Chapter 34

"The competition adopts a single-elimination system. The winner advances and the loser exits. There is only one champion in the world of magic duels."

Professor Jones casually took out two blue number plates from the jar and placed them aside, then took out two more blue number plates and placed them aside. This was repeated four times, and there were four sets of number plates.

She turned over the number plates and read; "In the first round, seventy-eight will enter thirty-nine, and four groups will proceed at the same time. No. 6 and No. 8, No. 3 and No. 28, No. 66 and No. 7, No. 49 and No. 5, prepare to go on stage."

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"Opening celebration?"

Dake glanced at the red No. 7 card in his hand and didn't care much.

Diana and Rose seemed more nervous than him.

"Dake, come on! I'll always stand by you!"

"Come on!"

It's not like you're going to participate in a variety show audition.

Dake walked towards venue ③ with a dark face.

A total of eight people left the stage at the same time, some were nervous, some were calm.

Dak took a look and saw that the contestant No. 66 who was walking to the same venue as him was a girl from the School of Magic. She had twin ponytails, big eyes, and a pale face.

He comforted her casually: "Don't be nervous, it's just a drill."

"Okay, yeah." The girl gritted her teeth and clenched her fingers.

The two came to the contestant positions at both ends of the venue.

There is a contestant platform in the official competition, which allows the contestants to look down at the venue, but here of course there are only simple contestant positions drawn with white lines.

Dak stood at the contestant position and looked at the venue.

The venue for this in-class competition simply reproduced the rules of the real venue, dividing the 1/6 of the venue close to the contestant position into a summoning area.

This means that the summoning area of ​​the magic elves is limited, and the magic elves cannot be summoned directly to the opponent's face - that is, face summoning!

It is said that the original magic duel did not have this rule, so the magicians often performed "tactical summoning", making the duel competition rough and chaotic.

Some magicians would even use the "visual interference tactic" to directly summon a large magic elf to the opponent's face to block the opponent's vision...

Later, the rules were gradually improved, and there were fewer farces like this.

But human imagination has never been limited, and there are still countless small tricks under the rules.

The referee of venue ③ is Roentgen of the Noble House.

"Hi."

Roentgen waved to Dak, looking extremely decadent.

There is no way, being a referee is equivalent to public execution.

Who made them fail to make a "magic beast" within a week?

Dak certainly remembered one of the classmates who went out shopping early on Saturday morning.

It seems that he should have spent all his credits on Traveler Street, which eventually led to insufficient credits and thus could not afford to buy more material packs for experiments.

And his fellow sufferer Sivot seems to be next door...

Dak smiled very implicitly.

The formal duel requires the deck to be placed on the "card table" in the player's stand, and the magic projection mechanism will enlarge the magic card for the audience to watch.

There are also rules such as "shuffle on the spot", "start with 5 cards", "1 round in 30 seconds", and "draw 2 cards in 1 round".

The duel process is divided into only three stages.

① Preparation stage: shuffle, communicate (taunt), start;

② Battle stage: draw cards, summon, fight (beat);

③ End stage: communicate (taunt), collect cards, declare;

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Of course, today's duel does not have so many rules.

The twin-tailed girl from the Magic Academy over there has even pinched the only "Magic Beast" in her hand, waiting nervously for the referee's whistle.

Dark suddenly worried that she would break the "Magic Beast"?

The magic balls of both sides have already unfolded the life barrier with a magic value of 500, and are now floating in front of each other.

Using magic to manipulate the magic ball remotely is an advanced skill, which is not within the scope of teaching for first-year students.

Therefore, if you want to move the magic ball, you can only push it physically.

Roentgen: "Beep--start preparing."

Dark took out [Magical Beast: Eevee] from the card pack, held it between his index and middle fingers, and entered the preparation phase.

Roentgen: "Battle countdown, 30 seconds!"

Roentgen: "3, 2, 1, start!"

The moment the battle phase began.

"My turn! Magic Summon!"

Dark raised the magic card in an instant, and at the 8th second of the battle phase, he successfully summoned his own magical beast!

Eevee landed lightly without any stagnation, and ran like the wind.

At the 12th second of the battle phase, it had already run across the battlefield of only 10 meters, and pressed the magic ball floating on the ground with its paw pads!

"咘咿ω?.)?"

Tilting his head and looking at the girl opposite, Eevee showed a cute expression.

Then he slapped four times in succession, turning the life barrier of the magic ball into blood.

The twin-tailed girl was so cute that she bled, her magic power was interrupted, and she hurriedly started the second summon.

Eevee waited patiently for her to summon her magical beast, and then - gave the magic ball the final blow.

"The battle is over!"

"The winner: Dark Dimon."

Dark sighed, collected the card and turned around.

Boring...

Boring...

Chapter 43 Diana is never afraid of challenges

"Is that the end?"

Diana watched Dark walk back slowly, and couldn't help blinking, always feeling that something was wrong.

These four groups of games were going on at the same time, and the others had just started playing, and you came back?

?°?°?)?；

Diana has something to hide.

She actually doesn't think highly of Dark. After all, Eevee doesn't look like the kind of magic elf that can fight and resist. How can he be as fierce as her white bear?

But can duels be played like this?

There is not even a collision between magic elves. With the summoning speed that is one step faster than others, he stepped on the opponent's lifeline before the opponent summoned the magic elf!

The final release was probably from Dark's charity.

After all, it was the first duel in his life. If he couldn't even summon the magic elf successfully, it would definitely become a shadow for his whole life.

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Diana is not the only one who pays attention to this game.

Both Emma and Witt turned their attention to this side when Dark left the field.

But no one could have expected that this duel would end in this way!

Emma carefully measured her summoning speed and her face turned pale.

Dark is really too fast!

The summoning spell casting time of only eight seconds has completely exceeded the level of first-year students!

She originally thought that her 12 seconds was fast enough, but now it seems that it is completely impossible!

This is no longer something that can be reversed by the strength comparison between the magic elves.

This is a crushing victory above the magic level!

On the other side...

Witt's face was also not very good.

He was determined to win this in-class competition.

But if it was a competition where he could lose if he couldn't even summon a magic elf - how to play?

"What is the casting time of my summoning spell?"

Witt suddenly realized that he had never calculated the casting time at all!

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"Next group, No. 1, No. 13."

Professor Jones directly grabbed the number plate of the fifth group.

Robert was surprised and said, "It's your turn, Witt!"

Witt nodded, grabbed the number plate and walked towards the No. 3 venue, his steps were slightly heavy.

His opponent was a boy from the Fool's Academy who he didn't know very well.

The other party looked honest.

But when both parties entered the venue, the boy from the Fool's Academy suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Are you really the son of a brave man?" Witt was stunned, not quite understanding why he had such a question.

During the battle, the two started the summoning spell almost at the same time!

Witt summoned the stag at least two seconds earlier, but when the stag landed, accelerated, and rushed into the opponent's summoning area, the man's summoning spell was finally completed.

A black bull with a layer of rock skin on its head suddenly appeared in front of the magic ball and stopped Witt's stag!

However, the stag continued to sprint without hesitation, and with the power bonus brought by acceleration, it knocked the black bull over!

Witt took advantage and did not waver, and finally exhausted the thick-skinned buffalo.

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Then...

Diana, Rose, Emma, ​​and Robert also appeared one after another.

Diana won the victory without suspense, and her [Magic Beast: Polar Bear] slapped the opponent's [Magic Beast: Unicorn Rabbit] with a slap...

And Rose played the role of a little white rabbit in another game...

Instead, Emma's otter barely won.

Emma originally wanted to rely on the 12-second summoning speed to try to replicate Dak's routine.

But her opponent was an excellent student from the School of Magic. Although he was a little slower than her, he still successfully completed the summoning in less than 14 seconds.

The magic elves of both sides collided in the left half.

Emma's otter is a standard "magic beast" with a magic attack and defense of 100. It was once at a disadvantage in the pure fight, but finally found an opportunity to spray a mouthful of salty soda on the face of the opponent's magic elf, thus turning defeat into victory!

As for Robert...

He was lucky to meet a student from the School of Fools.

Both of them spent more than 16 seconds to summon the magic elves.