Chapter 323: Be careful of the artist up, down, left, and right (4k, seeking monthly votes)

Returning to the Great Universe Workshop, the clanging sound echoed continuously in the workshop.

While Tenjou Hikari was in the [Forgotten World], something was also proceeding in an orderly manner in the Great Universe Workshop.

In front of the alchemy pot in the Great Universe Workshop, the Alchemy Master and the Clothing Witch were carefully directing the spirits in the workshop to pile up some materials.

Bai Jing, who only focused on his own work and never interfered with other spirits' work, was rarely nervous looking at the alchemy pot, while Tierra on the side was yawning, looking uninterested.

"What are you nervous about? Do you still doubt my calculations?"

"This... of course I wouldn't dare, Lord Tierra... it's just..." Bai Jing didn't know how to respond; he was just nervous.

Tierra hummed twice. When she felt Tenjou Hikari return, she didn't pay attention to the alchemy pot, and her conversation with Bai Jing was just because she saw Bai Jing was too nervous and said it casually.

Accompanied by several mechanical spirits transporting metal and gem skirts, and precisely putting them into the alchemy pot, a "Perfect!" also erupted from the Alchemy Master's mouth.

It cheered excitedly.

Although it wasn't "gold," it had moved forward again on its own path—today, it successfully transmuted metal into gems, hey!

Boom—

The alchemy pot stopped working, and a large amount of water vapor and residue were extracted from the alchemy pot. Accompanied by the illumination of the fire, the Clothing Witch also gently wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Success!

It thought excitedly in its heart.

It successfully achieved "Fusion" using "Craft Magic" in a place other than the Witchcrafter alley.

Accompanied by the two spirits responsible for coordination and cooperation finishing their work, the alchemy pot slowly opened, and a graceful figure slowly walked out from it.

It wore a cloak similar to Bai Jing's, but its figure was much more slender and graceful than Bai Jing's, and gold-thread-like decorations filled its body from top to bottom. It was the "Gem-Knight Obsidian" undergoing the transformation experiment.

However, at this very moment, not only was its figure much taller than before, but its appearance had also become completely mature.

It had transformed into a Fusion Monster—Gem-Knight Seraphinite!

As soon as it came out, it cheered excitedly, completely unlike the lonely look it had before, becoming much more lively and active.

"It succeeded—" Tenjou Hikari breathed a sigh of relief.

"That goes without saying, this was personally overseen by me." Tierra tilted her head again.

She actually couldn't figure out why Obsidian couldn't evolve into a Fusion Monster before. In reality, Tierra wasn't able to see everything either.

Just like before, when Flame Swordsman and Black Flame couldn't evolve, Tierra had always failed to understand the reason. In her view, they had long since met the standard in terms of power.

Tierra was indeed a "God," but not a "God who is omniscient and omnipotent" in the conceptual sense, but a God who creates ecosystems and carries out the cycle of life.

However, if someone pointed out the problem, for example, like Tenjou Hikari, who was researching and suddenly encountered the situation where "Cursed Seal" creatures were fused into Chaos Phantasm, thinking about re-extracting the Cursed Seal creatures, and then starting relevant research, and finally discovering the problem, then Tierra would know how to help Tenjou Hikari solve things.

Before, she thought Obsidian didn't want to adventure with Tenjou Hikari's team, thinking it wanted to return to the Gem-Knight group, so Tierra was too lazy to care about it. As a result, the Clothing Witch said that Obsidian's problem wasn't that it couldn't evolve or lacked energy, but that its direction of evolution was forcibly locked and it couldn't move.

Where had she encountered this kind of situation?

In her world, Gem-Knights or any creature could fuse however they wanted, and change into whatever life form they wanted.

Because from the "beginning of design," that's how they came to be.

She used her own technology to revive "Winda," then used her as her messenger, named her "Midrash," and after that, Midrash successfully helped her revive. After that, she didn't pay special attention to Midrash.

And the result was—Midrash, who wasn't controlled by her, completely revived and went to live with her old friends and family again.

There was no such thing as "cannot transform" in her concept!

The environment-transforming machines she made with her own hands were the best proof. As long as any race resonated with those machines, they could create different directions of evolution. How could there be any restrictions...

It can only be said that spirits, as a creature, indeed still have many ecologies she still cannot understand.

But no matter what.

Since she knew, then for her, it was simple instead.

Because it was very simple. With her current ability, changing her own "life state" was easy. Before, she had performed it in front of Serena. Let alone mechanical life, she could even create carbon-based life forms herself.

With the Clothing Witch, a professional, explaining, she figured out how to transform Obsidian into a "Gem-Knight state" or even a "Universal Spirit state" in just a few days.

Incidentally, she thought about simply reproducing the memories of possibilities, so that Obsidian wouldn't look too "out of place" among Tenjou Hikari's spirits.

After all, it was one of the very few spirits whose fusion form wasn't a fusion monster of its own force.

Originally, this matter should have been presided over by Tenjou Hikari, but the [Forgotten World] required a specific time to go to, so Tierra let Tenjou Hikari go alone, put his heart at ease, and leave everything to her.

She wouldn't let these weak mortal creatures see it; she was too bored being a God.

"Thank you so much, Lord Tierra!" Obsidian bowed excitedly to Tierra, "In this way, I can finally apply to go into battle proactively!"

Oh my—

She nodded silently, said hmm twice, and casually dismissed Obsidian.

She liked "Obsidian" very much, appreciated "Bai Jing," and was satisfied with "Winda"—referring to their prototypes.

Although Bai Jing wasn't Bai Jing and Obsidian wasn't Obsidian, she didn't think it was that important now.

Having experienced quite a few things with Tenjou Hikari and watched quite a few duels, she had opened up regarding the matter of "DT spirits" anyway.

Being happy herself was the best.

"Thank you for your hard work." Tenjou Hikari thanked Tierra on the side.

"Haha." Tierra laughed sincerely twice.

Because the time was very tight, Tenjou Hikari didn't dare to specifically set aside time to do the Obsidian experiment with the Clothing Witch and the others.

He had already contacted "Ansel" and "Hayato Maeda" before, agreed on a time, so he had to go to Industrial Illusions in a few days, and the Forgotten World side had to arrive on time. Considering he didn't know how long it would take there, he had to divide the work.

Tierra, if nothing else, could be said to be one of the Gods with the most say in the multi-dimension in terms of life form transformation.

Her "colleague" Sophia probably wasn't as professional as her in this regard.

So in this matter, Tenjou Hikari was definitely very assured of Tierra.

"If I had known it was this simple beforehand, you should have just thrown this matter to the Alchemy Master to do." Tierra crossed her arms, looking very uninterested, "I watched this duel, the direction of the world seems to be completely determined because of your [Fusion].

But this process must be very slow.

If I were there, I could definitely easily accelerate the evolution of the entire dimension."

"You haven't fully recovered yet, so you want to waste your power like this?" Tenjou Hikari spread his hands and said, "Forcibly bearing the resentment and pain of all the spirits in the entire spirit dimension, and then accelerating the evolution process of the entire world?"

He saw Tierra raise her eyebrows, looking very unhappy.

"Fine, I admit, you can indeed do it, but you aren't fully revived. How long will you have to sleep after doing this kind of thing?"

"Ha, the power of a God is even greater than you imagine, Tenjou Hikari—as my God-favored one, you should believe in me!" She glanced to the side twice.

"Yes, yes, yes."

Tenjou Hikari laughed, responding casually.

He felt that Tierra was forcibly highlighting her majesty in front of so many spirits in the Great Universe Workshop, changing Obsidian's life state, and even dared to say such nonsense.

However, he didn't need to completely expose Tierra's lies.

Like this kind of bluffing, she might still be able to do it if she were fully revived.

At least at this time, it didn't matter if Tierra looked more majestic in the eyes of the spirits—he noticed that even the Dog-Demon and Phantasm spirits were shocked after watching the transformation, and couldn't help but discuss it in low voices.

This God "Tierra" of unknown origin really had some skills. No wonder Tenjou Hikari trusted her so much?

Forcibly transforming a transformation that theoretically required countless time and processes into just a few hours or perhaps even less, and with absolutely no side effects, making that spirit called Obsidian seem as if it were born that way...

This kind of performance.

Changing the ecology and reincarnation of a world, it didn't seem impossible?

A bit strong, a bit strong.

Tenjou Hikari didn't dwell on these questions. He took out his previous deck, and aside from the "Memento" he had just obtained, the other cards from the Forgotten World... were also brought out by the way.

Tenjou Hikari carefully drew those forgotten cards from the deck and put them into his side deck to prevent them from being changed by Super Polymerization.

If nothing unexpected happens, these monster cards should all turn into "Memento" in the future. Before that, let them feel the world of the living and the beloved again.

"Memento Key-Lock Spirit." Tierra leaned her head over, looking at the monsters added to Tenjou Hikari's deck, "Hmm... the appearance is not bad, I like it very much."

Although it was different from the mechanical demon style of the Despia, this kind of skeleton angel also had its own style. The design felt very interesting, and it happened to be within her range of preference.

Tenjou Hikari also nodded.

He had always liked the card art of the Memento series.

And speaking of card art...

Tenjou Hikari took out "Dragon Magician Guardian," the monster that had his style to a certain extent and could be seen as a "2D" card art drawn after him, emitting a faint purple light.

Hmm.

Make some preparations, it's time to take a boat to Industrial Illusions.

Tenjou Hikari adjusted in the Great Universe Workshop for two days. On one hand, Tierra let him wash away the "spirit resentment" on his body, and then by the way, healed some wounds, and on the other hand, continued to avoid the limelight.

Although the fanaticism for him in Duel Academy had begun to decline, there were still many persistent reporters. Before school started, Tenjou Hikari definitely still preferred to be quiet.

Aside from taking time to tell Chancellor Sheppard that Aster might come to school next semester, Tenjou Hikari had been studying the "Emerald Book."

Honestly, he was slightly surprised.

He had always thought that he had completely learned all the alchemy left by Professor Banner, but after completely obtaining the "Proof of the Three Sages," he found that there were still a few pages he wasn't allowed to see—it wasn't that he couldn't solve them, but after solving the riddles on them, he found that Professor Banner had left a few words, hoping Tenjou Hikari wouldn't solve the second seal.

In other words...

Could it be related to the "dimensional coordinates" of the mastermind behind the splitting of the spirit world?

Tenjou Hikari speculated that this was possible.

Among them, there was also a coordinate page number that Tenjou Hikari had an impression of before, but was buried to death.

Golden Land.

Does this place also not recommend me going?

Tenjou Hikari naturally knew that Professor Banner knew the "Golden Lord." After all, Jaden's Golden Captain and Tenjou Hikari's Golden Evil God had both studied there for a period of time.

He flipped through a few more pages.

Dark World - Shadow Dystopia and "Forget-Me-Not Art School"?

He could barely understand the former.

Then why the latter?

Especially the Forget-Me-Not Art School, Tenjou Hikari even saw Professor Banner's remarks behind this coordinate, which was also the only special remark in the entire "Emerald Book"—

Those who do art are all lunatics!

Tenjou Hikari looked confused.

He remembered that this card was just an ordinary card in "5D's," and didn't expect this Forget-Me-Not Art School dimension to be evaluated like this by Banner.

Until Tenjou Hikari said goodbye to Chancellor Sheppard and boarded the ship to Industrial Illusions, Tenjou Hikari was thinking about this matter.

The more he wasn't allowed to see, the more curious he became, especially since Tenjou Hikari had long known about the situation in the Golden Land. Looking at his alchemy teacher specifically marking some dimensions he didn't want Tenjou Hikari to go to, he became even more curious.

And among these countless curiosities, this Forget-Me-Not Art School looked ordinary at first glance, but was actually placed together with a bunch of "expert dimensions" and even specially cared for, which made him even more curious.

More importantly...

The President of Industrial Illusions, the father of Duel Monsters, the owner of the Millennium Eye, Pegasus J. Crawford...

He was a genuine [Artist], a brilliant [Painter]!

A few days later.

Tenjou Hikari got off the boat with a few people and looked up to see Ansel waiting for him.

Ansel still had a smile on his face, without any sign of being depressed in private, warmly welcoming Tenjou Hikari: "Wow! Look who's here—isn't this our world's number one fusion user, Tenjou Hikari!"

"Eh... uh..." Tenjou Hikari walked down stiffly, rarely failing to respond properly to a friend.

The reason was simple—

All around the port, there were "Q-version" balloons of Tenjou Hikari everywhere, with ridiculous smiles and amazing proportions, making Tenjou Hikari, who dared to talk about his faith in front of countless people, feel a bit embarrassed.

Not far away, the Paradox Brothers were also waving at Tenjou Hikari, and Hayato Maeda was awkwardly scratching the back of his head, looking like he wasn't used to this scene either.

"Hahaha, surprised?" Ansel suddenly laughed.

"This was specially prepared for you by the President, how about it—interesting, right? Hahaha, alright, Tenjou-kun, the President has really been waiting for you for a long time!"

"Waiting for you, this pure [Fusion] duelist who makes him feel amazed!"