The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　In his vision, the clown mask, once crafted into an item card, would possess the special ability to forcibly equip itself on an opponent—making it a control-type magic card similar to the Bronze Serpent Mirror.

　His research into the method of creating the cursed mask also gave him clues about how to create the clown mask.

　First-year students who have never spent Halloween after the academy.

　Upperclassmen, struggling to earn credits, are eyeing the Halloween event with eager anticipation.

　Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to make it to this year's Halloween event.

　Although there are still two weeks until Halloween Eve, the festive atmosphere has already spread.

　But this year on Halloween Eve, there was no Order, no Moon Goddess, and therefore no Princess Eliza.

　Men and women spying on the masquerade ball.

　Preparations have already begun.

　This was an entirely impossible situation for Professor Cazell, who took "doing everything first" as his motto and started preparing a full month in advance last year.

　In conclusion, Dark can only conclude that the person in charge of this year's Halloween event has changed!

　There wasn't even Professor Cazell!

　It was only when Dak accidentally bumped into Professor Cazell in the castle that he suddenly realized that Professor Cazell didn't have any pumpkin sauce on him!

　But the enormous heart inside the underground city had probably completely drawn his attention away.

　Without Professor Cazell's Halloween activities

　Under normal circumstances, even if the person in charge changes, given Professor Cazell's personality, he would most likely still lend a hand.

　Most of the professors in the college are reliable, and there shouldn't be any major problems.

　I'm sure you'll have a safe and fun Halloween Eve this year!

　For some reason, Dak suddenly had a very ominous premonition.

　He shook his head violently, forcibly shaking off the feeling.

　Dak began to ponder.

　Even including this weekend, there are only two weekends left until Halloween Eve.

　Instead of worrying about these things, think about what to wear to the costume party.

　Surely you're not going to keep wearing the Dark Prince outfit you wore last year, are you?

　Today is Friday, October 18th.

　Silver Cup, let's continue!

　If I don't think of something soon, I'll have to put on the Prince of the Night outfit again.

　With that thought in mind, Dark stepped onto the dueling stage.

　Good morning! Another day of working through the night. I'm begging for your votes and your wrath!

Chapter 620 Darkdemon's Ruthless Crushing (4k)

　The autumn sun slanted down, casting a bright orange-yellow hue over the dueling stage.

　The cheers from the audience continued to surge, and the students whispered among themselves in the circular area.

　On the red player's platform, Darkdemon was putting his readjusted deck into the card slots. Bright sunlight shone on his face, making his emerald green eyes look like amber.

　The Silver Cup requires participants to compete in at least ten qualifying matches, which is also Professor Jones's academic requirement for his students.

　Therefore, even if Darko doesn't plan to participate in the subsequent quarterfinals, he has no choice but to play all ten qualifying matches as Professor Jones requested.

　In fact, he received the new schedule on Tuesday.

　This wasn't too difficult for him.

　The competition was held over three days, with more than an hour between each match, which was very friendly.

　This is probably because he requested a postponement of the tournament last week. As a result, the Duel Club compressed the two-week tournament schedule into one.

　Therefore, he needs to complete the remaining five points matches this weekend.

　In other words, this was an internal power struggle within the House of Lords.

　:rg

　The relationship between Dak and Röntgen was fairly good—at least they could exchange a few words.

　After activating the table, Dak looked up at the players' table opposite him.

　The player on the blue team's platform is Röntgen from the House of Nobles.

　"Hey, Dark." Röntgen greeted Dark as soon as he looked up.

　He looked somewhat nervous, and beads of sweat even appeared on his freckled nose.

　However, he hadn't paid much attention to Röntgen's grades; his impression was that they were probably above average.

　In short, we can relax a little in this duel, but we can't be too careless either.

　Röntgen opened his mouth, then said, "That's nothing, let's begin the duel!"

　Dark nodded slightly and smiled, "Then let's begin."

　His friend Seeworth was cheering him on loudly from the stands in the circular area, which made him even more nervous.

　Dark looked at Röntgen and asked, "What's wrong, Röntgen?"

　He took a deep breath and decided to give it his all!

　Regardless of the final outcome, we must not show weakness.

　Röntgen had intended to hint to Darko to be gentler, at least to save him some face, but ultimately he didn't.

　As a member of the House of Nobles, showing weakness at this time would only invite contempt.

　Since it was a civil war within the House of Nobles, there were no points of conflict between factions.

　And they just couldn't figure out where Dak's weakness lay.

　The second-year students of the Noble Academy sat in the circular area watching the duel arena, all looking relaxed.

　Diana and Rose were even playfully fighting with each other.

　The key to this duel will probably still be how long Dark's opponent can last.

　Even Sivert, who was cheering hard, probably thought the same thing.

　Both teams entered the preparation phase.

　Then the cards on the table were shuffled automatically.

　"Beep——"

　In the midst of this warm atmosphere, the referee suddenly blew her whistle.

　Without saying much, Dark quickly took out five magic cards and placed them in his left hand, rapidly unfolding them.

　Immediately afterwards, a thirty-second countdown for the preparation phase appeared in the projection above the field.

　Both players then draw cards simultaneously!

　War Horn

　Trash Slime

　Then he lowered his head slightly and saw his hand.

　Little Capbie

　Greed 3

　Lion

　However, this does not mean that this 40-card deck is weaker than a 20-card deck.

　The deck has fewer magic cards, and its biggest advantage is that it reduces the chance of surprises.

　Due to strong protests from the magical spirits, Dark did not build a deck themed around Elysium or Pride this time.

　He put most of the magical spirits into the deck, plus the newly crafted item cards, for a total of forty magical cards.

　In fact, twenty magic cards is indeed a bit too few; it makes sense for a proper magic duel to use forty magic cards.

　Of course, in this duel, there is not much difference between twenty cards and forty cards.

　However, this also reduces the margin for error.

　Once a deck's strategy is countered, it's basically impossible to turn the tide.

　A smile appeared on Dak's face.

　"Ignoring this item card for now, among these five cards in my hand, there are two three-star Magical Spirit cards that can be summoned at the start."

　As Dark looked at the magic card in his hand, a variety of tactics immediately came to mind.

　"I never expected to get my hands on this war horn in the very first round."

　"Another method is to start by summoning a trash slime, then use Greed 3 to evolve it into a Greedy Slime 2, and then use Divide to create a sacrifice to summon Leomon."

　After a moment's thought, Dak made his choice.

　"Moreover, both the trash slime and the little Snorlax can be evolved using Greed 3."

　"There are currently two routes. One is to start by summoning a Snorlax and then use Greed 3 to evolve it into a Snorlax."

　"In the name of Darkdemon, I summon—Trash Slime!"

　Despite the fact that Snorlax's summoning is faster and more direct, Dark still chose to start by summoning a trash slime.

　The thirty-second countdown passed in the blink of an eye.

　Both players simultaneously begin casting their normal summoning spells.

　While Snorlax is powerful enough, its special moves are entirely Ground-type, and neither Stomp nor Earthquake can damage airborne units.

　Furthermore, Snorlax's movement speed is really slow.

　The main issue is that the opponent's normal summon speed is indeed not fast enough.

　He doesn't need to worry at all about being instantly killed by summoning trash slimes at the start.

　He needs to build his confidence.

　This duel is just the right time.

　As a parent, Dark also needs to pay attention to the mental health of the magical spirits.

　Trash Slime needs a stage to prove itself even more than Munchlax.

　While Dark finished his opening summon, Röntgen on the opposite side was still trying to cast a normal summon.

　Even as Dark began casting his second Normal Summon, Röntgen continued his efforts.

　as predicted.

　After the trash slime materialized in the light of summoning, it immediately widened its eyes and looked around, then realized that it was actually the red team's starting player!

　This is an exceptional treatment for it.

　There is a relatively large gap in the two sides' raw strength in magical technology, which is actually difficult to make up for by magical cards or strategies.

　Red team's summoning area.

　At this moment, a magical spirit has also materialized in the blue team's summoning area.

　The trash slime felt the power of greed constantly flowing into its body, and its inner confidence continued to rise.

　It almost thought its owner had lost their mind.

　But when the light of Greed 3 shone down from above, its mind calmed down.

　Card Name: Greedy Slime 2

　Type: Elf Card

　Finally, it evolved into a second-tier magical spirit—Greedy Slime 2—amidst a blue-purple glow!

　Attribute: grass type