Thread:ClarentBloodArthur/@comment-5688420-20200424195450/@comment-5688420-20200426121353

Years ago, during an archaeological expedition in an ancient ruins, led by the multi-millionaire John Atlas Knightingale, the archaeologists had found five mysterious cards, each with a scripture on them, as well as a gem embedded inside: a topaz, a jet, a sapphire, a ruby and an emerald, respectively. After a while more, they eventually found an equally-mysterious flat stone inside a temple, with slots where the cards fit perfectly.

Upon placing the red card into one of the slots of the stone, the expedition team ended up summoning what appears to a giant dragon. The dragon ended up nearly slaughtering the entire expedition team, until one of the archaeologists, Shinsaku Tenryu, managed to find a way to re-seal the dragon into the card. This was when Knightingale realized what the team had ended up finding. Later that evening, Knightingale sneaked past the expedition team's bunker, and stole the five cards for himself, with plans to use the cards' power for his own gain.

Many years later, the card game Kessenju is all the rage, with all the kids in the neighborhood going gaga all over the newest card craze. One of these kids is a 12-year old boy named Sendo Tenryu, who had recieved his cards from his father Shinsaku, before his mysterious disappearance yeara ago. Sendo is known amongst his peers as an ace of the game, known for his immensely powerful Realm of Fire deck, and in particular, his trump card, Ignis, Dragon of the Flame.

In the first few episodes, Sendo duels against Hideo Tsuchida, a self-proclaimed dueling genius who claims to be able to beat Sendo using only theory and his Realm of the Earth deck, and Kyou Mizuhara, a popular school idol who turned out to be a formidable duelist herself, utilizing a Realm of Water deck. After defeating them, Sendo proceeded to befriend both of them, and they've been friends and allies of him ever since.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a mysterious duelist has been hunting down other duelists and defeating them in battle, stealing their decks once they lose against him. Eventually, after one of the victim's, Yuta Hikari, one of Sendo's friends and a student from the same school as him, was attacked and defeated by the mysterious duelist, with his Realm of Light deck ending up being stolen by him, Sendo offered to take the mysterious duelist down and defeat him himself.

Once he found the mysterious duelist, which turned out to be a kid named Kurou Kagenuma, he wasted no time and fought Kurou in a duel of Kessenju, which he ended up losing. The first loss in his playing career. A devastated Sendo vows to take revenge and beat him in the upcoming Great Duelist Tournament, which Kurou accepts.