Chapter 545: Destiny is Guiding Me Forward (4k)

Clap clap clap—

Accompanied by the end of the duel, Aster and the other two could not help but start applauding for Tenjou Hikari.

With no one around, Tenjou Hikari did not need to perform anything here. Being able to duel relying on pure Fusion in this kind of place, and then obtaining the recognition of the spirit will of the entire dimension, creating a brand-new "monster," this gold content really did not need to say anything more.

Among these people, Aster was the one with the most ordinary reaction.

After all, although he had not seen this scene, he himself had actually "seen" more exaggerated pictures.

Compared to the flames of the birth of Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer back then, in this World of Forgetting, it was actually much easier.

Because accompanied by Tenjou Hikari's duel, the entire "world" was responding to and helping Tenjou Hikari.

And when dueling the "Light of Destruction," Tenjou Hikari was fighting against the 【Rules of the Universe】.

The duel ended, the huge lion bowed slightly, stretched out its claws, tried to shake hands with Tenjou Hikari with its fingers, and then began to thank Tenjou Hikari.

It could feel that this world, this dimension, was evolving toward a brand-new world because of this duel.

Perhaps one day, the entire dimension would completely change...

"By then, this world, I'm afraid, will no longer be called 【World of Forgetting】..." It said while seemingly instinctively touched. "In my heart, this world seems to be responding to me, telling me its future possibilities.

【Memento】...

I understand, this world will become a true world of spirits.

And its name is—

【Underworld - Memento Underworld】!"

It will become the first, and true, guardian of this dimension!

Accompanied by its words falling, on the gate, those decorations composed of skulls gradually combined into a huge pattern that looked exactly like its crown.

Black smoke, bad luck, pain, torture, countless energy poured into the surroundings, turning into piles of white bones.

It was just that this time, these white bones no longer had that pain and torture, but instead, it seemed they were nurturing brand-new "life"!

That's right—

Lion Wizard realized this point in its heart.

This world, like other spirit worlds, would begin to slowly give birth to spirits!

It waved its robe.

Those spirits that had fallen into this dimension not long ago and had not suffered too much torture and had not been assimilated by this dimension were covered with a layer of bone robes. The spirits felt power returning to their bodies, and laughter actually was born in this dimension—

"If forgotten, then I will remember them, and then I will raise them." Lion Wizard finally made up its mind.

Although Lion Wizard was not a 【God】, at this very moment, in Tenjou Hikari's eyes, it was a genuine 【God of Mercy】!

Lion Wizard thanked Tenjou Hikari again. It did not even hesitate, directly handing its 【Main Body】—Dark-Magic-Lion Wizard to Tenjou Hikari.

Although it was unlikely to use this card, Tenjou Hikari still solemnly accepted the gift.

"As long as you hold this card, as long as I still exist in this dimension, no matter when, you can come to this forgotten world again."

"Thank you very much, Lion Wizard." Tenjou Hikari nodded gently.

Although Tenjou Hikari relied on his understanding of "Memento," he inferred that this world could evolve into a Memento dimension in the future, and then relied on this knowledge to successfully create brand-new cards in the duel.

But, this was after all a matter of taking a shortcut.

In the short term, I'm afraid there was only the "Memento Key Spirit" in Tenjou Hikari's hand in this world.

After all, it was an aggregate... "created" together by the consciousness of all the spirits in this dimension.

Tenjou Hikari put the card away, and then opened the deck to take a look.

Sure enough...

Although this world changed his deck, it was clearly also "magnitude-based."

Tenjou Hikari's personal spirit power could not resist the power of this entire World of Forgetting and would have his cards replaced, but similarly, this World of Forgetting wanted to completely replace his deck, and even compare magnitude with "Super Polymerization," it was still not up to the task.

Fortunately, it did not change many cards, just suddenly added two "Memento Fusion" cards.

Tenjou Hikari put away the cards and greeted the other three.

Tenjou Hikari watched the two come to the gate, so he had thought about their subsequent situation in advance.

Amon and Aster.

Two people with very "distinctive features."

In the original work of "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX," Amon was a very special character, special in that he was one of the very few who had no relationship with Jūdai at all, and even never dueled Jūdai, but had defeated the two "second male leads" before and after.

The duel with Chazz was nothing. In the original work, Chazz had always been too complacent and too self-righteous before truly suffering, so he was easily defeated by Amon.

And the duel between Amon and Aster could show what kind of outrageous people the truly "powerful duelists" in this world were.

Amon, in order to obtain Exodia, prepared to perform a ritual, while Aster, because he fell in love with "Eko" at first sight, wanted to protect Eko.

The starting point of the duel was slightly bizarre, but the content of the duel was even more bizarre.

Amon could, in the situation of just putting in Exodia, fill up the draw filter, and in just a few turns, forcibly gather 4 pieces.

And Aster, before dueling Amon, had never fought against this type of duelist, but unexpectedly used a "Force of Four," limiting both parties' hands to at most four cards, blocking the possibility of Amon gathering 5 pieces of Exodia to win.

Subsequently, Amon used the Exodia ritual to gather pieces in the graveyard through battle, and then obtained victory in the duel.

And in such a sudden situation, Aster precisely used a Trap Card that could skip the Battle Phase.

It can be seen that in the original work, the duels of these high-strength duelists were really not pure "duels," but a competition of power. Otherwise, Aster couldn't have just happened to draw a bunch of counter cards.

Naturally—precisely because of this, it also laid the foundation for Aster's failure.

Eko and Amon were a genuine true love, so in the end of the duel, Eko took the initiative to sacrifice herself to become Exodia's sacrifice, making the "power" unbalanced, completely making Aster fail.

But it had to be said that Aster was a genuine destined HERO. Even knowing he was destined to lose, even seeing his Duel Disk start to drop Life Points and he was going to lose, he had no regrets or resentment.

If a HERO's destiny was destined to sacrifice for the sake of protecting others, then he would gladly die—

After Exodia was unsealed, he stood in front of Jūdai and the others, opened his hands, used his body as a shield, and let his friends and teachers escape and survive.

Unexpectedly, destiny let the two meet again in this dimension.

Tenjou Hikari pondered.

Although he did not see the Forbidden Exodia in the duel with Lion Wizard just now, Grandpa Solomon Muto would certainly not lie to him, so this world definitely also had that "forbidden" mage.

However, his trial had already ended, and he would not stop the encounter between the two parties.

Although he saw Aster have a good impression of Eko again just now, in fact, that was something that didn't need to be considered, because Aster was a genuine upright gentleman, and in the situation of confirming that the other party was in love, he would absolutely not be a homewrecker.

After Tenjou Hikari's duel, logically speaking, it should be one of Aster or Amon going to perform the trial, but the two arrived basically at the same time, so they should determine the winner first.

But Aster was not interested in this kind of thing. In addition, after watching Tenjou Hikari's duel with Lion Wizard, he felt that this world should not need him. He had already seen enough interesting things, so he did not need a trial, nor would he take away the spirits nurtured here.

And Amon, after Aster withdrew, chose to face Lion Wizard.

"Human, after watching Hikari's duel, do you still want to perform the trial with me?" Lion Wizard did not mind.

It was much stronger now than before—although it relied on its own power before to use the forgotten spirits of this dimension as easily as itself, it was after all forcibly using the cards here.

But now, it seemed to have obtained the recognition of this world, and the duel would only be stronger than the duel with Tenjou Hikari!

However—the trial did not necessarily need to determine a winner. Even if Tenjou Hikari lost, with Tenjou Hikari's dueling content and spirit in the duel, it would not really curse Tenjou Hikari.

"Then, state your thoughts."

Amon nodded.

He talked about what he saw in the Threshold before, and also talked about some tragedies in the human world.

His purpose in coming to this dimension was to hope to be able to change the status quo of this dimension and save some forgotten cards.

However—

Since Tenjou Hikari had already done these things, he just sighed and wanted to ask if there was anything he could help with.

After all, he had already come.

If his dueling energy could add bricks and tiles to this dimension, he didn't mind dueling Lion Wizard with all his strength here.

Hearing his dream and feeling that he was not a bad person, Lion Wizard nodded slightly.

Perhaps because Tenjou Hikari's performance was too excellent, it didn't have the strictness it had before toward humans who broke in here, so it didn't say the other party was daydreaming, but instead told Amon that if Amon could take care of those spirits that had fallen into slumber and were buried in white bones together with the spirits here, it could see his determination.

Different people had different ways of being treated. Tenjou Hikari's philosophy could be seen from the duel.

But this kind of philosophy, without witnessing his actions with one's own eyes, it was impossible to duel directly.

"Create a peaceful and equal world?" Aster stood with Tenjou Hikari, listening to Amon's words, and was slightly recognized.

If a person really had this kind of capacity, then it was indeed very worthy of admiration.

He had already secretly compared Amon's dueling level and dueling energy quite a bit, and unexpectedly, he actually had this kind of capacity.

"He should be the representative of the Eastern Academy Branch." Tenjou Hikari said while taking time on the side, "Two weeks later, when school starts, representatives of Duel Academy branches from all over the world will come to the main Duel Academy. Aster, by then you should have plenty of opportunities to spar with him."

Aster nodded, but subsequently shook his head: "However, sorry, I still have many world tour competitions, or some other things to do, so I'm afraid I can't attend classes normally."

Tenjou Hikari did not mind.

Aster himself was very busy, this was a normal phenomenon.

Just at this time—

Just when everyone was very satisfied, Eko suddenly interrupted.

"Lion Wizard! I have investigated beforehand, this dimension exists 【Exodia】, right!"

When this came out, everyone present looked at her in shock—

How could she ask such a question at this time?

"... Exodia." Lion Wizard said in a deep voice, the warm smile on the lion's head gradually disappearing, "I don't know where you came from, but what you said is correct.

Indeed, this world does exist 【Exodia】.

The 【Discarded Exodia】."

Sure enough!

Eko smiled happily.

Aster could not help but frown. The good impression of his first impression of Eko instantly disappeared.

Exodia?

How could such an existence be forgotten by people?

Unless—

He thought of a "legend."

More than ten years ago, when dueling had just started, the president of Industrial Illusions, Pegasus, held the "Duelist Kingdom" competition. Before that competition, there was an invincible "Exodia" in the deck of the King of Games, Yugi Mutou. In order to stop and defeat this invincible card, Weevil Underwood deceived the King of Games, who was young and kind at that time, and then threw the card into the sea.

The 【Discarded】 Exodia—

Does this dimension still exist with such a card!?

"That is the most powerful card, it is a truly invincible card." Eko took two deep breaths and said to Lion Wizard, but looked more at Amon, "If you can obtain this strongest power, then no matter what kind of tragedy, you can defeat it, no matter what kind of duel, you can win...

If you have such a card, you can jump to become the strongest duelist in the world, then... you can create an ideal world."

"Naive!!!"

Lion Wizard roared.

Its hair stood up, its crown flashed with cold light, and the entire dimension seemed to begin to flash with purple light.

"That is the discarded Exodia, it is the soul of Exodia full of resentment!"

It looked directly at Eko, emitting cold air from its body, and pitch-black wild winds blew crazily, forcing Amon to stand in front of her, protecting her.

"Although it was not discarded by the owner, it possesses the earliest 【Hatred】, 【Jealousy】, and 【Abandonment】 among all cards in this world. It is the true root of the resentment of this World of Forgetting!"

Lion Wizard roared.

If it weren't for Solomon Muto coming to this world back then and taking away Exodia's soul, the resentment of this world would only be even more intense!

Now, Exodia's "soul" had been taken away, but the resentment and pain had accumulated in this world like a deep mountain, like hell.

That was not 【Exodia】, but a terrifying evil spirit possessing Exodia's body!

An evil spirit full of malice toward humans!

"Wanting to use that kind of card means sacrificing one's most beloved person and cutting off all emotions—"

"Lion Wizard!" Tenjou Hikari suddenly interrupted.

"Hikari, don't tell me you are going to defend them..."

"My meaning is, my friend just asked out of curiosity, you don't have to explain exactly what's going on." Tenjou Hikari coughed twice.

Lion Wizard came back to its senses and took two deep breaths.

Indeed, because it was angry, it revealed things it shouldn't have.

As expected of Hikari... I shouldn't have been so uncalm.

It shook its head, looked down at the few people, noticed Eko who was deep in thought, and whispered fiercely: "Don't ask any more related questions. This is for your own good!"

"If you still want to save some spirits of this world, then go explore—otherwise, leave! Humans!"

Although it said "explore as you please," in reality, Lion Wizard was clearly issuing an order to evict guests.

Tenjou Hikari could also feel that his body and will were slowly "floating up." Clearly, it was a sign that he was about to return to the human world.

"Sorry, Amon, I messed up." Accompanied by the appearance of a fainting feeling, Eko said to Amon with great regret.

She was too impatient.

"... It's okay." Amon responded softly.

Aster frowned gently.

Sartorius said that he might encounter the opportunity to become stronger and destiny in this dimension.

He looked at Tenjou Hikari and could not help but sigh gently: "Department Head, it seems that next semester, I have to attend school properly. Please help me trouble Acting Principal Chancellor Sheppard to prepare a personal dormitory for me."

"Haha. Chancellor Sheppard will certainly be very happy—why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"... Destiny." He took a deep breath with a touch of melancholy.

Is that so—

Tenjou Hikari heard these two words again from Aster's mouth, but did not have the previous rejection and hatred for "destiny."

Because Aster's destiny was guiding him to become the person he wanted to become.

Aster already understood why Sartorius said he would encounter his brand-new possibilities here—HEROes might use sacrifice to exchange for power, but definitely not sacrificing others!

Tenjou Hikari did not say anything more to Aster. The two felt the gurgling, bubble-like sound of water, and subsequently slowly disappeared in this dimension. When he came back to his senses, Tenjou Hikari had already returned to his workshop.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 546 =====