My anime-style card deck is fine!

The golden king crab had no time to think about the tragic fate of the jellyfish.

Upon entering the arena, she felt a sharp pain all over her body, and then her originally golden and magnificent appearance was instantly covered with an ominous purple hue.

All the strength in my body involuntarily went limp.

Damn it, the card master on the other side has no sportsmanship!

The Golden King Crab was startled, and then saw the shrimp and crabs that had been summoned in the previous round burst out with shrimp roe and crab fat, and then they died on the spot!

"..."

"Is it too late for me to turn back now?" the golden king crab wondered to itself.

"Oh, it seems this is the last one." Amon stood on the floating platform, watching the ten-meter-tall giant king crab that wasn't spitting out, but rather walking out from behind the waterfall.

My eyes lit up slightly—this thing looks delicious!

"You look delicious, but you also look poisonous," Amon said bluntly. "You're just a little weak."

Who did this?

The golden king crab was speechless, but its actions did not falter.

Its enormous body occupied almost half of the pool, so when it raised its giant pincers, it could directly attack Amon and the others by swinging its pincers!

The new shrimp soldiers and crab generals that arrived along with the king crab cheered and began to rush towards Amon.

The little green dragon and the black tiger shrimp were also waving flags and shouting, constantly trying to summon their fallen companions.

However, compared to the latest batch of shrimp and crabs, the previous batch of little green dragons and red demon shrimp that were summoned looked pale and helpless, and remained motionless and silent after being summoned.

While the other newly emerged shrimp and crabs were still confused...

These shrimp and crabs suddenly died.

"..." The newly arrived shrimp and crabs immediately understood, and then, as if nothing had happened, they waved their pincers and charged forward with their leader.

It has to be said, the golden king crab is really strong!

Although it's only a four-star minion with standard 4,000 attack and defense stats, this guy has the ability to make all other [Argentine Seafood] minions on the field activate their effects an extra time just because he's on the field!

what does this mean?

The Red Shrimp can increase its attack by 1000 points in one round; the Little Green Dragon can revive ten Red Shrimp in one round; and the Black Tiger Shrimp can revive six Little Green Dragons!

With this method, one black tiger prawn can pull up sixty red prawns!

It's four times higher than before!

Moreover, the ability to activate the effect continuously means that General Bread Crab's attack will double, reaching as high as 10,000 points, directly touching the golden line!

If there weren't so few small, insignificant minions in the graveyard, this number could be even higher!

The key point is that there are now a total of nine of these crabs!

but……

None of this matters anymore.

"Supervillain, [Wide Area Defense]." Amon stood inside Supervillain's protective shell, while Supervillain's tiny body stood on Amon's head, striking the exact same hands-on-hips pose as Amon.

And a protective shield, somewhat similar to that of Supervillain, with spiked protrusions, rose up.

Block all effects and attacks!

It seems slow, but in reality, this thing is incredibly fast. It's just that once it gets to a certain point, it appears much slower. And it was only then that Amon's announcement of its effects came belatedly.

At this moment, Amon's effect declaration finally arrived: "...can only be used once every three turns to block all card effects and attacks."

“It’s no use, King Crab.” Amon looked up at the Golden King Crab and said, “You can’t break through this defense.”

The king crab silently swung its claw down.

But the protective shield remained unmoved, and the king crab immediately understood. However, his mission prevented him from stopping, and the surrounding shrimp soldiers and crab generals launched attacks one after another.

But, just as Amon had said, it had no effect.

Knowing that the next round was coming, the protective shield shattered with a crash, and along with it fell the king crab and all sorts of shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

They died on the spot, one by one.

Only one red shrimp, squeezed to the very front, struggled to raise its shrimp gun and slowly stabbed the Swamp King in the belly.

"……shrimp!"

As always, it had no effect.

But the red shrimp revealed a satisfied yet forlorn smile before vanishing with a roar, and Amon thus achieved victory.

"【Candidate Amon has passed.】"

The familiar deep voice echoed in the air, and the surrounding water curtain transformed back into a dragon shape, carrying a large amount of pool water, and once again coiled on the castle.

As the pool was drained, the pillars hidden beneath it appeared, forming a path leading to the castle in front of Amon.

However, Amon hasn't paid attention to this yet.

"That one just now, could it have been number 1?" Amon looked at the spot where the last red shrimp had disappeared.

"Swamp?"

Swamp King patted his belly, thought for a moment, and then nodded: "Swamp!"

The technique and force were consistent; it was definitely the same animal.

"He's really persistent," Amon sighed, slowly exhaling, not because it was too difficult, but because it was too boring.

Although the seafood was somewhat interesting, that's about it.

It summoned the two-tailed monster hand, a treasure-hunting expert.

"Squeak!" As soon as Double-tailed Hand appeared, it greeted each Pokémon enthusiastically, then gave Amon a hug before happily running off to search for cards in the dried-up pool.

This time there are quite a lot of them, more than three hundred.

Among them are silver-grade golden king crabs and jellyfish prime ministers, which is a huge project.

"Lap~"

Laplace nuzzled Amon's cheek, then slid toward the Twin-Tailed Hand.

Although she also wanted to be with Amon, the gentle Laplace decided to help first—with such a big pool, it would be very troublesome for Double-Tailed Hand to collect cards, right?

"Since that's the case, there's no rush to clear the level anyway, let's do it together."

After thinking about it, Amon also went to help.

As for other Pokémon, that's fine too. For Pokémon, being with their trainer is enough to make them happy.

With the battle over, the Pokémon in Amon's possession all reached level 40+.

The loot was cleared out quite quickly.

It's worth mentioning that even in this almost empty space, where everything is practically invisible to the naked eye, this two-tailed monster still managed to collect more than twenty discarded cards for Amon.

Amon watched her search, and as a result, she was able to find it from every inconspicuous corner.

This really opened Amon's eyes!

—The pickup feature is truly amazing!

Retracting its two-tailed claw, Amon led the Pokémon across the pool and into the castle.

The castle's interior was not luxurious, as it was only a temporary venue. There was basically no furniture, only a huge gold-rimmed treasure chest placed inside.

The thing opened by itself after Amon and the Pokémon entered the castle.

Seven blank cards lay quietly inside the treasure chest, awaiting the victor's claim.

"What a bumper harvest!"

Amon bent down and picked up the blank cards one by one. Then he took out the two he had kept before. The nine blank cards were stacked into a thick stack. The feeling of the stack made Amon, a hoarder, feel very satisfied.

Other Pokémon weren't very interested in blank cards, but were still happy to have time to spend with Amon.

Only Doraki, the black mudskipper that had evolved and grown larger, emerged from the shadow beneath Amon's feet, curiously observing the stack of blank cards alongside Amon:

"Dorium (Dorium?)?"

Their four eyes were filled with undisguised affection.

"Are you curious too, Dragapult?" Amon looked at the newly evolved Pokémon beside him and thought to himself.

It's not easy.

Since acquiring Dragapult, Amon has never replaced it, making it the third Pokémon to become popular in Silver, following Incineroar and Mamoswine.

Even so, this Dragon Mesia still failed to evolve.

It was only then that Amon realized what was happening.

"Pseudo-legendary Pokémon" is just a nickname among players; their real name is "Late-blooming Pokémon"!

As the name suggests, raising this type of Pokémon requires a lot of time!

But since things had already come to this point, Amon didn't intend to give up on training it. He simply kept it with him until just now, when the Golden King Crab fell to the ground and the duel ended, this Dragapult officially evolved into Dragapult.

—Level 50!

"Doraki!" Doronki and the Doron Mesia (a derivative) on his head nodded at the same time, rubbing against Amon and making sounds of eager flattery.

I'm so cute, give me the money!

"I'll buy it for you after the exam, once we're out. These won't do." Amon remained unmoved, putting the cards away and ignoring Dorgonki's pitiful eyes.

A batch of blank cards were replenished, but after thinking about it, Amon decided not to use them for the time being.

There's no need to use it!

Other discarded and unfinished cards are enough for Amon to perfect his Pokémon deck. At this point, basic bronze-level cards can no longer help Amon's deck improve further.

But Silver-tier cards aren't so easy to make!

"Let's go then." After checking his deck, Amon was about to push open the door and head to the next level, but he stopped as soon as he touched the doorway.