Chapter 61

The duel ends.

Tenjou Hikari puts away his cards and looks around.

Most of the spirits are gradually recovering. These spirits should have been the ones just transported here to be puppet-fied, so the degree of puppet-fication is not high, and they should have time to recover slowly. But those humans, perhaps because Xiao Liu's resentment was too high, have little possibility of reversal—if Tenjou Hikari were to try "re-shattering" and "sublimation" himself, it wouldn't be impossible to restore them, but as mentioned before, Tenjou Hikari is not that kind-hearted.

With such hatred, Tenjou Hikari finds it hard to believe they are innocent.

Bai Jing slowly descends from the sky. Its body staggers, and it almost falls. At this moment, a hand pulls it, preventing it from falling. It looks back and sees the grinning Flame Swordsman and the Black Flame Knight with arms crossed on the side.

The two have always followed Tenjou Hikari, guarding his side forever. When Bai Jing rushed up to absorb the pain and resentment, the two of them naturally replaced Bai Jing to protect Tenjou Hikari from being attacked.

Now that the duel is over, the two fly over immediately.

"Haha, kid, well done!" Flame Swordsman pats Bai Jing's armor and laughs.

Black Flame also chuckles on the side.

Flame Swordsman and Black Flame were Tenjou Hikari's earliest spirits, but not long after that, Bai Jing and Volcanic Alchemyist joined the team. Because the four joined at similar times, their relationship is quite good. In fact, the three swordsmen and knights who mainly fight outside are naturally closer in their daily lives.

Seeing Bai Jing perform like this, they naturally cheer for him.

This makes Bai Jing feel a bit embarrassed.

It looks back at the giant Xiao Liu, sees it slowly shrinking, and breathes a sigh of relief. Supported by the Flame Swordsman, it walks to Tenjou Hikari and kneels on one knee.

"Lord Tenjou..."

"Captain, what are you doing?"

Captain Bai Jing coughs twice, looking like it hasn't fully recovered yet. It speaks in a low voice, as if preparing for something. On the other side, Flame Swordsman and Black Flame understand immediately.

"Lord Tenjou, please allow me to follow you forever."

?

Tenjou Hikari is slightly stunned.

Bai Jing has its own thoughts.

As a knight, what it has always insisted on is naturally the knight's philosophy, but before today, it had always been thinking about returning to its original world to protect its people.

In fact, it had always been thinking about its own affairs.

Until today.

When it finally realized that its accident was not a normal incident, and that it had caused countless disasters, bringing pain to many people and spirits, even if these things were "not its fault," looking at Xiao Liu's painful appearance, it could not just stand by.

Just like what Lord Midrash said, it should not be confused. What it needs is to save the suffering and punish the evil—just like Lord Tenjou has always done.

"Please allow me to follow you forever, allow me to become your attendant, learn from you, punish evil together, and bring justice—"

"Uh..." Tenjou Hikari is stunned by what it says. He raises his hand, trying to grab its hand in the air, and says, "Captain, don't be like this..."

"You have always been our companion..."

Compared to Bai Jing, Tenjou Hikari is still too modern, without that so-called "knight" mindset.

It's still the two swordsmen. They had long anticipated this situation. One guides Tenjou Hikari, the other hands the sword to Tenjou Hikari, and tells him how to—

Bai Jing bows respectfully to Tenjou Hikari, then swears eternal loyalty to Tenjou Hikari until death. After finishing, its body sways, and it falls with a slap.

"Captain?!"

"Bai Jing—" The two swordsmen are startled.

On the other side, Tierra raises her hand, and several puppet strings fly over, wrapping around it, and then with a slap, twist it into a card.

"Look, Tenjou Hikari, I told you it would be better to just change it to Fire Attribute." Tierra mutters in Tenjou Hikari's ear, "Look, it absorbed too much power and pain, and now it's fainted, right?"

Tenjou Hikari raises an eyebrow.

He carefully takes the card and looks down. On the other side, the two Flame Swordsmen also come over and look down.

"Oh oh oh! Is the Captain finally going to become a Fusion Monster?"

"Mm mm mm, this is more like it. As a lord's knight, no matter what, it should be a Fusion Monster."

Even the taciturn Black Flame cannot help but say.

Tenjou Hikari rolls his eyes silently.

What a joke.

If you have a Fusion Monster but no Fusion Materials, where are you going to fuse? Do you really expect me to start with Instant Fusion every day?

However—

Tenjou Hikari looks at the purple background, the puppet strings wrapped on the card art, but he is not as anxious as he was with the Ancient Gear Ultimate Golem or Chaos Phantasm Armityle.

The reason is also very simple.

The Gem-Knight series' Fusion cards don't necessarily need "Bai Jing." Anyway, as long as there are Gem-Knights in the Fusion Materials, it's fine. He still has several low-level Gem-Knight monsters, so it doesn't matter if Bai Jing is missing.

On the other hand, even if Bai Jing changes into "El Shaddoll Construct," because the Fusion Materials for El Shaddoll are also Shaddoll monsters and corresponding attribute monsters, there is no need to worry about lacking Fusion Materials.

On the contrary—

Tenjou Hikari puts away the card.

If Bai Jing really becomes "Construct," the strength would be quite good.

"Captain, you should rest for a while. After we go back, Wan Rong and I will re-examine you and help you purify yourself."

"Thank you for your trouble..."

Bai Jing responds weakly.

After finishing this matter, Tenjou Hikari is preparing to check the status of the spirits in this dimension, but unexpectedly, Tierra on the side cannot help but speak to the two Flame Swordsmen: "Hey, you two, I've heard, you two are the spirits who followed Tenjou Hikari the earliest, right?"

She reaches out and pulls, and a purple silk thread appears from her finger, following the trace of her sliding, slowly turning into a data chart.

"Why haven't you two made any moves until now?" She says, even a little confused.

Even gods have things they don't understand: "When I looked at you last time, you already had a trend of evolution, but after these few months, except for the swords getting wider, the armor getting thicker, and the spirit power rising, there hasn't been any breakthrough change."

She draws a steadily growing data chart, and in the end, the growth rate even becomes stable.

"Today Bai Jing is about to evolve, look at you two, what's going on?"

Although there is the reason that Bai Jing absorbed a large amount of resentment, the growth of the two brothers really makes Tierra unable to understand, so she cannot help but point fingers.

"This, sigh—Goddess, I don't know either?" Flame Swordsman scratches his head in confusion.

Black Flame doesn't speak, just shakes its head.

It has actually thought about it too.

"It's okay, steady growth is a good thing." Tenjou Hikari doesn't dwell on it. Flame Swordsman always gets himself into trouble, can't he enjoy himself? Besides, it's not like there's no growth.

However—

He has actually considered it too.

The two brothers actually have a trend of evolution, but unlike the breakthrough changes of other spirits, the Flame Swordsman brothers are growing steadily.

At first glance, it seems they can't compare to other spirits, but Tenjou Hikari can roughly understand it now.

It's very simple. Flame Swordsman and Black Flame followed him from the beginning, and from the beginning, they completely identified with his "Fusion" warriors, so they have been in sync with Tenjou Hikari from the beginning, and they don't need any breakthroughs—the two brothers have always assisted him and never picked and chose. Whether it's dirty work, tiring work, or the great cause of showing off, or even fighting parasites, the brothers can do it clearly.

Plus, they are "Fusion Monsters" themselves.

To this day, Tenjou Hikari has never used "Super Polymerization" to fuse Fusion Monsters. Once they become Fusion Monsters, it's as if they have been certified by "Super Polymerization," so there's no need to worry about their "lives."

But conversely, perhaps the opportunity for him to control and master a higher level of alchemy, and even further master Super Polymerization, is actually here?

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