Chapter 289: Discovery in the Volcano Zone

Since there was still plenty of time, and they could experience all kinds of scenery that they couldn't experience normally in the spirit world, Hikari Tenjou and the others didn't need to consider at all.

Whether it was Volcano or Rainforest, just go to both!

The difference was nothing more than going to the Volcano first or the Rainforest first.

Sanze and Serena didn't have any extra opinions either, so Hikari Tenjou decided to go to the Volcano Zone first.

After all, in the Rainforest region, they might encounter something like Amazoness, and by then Sanze might linger there and not leave anymore. Since that was the case, it was better to be prepared and see the Volcano first.

Leaving the Forest Zone, the whole world seemed to change color instantly like different maps in a fighting game. Before it was still lush, and in the blink of an eye, looking out from the train, the earth was dyed crimson.

Some spirits with flames burning on their bodies would stop and pause, observing the train as it passed, curiously sizing up the humans. Some would even excitedly jump high or spin in place, appearing to find the appearance of humans very fresh.

Hikari Tenjou pulled his collar slightly.

He was actually not very afraid of heat.

As a duelist who had once been dragged into a volcano by Darkness to duel, he had really experienced the temperature of a volcano. This kind of temperature wouldn't make Hikari Tenjou too uncomfortable, but the sudden change in temperature was indeed easy to make people irritable, even Hikari Tenjou couldn't change this habit.

"Oh, I thought it was what, it turned out to be this volcano." Tiera sat sideways on the train table, gently folding her legs, propping her legs with her elbows, supporting her head with her right hand, lying sideways, looking out the window.

"Does Sister Midrash know?" Serena asked curiously.

As Hikari Tenjou's disciple, she naturally knew that Midrash had an "extraordinary" status in Hikari Tenjou's place. In normal duels, as a spirit, she could actually influence Hikari Tenjou's thoughts, change Hikari Tenjou's tactics, and even occasionally let Midrash duel directly.

This was almost impossible for any other duelist.

No matter how good the relationship with the spirit was, dueling was a duelist's business.

But in Hikari Tenjou's place, Midrash had this "status".

Sanze Dadi Sanze didn't open his mouth to say anything.

In fact, it was Hikari Tenjou and Midrash's way of getting along that made him, who should have given up, occasionally think of the spirit who snatched the three Phantasm keys as one of the "Seven Stars".

"Of course I know~" Hearing Serena ask, she said generously.

She clicked her tongue in wonder, and was a bit nostalgic: "It's the Jurrac Volcano, but when I came back to life, this volcano had already extinguished, and the dinosaurs had long died out, so I haven't seen them."

She stretched her hand supporting her face outward slightly: "When Hikari Tenjou dueled that dinosaur human last time, I felt that monster was very familiar. Later, I recalled it and remembered."

Although they were unimportant carbon-based life forms, no matter what, they were once a member of the DT planet. As a god, she still remembered them.

Of course, the point was the terrain. 【

Compared to those dinosaurs, the terrain was clearer in her memory.

"So that's how it is. Is this a fragment of the Jurrac spirit world... hmm..." Although Tenjou Hikari remembered the Field Spell card Jurrac Impact, there was no way he could know what a volcano looked like. Hearing Tiera's words, he nodded slightly.

If that was the case.

Then, the plan to search for the DT spirit world could be resumed.

After all, this was a lost part of the "DT spirit world."

Almost at the same time Tenjou Hikari thought of this, Tiera straightened her body slightly, reached her left hand toward the train's glass, and passed her hand directly through the glass, touching the outside air.

Accompanying her movement, blue flames rose in her hand, and then, within the flames, three pitch-black test tubes slowly emerged.

As the three test tubes ignited the flames, a silver-white demon composed of machinery emerged in the outside world, and was then loaded into these three pipes.

Hum—

The lifeless demon's eyes lit up with crimson light, and then it moved its limbs, broke free from the blue flames, and flew out of Tiera's palm.

Immediately after, it began to expand, expand!

A demon that was originally only the size of a palm had, in the blink of an eye, turned into a terrifying demon four or five meters tall!

Just by gently flapping its wings, one could seemingly feel a bone-chilling "heat."

Tenjou Hikari watched this scene and did not stop Tiera.

"What monster is that?" Misawa asked curiously.

"Lucifugus." Tenjou Hikari mentioned its name casually.

"It's a monster in the exact same style as that small demon from before." Serena still remembered the Satan that Tiera had once summoned. Although the two monsters looked similar, she could clearly feel the difference. "Strange, I've never seen Master use it before..."

"I'm not worthy yet." Tenjou Hikari bluffed. "She wouldn't hand over all her power to me so easily."

"To think there was still hidden power..." Misawa Daichi looked at Tiera. "Even though she is already a card capable of locking down Special Summons, to think she still has hidden power."

Although its ATK wasn't high, Midrash had left a deep impression on Misawa Daichi's heart.

As long as it was on the field, both sides could only perform one Special Summon each. At first glance, it didn't seem like much in this world, but as long as it was paired with a few auxiliary cards, like Book of Moon, it was basically equivalent to a Special Summon restriction.

More importantly, even if Midrash itself was destroyed, it could still retrieve Shaddoll-related Spell cards to continue Fusion.

It perfectly fit Tenjou Hikari's Fusion strategy.

But—that spirit actually still had hidden, never-before-used power?

He couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.

On the other side, Tenjou Hikari actually knew what Tiera was doing.

Having successively obtained the three components "Satan," "Beelzebub," and "Lucifugus," Tiera had already recovered a considerable amount of power.

Although, for her personally, this was still "a drop in the bucket," she was already able to do many things that ordinary spirits couldn't even imagine.

Previously, the Infernoid demons Tiera summoned could only move around her, but now, she could dispatch low-level soldiers to explore everywhere.

And upon confirming that this area was actually related to "DT," Tiera figured that since Tenjou Hikari needed to search anyway, she would just send soldiers to collect data.

After spending some time on the train, it was already evening when they arrived at the station. Tenjou Hikari and the others rested for a day at the Kaiba Corporation site, and then the next day, as agreed, they rushed to the 12-Star Duelist area of the "Volcanic Zone."

Unlike the forest region, the 12-Star Duelists here were not spirits, but "qualified examiners" hired by Kaiba Corporation.

There were many human shops and billboards around the venue, but most of the billboards had no advertisements on them; even the electronic billboards were blank.

And the Duelist hall was a dueling arena that looked like a large museum.

As soon as the three of them walked into the dueling arena, they heard a spiritless shout: "Jurrac Tyrannus, direct attack—"

"Waaaaah—"

Then, Tenjou Hikari and the others saw a student in blue clothes flying backward and landing on the ground.

"Kid, no matter how diligent you are, it won't change your terrible dueling. You don't pass. Come back next time."

A young man with a hunched back, looking somewhat sickly, walked out from the inside with his hands in his pockets and happened to see Tenjou Hikari and the others: "Ah, you guys are here."

It was Dinosaur Ryuzaki!

(End of chapter)