"Director Wu, welcome, welcome."
Liang Hui, dean of Tianyi Academy, warmly received a tall, thin, white-haired old man.
Wu Ziqin, director of the Magic City Soul Card Exploration Bureau, had overseen the full takeover of the professional ranking system by the Exploration Bureau after this cheating scandal. Under his leadership, changes to the PK Competition formats at Magic City's various Duel Academies were proceeding in an orderly fashion. As one of Magic City's most highly valued projects, Magic City Tianyi Academy was naturally a key focus of these format changes.
In recent years, as more and more technology trees acquired from Soul Card Worlds had been applied to reality, countries had placed increasing importance on exploring Soul Card Worlds. Especially since many sci-fi Soul Card Worlds had already begun fighting interstellar wars, if a country fell even slightly behind in Soul Card World exploration, an insurmountable generational gap in equipment and weaponry could easily emerge. That was unacceptable to every nation.
For this reason, the country had accelerated its exploration of Soul Card Worlds and attached growing importance to the professional Soul Card Master system, which could reliably produce Soul Card Masters. That was why professional Soul Card Masters received monthly subsidies. But what the country had not anticipated was that, as Soul Card World exploration deepened and massive numbers of Life Cards flooded the market, Soul Card Duels began to flourish. The Soul Card Masters receiving those subsidies promptly turned around and headed into professional tournaments to play cards, without putting any real focus on exploring Soul Card Worlds.
The country had once considered restricting the development of Soul Card Duels. They would not even need to do much—another ban on game consoles would have done the trick.
However, that idea was quickly rejected jointly. After all, Life Cards