When the Fortune Cup ended, the entire audience was dumbfounded.
That was only natural. In the middle of a card game, strange phenomena suddenly descended upon heaven and earth. A gigantic Crimson Dragon, summoned by who knew whom, appeared in the center of the venue. Then, without warning, the track and riders all vanished. A Giant Trunade swept through the arena, leaving the audience staring into Chaos.
That alone would have been one thing, but the crucial part was that the official tournament Holographic Projection in the center of the venue had gone down too. The spectators were completely left in the dark, unable to see how the duel was going at all.
When the Giant Trunade finally dispersed and their vision returned, along with the image on the Holographic Projection, they saw that the scoreboard showed King Jack Atlas's Life Points had already dropped to zero.
Fudo Yusei had won.
The city's symbol, the absolute King who had won every battle, Jack Atlas, had lost today to a challenger from the Satellite Sector. The Undefeated Myth had been shattered, and the King had fallen from his pedestal.
Most importantly, such a historic moment had happened during a black screen. They had not even seen how it happened!
Naturally, a chorus of boos erupted from the stands. Some shouted for their money back, while others yelled that it was a fix, a complete and utter fix. This Fudo Yusei must have had some unspeakable deal with the organizers.
Otherwise, how could the viewing system have failed at such a convenient moment, only for the undefeated King, who had won hundreds of battles, to lose during that brief instant the system was down?
Even the airplane-haired host was drenched in sweat, staring helplessly at the scoreboard. He wiped his brow with