Chapter 378

The duel ended.

The moment Mudragon's Life Points hit zero, the entire cave erupted in violent tremors.

Rubble and stone spikes fell from the sky, and stripes suddenly lit up on the ground. These stripes circled on the ground, slowly combining into a pattern, emitting a fluorescent glow.

Perhaps this was the reason why Mudragon couldn't go out.

Tenjou Hikari casually picked up Underworld Dragon from the Duel Disk, and Underworld Dragon began to fly around the entire cave.

Its skull-like dragon wings, at this moment, were like angel wings, swallowing up all the cold aura on the ground.

After a while, the patterns on the ground disappeared completely, and everything returned to calm.

The Duel Dragon had beaten up an Earthbound Immortal once again.

Although it seemed it wasn't actually an Earthbound Immortal.

"Oh oh! What is that?" Mudragon flew in front of Tenjou Hikari and asked curiously.

"It's the Duel Dragon of the S-Dimension." Tenjou Hikari picked up the card in his hand. The fierce-looking dragon in the card gave a light hiccup and chuckled happily, very satisfied.

"Duel Dragon?" The students of the Fusion Department looked at each other; it was their first time hearing such a term.

"This is a unique concept in the S-Dimension, representing the dragon that is the root of dueling in their world, I suppose?" Tenjou Hikari didn't explain too much, "It is the power of the Supreme God of their world."

Supreme God...

Several students exclaimed.

"Crimson Dragon..." Mudragon landed in front of Tenjou Hikari, recalling as it spoke. The strange feeling just now was clearly the power of the Crimson Dragon shining on it once again.

So, it simply took this opportunity to start telling its story to Tenjou Hikari and the others, as well as the children of the tribe.

Many years ago, when it was still full of vitality and very curious about everything.

At that time, the Spirit World was still a whole, so wanting to fly to different human dimensions was not as difficult as it is now.

At that time, in order to pursue the Fusion it understood, it came to a strange dimension.

Just as it said, in that dimension, human warriors did not stand on the ground to duel, but rode horses, circling some kind of altar to perform rituals.

Later it discovered that those humans were not just running around randomly; they were dueling using certain patterns as tracks.

And when it learned of this, the 【Wicked God】 appeared before it.

It was a god called an Earthbound Immortal; they possessed the ability to control life and death and could resurrect the dead.

"Huh?" Tiera, listening from the side, couldn't help but ask.

Ran into a cosmic god of destruction, and then immediately encountered an otherworldly god of life and death?

"As far as I know, that is only a small part of their ability." Tenjou Hikari didn't respond to Tiera, but continued.

Mudragon nodded and then explained.

That's right.

That was only a small part of the Earthbound Immortals' power.

They could even control time, and their most powerful strength was not these supernatural powers, but mastering the root of "Synchro".

"..." Tiera didn't want to complain about this kind of thing anymore.

Clearly, controlling time and changing life and death were more outrageous things, but in the hearts of humans and spirits, the power of dueling was always greater than these.

"I was targeted by the Wicked Gods, and just when I was about to become their prisoner, the Crimson Dragon appeared. Perhaps He felt the thoughts in my heart and gave me the power of Synchro." Mudragon sighed with emotion, "Otherwise, I definitely wouldn't have been able to escape so easily."

As a monster of the purest Fusion lineage, it was impossible for it to obtain the power of Synchro through mere practice.

There was no such opportunity or space.

It was precisely the power of the Crimson Dragon that allowed Mudragon to perform Synchro, giving its tribe a brand-new evolutionary direction.

"In other words, you are the first Synchro monster of the Swamp tribe?" Kagurazaka, on the side, caught the detail.

Mudragon nodded.

"Wow..." the students exclaimed.

However, Tenjou Hikari was not that surprised.

He had encountered similar situations before; Thunder Dragon Colossus was the first Thunder-Type Colossus.

They marveled at the power and mercy of the Crimson Dragon, but in reality, these were only a tiny fraction of the Crimson Dragon's divine power.

In the original work, the Crimson Dragon could almost be said to be an omnipotent existence, aside from small skills like resurrection, time stopping, and space travel.

He also possessed an invincible special ability—Time Leap.

He could grant Yusei Fudo the power to travel through time, allowing him to travel back tens or hundreds of years to find helpers to defeat enemies together.

You have to know, this was power that the "Future Group" exhausted their whole lives to obtain, but for the Crimson Dragon, He alone as a god was enough to easily accomplish such a thing.

"Although this power that followed me like a shadow has been resolved." Mudragon said, "However, as long as I am here, you will one day be targeted by those Earthbound Immortals."

"That doesn't matter." Tenjou Hikari looked at the Underworld Dragon in his hand.

As early as when he got Underworld Dragon, Tenjou Hikari knew that he could never get away; he must have already fallen into the struggle of the Earthbound Immortals, it was just a matter of time.

However, Tenjou Hikari would not give up on any companion on the path of Fusion.

Even, in duels, the number of times Underworld Dragon appeared was increasing, perhaps reminding Tenjou Hikari that he might really have to go to the S-Dimension.

However—

Before that, he couldn't just walk away and leave everything behind.

The situation at the Threshold was not too bad, but it certainly wasn't a situation that made one feel at ease.

He didn't want to go to the Synchro Dimension and return to see this dimension already ruled by the Supreme King's army, with Yubel controlling Jūdai to play house.

"More importantly, what about you?" Tenjou Hikari pointed to the surrounding Mudragon babies and the other young spirits, "Do you really want to leave here?"

"Roar roar roar—don't worry about that." Mudragon laughed when it heard Tenjou Hikari's words, "After so many years, the next leader has long been chosen. Maybe it's even wondering why I haven't hurried up and left yet."

"Teacher, what are you saying!" In the group of spirits, a Mudragon that looked quite sturdy, seven-tenths similar to Mudragon but much smaller, raised its claw and shouted.

Mudragon had been holed up in one place and clearly had long wanted to go out and walk around. Tenjou Hikari was overjoyed and shook hands with Mudragon.

Although it was a Synchro monster, it was also a universal Fusion material, and it was in the Extra Deck, a Fusion material that could be called upon at any time!

More importantly, Tenjou Hikari's control over Super Polymerization was getting higher and higher, and he had even been able to use Super Polymerization in a duel against an agent of Light of Destruction, so he no longer had to worry about "universal Fusion materials" being fused randomly.

(End of Chapter)