Chapter 343: Specially Prepared Cards (4k, seeking monthly tickets)

After the first professor’s class ended, both students and teachers had given the class quite high praise. Professor Chronos was also very happy, exclaiming "Mamma Mia" several times, and then sweating coldly behind their backs.

He didn't understand what Professor Viper was teaching at all.

In fact, until he truly traveled to other dimensions and faced "Bai Jing" with Tenjou Hikari, he had been very uninterested in dimensional travel and had internally resisted acknowledging the existence of "spirits."

Of course, after that, he slowly changed his views on everything and gradually recognized his previous erroneous concepts.

But regardless, as a duelist, what he prioritized learning and researching was not what Professor Viper was teaching, so even for him, what Professor Viper taught was exceptionally useful.

After all, no one in the world understood the Ancient Gear series better than him.

As a duelist who had successfully relied on personal ability and diplomatic skills to reach a cooperation with the Ancient Gear dimension and obtained many exclusive cards from there, Professor Chronos still had a very good relationship with the Ancient Gear spirits.

So after listening to Professor Viper’s class, he reviewed and studied it in his office for a long time before he suddenly realized.

No wonder he had felt he had become stronger during this period; it wasn't an illusion.

*Knock, knock, knock.*

Someone knocked on the door of the Principal’s office.

"Please come in."

The door opened automatically. Tenjou Hikari looked toward the Principal’s office, first bowed to Professor Chronos, and then asked, "Professor, did you call for me?"

"Tenjou-kun—" Chronos stood up, welcoming Tenjou Hikari and signaling him to sit.

Tenjou Hikari nodded, found a seat, and sat down casually.

After the class ended, Professor Chronos had asked Tenjou Hikari to come see him after all classes ended this evening, as if there was something urgent to discuss.

"What did you think of the two professors’ classes today?" Professor Chronos asked.

"I benefited a lot," Tenjou Hikari replied decisively.

The morning class was taught by Professor Viper, who spoke about how to improve one’s spirit power. These contents were very useful even to Tenjou Hikari, and he had taken many notes.

In the afternoon, "Seraph" taught "Demonology."

At first glance, this so-called "Demonology" sounded like an academic subject about summoning demons or demon decks, but in reality, it was not. "Demonology" was actually a more classic subject at the Western European branch.

It was "Theology."

However, to avoid taboos and bypass the church’s jurisdiction, Duel Academy simply called it "Demonology" for convenience.

So-called Demonology was not about teaching students to recognize and understand these demons, but about teaching students how to establish connections with these "transcendent existences" and then obtain the support of "power."

For example, summoning demons, monsters, or gods through rituals, and then obtaining relevant power through contracts.

It sounded very evil at first glance.

But in reality, it wasn't like that at all.

Through the development and research of spirit power, this world had gradually mastered a special "Demon Summoning Method." That is, through corresponding steps and techniques, first sacrificing corresponding materials, then using a certain card as a medium, and then summoning the spirit from that dimension to this world, followed by directly talking to or even dueling the spirit face-to-face, thereby directly bypassing the process of "understanding" that Professor Viper spoke of, and finally obtaining recognition directly.

The advantage of this method was that you could lock onto the power you wanted, but the disadvantage was that because you were calling the other party to this world through summoning, the summoner was naturally weaker than the summoned party—in a duel, regardless of win or loss, the summoning side provided the duel energy in the end. If the duel energy was insufficient, it was even possible that the spirit would dissipate in this world because it couldn't maintain its form before the duel ended, returning to its dimension, or even eating up the materials and duel energy you sacrificed.

This process was "irreversible."

Yes—

Performing a sacrifice ritual in this way required sacrificing "capacity." Once the ritual failed, the summoner’s spirit power capacity would be missing a part out of thin air, which could not be replenished through rest and could only be increased through renewed effort.

And to let the students more intuitively feel the power of this summoning technique, this "Seraph" teacher demonstrated summoning an angel in class.

[Freya, Spirit of Victory]

This spirit was quite angry when first summoned to this dimension, but after hearing Seraph’s explanation and hearing that she could show a human cub, she happily began to perform a duel.

Several students who challenged her because of her "beauty" all failed in the end, and finally, the guide said goodbye to the students and left before the time was up.

At the time, many students were very worried about Professor Seraph. After all, according to his explanation, when a spirit returned to its own dimension, the summoner’s "spirit power capacity" would definitely suffer a loss.

However, Seraph didn't have much of a reaction to this. He just smiled and told the students that as a scholar, one must be well-prepared and protected before experimenting and trying, otherwise, one would lose some spirit power for nothing like he did.

In short...

The class was quite perfect.

It had to be said that these professors at Duel Academy really had their own tricks when they truly showed their "real skills."

In the original work, those teachers and professors at Duel Academy basically all had their own tricks, and in this world highly developed due to dimensional travel, the tricks mastered by these duelists who became "professors" of various branches through personal ability were truly more exciting than the last.

Perhaps in terms of strength, any single one of them was not as good as Reiji Akaba.

But...

They were just so numerous and had so many tricks.

Many of them, like Professor Viper, were tough guys who could refuse Reiji Akaba’s invitations several times without being affected by the Fusion Army at all. Their value really didn't need to be stated.

And precisely because of this, Professor Chronos specifically asked Tenjou Hikari to come to the Principal’s office, wanting to hear Tenjou Hikari’s thoughts.

He knew his own situation; he was very clear about where those "delusions" of Reiji Akaba about him came from, so he had never accepted these praises. But conversely, although he didn't accept these things, he had always insisted on not admitting to some of the more private things Tenjou Hikari had done.

Because he didn't want Tenjou Hikari’s studies to be affected by these trivial and strange matters, and even less did he want Tenjou Hikari to be affected by retaliation.

With him, the "mastermind," around, others would have to be wary to some extent.

Similarly, it was precisely because of the Reiji Akaba matter that he was also very worried about these professors.

Yes.

The classes everyone taught were indeed very powerful.

But were there any problems behind them?

Would there be any conspiracies like Reiji Akaba’s?

To some extent, the guesses of those professors were actually correct.

Perhaps Professor Chronos was unintentional about the "duel" with Reiji Akaba, but he genuinely wanted to understand the situation from every aspect regarding the assessment of these professors.

Therefore, he arranged the "professor assessment" with his own ideas as much as possible, and then asked for the opinion of Tenjou Hikari, the student he trusted most, hoping to rule out all problems and doubts as much as possible.

"So, Tenjou-kun, do you think there is anything strange about the two professors’ classes?"

Tenjou Hikari thought for a moment and replied, "Both of them."

"...Is that so."

"Professor, you should have an impression of the story Professor Viper told; it was the report that Lightsworn and Judai gave you after the GX Tournament ended."

He nodded.

That’s right. Regarding Lightsworn, regarding the Dark World, regarding the "Supreme King," although Professor Chronos didn't follow the whole process, he later watched the recordings and content. Now that Tenjou Hikari mentioned it, he suddenly realized.

So, that "King’s Story" was... the Supreme King?

If that was the case, then it really couldn't be guaranteed...

"What about Professor Seraph? He looks very kind," Professor Chronos asked. "And his experimental performance was also very good."

If one could know a person’s heart just by looking kind, Judai and the others wouldn't have been beaten up by Professor Daitokuji and left dizzy.

Tenjou Hikari didn't know what Professor Seraph was thinking either, but he just felt that rituals like summoning spirits were simply too dangerous.

If some strange spirit took advantage of the situation and directly invaded their world, who would be responsible?

Would it be the student who tried it?

But aside from that, Tenjou Hikari couldn't say what was wrong.

After all, whether it was Professor Viper or Professor Seraph, the content they taught in class was genuine, the research content of these world-class researchers and scholars, and exclusive knowledge that other professors wouldn't teach at all.

Moreover, in terms of danger, Professor Viper’s class was almost completely harmless, and while Professor Seraph’s class was relatively dangerous, the materials used for those rituals were strictly controlled by KaibaCorp. Ordinary students couldn't get them at all, so only he, a professional, could apply to use them in class. Who else could get them?

In summary, although the two people’s classes were a bit strange on the surface, they were all within the "scope."

Fortunately, Professor Chronos didn't expect to get any answers in one day.

After all, he was prepared to observe the behavior of these professors for the entire semester.

He called Tenjou Hikari over this time because he knew that as the most studious and excellent student, Tenjou would definitely take all the professors’ classes, so he specifically reminded Tenjou Hikari to be careful.

"Don't worry about that, Professor, I’m prepared."

Tenjou Hikari had been keeping an eye on Professor Viper, wondering if he had any conspiracies or the like, and he also faced the other professors with a skeptical attitude.

After all, those teachers and professors in the original work really all had their own tricks, and there were quite a few who could make Judai depressed and autistic. Now that these people had been screened who knows how many times, they would definitely be more elite and powerful than those teachers in the original work.

Just like that Professor Viper, he was completely different from Tenjou Hikari’s impression.

Professor Chronos nodded, then beckoned, signaling Tenjou Hikari to come over. Tenjou Hikari stood up and walked over, feeling a bit curious, only to see Professor Chronos secretly take out a small card box and hand it to Tenjou Hikari.

Tenjou Hikari was startled, opened the cards in the box, and then his eyes lit up.

It was—

Ancient Gear series cards!

So many!

Tenjou Hikari looked at card after card, looking up at the professor in surprise.

"Professor, what are these?"

"During this period, the cooperation reached between our school and Gear Town—because of Professor Akaba’s passing, they seem very happy, so they opened up more opportunities for me to use cards." The professor curled his lips slightly, looking at the surprised expression of his proud disciple, Tenjou Hikari, feeling quite satisfied.

Compared to the surprise or praise of those professors, he was more satisfied and gratified as a teacher by Tenjou Hikari’s surprise and joy.

On one hand, Tenjou’s reputation was quite loud; on the other hand, as a professor, he was truly very gratified, very satisfied, and very happy to see a student like Tenjou Hikari who was excellent in both character and learning, both inside and out, and who thought of his teacher.

So precisely because of this, every time Tenjou Hikari asked him for something, he would do his best to complete it.

Now that his deck had been updated, he naturally wouldn't forget his proud disciple, Tenjou Hikari. Taking advantage of having a task, he handed all the cards he had collected directly to Tenjou Hikari.

"Don't worry, I have a set too," Chronos laughed.

Unlike last time, he had a very rich harvest this time. In addition to a few cards in the Extra Deck, the Ancient Gear spirits gave him dozens of Main Deck monsters and spells directly. Except for cards he might consider using for excellent students later, Chronos decided to give a set of decks to Tenjou Hikari directly—after all, Tenjou was also a genuine duelist who used Ancient Gear. These cards wouldn't be buried in his hands.

"Thank you very much, Professor!" Tenjou Hikari bowed to Professor Chronos to thank him.

He accepted the cards without being polite; with his relationship with Professor Chronos, there was no need to say anything sentimental.

Originally, he had wanted to see what secrets these many professors had, and now, he would only try harder.

The next day.

Another new class.

"Chivalry."

Taught by Professor Paladin from the Nordic branch.

In everyone’s expectant gaze, Professor Paladin came to the podium holding two huge piles of things, swaying, and then "bang" put them on the ground, making a crisp collision sound and a *clatter-clatter* noise.

A group of students and professors looked at this scene in confusion.

Armor?

Tenjou Hikari poked his head out, feeling a bit surprised.

How did this professor... hold two sets of armor onto the podium?

"Pro... Professor, what are you going to teach?" A student raised a hand in confusion.

"Ah, Chivalry—though, saying it like that, you probably find it hard to understand. [Chivalry] here actually refers to [Knightly Thinking] and [Knightly Actions]."

Professor Paladin had blonde hair and blue eyes, a genuine handsome white man with a good image, looking like the protagonist of a chivalric novel, so he had gained the favor of many female students in the school over the past two days.

He picked up a helmet with one hand, shook it gently, and then looked at the people under the podium, scanning them, and noticed Tenjou Hikari: "Tenjou-kun, and then..."

He scanned slowly and found another person: "And then there’s Johan-kun. Can you two cooperate with the teacher for this class?"

Hikari and Johan?

Many people focused their attention on the two of them.

Why specifically look for these two?