Chapter 1: Tiancheng Guang

"My head is spinning."

"Where have I ended up?"

Tiancheng Guang rubbed his temples and glanced around. The scenery was unfamiliar; the walls were covered in posters of Dark Magician Girl, and a massive "Fusion" was written above the door.

He looked down at his clothes—a white and yellow school uniform. After a moment of scrutiny, he recognized it as the uniform of the "Slifer Red" dormitory from *Yu-Gi-Oh! GX*. It was definitely not something he would own.

He understood now.

He had transmigrated.

He just didn't know which world he had transmigrated into. Was it the *Yu-Gi-Oh! * world, or had he transmigrated into the body of a guy who loved to cosplay? If it was the former, he would be quite pleased. He had always been a fan of card games, and if he had the chance to play in a world with solid-vision technology, that would be truly exhilarating.

Honestly, this was a world with quite a lot to look forward to—because he had been a card player before transmigrating. Although he had never participated in official tournaments, he had consistently maintained a Master rank in *Master Duel*. In this Duel World, he should at least be able to carve out a decent life, right?

As he was thinking this, he suddenly heard some noisy voices outside the dormitory. He leaned toward the window and looked down, seeing a group of people in purple clothes shouting slogans.

"Fusion is the most noble form of summoning!"

"Defeat the guys from other dimensions!"

"Make them acknowledge us!"

Well—

Now he knew. He really had transmigrated into the *Yu-Gi-Oh! * world, but the world was different from what he had imagined.

Could it be the world of *Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V*?! No, please, I don't want to survive in such a garbage-tier world setting. Is it too late to commit suicide now—

He patted his head and hurriedly opened the computer in the dormitory to search as much as he could, confirming what kind of world this was. He also frantically opened various notebooks in the room to search. After searching for a long while, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

First of all, the world was definitely the *Yu-Gi-Oh! * world.

But it didn't seem to be *Yu-Gi-Oh! GX*.

It was a distorted version, seemingly *GX* but not quite.

This world had Yugi Yugi Mutou, Seto Kaiba, Katsuya Jonouchi, as well as people like Aster Phoenix and Professor Vellian Crowler. Of course, it naturally had Jaden Yuki, who was his classmate.

The difference was that this academy mixed in elements from *Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V*, which had caused some changes.

The good news was that the extreme Fusion faction was just one of many, and the vast majority of the academy's professors were not like that.

So, it was likely a world that blended the *Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V* setting, but remained *Yu-Gi-Oh! GX* overall.

After all, he looked through some duel recordings and could even find the iconic scene from the first episode of *Yu-Gi-Oh! GX* where Jaden Yuki defeated Professor Crowler with Elemental HERO Flame Wingman.

Then it wasn't a big problem.

Perhaps because he was gradually recovering, or perhaps because he had seen some familiar things in this world, Tiancheng Guang felt that he had gained some memories that didn't belong to him. After pondering them slightly, he realized these must be the memories of his current self in this world.

The original owner was a first-year student at Duel Academy, in the same grade as Jaden Yuki. Unlike Jaden Yuki of "Slifer Red," the original owner was an average student in the "Ra Yellow" dormitory.

In this world, Duel Monsters and Dueling were not just a form of entertainment; Duel Monsters were beings that possessed extraordinary power. Dueling was not a simple game, but more of a contest of wisdom and "power."

You have to know, in the *Yu-Gi-Oh! * world, using cards to duel was the ultimate means to stop all disputes and wars. There was nothing in the world that couldn't be solved by a duel—from deciding who gets the last loaf of bread today, to cosmic explosions and world destruction, everything could be decided by playing cards.

For instance, the election of national leaders had directly turned into duels. That was why in this world, the old president had beaten the old challenger and served two consecutive terms as the American president.

Now, no one understood Dueling better than him.

In this world, Duel Monsters were integrated into every aspect of life. He even knew that in a certain city, there was an experiment being prepared to use Duel Monsters to create a "perpetual motion machine"—something that was physically impossible, but had become possible with the help of Duel Monsters and Duel Spirits in this world.

Besides that, aerospace, exploration, and even "otherworld exploration" and "seeking the Underworld" could be achieved using the power of Duel Monsters.

For example, Seto Kaiba of KaibaCorp had been working on finding the Underworld and had even started researching virtual world technology for that purpose.

Just like the idiom about the King of Chu loving slender waists and his courtiers starving themselves, in this era where Yugi Yugi Mutou no longer played cards, Seto Kaiba was the strongest duelist on the surface. Since he was doing these experiments, other duelists naturally followed suit.

It was under this foundation that Duel Academy discovered other dimensions, and because of this, the Fusion Summoning radical faction led by Professor Leo Akaba emerged...

As for the original owner, although he wasn't a student of the extremist faction, since he had enrolled in Duel Academy, he naturally wanted to follow the path of Fusion Summoning and become a professional duelist in the future, so he wouldn't have to worry about his life.

Logically speaking, this idea of his was actually quite good.

After all, in this world, Dueling was above everything. Becoming an excellent duelist was about the same as passing the civil service exam in his original world, right?

The problem was, the original owner...

Was trash.

Of course, as a student of Duel Academy, the original owner should theoretically be an "elite student" who was proficient in all kinds of *Yu-Gi-Oh! * texts and rules. After all, Duel Academy students were outstanding individuals who had stood out from all over the world.

He naturally wouldn't mindlessly pile up some rare, powerful Normal Monsters and use them as his deck.

However, whether it was because of a different understanding or simply because he had to build it that way, this deck contained a large number of specific low-level monster cards that could only perform "Fusion" when drawn together.

And they were the kind of very weak low-level monsters that didn't even qualify for a "beatdown" battle.

For example, a vanilla Emperor Dragon with 2300 ATK that could only be fused using Castle Gate and Fairy Dragon. That was still considered good; other monsters that were paired up for Fusion were even more abstract.

Not to mention that there were only three Fusion Spell cards in the deck, and these materials, which only had one copy each, were mixed together—how were you supposed to fuse them? Would you even have any Life Points left by the time you gathered them?

Tiancheng Guang couldn't help but shake his head.

This was actually a deck that his predecessor had spent all his savings and worked hard to build?

It felt like a complete waste of money.

He truly felt it wasn't worth it for his predecessor—because although these cards weren't very rare, they were quite expensive because they were specific Fusion materials. The original owner had worked hard for the entire vacation to build this deck, just to scrape it together and pass the Duel Academy entrance exam.

But in reality, looking at his memories, he could have achieved the same effect for half the price or even less.

He shook his head, found the card box, took out the deck, and prepared to modify the configuration. But as soon as he opened it, he was astonished.

"These aren't the original owner's cards!"

Because the first card wasn't a normal card, but... "Gem-Knight Fusion"!

Gem-Knight? That should be pretty good in this environment.

He hurriedly flipped to the next card, but the next card gave him a new surprise: "Red-Eyes Fusion??"

What kind of deck was this?

He was a bit dazed and hurriedly flipped through the deck. The more he looked, the more shocked he became.

Fossil Fusion, Fluffal Fusion, Melodious Concerto, Ground Xeno, D-Fusion, Fusion Destiny...

Vehicroid Connection Zone, Fusion Gate, Power Bond, Magicalized Fusion, Summoning Magic, Branded Fusion!!

He flipped through them one by one.

All the cards in his deck had been replaced with "Fusion" cards. All the Spell and Trap cards that could perform Fusion Summoning were in here!

Even, after seeing one card, he directly gasped.

Even this was here!

The ultimate, invincible, strongest Fusion card!

Super Polymerization!

New author, new book, seeking collections and support.

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 2 =====