Chapter 269: So I Ask You—How Do You Win?

Xyz Dimension.

This is Xin Yuan City, created by the rare genius Dr. Fika, a city filled with laughter and joy.

In this city, "Duel" is regarded as the most entertaining form of recreation; whether at work or in school, students are taught Dueling.

In this city, a man with wide eyes and standing hair was observing countless images—these were the surveillance feeds from all over Xin Yuan.

On the monitors, he could see a swift, intimidating teenager using robots and Duels to chase down one Duelist after another, pulling out their souls and turning them into Cards, then discarding the aged humans beside him.

"Good job, good job, Kaito."

He was none other than the city's creator, the rare genius "R," Dr. Fika.

The power is obvious from the name alone!

As he watched, suddenly, strange holes appeared everywhere—in the sky, on the ground.

His smile instantly grew even wider.

His eyes widened further.

Massive robots appeared at the borders of Xin Yuan, and Duelists clad in purple uniforms appeared in every alley of Xin Yuan.

The most important physicalized machine had not arrived on schedule, but for Ma Chima Chima Lingwang, the planned surprise attack date could not be easily changed, so he did not investigate further and instead immediately activated the backup plan.

It might not be as ideal as the original, but it should still work.

After all, Xyz Dimension Duelists prioritize entertainment; during the previous Dimension Exchange Duel, those Duelists performed quite poorly.

After all, last year, Tenjo Hikari easily defeated Xyz Dimension Duelists with just a small tactic, proving how freely Xyz Dimension educates its youth.

Only high-rank Duelists can outmatch their own dimension's high-rank Duelists—but if you don't play Cards, how do you respond?

So—

We will win!

Representative You Li clicked his tongue, passed through a Dimension Gate, chuckled as he brushed off dust, glanced left and right, and couldn't help but softly laugh: "Ahh~"

He saw a girl with a dangerous wife's braid, wearing a white dress, and a bracelet on her right hand.

The girl, startled by Representative You Li's sudden appearance, froze, dropping the bucket in her hand: "You Dou? No—something's off… Who are you?"

The girl grew wary, pulling out her Duel Disk from behind her—but before she could Duel, a flash of purple light struck her; she screamed and collapsed unconscious onto the ground.

"There's always a sense of danger…" Representative You Li muttered to himself. He could sense his opponent was a fairly strong Duelist, but ever since arriving in this Dimension, he'd felt an overwhelming danger, triggering this instinctive reaction.

If I were to Duel, it would take too long to defeat her—better to just leave now.

So without wasting words, he grabbed the girl and activated a quick teleportation, fleeing swiftly.

"Hui Liu Li!!!!" At that moment, a tall boy with hair shaped like a wing spotted this scene and screamed the girl's name—but by then, their figures had already vanished!

"Hui Liu Li!!!!!!"

The boy let out an even more heart-wrenching scream.

And in the gap of his scream—

A colossal mechanical giant, its head, limbs, and joints all composed of mechanical dog skulls, crashed down over Xin Yuan's sky; its eyes scanned the entire city, then lasers converged from its skull.

Everywhere in Xin Yuan seemed engulfed in war, everywhere seemed to be Dueling.

And at this very moment, while everyone's attention was drawn to the soldiers, it would destroy Xin Yuan's central core—

A furious laser cannon erupted from its head!

The searing flames turned the sky crimson.

In an instant, the laser shot from hundreds of meters above and was about to slice Xin Yuan cleanly in half!

At that moment—

In that instant—

Now, this very moment—

Click—

Time lost its color in an instant.

Like pausing a video by casually tapping the screen to take a break, everything froze.

The searing laser cannon was mere millimeters from slicing Xin Yuan in half—but in this instant, in this moment, that "millimeter" became "an infinite distance."

Tierra took a bite of instant noodles.

"Is the machine broken?" The screen was frozen, so she asked.

How could Tenjo Hikari understand tech products better than Tierra?

"Then it's not broken." Tierra lightly traced circles in the air with her fork.

There was only one possible answer.

【Time Stop】 had occurred.

The next second—

Boom!

Boom—

The colossal ten-headed mechanical giant exploded instantly; the laser that had been about to strike the ground vanished in an instant.

Countless attacking ancient mechanical giants began collapsing.

In just an instant—no time even to blink.

Everything vanished.

Only one dragon remained in the sky, its tail coiled like a serpent, with purple wings, and on its belly, a strange sequence of numbers glowed, signaling its identity!

No.

From Tenjo Hikari's memory, it was probably 92.

"What!?" Seeing this, Ma Chima Chima Lingwang leapt to his feet in shock.

How is this possible?

In an instant!?

How did they do this!?

His mechanical army, his mechanical monsters—all destroyed in an instant?

He had rushed the surprise attack partly due to the influence of Light's Fluctuation, and partly because when he watched Tenjo Hikari Duel Xin Yuan's youth, he knew Xin Yuan's Duelists were all "basic" and "entertainment-focused," so he had felt confident.

But he hadn't expected—

Before he could say another word, countless dragon shadows, countless breaths, countless beams of light exploded from the other side of the Dimension.

"Professor!" the guards screamed.

His "Throne" began collapsing; his body swayed, then—CRASH! —a falling rock struck his head, blood gushing instantly.

"Deploy the Spirit Unit immediately!" He clutched his bleeding head, still urgently formulating an emergency plan; blood loss meant nothing—he could easily build mechanical prosthetics to assist him. What mattered now was not panicking: "Deploy the Spirit Unit!"

Unlike the Fusion Army, even when controlled, Spirits' primary attack method remains Dueling; they can only barely launch a surprise attack at first, but if uncontrolled afterward, they follow instinct and Duel humans.

Under these circumstances, trying to control Spirits for battle was pure fantasy.

Quickly recall troops, minimize losses, relocate—this was the correct strategy!

"Retreat! Retreat! Hurry, hurry!"

The Fusion Army soldiers, utterly disoriented, could only act on instinct, flailing randomly.

Though the main objective wasn't achieved, Representative You Li seemed to have accomplished the "secondary objective"; for the current Marshal, this outcome was barely acceptable.

As they struggled to relocate, a phantom figure appeared—unseen—above this "Base Dimension," carefully observing them, as if pondering something.

Faintly, a sly chuckle echoed across the Dimension.

"Is that it?" Tierra instinctively slapped the now-static screen; after another series of counterattacks, the computer completely died. She clicked her tongue: "If I'd built the machine, even if the owner died, it would perfectly complete the owner's mission."

She had every right to say that.

But she used "Divine Art," not technology, to build her machines!

"Too arrogant," Tenjo Hikari remarked offhandedly. "The other world hides secrets no less than ours."

One Time Stop—and no matter how powerful your mechanical army, you're buried without a trace.

"It's an opportunity, Tenjo Hikari!" Tierra clanged open a laptop—this was the device Tenjo Hikari had obtained in the Dimension where Xiao Liu was imprisoned, filled with vast amounts of Fusion Army data.

Hidden within were coordinates of numerous Dimensions.

It was predictable that within a short time, the Fusion Army would retreat, consolidate defenses, regroup, and seek alternative methods.

This was the perfect chance to test Dimension Gates and join allies to cause more trouble.

Chapter Two

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