This Summoner Is Too Powerful

The cube chamber door opened, and a drenched Ah Yajun crawled out.

The special solution evaporated quickly, and by the time he stepped out of the cube chamber, his body was already dry again.

"How was the result?"

His homeroom teacher was sitting in the classroom, holding a cup of tea.

"Teacher, I lost."

Ah Yajun said with a bit of regret.

"It's alright, winning and losing are both normal things."

"What rank did you get assigned?"

Actually, from his expression, the homeroom teacher had already guessed it.

"Silver 2."

Ah Yajun scratched his head.

"Great, that's very impressive."

"I'm proud of you."

Despite saying so, the homeroom teacher felt a bit of regret inside.

Indeed, having spent just a month since school started, and becoming a card player in less than a month, reaching Silver 2 rank is already quite remarkable.

Among this year's students, Ah Yajun's ranking match result might not be the best.

But considering the time factor, its value is definitely the highest.

He just hoped that one day, he could bring out a student who achieves a gold rank in their ranking match.

This kind of honor is currently only enjoyed by the senior grade director of the fourth year, and no other teachers in the life and cube card majors have achieved it.

However, that was many years ago. If he remembered correctly, the student was called...

Li Fan? Li Card? Or Li Fan Card?

Anyway, it was something like that.

Forget it, let it be.

"The final match of the ranking is always tough."

Seeing the student still seemed a bit down, the homeroom teacher comforted him again.

Before this match, Ah Yajun's record was x√x√√√√√√.

This means he had achieved six consecutive wins.

Generally speaking, in the cube card world, he would be matched with an opponent with a similar winning streak.

Plus, with the intentional difficulty increase in the last match of the ranking, the opponent could be someone with a 7 or 8 consecutive wins, but not limited to someone also in the ranking match.

"Don't belittle yourself, it's normal you couldn't defeat them."

"I suspect the opponent you matched with is a 'fish bombing' card player."

So he shared this assessment with the student.

"Fish bombing? What does that mean, teacher?"

Ah Yajun puzzledly asked.

"Fish bombing refers to some high-ranked card players who find it boring."

"They often enter lower-level matches and use their card pool advantage to overwhelmingly defeat rookie card players."

"It's like throwing a bomb into a fish pond and flipping all the fish belly up; that's fish bombing."

"That's why you couldn't match them."

"However, so-called high rank is only relative to you."

"Players above Platinum tier disdain doing such things."

"I guess your opponent might be a Gold tier 234 player."

"So your loss isn't unjustified."

The homeroom teacher's explanation lifted Ah Yajun's spirits significantly.

"I see, that truly makes the loss fair."

He nodded in understanding.

"Just keep working hard from now on."

"Aim to reach the gold rank before the end of your first year."

The homeroom teacher patted Ah Yajun's shoulder.

Unlike offline matches, ranking up in the cube card world isn't so easy.

In officially recognized matches judged by associations, players' ranks are adjusted based on actual performance.

But in the cube card world, ranking up requires numerous matches and fulfilling certain conditions before a promotion match can be attempted.

This process is much longer than the mere 10 matches of a ranking match.

"Alright, let's do a replay analysis now."

"Did you record the game session?"

The homeroom teacher walked to the cube chamber, opened a mechanical slot, and extracted the chip inside.

In the cube card world, parts of the screen can be recorded through settings.

After receiving a confirmed response, he inserted the chip into the classroom's computer.

With a few mouse clicks, a white screen descended from the wall.

The replay footage of the earlier card game was immediately displayed on the screen.

The so-called replay is essentially a repeated data calculation.

Conversations between players and the audience's voices are absent.

The visuals show only the state of the card table.

Pausing or adjusting the viewing angle is possible at any time.

Moreover, if the card operation pauses and card information are filtered out, it could even be viewed as an animated battle between summoned beasts.

Like summoning circles, each card summons beasts for turn-based combat.

Of course, as professionals in the cube card major, they wouldn't just focus on the surface level.

The most important aspect is reviewing the composition of both sides' card decks and the choices made each turn.

According to the homeroom teacher's habit, the first step was to watch the whole match at high speed.

Then he analyzed it turn by turn.

"..."

However, after watching the first run-through, he was silent.

"How do I feel like he was also a card player in a ranking match?"

Moments later, the homeroom teacher swallowed hard.

The reasoning was simple: high-ranked fish-bombing players wouldn't assemble decks like this.

Fish-bombing aims for the thrill of card dominance, without concerning technical skill.

However, looking at this [Plain and Unadorned Person Like Me], his cards were clearly a whole level lower than Ah Yajun's!

"What's going on with this person..."

The more he thought about it, the more incredulous the homeroom teacher felt.

"Teacher, your words made me remember something."

"The previous spectators seemed to mention something about an 8-win streak and ranking matches."

"If they weren't lying, that [Plain and Unadorned Person Like Me] was facing me in his 9th match, and he won all previous ones."

At this point, Ah Yajun finally recalled.

"..."

Such a statement left the homeroom teacher silent once again.

"Yajun, it seems you encountered quite an extraordinary opponent this time."

Finally, he spoke truthfully.

What does a 9-win streak in ranking matches mean?

It's basically a guarantee of reaching the gold tier.

It's unknown if the opponent Yajun faced was also a student.

If he was a student, then his teacher is truly impressive and fortunate.

...

At this very moment, in the 10th ranking match's card room.

"Can someone tell me what's going on now?"

Li Pu looked at the opponent's card player, feeling distinctly something was off.

Why did this person's light and shadow differ entirely from his own?

Was it glowing with golden light?

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