Chapter 255: Obtaining Cards from the Light

"Hikari—His Majesty, the Light Emperor!"

"Your Majesty!"

Those who had earlier been arrogant, taunting Gaia's knight servants, now trembled violently at this sight; many knights collapsed onto the ground, unable to believe what they were seeing.

Could the Light Emperor—naturally noble, even granted power by heaven—have lost?

And lost to the very fusion deck, assembled by the "weaklings" he despised?

Worse still—

A "Pure Fusion" deck that had used only two main deck monster cards throughout the entire duel!

When these spirits turned their gaze toward Tiancheng Guang, merely locking eyes with him for an instant, they shrieked and scrambled to their feet on all fours or six limbs, fleeing like the wind toward the arena's exit.

"Yay, they ran away!" some little spirits cheered.

Gaia's form appeared beside Tiancheng Guang, intending to pursue the fleeing spirits, but halted upon seeing Tiancheng Guang's action.

For Tiancheng Guang did not chase the fleeing spirits—he lifted his head and stared at the arena's throne.

There, a twisted curtain of light writhed wildly.

Suddenly, a rift tore open in the sky. Seeing this, Tiancheng Guang swiftly reached up, pulled down the card from around his neck, and raised it high.

Gaia felt a 【wind】 rise.

No—

Not wind.

A "black hole," a terrifying void seemingly capable of swallowing all things, centered on the card in Tiancheng Guang's hand, dragging the distorted, surging light curtain inward.

Even as it strained desperately, even though it had fled early, this beam of light, no matter how it struggled, had only one fate.

To be entirely absorbed into the card in Tiancheng Guang's hand beneath lightning and dark clouds.

Tiancheng Guang stopped moving and glanced at the card in his hand.

A blank card slowly coalesced in his palm, then gradually took shape, finally becoming a shimmering card.

On the card was a Warrior-type monster: a figure with two long arrows strapped to its back and a massive mouth on its abdomen, resembling the Sugarman Samurai from Masked Rider.

Tiancheng Guang raised an eyebrow.

He rehung the Super Fusion card and examined the one in his hand.

"That strange light didn't seem to have any concrete form," Ye La glanced over and noted: though born from light, this card had lost its destructive impulse and become merely a pure card.

Tiancheng Guang had known this already.

In the original story, the Light of Fluctuation, though a "boss" spanning multiple arcs, had no true "body"—unlike "Darkness," which had a physical avatar, it attached its power to different cards, using them to drive people or spirits to destroy everything they saw.

From Blood Demon D, to White Feather Robe, to Secret Ritual Power, to Yu Beier, and countless others—anyone corrupted by the Light of Annihilation would inevitably walk the path of total destruction.

Even more terrifying, this light possessed a homogenizing power: a powerful Annihilation Light duelist who defeated a weaker, destructive duelist could directly brainwash and control them—clean, swift, and absolute.

Likewise, since it merely resided on cards without a physical form, it could distribute varying degrees of power to different cards; even if the holder of one Annihilation Card lost, it mattered nothing to the light itself.

But—

There was one exception.

That was—

【Super Fusion】.

Forcing the Light of Annihilation into an ordinary card was impossible for ordinary humans or spirits—but not for Super Fusion.

Although Tiancheng Guang had not yet fully mastered Super Fusion.

But the problem was—the Annihilation Light residing on the Light Emperor was not abundant.

And he was the victor!

Now he had plucked a card right from the Annihilation Light itself.

"Tian Tian Rongxing Guai Qi?" Gaia, having just defeated its enemy, leaned in curiously instead of calming its subjects, "A Warrior-type monster that can fuse during a Special Summon?!"

Seeing such a brilliant "fusion," Gaia had to admit—it was envious.

Tiancheng Guang chuckled and told it to focus on the matter at hand; fusion could be sorted out later, then tucked the card away.

Tian Tian Rongxing Guai Qi—if he remembered correctly—was a monster card from Yu-Gi-Oh! A5's Liangshanbo Academy? Anyway, there were more fusion monsters like Ba Lei Xing, Ba Sheng Xing, Ba Dao Xing, with fairly accessible fusion conditions.

But regardless—

It had nothing to do with the Annihilation Light.

Tiancheng Guang tapped his forehead lightly with the card.

That meant, in the future, whenever he encountered Annihilation Light clusters not fully embedded in cards, he could simply use Super Fusion to harvest them ruthlessly.

Aside from its destructive impulses, the Annihilation Light was purest energy—the true conceptual "source of light in the universe"—and could be shaped into any card.

And as long as he fused using duels and the power of Super Fusion, he would inevitably obtain a fusion-related card.

Whether lower-level or fusion monsters!

For Tiancheng Guang, who daily struggled to decide which fusion monsters to use and kept recycling the same old lower-level monsters, this was truly good news.

Of course, he didn't urgently need lower-level monsters, so he wouldn't hunt for this daily.

After all, he knew perfectly well—the "biggest chunk" of the Annihilation Light was Yu Beier.

Mythic background, spirit power capable of commanding Phantom Demons, overflowing with frenzied destructive desire, obsessive love for Judai, and actual knowledge of how to destroy twelve dimensions.

With such a perfect vessel, the Annihilation Light had no reason to change hosts.

While Tiancheng Guang studied cards, Gaia was busy with its own affairs.

First, it overthrew the Light Emperor's throne, then proclaimed from on high that its sovereign had defeated the old monarch; from today onward, this "Land of Glorious Knights" would be a place only true knights could inhabit, and all warriors who bullied the weak would be expelled—or hunted down.

In a human world, such a proclamation would be useless.

Conspiracies, traps, politics—endless affairs would leave Gaia's scalp itching.

But in the spirit world—a warrior who won a duel had the right to dictate the rules of a region!

If you disagreed, you could challenge Gaia again!

Otherwise, leave for another region while the leadership changed!

Spirits were simple, pure.

Even the Light Emperor's malice was straightforward and direct.

Thus, after Gaia's proclamation, the spirits who had followed it here naturally cheered, celebrating how their "Great Lord" had finally corrected the "corrupt knightly path."

In short, a single duel could reshape the society of an entire region in the spirit world!

And now, Gaia was the region's true "Great Lord."

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