Chapter 550

The duel ends, and Millennium-Eyes Restrict looks very dejected.

Seeing that it doesn't want to talk to him, Tenjou Hikari doesn't stay in the laboratory for long. Once the laboratory door opens, he walks out.

Pegasus first thanks Tenjou Hikari, then enters the laboratory, obviously wanting to have a good talk with Millennium-Eyes Restrict about the cause and effect of everything.

His expression doesn't look as calm or gentlemanly as when he first saw Tenjou Hikari; he seems a bit embarrassed because the opponent is Restrict and used a card like "Mind Crush."

However, although embarrassed, he is, after all, the Father of Duel Monsters who has experienced countless heroes taking turns "discussing the Dao" and has had all sorts of messy cards stolen. He quickly adjusts his mood and prepares to talk thoroughly with Millennium-Eyes Restrict.

After Tenjou Hikari comes out, Maeda Hayato and Ansel excitedly congratulate Tenjou Hikari on his success. However, they are members and reservists of Industrial Illusions after all, so after seeing Pegasus enter the laboratory, they quickly ignore their fear and worry about "mind reading" and rush to catch up with Pegasus.

Thus, Tenjou Hikari can sit alone on the corridor seat outside the laboratory and start checking his deck.

Today, Tenjou Hikari used a relatively balanced deck for milling. Although it has Gem-Knight components, it is actually more of a "LIGHT" monster component deck.

After Tenjou Hikari checks the deck, he finds that there are no changes to any cards and nods gently.

If any card in this deck changed, he would feel it's a huge loss.

Fortunately, although some Fusion-supporting Spell cards are not Fusion cards, they weren't fused away by Super Polymerization.

Tenjou Hikari clenches his right fist slightly.

In terms of actual feeling, Tenjou Hikari feels that unless it's a card with no special relationship, with his current spirit adaptability, he shouldn't be forcibly fused by Super Polymerization into other cards.

This can be considered good news.

And even better news is...

Tenjou Hikari takes out a backup card, picks one from it, and the corners of his mouth rise.

Beautiful!

The Claw of Hermos!

This possibility obtained from Rex Raptor is finally completely finished, becoming a real card!

Like "The Eye of Timaeus," this is also a Fusion Spell card that can perform a Fusion Summon with one card. Although the versatility of the monsters fused by this card is far less than "The Eye of Timaeus," Tenjou Hikari is still quite excited.

Perhaps Tenjou Hikari wouldn't choose too many Claw of Hermos components now, but since he wants to walk the path of "ultimate Fusion," obtaining more powerful Fusions is a natural goal.

Dueling with legendary duelists finally completed this card, so now, Tenjou Hikari only has "The Fang of Critias," which can turn Trap Cards into Fusion Monsters.

"Since you dueled with that human named Rex Raptor and obtained the base card for The Claw of Hermos, you can also obtain other cards in the same way." Tiera says from the side, "Since you have two, the next one, no matter who you duel, should give birth to that last card."

Tenjou Hikari nods.

The duels with 【Legendary Duelists】 haven't ended yet. I don't know if I can obtain 【Timaeus the Knight of Destiny】 like "Armityle the Chaos Phantasm" after gathering them all.

Timaeus the Knight of Destiny requires three legendary knights on the field to perform a Fusion. As a Fusion Monster, its ATK is equal to the highest ATK monster on the field, and it is also unaffected by the effects of other cards.

Just these two effects alone are actually very powerful in this world.

After all, in this world, monsters like Kaijus that are efficient at clearing the field are actually rare. The more famous ones are just "Lava Golem" and "Volcanic Queen"; others, like Santa Claws, aren't that famous.

Of course, the problem now is that the two "Legendary Dragons" in Tenjou Hikari's hand are not the real Legendary Dragons, but cards that are purely and possess quite high-quality spirit power. They can assist Tenjou Hikari in dueling, but they definitely cannot turn into dragons and knights like the three bodies in the original work and then combine into one.

So, does Tenjou Hikari need to consider the "Three Knights" and "Legendary Dragon Timaeus" next?

Thinking about it carefully, it's quite troublesome; it's a very long road.

Fortunately...

There are actually many "Legendary Duelists" in this world.

Moreover, duelists like Rex Raptor, whose souls were incomplete because of the "Seal of Orichalcos" and only recovered their state a while ago, are actually the minority.

People like the "Paradox Brothers" and "Pegasus" are typical legendary duelists who can be challenged multiple times.

Therefore, Tenjou Hikari is not worried about not being able to gather the cards.

What's more, at the very least, even if Tenjou Hikari really can't find anyone else, now that Rex Raptor has completely "resurrected," he can always find him for a spar and get some duel energy.

He organizes his cards for a while, then puts them away, chatting with Tiera off and on.

Tiera isn't interested in those human affairs, so she didn't listen to the dispute between Millennium-Eyes Restrict and Pegasus at all, and didn't mention it beforehand.

Millennium-Eyes Restrict's mind-reading ability is indeed quite powerful. In a duel, even a duelist of Tenjou Hikari's level would still be read.

But Tiera has always been indifferent to these things.

The reason is simple: what she wants to do, she will definitely do. Even if she can do it, she must announce it to the world and let the whole world know she is going to cause trouble.

Compared to this, not being able to play a duel where "you say I operate" or a duel where "I possess you, your consciousness leaves your body, and I close my eyes while you operate" makes her feel a little regretful.

Because after thinking about it for a moment, she feels this strategy could definitely easily handle Millennium-Eyes Restrict.

Because although she has learned a lot of dueling knowledge and is quite familiar with Fusion under Tenjou Hikari's influence, it's too difficult for her to play Tenjou Hikari's "Fusion" deck.

In this situation, she might not even be able to immediately associate what use the cards she draws have. Even if Millennium-Eyes Restrict were truly invincible and could read the inner thoughts of even a Creator God like her, it probably wouldn't be useful, and by that time, it might even doubt its own ability.

"Eh, holy crap, isn't this Tenjou Hikari a world-famous duelist? Why is his brain empty?"

Regrettably, Tenjou Hikari wants to challenge himself and try a brand-new Fusion branch.

Not being able to do such an interesting thing makes Tiera, who has nothing to do every day, feel a little regretful.

After all, such opportunities for entertainment are rare.

But she can also understand.

Tenjou Hikari wants to walk a more extreme and ultimate path of Fusion. Relying on "brain," "strategy," and "game theory" is actually very slow now. Drawing inferences from other cases is an indispensable part. He always has to try; otherwise, just walking one path cannot be called "absolute" or "ultimate."

After chatting for a while, the laboratory door finally opens again. Pegasus and his group walk out. Several members of Industrial Illusions look quite heavy, while the Paradox Brothers and Pegasus look like a heavy burden has finally been lifted.

Tenjou Hikari stands up.

"Thank you, Tenjou-boy~" Pegasus smiles again, opens his arms, and thanks Tenjou Hikari.

Tenjou Hikari looks at the open door and asks curiously: "Mr. Pegasus, Millennium-Eyes Restrict?"

Pegasus claps gently, then points to his left prosthetic eye with his right index finger.

Did it directly inhabit his body?

Tenjou Hikari is quite surprised.

"I have to thank you again, Tenjou-boy~~ If it weren't for you, me would probably never be able to reach a consensus with Millennium-Eyes Restrict." He lowers his hand and speaks again as if chanting.

Tenjou Hikari frowns in confusion and asks: "Then, Mr. Pegasus, what exactly happened?"

"This... hehehe..."

He begins to tell Tenjou Hikari the specific situation.

Actually, it's very simple.

Although Pegasus no longer participates in duels, because he has always liked Toon monsters, he wanted to see Toon spirits, so he has been exercising his spirit power.

And with his exercise, his spirit adaptability has become higher and higher. After all, he is a world-class billionaire, the Father of Duel Monsters, and a former possessor of a Millennium Item; his exercise has actually been very smooth.

In this situation, he gradually attracted some spirits related to him.

Just like the vast majority of duelists in the world.

Heroes attract heroes, warriors attract warriors, and the messenger of the White Dragon attracts the White Dragon.

But the problem lies here—the first one to appear by Pegasus's side was not 【Toon】, but 【Relinquished】!

Thousand-Eyes Restrict, this ancient evil god, this powerful monster he designed, finally found him under the influence of his power.

It mixed into Industrial Illusions, wanting to see Pegasus's character, but found that he had completely abandoned "Relinquished."

Not only that, in order to prove that he had let go of the "past," Industrial Illusions would reprint Thousand-Eyes Restrict and Relinquished every few years, so that even students at the Duel Academy could throw cards like Relinquished into a well.

Because it was different from what it imagined, and because of the dissatisfaction of being ignored, Thousand-Eyes Restrict mixed with some past "images" and the power of the Millennium Eye that Pegasus had used on this island, and finally accidentally evolved into "Millennium-Eyes Restrict," which not only triggered Pegasus's mind-reading ability again but even went completely out of control.

"This is me's fault." Pegasus touches his left eye gently.

He only cared about art, cards, and business, and only wanted to see Toon monsters, so he ignored the other existence in his deck, and finally, this result appeared.

"Cards are innocent." He cannot help but sigh, "At the beginning, I used Thousand-Eyes Restrict because I wanted to defeat Yugi-boy and then achieve my wish..."

That intention was evil, but the card didn't have Pegasus's intentions.

So, he favored one over the other and neglected Thousand-Eyes Restrict; this was undoubtedly wrong.

And it was precisely because of the dissatisfaction with Pegasus that Thousand-Eyes Restrict had always been working against Pegasus, and even performed many operations that made Pegasus want to commit suicide so that people couldn't see him.

For example, reading minds and then Mind Crush.

In fact, during the last duel with Millennium-Eyes Restrict and being beaten to the hospital bed for more than a month, Thousand-Eyes Restrict had already calmed down a bit, but Pegasus still hadn't figured out what the situation was, so Restrict just continued to be angry.

And although Pegasus had noticed some of Restrict's thoughts during the duel, after the duel, his mind was full of the power of the Millennium Eye and the possibilities of new races, so he didn't care as much about the emotions involved.

This is also why, even though it had nothing to do with Maeda Hayato and France, he still brought these two designers here.

He wanted to see if he could inspire two excellent juniors in this duel.

It wasn't until Millennium-Eyes Restrict completely revealed itself that he realized what kind of foolish things he had done during this time.

"Randomness, future, Tenjou-boy, you gave me a brand-new train of thought." Pegasus thinks deeply, "Perhaps, me waiting for Toons with full expectation was wrong in the first place, because our future is never certain.

The people we meet, the things we encounter, are all uncertain... just like I think Duel Monsters should have more design sense and more aesthetics, and shouldn't be like this now, because of dimensional development, starting to simply pursue more trendy and powerful cards."

Pegasus taps his forehead gently, looking like he is brainstorming: "Duel Monsters, even if I am the so-called Father of Duel Monsters, I cannot make rash conclusions... eh, ya ya..."

He looks at Maeda Hayato and France. Both of them are nervous and tense. Then, Pegasus smiles gently: "Don't be nervous, you two—as for how Duel Monsters should be designed in the future, I look forward to your subsequent designs."

"Yes! President!" "Good, okay, President!"

Pegasus then looks at Tenjou Hikari and continues: "Then, Tenjou-boy, regarding the 'brand-new race,' I actually already have some clues. In the future, me should invite you again. Look forward to it~~"

Tenjou Hikari nods quickly.

Illusion Magic, huh? That's great!

Then, Pegasus draws a card from his deck: "Then... this card wants to go to you."

He hands over a card.

Fusion Monster.

Millennium-Eyes Restrict!

Tenjou Hikari is suddenly shocked, then looks up at Pegasus.

"This is the card 【it】 decided to give you... It's a pity that as you defeated it, the power of the Millennium Eye circling on this island completely dissipated. Me and it should never be able to read others' thoughts again.

But, I think, whether it's it or me, we sincerely believe that this card is more suitable for you to use, suitable for you, the most fusion duelist in the world!"

As he speaks, he opens his arms and announces to the sky.

The Paradox Brothers, Ansel, Maeda Hayato, France, and the bodyguards around also nod in agreement.

"Then, I will accept it." Tenjou Hikari doesn't prevaricate, accepts the card without hesitation, and says to Pegasus, "Thank you very much, Mr. Pegasus. I will definitely let this card walk on the path of Fusion with me."

"Hahaha~~ That's too perfect!"

(End of chapter)