"As expected, once a God takes the field..."
"The Duel is decided!"
"The Duel between the shopkeeper and Hall Master Hu was truly thrilling and exciting!"
"Can't wait for the shopkeeper to bring out more god cards next time."
"I really want to see what Obelisk the Tormentor and The Winged Dragon of Ra look like!"
"Me too! I'm really looking forward to it!!!"
After the Duel ended, Xingqiu and Chongyun had no complaints. After all, losing to a God wasn't shameful at all. On the contrary, being able to witness [Slifer the Sky Dragon] made them both extremely excited and happy!
Even in defeat, they weren't very upset. Coming so close to winning left Xingqiu and Chongyun proud of themselves.
After stepping down from the Duel Stage, Hu Tao was overjoyed. "Being able to fight side by side with the shopkeeper was really fun!"
Luya nodded. "I'm also glad I got to fight alongside the Hall Master."
Hearing Hu Tao and Luya laugh and chat, Zhongli chuckled lightly. "All right, shopkeeper... your Duel is finished. It's time to get back to work."
Luya gave an acknowledging hum at Zhongli's words, then returned to the counter to continue business.
At this moment, Keqing, seeing Luya's Duel was done, brought over the registration list for the Duel Tournament and the preorder list for Duel Disks, laying them before Luya. "Shopkeeper... here are the records of tournament sign-ups and Duel Disk preorders so far."
Luya took the two lists, and smiling, thanked Keqing: "Thank you, all three of you have worked hard! With your help, the preparations have gone so smoothly."
Hearing Luya's gratitude, Keqing felt deeply moved. She quickly replied: "Haha! It's no trouble at all—it's all for giving Liyue the most spectacular Lantern Rite in millennia!"
Luya glanced over the two lists. By just this morning, more than 90 people had signed up for the Duel Tournament, and the number of Duel Disk preorders had reached 200.
Each Duel Disk cost 50,000 Mora in the system shop, yet was sold to customers for 100,000 Mora. By evening settlement, buying in and reselling would yield a profit of 10 million Mora! And this was only the morning's sales. By the end of the day, at least 400 Duel Disks would likely be sold—that meant a net profit of 20 million Mora.
On top of that, once the card packs sold out, there would be another 100 million Mora in profit. The Mora earned today, Luya planned to reinvest in stock, expanding the store's warehouse, and preparing to earn even more in the future!
Ganyu and Yanfei also walked over. Yanfei, as a well-known lawyer in Liyue Harbor, had handled many cases, big and small. She had amassed quite a fortune. After chatting with the customers for a while, she learned how Duel Monsters cards should be purchased and used. So she came to Luya's counter.
"Shopkeeper, I want to buy 2000 card packs!"
Then, Yanfei pulled out several Mora deposit slips and placed them on Luya's counter.
The surrounding customers, hearing Yanfei's words, all looked on enviously.
"Wow! As expected of a famous lawyer... she's really rich!"
"My goodness, that's 40 million Mora in one go!"
"So much money... incredible!"
Hearing Yanfei, Luya was delighted. In a single purchase, half of his day's stock was cleared. The rest would be easy to sell casually to meet the day's sales target!
Luya fetched 2000 card packs from the crate, piling them up in the open space before the counter.
Yanfei saw that 2000 card packs looked like quite a lot, so she turned to Ganyu and said: "How about... we open them together?"
Ganyu nodded.
And so, Yanfei and Ganyu went off together to start opening packs.
As the sound of pack-opening and their commentary filled the air, Yanfei and Ganyu—the two Adepti—were now fully immersed, having a blast.
Luya, seeing the scene, was quite happy too. After all, selling so many card packs so quickly left him very satisfied. He then turned to handle other business: selling packs, selling bread, adding materials to the card furnace, and registering customers for the Duel Tournament from time to time. He also processed a number of Duel Disk preorder orders.
Through the afternoon, plenty more customers arrived one after another. The number of tournament registrants had reached 200, and Duel Disk preorders had already sold 400 units.
Meanwhile, Hu Tao, Ganyu, Zhongli, Yanfei, and others went to watch a screening of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. They spent a relatively joyful afternoon, and before they knew it, evening had come.
Xiao also returned carrying some materials—the card furnace for creating [Goddess of Dust – Guizhong] finally showed some signs of activity!
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