Chapter 657: League’s Battle of the Century (Ch 657)

Duel Academy.
“It’s my turn, draw a card!”
“Activate the effect of ‘New Spaceman: Dolphin’, discard a card, select a monster in your opponent’s hand, and if you have a monster with higher ATK on your field, destroy the selected monster, then deal 500 damage to your opponent!”
“The effect of Water Dolphin doesn’t work once per turn. So I’ll discard another card and destroy another monster in your hand!”
“I let the Water Dolphin and the Elemental Hero Xin Yuxia come into contact and fuse, and their forms change! Elemental Hero Xin Yuxia!”
“The effect of Shuise Xinyuxia is to discard one card in your hand once per round, and randomly destroy two cards in your opponent’s hand.”
“…Great! Now you have no cards left, Misawa-san!”
Misawa Daichi: “…………”
After finishing his enjoyable daily duel, Misawa-san looked up at the sky and let out a long sigh.
He worked so hard from dawn to dusk, spending the whole day in the lab, either researching new cards or researching tactics. He thought he had made a lot of progress, and was a completely different person from last year. He was confident that his current strength was top not only in the academy, but also among the other students, not to mention compared to You Xuan, who was just an outsider.
Then his dream was ruthlessly shattered by his classmate Judai.
Moreover, it has been observed that Student Shidai cannot even listen to lectures in class, let alone scientific research and development.
However, his face was so white that it reflected light. He didn’t work or study. One day, he was walking on the road. Suddenly, a group of aliens fell from the sky and said, “Young man, I see that your bones are amazing. They are the perfect material for turning into light… No, they are the perfect material for turning into darkness. Why don’t you get in the car and join us to save the world?”
So the tenth generation had such a new deck, and the most representative of this deck, the underworld dolphin, which cuts hands like eating and drinking water…
Yes, that’s right, it fell from the sky.
Looking up at the sky from all directions.
No, I’m not sour at all…
“Mizawa? Misawa-san?”
Judai waved his hand in front of him.
Only then did Misawa come to his senses.
“What? Oh… I’m fine.” He said, “Anyway, we’ve collected some pretty good data from this duel… But it really is an alien.”
He looked at the Tenth Generation’s deck and couldn’t help but sigh.
“It’s incredible.”
“Is it?”
Judai was very proud of himself, and then he struck his signature pose.
“I win! It was such an interesting duel!”
Misawa: “…”
Is it interesting?
Maybe. Dolphin brother must find it funny.
“Brother!”
At this moment, Marufuji Sho rushed in from outside the venue, panting, holding a piece of promotional paper in his arms.
“What’s the hurry, Xiang?”
“Brother…it’s brother!”
Marufuji Sho hurriedly spread out the promotional paper in his hand that was almost crumpled into a pickle. It turned out to be a promotional poster for the Professional Duel League. The familiar Caesar Marufuji Ryo took center stage, and the iconic monster Cyberdragon was sitting beside him.
“Oh, Caesar is quite photogenic.”
Judai laughed.
“But he changed into black, and it’s a bit strange to see him.”
At this time, Marufuji Ryo has graduated from the academy and joined the professional league. In the league, Marufuji Ryo also changed his previous blue dormitory tuxedo uniform and put on a black windbreaker. His temperament looks completely different from when he was in the academy.
“Well, but it seems to suit him well.” Misawa also commented.
“That’s not the point. Look at his opponent!”
Marufuji Sho pointed to the battle information at the back.
“Ed Phoenix…Huh? I seem to have heard this name somewhere before?”
Judai tried hard to recall.
“It’s this year’s star rookie! A freshman!” Marufuji Xiang reminded, “This year the academy has been promoting this rookie in the professional league. It seems that he has not lost a single game yet.”
“Ohhh that’s amazing!”
Judai was excited, but then he smiled.
“Well, but Caesar hasn’t lost before, right? He’s Caesar, so there’s nothing to worry about, right?”
…
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“Is Caesar bright?”
Just before the competition, Ed Phoenix sat in the players’ waiting room, feeling very complicated.
He hadn’t been able to find Zhai Wang until the end of last night. No one answered his phone calls, it was as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth.
This had never happened before since he had known Saiou.
what does that mean?
Does this mean that King Zhai has abandoned him?
Today he was dueling with Kaisa Marufuji Ryo, who was also a rookie in the league. Ed knew that he was also a champion who had just graduated from the Duel Academy and was a rising star player that everyone was optimistic about.
In fact, the schedule had been decided a week ago, but at that time he had no doubts about his victory, and he didn’t even really regard this so-called Caesar as an opponent.
Because long before he went on stage, Sai Wang had already predicted the outcome of this duel.
“Chariot, absolute victory.”
As always, Saiou gave this tarot card, a card that symbolized Ed’s victory and his destiny that had never wavered since his debut.
Ed had been convinced of this… until yesterday.
He lost.
That was his first defeat since his debut. And that person proved with the duel that the prediction of the King of Sai was not absolute. The so-called destiny of victory was also false.
“He who is chained by fate is nothing but a prisoner.”
“Those who break their fate and carve out their own path deserve to be called heroes.”
These words lingered in his mind all night, along with the appearance of the masked man in white.
Which path should he choose…?
“Dear audience friends, thank you for your long wait. The battle of the century is about to begin!”
The voice of the host outside interrupted his thoughts.
Ed took a deep breath, picked up the duel disk, and put it on his hand.
He pulled out a deck of cards from the card box behind him and looked at it for a moment. The card at the bottom was the Hero of Destiny – The Stubborn.
This is his destiny hero, a deck that truly has a soul. It has never been used in professional competitions so far.
But after thinking about it, he finally did not take the deck, but put it back into the card box behind him, and then pulled out another deck from another card box beside him.
He still chose to believe in the prediction of King Sai.
This duel will still be his complete victory, without any suspense. Marufuji Ryo, perhaps called Caesar, is only the king of the Duel Academy after all, and it is not enough for him to show his full strength.
The deck I’m going to use today is this one.
He inserted the other deck in his hand into the duel disk and walked towards the arena.
“Today we welcome a newcomer who has won all ten games in the professional league, Caesar Liang from Cyber ​​Dragon!”
“The opponent I’m going to challenge is also Ed Phoenix, who has maintained a 100% winning rate in the professional league and a record of 30 wins!”
“The battle of the century begins here!”