#449 - White Dragon Arena

With Johan's successful advancement, the four finalists were officially decided.

Group A: Manjoume and Johan; Group B: Tenjoin Koyo and Kaiser.

The first match will be between Tenjoin Koyo and Kaiser, the second between Manjoume and Johan, and finally, the winners will face off in the ultimate duel.

In other words, the entire final tournament will only consist of three duels.

Given this, Kaiba Corporation would naturally intensify its efforts, not only preparing even more extensive promotion for the live broadcast of the matches, but also preparing a brand new arena.

A brand new arena sounded like a completely different concept, but in any case, that's what Kaiba Corporation said.

Therefore, the four finalists, including Tenjoin Koyo, would have one to two days of rest.

During this time, they could rest a little, and at the same time, Kaiba Corporation and its related partners would spare no effort in promotion.

During this period, the most excited and enthusiastic company could be said to be Fuuko Company.

Because after the Fusion Army attacked the X Dimension, they still insisted on using Tenjoin Koyo as their spokesperson, and even unhesitatingly used Tenjoin Koyo's GG, constantly promoting Tenjoin Koyo and Simple Fusion Cup Noodles, their company's stock price once plummeted.

But as the GX tournament progressed to its current stage, their originally plummeting stock price had rapidly rebounded, orders were flying in like snowflakes, and the company's soaring prospects were just around the corner.

However, despite having this opportunity, Fuuko Company wasn't too enthusiastic about operations, but instead hurriedly approached Tenjoin Koyo again, preparing to renegotiate the contract and provide him with additional assistance.

It was as if they had suddenly made a lot of money and didn't know what to do.

Fuuko Company was one of the worst-performing convenience food companies in the world, and they didn't know what to do with such a big boom.

Fortunately, although Tenjoin Koyo didn't understand business, he had a clear head.

He first told the company's负责人 (fù zé rén - person in charge/responsible person) not to adjust his contract; whatever was agreed upon initially would remain, and even if they really wanted to discuss it, they could wait until the contract expired and talk about it then.

This was a necessary part of the cooperation.

Fuuko Company, having suddenly received so much money, should do its best to develop the company, rather than simply "flattering" him and hindering the company's development—after all, what Tenjoin Koyo hoped for was increasingly high agency fees and more and more profit sharing in the future.

As for if they really wanted to help Tenjoin Koyo, they could help him find some "Legendary Duelists."

He personally wanted to create "The Claw of Hermos," but he certainly couldn't say it outright, so he told the people at Fuuko Company that although he felt the previous series of duels against Legendary Duelists was a bit awkward, dueling Legendary Duelists was really exciting, and if possible, he hoped to compete with those excellent duelists, so he could become even stronger.

Of course, Fuuko Company wouldn't refuse such a reason in the slightest.

After all, the more famous Tenjoin Koyo was, the more useful the GG he endorsed would be, and the more money they would definitely earn.

Moreover, after the finals ended, no matter what Tenjoin Koyo's results were, his reputation would definitely gradually decline until another major competition came along, and he might reappear in front of the public. But if they could release some "documentaries" of duels with "Legendary Duelists" every once in a while, then even if it declined, there would be a guarantee of recovery.

So they immediately agreed to this matter.

Not only did they agree, but they also told Tenjoin Koyo that they could actually contact a "Legendary Duelist," and when the tournament ended and the Duel Academy had its summer vacation, they could help connect Tenjoin Koyo with them.

After discussing it with them, Tenjoin Koyo began to focus on modifying his deck.

It must be said that Tenjoin Koyo used completely different mainstays against different opponents; after all, different opponents required different responses.

It's just that before this, he was very unclear about what most of his opponents' decks actually contained.

But this time, the opponent was different.

He knew exactly what kind of things were in Kaiser's deck!

That was—Cyber Dragon!

While Tenjoin Koyo was adjusting his deck, he was calculating the attributes and quantities, changing the composition of the deck, and increasing the number of some cards.

He modified his deck for a while, and then someone came looking for him again.

It was Anzu.

Seeing him, Tenjoin Koyo was suddenly overjoyed.

"Hello~ Tenjoin-kun~" Anzu greeted Tenjoin Koyo.

As soon as Tenjoin Koyo saw him, he knew what he was here for.

Sure enough, Anzu didn't come empty-handed; he was holding a square box in his hand. He walked into Tenjoin Koyo's room, looked at the strange metal equipment and extraction equipment placed everywhere, slightly marveled at Tenjoin Koyo's interests in his heart, and then said to him.

"As you can see, these are the cards that President Pegusus made for you."

Tenjoin Koyo slowly opened the card box, only to see that a layer of padding had been laid in the square box, and in the very center of the padding was a card protected by a card brick.

Dragon Magician's Guardian!

Level 4, DARK Attribute, Dragon-Type, ATK 1800, DEF 1300!

And most importantly, the card art of this card—unlike the dragon warrior holding a steel fork in Tenjoin Koyo's memory, the overall color of this card's art was purple, a masked man with a confident smile on his face, wearing a layer of blue wrist blades on his left hand, and holding a ball of purple energy in his right hand, appearing directly in front of Tenjoin Koyo.

"Oh—a card made with you as a template, huh! ?" Tierra immediately appeared next to Tenjoin Koyo after seeing this card, looked at the card, and kept nodding, "Not bad, although he's wearing a mask, that confident smile, as long as you've seen you, you should think that the face under the mask is exactly the same as you, right."

Although it wasn't mechanical, Tierra quite liked the design of this card.

"Thank you so much, President Pegusus!" Tenjoin Koyo said excitedly.

"Haha~ Mr. Pegusus said that as long as you like it—also, this is a special edition unique to you; the card art of other Dragon Magician's Guardians is different."

Tenjoin Koyo nodded again and again after hearing this.

Good, good, good.

He had finally obtained a pure "unique card" belonging to him alone in this world, which was another good start.

His alternate art card!

And official certification!

"By the way, there's also President Pegusus's blessing to you. He said this: Tenjoin BOY~ Cheer up~ I look forward to more of your wonderful duels~ That will definitely ignite the enthusiasm of more people~ ~" He imitated it vividly, learning that strange English very similarly.

After imitating it, he awkwardly covered his embarrassment by touching his nose. That movement and that expression made it feel like he could burrow into the ground at any time.

"Ahem, anyway, cheer up, Tenjoin-kun. If you win, I can brag that I played with Tenjoin Koyo in the future. Maybe I'll be a Legendary Duelist in ten or twenty years."

"Hahaha—" Tenjoin Koyo laughed loudly, "Then look forward to it, future Legendary Duelist, Anzu!"

Tenjoin Koyo smiled and put the card into his deck.

This card would be somewhat useful in his deck no matter when, and it was worth investing in.

Another two days.

When Tenjoin Koyo was ready and wanted to participate in the competition, suddenly, he felt that the sky at the Boundary Point was getting a little dark. He slowly raised his head and saw a bright silver, dragon-shaped airship resembling a Blue-Eyes White Dragon slowly flying from afar.

It wasn't a hot air balloon, but a giant airship that combined various equipment, screens, and projection devices.

"Wow…" Although Tenjoin Koyo was already prepared, he was still a little surprised to see such an outrageous thing appear.

Of course, the most surprising thing was definitely… that President Kaiba actually took out this kind of thing to use as a duel arena!

At the same time, the screen of the airship lit up with a bang, and Seto Kaiba's figure appeared on the screen, shouting a few words of encouragement and inspiration like "Duelists all over the world!" to everyone, and then he talked about the functions of this airship.

First, it's hard; second, it's stable; third, this airship will travel throughout the Boundary Point dimension, following the "map route" distributed by Duel Academy, for a circuit duel.

The spirits and humans in each area that the duelists pass through will be able to see the duelist's dueling posture!

This is the final stage of the GX Tournament!

The Arena of White Dragon, chasing glory and distinguishing the strongest!

"Ha, a duel to retrieve the entire dimension? Interesting!" Kaiser grinned, his eyes bursting with fighting spirit.

He couldn't wait to duel on a circuit throughout the entire dimension.