Neon City.
As night fell, giant billboards flickered with dazzling lights, their radiant glow adding a touch of mystique to the modern metropolis.
"Duelists, one week from now, Kaiba Corporation will hold a Duel Monsters Tournament here in this city. There are two conditions to participate: prepare a main deck of forty cards, including rare cards, and the latest Duel Disk..."
As Kaiba, the CEO, announced this major news on the billboard, people bustling along the busy streets paused, looked up, and listened. Soon, they all wore excited expressions.
"Truly a Yu-Gi-Oh world. The atmosphere surrounding dueling is truly fervent."
Yu Xuan looked out from the hotel window towards the street scene, shaking his head expressionlessly. He felt somewhat unable to integrate.
Yu Xuan wasn't a native of this place. He was a transmigrator from Blue Star.
When he was bored, he would sometimes play YGO, Duel Links, and the like.
While he quite enjoyed playing cards, it didn't mean he wanted to be transported to this world!
What do you mean, a world centered around card games, what could possibly be dangerous about that?
Hahahahahaha.
In Yu-Gi-Oh, it's common knowledge that dueling can both destroy and save the world.
This is the world of Monster Cards, where there is no flashy, flamboyant ki; there is only the pinnacle of card dueling!
It could be said that card skills and deck strength are your power; this is the fundamental law of this world, with everything revolving around card games.
If he still had the decks he brought with him, he could play a hand of Pig-Archer opening with Gundam, Scumbag Aleister melting woman, Gate Guardian changing clothes. Yu Xuan would be confident to walk all over this world.
"But why are my cards all just a pile of cards? Even if I kept my DL 不知火 and 魔女術, it's no good."
Yu Xuan looked at the deck laid out on the table, a look of despair on his face.
His forty cards were all normal monsters and traps with unclear effects, utterly hopeless.
"They say transmigrators have cheat systems, where is mine?"
To Yu Xuan's surprise, as he was complaining, a familiar game panel did appear in his mind — the Duel Links game system.
The Duel Links game system contained his deck information, a shop for drawing cards, and a quest system.
After carefully experiencing the system's various functions, Yu Xuan discovered it was truly a Duel Links template.
Fighting others or completing quests could earn him some cards, gems, and other rewards.
Gems could be used in the system's shop to draw packs or exchange for specific cards.
The system's card pool was vast and diverse, including even cards from the current generation and those not even in Duel Links.
As long as he had enough gems, drawing powerful decks like Six Sams or 黃金卿 wasn't impossible.
"But why is my gem count zero? Do I have time to top up eight thousand dollars now?"
However, to Yu Xuan's disappointment, his system's gem balance was zero.
Thinking back, he had been freeloading on the game. He had used the gems he earned from quests and leveling up to draw the cards he wanted, so he had nothing left.
In other words, while he did have a system, he couldn't get anything from it.
"This world's currency really can't be exchanged for gems."
Yu Xuan took out this world's currency from his pocket and tried repeatedly, but the system remained unresponsive.
If he had known this would happen, he would have poured all his belongings into the game before transmigrating.
Of course, this was just wishful thinking.
Moreover, he didn't know if the gems he topped up would reset his deck to the same state.
"Alright, let's see if there are any quests I can do."
Yu Xuan decided to do some quests to unlock more cards.
Rare cards were quite valuable.
After all, he was currently strapped for cash.
If he didn't have any income, this small hotel would be out of his reach in a few days, and he'd end up sleeping on the streets.
Moreover, there were also many card shops in Neon City. If he had money, he could buy some powerful versatile cards.
For example, Pot of Greed, Call of the Haunted, Black Hole, 大风暴, and so on.
These were all powerful single cards that could significantly improve his deck strength.
【Quest 1: Participate in the Duel City Tournament, Reward: 500 Gems.】
Yu Xuan looked at the quest section of his system. There was only one quest on his quest bar right now.
The reward was quite generous, 500 gems enough for him to draw a large pack.
Or exchange for a few useful cards.
"This quest isn't easy."
Looking at his quest, Yu Xuan felt a bit troubled.
While the quest seemed to only require him to register for the tournament to complete it.
But according to Kaiba, the organizer of the tournament.
Participants needed rare cards and the new Duel Disk.
Yet, the strongest monster in Yu Xuan's deck was Axe Raider, with an ATK of 1700.
A four-star Normal Monster with nothing rare about it.
(Normal Monsters refer to those without any effects.)
"This system truly has no way for people to freeload!"
Seeing that even the first newbie quest was difficult, Yu Xuan complained about his crappy system again.
Yu Xuan suspected that this system was also from the hands of the so-called "pig farm" corporation.
Don't spend money, you want to get stronger?
"Huh? There seems to be a reward I can claim directly."
With persistence, Yu Xuan actually found something in the completed quest section.
【First login to the system, Reward: Randomly obtain a Soul Card, which can birth a Card Spirit (Completed)】
Seeing this, Yu Xuan let out a relieved smile.
Indeed, freeloading was the source of human happiness.
Card Spirits were a good thing in the Yu-Gi-Oh world.
Like the Black Magician and Dark Magician Girl in Yugi's hands, or Yusei Fudo's Winged Kuriboh and Ubel, all could be called Card Spirits.
Card Spirits possessed extraordinary power, giving people more confidence in the face of Dark Duels. After all, this was a world where card games could kill.
Thinking that he could gain such supernatural power, Yu Xuan's eyes lit up.
"I wonder how the random card spirit selection works."
Yu Xuan thought to himself, and with a thought, he claimed the reward for the completed quest.
In an instant, Yu Xuan felt countless monster cards flashing through his mind, as if a card storm was raging.
Yu Xuan instantly understood.
It was actually a roll of the dice among thousands of Monster Cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh card pool. This was truly random.
"It's you!"
With so much card information flashing through his mind, Yu Xuan's scalp tingled. There was no way for him to choose carefully, so he could only point directly and select a card.
That card instantly erupted in brilliant white light. A knight clad in impenetrable white armor, with white crystal decorations on each part, walked out and materialized right in front of Yu Xuan.
Looking at the somewhat ethereal but noble knight figure in front of him, Yu Xuan was somewhat surprised.
His accompanying Card Spirit was this one.
Jewel Knight Crystal!