The landscape of Dragoon city got quickly replaced with an endless sea. Not interested in spending the rest of this journey looking at water, I look back at my phone. This time I was searching for a world map, which in retrospect is something that I should have done sooner. What I found was a cluster of landmasses and islands spread across the globe. There was a major continent that span through most of the globe, this continent could be separated into two other continents connected by two chokepoints - just like you could separate north-America and south-America - Then around the main landmass there were clusters of small islands, and other bigger islands.
Most of the world’s governments are what I would call “Free Cities”, independent cities, but all in unions and alliances with each other. For example, Dragoon city is on the south-west on the left major continent. It’s part of the “Lotheas Union” which comprises about 19 other free cities. To the north-east there is the “Zargesian Protectorate” and to the south-east the “Confederation of Independent Welkian Cities” or “CWIC” for short. Even with the existence of these governmental bodies, the cities themselves are mostly allowed to do whatever they want internally with some cities being owned by megacorporations, serving as their headquarters and places of manufactory, these are referred to as “Corporate Cities”, while I read this and just think: ‘Found the slave states’, apparently they are not as bad as they sound… Or so say the travel guides and forum posts from people living there, not that I would be surprised if they are required to say stuff like that to get better conditions… Yea, I’m not visiting anytime soon.
Government differs from cities to city based on the top industries. A council made up of representatives from major dueling academies and some elected positions governs dragoon City, for example. This results from the sheer quantity of dueling academies in the city and their major “export” being competent duelists, entertainment based on dueling, and tourism.
As I’m engrossed in my research, I hear someone calling me.
“E-Excuse me.” - A female voice stutters, then asks - “Might you be the natural Penta-Summoner the director mentioned?”
I look up to find a woman with red bobbed hair and dark brown eyes peeking above the privacy covers of my seat.
“Yes?” - I respond.
She relaxes, “Phew, good afternoon, sorry for my rudeness, but I just couldn’t believe it when the director revealed that we would have someone like you in the academy. My name is Kayu Takayama. I’ll be your deck building professor for this year.”
“I’m Yuumi Matsunaga, I’ll be in your care then.” I say with a polite smile.
“Oh, no need to be like that with me; I watched your duel with the robot after it happened and I must say it shocked me to see you defeat the bots’ spells so effortlessly!”
‘Sure, praise me more for having one spell negate on board after overextending.’
“It was just luck,” I reveal.
“There is no need to bring yourself down like that!” - She insisted - “I know you have skill!”
“If that’s what the professor thinks think…” I leave it there.
She giggles, “Well, I will see you later at the academy. Sorry for bothering you!”
“No problem,” I say, then look back down at my phone.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we will arrive at NWDA Academy Island in 10 minutes. Please fasten your seatbelts, as we will be landing shortly.” Announces the capitan.
I don’t know how much time passed because I fell asleep while I was looking at prices. Thankfully, I somehow kept my phone in my hand even while asleep…
‘Some fine muscle memory.’
The reason I was searching for prices was to confirm the 1@ to 33 cents conversion I quickly did back when I was meeting the director. That conversion, by the way, turned out to be accurate with basically everything I’ve found so far. Actually, this lead me into another rabbit hole. I looked at a lot of Commerce websites during my price research, and all of them offered delivery by “Express tube”, with delivery times ranging from 15 minutes to an hour WORLDWIDE. This made me want to check out what “Express tube” delivery is.
Apparently it’s a worldwide network of vacuum maglev tubes that can move cargo canisters at speeds up to 10Km/s… Of course, that’s not the speed of the entire network just the top speed between cargo hubs, distribution to individual clients is provided by traditional pneumatic tubes like the ones you can find in hospitals or old banks, these clients are individual houses, businesses and public lockers. I do not know how this is cost efficient over traditional cargo ships, cargo planes and trucks, but yay for fast deliveries.
Looking out of the window, I can spot the academy. The dominant feature seems to be the main tower on the north of the academy island. A single wide path runs down the middle of the island, connecting the tower and the dock on the south. From the primary avenue emerge side streets that are surrounded by other buildings. The two other key features are the massive field to the west of the island and a race track on the east side. Of course, between these key structures, there are other buildings, but as the plane approaches the landing pads by the tower, I lose sight of them.
The Osprey changes to helicopter mode and slowly lowers onto the pad. The landing is calm and after another announcement from the captain; I stand up, grab my bag and a stand by the queue to leave the plane. I disembark with 10 other people - including the Deck building teacher - and use this time to clip the badge denoting a natural Penta-Summoner on my uniform, then stand by the helipad while the rest of the staff members walk away.
As the pad was emptying, I’m finally am confronted by an old woman with short white hair.
“Yuumi Matsunaga?” She asks in a grumbly voice.
“Yes.” I respond.
“Good afternoon Yuumi, my name is Hotaru Umeda but you will address me as Miss. Umeda, from now on, understood?” She orders.
“Er, Yes, Miss Umeda.” I stumble.
“Very well. Now, for some reason, the director tasked me with showing you around the island…” - She looks at the ground then mumbles - “Even though I’ll have to do it again when the other students get here, that bastard can’t seem to leave an old woman alone…” in a hurried, aggressive tone followed by her turning her back to me and walking away.
‘… Alrighty then. Rude, but I can understand being mad at having to repeat the same tour twice in a day.’
I follow her, and she starts the tour, stopping first by the entrance to the main tower.
“This is the central tower of the academy. Advanced classes take place here and it’s also the living quarters for the academies’ best!” - She emphasizes the last part. - “It’s also where the staff offices are located, including the Directors’; as a red rank, you will not be visiting it commonly unless you turn out to be subpar even compared to the other red rank trash.” She finishes her description, practically spitting venom.
‘Ok, I’m not sure she fully understands the meaning of the badge on my chest, but in the spirit of not being a dick to an overworked elderly lady, I’ll stay quiet.’
We then make our way down the primary avenue and arrive at a four-way intersection.
“Now this is a place where you will be frequently frequenting.” She points to the right at a tall white building five stories high. “This is the first main pavilion where classes will take place,” she then directs my attention to the left building that looks identical to the first one. “That is the second teaching pavilion. These two pavilions are where you will spend most of your time, other than the dorms. Past the pavilions are the buildings of various clubs and farther away there's the PE field and gymnasium down the right path and Turbo duel racing track to the left one.”
We keep walking until we reach another four-way split.
“This is the "Market square" as the students like to call it, you will find a variety of stores mostly specializing in dueling equipment here, but keep in mind, as a red rank, the only one you want to care about is the basic card shop, it's the first one to the right path, you can’t miss it.” Again, she completely underestimates the amount of resources I have access to.
We then pass by some other four way splits but she doesn’t bother explaining where they lead, but just based on the colors I have a hunch. They were some strange clusters of buildings painted in the various colors, so they’re probably the dorms for the other ranks.
After a long walk, we finally stop at another four-way split in the path, this time with two red painted buildings. They have strange designs, with cylindrical shapes and bulbous roofs.
“We have arrived at the red dorms.” Miss Umeda declares. “To the right is the female dorm, and to the left is the male one. Now follow me.” She says as we enter the female dorm.
The inside is set up like a motel lobby, the front desk is to the left, a raised platform which leads to an elevator to the front, and a corridor to the right, there's few people around at this time making the lobby seem empty. Miss Umeda then gives me a tour of the inside, showing me the canteen, laundry room and some other facilities. Unfortunately, the looks of the students that came out to see what was going on was all I could focus on. They seemed confused until they noticed something about me - probably the badge - and then they would quickly make themselves scarce. I didn’t like it one bit to be honest, sure it was better than them trying to mess with me, but fear was not my intention. I pondered if it would be better to just not wear the badge, but decided against it.
Miss Ameda then guided us to the elevator and pressed the third floor button. This was a five story building according to the floor numbers.
When we got off the elevator, she turned to me and asked.
“Now, do you have any questions?”
“Five, actually. First, is there a specific time I have to get up at or can I just wake up before classes?”
“They serve breakfast at the canteen at 7AM, other than that curfew is in effect from 10PM to 6:30 AM.”
“About package deliveries?”
“Small tube deliveries can be picked up at the locker by the front desk. For medium-sized tube deliveries, you’ll need to go to the central tower locker. Large ones and non-tube deliveries arrive by boat each week, and you’ll need to pick them up at the docks. Oh, the docks are just past the red dorms.”
‘No shit, I can smell the sea from here.’
“For delivery addresses, just look at the NWDA app knowledge base. Also, DC purchases can also be delivered by tube and the same rules apply, except large items are picked up at the main tower as well.”
“How do I spend DC then?”
“First, as a red rank, you have little, so use it sparingly.” - She warns - “But you can use it to purchase items from the stores in the commercial zone, or directly from the NWDA app.”
“Where do I find my sche…”
“In the NWDA app. Any more questions?” Miss Umeda interrupts me, annoyed.
‘Sheesh, talk about grumpy.’
“No, I don’t think so.” I had another question, but if she’s going to act like this, I’ll just leave her alone.
“Good, now let’s go meet your roommate.”
I follow her to a door numbered “36” near the end of the hallway.
*Knock*, *Knock* “Open the door, you have a new roommate!” She yells.
I can hear some ruffling on the other side. Then the door opens, revealing a tall-ish muscular girl with tanned skin, yellow eyes and green hair tied in a ponytail. She’s wearing pajamas.
“NEW ROOMATE!? You have to be kidding me Miss Umeda!? New students only arrive at seven PM. What gives!?”
“Some special case, I guess. Now I have to go prepare ANOTHER tour. Bye.” And she walks away, leaving me by the door.
My new roommate is staring at me…. and she just found the badge…. and her mouth just opened wide…. Shit…
“Pen… pen… penta…” she stutters.
“Hey are you going to let me in or am I going to sleep in the corridor?” I joke.
“NATURAL PENTA-SUMMONER!!!” she screams…. and then falls to the ground, seemingly having fainted.
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‘… Great first impressions…’
Honestly I could see Yuumi using blackwings or Raid raptors to troll, or Dot Quasar/Six Spams for lockdown shenanigans. then there's dragonmaids/A-Z bull-crockery for more fun.
even i never did something that brutal.
-someone who used to OTK using hero, dragon maid, and cypher/galaxy-
@Ray_Ghost_FACTORY Fair but i am not wrong in it being fun to troll with:
1. say spams u synch 3 lv 5 shien and u have 3 spell/trap negates per turn.
2. Dot quasar to a quasar plus stardust, and set something like mirror force to top that.
and also i used things like cypher/galaxy and hero otks as well but even if i am a relentless guy i have time to troll to
@YuukiTsuchimakado personally, Im thinking of building a combo Dragonmaids blue eyes deck. Any thoughts?
I dont know why, but the roommate's description makes me think of Tyranno Hassleberry from GX.
I almost hope that Yuumi pulls back a bit on her deck and drops things like Accesscode Talker and DPE in favor of more Odd-Eyes cards. Thats just me though, I can't stand splashable generic boss monsters. Like, generic extenders and playmaker cards like Halq, Electromite, and Verte I get, but boss monsters should have some archetype loyalty imo.
I want to agree about the Odd-Eyes but that's mostly due to personal preference. My deck has Odd-Eyes, Performpal, and Magician pendulum cards.
@Dlite95 I do love me a Pendulum Magician deck. There's so much versatility in that archetype. I've just never been a fan of powerful generic boss monsters like Accesscode or Savage Dragon so I hope Yuumi brings her deck closer to the archetype because it's got a ton of tools built in. Heck I play D/D/D pretty close to pure because there is so much utility built into the archetype.
Her current deck is the one she used at locals back in our world so it was built to those standards, hence the staples. Odd-Eyes has some really interesting and quirky boss monsters (Not to mention Z-Arc) so, obviously I will use them when I get the opportunity to change her deck.
She is still a little shaken from the whole kidnapping incidents to pull back on her deck currently, after all, she just learned that she could duel to defend herself. So she's not very keen to start experimenting with other decks or unfamiliar strategies, but that will start to go away now that she's in the relative safety of the NWDA and starts to loosen up.
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@plays49 @plays49 good author-chan *gives headpats*
How does the universe view alt summoning conditions? Obviously contact fusion like Ritual Beasts, Gladiator Beasts, and NeoSpace would still be considered “fusion summoning” (even if not “properly summoned”). But what about stuff like Plunder Patroll who can bring out Link, Xyz, Syncro, and Fusion just by having certain monster attributes in the field/graveyard? Would a duelist who used Alt summoning conditions to cheat their cards out of the extra deck still be considered a “x-summoner”?
The best way I can explain the restriction is by comparing it to skills in LitRPG novels: if the character doesn't have the skill, they can't do it. For someone to be considered an x-summoner, they just need to have the skill, not necessarily use it (Like a character in a LitRPG can have a sword user skill and use a lance, they still have the skill)
Contact fusions work like fusions, so yes, for someone to use them they need to be able to fusion summon.
About the example with plunders, to be honest I hadn't thought about that yet... Right now I am of the opinion that as they are not considered Link/XYZ/Synchro/Fusion summons and are just basic special summons that I will allow it but the person is simply not considered an x-summoner. The problem is that this opens up a gargantuan can of worms, so I might just say that a duelist can't have monsters they can't summon (Because of the restriction) on their extra-deck. but the problem with that is that it breaks how cards like Pot of Prosperity work, so I could say that Fusion/Synchro/XYZ/Link monsters can't be summoned NOT MATTER WHAT if the duelist can't perform the corresponding summoning method.
Or I might have to deal with it on a case-by-case basis.
Those are the options right now. I will reveal which one I choose in the novel when I've come to a definitive conclusion, followed by how pendulum works (Which thankfully is a lot simpler and I've already decided how to deal with its edge cases).
@plays49 If that’s the case, you could possibly go with how the anime does things sometime. By having the cards manifest (since some of the more serious duels are contest of wills, and those cards represent pushing through their limits). We could look at Yuyas first pen summon (as those monsters suddenly transformed into Pens) and have the monsters in the extra deck be “locked” for most duelists until they break their mental block. Even Gx did it with Jaidens NeoSpacians literally appearing out of thin air sometimes for a destiny draw. Then again this is your story, so you could even give the MC an uzi to beat the card monsters, and the goddess didn’t say this is the Yugioh world, but rather a world similar to the Yugioh world.
i quite like this, not like other Yu gi oh fic starting from GX or DM
Blind old bat, what's the word...a ummm...snob? Maybe? Seems to light for someone too stupid to ask a basic question "what makes this student so special~?"
But, it's prefect anime logic, and I'm waiting for the gob-smack look of "sh*t I messed that up"
Be funny when she gets booted off the island for actively trying to get a living legend to leave!
@Basically_God ...hasn't happened yet...
just like you could separate north-America and south-America
North and South America aren't actually connected as there is a man made canal in the way
Emphasis on the man made part. If there was a bridge connecting South America to Africa, would that make them a single continent? No. America is a single continent that is divided into two or three parts for convenience sakes because the continent is so large.
Here is an example of what I mean:
I met a native Portuguese speaker from America.
That's great, but where in America? They could be an Alaskan, Mexican, whatever. Now let's change the sentence slightly.
I met a native Portuguese speaker from South America.
Now we have a better understanding from where that person is from and we could deduce that the person is probably Brazilian.
TL:DR: America is a single continent divided into three sections, North, Central and South for convenience and man made structures cannot subtract or add new continents. Unless we are talking about straight up sci-fi terraforming.
So the entire world is 99% Flundereeze and Monarch players with evilswarms and worms coming as the sh*t decks.
GREAT!
Don't know why anyone cares about being able to penta summon or some bs when most decks literally take none or max 2.
When people have natural limitations which are countable, it's normal for some to compare themselves and think themselves higher than others even if in the end the result isn't relevant. AKA Give people a way to think they're better than others and they'll always take it.
At least that is my reasoning.
@plays49 Good reasoning. Definitely see it happening a lot in the real world.