Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Roar of the Weak

Chapter 412 Story

Di Xing also hurriedly said

"Yes, Miss Qi, you'd better hurry up and start the lesson!"

“Okay, after all, I’m a teacher now. I’ll get to know you better after class,” Qi Shuo said, licking her rosy lips with her small tongue.

Di Xing was practically being killed by the stares of his classmates.

Qi Shuo happily walked to the podium and swiftly opened a traditional Chinese ink painting-style folding fan.

"The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors embodied morality; the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties achieved fame. The Seven Warring States and Five Hegemons fought in the Spring and Autumn period. The Qin and Han dynasties rose and fell in quick succession. A few lines of names are recorded in history; countless desolate mounds lie in the Northern Mang Mountains. The fields of our ancestors are reaped by our descendants..."

Then, Qi Shuo pulled out a gavel from somewhere and slammed it down.

"What's with this talk of dragons fighting tigers!"

Oh, this is Yang Shen's "Xijiangyue"? Qi Shuo, are you trying to combine Chinese and Western styles?

"Bravo!" The students below cheered.

Wait a minute, do you people from Endetra even know what the Spring and Autumn Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties are?

Qi Shuo happily began her lesson.

"Hello everyone, my name is Qi Shuo, and I am a novelist with some fame."

Mao Bohe excitedly raised her hand, "Teacher, I'm your fan!"

Many students in the classroom raised their hands in agreement, it seems Qi Shuo's novel is very popular!

Qi Shuo smiled and nodded at everyone. "Thank you, everyone. But here, my role is that of a teacher. Let's start the lesson!"

Qi Shuo gracefully opened her left hand, and countless beautiful bubbles of ethereal energy rose from her palm.

"I've always felt that history is made up of individual stories, so I'll focus on telling interesting stories."

Qi Shuo's voice was extremely gentle, possessing a captivating magic.

"However, on the other hand, this is also an unavoidable situation. As we all know, our world was almost destroyed in the Great End, and now humanity can only barely survive in fortresses. As a result, many documents have been lost."

"Even the Great End can only be vaguely inferred to have occurred more than 600 years ago, and events before the Great End are only left as scattered legends, the veracity of which is completely unverifiable."

"Today we'll begin with the earliest story, the most widely accepted legend, the origin story of the Card Spirits."

"Legend has it that in the distant past, south of the giant lake on land lay an endless, deadly desert. And in this vast sea of ​​sand, there was a dreamlike oasis, where the ruler was called Pai'a, meaning the Lord of the Great House. In other stories, he was called Farou."

"The inhabitants there depended on their mother river for survival, and worshipped it as a deity. One day, their deity brought them a pure, spirit-binding stone tablet."

"Their pharaoh and his most powerful priests crafted this stone tablet together, and used it to seal away for the first time a colossal beast from the north of the Great Lake of the Continent, the first Card Spirit—the Blue-Eyes White Dragon."

"Afterwards, they found countless grains of sand made from the fragments of the Spirit-Binding Stones in the desert. Paia and his priests pressed the sand collected by the people into stone slabs for the most ancient elven duel."

"Over the long years, Pai'a and his priests mastered the power to free the card spirits from the binding stones, thus becoming the first generation of card masters."

"Paia also used the power of the magic card [Three-Star Pyramid] to build countless enormous pyramids in the desert, hoping to achieve immortality, and his kingdom reached the pinnacle of prosperity."

"However, according to many complicated legends, this prosperous kingdom declined rapidly after the death of its last nameless king, and the technique of summoning card spirits was lost."

Holy crap, Di Xing felt a chill run down his spine. Was this really not the story of the nameless Egyptian pharaoh? Was this world a parallel world with only minor differences from his own?

However, apart from Di Xing, all the other students listened attentively, while Qi Shuo continued her elegant lecture.

"The world then moved forward rapidly, and after entering the information age, it reappeared because of a card game by a certain infatuated archaeologist."

"Thus, the power of the spirits returned to the world, but this time only a few could use the power of the card spirits in duels."

"Through continuous evolution and development, perhaps due to their long-term immersion in the power of the spirits, many people suddenly awakened the power of the graphics card master."

"From then on, a large number of card spirits were materialized and put into the construction and development of human society."

"These card sprites come from various worlds, some of which have technology far surpassing that of humans at the time. In this way, humans made great strides."

Humans and elves lived in harmony until the incident known as the "Great Betrayal" occurred.

"A great betrayal?" Many students looked bewildered, as if they were hearing this term for the first time.

Di Xing had heard this word before in the memory cards of the City of Goldilocks, and he was very curious about it at the time.

"You guys probably haven't heard of this, which is normal, because it's a controversial legend."

"The prevailing view now is that the divine punishment came because humans abused the power of spirits and even opened a passage to the spirit world to capture card spirits."

"However, another view is that a massive conflict had already occurred between elves and humans before the Great End, and a large number of card elves betrayed humans for unknown reasons, turning their swords against their former human companions."

"This event is known as the Great Betrayal, which ignited a long-standing war between humans and spirits, and from then on, humans lost trust in the card spirits."

"After a fierce battle, humanity achieved a pyrrhic victory, and then, enraged, humans embarked on a punitive expedition to their world through a portal opened by the fleeing card sprites."

"In short, human society suffered a major blow after the Great Betrayal, and the relationship between humanity and the Card Spirits became irreconcilable."

"This quickly sparked the final war between humans and elves—the War of the End."

"Interestingly, in some legends, the End War was started by a human. In this legend, the 20 God-Demoted Spirits did not come to Earth through the portal to the Spirit World that humans had broken through, but were summoned by a human."

"That human, using some unknown method, enhanced a magic card to the world level, and that card was—[Countdown to the End]."

In an instant, the magic card that could disregard the rules and grant instant victory flashed into Di Xing's mind: 20 enormous, burning suns floated in the purple sky, within which a gigantic face, capable of devouring the world, grinned savagely.

Thinking of this, Di Xing blurted out...

"I see. The reason there are 20 God-level downgraded Pokémon is because the effect of [Countdown to the End] grants immediate victory in the duel after 20 turns of activation?"