Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

Chapter 1760 Everyone's showing off, except for the three-year-old who's getting the short end of the stick.
Unlike before when he was alone in the spirit world, Hayato could go wherever he wanted and play cards with whomever he wanted.
Now that the Duel Academy and its students have been relocated, Hayato has to take on some of the responsibilities of a teacher. After arranging for Professor Chronos and the others to handle the affairs within the academy, he left the school with peace of mind.

After all, several problems that would have occurred on the original timeline have now been resolved. The "Duel Zombie" virus that would have corrupted those who were defeated can be prevented by running the "Duel Energy Distributor" with the duel energy provided by Hayato. The food shortage problem has been solved with foresight. Even Gana Malden, who was originally chosen by [Yubel] as the first target to possess, fell in the previous "Exposure Duel".

The Duel Academy now only has three problems left: how to return to its original world, the attacks from surrounding Duel Monsters, and the students in the three dormitories that have been sent to different locations.

The first question is simply to wait for John Anderson to unlock the power of [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon] to a certain extent. Don't ask how [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon] will be able to accurately send Duel Academy to its original location. We don't need to be so clear about the Duel Monsters.

(Yubel summoned the [Rock Spirit - Titan] twice, but the [Sand Monster] was wild.)
The second question is that, although the original work doesn't describe it much, there are only a few instances when Professor Chronos and Coach Napoleon are attacked by the Harpy at the beginning of the time travel, and later when Jaden and his friends leave the school to find medicine and encounter wild Duel Monsters wandering around, making the desert area seem very empty—but in reality, it's not at all like what the story portrays.

This desert region is home to many Duel Monsters, from the weak Sand Golem to the powerful Devil Shovel Worm. What kind of enemy you encounter is entirely a matter of luck. In fact, the original work actually shows that the Duel Monsters are always watching Duel Academy, waiting for an opportunity to attack, but there are no explicit scenes of the Duel Monsters directly attacking Duel Academy like a "beast tide" or "monster siege" in fantasy novels.

(In the original work, the Harpy was always keeping an eye on Duel Academy)

However, summoning a Duel Monster is not something that can be done casually. Although the summoning was successful, both Kagurazaka and Ayukawa-sensei's "death gauntlets" reacted after the summoning, as if they regarded simply summoning a Duel Monster as having performed a duel.

Even Professor Chronos, who hadn't summoned a monster using the Duel Disk before, was the same. However, perhaps because he didn't even have a Duel Disk, the Death Bracelet's reaction was quite weak. Perhaps the Death Bracelet also felt that the Duel Energy generated by summoning a monster without a Duel Disk was too weak, to the point that he doubted his own judgment.

Although the academy has now activated the "Duel Energy Distributor," which is sufficient to support the students' summoning of Duel Monsters to protect the school from the attacking Card Spirits for a period of time, Hayato had previously speculated that activating the "Duel Energy Distributor" in the Card Spirit world might lead to some special situations, and it turns out that Hayato was right.

Card sprites can grow stronger by feeding on duel energy in the human world, so there's no reason why they should lose this ability in their own world, not even Kryptonians.

The "Duel Energy Distributor" acts like a wireless charger, providing students with ample duel energy. The duel energy, generated by the mixture of physical and mental strength and intense emotions, is reverse-converted by Hikari Technology and even has the ability to provide students with a group buff that restores their physical strength, stabilizes their mental state, and even boosts their fighting spirit. However, this device does not target any particular group.

Sounds pretty good, right? But that also means that anyone—whether they're students or teachers at a school, or card sprites wandering the desert world—can get this seemingly free duel energy.

If the students in the original academy were nothing more than pieces of raw meat to the card monsters of the Pokémon world, and attacking Duel Academy was perhaps less cost-effective than digging a hole somewhere and waiting for a blind monster to fall in and be eaten, then after the "Duel Energy Distributor" was activated, Duel Academy suddenly became a stray dog ​​with a hundred dollars in its mouth.

Wild Card Spirit: "What right do you, mere human, have to possess such abundant dueling energy? It belongs to the destined one. Take it!"

As a result, the activation of the "Duel Energy Distributor" directly led to a surge in activity among the card Pokémon around the academy. They all wanted to invade the Duel Academy to seize the Duel Energy. However, no matter how much Duel Energy Hayato provided, it would be used up by the students after a while, leaving none for these card Pokémon.

However, the "Duel Energy Distributor" cannot be turned off because Ayukawa-sensei discovered that after turning on the "Duel Energy Distributor," the condition of the students who had previously collapsed improved significantly. Even the most seriously injured students showed obvious improvement under the "wide-area buff" it provided, and even the least injured students had almost fully recovered.

The "Duel Energy Distributor" is like starting a blood-pumping marathon. Students need it to recover from injuries and improve their physical condition. However, activating the "Duel Energy Distributor" also attracts many card spirits. The battles with these card spirits will put a strain on the students' bodies, which makes it necessary to activate the "Duel Energy Distributor".

—Hey, how can things be so coincidental? The first problem we encountered required a lot of battles to help people grow, and the second problem just happens to bring a lot of battles? Isn't this just "blocking both ends and becoming one-track-minded"?

However, despite saying that, there was one problem that Hayato hadn't forgotten, and that Jaden and the others who had faced her directly also remembered: [Yubel], who brought them to this world, was currently missing, and no one knew where she was hiding. And because of the characteristics of the "Duel Energy Distributor," not only would she collect the duel energy taken from the students' battles, but she herself could also obtain "Duel Energy" for free if she were hiding in the academy.

The opponent's ability to gather duel energy is truly formidable. It's not just this spatial teleportation; after learning about Sato-sensei's ordeal from Jaden and the others, Hayato guessed it was definitely Yubel's doing again. In the original work, she used the same method to create the so-called "Three Kamen Riders" to duel the students and exhaust their stamina. Furthermore, Hayato learned that after nearly suffering a fatal injury in their last encounter, Yubel only gathered energy to complete this teleportation without prioritizing healing him. If she noticed him during the teleportation, she might then begin gathering duel energy with full force to face his threat in her full form.

Unfortunately, Hayato did not find Yubel in the school library, which was originally used as a base by Yubel in the original timeline. However, Hayato unexpectedly discovered that someone had definitely used this place as a temporary base after the spatial transfer - because he found an empty glass capsule in the library, which was the device that Amon Garlem used to transport Yubel's left arm in the original timeline.

In this way, although Jaden and the others all said that Amon Garlem might not have been involved in this "Great Transfer" like Koji Sato, Hayato considered the premise that Amon Garlem had also come to this world.

As for the method that Jaden and his friends used to find Professor Cobra and [Yubel], it is now obsolete. It's not that [Yubel] concealed the special magnetic field she generated by collecting duel energy, but simply because the world of Card Spirits itself is filled with the magnetic field changes created by the irregular flow of chaotic energy. Ordinary communication tools and directional tools have become unusable—at least for now.

Therefore, the third problem of Duel Academy—the task of finding the lost students—was not assigned by Hayato to Jaden and his classmates or Professor Chronos. Instead, the latter was temporarily appointed by Hayato as the "vice principal" to manage the school in his place, with Coach Napoleon serving as the supervisor to assist him in handling affairs. Meanwhile, the faculty and students with combat capabilities were organized into a defense team to resist the attacks of the surrounding Duel Monsters.

—Although he usually keeps a low profile, Amelda was one of the "Three Knights of Doma" back then, and Malik and Rishid, as new teachers this year, were also involved in this transfer incident. Well, except for Malik. After learning that he wore the "Death Gloves" out of curiosity while Hayato was away from school, and then forcibly removed them, causing them to run at full power and fall into a coma, Hayato became more and more convinced that this three-year-old was indeed unreliable.

After settling things at the school, Hayato naturally embarked on his "new journey." After all, with the [Millennium Wisdom Wheel] to guide him, he was the most suitable person to find a few small buildings in this vast desert where it was difficult to find any landmarks.

He also agreed with the analysis of others, knowing that the Osiris-Red dormitory, which had the weakest average strength of the students, the smallest building size, and the least material reserves, was the dormitory to be searched first. According to its original location, it was also the one furthest from the main building of the Duel Academy. After going to the original location of the Osiris-Red dormitory according to his memory but finding nothing, he began to use the [Millennium Wisdom Wheel] to guide him to a more distant direction.

When we set off after arranging everything, it was about nine o'clock in the morning in the human world, but it was almost nine o'clock in the evening in this elven world. The three suns that had been hanging in the sky disappeared and the moon that had been appearing in turn was just one moon—if you ignored the fact that it was almost ten times larger than the moon in the human world.

Under the moonlight, the desert, which had been bathed in sunlight during the day, appeared to have turned pure white. The card monsters that had been resting beneath the sand during the day began to stir as the heat dissipated. Hayato, driving his [Tool Truck], ran over countless card monsters like [Eight-Clawed Scorpion] along the way. Most of the Duel Monsters, like [Harpies], which could gather in tribes and communicate, lived in distant forests. The monsters in this desert were mostly small fry like [Eight-Clawed Scorpion]—and even [Eight-Clawed Scorpion] was considered a strong monster capable of leading weaker, ordinary monsters like [Devil Scorpion].

But just as the "Death Grip" would consider other people's summoning of Duel Monsters as a duel, Hayato's system would also consider Hayato's act of driving the "Great Transport" over the minions as completing a battle, since he was indeed using the Duel Monster "Tool Trailer".

This resulted in Hayato receiving some DP points from time to time along the way. Every little bit helps, and besides, since unlocking Synchro Summoning, he has had even more places to spend his points. There are quite a few decks he wants to buy and try out.

As for efficiency, it wasn't that Hayato was tempted by DP points and didn't want to use a faster vehicle like the [Iron Drake - Nargacuga]. Hayato would be fast enough with that, but don't forget he's searching for the missing student dormitory. Moving too fast would make him miss clues, like footprints left by humans on the ground. His dynamic vision is good, but at night and in a high-speed vehicle, even with "Runic Eyes" activated, he might not be able to see everything.

And indeed, about half an hour after leaving the original location of the Red Dormitory, Hayato found footprints on the ground. However, next to the footprints left by the human shoes, there was also a huge trace left by a snake.

Let's rule out the possibility that "no one encountered a wild Duel Monster and it was just an accident that a Duel Monster passed by these footprints." Hayato stepped on the gas to make the [Tool Trailer] drive faster, and soon found the missing Osiris-Red dormitory along the huge snake path.

However, the current condition of this small student dormitory does not look good. A giant eight-headed serpent is coiled up next to the dormitory, constantly spitting venom to attack it. A considerable area of ​​the Osiris-Red dormitory has been dissolved. If someone were not constantly blocking the venom, the situation might be even worse.

Of course, there weren't many students in the Osiris-Red dormitory who were either absent from the list of "honorary members" like Manjoume, Marufuji Sho, and Kenzan, who would come here every day and even stay overnight. Naturally, there weren't many students with strong abilities who could summon Duel Monsters for such high-intensity battles. But even though the person protecting the Osiris-Red dormitory didn't show their face, Hayato knew who it was.

—Isn't that Daitokuji, who hasn't shown his face to the students since the start of this school year, but has reappeared in this world of spirits! And the card spirit he controls, constantly blocking the poison and repairing itself, is none other than one of his ace monsters, the [Golden Artificial Lifeform]!
An eight-headed snake is too obviously a prototype; I even mentioned it in my author's notes in previous chapters.

And after reviewing the story, I realized that Yubel's abilities are truly numerous and overpowered. They have both numerical values ​​and mechanics, and the sheer number of abilities means that even if you allocate points to Silver Chariot, it won't weaken them by much.