Chapter 536

"As expected of the GX champion!"

"Too strong. I feel like I've gained a new understanding of 【Fusion】."

"Miss Blacksmith, could you change my sword to a Fusion-oriented design? It feels much more interesting this way—"

As the duel concluded, the surrounding spirits who had been watching regained their senses and reacted in their own ways.

Some decided on orders, some praised the craftsmanship of the Witchcrafters, and others marveled at the excellence of Tenjou Hikari.

Tenjou Hikari looked up at the sky.

Although it was only for a fleeting moment, in that very instant, the 【Light of Ruin】 had indeed appeared.

The Light of Ruin did not grant Tenjou Hikari the power of an "Apostle," but it did use its own power to repair Tenjou Hikari's body, provided him with a large number of cards, and constructed a physical form for Tiera.

Before the GX tournament, Tenjou Hikari had already given some samples of these powers to the Magician Scientist for research. This scientific spirit, who possessed infinite curiosity about 【Fusion】, finally created the card "Magnum the Reliever" after countless days and nights of study.

However, cards created out of thin air like this must be recognized by spirits or their original owners.

Just like when Tenjou Hikari first attempted to use "El Shaddoll Midrash."

It's just that, this time, the "original owner" was a little bit too big.

Clearly, after such a long time, the Light of Ruin was still contemplating "life," so when it suddenly discovered extra power in operation, it was very surprised and came to take a look.

However.

Upon seeing that it was Tenjou Hikari, it left.

In other words—

The Magician Scientist can research whatever he wants, right!

"Oh, right, Tenjou Hikari, that Cosmic God was afraid of affecting your duel, so it left two sentences behind," Tiera, who was on the side, said after seeing the duel end.

Oh—

Tenjou Hikari suddenly realized.

He knew the Light of Ruin couldn't have just left after one look; sure enough, it had left a message.

The Light of Ruin had watched Magnum's effects—one returning a Fusion to draw a card, the other removing a Fusion to destroy—and it was very surprised and satisfied with these effects.

This meant that after that day, Tenjou Hikari still insisted on his original theory: Ruin and Reincarnation.

This gave it brand-new inspiration, so it allowed Tenjou Hikari to experiment as he pleased; it didn't matter.

Tenjou Hikari was relieved.

Consequently, he looked toward the opposite side.

Amidst the enthusiastic discussions of the spirits, Verre had already picked up her staff, drawn a magic circle in the air, and then taken out a card. The card was imprinted with Tenjou Hikari's likeness, and it flew into Tenjou Hikari's hand.

Tenjou Hikari took the card and touched the other two proofs in his pocket.

One "Endymion," one "Magical Institution," plus this "Witchcrafter Alley" in his hand—the three proofs of the Sages were finally gathered!

Tenjou Hikari took a deep breath.

He had to rush to Domino City immediately and couldn't find time to go to the Magician's Domain, but at least the opportunity had been secured.

At the same time, on the Witchcrafter side, two spirits began to argue.

"Haine, you girl, why did you run to the other side so quickly last turn? I clearly could have chained an effect!"

"What nonsense are you spouting? I stayed on our side for a long time. I was also surprised by the Fusion-Fusion thing. By the time I regained my senses, you had already missed your window of operation, hadn't you!?"

The world here is not like the world before Tenjou Hikari traveled; you can't just wait forever if you aren't sure whether to chain or not. If you miss it, you miss it.

Otherwise, Duel Academy wouldn't need to train students to exercise their reflexes and physical functions.

Pittore pressed her advantage and continued, "Besides, a loss is a loss. What excuses are you looking for here?"

"Huh? Although I lost, I didn't use my full strength! If it weren't for the first turn where I wasn't serious, that human couldn't have landed so smoothly!" She danced around in front of Pittore, trying to prove the dignity of her 【Master】, "If I wanted to, I could have gathered the normal form of you and myself on the first turn. Hikari wouldn't have been able to win like that!"

"Your confidence is a good thing, but Mr. Hikari wasn't serious on the first turn either, was he? If his first turn wasn't for 【trying】 to fuse Magnum, but instead directly fusing Hook The Thief, sending you to the Graveyard, summoning any monster, and attacking directly, how would you have responded!? It's precisely because you weren't serious enough that Mr. Hikari could only try new things and wait for you to get serious!" Pittore retorted to Verre's words like an outsider, "Most importantly!

Master, you even used 【Crystal Magic】! That shouldn't be a card that exists in a trial—if you want to say that, you might as well just use the Grand Magus and stop using our craft magic. That would definitely be 【Full Power】!"

Verre's head gradually lowered; she felt she couldn't win the argument against her disciple: "Who exactly is the leader of the spirit faction..."

"If you were more serious and responsible, I would certainly respect you," Pittore sighed.

Verre patted her bottom with some helplessness, brushed off the dust, rose from the ground, sat on a piece of crystal glass that appeared out of nowhere, and flew in front of Tenjou Hikari.

"Yo, little Hikari~" she greeted, "Although I've heard Crowley talk about you, this is the first time I've seen you with my own eyes."

Tenjou Hikari also greeted her.

Subsequently, Tenjou Hikari curiously asked if she knew anything about Professor Dadesi.

Upon hearing the question about Dadesi, she nodded, indicating she knew very well.

Dadesi's reincarnation actually had something to do with the three of them, the Sages.

"Since you've gathered the three proofs of the Sages, it's about time." Verre had a change of thought, feeling it was about time, so she began to explain to Tenjou Hikari.

As one of the founders of the 【Village of the Spellcasters】 and one of the oldest "Spellcaster spirits," she, along with Crowley and Endymion, inherited the name of the "Original Legend" and were also called the "Three Sages" by the spirits. They could be said to be among the spirits closest to the prototypes.

The three of them had always cooperated, exchanging understandings of magic in the Village of the Spellcasters and operating the base camp for spellcasters.

But—

On that day.

A strange red light suddenly pierced through the entire Spirit World.

In that instant, which ordinary spirits and humans could not observe, those top-tier spirits almost simultaneously 【saw】 that beam of light.

Subsequently, the entire Spirit World began to collapse and split. The Three Sages used their own power to maintain the operation of a dimension each—that is, their respective magic factions. To protect their respective factions, they reduced the number of times they met each other and visited the Village of the Spellcasters, turning instead to discuss problems in the more stable and powerful "Magician's Domain."

In short, when they realized that ordinary spirits hadn't even discovered or noticed it, the owner of that radiance had already torn the world apart, and they immediately realized the terror of that unknown enemy.

Therefore, after that, they began to explore and research.

After all, although that beam of light had only shone once, no one could guarantee that it wouldn't appear again, and no one could guarantee that the beam of power wouldn't be unleashed against life next time!

For this reason, the Three Sages had actually been working very hard for these past few decades, searching for many methods.

During a journey, Crowley discovered Dadesi, this "peerless alchemist," and was immediately amazed, introducing him to them. It was also at that time that Endymion told them something they hadn't discovered.

That 【Mastermind】 possessed the power to control souls; it had converted some deceased, powerful spirits into other forms of life. Although they didn't know how this happened or what problems would arise after the conversion, once an alchemist of Dadesi's level died, there was no guarantee what would happen.

It was precisely because of this that Dadesi, who realized at the time that his "days were numbered," began planning the undertaking of reincarnating as a spirit.

"The splitting of the Spirit World is something almost all spirits know about, but spirits who truly realize how terrifying this is, and realize that our future must face an existence beyond imagination, are few and far between."

Verre explained these secrets and research to Tenjou Hikari in the workshop.

Over the years, they had been gradually discovering the traces of that mastermind and had gradually touched upon some of the "forces" under that existence.

Precisely because this was very difficult and dangerous, "top-tier" spirits like Verre were basically very busy—only top-tier spirits like the Dragon God of the Dark World, who were uninterested in the survival of the world, wouldn't care at all.

"Now, since you have already obtained the recognition of the Three Sages and can step into the 【Magician's Domain】, you will certainly have to come into contact with this matter in the future, and even search for the traces of that crusher.

Ha, if that's the case, maybe I can relax a bit! I can sleep in the workshop every day!"

Tenjou Hikari smiled awkwardly on the side.

The mastermind behind the splitting of the Spirit World...

Indeed, Tenjou Hikari had always been paying attention to this matter, but he had never discovered any clues.

He had tried asking the 【Light of Ruin】 whether this had anything to do with it, but it calmly told Tenjou Hikari that the existence that caused the Spirit World to split was definitely someone else, and perhaps it had no connection to the human world at all; it was some native existence among the spirits.

This put Tenjou Hikari in a difficult position.

After all, the Spirit World is not something like "a planet" or "a world." The so-called Spirit World is far larger than the "planets" humans perceive, and even more vast than the universe as conventionally understood!

Like the Black Luster Soldier, who has the ability to restart chaos and create universes, a Spirit World is far, far larger than the world humans perceive.

Under these circumstances, if some "native" spirit suddenly wanted to try something new or suddenly wanted to destroy the world, it really wasn't something he could guess by imagination.

Not to mention the actual situation, which of these "Original" level spirits isn't at the world-destroying level?

Just like this Witchcrafter Master, the Glass Witch, before him.

Although she isn't the true prototype like that "Original Black Luster Soldier" in the warrior's domain, it's hard to say how much difference there is between her and the person herself.

However—she clearly still has many differences from the original.

On one hand, although she is lazy and slacks off, she clearly isn't really doing nothing; when she truly encounters a problem, she is quite responsible. But on the other hand, although she does handle things seriously, once someone else can do things for her, she clearly slacks off immediately.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have said things about being able to sleep more.

A bit good, but not that good. Still a scummy spirit.

In short, after learning about many of the problems and difficulties the Spirit World faces from Verre, as well as some dangers that ordinary spirits could never know, and even the coordinates of some "dangerous dimensions," Tenjou Hikari bid farewell and prepared to leave.

Not long after he left, he suddenly felt his card case at his waist glow.

He was a bit surprised and opened the card case.

On the other side, Verre had been lying on the workshop table for a long time when she suddenly called out: "Haine? Haine—"

Haine, that is, Witchcrafter Genni.

However, after calling several times without a response, she suddenly felt a faint sense of unease.

"Bang—" Suddenly, the workshop door was violently pushed open, and a red-haired girl and a purple-haired girl rushed into the room, exclaiming and shouting at Verre: "It's bad, it's bad, Master! Genni, Genni left this and disappeared!"

"Ah?"

Verre was so startled she jumped up, took the paper, and scanned it quickly.

【To Master,

I secretly heard your conversation with Mr. Hikari on the side and know that you haven't been running around aimlessly during this time, but working hard, deeply realizing your mistakes, and determined to reflect on and punish yourself.

You gave Mr. Hikari several interdimensional coordinates, presumably hoping Mr. Hikari would go to those places to explore and then tell you the results and situation, right?

Since that's the case, as your disciple, I should help you complete this matter—so I've decided to follow Mr. Hikari on his adventure. This way, I can share your worries! It's also a punishment for me doubting and not trusting you!

Your disciple, Witchcrafter Genni.】

The two high-level witches stood on the side, finished reading the letter, and couldn't help but admire in their hearts, "Genni really got the true teachings; she learned this move from Master!" That's right, this is Verre's true secret technique—slacking off and running away!

Verre's mouth seemed to be deforming, and her eyes drifted, as if she could see Haine imitating her, scratching the back of her head and sticking out her tongue.

She was very angry.

Daring to use my magic against me, Haine!

But after being angry for a while, she suddenly calmed down again.

Well, fine—

Little Genni, at least this duelist is indeed very interesting, uses a very diverse range of Fusion, and has Aleister and such; it should also allow her to show herself.

The child should grow up too...

"Then Master, the orders..."

Verre looked at the heavy orders, half a person tall, which had been placed because of the impulse from watching the duel, and her pupils suddenly shook.

These, do I have to be responsible for coordinating all these things? Me?

This, this, this, this is too troublesome; I don't want to deal with it at all!

Her mouth twitched slightly, and after a while, she screamed heart-rendingly: "Come back! You give me back here, Haine!!!"

But at this very moment, Tenjou Hikari had already finished talking with Witchcrafter Genni and welcomed her to join his team.

He had even started introducing her to the "workshop members," so how could he care about her?

Master?

Don't care.

(End of chapter)