Killing monsters with a 100% explosion rate, are you luckier than me?

His attribute points skyrocketed to 40, and he also obtained a life-saving divine leaf.

The sixth test was finally passed without incident.

“Monster…” Potts muttered to himself, then slowly sank into the ground along with the stone platform and flowerpot.

That leaves six tests.

Ye Chuyun put away the Origin Leaf and continued her journey.

The end of the Evolution Corridor is getting closer and closer.

.....

The seventh test begins.

A platform reappeared in the center of the corridor.

This platform is more regular than the previous stone platform, with a smooth, mirror-like surface, and is engraved with a huge magic circle pattern.

There is a blank area on each side of the magic circle.

A statue already stood on the opposite side of the platform.

The statue, wearing a tall pointed hat, a magnificent robe, and holding a staff inlaid with a large crystal, looks like a magician.

Its face was old, and its beard hung down to its chest, but its eyes were like the purest sapphires.

"The threads of fate intertwine once more..." The voice of the mage statue was distant and ethereal.

"Welcome, challenger. I am 'Master the Duelist'."

"You have demonstrated your accumulated knowledge, wisdom, insight, and courage. Now let's play a game that truly belongs to the wise and those favored by fate."

"Evolution Duel!" (The author is a big fan of Yu-Gi-Oh!, so he played a round this time.)

With a light tap of his Master Staff, a row of clear rules immediately appeared before Ye Chuyun:

【Evolutionary Duel Rules】

Both sides' initial health is equal to their free attribute points / 1000.

Challenger Ye Chuyun's current health: 400.

Duelist Master's HP: 400.

The duels are conducted using a card-based battle format.

Challengers start with no deck and must draw cards by consuming life points, which are attribute points.

Each card draw consumes 1 point of health, which is equivalent to 1000 attribute points.

Cards come in several types:

Monster Card: A battle unit that can be summoned to the field.

Summoning usually requires paying an additional "cost," namely, consuming health points.

Monsters possess "attack power" and "defense power," as well as possible special effects.

Strategy cards: Cards with various immediate or continuous effects, such as strengthening your own side, weakening the enemy, or destroying cards.

Using strategy cards may also require paying a price in health points.

Environment Cards: Special cards that alter the rules of the duel arena, affecting the entire game.

Turn Flow: Draw Phase → Main Phase (Summon Monsters, Use Strategy/Environment Cards) → Battle Phase → End.

Battle Rules: The monster in the attack position can attack the monster in the opponent's attack position or directly attack the opponent.

When attacking a monster, if your attack power is greater than the monster's attack power, you will destroy the monster and deal damage equal to the difference in attack power.

If you attack a monster marked with a defense rating, whether or not you destroy the monster depends on the difference between your attack power and defense power. If your attack power is greater than your defense power, you will destroy the monster, but it usually does not deal any damage to your life points, except for monsters with special effects.

Directly attacking the opponent will deal damage equal to the monster's attack power.

Core reward mechanism: Whenever you deal LP damage to Master, you will immediately receive double the attribute points as a return.

For example, if you deal 10 points of damage, you will get back 20 points of health, which is 20000 attribute points.

Victory condition: Reduce the opponent's health to 0.

Ye Chuyun immediately understood the rule.

This is a card game where you wager your own attribute points.

Drawing cards requires attribute points, summoning requires attribute points, and using effects requires attribute points.

But as long as it can cause damage, it can earn back double the money, making both the risk and the reward frighteningly high.

"Your deck is hidden within your insights from the path of evolution and your accumulated knowledge." Master's Staff was waved again, and Ye Chuyun felt a strange connection between himself and those 400,000 attribute points.

"Now, the duel begins, and you go first."

Ye Chuyun nodded.

The first move offers a huge advantage, but the first mover usually cannot attack in the first round.

He needs to establish the scene first.

"Draw a card!" With a thought, Ye Chuyun lost 1 point of health and 1000 attribute points.

Five card phantoms facing down appeared in front of me.

Ye Chuyun concentrated and opened them.

Information from the five cards flooded his mind:

【Attribute Infantry (Monster Card)】: Summoning costs 1 HP.

Attack power 500 / Defense power 500.

Effect: None.

【Cautious Defense (Strategy Card)】: Costs 0 HP.

Effect: During this turn, one of your monsters gains 500 defense.

【Energy Drain (Strategy Card)】Cost 0 Health Points to Use.

Effect: Draw one card.

【Evolution Sprout (Monster Card)】Summoning cost: 2 Life Points.

Attack power 1000 / Defense power 1000.

Effect: When this card is destroyed, you can Special Summon one "Attribute Infantry" from your Deck.

【Corridor Illusion (Environment Card)】: Costs 1 HP to use.

Effect: Once per turn, it can nullify the attack of one of the opponent's monsters.

The hand is mediocre, lacking high-attack monsters.

Fortunately, he had both strategy cards and environment cards, and their effects were very helpful to him.

Ye Chuyun pondered for a moment.

"Pay 1 health point to summon [Attribute Infantry]".

A flash of light appeared, and in the empty area where Ye Chuyun was located, a soldier's phantom holding a shield and a short sword appeared.

[Attribute Infantry]: Attack 500 / Defense 500.

"Then I'll pay another 1 point of health to activate the environment card [Corridor Illusion]." Ye Chuyun tapped again.

A card phantom unfolds in the center of the field, forming a blurry area of ​​light and shadow.

"Cover a card and the turn ends."

Ye Chuyun cast the "Cautious Defense" spell next to the "Attribute Infantry" and quickly ended the turn.

At this point, he had 397 health points remaining.

One Attack Position [Attribute Infantry] on the field, one face-down Strategy Card, and one active Environment Card.

“Hehe, it seems you’re quite familiar with the challenger.” Master elegantly drew a card.

"Pay 2 health points to summon [Intelligent Owl]!"

A sharp-eyed owl appeared on Master's field.

【Smart Owl】: Attack 1200 / Defense 1000.

Then Master waved his hand again.

"When the effect of [Wisdom Owl] is activated, I can view one of your face-down cards when this card is successfully summoned."

A glint flashed in the owl's eyes, revealing the [Cautious Defense] shield that Ye Chuyun had applied.

Master smiled slightly:

"Oh? A conservative defense, then let's enter the battle phase!"

"[Intelligent Owl], attack [Attribute Infantry]!"

The owl let out a sharp screech and swooped down on Ye Chuyun's soldiers.