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Chapter 240 2 in 1
(TL:Slightly change of terms, sub-humans will change to demi-humans from now on, and I just noticed that I messed up the chapter number, will change that in the next chaper.)
"Hmm… Aristocratic History Research Society." Dark fell into deep thoughts after Irving left. Of course, he wouldn't think that this club was really studying aristocratic history, and he also didn't know which noble family Irving was from; he didn't seem to have even met him before.
But then again since Valkyrie took over the charge of the family, the Demon family seldom attended those pointless social gatherings of nobles. Even if he had met with him before, he may not remember it.
...
Dark turned his attention back to the recruiting competition quickly.
This first match turned out to be a duel between two third-year seniors.
Although they were far from outstanding among their peers, their two-and-a-half-year school life had given them a strength that matched the time they spent in the academy.
"A decent duel." Dark gave his own evaluation.
Then he stood up anxiously. "It's my turn now. I don't know who my opponent will be this time."
"If it's the level of these two seniors, I can have a little fun."
Everyone would like to have some positive feedback after putting in a lot of effort doing something.
Just like the little safflower reward system developed by Dark for his magical spirits, only with positive feedback could some of them be encouraged to make their own efforts to improve themselves.
And being able to enjoy the fun of a duel was the positive feedback Dark had given himself!
Needless to say, he found new pleasure in dueling.
...
"It's him again." Professor Fox on the judging panel sat up subconsciously.
Although he wanted to compete with Professor Jones and compare his students with Professor Jones' students, Dark Demon was the most promising little guy he had found in this recruiting competition.
The last round ended too quickly, and he still had a lot of things he didn't see clearly, so he had to watch carefully this time.
Professor Jones next to him smiled slightly. In some people's lives, they were far ahead from the start. So it was already an honor to be with them from the time when they had not shown their prominence, let alone being their teacher.
Although she did not come to Saint Marian by her own subjective will at first, every time she saw the young magisters growing rapidly under her own guidance, her sense of identification with the position of teacher gradually became stronger. "I wonder how much more surprises he can bring us?"
...
The other side.
After being reminded by her classmates, Angelia put down the "Claire's Travel Diary" in her hand, got up, and walked to the No. 1 arena.
Some time ago, the bookstores in Traveller Street, whether old or new, suddenly had a strange trend of selling Christmas autographed editions; the price of books doubled directly because of it.
This was clearly a trick bookstores used to make more money from readers, but some people voluntarily took the bait.
Angelia was one of those people, and she used up all her savings to fill up her bookshelf; she even said that it was worth it.
Because of this, the matter of joining the dueling club, which she originally wasn't interested in, was also put on the agenda.
"There are still two duels, it's almost over..." Angelia, who really felt that duels were very troublesome, hurried to the edge of the arena, and without looking to the other side, she directly got on the Red Player's platform.
By this time, Dark had already reached the stairs of the Blue Player's platform.
Noticing that the Red Player player had arrived, Dark looked over subconsciously. When he found out who he was going to fight against, a little joy immediately arose in his heart. "Yes!"
In today's recruiting competition, if anyone could be considered the strongest contestant the most, it would be Angelia-senpai.
Angelia-senpai had shoulder-length hair, but her bangs were very long, giving people a very low-key and very quiet feeling. But her dueling style was very different from her appearance, which could be seen in her duel with Emma. She could almost be called the "Newbie Killer"!
Even Dark did not have the confidence to win when facing such an opponent. But what he wanted was exactly this kind of thrilling feeling.
The unsuspenseful smooth game was certainly gratifying, but the exhilaration and excitement of turning the tables was also a wonderful feeling.
After all, this was a duel!
...
Dark felt as if he had regained the mood of playing card games in the past.
He walked up to the player platform and smiled mysteriously at Angelia-senpai who got on the platform later, making her feel inexplicable. =。=！
...
With the two players appearing separately, there were suddenly many spectators other than the first-year students outside the arena.
The students who came to watch the recruitment competition were keenly aware of the atmosphere around the No.1 arena, and they gradually gathered around one by one.
"Isn't that Angelia?" The third-year Fool House student sighed when they saw Angelia on the Red Player's platform.
Angelia finally changed her mind. From now on, the third-year Fool House will have another fighting force! Whether it's in the competition for the Year Cup or the House Cup, we will have more chances.
As for the hapless person who is dueling with Angelia...
Isn't that the most popular first-year student last semester?
It seems that he is also the winner of Crimson Star, so he should have some strength.
But he's just a freshman, a first-year student who can't even conduct magic energy through space after all.
Although Angelia doesn't have much dueling experience and has not done any intensive research in this area, her strength isn't weak, so the probability of her losing the game is almost zero.
So there will only be one outcome of this duel, and that is her winning the game. The only thing that's difficult to tell is how long the game will last.
All the third-year Fool House students were thinking like this.
...
"Both players, please get ready!" The referee reminded both players by blowing his whistle.
Dark and Angelia on the player platform placed a whole deck of cards in the card slot in the lower right corner of the table.
Dark had made careful adjustments to his deck, removing some useless magic cards, and only keeping a total of twenty magic cards with magical spirits and deadly sin cards as the main deck setup.
Since Angelia-senpai went for the Quick Summoning route, then Dark wanted to see who would be faster in summoning.
Angelia obviously didn't think that much. She probably just wanted to end the game quickly...
Therefore, the communication part was skipped directly.
The game directly entered the 30-second countdown of the [Preparation Phase].
Players on both sides switched states at the same time, reaching out and drawing cards!
...
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5!"
Five magic cards.
Dark just moved the magic cards from the right hand to the left hand, and quickly spread out into a fan shape.
▼
[Lust Ⅲ]
[Phantom Magic Beast: Eevee]
[Pride Ⅱ Old]
[Phantom Magic Beast: Ditto]
[Sylveon]
▲
"Got [Lust Ⅲ] in my starting hand?" Dark was slightly surprised.
In his current deck, [Lust Ⅲ] actually had a very important position.
Whether it was Eevee-chan, DemiDevimon, or Ditto, their strength could be increased by leaps and bounds through [Lust Ⅲ] - this was a way to bypass tribute summoning, which was the so-called Quick Summoning.
In magic duels, Quick Summoning was the most common tactic.
If one could summon a magical spirit that could crush the opponent in the first round, one would be able to end the game with brutal strength, instead of waiting until the opponent drew more magic cards that were enough to change the situation!
Speed was the best tactic in a duel.
As long as one was fast enough, one would be able to seize all the opportunities.
This was also the reason why Spiritual Magisters were different from other Magisters. It was all because they were really fast.
...
Dark turned his attention to the other four magic cards.
"Eevee, Ditto, which one?"
...
[Battle phase] [30s]
"Tick!"
"I choose you, Eevee!"
Almost when Angelia's magical spirit was summoned, the [Phantom Magic Beast: Eevee] in Dark's hand lit up.
The summoning speed of the two sides differed by only half a second. But this half a second made all the difference.
Angelia's first magic card, unsurprisingly, was still the [Bookworm]!
Because Dark had watched Emma's game, he was already mentally prepared. He calmed himself down, and let Eevee-chan appear in front of Blue Player's Magic Ball.
As soon as the Bookworm appeared, it vibrated the wings formed by the pages and swooped down like a goshawk.
Almost immediately, it crossed the distance of 30 meters and pecked hard on the Blue Player's Magic Ball!
This peck was obviously some kind of skill, and it was a skill with fixed damage!
The magic energy of Blue Player's Magic Ball dropped by 100 points.
[2000→1900]
"Vee!" The startled little Eevee subconsciously covered its head and used the ultimate [Charisma Guard]!
The effect of [Charisma Guard] was very obvious, and the presence of Eevee-chan was reduced to 0.
Bookworm ignored it completely, and after taking one bite, it turned around and flew back to the Red Player's summoning area.
...
Outside the arena, Emma Mortis frowned and watched carefully.
She wondered how Dark would respond to this situation.
Would he use that golden [Shuckle]?
Or something else?
Emma's eyes moved to little Eevee.
She clearly remembered that Dark had summoned this first Phantom Magic Beast of his in the last intra-class match, and used a special magic spell card to transform it into the magical spirit of the second tier.
But that transformed magical spirit was completely uncontrollable. Although it got rid of the Shadow Tag of Sphynx Cat, it ran out of the arena on its own...
Maybe it was the trouble caused by the high intelligence level of the magical spirit?
Emma was a little envious.
But an uncontrollable magical spirit had no practical significance.
...
The first round of the magic duel was the biggest test of 's basica dueler's basic ability. The dueler's energy would be particularly concentrated in this half-minute, and they would also be at their best state at this time. They would precisely calculate every minute and every second.
Angelia's Bookworm used its ultimate ability [Worm Siphon], sucking a fixed 100 magic energy from the life barrier of the Blue Player’s Magic Ball. Then it used this borrowed 100 points of magic energy and successfully triggered another core ability- [Infinite library]!
Under the action of the [Infinite library], Bookworm produced a replica with 100 points of magic energy and 0 points of attack and defense. However, it was ranked 2-star, which could be used as a tribute!
...
After sacrificing two 2-star magical spirits, a 4-star magical spirit could be summoned. So Angelia began the preliminary preparations for tribute summoning as soon as the cooldown of the summoning was over.
When Bookworm created the replica, she immediately completed the rest of the tribute summoning.
With the successful use of tribute summoning, a blazing white light shot down from the magic card in her hand to the ground.
The Bookworm and its replica also turned into light at the same time, and merged with the white light emitted from the magic card, forming a complicated and mysterious tribute summoning magic circle!
From this tribute summoning magic circle, another 4-star magical spirit emerged.
"It's not the same one." Emma outside the arena was a little worried and felt a sense of urgency about the fact that she didn't have a 4-star magical spirit.
But the corners of her eyes jumped at this moment, and she suddenly noticed that the Phantom Magic Beast in the Blue Player’s summoning area had completed the transformation. In fact, the transformation was completed before Angelia's 4-star magical spirit was summoned!
"Dark is faster than Angelia!" Emma's heart jumped, and then she realized that the transformed magical spirit was not the Umbreon that appeared in the intra-class competition - but the pink Sylveon that was extremely cute!
...
"Mi~?" Eevee-chan was very satisfied with its evolution. Compared to Umbreon, which couldn’t be controlled, Sylveon's evolutionary form was its pursuit.
The girly pink appearance, the skin that was smoother than the stinky pest that bullied it with its evolutionary form at the dormitory, and the cuter ribbon… In short, every part of this evolutionary form was cuter than that pest!
The more it thought about the more it felt angry. In the end, it couldn’t help puffing out its cheeks in annoyance. Why do I need the help of a deadly sin card to evolve? Would hard study change this situation?
…
[Card name: Phantom Magic Beast (Sylveon)]
[Type: Spirit card]
[Level: ✪✪✪✪]
[Race: Bird & Beast-type]
[Attribute: Fairy-type]
[Magic Energy: 1900]
[Attack: 1700]
[Defense:1300]
[Ultimate: Pixilate, Hyper Voice, Hyper Beam]
...
"Ahem!" Realizing that his magical spirit's mind seemed to have drifted off the arena, Dark coughed to remind him.
Sylveon finally recovered, and then saw that the magical spirit on the opposite side was already rushing toward it!
It was a magical spirit in the shape of a lion, but its face was wearing a pure white face mask, revealing only the eyes, nostrils, and a finger-wide gap in the mouth.
As the king of the forest, the lion's teeth and claws were its most powerful weapons.
But the mask sealed its teeth.
This made it less domineering, but more gloomy.
Continuing Angelia's consistent style, this [Face-changing Lion] was extremely fast.
In just a moment of distraction, it already rushed before Sylveon.
But Sylveon suddenly took a step forward and opened its small mouth abruptly, letting out an extremely terrifying Hyper Voice in the next moment! "Roar!"
Originally, the terrifying roar should have been done by the lion, but at this time, the roles of the two sides had completely changed.
Sylveon's Hyper Voice exploded like thunder and even affected the duel in the neighboring arena!
As a result, this loud roar reverberated in the entire hall.
The audience closer to the arena hurriedly covered their ears, but the reverberation in their ears continued.
The air vibration accompanying the Hyper Voice made the fur of the Face-changing Lion tremble; its running posture suddenly froze, and then it was blown away suddenly, its magic energy plummeting simultaneously!
...
The Face-changing Lion tumbled to the ground and then stood up again, but the mask on its face suddenly turned yellow. An angry and irritable breath suddenly spread out from it!
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