Chapter 263: The Old God Nyoz Brings

In Blue Academy—now White Academy—Saiou gently shuffled his Tarot cards, then drew one.

It was still Death.

He grinned.

So that's it. The "Death" of the human world isn't enough to reach the height of the Sun, so what's needed is the true 【Death】?

Purple light flickered in his eyes.

The future.

In the Northern Branch of Duel Academy, a certain sealed Spirit Card will be taken out by someone.

It is a card sealing "Death," possessing divine power beyond ordinary cards, granting duelists the ability to draw whatever they wish.

Heh...

"Lord Saiou, since that gentleman failed, let me, Silver Meteor, challenge that Tenjou Hikari!"

"No, Lord Saiou, my Frog Princes look forward to contributing their strength for Lord Saiou..."

"Hehe... everyone." Hearing the two students speak, Saiou turned slightly, smiled, and said slowly, "It is not contributing strength for me, but for 【Fate】."

"What guides you is not me, but 【Fate】."

"Yes!" All the students bowed.

"The Fate Revelation states that the one who will duel Tenjou Hikari is the legendary Spirit Card."

"As for now..."

He looked at the brainwashed students: "Please fulfill Mr. Napoleon's contract and duel Yukai Judai from Red Academy."

"Yes!" Another chorus of responses confirmed the core mission of the Society of Light after its establishment.

Challenge the 【Hero】, uphold 【Fate】.

On the other side.

The duel ended; X trembled as he stood up, rubbing his head.

The Fengguang Company had built the newest "Solid Vision Duel" system, making damage and combat feel more real, and the injuries sustained more apparent.

Of course, it was only a certain degree of pain.

He didn't utter any threats or claim he would surely win next time by switching to the correct counter-cards; after all, he was just a hired hand. If he didn't win, he simply had to give Saiou's prepared item to Tenjou Hikari.

Tenjou Hikari took the card into his hand, looking at the coordinate point shimmering on it, and hesitated for a moment.

He somewhat doubted whether Saiou would give him a genuine coordinate.

But it didn't really matter; he could test it himself.

Previously, during his free time, Tenjou Hikari had successively destroyed many of Akama Reio's Interdimensional Research Institutes, but in none of those institutes had he found any trace of the "Phantom Demon Emperor." He guessed that Akama Reio might have already noticed someone specifically targeting his Fusion Army and thus changed strategies; many of Tenjou Hikari's surprise attacks had resulted in the enemy urgently transferring their most important cards away before setting an ambush for him.

Despite this, Tenjou Hikari had rescued many spirits, yet he still hadn't found the core point.

Although the actual card effect of Phantom Demon Emperor Raviel couldn't compare at all in practicality to the other two, he was indeed the head of the Phantom Demons, possessing the strongest Phantom Demon power.

Therefore, the location where the person using this card stayed must be a very important core point.

Although he estimated that Saiou giving him such a coordinate wasn't done with good intentions—after all, he had heard before that subordinates of Saiou and Akama had fought each other, so Saiou might be trying to use Tenjou Hikari's hand to take revenge—

Tenjou Hikari didn't care.

Compared to those trivial matters, he wanted to obtain "Raviel" even more—even though he had already fused out Chaos Phantom Demon Armityle, Tenjou Hikari still very much needed Raviel.

After all, he lacked fusion materials; saving even one card was a gain.

Tenjou Hikari put away the coordinate, chatted a few words with the professional duelist X, and then saw him off from the Fusion Department.

Honestly, the opponent had completely chosen the wrong adversary.

In the original story, this brother had forced Judai to use "God-Slaying Moss," beating Judai until he was sweating profusely.

But unfortunately—

Tenjou Hikari wasn't affected by that sort of thing!

Unless one could banish cards sent to the graveyard, there was no way Tenjou Hikari would panic.

But then another problem arose.

In this world, "Macro Cosmos" was still Teacher Professor Dadesi's exclusive card!

The only Macro Cosmos had already been turned into the Macro Cosmos Workshop; who could use it?

"That's amazing, Ah Guang! Even with only a few cards left in your deck, you managed to pull off such a cool duel!" After Tenjou Hikari came off the stage, Judai excitedly called out to him.

"Ha, mainly the opponent misjudged; this tactic wasn't aimed at me."

Indeed.

Aside, Edo nodded lightly.

Looking at it now, many of Tenjou Hikari's cards actually had better effects when sent to the graveyard than when remaining on the field.

It was the first time Professional Duelist X had encountered a duelist who countered him in such a reverse manner.

"Speaking of which, Ah Guang, why have we never seen you use that Old God Nyoz before?" Misawa Daichi asked curiously.

"Now that you mention it, this is the first time I've seen this card too," Judai said, stroking his chin as he pondered.

"It's not that I didn't want to use it, but rather..." Tenjou Hikari took out his deck, drew a card from it, and showed it to his friends.

Then—

"Ah, I-I see, so that's what you meant," Manjoume widened his eyes.

Earlier, while standing on the field, Tenjou Hikari had said, "Recently, matters concerning Kaiser have made everyone restless; this happens to be an opportunity to show everyone something."

So, why would he say that?

"The fusion materials are a Synchro Monster and an Xyz Monster!?" Even Edo Phoenix couldn't help but cry out in shock upon seeing this card.

Tenjou Hikari chuckled, placed the card on his duel disk, connected it to the projection device in the Activities Department, and projected the entire card onto the screen.

"What, what?"

"These fusion conditions!?"

"A Fusion Monster that doesn't require fusion, and... it's actually?"

"Wow, as expected of Senior Tenjou..."

Now everyone finally understood why Tenjou Hikari had suddenly said that line in the middle of the duel.

Synchro Monsters?

Xyz Monsters?

They're all Fusion!

"Truly amazing," Edo couldn't help but exclaim sincerely.

While many students felt disillusioned and even began to fear upon seeing that "Xyz Summoning" was possible in this world, Tenjou Hikari forever, eternally, and with almost no influence whatsoever, persisted on his own path.

No matter what it was, it didn't matter; he only wanted to Fuse!

Edo couldn't help but clench his fist, looking toward his card box.

The passion ignited by watching Tenjou Hikari duel last time seemed even more intense this time.

However—

He quickly suppressed his inner feelings.

Before finding his father's killer, he couldn't act like this!

After seeing this kind of Fusion Monster, some ordinary students who had been worrying about this world changing drastically suddenly felt as if a weight had been lifted from their bodies.

Originally, for them, this world didn't have so many flashy things; usually, everyone just played monsters, performed Normal Summons, Ritual Summons, or Fusion Summons, and a duel would end just like that.

But ever since connecting with other dimensions, with Xyz Summoning and Synchro Summoning appearing one after another, some people began to feel fear as the world changed greatly.

After all, for them, the duels they had persisted in for over ten years were all so "unchanging since ancient times."

Suddenly being told that this world was about to change drastically was extremely frightening for them.

To cope with the summoning methods and powerful monsters of other dimensions, dueling in this world was already striving to accelerate; now, with Xyz Summoning appearing in this world as well, it made people even more fearful.

Some longed for change, while naturally, there were those who wanted to remain unchanged.

And now, Tenjou Hikari told them there was no need to worry; they just needed to persist in their own ways.

"Synchro Monsters can be fusion materials, and Fusion Monsters also have Levels, allowing them to become materials for Synchro Monsters or Xyz Monsters," Tenjou Hikari said as he put the card away. "So there's no need to fret over these things; focus more on the process."

"Even if everyone doesn't perform Fusion, even if everyone tries Xyz or Synchro Summoning, as long as no one goes astray or down an evil path, everyone will forever be my friend. So don't worry so much."

"Fusion is never about exclusion."

After saying this, Tenjou Hikari stretched his back.

Having just returned from the Critical Point Dimension not long ago and then played another duel, he needed to go extract some Duel Energy.

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