Chapter 3 The First Battle

The initial card group that he had traveled through was thus formed. After checking and confirming that everything was correct, You Xuan naturally began to get a little itchy.

There is no possible card player who would not want to test the quality of a newly completed deck.

So his first choice would naturally be to go directly to the gym where his predecessor belonged, ready to randomly find a gym colleague to bring him the joy of a duel.

When I arrived at the gym, I saw a group of students gathered together and making a lot of noise as soon as I entered the door.

"As expected of Brother Sato, he managed to survive the calamity successfully!"

You Xuan raised his eyebrows and looked over with some curiosity.

The person surrounded by the apprentices was a yellow-haired guy with a hairstyle that looked like he was good at playing cards. He sounded modest, but his face was full of pride: "No, no, I just got lucky and got three stars, it's just average, haha."

"Level three! Brother Sato should be the first level three in our gym, right?"

"too strong"

You Xuan frowned and searched through his previous life's memories, only then did he understand what they were talking about.

The Duelist Star System is a strength assessment indicator that Kaiba Company adjusts in real time based on the battle records of each duelist registered within the company system. It is the system that appeared in the "Yu-Gi-Oh! DM" animation.

Normally, the star rating of a duelist ranges from level 1 to level 8, with a total of eight levels. In the DM Duel City anime, Duel King Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba himself were both rated as level 8.

However, it can also be seen that this system is not absolutely authoritative, and sometimes there are some personal factors involved. For example, Jonouchi Katsuya, the man who was contemptuously called "Ordinary Bones" by Kaiba.

Jonouchi is described by Pegasus as "the third best duelist in the world after Yugi and Kaiba", but in Kaiba's system rating he is only ranked level two, which makes him an amateur.

It's hard to say that this doesn't involve the personal grudge between the president and Fan Gu.
But that was back in the Duel City era. Now Jonouchi Katsuya has long been adjusted to level eight, the highest level among duelists in general, and is known as the "Legendary Duelist".

President Kaiba Seto was very arrogant and adjusted himself to level ten.

There are only two Level 10 Duelists in the world today. One is Kaiba Seto himself, and the other is Yugi Muto, who has long since retired.

This setting is partly because President Kaiba believes that he is a level higher than all the existing duelists, and it also means that Yugi Muto is the only opponent in the world that he recognizes as qualified to compete with him.
Well, to say that they are equal is actually a bit exaggerated. Because everyone knows that President Kaiba has played cards with the Duel King Muto Yugi countless times in his life, but he has never won a single one so far.

And You Xuan's predecessor was rated in the system
one star.

A fighter among noobs.

You Xuan: (ヘ｀;)
Apparently it was because his predecessor was both bad at playing and loved to play, often going to the arena under the Seahorse Group to play matches, but he lost more than he won, and over time his star level naturally plummeted to the bottom of the abyss.

If ordinary people want to increase their star level, they have to play in the arena. However, the arena matching seems to be limited to four stars. If they want to increase their star level further, they have to participate in public competitions.

He then remembered that when he searched for the enrollment requirements for the Duel Academy, there seemed to be a rule that the star rating of a duelist certified by Kaiba Corporation must be at least level three.

In this system, level seven and eight players are either legendary duelists or top-level experts in the professional circle. Most professional players are level six, and a few low-level professional players are level five.

Amateur duelists mostly clustered at level 2. Level 1 was below average rookies, while level 3 was considered an expert.

Therefore, the registration requirement for the Duel Academy is to have a three-star rating or above, which is actually quite high.

But this is only natural. At this stage, duel education in this world is still in its infancy, and there are not many choices of colleges. And the college run by Haima is the top one among them. The quality of the college and the huge amount of resources invested are obvious to all.

At the beginning of the GX animation, the principal mentioned in his speech to the whole school that the academy has strict admissions requirements, so all the students present are elites. In the animation, even the poor students at the bottom of the Osiris Red Dormitory are theoretically better than most duelists outside.

"So if you want to enter the academy, you have to get higher scores first?" You Xuan's mouth twitched.

The apprentice surrounded by the crowd was called Sato Koji, and he was already the big brother of this small gym. It seemed that he was lucky this week and got three stars, and everyone was congratulating him.

You Xuan happened to be looking for someone to play cards with at this time, and thinking of this, he decided to ask his elder brother to give it a try.

Although the extras in the animation seem to be very inexperienced, You Xuan knows that practice is the key to success. Without personal testing, one cannot make a conclusion based on preconceived impressions.

It's a good opportunity to test the strength of the duelists in this world.

The dojo encourages students to play cards frequently. At this time, Sato Susumu had just reached the upper limit and was in a good mood. There was no reason for him to refuse the challenge of a card game.

As soon as the students scattered in the gym heard that there were cards to see, they immediately gathered at the duel arena to watch.

"Is this true? That You Xuan? Asking out Sato-nii?"

"I remember he only has one star. Isn't this just asking for trouble?"

The students were laughing nearby, while the two warring parties had already taken their positions on both sides of the venue.

Sato Koji was in a relaxed mood at this time. He had gained points and was now back to the gym to play cards. Looking at his fellow apprentices, he felt a sense of pride.

Now he felt like a master who was instructing a younger generation. Playing this card game was no longer for the purpose of learning from each other and improving himself. On the one hand, it was to give some pointers to the younger generation, and on the other hand, it was to satisfy his need to show off in front of his junior brothers.

Well, the latter may be slightly more common.

if not?
How could he, a three-star boss, lose when facing a one-star junior?
The two of them unfolded their duel disks and each drew five cards.

"Duel!" x2
【You Xuan, LP 4000】

【Koji, LP 4000】

"I attack first, draw a card." You Xuan drew a card from the deck.

In the anime, you can still draw cards if you attack first. In the previous life, many years ago, you could no longer draw cards if you attack first.

The first move is usually determined randomly by the duel disk between the two parties, but the person who gets the first move can also choose to give up.

He nodded slightly as he scanned the first six cards. Although it couldn't be called a "perfect handbook", it was still passable.

“First, this card.”

He drew the first card and inserted it into the duel disk.

"Pay 1000 life points and activate the magic card from your hand - Mischievous Twin Demons!"

[You Xuan, LP 4000→LP 3000]

As the card was inserted, a 1D projection of a green magic card appeared in front of You Xuan. Two little demons, one red and one blue, flew out, with the numbers "2" and "" on their heads respectively.

"The effect of this card allows the opponent to randomly discard a card in their hand, and then choose a card to discard."

In the early competitions, the simple and crude hand destroys the heavy killing weapon. Violent one for two, the opponent will immediately reduce 2 when it is played.

It is conceivable that this kind of brutal thing is treated the same as the Pot of Greed. It has been a banned card that will get you jailed for life since You Xuan started playing cards. So after playing cards for so many years, this is the first time he has personally bought such a thing.

The devil flew out and grabbed a card from Hao Er's hand without saying a word, as if saying, give it to you.

Koji frowned, then selected another card and put it into the graveyard.

Then You Xuan did not do anything else, and directly drew out three cards in a casual manner -

——After three, it’s over.

Then he made a gesture of invitation.

Okay, now it’s your turn to play Yu-Gi-Oh.

Any card player who is a real card player should have begun to feel the breath of the underworld and started to sweat coldly when facing those three black holes in the backcourt. However, as the saying goes, ignorance is bliss. The duelists in the sunny environment of the animation were completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem.

Koji even maintained that warm and gentle smile of a kind senior brother, and said in a tone of instruction: "Didn't you draw a monster card in the first round? When building your deck, you should pay attention to the reasonable combination of monsters and magic traps.

Then it's my turn, draw a card!"

"and many more."

You Xuan interrupted him and waved his hand.

"The moment you drew the card, the trap was already triggered. Open the cover card, and the trap card - knock it down!

Activate during your opponent's draw phase, and discard the card your opponent draws directly to the Graveyard."

Koji: “!”

He hesitated for a moment, and sent the card he had just drawn to the graveyard area of ​​the duel disk. He looked down at his hand again, and finally began to realize that something was wrong.

At this point, neither side had shot any monsters, and it seemed as if the fight hadn't even started yet. Half of Koji's six starting cards were gone, leaving only three.

And he faced an even more annoying problem.

That means he doesn't have any monsters on his hands.
The Twin Demons threw down two cards, one of which was a low-level monster, and the one they just defeated was another. Now they only had three cards in their hand, and no monsters could be played.

But it doesn't matter.

"Tsk, in that case, I'll activate the magic card from my hand."

Koji waved his hand and took another card from the three remaining cards in his hand.

The dead are resurrected!
The resurrection magic that can revive a monster from the graveyard has been a highly sought-after reversal card both in reality and in animation, from the DM to the GX era.

"I'm going to use Resurrection of the Dead to revive this guy Jera's warrior from the graveyard. Attack means resurrection!"

This time, a warrior in green armor holding a big sword appeared, standing majestically in the middle of the field, becoming the first monster to appear in this duel.

[Jera's Warrior, Attack Power 1600]

In fact, if there is a choice, Koji definitely doesn't want to use the precious Resurrection of the Dead to revive such a small fish, but there is no way to play it. Hesitation in the duel will lead to defeat, so he must seize the opportunity to start the offensive rhythm
"Open Gaika - Naraku's Falling Hole." You Xuan calmly flipped open a backfield card, "When the opponent summons a monster with an attack power of 1500 or more, that monster is destroyed and banished."

Then, Jera's warrior, who had used up a dead card to appear on the scene, hadn't even stood firmly on his heels when he stepped into a dark hole that had opened up under his feet. He fell into it and exploded into a cloud of smoke with a bang, and disappeared without a trace.

Koji: “.”

There are only two cards left in hand, and the field is still blank.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Koji Sato seemed to feel his blood pressure starting to rise.

(End of this chapter)