"This way," Duke pointed towards the direction of the elevator. "This elevator will take us to the duel arena."
" Duel arena?" questioned Jacob, looking a bit puzzled. "I thought we were going to try out Dungeon Dice Monsters?" Lucas was not focused on the conversation between Jacob and Duke. He was focused more on a poster that was placed on the elevator's door, just across of a duel monster poster that was placed behind the trio. The poster was an advertisement for Crimson Toys Enterprise, a toy company whose owner was not much older than Lucas. On the cover of the ad, there was a girl with raven, black hair and crimson, red eyes. These features were strikingly similar to not only the girl's older brother, the owner of the company, but to Lucas as well. This was the reason why Lucas was so bothered with the nickname Jacob gives him, Red. He fears that he will have some sort of assumption of being apart of the company. The surnames of the siblings of CTE is Red. Lucas couldn't stop looking at this poster. Lucas felt as though he is going crazy. He thought the girl on the poster began to shine brightly. Not the girl herself, but rather, the outline of the girl began to give off some sort of aura.
"Lucas. Hey Lucas!"
Lucas blinked quickly, shook his head, and looked back at Jacob and Duke. The two were looking at Lucas with concern.
"Are you alright, Red?" asked Jacob "We were calling you for 5 minutes."
Lucas was giving off a puzzled look. True he was staring at the poster for a while, but Lucas didn't feel as though it was for 5 minutes. If anything, he felt it was 2 minutes at least.
"I'm fine," said Lucas, "Just feeling a bit spacious." Jacob was doubtful. He worried for Lucas, especially after what happened just moments before. The elevator came to a stop, and when it did, Lucas reassured Jacob, "I'm fine Den, really I am."
"Alright then," responded Jacob doubtfully. The elevator doors opened and the three stepped out of the elevator. Lucas let Duke and Jacob walk out first. At this moment, Lucas began seeing a similar aura coming off of both Jacob and Duke, Lucas shook his head quickly, and the aura was gone. He walked out of the elevator, and tried to be as normal as he could.
The room they had entered had a huge duel arena in the center. Both Jacob's and Lucas' eyes widened at the impressive field. "This is incredible," said Lucas.
"I know right," responded Jacob. The two were struck in awe at the "beautiful" site of this impressive duel arena. It had all your basic duel monsters "needs". The arena had two podiums, one red, and one blue, on each side. The center field was designed like a duel monsters play mat for two players. So much money gone into this silly game. But this was a DUEL MONSTERS arena. The thought of this confused the two duelists. This was when Duke stepped up in front of the two, in the dead center of the duel arena.
"Alright," said Duke, "Let's get down to business." Duke held his hand over his head and with a snap of his fingers, the duel arena began to change. On each end we could see the duel podiums positioning themselves in an odd manner. First, the red and blue podiums elevated just a bit outward away from their original positions. They were then lowered slowly, but swiftly. As the podiums lowered, a chamber that was of the same size opened underneath the support stadium of the podium. Once the podium was at base level, the podium slowly moved towards the chamber. At this moment, the stadium had opened up from above. From this new chamber, a rectangular podium arose, which also consisted of the same colors as the previous podiums. These podiums had 3 heart-shaped figures that were lined straight down the front center. now the duel monsters arena that was displayed began to lower. As the arena lowered, two halves of a new arena com from the left and right side of the arena. Once connected, the new arena resemble somewhat of a checkerboard, but there weren't any black or red squares. The squares were an orange beige color. The arena's transformation left the two duelists in an even greater awe. I'm surprised at how much money was put into a dice game. it is quite impressive. But it's only a game and should not be spoiled with such technology. Still, at least it doesn't have to do with duel monsters.
"Now you two," said Duke, "Get to your areas. Because it's time. Time to Dimension the Dice!"
... What?
"Right," said the two, as they made their way to their appropriate podiums. Lucas took the Red podium for obvious reasons, and Jacob took the blue podium. Lucas stood at his podium with determination. He was also a bit confused, but thought of the lay out as straight forward. In the dead center of the podium table, there seemed to be a grid that represented the battle arena."The center grid is the arena that is shown in the arena," explained Duke, "Just to the right of the grid is your crest pool." To the right of the grid there was a column of symbols going downward. This column was separated into 2 rows going down and 5 rows going sideways. In each row on the left column, there were different symbols, as for the right, each row filled with zeroes.
"I will explain what that is for once we begin." Directly underneath the crest pool was a metal hatch. This hatch seems to be a place to hold your dice. "That metal hatch underneath the crest pool is the dice hatch," I knew it, "That's where your dice will appear in order for you to roll on your turn."
"Well this seems simple enough," said Lucas. Although the areas of the board seemed simple enough, a compartment opened up underneath the center grid and inside it, there were dice laid out. These dice were organized in a nice 3 by 14 format. There were red, blue, green, black, and white dice. When the dice were fully revealed, a miniature computer rotated up and around from the side of the podium. This computer was placed at the height of Lucas' right elbow.
"That mini-computer is your help screen," Duke continued, "You can use it as much as you want throughout the game in order to look up info on your creatures as well as your crests. The compartment that just opened up is your dice pool. Those dice are your tools in order to play the game. Keep in mind that each die has different symbols. I can't say which one's to use, I'll leave that to you guys in order to make this game interesting. From the dice pool, you pick 15 dice."
Lucas was confused he didn't know which dice to pick. A majority of the dice he picked were red and black, the remaining dice he picked were white and green.
"Once you've picked your dice, a compartment on your left will open. Place all your dice in that space." Both Lucas and Jacob put their dice in the compartment. Once the dice went through, the podium began to make a sound. "Your dice are going through the Dice Automater. That will shuffle your dice and randomly pick three dice which will appear on the Dice Hatch." As Duke explained, three dice appeared in each of the Dice Hatches from each podium. "You get three dice at a time, and you get to make your move depending on what you roll," Duke explained, "Now what you want to do is take the three dice out of the Auto Hatch. How do you score? In this game you have heart points. They are just like life points but instead, you only get 3 and whoever loses all three of their heart points first is out. Now you can only summon creatures and items by rolling two of the same summon crests of the same level. Now both of you, decide who goes first."
"Mind if I start it Red?" said Jacob jokingly.
"Don't call me Red, and go for it."Lucas responded.
"Sweet! Now then, Dice Roll!" Jacob rolled his dice (summon crest, blue, level 2, summon crest, blue, level 2, summon crest, black, level 4). "Alright, all three summon crests." said Jacob.
"And since you got two level 2 crests, you get a summoning," exclaimed Duke, "Place your dice near your side of the board on any square and press on the dice. Now the dimensioning part of the process. Dimension the Dice!" The dice appeared on the arena. It opened up into a strange six-squared shape and from inside, The King of the Abyss appeared letting out a low growl from it's skeletal figure. So it uses Duel Monsters to play... Fantastic.
"How often these crests appears on a dice depends on the dice's level. A level 2 dice tend to have 3 summon crests. The easier the monster is to summon, the weaker it is. Level 4 dice tend to have one summon crest. At the beginning of the game, you are better off summoning a low level monster. Better odd. The odds for high level dice are slim to none." Duke continued on, "Now the key elements, once a dice unfolds, it becomes a Dungeon Pathway. These pathways are used in order for the creature to travel on so that they are able to reach your opponent's heart points." The Dungeon Paths that appear are colored the same as the podium of which the player Dimensioned it. "There are still a lot more factors to consider. When you roll a Movement Crest, you are allowed to move your creature one space. When you roll an Attack Crest, you can increase the attack points of one of your creatures by 10 points. Same goes for Defense Crests. Those, however, you want to use during your opponent's turn when they try to destroy your monsters. Magic Crests and Trap Crests are crests used to activate your creatures' abilities. The difference is that trap crests can only be used during your opponent's turn. I will go over more as to what the points of a creature is once you guys try to destroy an opposing creature."
Lucas was looking at the skeletal king in curiosity. "So Duel Monsters are the creatures used to battle in this game," muttered Lucas under his breath, "If that's the case, then maybe..." Lucas started pressing keys on his Help Screen. His red eyes sparkled with eagerness, hoping he could find what he is looking for. This made Jacob uneasy. The game has just begun, and Lucas was already using his Help Screen as though he's preparing his counter attack, right off the bat. Duke was staring at Lucas. He was somewhat impressed, curious, and puzzled at the fact the Help Screen is being used so early in the game. "This may turn out to be a fun match." said Duke under his breath.
"There," said Lucas, face filled with joy and confidence. His eyes had never shined so brightly before. Lucas was excited and, when he realized the odds, hoping he'll bring out his ace creature that was represented as an odd Egyptian warrior with the head of a dog like creature. "You'll help me out no matter, right?"
Lucas' dice were 3 black dice. Each die had 2 level 3 Summon Crests. Lucas felt confident with these. Although his Ace required at least 2 level 4 Summon Crests in order to summon, Lucas was going to be able to summon a creature stronger than Jacob's monster. Duke was staring at the dice with a shocked expression. "Interesting," Duke thought to himself, "He got 3 black dice of the same level. But can he pull off my special creature of the game?"
"Alright," said Lucas confidently, "Go Dice Roll!" Lucas threw the dice onto the table. At this moment a thought ran through Lucas' head; "What if I don't summon a creature." Lucas began to worry, seeing the dice as if they are rolling on the table very slowly. Once the dice had landed, Duke let out a shocked expression. "No way," said Duke.
"Nice, I get to summon a creature," said Lucas(3 Black dice Summon Crest, level 3), "and it's stronger than your abyss."
"Bring it Red," said Jacob, "I'll win this in the end."
"Lucas," shouted Duke, Lucas looked over wondering what he wanted, "Do you know what you just did?" Lucas looked a bit worried, as though he did something wrong. "You just rolled the Impossible Roll!"
Both Lucas and Jacob stared at Duke questioning, "The impossible roll?"
"You rolled 3 Summon Crests of the same level," Duke went on, "First, Dimension one of the black dice." Lucas was confused but went along with his turn. He placed one of the dice onto the board. "I Dimension the Dice!" Lucas shouted out, and at that moment, the black dice appeared on the arena, and when it opened, a black hole appeared in the center of the Dimension Path. Both Lucas stared in confusion. "What's that?" asked Lucas.
"That's a black hole," Duke stated, "Black dice have the ability to summon these black holes when you roll 2 Summon Crests of the same level. When you get 2 black holes onto the arena, either you or your opponent, you can both use these black holes to teleport from one end to the other."
"So basically," Jacob interrupted, "A Summon Crests for shortcuts."
"Yes but that's not all," Duke said, getting the attention of the two back, "Now, I made a special rule when you roll 3 Summon Crests of the same level. Lucas, Dimension another dice into the black hole." Lucas was puzzled at the thought. If there isn't another black hole on the arena, will the dice disappear? Lucas ignored the thought and just followed what Duke said. He placed the dice on the board, and the dice appeared over the black hole. It fell in and what came out was a human-liked creature. This creature's body was armored as if it was one of those superheroes with battle armor, completely black with what appeared to be stars designed all over. It's head was covered with a helmet with large oval lenses placed where it's, if it had any, should belong.
"Now," Duke said, "This is where the game begins."