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The Anubis dog, guarding the blue team's magic ball, desperately displayed its ferocious appearance.
But you can tell from its constantly twitching hind legs.
This is nothing more than a show of bravado masking inner turmoil.
……
Sarah, on the player's platform, examined the six cards in her hand, her breathing unsteady.
Followed by.
Anubis was torn to shreds by a single claw from Umbreon, which came rushing in like a whirlwind!
The blue magic ball was caught completely off guard and fell right into its clutches!
Sara Swati did not make any more futile struggles.
【1000→0】
"The battle is over!"
"Winner: Darko Dimon"
……
"boom!"
The sound returned in an instant.
The students from the aristocratic college outside the arena suddenly cheered and rushed towards the red team's platform as if welcoming heroes.
Despite some elements that were difficult to understand, this duel was undoubtedly the most intense and exciting of the entire competition!
They were like they were welcoming a champion!
……
[End Phase]
"Dark Dimon!"
Sarah's clear voice carried through the amplification mechanism of the card table.
Dark flips over the "Fantastic Beast: Eevee" Spell Card to receive the light that Umbreon is incarnate.
He then looked up in response.
Sarah bit her lower lip hard, suppressing her resentment, and said with wide eyes, "It's not over yet!"
“Yes.” Dark nodded slightly. “I’ll be waiting for you at the finals.”
……
As he stepped off the stage, Dak was surrounded by his classmates.
"Oooh!"
"Dark, you're really something!"
"As expected of the recipient of the Crimson Star, he is indeed different from that hero."
"I thought you were going to lose at first. Is this the charm of a duel?"
"you are great!"
There were both simple, unadorned praises and meaningless attempts to elevate one while belittling another.
The students of the noble academy expressed their emotions to the fullest.
Surrounded by his classmates' enthusiasm, Dak declined, saying, "No, I was just lucky. It was all a two-fifths decision."
……
By the time the students calmed down, the four matches in this round had already ended.
The eight contestants were divided into winners' bracket and losers' bracket.
Winners' bracket: No. 1, No. 2, No. 5, No. 6
Losers' Bracket: No. 9, No. 10, No. 7
Diana successfully defeated the student from the House of Fools.
Emma also won a duel against a boy from the Magic Academy.
However, another student from the Knights' House was defeated by the Fool's House.
The next match will be a loser's bracket elimination round, where two players will be selected from the four remaining.
The winners will continue the competition, and two more will be selected from the four remaining contestants.
The two players who fall from the winners' bracket to the losers' bracket will then duel with the two surviving players from the losers' bracket to determine the final two.
So on and so forth.
……
During a break in the match.
Dak sat on the edge of a bench, arranging the cards.
In fact, his deck has significant flaws.
The most fatal flaw is actually the extremely long cooldown of the Sin series cards.
The CD for "Pride I" is 59 minutes long.
The CD for "Pride II" is an outrageous 180 minutes!
The CD of "Paradise III" is better; it's 120 minutes long.
Although there will be a half-hour interval between each match in the winners' bracket in the upcoming games.
However, from the quarterfinals to the final, there were only four intervals, totaling 120 minutes.
This means that "Pride II" will never be played again.
"Pride I" can be used after two intervals.
"Paradise III" can only appear in the finals.
Therefore, he must make some adjustments to his deck.
His duel with Saka Skadi served as a great wake-up call for him.
He wasn't the only one making great strides in the first grade.
The others are also moving forward at a rapid pace.
……
Before the start of the next round of matches.
Dark has finally finished adjusting his deck.
First of all, I definitely need all six Magical Spirit cards.
Secondly, replace some useless cards with some support cards.
The final result is:
"Eevee, Monster Hunter," "Trash Slime," and "Shuttle"
"Gatomon", "Milkyr", and "Sylveon"
"Push-Push Spell", "Obstacle Spell", [Obstacle Spell]
"Magic Bullet Charm", "Fade Charm", "Blink Charm"
There are still twelve magic cards.
The ratio of Magical Spirits to other types of Magical Cards is 1:1.
Although this deck doesn't seem very reliable, it's the best adjustment Dark could make.
He put away the adjusted deck before getting up and walking toward the bulletin board where the schedule for the next stage of the tournament was posted.
The students gathered around the bulletin board, discussing quietly.
When they saw the top eight contestants arriving, they all consciously parted to make way for them.
Dak greeted his two enthusiastic classmates before approaching Diana, who was looking up with a troubled expression.
"What's wrong?" Dark asked casually.
Rose turned to him and winked.
Diana suddenly turned her head and said aggrievedly, "I'm not happy, we're going to lose."
Dark looked up at the schedule: "Didn't they just announce the schedule? How can we lose already... (⊙o⊙) Uh."
The first line of the winners' bracket reads: ① vs ②!
……
Winners' Bracket:
Venue 1: Venue 1 vs. Venue 2
Venue #2: Venue #5 vs. Venue #5
Losers' Bracket:
Court #3: Court #9 vs Court #10
Venue #4: Venue #7 vs...
"So you're going to be my next opponent?"
Dark led Diana out of the crowd.
Diana frowned and whispered, "I thought I could at least duel you in the semifinals."
Dark comforted him, "It's not good to underestimate yourself. You have to believe in your magic cards. Even I'm not confident that I can win."
Diana: "But I don't even have a single Tier 2 Magical Spirit Card!"
Dark: "Magic duels aren't about whose Magical Spirit has the highest star rating. I almost lost to Sara Swati in my previous duel. Your deck is very powerful; you're a formidable opponent we must be wary of!"
Diana: "A formidable rival? Hehehehe. Then I'll go all out!"
Dark: "Okay, a formidable rival."
……
Two-in-one, 4200 words
We have to fight this hard.
Chapter 169 How to Relieve Worries When You Have No Monsters in Your Hand?
"Beep beep beep!"
Having finally managed to rouse Diana, Darke stepped onto the red player's platform at Professor Jones's whistle.
He placed the readjusted deck into the card slot and glanced down at it briefly.
The students gathered on both sides of this No. 1 field were, unsurprisingly, mostly from the academy of nobles.
Both he and Diana were representatives of the House of Nobles, but unfortunately they entered the civil war stage in the first round of the winners' bracket.
But neither civil war nor foreign war had much impact on him.
[Preparation Phase]
"I'm going to draw a card!"
Diana's voice came through the loudspeaker from the other side, full of energy!
Dark nodded slightly and replied, "Ready!"
[30s]
The atmosphere between the two sides reached a state of impending war.
Dak immediately focused his attention.