Nine Levels in a Row!
3: Create a Pillar of Light!
Nine Levels in a Row!
Chapter 3: Create a Pillar of Light!
Nine Levels in a Row!
[Worldview approved!] Within the isolated void of the unified examination space, Luke held his breath.
His mind was a hyper-focused singularity as he finalized the foundational logic of the Yu-Gi-Oh!
worldview.
With the cosmic scaffolding in place, he turned his attention to the core of his first creation: the Dark Magician Girl.
Since he was establishing the Yu-Gi-Oh!
universe, it was only natural to summon a Magic Card Spirit deeply tied to its legacy.
And when it came to that legendary franchise, one figure stood above the rest.
Putting all other considerations aside, the Dark Magician Girl reigned supreme as the original waifu.
She boasted terrifying popularity across the fandom and was naturally one of Luke’s childhood goddesses.
She, along with a select few other two-dimensional heroines, had accompanied him through countless days and nights.
However, Luke had no intention of constructing a vanilla, unmodified Dark Magician Girl.
Since she was going to be his flagship waifu card, applying a few custom balance patches was absolutely mandatory.
He was going to forge his own exclusive Dark Magician Girl.
[In the Duel Spirit Kingdom, there exists a lineage of extraordinary beings who have mastered the arcane arts of Dark Magic—the Spellcaster race.] [Dark Magician Girl – Mana stands as a prodigy among the Spellcasters.
She studied under the legendary Dark Magician, eventually inheriting a mastery of the arcane that rivaled her mentor’s.] [Following her apprenticeship, Mana began a journey across the world to refine her strength.
During her travels, she forged a deep bond with the Silent Magician and a host of other formidable allies, mastering a vast array of new spells from them.] Luke wove these additional layers of lore into her background, carefully shaping the narrative to ensure the final Magic Card aligned perfectly with his strategic vision.
[Magic Card background approved.
Please complete the card art and insert materials!] His spiritual power coalesced, manifesting as a glowing brush in his mind’s eye.
With just a few fluid strokes, the vibrant, unmistakable silhouette of the Dark Magician Girl materialized within the Magic Card Editor.
She was a childhood goddess, after all.
Luke was intimately familiar with every single detail of her design, from the inside out.
[Material pack opened successfully!
Congratulations to the Host for acquiring: Dark Magician Girl Crafting Material x1!] Without hesitation, Luke dumped all the resources from the gift pack into the Editor.
The moment the materials crossed the threshold of the interface, a mysterious power ignited them.
They melted down into pure, iridescent fuel, bleeding into the sketched lines of the Dark Magician Girl.
The colors bloomed across the card art, shading and rendering her image until it pulsed with lifelike brilliance.
A few seconds later, the dormant Magic Power within Luke’s body erupted.
The surging energy forced his cultivation realm upward, shattering his previous limits.
One-Star Soldier.
Two-Star Soldier.
Three-Star Soldier!
The escalating energy cascaded outward, manifesting as a blinding Pillar of Light that engulfed his entire body.
A triumphant smile curved Luke’s lips.
Success.
Magic Card Masters inherently increased their cultivation levels by constructing Magic Cards.
The sudden influx of Magic Power Feedback and his rapid ascension were absolute proof: the Dark Magician Girl had been successfully forged.
The sheer intensity of the birth was staggering.
The unified examination space surrounding Luke began to tremble, showing faint signs of structural collapse.
This was no ordinary dimension.
The examination space had been forged by the City Lord’s Mansion.
Even though it had been partitioned into countless smaller instances to accommodate the massive influx of students—slightly diluting its overall strength—its foundational stability was far beyond ordinary limits.
Yet, under the pressure of the Pillar of Light, the spatial walls groaned.
There was only one logical explanation: the star-level of the Dark Magician Girl was astronomically high.
The majestic Pillar of Light lasted for only a few fleeting seconds before shattering into thousands of luminescent specks.
The starlight swirled through the air, sinking back into Luke’s pores and vanishing into his core.
[Construction successful.
Gained Magic Power Feedback.
Level increased to Two-Star Soldier!] [Construction successful.
Gained Magic Power Feedback.
Level increased to Three-Star Soldier!] [Construction successful.
Gained Magic Power Feedback.
Level increased to Nine-Star Soldier!] With a staggering increase of nearly an entire major realm, Luke felt the vitality in his cells overflow.
His lifespan had received a massive boost.
As long as he didn’t actively seek out death, he could comfortably live for three hundred years.
[Gained Magic Power Feedback.
Next permission unlock progress is at 40%!] “Gaining Magic Power Feedback also pushes the progress bar for the next system permission?” Luke blinked, momentarily stunned by the prompt, before his smile widened into a full-blown grin.
Magic Power Feedback was a unique, pure energy granted to a Magic Card Master by the laws of the world upon the successful creation of a card.
Historically, its sole purpose was to elevate a Master’s cultivation level.
Once the accumulated feedback reached a critical threshold, it triggered a qualitative evolution, allowing the Master to break through to a higher tier.
But according to the system, Luke’s crafting efforts were yielding double the rewards.
The feedback he absorbed didn’t just fuel his personal cultivation; it simultaneously powered the system’s unlock requirements.
It was the ultimate two-birds-with-one-stone scenario.
Meanwhile, inside the opulent viewing hall of the City Lord’s Mansion, the atmosphere had shattered.
“He succeeded!
He actually succeeded!” Even the normally unflappable Cang Fenghua had lost his composure, his voice echoing with raw disbelief.
Throughout the long history of their world, every common Magic Card in modern Magic Card Civilization had once been an Original Magic Card.
It was the slow, agonizing accumulation of these Original cards transitioning into common templates that built the prosperous era they lived in today.
To craft a Magic Card, one had to first construct a functional worldview.
In the ancient, formative years of their civilization, the birth of a new card often heralded the dawn of an entirely new worldview.
However, as the eons passed and the underlying laws of Magic Card Civilization solidified and perfected themselves, forging a brand-new worldview became an impossibly steep mountain to climb.
In the modern era, even supreme entities like Emperor Realm and Sovereign Realm Magic Card Masters had never managed to construct a new worldview.
For them, crafting an Original Magic Card was nothing more than a theoretical fantasy.
Creating a new worldview wasn’t a matter of raw destructive power; it was a pure, unadulterated test of a Magic Card Master’s innate talent and imagination.
And now, a mere high school student taking a unified examination had accomplished this mythical feat right before their very eyes!
Luke hadn’t just constructed a new worldview—he had successfully breathed life into a genuine Original Magic Card.
Sure, Luke was still just a fledgling novice.
Any of the Emperor or Sovereign Realm titans in the room could crush him with a flick of their wrists.
But in terms of sheer, terrifying potential and Magic Card talent?
Luke eclipsed them all.
Because out of everyone standing in that hall, including the mighty Cang Fenghua, not a single soul had ever successfully crafted an Original Magic Card.
Forget crafting one—even in the vast, centuries-long memories of Cang Fenghua and his peers, they had never even heard of a contemporary Magic Card Master achieving such a thing.
In this generation, an Original Magic Card Creator was a living, breathing national treasure!
“The manifestation of the Pillar of Light…
that is indeed the legendary celestial phenomenon that only descends upon the successful creation of an Original Magic Card.” Principal Gu’s face was split into an uncontrollable, ear-to-ear grin.
“As expected of the student I placed my hopes on!
I just wonder what star-level Luke’s Original Magic Card has actually reached.” Common Magic Cards were mass-produced and widely documented; their star-levels were public knowledge the moment their names were spoken.
Their quality simply depended on the precision of the card art and the purity of the physical materials used.
Original Magic Cards, however, were absolute enigmas.
Unless the creator voluntarily disclosed the card’s stat block, outsiders could only guess its star-level, quality, and abilities by observing its performance in combat.
Watching the sheer, unadulterated jealousy bleeding from Zhao Chengyuan and Da Baiman’s faces as they recovered from their shock, Principal Gu felt a wave of euphoric vindication wash over him.
‘You two were acting so damn arrogant just a minute ago.
Now it’s my turn to look down on you!”Damn it!’Hearing Principal Gu’s incredibly shameless gloating, Zhao Chengyuan and Da Baiman almost couldn’t suppress the urge to curse out loud.’If you had known you were hiding a monstrous student like Luke this whole time, you wouldn’t have kept your mouth shut until now, you shameless old bastard!’