Inside Dueling Hall 4, the raging metallic pressure and smoke gradually subsided.
As the Duel Disk shut down, the pitch-black behemoth, [Chimeratech Fortress Dragon], turned into a skyful of drifting blue particles and quietly vanished into the air.
Dead silence surrounded them.
The upper-year students from the Obelisk Blue Dormitory, who had been drawn over by the roar of a dragon with eight thousand attack points and mistakenly assumed that "Kaiser was training inside," now stared fixedly at the Dueling Arena, their jaws practically hitting the floor.
"He... he lost?!"
"Syrus Truesdale's field... got swallowed up in an instant?!"
"My god, taking the Machines on your opponent's field as your own fusion materials? What school of cursed tactics is that?!"
"Wait, the one using Cyber Dragon just now wasn't Zane Truesdale! That was... that first-year, Fujiwara Yūki?!"
Whispers spread like a tide along the edges of the stands.
Quite a few people rubbed their eyes as they looked at the refreshed Yūki standing in the winner's position, feeling as though their entire worldview had been shattered.
Meanwhile, on the Dueling Arena, Yūki paid no attention whatsoever to the surrounding looks that treated him like a monster.
Before his eyes, strings of golden characters danced cheerfully across a translucent pale-blue panel that only he could see clearly.
Crisp system notifications chimed in his mind.
[Ding! Match settlement complete!] [Defeated renowned duelist: Syrus Truesdale!] [Soul Power growth gained: 1%!] [Duel Coins reward obtained: 6,000!] [Current Soul Power Level: Lv4 (17%)] [Current Duel Coins Balance: 18,800!] [New Archetype Pack unlocked: Roid (300 Duel Coins/draw)!]
Looking at the Duel Coins Balance on the panel approaching the twenty-thousand mark again, Yūki could not stop the corners of his mouth from rising, his mood exceptionally good.
*Tsk, this little cash crop might be prickly,