Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

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"You want to go to Duel Academy?"
Master Takeuchi was stunned.

Come to think of it, it seemed that it was almost time for Duel Academy's enrollment to open.
Duel Academy was like a holy land to the younger generation of duelists. Top students gathered there, and almost every graduate was destined to be an elite. Moreover, under Seto Kaiba's operation, whether they were young masters of world-class financial groups or second-generation officials with families that could dominate the world, anyone without talent, no matter how much financial resources or background they had, would be rejected.
Who was Seto Kaiba?

The number one duelist in the world today, wielding the world's strongest Duel Monster "Blue-Eyes White Dragon," which was comparable to the Three Illusory Gods of the past. Rumor had it that he was even developing technology to travel through dimensions and time and space, trying to use technological means to open the door to the Netherworld to find the nameless Pharaoh who had long been asleep to play cards...
Not only was he the richest man in the world, but also a powerhouse standing at the dual peaks of the extraordinary side and the technological side. After Yugi Muto sealed his cards, he was recognized as the number one duelist in the world today.
Moreover, he didn't recognize anything else, only card skills.

So if Seto Kaiba said that he wouldn't open the back door and only looked at strength, then he really only looked at strength. No matter how powerful or prominent they were, anyone who wanted to enter his school had to take the exam obediently, and there was absolutely no room for backroom operations.
Moreover, he advocated power and promoted elite education. This could be seen from the strict ranking system in Duel Academy in GX and the contempt of all teachers and students for the underdog students.
Many duel dojos had related subsidies for students applying for Duel Academy. Because once they successfully entered, the student would undoubtedly be a high-quality alumnus in the future, and it would also have good publicity benefits for the dojo.

Master Takeuchi's dojo also had this subsidy, but the number of places was limited every year.
Considering that You Xuan had already defeated the entire dojo, including the master, in the past three days, he was naturally within the scope of eligibility.
If the application was approved, the student would not only have tuition subsidies, but the dojo would also provide a sum of money for the deck. The master would personally provide one-on-one guidance to help students purchase new cards and optimize their deck construction...

...Of course, in You Xuan's case, the guidance link could obviously be omitted. He just needed to give money.
"Wait a minute."
Master Takeuchi had just agreed when he suddenly thought of something.

"What was your Duelist Level again?"
"...One star."
Master Takeuchi: "......"
Honestly, although he had seen it with his own eyes, he still found it difficult to understand how a one-star student could suddenly improve to such a level as if he had been enlightened.

However, having personally experienced You Xuan's current dueling strength, he also felt that You Xuan had a great chance of getting in this time.
"But one star doesn't meet the enrollment threshold..."
"I know," You Xuan nodded, "So I'm going to try the arena tomorrow and try to get promoted as soon as possible."

"Well... but there's only one month left before the entrance exam, time is a bit tight," Master Takeuchi pondered for a moment, "It would be much easier if you could get a ranking in an open tournament."
Getting a ranking in an open tournament would allow him to directly advance to a high star rating in one go, without having to slowly grind his way up in a normal arena match by match. Moreover, he could also get a tournament resume, which would also be beneficial for his future dueling career.
"How about this," Master Takeuchi looked at Sato Koji, "I remember that Koji was preparing to participate in this year's Lunar Cup, right?

Although the registration window seems to have closed, I have friends I know in the organizer. It shouldn't be a big problem to add another person to the preliminary selection. The registration fee will also be paid by the dojo, what do you think?"
This year, only Koji in the entire dojo had reached three stars, so naturally he was the only one who was originally scheduled to apply for Duel Academy. His participation in the Lunar Cup was also to get more resume experience before entering school. It would be even better if he could get a ranking.
"Then thank you very much, Master," You Xuan said.

Sato Koji, who was on the side, couldn't help but gasp when he heard this.
This guy was also going to participate in the competition?
What if he was matched with him again in the competition...

Just imagining that scene made him shudder and feel uncomfortable all over.
However, he then thought that there were so many contestants, and the probability of being matched was not high. Or rather, when he got to the competition, he would have the opportunity to see more ignorant duelists being brought to a twisted face by his junior apprentice's duel, just like he had been...
Thinking of that scene, he couldn't help but smile uncontrollably.

The smile gradually became perverted.
Sure enough, dueling still brought happiness.
It just depended on who the happiness was on.

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The first ray of sunshine in the morning was like gentle poetic lines, covering the peaceful world with a layer of golden gauze. The night was dispelled, replaced by a fresh and bright morning. The air was filled with a faint morning fragrance and the fragrance of flowers.

At 6:20 in the morning, You Xuan lazily woke up from his comfortable bed. Sunlight shone through the gauze-like curtains, forming dappled light and shadows on the white sheets and soft bedding.
He had gone to bed late last night, and the quality of his sleep was not very good. He had had many dreams. He only vaguely remembered seeing Black and White Impermanence in his dream. The two first said gloomily that his life was over and it was time for him to go, but then they unfolded their Duel Disks on the left and right with a whoosh, took out two decks, and said that as long as he won the duel, he could extend his life...
"Why am I having such dreams?" You Xuan rubbed his temples.

It seemed that he had slowly begun to integrate into the basic thinking of this card-playing worldview, that was, there was nothing that could not be solved by playing cards.
You Xuan only brewed for five minutes before shaking off his sleepiness, jumped out of bed, quickly changed clothes, washed up, and began a new day of studying life.
You could never imagine how terrifying a self-disciplined card player was.

There was still a month before the Duel Academy entrance exam. It was time to start previewing a little.
Originally, he thought, what could be difficult about the duel exam? Wasn't it just the learning and application of K language?
Like distinguishing whether a certain card effect targeted or not, such as the order of chain resolution, such as high-end card timing teaching, etc...

...None of the above.
There was nothing about these more profound and difficult Yu-Gi-Oh! characteristic rules in the real card game. The concept question part only had the basics of "Please explain what a Normal Spell Card, Equip Spell Card, and Field Spell Card are," just like Teacher Chronos's classroom questions in the GX anime.
Then there was memorizing the effects of various cards. In fact, You Xuan soon found that this part was unexpectedly a bit difficult, because it was impossible for him to remember the classifications and effects of a bunch of ancient cards that no one had used in the real card environment for twenty years. Not to mention that there were still a large number of anime and manga cards that had never been made into real cards in this world.

He also quickly noticed that there were many differences between here and the real card environment twenty years ago. Many cards that might only be made into real cards twenty years later were already here now.
Of course, it was not surprising after thinking about it. Even "Miracle Fusion," the key card of Jaden Yuki's Neos deck, had appeared in the anime and made countless players yearn for it for many years. It felt like they had waited a lifetime for Konami to make it into a real card...
So naturally there were many cards here that were not available back then.

Looking through the entire question bank, in You Xuan's view, it was all content without any nutrition. The consciousness and skills that were truly related to the core of card playing were not mentioned at all.
This couldn't help but remind him of an explanation he had seen on the internet in his previous life. For many movies and animations, reality was a higher dimension, and in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, cards were the foundation of creation. Dueling represented the most fundamental laws of this world, rather than just a card game like in reality.
Therefore, for people in the anime world, exploring the rules of dueling was like doing cutting-edge research in reality, an exploration of truth. It was not so difficult to learn to play cards in the real dimension, but in the anime world, it required a lot of talent and effort to understand these things.

You Xuan bought a set of teaching materials such as "Basic Duel Theory" and "Duel Academy Real Exam Question Bank," and spent most of the day doing practice questions. At the same time, he also took time to learn about the card-making field.
Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series mainly focused on the stories of duelists, and only briefly mentioned the card design part. It was only known that Pegasus, known as the "Father of Duel Monsters," first discovered the ancient Duel Monsters slate tablets in Egypt, and made the slate tablets into cards, which led to the modern Duel Monsters card system.
Later, card making was mainly issued by Pegasus's ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) Industrial Illusions, but it was not completely monopolized by one company. Kaiba Corporation had also printed many cards, which were also circulated on the market.

Further down the line, there were players of the "Yu" generation, such as Yugi Muto and Jaden Yuki, who all had the cheat-like talent of printing cards on the spot according to the needs of the situation. When they printed cards outrageously, they would even simply print themselves and their duel opponents into the card art, completely undisguised...
Obviously, these privately printed cards could also be recognized by the system and duel rules, and were not considered violations.
After all, Yu-Gi-Oh! was originally an extraordinary world, and card playing was a form of extraordinary expression. Therefore, when some Yu-generation players with sea urchin heads took out a blank card and shouted friendship and bonds to their opponents, and printed card text and effects on the spot, it could even be said to be the application of the laws of this world, a manifestation of extraordinary power.

How could the King of Games's actions be called cheating?
God draws and card printing were all part of dueling, if you were unhappy with it, then don't play.
However, as you could imagine, printing cards in such a world definitely couldn't be arbitrary. Even the designers of Industrial Illusions, the newly designed cards should also conform to the rules to some extent, and could not be arbitrary.

And what You Xuan was curious about was what kind of threshold card making required, and what kind of cards could be recognized.
Assuming that the cards existing in the real card pool in his previous life could be printed, then if he became a card maker, he would have to bring a bit of the storytelling shock of modern Yu-Gi-Oh! to this overly bright card world...
You Xuan also bought a series of reference books and textbooks first. It wasn't that he really expected to learn it so easily, but just to get a preliminary understanding.

"Basic Construction of Field Magic: Introduction to Environment Modeling"
"Nine Common Mistakes in Monster Card Design"
Completely unsurprisingly, card making in this world was a very profound knowledge. Many university laboratories and cutting-edge research institutes were now specializing in scientific research and development related to Duel Monsters.

Even many old cards still had the potential for further development and design.
A more representative example was the most famous Blue-Eyes White Dragon, which was being developed by an independent research team led by Seto Kaiba himself. It was the world's top Duel Monsters research team. Rumor had it that they had developed various evolutionary forms of Blue-Eyes, such as "Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon", "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon", "Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon", and so on.
There was also the King's Chaos Soldier. When it was first made into a card from a stone tablet in its early years, it was just an eight-star monster with 3000 attack points. But now it had also been developed into the "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning" form, which was what real card players called "Envoy of the Beginning". It was a rare ultra-rare card in the world today, and also a legendary powerful monster in the mouths of duelists.

"It would be great if I could learn to make cards myself..." You Xuan thought.
However, it was just a thought for now. He remembered that Hayato Maeda, Jaden Yuki's roommate in the first season of the anime, seemed to have joined Industrial Illusions as a full-time card designer after graduating from Duel Academy. You Xuan guessed that the academy might also have card-making related professional courses.
If there was a chance, he must go and learn about it properly.

As for now, he would set himself a new small goal for the time being.
Let's win a championship at the Lunar Cup first.