Chapter 398: Activate Magical Meltdown

"Cocytus? Successfully summoned itself so quickly."

The two highest-level magicians watching the battle were discussing the situation while watching the duel.

"Although it's not the strongest Invoked, Cocytus's defensive ability is extremely strong, and with specific cards, it can even be made into an impassable shield."

Aleister shook his staff and asked: "Professor Dadesi, how do you think your disciple will overcome this problem."

"It's been a year, how would I know meow~" The Five-Rainbow Magician touched his chin and muttered lightly, "However, Crowley, it's been a year, don't underestimate my disciple."

Aleister raised his eyebrows.

He actually had always appreciated Tiancheng Guang. Although he didn't duel Tiancheng Guang personally, he had watched the whole duel between Professor Dadesi and Tiancheng Guang, knowing Tiancheng Guang's persistence in Fusion, his understanding of Fusion, and his judgment of the opponent's thinking during the duel, so he appreciated Tiancheng Guang very much, and even gave the "Earth Invoked" he mastered to Tiancheng Guang.

But—in his view, he a year ago was suppressed by Professor Dadesi using himself, and a year has passed, being able to be on par with the Water Invoked should be...

"My turn, activate Field Magic Card—Magical Meltdown!"

What the hell?!

Aleister leaned back in shock, the magic in his hand almost collapsed.

In the Magician's Library, Tiancheng Guang operated quickly: "Field Magic Card, the effect processing of Magical Meltdown, add one Invoker Aleister from the deck to the hand!"

Wow—

In the library, many magicians made sounds of shock.

"It's actually Lord Crowley?"

"Although I've heard that this human named Hikari is a warrior pursuing ultimate Fusion, didn't expect him to be so amazing?"

"Actually has an Aleister card?"

Humans are not spirits; spirits can turn into cards during a duel to duel with their own power.

But humans must collect real cards or spirits to use some specific cards.

Aleister is not only the top-tier Spellcaster-type spirit, but also one of the rarest spirits, collectively known as the Three Sages with Endymion and Selene, not ordinary rarity.

This human actually has this kind of card, and looking at this posture, he even has Invocation!

"Roar..." Water dragon Cocytus looked at Tiancheng Guang's operation and roared in a low voice, looking quite pressured.

As an Invoked spirit, it knew the power of the Invoker best.

However, after Tiancheng Guang got Aleister, he didn't Normal Summon directly, but looked at his hand and activated another card, "Continuous Magic Card, Brilliant Fusion."

He casually stuffed a Continuous Magic Card into the Duel Disk and said: "As the effect processing of activating this card, use monsters from the deck as Fusion materials to Fusion Summon 1 Gem-Knight Fusion Monster with ATK/DEF changed to zero. When this card leaves the field, that monster is destroyed."

Tiancheng Guang picked up the deck and flipped through it slowly.

Besides being able to search for an Aleister from the deck to the hand, Magical Meltdown also had a permanent 2nd effect, which was "As long as this card exists in the Field Zone, if you activate an effect that includes Fusion Summoning a Fusion Monster, that activation cannot be negated, and when that Fusion Summon is successful, the opponent cannot activate Magic/Trap/Monster effects."

This was a very good effect. In the subsequent Branded series, there was also a Continuous Magic called Branded Fusion, which had the same effect and was a protective measure.

Precisely because of this protective measure, as long as it wasn't something like Mystical Space Typhoon, Tiancheng Guang could successfully activate this card.

"I send Gem-Knight Lazuli and Gem-Knight Sapphire from the deck to the Graveyard to Fusion—the Fusion condition is Gem-Knight Sapphire and a Gem-Knight monster."

"Come—Fusion Summon, Gem-Knight Aquamarine!"

The blue Gem-Knight waved the shield blade in his hand, threw off his cloak, and stood on the field dashingly.

Gem-Knight Aquamarine, Level 6, Earth Attribute, Aqua-type, DEF 2600→0.

"Oh, this material—" A magician pushed his glasses, excited.

"Normal Summon, Invoker Aleister!"

Water Invoked lowered his voice and roared.

"Invoker Aleister's effect, add 1 Invocation from the deck to the hand."

Tiancheng Guang's deck automatically popped out a card and flew into his hand.

"Then—activate! Invocation!"

"Banish Aleister on the field and Sapphire in the Graveyard, Fusion Summon!"

"Wow wow wow!!"

"Oh oh oh oh—is it actually a civil war between the Invoked!"

The magicians were excited.

"Level 8, Earth Invoked!

Invoked Mechaba!"

A magic circle appeared beside Tiancheng Guang's hand, and subsequently, a giant made of rock slowly rose in front of him.

Invoked Mechaba, Level 8, Earth Attribute, Rock-type, ATK 3000.

"Ga roar..." The water dragon looked at the stone giant, its mood was not very good.

The stone giant had no effect; it was a Fusion Monster without an effect.

But—

ATK 3000.

Although it was a Fusion version of Blue-Eyes White Dragon, you had to admit one thing.

That was—powerful monsters indeed had powerful effects, but no matter how powerful the effect was, it would explode if hit by a higher attack.

Battle destruction resistance might be the most useless resistance, but battle destruction was just useful.

Its 2900 body really couldn't defend against 3000 ATK.

"The effect of Invocation in the Graveyard, return it to the deck, return my banished Invoker Aleister to the hand."

In this way, even if he discarded Aleister to increase 1000 ATK/DEF, it would still be beaten to death by the stone giant.

"Battle, Earth Invoked attacks Water Invoked!"

The water dragon howled at the sky for a while, but it was still useless. It was hit on the head by the rock giant and flew backward in dismay, landing on the duelist's seat.

"Amazing!"

"As expected of the Earth Invoked, ATK 3000, enough to rival the ATK of Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"

The water dragon roared.

It was unwilling to accept this, so it immediately opened its set card.

On the card, the Atlantean warrior under the waterfall was rising from the water with red eyes.

Trap Card, Torrential Reborn.

Activate when a Water Attribute monster you control is destroyed by battle or card effect and sent to the Graveyard. Special Summon all monsters destroyed and sent to the Graveyard at that time, and inflict 500 damage to the opponent for each monster Special Summoned.

A wave of water sprayed from its mouth, carrying its resentment and frustration, spitting all around. Tiancheng Guang blocked it lightly with his hand, feeling no pain, only annoyance.

Tiancheng Guang raised his eyebrows lightly.

Tiancheng Guang LP: 4000→3500.

"Set one card, end turn."

Tiancheng Guang ended his turn plainly, without pressing his advantage, nor did he perform other operations.

"Professor Dadesi, your disciple doesn't seem to have become that amazing either?"

"Is that so? Crowley, why do I feel that Hikari has become countless times stronger than I imagined."

The two highest-level magicians communicated, and on the screen, the water dragon's turn arrived again.

It howled and drew a card from the deck, and at this moment, Tiancheng Guang spoke: "Cocytus, I can feel your anger."

?

It looked at Tiancheng Guang.

"I felt your dissatisfaction and restlessness from your attack. What exactly is it that makes you like this?" Tiancheng Guang looked left and right, looking at those magicians who wanted to learn Invocation. Those magicians who were looked at didn't know why, but they felt some fear in their hearts and couldn't help but lower their heads.

"You were forcibly summoned to this dimension, forcibly communicating and even doing experiments with magicians, but you are not disgusted by these things, otherwise, you wouldn't use Invocation again, wouldn't use Fusion tactics, right?"

Cocytus's roar became much lighter, and it leaned down slowly, observing Tiancheng Guang.

"What you are truly restless about is that no one can understand you, right?"

The magicians heard this, and they looked at each other, not knowing what Tiancheng Guang was talking about.

And Cocytus's eyes lit up, and it vibrated its wings slowly.

After a long time, it finally felt a little bit of relief.

"Then, let me introduce myself again—I am Tiancheng Guang, a human duelist, a Fusion user who pursues ultimate Fusion!

I understand!

Fusion requires understanding oneself, understanding friends, understanding enemies, understanding each other, only then can everything be 【Fused】—Cocytus, what you are truly restless about is that these magicians only care about 【Invocation】, and have never paid attention to you, the Invoked who possesses powerful power, right!?"

As soon as this was said, all the Magician's Library students watching this duel were stunned as if they had been knocked on the head.

"No matter how strong Invocation is, it is also a Magic Card born to summon Invoked. If you don't even try to understand the ultimate object of Fusion, and only care about magic, then it is putting the cart before the horse—

What I want to pursue is understanding all Fusion!

Cocytus, I hope you can give me this chance."

Cocytus spread its dragon wings. It observed Tiancheng Guang, its eyes filled with both curiosity and suspicion.

But—

This didn't matter.

It raised its claws, drew a card from the deck, glanced at the card it drew, opened its mouth slowly, and the corners of its mouth cracked, seemingly smiling.

In its hand, a massive, thick spellbook suddenly appeared. Accompanying the appearance of this book, the flow of the gurgling stream suddenly slowed down. The next moment, the flowing water began to rise, and crimson flames ignited in this room.

"What?" Battle reached out and grabbed the fence, "What's going on! Where is the security department!"

"Eh? Why is there fire!?"

"Because, I activated this card—"

"!!!"

After all the magicians watching the duel looked at the source of the sound, their faces turned pale instantly. In their field of vision, that water dragon that was burning with anger began to deform, the flowing water on its body gradually turned into flames, and understandable language came from its mouth.

"What's the situation! The Water Invoked can actually communicate!?"

"Why, why have I never succeeded before!?"

"When I summoned the Water Invoked before, I also paid 5 magic counters as a reward before summoning it, but it never paid attention to me!"

A group of magicians were in chaos, never expecting things to develop like this.

"Stupid." Water Invoked... no, at this very moment, it didn't have any feeling of flowing water at all.

Replacing it was flames as scorching as hell.

It... changed its form?!

"A group of guys who only have knowledge and magic in their brains, every time they summon me, they think about how to learn 【Invocation】 through calculation. You don't have the idea of talking to me, why should I respond to your ideas?"

"I am also a spirit of dueling, can't I communicate with you?"

"Could it be, you really treat me as a beast?"

Super—

Many magicians lowered their heads, realizing the problem with their studies.

Seeing this, Battle shrugged.

Bad news, this batch of magicians would probably be rated "poor" in the academy soon; good news, it was not the substitute teacher for this group of magicians.

"Human, you are the first warrior who can understand me. Also the first summoner who focuses on me, instead of calculating magic, so, I am very happy to talk to you.

But—if you want to get my recognition, you have to defeat me!"

"It's okay, I came precisely for this!"

"Good! Then, continue the duel—Quick-Play Magic Card, Spellbook of Law, release 1 【Invoked】 monster you control to activate. Special Summon 1 【Invoked】 monster with a different original attribute from the Extra Deck as a Fusion Summon."

"I will transform my water form into the Fire Invoked."

"Fusion Summon—

Invoked Purgatrio!"

One by one, demons lined up in front of it, saluting and cheering for it.

Invoked Purgatrio, Level 7, Fire Attribute, Fiend-type, ATK 2300.

"It's actually a Fusion Magic Card that doesn't need Fusion materials."

"It's a Magic Card similar to Metamorphosis, and it's actually a Quick-Play Magic Card—"

"So amazing, it turns out besides Invocation, there is such magic!"

"I said it, don't just focus on magic, hmm, but then again, this magic is also very strong."

Water Invoked listened to the sounds in its ears, shaking its head continuously, thinking these were all blockheads.

"The effect of the Fire Invoked, this card's ATK increases by 200 for each card the opponent controls."

Tiancheng Guang had a total of 5 cards on the field, so its ATK rose directly to 3300.

"Exceeded the Earth Invoked!"

"So amazing, every Invoked has unique points."

Aleister, who was watching the battle, turned his perspective and noticed the magician who said this sentence, recording it in his heart.

At least there was one seedling who could adapt, let people in the academy call him to change classes later.

"How is it, Crowley, my disciple."

"Indeed excellent. Much better than those useless guys in my academy."

While saying this, he also sighed in his heart.

Why was this damn Professor Dadesi so lucky to run into a successor of this level when he was about to die.

"The Fire Invoked has the effect of attacking all monsters once, and has piercing attack." Tiancheng Guang touched his chin, recalling.

"You actually know?"

"That goes without saying—I am a duelist who pursues ultimate Fusion, so, I will exhaust my life to learn all Fusion. So... there is no Fusion I don't know."

He used to claim directly that he knew all Fusion.

But the further he walked, the deeper Tiancheng Guang's understanding of Fusion became, and the more "humble" he became.

Although in the eyes of others, it was already arrogant to the extreme.

But the surrounding audience could also understand the meaning of both sides of the duel.

Now, both of them had Aleister in their hands, in other words, the Fire Invoked's ATK could be increased to 4300. If 4300 ATK attacked twice with piercing, attacking the currently 0 DEF Aquamarine, then let alone Tiancheng Guang who only had 3500 LP now, even 4000 full LP would be gone.

"Battle, Fire Invoked attacks Earth Invoked."

"I discard Aleister from my hand to increase Earth Invoked's ATK/DEF by 1000."

"Then, I also discard the Invoker in my hand to increase Fire Invoked's ATK/DEF by 1000!"

Still that sentence.

High ATK is just high!

But—

"Then, I activate Trap Card—"

"Human, don't forget, I still have a set card that hasn't been used!"

"Heh... haven't said it before. In order to pursue ultimate Fusion, my deck is slightly different from others."

?

Tiancheng Guang smiled lightly. Tiera on the side took out his set card and said: "It's Fusion."

Fusion?

Up to now, all the cards Tiancheng Guang used were Fusion-related cards!

And the Fusion card... because of 【Magical Meltdown】, it could not be negated by the opponent.

Water Invoked blinked lightly.

"Could it be?"

"That's right, in order to pursue ultimate Fusion, in order to see higher Fusion, so, all the cards in my deck are Fusion! All cards are only related to Fusion!

Activate Trap Card, Gem-Knight Fusion! Send the Fusion materials determined by the Fusion card from your hand/field to the Graveyard, and Fusion Summon a Fusion Monster with 【Gem-Knight】 in its name!"

"Even the Trap is Fusion?"

"Wow uh... so it's through this method that he practices Fusion?"

"So amazing, even when I was most addicted to researching magic, I didn't put more than 20 Magic Cards in my deck..."

Tiancheng Guang didn't pay attention to them, but sent the cards in his hand and the cards on the field to the Graveyard.

"The Fusion condition is Gem-Knight and an Aqua-type monster, use Gem-Knight Aquamarine and Gem-Knight Lapis to Fusion, Fusion Summon—Level 7, Captain of the Bai Jing, Gem-Knight Amethyst!"

Captain of the Bai Jing waved his long spear, raised his shield, and guarded the field.

Gem-Knight Amethyst, Level 7, Earth Attribute, Aqua-type, ATK 1950.

"Then, Gem-Knight Aquamarine's effect, when this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, target 1 card on the opponent's field. Return that card to the opponent's hand. I choose, Fire Invoked Purgatrio."

Tiancheng Guang smiled lightly and spread his hands: "Fire Invoked has greater aggressiveness than Water Invoked, but compared to you, Cocytus, Fire Invoked does not have the ability to not be destroyed by effects and cannot be targeted by effects, therefore... it will be returned to the Extra Deck by this effect."

Water dragon pouted lightly, the flames on its body gradually disappeared, its figure slowly turned from a demon back to its previous appearance, turning back into a dragon shape.

However, although its attack was broken, it looked in a good mood.

Seemingly because it heard the point where it was stronger than Fire Invoked, so it was very happy.

"Not bad, you're right, Fire Invoked's flaw is still too big." It even nodded its head as if it were true.

Tiancheng Guang couldn't help but shake his head.

Tiera beside him was more direct.

"The result is, in the end, because the magicians kept bragging about their leader, so this Invoked was just unhappy."

But no matter what.

Water Invoked also had nothing else to do, because it was tricked by Tiancheng Guang into using the Aleister in its hand, so it couldn't even Normal Summon Aleister to search for Invocation and then turn into an Earth Invoked, so it could only watch its turn pass, and then get punched twice by Tiancheng Guang.

Water Invoked, Cocytus, LP: 4000→1000→0.

"Wow! Really not bad, really not bad meow!" The Five-Rainbow Magician waved the staff in his hand excitedly, scaring the magicians beside him to dodge repeatedly.

Although he didn't use magic, everyone knew that this level of magician, if he punched you, it would basically be no different from being hit by a magic cannon.

"Everyone look, is Hikari super amazing! Is he super handsome!"

The magicians present could also understand the Five-Rainbow Magician's thoughts.

Seeing their human disciple defeat a powerful Invoked so easily, and even state the restlessness of the Invoked and the flaws of the lower-level magicians around, this talent was far beyond ordinary human warriors.

Moreover, this talent of purely using Fusion, trusting Fusion, and being willing to understand and fuse with opponents was definitely not that of a mediocre person. Honestly, even these high-level magicians present felt greedy when they saw it.

Why didn't they have a disciple of this level?

"Although the Water Invoked's duel was far inferior to you back then." Aleister evaluated seriously after the duel ended, "However, the power of the Invoked is unquestionable. Winning in just two turns, your disciple's persistence and understanding of Fusion are even more profound and powerful than a year ago. So, he definitely didn't waste his time this year, this point is very gratifying.

Not only did he immediately sense the restlessness in the opponent's heart through the duel, but besides that, he didn't lose the psychological and information warfare he had always been good at, by discarding his own Invoker to trick the opponent into discarding the Invoker, making the Water Invoked miss the chance for sustainability.

Sure enough, he is a genius among geniuses, the most Fusion-like Fusion duelist.

It seems he has indeed studied your alchemy well."

Aleister lowered his head, pursed his lips lightly with his hand, and pondered in shock: "At this rate, I'm afraid it won't be long before even I am surpassed by him. Professor Dadesi, you are really lucky."

"What do you mean lucky meow! This is what I exchanged with my keen eyes and meticulous care!" The Five-Rainbow Magician called to the sky like a cat, "Crowley, you are jealous of me, right!"

Aleister didn't care about these details.

He had long been used to Professor Dadesi's joking and pretending. No matter how Professor Dadesi pretended to be stupid, he wouldn't be fooled.

He just kept calculating and deducing in his heart.

Honestly, even he wanted to watch Tiancheng Guang's duel at close range again.

He was looking forward to Tiancheng Guang's arrival.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 399 =====