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

　To conduct further experiments, Dark also used the two-star "Eevee" card in the experiment, which was eventually destroyed.

　It turns out that last night's success involved too much luck.

　He used up six magical beast hairs tonight, but still failed to succeed even once.

　The following day, Sunday.

　Fine, scattered raindrops fell from the sky.

　Dark participated in the "Golden Cup" event on Sunday morning and defeated a third-year student again.

　He then immediately returned to his dormitory to continue his research on "secondary alchemy".

　Throughout the day, he used up a total of twelve "magical beast hairs"!

　After much hard work, we finally achieved results.

　He successfully crafted a two-star "Fantasy Beast: Ditto"!

　The two-star "Ditto" differs from the one-star "Ditto" only in its three main stats.

　The original one-star "Fantasy Beast: Ditto" with 100 points each in magic, attack, and defense has been enhanced to 800 points each after the second refinement!

　This is a significant leap.

　It's worth noting that after using the "Sin" card to upgrade its star level, a two-star "Ditto" only has 200 points in magic power, attack, and defense, while a four-star "Ditto" only has 400 points in magic power, attack, and defense!

　This "second refinement" resulted in a two-star "Fantasy Beast: Ditto" having twice the attributes of a four-star!

　Dark immediately conducted experiments using "Pride II", "Pride III" and "Pride IV".

　It turned out that "Pride II" had completely rotated out of the meta and had no effect on this two-star "Ditto".

　"Pride III" can upgrade it to five stars, and its magic power, attack and defense will increase by two thousand points!

　This means that after "Ditto" transforms into other Tier 2 Magical Spirits, it will possess higher magical power than some Magical Spirits—that is, stronger than its original form!

　No, it doesn't even need to "transform" to demonstrate enough power!

　Ditto has finally reached a turning point in his life!

　As for "Pride IV", it can only upgrade "Ditto" to six stars, with its attack, magic power, and defense increasing to 2,500 points.

　After getting a new skin with Dark's help, it was obviously very excited, freely transforming into all sorts of magical sprites and running around happily.

　……

　That evening, Dak conducted the final "Great Sin" draw for November.

　Over the past ten days.

　He drew "Bliss" five times and "Greed" five times, increasing his reserves by ten points of "Bliss" and ten points of "Greed".

　The remaining reserves are as follows:

　[Arrogance]: 4

　Greed: 20

　[Paradise]: 10

　[Rage]: 1

　His desire for success in the "secondary alchemy" caused his "greed" to grow rapidly, forcing him to extract it.

　But even after accumulating for a full ten days, the number of "major sins" accumulated was still not much.

　With the "Soul Loss Curse" unable to be deepened further and the "Netherworld God Technique" making little progress, if he wants to obtain more "Great Sins," he can only think of other ways.

　Therefore, Dark planned to enter the secret passage again after the "secondary transmutation" was completed!

　He possesses a "access card" that allows him to enter and exit the secret passage twice a month.

　There's one more left over this month.

　It's perfect for scouting.

　However, this is contingent on achieving satisfactory research results before the end of November.

　……

　new week.

　Tuesday, November 12th.

　While browsing the newspaper, Dark received a notification about the Duel Club's tournament schedule.

　Patricia Pollin and Fern Morse's challenge applications have been approved by the Duel Club.

　However, the Duel Club scheduled its matches for Saturday morning and Friday afternoon.

　In addition, there will be a match against a third-year student this Saturday afternoon.

　"It's not a big problem."

　Dak took back his Sorting Card and continued reading the newspaper.

　……

　November 13th, Wednesday.

　At 2 PM, the branch card rang again.

　Perhaps it's because he decisively defeated two third-year students last weekend.

　The number of challenge applications from third graders suddenly surged this week!

　Among the ten third-year students, several were even as famous as Elsie Kevin and Mary Bond.

　But Dark only glanced at it once and then ignored it.

　Only one student in fourth grade!

　Fourth-year student, Noble Academy, Stuart Fern!

　Dark remembered this senior, as the two had fought each other at the Easter Duel Festival.

　This senior, specializing in Undead/Ghost-type decks, was already quite formidable at the Easter Duel Festival. Now, half a year later, his deck's strength must have increased even further.

　Dak gradually became interested: "I wonder if he's progressing faster, or if I'm progressing faster? I'm really looking forward to it."

　So he accepted Stuart Fern's challenge.

　In fifth grade, no one challenged him.

　……

　The older students obviously didn't have that much time to keep an eye on him.

　If this continues, this good thing may not be able to last.

　"Should we turn it around and have me issue the challenge?"

　Thinking of this, Dak couldn't help but shake his head.

　This is inconsistent with his consistent approach to things.

　"We'll see then."

　He continued his experiments.

　……

　Thursday, November 14th.

　The "Alchemy Class" has begun again.

　Under Professor Cazell's tutelage, Dark successfully created his first golem.

　Even though it was just a crude golem that was only thirty centimeters tall, it already excited him greatly.

　The feeling of piecing it together bit by bit and then watching it suddenly come to life is even more realistic and exciting than crafting magical spirits.

　Suddenly, he had the urge to turn his favorite characters from his past life into golems—and keep them as figurines!

　This impulse continued to fester afterward.

　He inexplicably had more strange ideas.

　For example, after mastering the golem technique, one can use "living metal" to create "mystery dolls" of various characters, then seal them with a "cursed cage" and awaken their intelligence with a "sin card"!

　Even so, the resulting character would most likely lack an inner, empty shell...

　But what if it's a character from a work like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Digimon, Pokémon, or another series whose settings are integrated into this game world?

　Even if they don't have internal memories, they should still retain similar innate talents and personality traits, right?

　Once the thought took hold, it was impossible to stop.

　That night, Dark even dreamed of creating "Little Ash" so that it could participate in a dueling tournament and win the championship.

　Golems and magical spirits are absolutely different.

　The golems' energy cores help them survive for a long time.

　If Dark's plan succeeds, all that's needed is to unseal the "Cursed Cages" and turn them back into golems, and a special golem with sentience can be obtained.

　There are many, many more ideas like this.

　It took Dak a long time to calm himself down.

　But "greed" has risen again.

　He couldn't help but feel alarmed.

　But after being alerted, he continued his research on "secondary alchemy".

　It is 12:00 AM on Friday, November 15th.

　Dark used a total of thirty-six "magical beast hairs" over the five days of this week.

　Of the original one hundred "magical beast hairs," only thirty remained.

　And within these five days.

　His research achievements are also quite fruitful.

　First, I gained a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of various fusion material cards.

　Secondly, I successfully crafted a two-star "Ditto" and two two-star "Eevee" cards.

　However, those two two-star "Eevee" cards became sacrifices, and in the end, a second three-star "Eevee" card was successfully sacrificed!

　In this way, he is only one step away from achieving his goal of creating three "Fantasy Beast: Eevee" cards.

　Besides that, there are other surprises as well.

　He successfully crafted a two-star "Magical Beast: Fantasy Sheep" card!

　……

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　Card Name: Magical Beast (Fantasy Sheep)

　[Type: Spirit Card]

　【grade:】

　[Race: Bird-Beast]

　[Type: Ground]

　【Magic Power: 500】

　[Attack: 500]

　[Defense: 500]

　【Ultimate Technique: Fusion Finger】

　[Fusing Reference: The Fantasy Sheep can substitute for one recorded Fusion Material of Tier 2 or higher in a Fusion process. In this case, all other Fusion Materials must be genuine Fusion Materials.]

　"Crossing social class" refers to the second tier.