Chapter 450: Seven Stars Rumors

"Crush! Destroy! Great applause!"

"Burst Stream of Destruction!"

President Kaiba's roar, accompanied by laughter. The white giant dragon's mouth seemed to pour out a galaxy, ten thousand feet of white light roaring across the entire field, and another person screamed and exited the field.

"Hahahaha—not enough, absolutely not enough!" Kaiba shouted. "Next!"

The laughter was heroic, shaking everyone in the audience until they trembled.

A black-robed person really couldn't help it and couldn't help but glance sideways in that direction. But just one glance was immediately called back by the voice in front of him.

"Still having the leisure to worry about teammates, you're handling it quite easily." Fujiki You Xuan chuckled.

The black-robed person then shivered all over and turned his head to look at the situation on his side.

"... Flip summon 'Morphing Jar', both players discard all cards in their hands, then each draws the same number of cards."

Fujiki You Xuan casually sent five cards from his hand to the graveyard and chuckled while drawing cards.

"Of course, I can draw, but you can't. Because I have 'Guardian of the Temple' on the field; when this card is on the field, the opponent cannot draw cards outside of the Draw Phase.

So discard all your cards. Then I draw five cards."

Black-robed person: "..."

"Oh right, then activate the Trap Card 'Seal of Time', skipping the opponent's next Draw Phase." Fujiki You Xuan made a gesture of invitation. "Then it's your turn.

Of course, the Draw Phase is skipped, so you can't draw cards. Come, please feel free."

The black-robed person looked at his empty hands and then at his sealed deck, only letting out a long, turbid breath.

Is this the style of the new Duel King?

Scared, scared.

Hearing the roar of the White Dragon beside him again, another colleague fell under the White Dragon's breath. At this moment, he had no pity in his heart, but instead envy.

Envy that his colleague could leave so cleanly, so fast that there was almost no time to feel pain...

"..."

The pleasant dueling activity ended. Fujiki You Xuan and the President had cooperated several times within this week and were already familiar with the process. With the help of the long-term information collected by the Kaiba Corporation, now that the Arbiter had fallen, this week's surprise attack on the new Xin Xin Duoma headquarters had removed most of the organization's foundation in this area in the blink of an eye.

Of course, it was only on the side of the dark dueling underground world. It was just that Xin Xin Duoma had been dormant for many years and had inserted important people in the business and military-political circles. Cleaning those up would take more effort, but that would be something for the President to worry about later.

But this time Fujiki You Xuan still had some questions to ask.

He had eavesdropped for a moment before the President broke down the door. Besides feeling amused that this group of people had been forced to the point of worrying about water and electricity, he also captured another key message he cared about.

Therefore, he left a live one after the fight, although bound by the rules of dark dueling, he didn't directly kill him, but asked.

"I just heard you guys mention something about 'Seven Stars'?" Fujiki You Xuan asked. "Underground dark duelist organization?"

The black-robed person had been defeated by his duel, and under the restraint of that dark power, he had to answer—of course, this person was already mentally dazed after the torture of the duel, and under the weakening of his psychological defense, there was no resistance at all.

"Yes, it's an emerging organization, we don't know much."

Fujiki You Xuan frowned: "Didn't you say your Xin Xin Duoma's means reach the sky, and you know everything that happens in the world?"

That person smiled bitterly.

"But we won't investigate every small group that has just risen. However, this Seven Stars seems to have great potential; if it weren't for... if it weren't for the changes, we should have gone to investigate the background and archive it."

"Changes?"

"Before Battle City, the organization had already gone all out to find you, to find the whereabouts of that Seal of Artifacts. And then you killed our ancestor, making our place restless..."

Fujiki You Xuan was happy.

So this is blaming me?

And now the new Xin Xin Duoma headquarters had been broken, and the remaining departments had also scattered like birds and beasts, and the large organization had basically returned to the paralyzed state after Dartz died and before the Arbiter appeared.

However, Fujiki You Xuan didn't need to investigate the details, because he probably knew what the Seven Stars was about.

Seven Stars were seven elite dark duelists gathered from different fields... well... let's count them as elites.

This organization was different from other dark duelist clubs; its ultimate goal of being established was actually aimed at Duel Academy.

It was for the three cards kept in Duel Academy.

The cards of the Three Phantom Demons.

Some said that those were the three cards representing the new pinnacle of Duel Monsters in this world where the Phantom Gods were no longer present, and it was even said that they had the heaven-defying ability to make people rejuvenate and live forever.

Immortality, just these few words were enough to make anyone in any era throughout history go crazy for them.

And the person behind the Seven Stars was exactly such a person. The mysterious sponsor who reached the sky was actually an old man on the verge of death, one of the founders of Duel Academy, Chairman Sheppard.

The Chairman had also been a dark duelist with powerful strength, but now he was old, weak, and terminally ill, having to rely on expensive life-support equipment to barely hang on to that breath of life.

He possessed wealth that rivaled a nation, huge resources, and top status; he didn't want to die. But even the top technology of the modern era could barely hang on to his life, so he began to set his sights on the mysterious realm.

Banner was the number one talent he discovered. He spent a lot of money to sponsor Banner's research; if it weren't for this, Banner wouldn't have been able to develop the alchemical achievement of "soul transfer" that was unprecedented.

It was a pity that the shell created by Banner's human alchemy still had flaws and would collapse if it couldn't be maintained for too long. Therefore, Sheppard rejected this proposal and turned to look for other possibilities.

The Three Phantom Demons were his last straw.

It was said that as long as one obtained the cards of the Three Phantom Demons, the holder would instantly rejuvenate, remain young forever, be immune to all diseases, and the body would forever remain at its peak, immortal.

It was just that the Phantom Demon cards were sealed here by the joint agreement of all parties when the Academy was completed, and the original intention was not to allow anyone to use them.

He wanted those three cards, the Academy wouldn't allow it, the Kaiba Corporation wouldn't allow it, and even his own board of directors would absolutely not agree.

That was why he gathered the Seven Stars, dark duelists with extraordinary abilities, to break the seal with violence and take the power of the Phantom Demons.

Fujiki You Xuan pondered. The battle for the Three Phantom Demons with the Seven Stars group was the main storyline of the second semester of GX, but the storyline unfolded entirely with the enemy taking the initiative to attack, while the protagonist group was always passively receiving moves, and in the end, they discovered that they had been in Chairman Sheppard's calculations from beginning to end.

And now it looked like there was a new option.

So he asked: "Then where are these Seven Stars...?"

The black-robed person shook his head helplessly.

"They seem to have no fixed base. The so-called organization is just a council composed of a few leaders."

"Then you said you wanted to join? How to contact them?"

"There is no way to contact their upper level directly, but Seven Stars has made some fame in the underground world recently, and there are already several subordinate organizations under their command."

The black-robed person confessed honestly.

"Go to any of their subordinate organizations and start from the grassroots. Just do a few missions, perform outstandingly, and you will naturally get the channel to move upward.

If the performance is eye-catching enough, it is not impossible to be favored by the person behind the scenes and join the 'Seven Stars' cadre ranks."

Fujiki You Xuan shook his head.

"Too slow."

The black-robed person hesitated: "That's another way."

"What?"

"Recently, Seven Stars seems to be preparing for a big move and is widely winning over people and pulling in allies. I have observed their movements; that person seems to be moving from north to south, focusing on cities where underground activities are more active, looking for first-class killers in the underground market of dark dueling.

Following this route, the cities they will visit next can actually be inferred.

Then if you make enough fame in the underground world of the corresponding city before Seven Stars arrives..."

"Will the leaders of Seven Stars come to the door themselves?" Fujiki You Xuan's eyes lit up.

This is worth a try.

It's just right to take this opportunity to go to the underground world to find some dark duelists who mix in the road to practice, which is not bad.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 451 =====