Chapter 596: Call of Destiny (4k)

More and more people in the school fell into a coma—to be precise, more and more comatose people were discovered. Now, classes obviously couldn't be held.

Because a large number of students and a small number of teachers fell into a deep sleep, the infirmary didn't have enough space to accommodate them. The professors could only entrust the students and teachers who could still act to transport beds and stretchers from various areas and place the students directly in the teaching building.

Some teachers began to act as assistants to the medical teachers to help the teachers responsible for medical care, while another group of teachers simply gave up patrolling and guarded outside the teaching building.

The spirits' offensive didn't weaken, but... there weren't many places left that needed to be defended.

"Damn it... that mastermind only attacked once, and it caused such losses... If..."

"Don't let your imagination run wild, morale, do you understand morale!"

Several teachers who were sitting on the bench because of exhaustion talked about "darkness" and "coma," their tones heavy, clearly not optimistic about future things.

That mastermind didn't even do it himself, and Duel Academy had already lost most of its people. If this continues...

But in fact, only Tenjou Hikari knew.

This was not 【attacking once】. Rather than an attack, it was just a "precursor" to the descent of Darkness...

Next, I'm afraid that except for a few people who can still move, no one else will be able to persist.

Tenjou Hikari pinched his brow.

In fact, even Tenjou Hikari himself was affected by the power of Darkness. If it weren't for the fact that his memory was too far from his own memory, he probably wouldn't have realized it at the time.

But that was just adding it casually.

If Darkness inserted some strange memories into him during this time, even he couldn't be immune.

I'm afraid, more advanced protection is needed.

He calculated silently, thinking about how to perform more defensive alchemy, how to keep more students, how to let more people resist mental strikes...

At this time, in the cave of the academy.

Edo commanded Phoenix Enforcer to defeat a spirit, let Phoenix Enforcer grab it, interrogated the dimension it was in and the reason for its coming, and after confirming that it was not an innocent person, decisively chose to eliminate it.

While others rushed to the faculty dormitory due to the chaos caused by Palading and Professor Mengjiang, Aster explored the Duel Academy island everywhere.

The main direction of exploration was still some locations and places in Professor Seraf's "Apocalypse Records." Edo found many high-level spirits there, which were the main force of the spirit invasion. Solving them could save a lot of effort for Duel Academy.

However, although another spirit was solved, Edo didn't have a relaxed mood at all.

Previously, a strange force swept through his whole body, making him distracted in the duel and almost falling down. Fortunately, that force came fast and went fast, not enough to make him fall directly.

However, after the duel ended, he became more and more worried.

As he left the cave and rushed toward the Duel Academy teaching building, this worry became more and more obvious.

There were no patrolling teachers on the road, the students who came out to explore had completely disappeared, and the worry in his heart became more and more obvious.

Could it be...

In the "Apocalypse Records," the precursor to the descent of "Darkness"?!

His face was ugly.

Because he preferred to do things alone, after studying Seraf's "Apocalypse Records" with Tenjou Hikari and Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu, the two sides split into two paths and handled things in the school together.

In the morning, upon learning of the "Professor Palading attacking Professor Mengjiang" incident, Aster vaguely felt that the matter might not be as the students understood it, because he vaguely remembered that in the records of Seraf, there were the current status and experiences of branch school professors like Palading, Yanjingshe, and Mengjiang.

Therefore, when Tenjou Hikari told him not to worry, he decisively left the school to clear the spirits.

It seems now that that matter should have been easily solved by Department Head Tenjou.

But...

Even with an "umbrella" like Tenjou Hikari, it couldn't stop the incoming flood.

【Precursor】!

The existence called the God of Extinction by Professor Seraf is slowly descending into this school!

His face was gloomy.

Then, he hurriedly shook his head.

No, the top priority is to hurry to find the department head and the others—

He asked around and found Tenjou Hikari who was helping, breathed a sigh of relief, and then greeted them seriously.

Seeing Edo return safely, Tenjou Hikari and the others also breathed a sigh of relief.

Going out alone on the Duel Island now was undoubtedly extremely dangerous. Being able to return safely was undoubtedly great news.

After all, they couldn't afford more loss of manpower, especially the loss of powerful support like Edo.

To be honest, the loss of Sho and Kenzan already made Tenjou Hikari quite heartbroken.

These two were really not bad, especially Sho. His coma made Tenjou Hikari feel that the following things would definitely become more and more difficult.

"Sigh—if only Chifubuki-senpai were here." A sigh.

At a critical moment, if there was a thoughtful big brother like Chifubuki, he would definitely be able to appease many people. At least the few girls who were sobbing in a low voice would definitely not be so uncomfortable if Chifubuki comforted them.

They didn't understand this—

If you let Tenjou Hikari come, Tenjou Hikari could only try to use his usual words to inspire people.

But at this time, such words were also hard to be convincing.

"Chifubuki... who?" Edo asked.

"You haven't seen him—that idol-type handsome guy who laughs a bit silly—the one who dueled Kaiser in the GX tournament..."

"Tenjou, I don't know who you are talking about either." Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu shook his head in confusion, then seemed to think of something, and said in panic, "Tenjou, could it be that Darkness inserted memories into your brain, adding a senior to you, wanting to attack you when you are not paying attention!?"

Mentioning this possibility, Edo also became serious instantly, and hurriedly said: "Department Head, this can't be taken lightly, you should recall carefully!"

Tenjou Hikari was stunned.

He rubbed his temples and recalled carefully.

Tenjouin Chifubuki... Tenjouin Chifubuki, there should be such a person. He is Kaiser's friend, Asuka's brother, he is...

He felt that his memory was slowly passing away—

No, no, it's not passing away, but in his memory, in his impression, this person called 【Tenjouin Chifubuki】 simply didn't exist!

But—memory contradicted!

Tenjou Hikari gave a sudden jolt.

Memory might be wrong, but some memories were still inconsistent with the current situation!

Just like inserting the memory of "hurting people with duel monsters when I was a child" into his memory would be instantly detected and ignored by him.

In Tenjou Hikari's experience in this world, this person called "Tenjouin Chifubuki" might not exist, but... in the 【Original Work】 he watched, there was absolutely such a 【Character】!

Even if his name wasn't Tenjouin Chifubuki!

Tenjou Hikari's face was iron-blue.

Someone's existence was being artificially erased by Darkness!

And now, he couldn't even remember this person's name!

"What's wrong, Tenjou, is it really extra memory?"

"No—it's wrong, it's 【missing】 memory!" Tenjou Hikari said seriously.

He explained his analysis as much as possible in words that everyone could understand, and then the two also revealed quite serious expressions.

Since memory could be added, then reducing memory was also a matter of course.

But why go to such lengths to delete someone's memory?

I'm afraid—

That is a person who is quite valuable or quite "dangerous" to Darkness!

It might even be related to Darkness's own weakness!

"I'll go find it in the data room—" Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu reacted almost instantly. Not only that, he took out a notebook, quickly wrote a sentence on it, and pasted it on his clothes. Just in case, he wrote two more, placed them in the notebook, and pasted them directly on his face.

Then, completely disregarding his image, regardless of the expressions of those around him, he ran away like crazy.

"I'll go to the data room to look—" Wan Wan Wan Zhangmu reacted almost instantly. Not only that, he took out a notepad, quickly wrote a sentence on it, and stuck it on his clothes. Just in case, he wrote two more, placing one in the notepad and sticking the other directly on his face.

Edo sighed, sneered, brushed past him, and walked into the infirmary.

Seeing Edo leave, Judai retracted his hand in embarrassment and scratched the back of his head.

Tenjou Hikari asked him if he remembered "Tenjouin Chifubuki." He frowned and said he felt like there was such a person, but couldn't remember.

That's good—

Tenjou Hikari let out a long sigh of relief.

Judai's own power was obviously different from them who could only barely improve their spirit power by relying on spirit cards. He was a person with natural "high spirit power." Even if he was influenced, tampered with, or erased, he could still have an impression.

And with Tenjou Hikari's question, he also realized something was wrong.

Why deliberately erase the existence of Chifubuki-senpai?

He couldn't figure it out.

But there was one thing they all realized.

That was, perhaps, this was the key information for 【Breaking the Situation】!

Judai took a deep breath.

Unfortunately, he had other things to do now.

He looked at Tenjou Hikari and said: "Hikari, tonight, I hope you can help me."

"What are you doing?"

He closed his eyes, thought for a while, then smiled and said: "I want to... truly become one with 【The Supreme King】."

Tenjou Hikari thought for a moment, then nodded.

"Okay, I will help you."

Judai and The Supreme King had dueled in the spirit world countless times. Now, it was just a matter of completely awakening The Supreme King through other methods, which was not difficult.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly felt a heat at his waist.

He was a bit confused, opened the deck, and saw a card that hadn't changed for a long time, slowly burning with raging fire.

Rewind to a few minutes ago.

Edo walked to the infirmary, helping the teachers and students here deal with some details, and accidentally saw Amon who was deep in thought.

He didn't go up to say hello. He wasn't the type to treat someone he had only seen once as an acquaintance, and handled things as usual.

And Amon sat there, took out his deck, and fell into deep thought.

The first card of the deck was "Left Arm of the Forbidden One."

Long before everything happened, a strange yellow shadow handed him a whole set of "Exodia," saying that he might use it in the future.

Amon could feel that that guy was definitely malicious, and he himself was not interested in "power," so he didn't care.

In his view, he only needed to help his brother become the leader of the group and do his best to build a better society, and other things were not that important.

However, plans always couldn't keep up with changes.

Duel Island was sealed, evil spirits began to invade the island, students and teachers were injured one after another, and even if they tried their best to treat the students, the situation became more and more serious and terrible.

Even Tenjou Hikari, whom he had seen before, looked exhausted under this heavy pressure...

Fewer and fewer people could be used, more and more people were injured, the power of darkness was getting stronger, and people who fainted without any reaction would probably increase day by day.

This won't do—

If this continues, it absolutely won't do!

If this continues, there will be a day when only one person can stand awake in the whole academy, and that person will have to face spirits surging from countless dimensions, memory modification, mental pressure, dark invasion, etc., to maintain the last dignity of humanity—

This is absolutely impossible!

He didn't hope, nor did he want to see the misery of the last person after he fell.

He wanted to save everyone.

And now, in front of him, there was a card that could guarantee his victory, a solution ritual he knew he could do, and... a dimension that was "directly connected" to any world—the dimension of the forgotten.

He took a deep breath, his eyes becoming unprecedentedly firm.

The hour of the demon this afternoon—

At the same time, after helping a few teachers, Edo, who was preparing to drink some water and rest, suddenly felt his card box burning.

He slowly took out a card from it.

That broken card, which he thought still needed hard practice to perfect, was slowly burning.

His pupils constricted slightly.

Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer!

He inexplicably had a thought, an idea. That thought was telling him why this card had never been fully born, telling him... why this card was burning again now.

Destiny—

Destiny is calling him to fight!

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Destiny—

Destiny is calling him to fight!

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