Dark nodded slightly. "Looks like it."
As he spoke, he pointed at Dulles, who was sitting among a group of scattered participants. Dulles immediately raised a hand and waved vigorously at them, looking exceptionally enthusiastic.
Professor Harvey laughed. "It seems he likes you."
"Perhaps," Dark said.
Dulles was indeed overly enthusiastic, but there were always some people who were simply that familiar with strangers.
Moreover, Dark had not sensed any negative emotions from Dulles, so he did not pay it much mind.
"What a pity."
Suddenly hearing a sigh from behind him, Dark could not help rolling his eyes. This child had grown up and stopped listening. He even wanted to hit his old father now. How outrageous!
With Dark's match schedule decided, Ergane's schedule was naturally determined as well.
She would appear in the final match of the first preliminary round, facing Whitney, the Sand Scorpion Insectman!
The sixty-first duel began immediately afterward.
This duel featured Ailuli Clarissa from Saint Marian Academy against an Orc contestant ranked somewhere in the seventies during the qualifiers.
That Orc contestant might have possessed considerable strength. However, he had revealed far too many trump cards during the qualifiers, and they had already gained a thorough understanding of his deck.
Under those circumstances, constructing a deck designed to counter him at every turn was no difficult task.
Ailuli did not win easily, but she ultimately claimed victory without any real danger.
Then came the sixty-second duel.
The mysterious Orc ranked first in the qualifiers finally stepped onto the official stage of the preliminaries!
The moment he stepped onto the dueling platform, the entire venue erupted! Mephistogram's opponent was an Elf.
This Elf came from the Elven Spell Academy and was said to be a professor with solid core-level strength within the academy.
He was