Chapter 304

Tenjou Hikari checked his deck. Serena, who stood to the side, knew that her Master had the habit of checking his deck after every duel, so she didn't disturb him and watched his deck with curiosity.

Serena was likely the person in the world who understood the composition of Tenjou Hikari's deck best, aside from Tenjou Hikari himself. In a situation where no one else knew of the existence of the card "Super Polymerization," Serena had even seen Tenjou Hikari use it twice.

Tenjou Hikari checked his deck. Aside from the cards gifted by the Earthbound Immortals, Tenjou Hikari also saw a few unfinished cards; these were likely cards constructed from the Dueling Energy obtained from his duel with Crow.

Of course, compared to these, there was more of the power "absorbed" by Tierra.

Although not a native god of this world, as a Dark Signer, Tenjou Hikari's duels would, like Crow defeating Shinji earlier, theoretically enhance the power of his "Unique God." However, as of now, Tenjou Hikari hadn't even awakened or found the Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu, so this power was entirely absorbed by Tierra.

Of course, considering the gap between the two, even if it were found, this power would likely still belong to Tierra.

The day before yesterday, upon learning that Akaba Leo had actually arrived in this world, Tenjou Hikari immediately abandoned his previous casual mindset, spent the whole night modifying the "Book of Emerald," and then successfully returned to the Great Universe Workshop in the early morning, rushing to prepare everything that could be prepared in the near future.

Originally, he had thought about using "Psi-Reflector" to research for a while longer to find traces of "Darkness" in this world, but the moment he thought of Akaba Leo being in this world, he felt he couldn't waste such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he directly used all his materials and metal components to manufacture brand-new Tierra body parts.

Lilith was emergency-forged under these circumstances.

You have to say, at a critical moment, preparing early is indeed good.

Otherwise, he would have truly had to use Super Polymerization to fight Crow today.

The Spell and Trap cards in his deck basically couldn't resolve the current situation immediately; even cards like "Flame Sword Dance" or "Chain-Linked Dragon Fire" would require him to draw them and wait another turn before they could be used.

Therefore, taking the time to manufacture Lilith and Adramelech was indeed put to use.

Thanks to the esteemed Akaba Leo for always being able to guide him onto a better path.

Tenjou Hikari muttered in his heart and glanced at Serena again. Serena didn't understand why and looked at Tenjou Hikari in confusion.

Tenjou Hikari sighed helplessly.

As it turned out, just after he had spent the whole night tinkering with things and returned here, the first thing he received was a message Ushio had secretly sent him.

Up until now, Tenjou Hikari hadn't even slept, and he felt his nerves were somewhat frayed.

However, not sleeping for a day or two was no big deal to him. After all, when his Spirit Adaptability was at the five or six-star level, Tenjou Hikari's physical constitution already supported him in staying awake for long periods and conducting alchemy experiments through the night.

What truly made Tenjou Hikari feel mentally exhausted was that Serena had done this without consulting anyone, which really gave him a headache.

The moment he thought about how he only had one "student" and it had already made him feel mentally exhausted, he couldn't help but lament.

Under Professor Chronos, there were Judai, Manjoume, Tyranno Kenzan, and so on—problem students. If you added in the savage-type students like "Mokuba Tofu" or "Taishan," there were even more problems to face and handle.

Tenjou Hikari pinched the bridge of his nose.

Although he dared to say he was definitely one of Chronos's most worry-free students, he actually hadn't caused Professor Chronos any less trouble.

Previously, when the Fallen Angel Apostles attacked the Academy Island, it was because they thought Tenjou Hikari and Professor Chronos were too strong, so in order to unseal the Sacred Beasts, they used the power of Darkness and Fallen Angels to duel Professor Chronos.

Although, looking at the results, Professor Chronos, as the acting principal, couldn't have let such fallen teachers go, but looking back on it now, he had still somewhat pitted his teacher quite a bit. Thinking of this, Tenjou Hikari sighed again.

After things here are finished, he would properly cooperate with the professor to do some promotional advertisements for the academy.

Finally, as he flipped through, Tenjou Hikari discovered a brand-new card.

Garuda the Wind Spirit of Co-Destiny!

Wow—

Tenjou Hikari looked at the card and couldn't help but exclaim softly.

Has it finally arrived, the super-versatile Fusion Monster?

Tenjou Hikari looked at the card; the image and text on the card flashed by in an instant.

It looked like the completion level was very low.

Tenjou Hikari didn't mind.

During the duel with Crow, Tenjou Hikari had wondered if he would obtain a Winged Beast-Type Fusion Monster, but according to Tenjou Hikari's thoughts, it would have been more likely to light up a DARK-Attribute Winged Beast-Type Fusion Monster like Gladiator Beast Nero.

Yet he hadn't expected to skip Nero directly and light up this card.

As a Fusion Monster, this monster was a Winged Beast with two heads but only one body, and its fusion condition was the very simple and intuitive "two monsters of the same Type and Attribute with different names."

Although its stats were very low, as a Fusion Monster, such a simple fusion condition was very suitable for "Super Polymerization" to use.

Moreover, it was also like the previous Elder Entities, a card that allowed you to draw a card just by being sent to the Graveyard—this card could also become "ammunition" for Tierra, being sent from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard.

However—

Looking at this completion level, Tenjou Hikari estimated that it probably couldn't be completed in this dimension.

After all, there was a whole pile of cards "lining up" in front.

The simplest, most direct card Tenjou Hikari wanted to manufacture was the final component of the "Fusion Form" Tierra—Infernoid Tierra.

As a Fusion Monster, Tierra didn't have the powerful, invincible abilities of the complete form, but it also had a terrifying effect: the moment it appeared, if there were ten types of fusion materials, it could make both players' hands disappear in a second.

If he focused on "hand destruction," a ten-material Tierra on the first turn was obviously very useful.

Especially in this world, because there was an Equip Spell version of Future Fusion, and even a Continuous version of Future Fusion, regardless of which of these two it was, he could use the shortest time to fuse Infernoid Tierra and instantly empty both players' hands.

This level of strength was completely different from the environment before Tenjou Hikari transmigrated—even in his world, unless it was a Graveyard-dumping deck like Tearlaments, eating a Tierra hand destruction on the first turn was basically a state of waiting for death.

Possessing such powerful might, yet when Tenjou Hikari dueled before, he could only "Future Fusion" into El Shaddoll Midrash, but couldn't bring out Tierra directly.

It wasn't because Tenjou Hikari wanted to go easy on Crow, but because he couldn't do it.

He didn't have "Infernoid Tierra."

Because monsters in the deck like the Fusion Substitute monsters couldn't be used as "substitute materials," as they were defaulted to being cards with no effects and only names.

Only monsters in the hand, on the field, or in the Graveyard could be considered as substitutable materials, so Tenjou Hikari currently had no way to Future Fusion directly into a 10-material Tierra.

That was why he had to use Future Fusion on the first turn to send the Fusion Substitute monsters down.

If he could manufacture "Tierra" again, then he would completely lose this trouble and could Future Fusion directly on the first turn, achieving Tenjou Hikari's current strongest "hand destruction tactic."

6 cards in hand going first, 0 cards in hand going second; who could play against that!

Unfortunately...

Monsters of the level of Tierra or Lilith at least had to use Fiends of the same level as base materials, and even as a base, they had to be monsters that left behind the power of a "Darkness"-level existence like Psi-Reflector; ordinary monsters couldn't be used as materials for this final component.

Such good things weren't so easy to come across.

He could either more directly change the Earthbound Immortal into Tierra, but that would actually be a loss of Spirit power. Moreover, Chacu Challhua hadn't done anything evil, and Tenjou Hikari couldn't bring himself to suddenly erase someone's vessel.

Before long, Yusei arrived at the meeting point with a somewhat heavy heart. Tenjou Hikari asked him about it, and he lamented.

Kiryu had lost—this was of course, since he had driven back alive.

But more importantly, after Kiryu lost the duel, he didn't resent himself like before, but said he had always forgotten, forgotten his original intention at that time, and forgotten that he should have settled the score with his good friends after completing the domination of the lower levels.

He had forgotten his original intention and only attacked the police for the sake of a more enjoyable, more satisfying duel. At that time, he was actually already unable to be satisfied forever, because his heart was completely empty.

"He finally disappeared..." Yusei said sadly, silently reaching into his pocket and taking out a card to show Tenjou Hikari.

Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu.

After the duel ended, Kiryu told Yusei in his emptiness that during that previous duel, he saw Yusei modifying himself to "save humanity," and he felt infinite emptiness. Although the duel hadn't ended, he knew he had lost at that moment.

Because his heart and his philosophy could no longer keep up with the current Yusei.

Therefore, during this time, he had been communicating with the Earthbound Immortal, wanting to persuade it to support Yusei—so, this second duel wasn't a contest of strength, but a display, a "performance" to let Ccapac Apu support Yusei.

And this, in fact, was one of the root purposes of the "ritual" that was the duel in the beginning.

"Kiryu..." He looked at the card in his hand, unable to calm down for a long time. Even though the duel had ended, even though he had been traveling in the wind for a long time, he couldn't calm down.

"Think on the bright side." Tenjou Hikari knew that the Earthbound Immortal wouldn't just discard its apostle after using them; in the original work, Kiryu was resurrected in full condition. "Since you have already reached mutual understanding, then one day, you will be able to meet again at some point.

At least for now, you have completed the first step, truly making an enemy, an Earthbound Immortal, believe in and support your philosophy."

Tenjou Hikari turned his head and held up two fingers: "Counting Chacu Challhua, Yusei, you have already gained the recognition of at least 2 Earthbound Immortals."

"Chacu Challhua? That Sea God? Is it that easy to talk to..." He was slightly surprised.

What he had asked Tenjou Hikari to find was "Earthbound Immortal Uru," and although he hadn't found it yet, Tenjou Hikari had said before that he had a lead, but he hadn't expected Tenjou Hikari to bring out another Earthbound Immortal.

Tenjou Hikari spread his hands: "This Earthbound Immortal is very easy to talk to."

More than just easy to talk to, it was basically in a state of "do whatever you want, it's all fine."

As for the "Wiraqocha Rasca" that appeared before, that is, the giant vulture Sun and Moon God, although there was no communication, according to Tenjou Hikari's gains and feelings after the duel, that Bird God at least had no malice toward humans.

And for Yusei, this was a huge gain.

Reconnecting the "hearts" of all people and all gods, and "harmonizing" with them—this was absolutely a world-class great achievement and challenge. But conversely, now that he had successively gained the recognition of two ancient gods, the future had instead become increasingly clear and visible, the future had become increasingly "possible," and that ruined future was gradually moving away from this world.

While chatting, the two began to drive away. Yusei led the way for Tenjou Hikari to the safe house he had found for Ruri and the others before.

There, Rin and Yugo cheered and welcomed Yusei. They had grown up and learned under Yusei since they were children, regarding Yusei as their own family and older brother. During this time, Yusei had been hiding from them because he was hiding the fact that he had undergone human modification and was afraid of scaring the children. Now that they finally saw Yusei again, they were naturally very excited.

Serena saw Ruri again and waved happily, but upon seeing Rin, she clearly fell into the life dilemma of "Who am I, where am I, who is she" once again and froze in place.

Fortunately, Ruri had guessed this possibility early on and quickly opened up the topic, so three girls who looked exactly the same except for their clothes appeared before everyone.

Even so, they were still easy to distinguish. Although the three had the same appearance and height, their physiques were not the same. Ruri was clearly much more delicate than the other two girls; Rin was stronger than Ruri, but not by much; Serena was completely different. Because she had been receiving training as a "Duel Warrior," her physical fitness was the most developed, and plus she was the only one who had received "Spirit Adaptability Education," she had an extra bonus, and her strength was completely different.

But conversely, Serena was also the person most likely to act without thinking. Although Rin would also think, because of her years of experience with Yugo, she would still instinctively use her fists... As for Ruri, she was the type who would also think about taking action in her head, inheriting their usual habits, but because her thinking was clearer and her logical ability was better, she knew very well that her hands-on ability wasn't strong, so the first thing she usually did was duel.

"So you were directly controlled by power and fell unconscious when you wanted to duel?" Yusei frowned. "And, they were targeting girls with Rin's appearance?"

Ruri nodded.

Yugo shouted and worried about Rin, while Rin, as usual, elbowed Yugo speechlessly: "Idiot, Yusei-niisan is here anyway, what are you worried about."

"That's right—"

Yusei was too reliable, so when Rin mentioned Yusei, Yugo immediately calmed down.

Yusei shook his head helplessly.

Even he couldn't protect Rin every moment, not to mention that it would become increasingly dangerous around him.

"It's okay!" Serena bent her right arm and clenched her fist. "In the end, you were caught because you didn't have Spirit power. As long as you learn the technology of our dimension, you can change this kind of thing!"

She was very confident.

The other two girls looked at each other. Although they weren't that confident, they were quite interested when they heard they could see the legendary "Spirits."

And—

Just as the three girls, who looked like triplets, were as close as sisters, and were actually sisters, were chatting and discussing, Tenjou Hikari suddenly looked at the screen in the surveillance.

In the surveillance, the display screens and billboards on countless buildings suddenly changed, and the upper body of a person appeared.

He had a cold expression, no hair, and some machinery and a prosthetic eye on his left face, looking ahead calmly.

Akaba Leo!

It seemed he had directly tampered with the content played on all the screens in the entire city.

Tenjou Hikari looked at Yusei and spoke: "Yusei—"

Yusei nodded.

His laboratory used future technology, so the content was independent of the network, and tampering with it wouldn't match.

But, conversely, if he wanted to receive it, it was very simple.

"I am Akaba Leo.

Tenjou Hikari.

You're watching, aren't you!"

Oh ho!?

This opening, could it be...

Tenjou Hikari's mouth couldn't help but rise crazily.