique, and use this kind of duel to bring joy to those loathsome servants of the evil gods—

The captain suddenly couldn’t help but twitch his lips.

“Heh. Hehehehe.”

He burst out laughing.

The surrounding elves exchanged glances, growing increasingly worried.

Had their captain been driven mad by that duel?

Just then, a warrior burst into the camp in a frenzy.

“Captain! Report!”

The warrior cried out hastily.

“The foreigner you asked me to find—the one in red robes, with a jellyfish hairstyle—I think I found him!”

Meanwhile, Jidai was eating.

Most students, faced with suddenly falling into another world, would have been terrified and paralyzed—but Jidai, with his thick nerves, was not.

After a brief moment of panic, he calmly accepted the situation, wandered around for a while, and even embodied the spirit of a good young man in this world—he saw an old woman hauling a cart piled high with goods, and cheerfully went to help her.

Then, unable to refuse her warm invitation, he ate three full bowls of food, and only now emerged, patting his round belly as he continued strolling.

“No no, it’s not time to eat anymore—burp~” Jidai exhaled. “You Xuan seems to have come too—I need to find him fast. And I must figure out how to get back to the academy before dawn, or I’ll get expelled.”

The Winged Chestnut Ball hovering beside him: “Kuri kuri~”

The Chestnut Ball indicated no—I think our real concern right now isn’t expulsion.

“Huh?” Jidai suddenly clutched the Chestnut Ball, only then realizing, “Wait, how come I can actually touch you now, Winged Chestnut Ball?”

Until just now, while busy eating, Jidai hadn’t realized he was in the elves’ world.

“Kuri!”

The Chestnut Ball suddenly cried out, flapping its wings and leaping from his hands, slamming into him and knocking him sideways.

Jidai landed hard on his rear—and in that instant, a poison needle shot past his face and stuck firmly into the ground.

“What?”

Jidai turned his head in shock and saw a creature like an insect standing atop a nearby slope. It wore armor, carried a sword and shield, draped in a cloak, standing upright like a human—but its head resembled some kind of insect.

An insect knight.

“Huh? Doesn’t this guy look familiar?”

Jidai slapped his forehead in sudden realization.

“Wait a minute—you’re Zhang Ka!”

【Beetle Armor Knight】, 4-star, Attack 1900, Fan Gu.

The Beetle Armor Knight snorted: “So you’re a duelist too? Held back by that useless elf? My scout said the Bone King fell to a foreign warrior. Was it you?”

Jidai’s face went blank: “W-what king?”

The Beetle Armor Knight leapt down, ready to strike again—when suddenly he sensed something, his expression changing instantly.

A dominant sword aura slashed toward him from behind, with no warning!

The sudden ambush gave him no time to react—but the soil beneath his feet shifted, and an insect elf suddenly burst forth, throwing its body between the sword aura and its master, instantly exploding into fragments.

It was one of the Beetle Armor Knight’s own cards, springing out at the moment of ambush to take the blow—but the residual shockwave still sent the knight tumbling backward two full rolls.

He looked up to see the Chaotic Swordsman descending from the air, his blade wreathed in swirling light and darkness, descending with the force of ten thousand thunderclaps.

“The Legendary Warrior!”

The Beetle Armor Knight gasped in alarm—but his reaction was lightning-fast. As he rolled, he had already drawn a card and played it instantly.

“Explosive Armor!”

Trap Card—Explosive Armor: a shield capable of instantly countering and destroying powerful monsters.

The explosive energy shot forth and struck the descending Chaotic Swordsman—but only collided with a faint, shimmering golden barrier, then vanished.

It had no effect!

The Beetle Armor Knight was stunned: “A protective spell too?!”

The aura surrounding the Chaotic Swordsman was 【Guardian’s Power】—an Equip Spell that accumulates Magic Counters during monster attacks, shielding the monster from destruction by battle or effects.

At the same instant, the Beetle Armor Knight felt a sudden chill at the back of his head.

In the corner of his compound eyes, he caught sight of a silver-haired, white-robed mage who had silently intercepted him from behind, his staff brimming with magic, ready to unleash a torrent toward him.

Caught between two attacks—with no escape.

But—

“Counter Trap—Nullify Attack!”

A powerful vortex erupted around him, swallowing the energy blasts from both the Chaotic Swordsman and the Silent Magician. Then came a massive backlash storm, forcing both opponents to retreat under the shockwave.

“Phew… close one.”

The Beetle Armor Knight rose to his feet, coldly sizing up the two elves, then shifted his gaze to the rear.

Toward the direction where the duelist commanding the elves hid.

The Beetle Armor Knight growled: “So more than one foreigner has come here?”

You Xuan stepped out from the direction he was staring: “Ah, turns out we really do have to settle this with a duel.”

The rapid exchanges just now felt like a dream returned to Egypt—like the Pokémon-brawling version of DM’s Memory of the King.

Perhaps that’s why duelist battles must be decided by cards. Unless one side controls a monster as overwhelmingly powerful as the Three Sacred Beasts—capable of tearing through the entire enemy force alone—no one can win under these conditions: no cost limits, no skill restrictions, monsters summoned at will.

“I see. So you’re the one who defeated the Bone King. But whoever you are, anyone who intrudes into the gods’ domain must become a sacrifice to the gods.”

The Beetle Armor Knight flicked his wrist, revealing his dueling field.

“Enough talk—come!”

“Duel!”

Jidai, standing nearby in stunned silence, hadn’t caught up with the pace at all—he still didn’t understand what was happening. But one thing he had just realized: You Xuan was about to play cards with the opponent.

Jidai muttered under his breath: “I really wanted to duel the elves too…”

As the protagonist who has participated in the most duels across the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! series, this might be the first time in Jidai’s life that someone else snatched the cards away from him.

Special thanks to the patron “My Favorite Lingyi” for the Master Support! Master is awesome!

Many readers have asked—this is a good chance to explain the bonus chapters.

The reason we didn’t request tips or set bonus chapter rules upon release isn’t because we don’t want them—it’s because we want to maintain a steady update rhythm. Balancing “at least one duel every other day” and “finishing one duel per day” while also advancing the plot is already challenging enough.

If unexpected bonus chapters pop up, it’s easy for a duel to get interrupted mid-flow—and if the rhythm breaks, many future duels might end up going unfinished for days (laughing-crying).

In fact, we’ve already been adding bonus chapters to maintain this rhythm. For the past few days, we’ve averaged over ten thousand characters daily, sometimes reaching sixteen thousand—nearly at my personal limit. Even if I tried, I couldn’t add more.

So while I’d love tips, please support only as much as you can. Just subscribing and supporting the author already makes me very happy :)

In a couple of days, there will likely be a longer duel that might not finish in one day—it’ll be a boss battle. But tomorrow’s duel will still be completed in one day.

Once again, thank you, Master “My Favorite Lingyi,” for the Master Support! Master is awesome!!!

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(End of Chapter)