Chapter 312: This Place Will Turn into Duel City

"Here."

Mokuba handed a suitcase to Fujiki You Xuan and smiled.

"This way, the 'Monarchs' you need should be complete, right?"

Fujiki You Xuan opened the case to confirm, nodded, and soon closed it again.

"Thanks," he smiled. "This should be about right."

Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Thunder, Evil, Light, Dark; these were the eight great Monarchs in the early days. However, Fujiki You Xuan naturally knew that this deck also had a lot of room for development and was also promising for the future.

As a physical card deck without an anime prototype, it could be seen how high its popularity was to have received a large number of new card reinforcements after so many years.

In the future, these Monarchs of various attributes would have more advanced forms, and each Monarch would have its own low-level vassals for assistance, not to mention exclusive fields, Spells, and Traps, etc.

At least from the current stage, the development potential was also limitless. And as a future deck, it was a deck that relied entirely on Tribute Summoning to unfold, not involving any summoning methods that hadn't been born yet, which was definitely a series worth investing in for scientific research.

Fujiki You Xuan had also long established a special project team to develop this part and had given pointers on the upgrade of all Monarchs that might appear and the development direction of all auxiliary cards he had an impression of.

Now his laboratory was cooperating with the world's most authoritative Monarch development department to start Monarch-related development. The Trap "Dark Tribute Summoning" he used before was the latest result.

Although Dark Tribute Summoning didn't carry the Monarch field, strictly speaking from an academic point of view, it had nothing to do with the Monarch series. But the Trap effect clearly stated "monsters with 2400 or more ATK and 1000 DEF," which was basically reporting the Monarch family's ID card, so it counted as half a Monarch series.

"By the way, that student I mentioned before..." Fujiki You Xuan remembered something.

"Oh, that... Judai Yuki, right?" Mokuba nodded. "It's fine, I've already greeted the committee; they will give him a spot."

He paused and asked strangely: "But it's rare for Fujiki You Xuan to specially care about a student. A very good friend?"

"Haha, I suppose so. But I didn't recommend him just because we're good friends; his strength as a duelist is also very strong," Fujiki You Xuan smiled. "Maybe President Kaiba will even take a fancy to him when the time comes."

"So amazing?" Mokuba was puzzled. "Then how do I remember the file saying Osiris Red..."

"Uh, how should I put it... because he's a bit of a weirdo," Fujiki You Xuan shrugged. "Besides, I'm still in the Yellow dorm."

"... That's true."

Mokuba nodded and didn't ask anymore.

"Alright, it's about time for the opening," Mokuba got up and smiled. "Then next is the opening ceremony time..."

"Speaking of which, I was wondering before..."

Fujiki You Xuan was puzzled.

"There isn't a venue or anything for the opening ceremony? It only said to let the contestants arrive in New Domino City, but didn't say the specific address..."

"This..."

Mokuba smiled mysteriously.

"You will know soon."

Fujiki You Xuan was puzzled at first, but soon understood what Mokuba meant.

Because the moment the countdown ended, President Kaiba appeared abruptly right in front of him.

Even Fujiki You Xuan had to admit that he was a bit startled. He felt that since coming to this world where even ghosts have to play cards, there really weren't many things that could startle him.

Just like the special effects when summoning a monster, a summoning vortex appeared, followed by gorgeous golden light effects. Kaiba Seto rose into the air within it, his trench coat fluttering, and then landed in a half-squat like a superhero.

He flicked his coat and stood up gracefully.

Fujiki You Xuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly guessed something.

"Holographic projection?"

He looked at the Duel Disk on his hand.

All contestants' Duel Disks were produced by Kaiba Corporation, so it was easy to associate that President Kaiba was projecting holographic images through everyone's Duel Disk.

"Not entirely correct," Mokuba smiled. "Although it's a virtual image, it's not holographic projection, but in your brain."

Fujiki You Xuan: "?"

However, he now had some understanding of the technology of the President's house and quickly guessed what technology was applied.

It was the duel image technology used in the theatrical version. By interacting with the memory area of the duelist's brain through the Duel Disk, it could realize the function of brain projection.

So President Kaiba was now appearing in front of all contestants in the form of a monster projection.

"All contestants who have come to Duel City, I welcome you as the organizer."

Kaiba crossed his arms and scoffed.

"Each of you is a battle-hardened warrior who has won the opportunity to come to this battlefield with your own strength and resume... but this is just the beginning."

Kaiba took a step forward and shouted loudly.

"This city will turn into a city of battle from now on! This place will turn into a stage for dueling, your deck will be the only sword you can rely on, and only those who survive to the end in battle can climb to the peak!"

He raised the Duel Disk on his hand, indicating his deck.

"However, this is not the first Duel City tournament, so I think everyone knows the inherited rules."

"The winner of the duel can win a rare card from the loser, and the card taken can be specified by the winner."

Sure enough, the card-betting rule.

Fujiki You Xuan narrowed his eyes.

A rule that had been continued since the first Duel City. It was initially formulated by Kaiba to win the three Phantom God cards, and later retained as a feature of the Duel City tournament.

Duelists who didn't have enough confidence in their strength, couldn't accept betting cards, or losing rare cards wouldn't participate in this event.

"Geez, this way, it's absolutely impossible to lose," Fujiki You Xuan sighed.

"You're doing it again," Mokuba was amused. "It's as if you had any intention of losing from the start."

Kaiba continued to explain.

"Only the eight people who win the fastest from the melee in the entire city can obtain the qualification to enter the finals. The location of the finals is hidden somewhere in this city."

Kaiba sneered.

"Of course, I don't know where it is either. Don't think about using the locations of previous tournaments as a reference, because the choice of location for each tournament is different."

"Each contestant will have a fragment of a puzzle card, which is a specially made puzzle card by the organizer."

"Only those who win six puzzle cards first can overlap the six cards to reveal the complete map, indicating the location of the finals."

Fujiki You Xuan wasn't surprised.

It was basically a one-to-one replica of the rules of the first Duel City tournament.

"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. This Duel City tournament has additional rules."

Kaiba Seto said lightly.

"The final champion of this Duel City... will obtain the long-vacant title of 'Duel King'."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 313 =====