Because the Galaxy Battleship advanced to the Champions League final this week, it is a little difficult to add more on May Day...... Because the stick is no more than May Day.

Thank you for the evaluation votes of what platform you cross, as well as the evaluation votes and tips of the bee-eating exercises...... It looks like it's been brushed down 2 I can't see it.,Thank you w.。

And don't curse me on the Chronology! I can't swim, so if I can't take a boat, I won't sit on a boat! I'll tell you sù that I like this kind of plot that doesn't need to be called a chapter name the most!

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At the beginning of July, three figures stood in the woods somewhere below the Petronas Twin Towers.

Ryo Maruto and Kagurazaka stared dumbfounded, at the tin can standing in front of them, silver-gray tough armor, horn helmet, skull mask, dark red cloak, and a machete that was also dark red...... It looks exactly like the "Skeleton Knight" in the monster card, but it's a little petite, but that's something that was originally characteristic of the original Skeleton Knight, so there's nothing wrong with that.

"It's really...... Unrecognizable...... This. It wasn't until Li Bai removed the skull mask from the helmet that the two young men who were a little frightened came back to their senses.

They had only now understood why she had been so sure she would not have been discovered - who would have thought that someone who might still be the best duelist in the world would take on the role of such a lively mascot during the match? As long as that mask is not taken off, there is really no need to worry about the secrecy of her identity at all.

"Hmph...... Do you think I'm going to be so stupid as to jump out and die just by putting makeup on my face twice? Li Bai was in a good mood after seeing the reaction of the two, this armor was made by herself by relying on the half-hung alchemy she had learned from Dade Temple before, in terms of actual efficacy, it was simply vulnerable, it could be said to be an iron sheet, but the appearance was still trimmed by her, and it was absolutely enough to bluff those who basically couldn't touch the real armor in their lifetime, and other people who also planned to play dueling monsters didn't have this condition, they must give priority to the role of convenient clothing, such as the lower-level monsters guarding the tomb, only a few cloth clothes, Dye your hair a little more.

"Ahem!" Knowing through his thoughts, Maruto Ryo coughed dryly, he raised his left hand and looked at his watch, and just as he was about to say something, he heard a thunderous salute from the direction of the pier.

"It's the guests who have arrived." Kagurazaka clasped his hands around and glanced over there with cold eyes.

Although he knew that playing with the weak scum he had come up with would help alleviate his mimicry disorder, subconsciously, he still hated the challengers who popped up out of nowhere.

"I need to go to a crowded place first to get a 'familiar face' so that I don't get much attention from them when I show up to watch the game." Li Bai put the skull mask back on his helmet, picked up the machete made of plastic, and waved at his students.

"Maruto-kun can come along, Kagurazaka, I remember that the contestants who signed up for the competition should appear in the main school building 1 hour early, you need to hurry."

"Got it, I'm going to ......," Kagurazaka shrugged his eyelids and nodded.

In the face of Li Bai, even if his personality is rebellious, he does not dare to disobey anything, and some unspeakable reasons are excluded, just the favor of the other party in the past few months is enough for him to maintain the most basic respect; This was unimaginable to no one before, no one could put his name and the word respect for teachers together, he was a figure who even professors dared to embarrass during the entrance examination.

"I'll go straight to the main building." Ryo Maruto decided to go with him.

"Don't you want to see the faces first?" The Skeleton Knight turned half of his body with some difficulty, staring at him with that terrible skeletal face.

"Yes." Ryo Maruto smiled bitterly, "But I hate the opening speech even more. ”

Just when Li Bai and the two parted ways, the dock on the academy island was welcoming their classmates in a sense.

A simple platform had already been erected on a relatively empty ground by the dock, and the principal of the core campus, Sameshima, stood on the main seat and gave an opening speech to the students and reporters below in a steady tone - as the most advanced level of education on card duels today, it is normal for it to receive this level of attention, and the 12 school directors and guests from afar sat or stood on either side of him, the former including 2 seeded players and 18 ordinary players, a total of 21 people, Leading the way was their principal, Burgess, the challengers from the Northern Branch, the first group of visitors to the Core Campus this year, who arrived with a resistance to fate and an unyielding sense of reality, eager to make their mark in the competition so that they could add a life-changing description to their resumes.

The skeleton knight played by Li Bai came to the scene in this atmosphere, and did not attract much attention, excluding the reason why she was listening to the speech, and the fact that COS behavior like her was not uncommon, and when you looked up, you could see that there were many students in the crowd who were free to dress up as humanoid monsters.

(As I thought, there were a lot of outfits like this.) ）

No matter what happens to these elites in the eyes of outsiders, most of them are still teenagers and girls...... It is the nature to be playful, and every time there is an activity of a similar nature, they will spontaneously organize and decorate the campus during that time like a carnival, and Li Bai, who has been here for a while, knows this very well.

(A total of 14 school directors came today...... It seems that they are also taking this challenge seriously. ）

The Skeleton Knight took advantage of the barrier of the mask to look at the people on the high platform unscrupulously, silently analyzing in his heart the reason why they attached importance to this challenge.

Her gaze fell on the second person from the left in the challenger camp.

A cold-faced boy with an exaggerated hairstyle, with his chest held high, seemed to be listening carefully to the speech of the competition on the high platform, but in fact, his mind was full of chaotic and complicated feelings at the moment. He was wearing the gray-black uniform unique to the Northern Branch, and standing next to him were 19 other students from the same branch who had come to participate in the challenge. The people he was confronted with, staring at him in astonishment and whispering, were his classmates and teachers a month ago.

A month ago, he was ruthlessly expelled from the core campus for privately endangering the personal and property safety of others.

He didn't blame the school leaders for making this decision, because he knew it was indeed his own fault - he had lost his composure and calmness, and he had been manipulated by jealousy to steal his opponent's deck and throw it into the sea in order to win the ranked tournament...... With this kind of criminal record, he can almost say that he has completely said goodbye to card duels, and no one dares to trust a duelist with such a criminal record.

But he was not reconciled, not only unwilling to be expelled from school in such a humiliating way, but also unwilling to lose his love for card duels to a mere jealousy mentality...... So he decided to go to the northern campus, he had heard about the challenge in the near future, and he planned to prove himself again in this format. On the way, his ship sank, and the elite cards that he had worked so hard to collect by his family were completely invalidated by the erosion of the sea...... But none of this broke him.

Under Bergess's guidance, he recollected enough cards in treacherous Jedi such as snow and glaciers to form a deck again, and then used these not-so-powerful cards to slaughter almost all the students of the Northern Branch.

So, through the cold and the test of will, Wan Zhang's eyes returned to the core campus again.

But this time, his identity is very different from that of more than a month ago.

More than a month ago, he was an idol-level freshman who was expected to become the elite of the future academy with both strength and family background, but now he is just a wanderer abandoned by his classmates and family.

If you can't regain your glory in this challenge...... That's the end of his future.

(Although the current scale of the Wanzhangmu Consortium is far from the Cheng dù of the Seahorse Consortium, the upward trend is terrifying; Could it be because of this guy. ）

(Or again...... ）

Li Bai moved his eyes slightly, staring at the petite girl beside him.

For this girl who looked fifteen or sixteen years old, she was quite curious, because she clearly remembered that there was no such person in the challenge competition in the original book, and the only threat to the Northern Expeditionary Force should be Wanzhangmu...... But when she saw this girl, she knew that her inference had once again been wrong.

Red-haired and blue-eyed, the developing slender body is wrapped in a big light white coat, the outfit inside is extremely bold, a pair of denim hot pants on the lower body, and an almost ** belly-baring camisole on the upper body...... This bold combination allows her to naturally distribute "natural benefits" from time to time like those ** men, even if she has the cover of the coat, plus the thick and big hardcover book that she tightly sandwiched in the crook of her arm, it can be described as a quite distinctive girl, belonging to the type that people can never forget once they see it.

But Li Bai really doesn't have any impression of her, not only GX at this moment, even if she extends her memory to 5DS ten or twenty years later, she can't find a similar role...... In this way, there is only one explanation left, that is, the plot is deviated again, and only in this way will a person who should not be here be seen by her.

Skeleton Knight skimmed through the crowd with ease, and in order to distract others later, she was carefully closing herself to a small group of the same COS monsters.

The appearance of this girl can't make her deliberately wary of anything, the plot has not changed once or twice, she will no longer be as flustered as she was at the beginning, for the overall situation now, her identity is changing from a chess piece to a chess player, and hiding behind the scenes to cultivate Ryo Maruto and Kagurazaka is an example, and it is not worth it for her to do it just a little trouble.

Principal Sameshima is not the kind of person who likes to dominate the microphone on big occasions, and the opening ceremony lasted about an hour in total, which is not strictly speaking, and after the challengers were led by members of the Student Council to the main teaching building, where they will be given a spacious lounge and a total of 2 hours of preparation time. Now Li Bai only felt that his previous caution was completely superfluous...... Because the skeleton knight of her COS is so realistic, there will always be students running over and asking for a group photo.

"What a cool skeleton knight!" Another girl who was attracted by Li Bai, judging from the style of the pale yellow uniform, was a first-year freshman, she trotted all the way, pressed Li Bai's half-hung armor, and then kept touching her (mistakenly).

"That's cool! How did you come up with such an artificial armor? How much did it cost? After the girl finished studying the armor, she went to touch the machete in Li Bai's hand, and when she found out that it was actually made of plastic, she sighed, looking quite disappointed.

Faced with one question after another, Li Bai had no choice but to nod and shake her head to answer, she didn't want to make extraneous branches, her voice and gender were better not to be exposed - she was originally 169 tall, plus the addition of armor to her figure, most people should treat the person in the tin can as a man, and this girl is obviously the same.

"Can we take a picture?"

Skeleton Knight nodded (yes).

The girl immediately took off the camera on her chest and went to the side of the road to call a boy to help take pictures.

"You know what, the Skeleton Knight has always been my favorite lower-level monster, can I know your name...... Maybe I'll go to you and buy this armor in the future? ”

The Skeleton Knight shook his head when he heard this.

(You want to be beautiful, this is an old n...... But how could I sell you the first thing I could see with alchemy).

And isn't her gender exposed when the transaction is made, as long as the other party has the heart to check, it is almost inevitable that her identity will be discovered, because there are less than a thousand students in this school in total, and most of them will become mature faces after the baptism of the Academy Cup in a semester, and it is impossible to never see them.

"Can I see your face? And why don't you speak? The girl didn't seem to know what it was to be reserved, and after repeatedly seeking answers without success, she couldn't help but want to move again, and this time the claws reached directly to Li Bai's skull mask.

（…… The Skeleton Knight was silent, first turning its head away from the claw, then spreading its hand to her under the girl's inexplicable gaze, looking for her to get the camera, probing the camera under her skirt with lightning speed, clicking the shutter, and immediately throwing the camera into the arms of some poor onlooker, while he smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran into the crowd to escape at the speed of light.

"Ahhhh hentai！ What are you doing in a daze? Give me back the camera! ”

It also seems to be pleasant to play or toy with others once in a while.

Listening to the screams coming from behind her, Li Bai was in a good mood, she ran into the grove on the side of the road in one go, randomly found a thick enough tree trunk to lean on it, raised her neck, and laughed silently.

That's not just because of the bad schadenfreude after making fun of others, but also the optimistic reverie for a period of time in the future, with the preconditions of this "mixed face", of course, she can also use the image of "Skeleton Knight" to appear in the eyes of others again in the future, and the previous days when she had to live in seclusion can suffocate her...... So when Kagurazaka made that obviously unreasonable request, she would say yes, because she herself was longing, longing to be able to laugh freely like she is now.

…… Even if it's only temporary.

Two hours is always very short in the face of more important events, and people will prepare 30-60 minutes in advance...... Just like now, there are still more than 50 minutes before the official start of the challenge, and the arena on the first floor of the main teaching building is almost full, the overall structure here is somewhat similar to the one in Li Bai's house, but it is much larger, a total of four spectator stands, if you count the standing people, it is enough to accommodate 2,000 people to watch the game, which is naturally dwarfed by those league venues that are often fifty or sixty thousand, but according to the total number of people in the core campus, this scale is already very good, and can even be described as luxurious.

"Ladies and gentlemen! The challenge you've been waiting for is finally back this July! Are you ready to defend your glory with your skills? ”

There was a deafening sound of commentary and commentary in the stereo, he was specially hired to mobilize the atmosphere of the audience, and the annual challenge for the core campus is almost the same number, not only the commentary and reporters will even provide broadcasts, with his magnetic sound scheduling, the lights of the whole arena gradually dimmed, except for the spacious top of the ring in the center of the arena There is also brilliant lighting, only the sparkling lights in the audience are flashing and flashing.

The format of the challenge is simple and brutal - Ring Wheel Battles, where both teams send teams of equal numbers to duel one-on-one in the same ring, the loser replaces, and the winner continues to fight until one of the teams is defeated.

"Kagurazaka was actually ranked last...... It seems that he did not tell anyone else that he would not continue to use the path of light. Under the cover of darkness, Li Bai sneaked into the arena lightly, marched to the highest point of a stand, and sat down leaning on the steps, and occasionally found that the skeleton knight only looked at her a few more times, wondering why this costumer didn't take off the armor at this time, and then stopped paying attention, after all, the spotlight is the key - whether the glory is defended or the dream sets sail, the answer will definitely be obtained after today.

"What about the challenger...... After watching the arrangement of the 20 contestants in the core campus, Li Bai began to pay attention to the layout of the northern branch, and her eyes touched the avatar that ranked first on the big screen, and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly.

"That kid was actually ranked first, and his name was ...... Lilith? ”

The bold red-haired girl who always held a big book in her hand that had once attracted her attention was taken as the vanguard of this battle by the Northern Branch. Li Bai became more curious about her...... In her opinion, the strength of this girl who suddenly appeared should be relatively strong, otherwise it would be impossible for her to deal with the battlefield of vanguard warfare, which is both important and a test of psychological will.

The pioneer of the choice of the core campus is a boy from the Blue Academy, Li Bai doesn't know this person, but he has occasionally heard of his name, the reason is the same, presumably it will not be a soft persimmon.

(It's all about preemptiveness, this year's challenge seems to be going to be fun.) ）

Lilith and the boy had already stepped up the steps to the ring, and they bowed to each other expressionlessly, then raised the dueling disc in their left hand and began to place the deck.

There's no swapping shuffle like in Duel City, because the Duel Disc can do the job now, and not only that, but it can always scan the cards to prevent all sorts of cheats.

Lilith guessed the coin, and she was given the right to strike first.

The red-haired girl pulled out a card from the top of the cover, glanced at it, and slapped it directly onto the dueling board: "I summon the scrivener Baather!" ”

"What!?"

Hearing the name she shouted, the Skeleton Knight bounced off the ground like an electric shock.

The horror and confusion that had not been seen for a long time spread on the pretty face behind the mask, Li Bai stared at the red-haired girl in the field, and the sharp tips of the fingers had been inserted into the wall several centimeters deep due to excessive force......

She suddenly discovers that she is getting rid of the identity of a pawn...... It wasn't as easy as she thought.