Chapter 7 Preliminary Round

The vast arena and duel venue have majestic ancient cities standing there. Although the game has not started yet, the audience is already packed with people.

Yu Xuan and his senior brother from the gym, Koji Sato, came to the door of the venue together. After getting off the car, they looked up and saw the sculpture of the Black Magician standing at the main entrance of the venue.

Although the Dark Magician, a rare card whose appearance in the main game has plummeted as Muto Yugi retired, has plummeted, the former duel king's ace monster still serves as a facade in many competition venues.

"Then I'm going to prepare for the competition. The preliminary competition should start soon."

Sato Koji said to him.

"Junior brother, you should prepare as soon as possible."

"Okay. I look forward to meeting my senior brother again on the playing field." You Xuan said angrily.

But after hearing this, the senior brother's expression became strange, and he hesitated to speak but also wanted to speak.

I don't want to see you again at all

But in the end, I still couldn't say it.

After bidding farewell to his senior brother, You Xuan received his certificate and number plate as a contestant from the lady in charge of registration at the front desk. He took the number plate and saw it was number 39.

It's a pretty auspicious number for poker players. You Xuan put away the number plate and nodded with satisfaction.

It seems that I am lucky today and I think I should be able to win.

“This year’s Yuehua Cup feels of high quality.”

As soon as I walked into the venue hall, I heard the sound of audience talking.

"I just saw Kajiki Makoto from the Nenki Ryu Gym. It seems that he will also participate in this year's competition."

"Kajiki? That new dueling genius of Nenli style? Good guy, you feel like you have something to look at."

Then I heard someone say: "I don't care about telekinesis duels or anything like that. I just hope that my buddy who plays the magician clan can advance."

"Do you want to see my brother advance? Bah, I'm embarrassed to expose you. Don't you just want to see someone summon the Magical Valkyrie?"

The Magic Valkyrie has a cool mage outfit similar to that of the "Black Magic Girl" in the legendary game deck. She has a pure face and delicate little arms, but she accidentally bears the burden on certain parts that her small body should not bear. The weight is one of the girls that have long been loved by gentleman duelists.

The person who was exposed immediately blushed: "But she is really big!"

After hearing this, several companions stopped arguing and nodded one after another.

"One thing to say, one thing to say, indeed."

"It's really hard to argue with that."

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You Xuan walked through the venue, and after walking a few steps, he heard a little girl exclaiming.

"Oh my God, is it true? Are you sure you read it correctly?"

"It's absolutely true!" the girl next to her said with great certainty, "It's absolutely unmistakable, that's Dinosaur Ryuzaki! The legendary duelist!"

Hearing this, You Xuan paused slightly.

Dinosaur Ryuzaki? The one in "Yu-Gi-Oh DM"?

When he first came out, he was still portrayed as a master. He was the national runner-up in the duel competition, but a series of big names in the game, Kaiba, and DM later did not participate.

"Real or false? But isn't the Yuehua Cup a non-professional secondary competition? Why would a legendary duelist like this do it?"

"I heard someone say that Ryuzaki practiced in seclusion for several years without appearing in public. Now that he has practiced in seclusion, this is his resurrection match."

"Good guy, the contestants of this year's Yuehua Cup are so unlucky that they bumped into the devil."

"Yes, isn't the champion already determined now?"

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You Xuan tried his best to recall. He didn't have a deep impression of Ryuzaki, but he did remember his good friend Insect Feather Moth who was always inseparable from him in the anime. Both of them are despicable characters who do whatever it takes to win, but Ryuzaki is slightly stronger than Yu Moth. After all, the latter even made the move to throw the entire deck of the game’s dark archmage “Exodia” into the sea.

However, to a certain extent, his behavior can also be said to be the savior of all bosses in the later stages of DM.

Just imagine if Lao Ai's five-piece set hadn't been overshadowed by this comparison. With Wang Xiang's (Dark Game Artum) late-stage cheating-level magic ability of "you can do whatever you want with your eyes closed", what kind of three phantom gods would it be? The legendary dragon Oliha Gang could only stand aside.

It’s definitely not too much for both Malik Darzi and Dark Tapir to give Yu Mo the three clicks.

However, since they lost to Wang Yang and Fan Gucheng Nei respectively, they seem to have transformed from competitive players into entertainment comedians, and their playing cards have been developing in an increasingly harmonious direction.

Speaking of which, Jonouchi even won the soul card "Red-Eyed Black Dragon" from Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki really hasn't won a game since then.

DM didn't say what happened to him in the end, and he didn't appear in the sequel GX animation. But now that I think about it, the timeline of GX is only eight years after the ending of DM, so it’s not surprising to encounter it now.

In this way, although Wang Xiang has returned to the underworld, the DM-era characters in the game city and other places should still be there in this era, but there is no explanation of where they have gone and what they are doing.

As an old man in the DM period, Ryuzaki has the title of "having fought against Katsuya Jonouchi" and has even become a "legendary duelist".

These days, even those who were outplayed by the game dare to call themselves legends, and some of them actually make a living by relying on this gimmick.

Some of them may be really powerful, but some of them are just fishing in troubled waters. Their "Battle Duel King" value is generally high, but everyone in the next corner will say "I fought with the first Hokage back then."

Yumo and Ryuzaki have never appeared in GX, so it's hard to say how strong they are now. However, Yu Xuan is keeping an eye on it for the time being, thinking that if he encounters him in later games, he should show him some basic respect and make some targeted adjustments to his deck.

You Xuan bought a cup of milk tea, found a seat, and looked through the list of registered players.

The players' levels are generally higher than those in the dueling hall. After this competition, they should be able to successfully reach four stars, so they won't have to worry about the academy's application requirements.

After scanning the list at a glance, most of the faces were unfamiliar except for Dinosaur Ryuzaki. There seemed to be no characters I recognized.

Um?

You Xuan's eyes fell on a name that seemed familiar.

Eyesight is accurate?

That million-year-old second-year-old boy of GX, who completed the reverse transformation from elite to comedian in one year?

He took the opportunity to check Wan Zhangmu's personal information.

It is an elite academy affiliated with the middle school division of Duel Academy. It is expected that he will be recommended to the upper division of Duel Academy when the school starts this year.

Hmm. In terms of school age, the protagonists of GX should be the same age as myself.

Not a big problem.

He then took a look at his battle information from the first round of the preliminary round.

Tsubasa Nakamura, Duelist Level 4

It seems like there should be no pressure.

In fact, Nakamura Tsubasa thought the same thing when he walked onto the pre-selected duel field and came across from Yugen.

Fujiki Yugen, level one, has no competition experience, no honorary awards, and a blank resume.

Nakamura read the brief personal message over and over for a long time, but only saw two words between the lines.

Free.

Sometimes if you are lucky in the arena, you will occasionally encounter such an opponent. This kind of person is called a charity duelist in the industry. I'm not good at cooking, but I just love to fight. The main thing is to give points.

Then it's safe.

But Nakamura didn't know that when Yugen stood opposite him and started with five cards to one, he felt sorry for his opponent in his heart.

Sorry dude, but I'm crazy.

It looks like only one of us can play Yu-Gi-Oh!

You Xuan's side attacks first. Then he first "takes" a magic card, and by paying 1000 life points, he can look at the opponent's hand and discard a card. Followed by a "Forced Soldier", look at the cards in your hand and choose one to return to the deck. Then he followed up with the "Pranky Twin Demons", and spent 1,000 blood to follow up with the third combo. He randomly threw a card from the opponent and then another card from the opponent. In total, he raised two more cards from the opponent.

The legendary codex destroys three artifacts and creates a three-level combo in one go.

It hasn't even been the opponent's turn yet. The opponent is still confused and has only one card left in his hand.

And because he has seen the opponent's hand, Yu Xuan clearly knows that the only card left on the opponent's side is the magic card "Double Magic". By discarding a card from your hand, you can use a magic card from your opponent's graveyard.

Not much use.

The three qualities were completed in one go, and then You Xuan didn't summon any monsters. After another block, the round ended. It was very cool.

Finally, he made an elegant "please" gesture.

I'm fine, you can do whatever you want.

Tsubasa Nakamura was not feeling well.

It's not your turn yet and you already have only one card in your hand. Why don't you make a fool of yourself?

But adhering to the principle of being a duellist, he did not give up. Tsubasa Nakamura calmed down and drew cards from the deck.

Then I saw the opponent magnificently reveal a trap card and "knock it down".

The cards you just drew went directly to the underworld before they were even warmed up.

Nakamura was in disarray.

This guy has made up his mind not to let others play his cards, right?

There is no other way. I have a "Double Magic" in my hand, and there is no card that can be discarded to activate the COST. He could only end the round depressed.

I always feel like my turn is over before it even begins. I wonder if it’s an illusion.

Then it's Yu Xuan's turn again. Yu Xuan activates magic card reinforcements to retrieve a warrior-type monster from the deck. You Xuan directly took a "Leader Zalug", and then summoned Zalug to attack directly.

After triggering Zalug's effect and causing combat damage to the opponent, you can discard a card from the opponent's hand.

Nakamura Tsubasa: "."

Now he has no cards left.

no

What kind of evil did he commit in his previous life to match him with such an autistic thing?