Monster Card Lore! Someone Finally Understands the Worms!

After finishing writing, You Chen browsed for a bit longer before shutting down his computer.

Just as he was about to go to sleep, he noticed the chat group was buzzing with activity.

Warm Worm: "Lately, I've noticed my value has increased. It must be because someone is using me in their duels, drawing a lot of attention."

"It seems after all these years, someone finally understands us worms. sniffle.jpg"

Needle Worm: "The higher your value, the more spectacular ways you'll find to die."

"But I'm different. I don't need to go to the graveyard."

Resonance Worm: "I never thought you two, after being abandoned as fodder by Insect Queen and enduring for so many years, would finally see the light of day?"

Upon reading this, You Chen had a vague idea of what was going on.

It seemed there was a story behind all this.

More accurately, it was likely a lore story from the Duel Monsters world.

As for the story of the worms, even as a Card Player, he didn't know it.

After all, they were truly obscure, the kind you couldn't even find online.

But from these few lines, he could roughly guess what happened.

For example, Warm Worm and Needle Worm had been kicked out of the forest by Insect Queen. Of course, they weren't the only Insect-type monsters to be cast out; there were also some vanilla fodder monsters.

And Resonance Worm seemed to be there to relay messages.

He also paid close attention to Warm Worm's first sentence.

Could it be that his recent wins using Warm Worm had increased its value?

When a group member's value increased to a certain level, they could receive generous rewards.

Therefore, You Chen was very interested in this value.

"If that's the case, taking these two brothers to defeat a deck with Insect Queen, would that result in an even higher value?"

You Chen immediately spotted the key point.

"If that's how it works, it could actually be quite interesting."

You Chen closed the chat group. His Emotion Value was now over twelve thousand.

He planned to save it until the new group formed.

Perhaps he needed to fulfill these two guys' highest value expectations to unlock the new group.

You Chen had an idea and turned off the lights.

Meanwhile.

At the Thunder Academy Research Institute, one of the four major academies.

An old man with white hair, wearing reading glasses, was looking at a paper in Kaiba Magazine.

His name was Xiao Shan.

He was the chief duel research professor at Thunder Academy.

His deck constructions and teaching methods for students were highly praised due to their outstanding quality.

However, in recent years, due to the saturation of deck constructions, truly innovative builds had become increasingly rare.

Previously, Kaiba Magazine used to feature diverse insights, a true blossoming of ideas.

But such innovative construction ideas, if unsuccessful, would inevitably face criticism. Thus, over time, many prominent figures, seeking to play it safe, stopped innovating.

The duel papers they published were all common knowledge regarding duel theory and construction.

This made it difficult to find any good articles anymore.

For these prominent figures, there was no need to innovate; not making mistakes was already the best approach.

However, Xiao Shan still continued to publish some construction ideas.

But recently, he, too, was starting to run dry.

So, he wanted to see if there were any fresh papers in Kaiba Magazine, which he hadn't read in a long time.

Only articles on the front page were published, so after reading many of them, Xiao Shan sighed and shook his head again.

"If this continues, such fixed construction thinking will cause our country's duelists to gradually fall behind."

Xiao Shan was about to close it when he saw a comment below a paper.

"In this day and age, this kind of construction thinking is insufficient."

This sentence was undoubtedly like a shining pearl in the ocean.

Someone dared to criticize a paper in Kaiba Magazine?

And they weren't just flattering it, going with the flow?

This immediately piqued Xiao Shan's interest, and he clicked on the person's profile.

He found it was a new account.

There was even a thesis paper above.

However, since this paper hadn't been publicized, almost no one had seen it.

But just because of that one sentence, Xiao Shan was already very interested in this person's thesis.

He clicked on it, and the first few sentences immediately captivated him.

Constructing a deck is actually like commanding an army.

Not only do you need to train your troops, but you also need to understand the enemy's true strength, strategic deployment, and current important tactics.

Only after understanding these can you then employ anti-meta construction thinking.

This can catch a large number of duelists off guard.

Of course, anti-meta strategies are inherently difficult, and many people have undoubtedly tried and failed.

The reason mainstream strategies are mainstream is because many people have put them into practice successfully.

But difficult doesn't mean impossible.

These words already resonated deeply with Xiao Shan.

He thought the same way.

And below this thesis, there was also a dueling deck build released.

Anyone who dared to release a dueling deck build was either brainless or overly confident.

Because no matter the build, it could never be perfect.

Releasing it would inevitably lead to some people showing off, nitpicking, and finding fault to display their superiority.

Many famous duelists wouldn't dare release their deck builds because it was truly a thankless task.

However, after Xiao Shan finished reading, he didn't react immediately at first.

But after careful consideration, he realized the strategy was viable.

And it could easily lead opponents to their demise, like a frog in slowly boiling water.

"Good heavens, this person is a genius."

After Xiao Shan understood, a rare look of excitement appeared on his old face.

He immediately sent a private message.

He wished he could get a reply right away.

He had many more questions he wanted to discuss with this person, and someone with such unique insights must be an old man or woman of similar age to him.

"Such an excellent thesis must not be buried."

"I need to call the magazine."

"To recommend this thesis!"

"Maybe it can even change the entire dueling community's atmosphere!"

After Xiao Shan spoke, he had already picked up the phone and dialed.

The next day, You Chen had just finished a class on Duel Philosophy and Morality at the academy.

As the name suggested, it was about the philosophical and moral aspects of dueling.

During this class, the teacher kept staring at him, occasionally glancing his way and asking him to answer questions.

The students in the class, after the previous duel, already looked at You Chen in a new light. Being able to defeat Chen Jianming undoubtedly boosted the morale of Class Six.

And when You Chen said that dueling was fun.

That they should use dueling to bring smiles to their opponents.

When these words came out of You Chen's mouth, everyone's expression became incredibly strange.

Even the morality teacher, who had already heard rumors, couldn't stand You Chen's nonsense halfway through.

You brat, you have morality?

I've been watching you for so long because I wanted you to reflect.

Who knew you'd shamelessly brag about it instead.

Sure enough, your homeroom teacher Fang Qing was right.

This kid's dueling philosophy and morality are definitely problematic!

You Chen felt very wronged; he truly wanted to bring smiles to others, and he hadn't said anything wrong.

And happiness, he was indeed very happy.

Not long after class ended, Hua Ningning even appeared at the entrance of Class Six.

"You Chen, could you please come out for a moment?" Hua Ningning didn't pay attention to the surrounding gazes.

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