Chapter 128: Asking you to copy your scientific research breakthrough?

"You Xuan-san seems really calm~"

Teacher Daitokuji was sitting in a chair in his alchemy laboratory, holding his cat named Pharaoh in his arms and stroking the chubby cat with one hand.

Daitokuji had been doing nothing since he entered the Duel Academy. The laboratory claimed to be a research resource provided by the academy, but in fact, it had been gathering dust for many years.

After all, Daitokuji's image in the academy is that of a lazy person who just wants to get by, and he has to maintain this image in front of both students and academy members. So no one has ever seen him doing serious research, and this laboratory is basically indistinguishable from being abandoned.

Until now.

When You Xuan opened the door for the first time, he was almost greeted by a musty smell. The floor was covered with dust, and the sunlight shone through the cracks in the glass, forming streaks of light and shadows, with countless dust particles flying in the light path.

You Xuan took some time to clean up the laboratory, and from then on he was basically the only one using it.

"What?" You Xuan, who was working attentively on the laboratory bench, raised his head.

"About the team duel." Daitokuji tilted his head and continued to pet the cat. "You don't look nervous at all."

"Oh, that's nothing to be nervous about."

You Xuan said as he lowered his head and continued to work.

"And doesn't Judai seem quite calm?" You Xuan said casually, "I invited him to come research decks for the team battle yesterday, but he refused. He said something like... Hayato's dad is here? Anyway, he didn't come because he had something else to do."

However, Yugen did remember that scene when Judai mentioned it. It seemed that Koala's father in their dormitory felt that his son was not making progress in the academy and wanted him to drop out and go home.

Afterwards, Hayato played a game of cards with his father. Although he lost, he succeeded in making his father change his mind and agree to let him stay in the academy.

Hayato's dad is using some kind of drunkard deck, which is also a series of unknown meaning that has not yet been realized.

According to the teacher of Daitokuji Temple, Hayato's father seems to be the successor of the "Satsuma Dimension Style", and is said to be a famous duelist in the world. It is said that he learned the one-hit-kill duel style from the famous sword technique, and has the powerful ability to kill the opponent instantly.

However, judging from the duel in the animation, the performance of the deck seemed a bit lame.
You Xuan felt a little strange. The so-called world-renowned duelist's strength didn't seem to be what he was showing, but on second thought, it seemed that he couldn't be completely sure.

After all, in the animation, Hayato's father only summoned two monsters in total, and the audience didn't know what was left in the deck. Perhaps he intentionally let his son win because he was dueling with him.

Over the years, K-Company has proven more than once that as long as they want, even the oldest and worst decks can instantly soar in strength by several generations by releasing a few amazing cards.

Still, one cannot easily underestimate the world's most renowned top duelists.

"Haha, Judai is different." Daitokuji laughed, "That kid just has this innate talent, there's rarely anything that can make him nervous.

But there are rumors that the opponent you team up with might not be easy. Have you come up with a countermeasure?"

"Well, I guess so." You Xuan smiled.

He already had a bold idea. If everything went well, with a little help from Judai's divine power, he should be able to bring double the happiness to the maze brothers.

"Let's not talk about this for now. I'm done here."

Yugen stood up and handed a card to Daitokuji.

"Teacher, please give me some advice."

Daitokuji took the card and adjusted his glasses: "Let me see."

You Xuan has not been exposed to card-making courses for a long time. Although he has shown extraordinary talent and has received special training from Daitoku-ji Temple, his current skills are still at the "copying" stage.

That is, try to copy some relatively easy-to-copy low-rarity cards, and only after you have mastered the technique can you consider more advanced card making.

Daitokuji looked at the card he handed over and said, "This time you're trying to make a bicycle. I heard that you really like this card. Not bad, not bad. You actually copied it so quickly. Hmm!?"

Daitokuji teacher's squinting eyes almost closed again, and his glasses almost fell down his nose.

Because he saw clearly the effect of the [Double Bicycle Robot] that You Xuan handed over.

《This card can attack directly》.

Wait, isn't this thing going to reduce its attack power by 500 points?
He looked up at You Xuan in surprise, and then seemed to realize something.

I asked you to learn to copy, and you made a scientific breakthrough? You Xuan just smiled.

He successfully proved that an earlier conjecture he had was correct.

Many early viewers of Yu-Gi-Oh know that it is common for the same card to have conflicting effects when appearing in different situations in the animation.

A representative example in GX is the well-known monster [Android - Psychotron], whose animation effects in the GX animation are different from those in the DM.

The effect of the android Soga in DM is "When this card is on the field, all covered, face-up Trap Cards on the field are destroyed, and the activation and effects of Trap Cards are negated."

In the GX period, the android Soga, which appeared twice in the early and late stages, had the same effect as real cards, that is, "Trap Cards cannot be activated and effects are invalid", but they will not scan and destroy all the covered cards on the field like in DM.

There is also "Future Fusion", the effects of which are different when used in Caesar's hands and later in the hands of Darkness's henchman Mr. T.

There are many similar examples, too numerous to count.

In the past, as a viewer, he just watched for fun and didn't care about the many inconsistent bugs in the animation. Now that he has come to the real world of Yu-Gi-Oh, he certainly can't be satisfied with this statement. Especially after understanding and studying the principle of card making, he came up with a new idea.

As mentioned before, the effects of the cards in this world are not filled in arbitrarily, but are the embodiment of the power of the cards.

Is it possible that when designing the same card, one designer only awakened part of the card's ability, while another designer developed greater potential when designing the same card? Then, is it natural that the effect strength of the same card designed by two designers will be different?

Or maybe some cards actually have more potential, but have never been discovered. In the process of reproducing and resetting this card, will there still be room for improvement?

During this period of time, he was learning seal carving from Daitoku-ji Temple while trying to research this topic.

It seems he was right.

For example, after his persistent experiments, he found that this card, [Double-Seat Cycling Robot], which was relatively simple to modify, was not a very strong card in itself. Although it improved its potential, it only removed the restriction of "reducing attack power by 500 points", which was not a significant enhancement, so it was relatively easy to develop.

But it was enough to prove his conjecture.

There was room for further development of those animated cards that were weaker than the actual card versions in his memory.

"What a surprise."

Mr. Daitokuji adjusted his glasses and when he looked at You Xuan again, there seemed to be a faint light in his narrowed eyes.

In fact, the impact of the bicycle's attack power being reduced by 500 points is not that big, but it is a scientific research breakthrough after all. Moreover, scientific research results were directly produced at the initial stage of card making learning. This kind of thing is really rare even for Daitokuji.

Are so-called geniuses really so unreasonable?
"You may actually have a talent for alchemy."

"Thank you for your praise, teacher. I just treated the card with my heart as you taught me." You Xuan smiled.

But in fact, it was largely because he knew which direction to work towards. For others, let alone strengthening the direction, there were tens of thousands of cards in the world, and it was impossible to know which card had potential for development.

"By the way, teacher, I also tried to make some other cards here."

You Xuan silently took out a few more cards.

"Look, I have two more pictures that are a little different from the others."

Daitokuji: “???”

besides?

Even the knowledgeable Daitoku-ji was silent for a moment.

After a long while, he raised his head and spoke slowly.

"Yugen-san."

"What's the matter, teacher?"

"Have you ever considered becoming a professor?"

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(End of this chapter)