Chapter 485

After the duel was won, Tenjou Hikari walked to the place where Lord Di Wei En had originally been, bent down, and picked up his Duel Disk.

Although Tenjou Hikari wouldn't use the vast majority of the cards, there were still some things he needed to pay attention to.

He looked at the card resting on the Duel Disk.

"That card..." Jack's expression was serious.

"It looks exactly as he said, an 'Artificial God'," Tenjou Hikari said, listening to Tiera's explanation while picking up the card.

There was a thick, visible black aura on the card, madly emitting smoke; not only that, but there was also a large amount of green electric light on it.

Tenjou Hikari silently sensed the Duel Energy.

Back when Tenjou Hikari dueled the brainwashed Chui Xue, he had obtained enough Duel Energy after the duel to knock him unconscious directly; however, times had changed, and now, although Tenjou Hikari could still feel the massive dark power after the duel, it wasn't enough to make him faint.

It was just—

This power, as he had imagined, was indeed the power of Darkness.

Likewise, this "Psychic End Punisher" also flowed with the same eerie power as the mask card that had once plagued Tianshangyuan Chui Xue.

Tenjou Hikari cautiously used the "Book of Emerald" to put this card away.

This was an important alchemical material—back then, Tenjou Hikari used that card as a template and base to create many cards that came in handy later; Tenjou Hikari's successful fusion of "Winda" was also thanks to the power of Darkness.

At that time, Tenjou Hikari had thought about dueling whenever he encountered the Seven Stars and then fiercely farming Duel Energy to try and refine cards, but he hadn't expected that the subsequent Seven Stars—even including Professor Dadesi—wouldn't have such massive Duel Energy.

As a result, this time, Tenjou Hikari had actually encountered Darkness again.

But unlike that time, when Tenjou Hikari faced Chui Xue controlled by Darkness, this time, Darkness had clearly learned from its mistakes; it might have realized itself that it really had no talent for dueling, so it just guided humans to court death.

From the results, its attempt this time was actually quite good.

Because it seemed that in this world, this world acknowledged the existence of "Artificial Gods," so if Lord Di Wei En had really developed quietly and then jumped out to promote his philosophy when the apocalypse was about to arrive, even if he didn't fool everyone, for the majority of humans who had lost hope and were waiting for death, such a world would be very tempting.

"What a pity, although the card is complete, the 【God】 is only a prototype," Tiera said, shaking her head from the side.

Tiera could tell at a glance that this card was definitely not manufactured by Lord Di Wei En, because the "energy" of this card was very similar to the Light of Destruction of the Cosmic God they had encountered before, but the tendency of the energy was completely different.

But wanting to become a god, or even a sole god, was clearly not something that could be produced in this tiny laboratory.

To make this mental demon truly become a god-level existence, at least a sufficient number of people would need to be substituted into that constructed mental world; just these dozen or so people was clearly far from enough.

Furthermore, because it was cut in half head-on during the duel and the mental demon's power was destroyed, it had even less of a way to become a "God."

This was also the biggest problem that "Artificial Gods" needed to face—

Tenjou Hikari glanced at Jack Atlas and Carly Nagisa.

Since in this world, Dark Signers and Signers would slowly gather together and even duel each other because of the "Sole God," then wanting to create an artificial god would naturally lead to bumping into other 【Chosen Ones】 in the process of cultivating the god.

In the original work, Lord Di Wei En would use psychic powers during a duel to knock Carly Nagisa off a high building, letting her fall to her death; however, after that, Carly Nagisa gained the favor of an "Earthbound Immortal," then was resurrected as a Dark Signer, dueled Lord Di Wei En again, and killed him in a Shadow Duel.

Although the development of the world wasn't exactly the same, Carly Nagisa had still come here—it was just that this world had one more Jack.

I'm afraid that even if Tenjou Hikari hadn't come, Lord Di Wei En would still have had to face countless duelists.

Unless he was blessed by destiny and defeated all the Signers and Dark Signers, then it would be a matter of course for him to become the messenger of the 【Sole God】.

However, even without becoming a god, this card was still pretty good.

It could be dismantled later to create the most important "Lilith" for Tiera, and the scraps could even be used to make other things.

"How are the children?" Tenjou Hikari asked Jack after putting his things away.

Jack shielded Carly behind him and said, "Of course there won't be any problems."

"That's good—you're in the Upper City, you should have enough ways to settle those children, right?" Tenjou Hikari continued to ask.

In his memory, the male protagonists of "Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's" basically all liked children; Yusei would teach children in the Satellite Sector in the original work, Seeing Ke Luo would adopt children to earn money to support the family, and although Jack was a social failure, he was a well-known child king who was deeply loved and worshipped by children.

"You are... Tenjou Hikari from the F-Dimension, right?"

"Ha, do you all like to use this opening line? Seeing Ke Luo from the Lower City before also opened with this."

"You've met Seeing Ke Luo? Could it be—" Jack suddenly remembered a news report.

Although he had been in the hospital ward before, he had never missed the possibility of finding Yusei's tracks: "Could it be that the person from another dimension who was saved by Yusei before was you?"

Tenjou Hikari nodded.

Jack immediately rushed in front of Tenjou Hikari, grabbed his collar, and asked, pursuing him very unkindly: "You've met Yusei!? Where exactly did he go, what exactly is he trying to do!?"

"Jack!! Don't be so rude!" Carly was flustered and wanted to stop him from the side, but she didn't dare to get close and could only wave her hands non-stop.

Tenjou Hikari gently pulled his hand away.

Although Jack was a tough guy who could take on a dozen people alone and beat them up, Tenjou Hikari had seen it as soon as he came up; his physical state wasn't that perfect and was clearly somewhat weak.

However—even so, he was already much stronger than ordinary people, so much so that Jack was even a little surprised to notice that Tenjou Hikari could actually hold him back.

"Sorry, even if you ask me, I don't know, because I've only met him once."

"Tsk..." Jack let go helplessly.

Yeah—

Even Rua and Ruka hadn't been notified, and not even he, Seeing Ke Luo, or Aki Izayoi had been notified; he had disappeared from the public eye alone. How could what Yusei wanted to do be told so simply to someone from another dimension who wasn't particularly familiar?

He sighed, and then, he remembered his "main job" and looked at Tenjou Hikari's left hand.

A Dark Signer, huh...

However—

Since he was someone who had come specifically to duel that Lord Di Wei En and whom even Yusei was willing to help, he shouldn't be a particularly evil person.

Tenjou Hikari saw that he wasn't pursuing it anymore, looked at his own Dark Mark, and smiled softly: "Let's talk while we walk."

Tenjou Hikari pointed to the laboratory: "Let's go confirm the survival and situation of the personnel first."

Right!

Jack realized, strode forward, and Carly hurriedly followed.

Tenjou Hikari also stepped into the laboratory.

Walking into the laboratory, one could see white grids built like a honeycomb, and the grids were connected to pipes that led to the outside.

That guy Lord Di Wei En, in order to save space and money, didn't even want to give the children rooms, directly stuffing them into transparent grids only half a person high, just piling them up in one sub-laboratory after another.

Tenjou Hikari's expression darkened immediately.

He followed Jack to the main control of the laboratory, where there were still some groaning guards on the ground—clearly, these were some people Jack had knocked out in advance to save the children.

They were miserable because Jack clearly hadn't held back, but they were also lucky.

If they were still conscious, they might have been eaten by the mental demon.

Carly was taking pictures, clearly preparing to keep more evidence.

Tenjou Hikari checked the laboratory's console, noticed a card used as a "connection," and pulled it out to take a look.

Huh?

His eyes lit up.

Metaphysical variant?

He looked up at the surroundings again and found more cards.

It seemed that every sub-laboratory and every key connection channel had such cards.

Darkness is truly worthy of the name... truly generous.

(End of chapter)