Yu-Gi-Oh, the tenth generation of card-playing simulator!

"A flash of hope! Transform into a flash of lightning and fly towards the heart of darkness! Upgrade and transform! Reveal yourself! [No.39 Emperor of Hope, Hope. Emperor of Lightning]!"

Judai clenched his fists, and a brown whirlwind swirled around his body, while the [Hope Doubled] in the field also began to shrink for the second time.

After continuous deformation and reorganization, the body began to become solid, and at the same time, the original crescent blade turned into thunder again, guarding it in the center.

[No.39 Hope Emperor Hope. Lightning Emperor] Attack Power: 2500->5000

"Then the [Morning Star Hammer Soldier] in the graveyard will take effect!" Judai was not satisfied with summoning a new Xyz monster. The [Morning Star Hammer Soldier] that had just been put into the graveyard took effect again, and its real body also appeared on the field.

"Kuri Kuri!" On the other side, the Winged Kurikoku began to protest loudly. Judai actually targeted its weakness and did not give it a chance to be effective. It was really unfair.

"Partner, we're now in a duel!" Judai clenched his fist and once again activated the light of his Xyz Summon. "Next, I'm going to stack [Morning Star Hammer Soldier] and [Sword and Shield Soldier]."

"O messenger of light, the embodiment of hope, please descend upon me and fight alongside me! Xyz Summon [No. 39 Hope Emperor Hope]!"

"It's time to fight!" Looking at the two extremely powerful monsters on the field, Judai's face flashed with excitement: "Lightning Emperor, use Hope Emperor Thunder Slash on Winged Kuriko!"

"Kuri-Kuri?"

"Then, [Hope King Hope] uses a direct attack, then pulls out a material to negate the attack."

"Finally, the quick-attack magic [Double Chance]" Judai played the only card: "Very good, now is the time to regroup and use the Sword of Hope!"

Chapter 248: New Semester, Weird Dream

"Do heroes also have to bring dimension attractors?" Late at night, Judai, who returned from the simulation world, mused like this.

Not long ago, he finished his match with Hana Benxue and sent her back to the other world. At the same time, he also wanted to have a new round of confrontation with various masters in his spare time.

However, it seemed that a lot of new cards had appeared in the opponent's world. Among them, the deck named Flame King was wreaking havoc in the ladder environment. He was itching to fight against the opponent immediately.

After several crushing battles, he finally understood what the saying "The King of Yu-Gi-Oh is the King of Flame King" meant.

"How come a new giant appeared in the environment just after Pearl Tears left?" Thinking back to the previous duels, Judai couldn't help but pull his hair: "How should we fight this?"

Facing the emerging force of the Fire King, his hero deck was perfectly restrained by the Fire King deck in terms of both hand destruction and field explosion effects.

The [Roc Phoenix] hiding in the graveyard will destroy all the monsters in the front field as soon as the opponent's turn starts. Even if you accelerate to create [Flashing New Wingman] that is not destroyed by the effect during the opponent's turn, you will be perfectly restrained by the [S:P Xiaoye] that follows.

"Really, this card [Xiaoye] is too outrageous." Judai complained again late at night. Every time he thought of [Xiaoye] who appeared at the second speed during his turn because of the acceleration of [IP Lena], he felt a headache.

"No, we must find a way!" Finally, after much reflection, Judai made up his mind to revise the deck's construction and completely defeat the Flame King the next time he entered the simulation world!

In the following days, because Benxue had left and Judai himself wanted to research a deck to deal with the Flame King deck, he announced his withdrawal from this GX tournament.

At the same time, many duel masters who came here for the sake of fame gave up the competition after hearing that the Kaiba Group had made new progress in the Ultra Summoning, and rushed to Tongshiye City to get first-hand information.

This caused the GX tournament, which was originally in full swing, to seem to have come to an end. After several more matches, Manjomu, which had been struggling in the competition, relied on its bond with the deck and its advanced understanding of Hyper Preemption to finally win the championship of this tournament.

With the end of this competition, the second year of college career of Judai and others also came to an end.

According to the news that Judai received later, Saiou Takuma, as the instigator and victim of the "Light of Destruction" incident, is now receiving treatment and monitoring in the affiliated hospital of Kaiba Group, and his sister Misuchi has started her part-time job career in the virtual reality world.

As for another duelist who used a hero deck, Ed, he seemed to have gotten over the dilemma of not being able to see the deck clearly, and has now become active again on the stage of professional competitions.

...

"Hey, Misawa, over here!" With the start of the new semester, Manjomu, dressed in black, stood at the dock to greet his travel-weary friend.

"Long time no see, Manjome, and...is this your card Pokémon?" Sanze, who had just returned from Domino City, saw Manjome's conspicuous black clothes and the three lively Pokémon that he had only heard of but never actually seen in the past.

"Huh? Wait, when can you see the elves!" As soon as they met, Wanzhangmu found that the other party seemed to be going to give him a big surprise.

"It's only temporary," Misawa quickly explained. "I've been assisting with some research at Kaiba Corp. this holiday, and I happened to come into contact with some dark artifacts that allow clairvoyance. But after a while, this ability will naturally dissipate."

"By the way, where's Judai?" Misawa looked around but didn't see the person he was looking for. "The Kaiba Group asked me to pass on some information to him."

"He..." Wanzhangmu tapped his forehead, "He should be sleeping somewhere right now. I don't know what he's been researching lately. He always stays up late into the night. I'm worried that he might die suddenly."

...

"Hey, maybe it's up here." Manjomu brought Misawa to the bottom of a building in the academy and pointed at the building above. "That guy always likes to skip classes, and he always likes to come here. I guess he's here now."

"This guy is really something..." When talking about Judai's habit of skipping classes, even Misawa, who usually has a good temper, shook his head speechlessly.

The next two people slowly climbed up the stairs of the academy to the top of the building. After seeing Judai lying on the ground, they immediately realized that something was wrong.

At this moment, Judai's brows were furrowed, his teeth were clenched, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat, as if he was having a terrible nightmare.

"Judai? Judai!" Misawa, who came a little closer, thought for a moment, then stretched out his finger and knocked hard on Judai's forehead.

"Hey!" Judai suddenly opened his eyes, sat up straight, and gasped for breath.

"It turns out it was all a dream. Fortunately, fortunately..." Judai wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered incoherently.

"Mizawa, Manjome, I just dreamed about the Duel Academy." Upon seeing his two good friends, Judai immediately began to confide in them, "But aside from the academy buildings, the entire island and even the surrounding ocean have turned into a white desert. There were even three suns in the sky."

Hearing this, Sanze raised an eyebrow. "Three suns? Just like the situation in the Wang family tomb during our previous visit to the ruins?"

"Yes, yes. If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have remembered it." Judai nodded vigorously and continued describing: "In that desert, I also saw many people, including Misawa, the two of you, Manjome, Kenzan, Asuka, and Benxue."

Judai's voice suddenly grew deeper. "But you all turned into statues made of sand. The wind blew and they shattered!"

"Then I suddenly fell into a strange darkness. A huge eye seemed to emerge from the darkness. Oh, and the eye was vertical."

"Huh, this is so scary. What on earth is going on?" Recalling the experience in his dream just now, Judai covered his head with his hands, his expression somewhat painful.

"Is the eye you are talking about the Eye of Horus?" Misawa turned to a page in his notebook.

"No." Judai shook his head. "That pupil was blood red. Even thinking about it now, it's still extremely creepy."

Chapter 249: John Arrives!

"So the final appearance is like this." Based on Judai's description, Misawa quickly sketched out the eye.

"Hmm...it seems to be even more terrifying, and I don't know why, but when I see that eye, an indescribable emotion rises in my heart." When Judai said this, his mood was depressed with an indescribable feeling.

"Why am I getting more confused the more I listen?" Judai's words only made Misawa confused.

"Hey, I think it's just because he's been staying up too late lately." Manjomu on the other side interrupted the discussion casually: "You don't sleep at night and sleep during the day. It would be strange if you didn't have nightmares, Judai."

"That does make sense..." Interrupted by Manjōme, Judai nodded doubtfully, "Perhaps I've just been too engrossed in deck research lately."

"But speaking of which..." Manjomu was obviously more interested in Misawa's sketching skills: "Mizawa, how did you develop such a good sketching skill?"

"Aha, you're talking about this. I've always wanted to record the tenth generation's decks, so slowly..."

"Curi Curry~~"

Just as the few of them were talking, Winged Kurikoku beside them suddenly let out a cry of surprise.

The three people who noticed the movement of the Winged Chestnut Ball immediately followed the direction it pointed and looked somewhere on the roof.

There, there was a cute little beast that looked like a fox walking towards them.

It has four large pointed ears, smooth and soft purple hair, and a spherical red gem inlaid at the end of its tail.

The most surprising thing is that the little beast's body is shrouded in a hazy state, and it is actually a duel elf.

"This appearance..." Misawa immediately thought of a Duel Monster on a card: "Could this be [Gemmon-Rubymon]?"

"Huh?" Judai was confused upon hearing the name: "Ruby Beast? What is that?"

"But it looks like this little guy looks a bit like Eevee." Judai squatted down and looked at the little guy who was playing happily with Winged Kuritama, and a smile appeared on Judai's face again.

"???, wait, what is Eevee?" The term that came out of Judai's mouth confused Manjome and Misawa again.

"Hey, Ruby!"

Just as the three of them were observing the Duel Spirits that broke in from the ground, a young voice rang in their ears.

When the little animal heard the sound, it immediately shook its fluffy tail and jumped towards the source of the sound.

Following the movement, everyone turned their eyes over and were slightly stunned.

Appearing in front of Judai and the others was a handsome young man with short blue hair, dressed in blue and white tights, who looked full of energy.

"So this little fellow's name is Ruby." Judai looked at Rubymon, who had already slumped onto his shoulder, with great interest. "He looks adorable."

"Well, it's a legendary creature." The blue-haired boy smiled warmly and began to introduce himself politely: "Hello, I'm John Anderson, a transfer student from the Northern Branch."

After saying this, he immediately looked at the creature floating beside Judai with a burning gaze: "This is the Winged Kuriko ball, right? Then you must be Yuki Judai, and you, are Misawa and Manjome?"

"Hmm? You know us?" Judai was slightly stunned after hearing the boy's words. "That's true, but compared to this, you seem to be able to see Winged Kurikokumo?"

"Yes, I've been able to see Duel Elves since I was a kid." John nodded and asked the others, "What about you? It should be the same, right?"

"Well, I've also been like this since I was a child..." Judai gave this answer subconsciously, but at the same time as he said this, a sense of incongruity flashed through his mind.

When I was a kid...

But at this time, Manzhangmu interrupted his memories again.

"I discovered it when I was studying abroad at Northern College." Manzhangmu, with his arms folded, explained quite naturally.

Meanwhile, Misawa also joined in on the conversation with considerable interest: "I've recently gained the ability to observe Pokémons through the use of Kaiba Group's technology..."

"Eh, Misawa." Upon hearing this, Judai was suddenly startled, and belatedly realized this extremely surprising fact: "If that's the case..."

"Yeah, that's right." Misawa pointed to Winged Chestnut Ball, who was playing with Rubymon on the ground again. "I've been seeing it since the very beginning."

"Ahaha! This is awesome!"

...

They didn't stay on the roof for long. A few minutes later, Jianshan, who had hurried to the roof, began to urge everyone: "Brother Judai, and everyone else, why are you still here? The opening ceremony is about to begin. If you don't go now, you'll be late."

"Oh no, I almost forgot something important." Judai slapped his head embarrassedly and said goodbye to John together with the other two.

"Then let's go first!"

"see you later!"

Judai and the others said this as they hurried towards the academy's auditorium.

...

More than ten minutes later, all the teachers and students in the school sat in the college auditorium.

Principal Samejima, standing on the podium, with his hands behind his back, announced the start of the new school year with a solemn expression, surrounded by a group of teachers.

After the lengthy and complicated opening speech, Saotome Rei, representing the freshmen, also took the stage to speak.

Although Saotome Rei was eliminated early in the middle of the GX tournament due to the intrusion of Wing God Ball, considering the intensity of the tournament in the early and middle stages, the already quite capable Saotome Rei finally passed the assessment of the advanced department and successfully became a freshman at the Duel Academy.

However, the principal's tedious speech had already dampened the interest of many people, and naturally, not many people were paying attention to the student representative's speech. Jianshan, who had just been promoted to the second grade, even slipped over to where Judai and the others were and whispered to them, "Hey, Judai-sama, do you think I can join Osiris?"

"Want to enter Osiris? With your level, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Before Judai could reply, Manjomu on the side immediately rejected the other party's plan to use the backdoor:

"You haven't even made it to Obelisk Blue, so why are you thinking of jumping to Osiris Red? As a student, you have to be down-to-earth, and you still have to practice and study hard."

Chapter 250: Professor Cobra and representatives of the four major branches!

"Okay, let's move on to the next step. Please keep quiet." After the freshman representative Saotome Rei finished her brief speech, Samejima took the microphone again on the stage, interrupting the whispers of the students below.

At this moment, Jiaodao's usual smile faded, his expression gradually becoming serious. He began a new round of speech to the students below: "Duel Academy, which is committed to the development of duels, has established branches all over the world. During this year's enrollment, we will also welcome the top students from various branches..."

"The top students from various branches?"

"Then wouldn't that mean they're the top students in each branch?"

"Aha, it looks like the academy will be welcoming many powerful people this time."

"Hmph, I wonder how these people compare to me, the GX Tournament champion."

Principal Samejima's words caused the audience to discuss a lot, and everyone showed different expressions.

In this atmosphere, Samejima, with his eyes slightly narrowed, began to introduce the next students to come on stage one by one. They were:

A representative from the Eastern Branch of Duel Academy -- Amen Garem;