Duels should be played with a smile.

After mentally reviewing the current personnel arrangements, Isono said, "That lord is already causing trouble for the Faceless Ones. Even if we don't say anything, he'll probably continue. But those two..."

"Don't worry." Judai smiled confidently: "Those two may seem difficult to talk to, but in most cases, they are actually easier to communicate with than the teacher."

After explaining some more details, Judai dismissed Isono and took out a second list of personnel from the drawer. Looking at Leyu's serious face, which could only be seen in his ID photo, he burst into laughter.

"Teacher, oh teacher, this time, it's finally my turn to conscript you!"

If someone unfamiliar with the Overlord were to see him in this state, they would probably be shocked. Is this still the same Overlord who was always taciturn and aloof in public?

At the same time, close friends who know Jaden will also be extremely surprised.

How long has it been since I've seen Jaden smile so happily?

……

Strolling along the streets of the academy, while wandering around searching for the Faceless One, Leyou occasionally called on Doraemon to open a cheesy map to navigate to the locations where the Faceless One had appeared, as indicated in the data. Suddenly, Leyou felt a chill run down his spine for no reason.

"Damn it, I have a feeling someone's thinking about me. That's weird. I'm usually the one thinking about others, so why am I being talked about today?"

In broad daylight, amidst a bustling crowd, Leyou carefully observed for a long time but could not find the source of the malice from before.

"Come to think of it, I haven't visited the other branch campuses yet. These campuses should have many outstanding students, and theoretically, they should be able to attract Faceless Ones as well. Perhaps..."

Without hesitation, Leyou called Philvo, the "tool man," again to modify the navigation route, but this time, Leyou waited a long time without receiving a response from Philvo.

"Quite a few strange things have happened today... but it's unlikely that something's wrong with her. Maybe she's just engrossed in playing cards?"

After making a wild guess about Philvo's current state, Leyou used the most primitive method of asking for directions and found the Harmony Branch, which was located east of the main campus of the Fusion Academy and whose main color was white, about ten minutes later.

The journey wasn't long, but the style of the surrounding buildings changed quite a bit along the way.

The main campus's color scheme is purple, representing fusion, and the architectural style is relatively simple and unadorned. However, as the campus has evolved, the overall architectural style has shifted towards a high-tech aesthetic.

Not to mention, as soon as Leyou arrived at the perimeter of the Synchro Academy, he could already see in the distance the dedicated track built in mid-air, which was specifically used for the academy students to practice Synchro Summoning, D-Wheel Driving, and High-Speed ​​Duel.

However, since this is a fusion dimension, even though the branch has all the necessary facilities, the number of students is much smaller. On the D-wheel track, which looks like a multi-level overpass in mid-air, there aren't many people practicing or dueling at this time.

Upon formally entering the branch campus, one is greeted by a straight avenue. However, it seems that due to the upcoming competition, most of the students in the branch campus have gone to the main campus to join in the fun. Only a few students, presumably on duty, can be seen standing listlessly by the roadside, openly using their Duel Disks to slack off.

The other branches within the Fusion Academy have relatively few students because different dimensions have different adaptability to different summoning methods. Therefore, anyone who uses other summoning methods in this dimension is either a noob or a powerful expert.

This is also true among the students. Among the major academies other than the Fusion Academy, only the original Ritual Academy has a relatively even distribution of student quality. The other academies only have outstanding students and "bottom-of-the-barrel" students.

"This is ridiculous. Looks like we came to the wrong place. The difference in numbers is just too big... How could such a small number of people possibly attract... Hmm?"

The sound of a D-wheel whizzing by came from the sky, and amidst that whistling sound, there was also a powerful declaration.

"A king's duel must be entertainment!"

"Crimson Lotus Demon Dragon! Suppress with Absolute Power!"

"Anyone without the heart of a duelist will only be my defeated opponent!"

The white D-wheel, and the crimson dragon speeding behind it, suddenly appeared on the D-wheel track above, instantly attracting the attention of countless people.

"Look! That looks like Lord Jack Atlas from the Synchro Dimension!" A somewhat chubby staff member patted the shoulder of his thin companion next to him and pointed to the sky.

Jack seemed to have a spotlight on him from birth. The moment he appeared, everyone who noticed him temporarily put down what they were doing and turned to admire the figure speeding along in his D-wheel.

The skinny staff member who was slacking off on duty also noticed Jack and the Crimson Dragon's appearance. Once his gaze fell on the Crimson Dragon, he couldn't take his eyes off it: "That's right, the Crimson Dragon is so cool! No matter how many times I've seen it, the Crimson Dragon is always so powerful and invincible!"

"But speaking of which, why is he here? He summoned the Crimson Lotus Dragon, is he engaged in a high-speed duel with someone? But there are no other duelists around him. And how did he just appear?"

"I don't know, but I bet you weren't paying attention in class most of the time. Don't forget, powerful Synchro Duelists, after mastering advanced Synchro Techniques, can..."

He stopped halfway through his sentence, looking at his companion with a mischievous smile, clearly wanting his companion to ask him for an answer first.

"Ah! I remember now! It's that one!"

"It's Accel Synchro! Accel Synchro can even surpass the speed of light! Lord Jack must have used Accel Synchro during the high-speed duel to defeat his opponent and then appeared here!"

Jack's sudden appearance did indeed arouse a lot of speculation, and at this moment, Leyou was already recalling the situation when Jack appeared.

"This king of crashes won the duel just now mostly by speeding up Synchro Summoning... but when it came out at the end, Crimson Dragon was just an ordinary Synchro Monster."

"The black mist following closely behind the Crimson Lotus Dragon, and Jack's calm and composed expression, suggest that this is not the first time he has encountered such a situation. To be able to handle it so easily, is it possible that Jack in this world will have a major mishap?"

Jack appeared in his D-Wheel and then quickly disappeared from everyone's sight. Many students, who were probably Jack's fans, watched the Crimson Dragon disappear into the sky, feeling rather unsatisfied.

"Jack's appearance here means he'll be playing in the upcoming matches. I wonder if Crab Bro will come... And Ryuko, her Ancient Dragon isn't a banned card in this world, I wonder what kind of tricks she'll pull off..."

With Jack's incident, Leyou lost interest in continuing his tour of the Synchro Academy. Instead, he took a detour to the Xyz Academy and, after finding nothing noteworthy, made a perfectly reasonable decision.

I touched it.

Some things don't need to be rushed.

According to Isono and his team's records, there had never been such a "special variety" of Faceless Men before. The fact that they encountered one all of a sudden suggests that something special had changed. Rather than trying to figure out the reason themselves, they decided to wait for the team to come up with their findings.

Anyway, I touched it first.

In a world where duels can solve everything, you can really forget about using your brain most of the time; as long as you're mentally sharp when dueling with someone, that's enough.

As Leyou leisurely left the Superpower Academy, a somewhat unexpected person appeared in his field of vision.

"Hey! It's Brother Leyou!"

With his flamboyant hairstyle and hair color, and a somewhat childish face, Yuza Naoma was running towards him.

With the same boundless energy and a similar optimistic personality, just a simple greeting was enough for Leyou to see a resemblance to his childhood self, Yuki Jaden.

After waving to Shang Mo as a greeting, Le You looked at the lone middle school student and asked, "Weren't you in Domino City before? Why are you back at the academy so soon?"

"Of course I came back to participate in the competition! The academy is holding a tournament, so I rushed back!"

A bright smile spread across Shang Mo's face. Le You put his hand to his forehead and shook his head helplessly: "I asked how you got back, not why you came back... Never mind, it's not important. By the way, you're just a middle school student, and you're already qualified to participate in the tour?"

"Of course! My dueling skills are very strong! And, let me tell you a secret, I'm a special talent student at the academy!"

Shang Mo, as if presenting a treasure, unguardedly revealed his origins to Le You, and even proudly pressed a button on the duel disk to project his student information—he even used his special talent status to take Le You to eat and drink for free at a street-side shop.

This made Leyou, who absolutely loves getting things for free, feel a little embarrassed—it just felt weird to have a middle school student take him to eat for free.

It was only then that Leyou noticed that Shangmo, who was also a student, was not wearing the school uniform representing his college like most of the other students.

"Oh! I forgot to mention, the academy's students with special talents have special uniforms!"

Shang Mo was as energetic as the rising sun in the morning. No one knew where he got his enthusiasm from, and he talked non-stop with Le You about a lot of information about the academy and himself, which made Le You a little confused.

"Speaking of which, I didn't know what your special talent was," Leyou suddenly asked. "What kind of talent could be used in a duel?"

"Well..." Shang Mo suddenly became shy. He scratched his head, took out his deck from the Duel Disk, and said, "My specialty is that I can communicate with the deck to build a deck!"

Leyou immediately became interested: "Oh? What do you mean?"

"It's very simple!" Shang Mo pulled out a bunch of cards from somewhere and placed them on the table. "Whenever I need to build a deck, I just need to talk to the deck to enter the deck-building world and talk to the spirits. The spirits will appear in front of me and tell me how to build the deck, how many copies of each card to include, and after a brief exchange, the deck will be ready by itself!"

"And they'll even teach me how to use the decks they build!"

"There's such a thing?" Leyou was truly stunned.

You should know that as a lazy person, his way of building decks is very simple and straightforward.

There are only ever two ways.

The first method is to open the deck, fill the entire deck with Grey G Finger Bubble, create a deck with all five poisons, then fill the extra deck with all the useful general-purpose cards, and then figure out how to throw the main card in and you're done.

As for the second method... find a theme you want to build, search for keywords, find a deck that others have built that you like, and copy and paste it.

Then change one.

Alright, a brand new deck is now ready.

As for deck-building tutorials, you can only learn by watching videos and then try it out yourself. There's no such thing as a live tutorial from an elf!

In that instant, Leyou suddenly understood why Shangmo, a junior high school student, was able to become a student with special talents.

This is simply one of the most beloved skills among card players!

Chapter 47 As long as there's no duel, that's fine.

"Is this intelligence...reliable?"

"Of course it's reliable! Absolutely reliable!"

The person speaking to the Overlord in an exaggerated tone was a scientist from the Arc Domain, who was also one of the organizers of this tour.

The real purpose of this competition is related to the Faceless Ones.

"As you know, those strange things have been getting stronger. At first, any student-level duelist could easily take them down, but now, even professional-level duelists have a considerable chance of losing."

"I believe your intelligence, but please watch your words." The Overlord replied meaningfully, while giving the scientist, who seemed to be looking for trouble, a glare that wasn't too harsh.

Edward and John's serious injuries were reported to other dimensions by the Academy because they involved Faceless Ones. At this point, specifically mentioning "professional players" was clearly just picking a fight.

Among the four dimensions, the relationship between the Fusion Dimension and the Hyperion Dimension is relatively good, after all, the leader of the Hyperion Dimension is a good-natured person. However, the relationship with the Pendulum Dimension can only be described as so-so. Although the leader of the Pendulum Dimension is also a peace-loving person, some of his subordinates are not very well-behaved due to some historical reasons.

"Moving the second half of the competition to a virtual world is not a big problem, but the safeguards you mentioned must be in place. Every duelist is a valuable asset to us, and we cannot allow any problems to arise due to your momentary negligence."

"Of course, of course not." The scientist nodded in agreement. "We've been preparing for this plan for a long time. You know, to ensure we could capture a Faceless One that could be used as experimental material, we invested a lot of manpower and resources, and even used up a very precious [Demon Bell Cave]!"

"【Demon Bell Cave】? If that's the case, then I can rest assured."

Duel cards and Duel Spirits can be said to form the foundation of this world, so basically every card itself contains powerful energy. The prerequisite for a card to exert that powerful energy is that there is a spirit powerful enough to use that energy residing in it.

To put it simply, it is extremely rare—but it is not because it is rare that it is powerful, but because it is powerful that it is scarce.

They are so rare that they would never be used in duels under normal circumstances; they would only be carefully collected.

Because of its power, it is rare. And the powerful card [Demon Bell Cave], which is so powerful that it has attracted the attention of the world's will, is the kind of card that is becoming increasingly rare.

Using a rare, out-of-print "Demon Bell Cave" card to capture a Faceless One is definitely a huge investment.

"Based on the Faceless One we captured, this strange being will continue to evolve. Because the research time is still short, we can only roughly see that its evolutionary direction is probably related to the surrounding environment and the duels it has experienced."

"Considering that we have only found traces of Faceless Ones in the real world, we conducted many experiments on that test subject about the virtual world, and then surprisingly found that he actually had a tendency to transform into a data entity, that is, the kind of existence form of the Cybernetics."

"In recent experiments, we have been able to attract Faceless Ones in the real world by extracting the 'data' of the test subjects. Just last night, we successfully 'imprisoned' an attacking Faceless One in the virtual world."

"After considering a series of factors, we finally decided to invite people from all dimensions to participate in this project."

After listening to the scientist's explanation, Ba Wang pondered for a while and nodded. Regardless of the success rate of the plan, the theoretical foundation was in place, and it was indeed possible to implement it, provided that the safety of personnel was guaranteed.

The more experiences you have, the more you realize how difficult it is to make decisions.

"Then I will announce the rules for the subsequent competitions according to your proposed plan, and you should follow up on related matters immediately."