Chapter 84

"Hahaha, hahaha!"

The Blazing Mars laughed wildly.

Only Judai could feel the pain in the laughter.

He didn't feel so much pain that he couldn't stand up like before, and he stood up quickly.

In his eyes, golden light flickered.

No matter what the reason.

No matter how pitiful.

One should not attack and invade weaker existences!

Whether it's Akaba Reo or the legendary Blazing Mars before him, it's not okay!

Akaba Reo might be out of self-interest, and the Blazing Mars before him might just be out of his own pain.

But Judai would never approve of placing one's own happiness above slaughter and destruction.

"I will defeat you in this turn."

"Defeat me? You, who are already like a candle in the wind?" The legendary Blazing Mars laughed loudly.

"My turn, draw—" Judai didn't say much.

The reason was simple.

He had that confidence.

"Activate the Magic Card, Fusion." Judai took out two monster cards from his hand and displayed them. "I will fuse Elemental HERO Bubbleman and Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin from my hand."

"This hero will make your spine chill!"

"Fusion Summon!"

"My hero—Level 8, Elemental HERO Absolute Zero!"

Swish—

A bright white light appeared on the field again, only this time, it wasn't glowing moss, but cold ice.

The icy hero appeared on Judai's field in the most standard hero arrival pose.

Elemental HERO Absolute Zero, Level 8, Water attribute, Warrior-type, ATK 2500.

"A monster I've never seen before..." Blazing Mars's expression was heavy.

The attack power had already exceeded his!

"It's not over yet, I'm also going to activate this card, let you see the super-strong Fusion tactic I learned from Hikari—

Magic Card, Neos Fusion!"

Judai immediately activated the card: "This card can send the materials determined by the Fusion Monster from the deck, hand, or field to the graveyard, and use two monsters including [Elemental HERO Neos] as Fusion materials to Special Summon, ignoring the summoning conditions!

After this card is activated, I cannot Special Summon until the end of the turn."

"Deck, deck fusion?" Blazing Mars gritted his teeth.

It simplified the fusion that required gathering materials, so what was he, a ritual monster, supposed to do!

"I send Elemental HERO Neos from my deck and Neo-Spacian Grand Mole from my deck to the graveyard."

"Special Summon—Earth-attribute Neos, Elemental HERO Grand Neos!"

Unlike Glow Neos, this Neos looked more robust, and the spear in his right hand had been replaced by a thick drill.

Elemental HERO Grand Neos, Level 7, Earth attribute, Warrior-type, ATK 2500.

Because of the Neo-Spacian effect, the attack power changed from 2500 to 3000.

"Damn it, to break 3000 points so easily again..." Blazing Mars gritted his teeth and muttered.

Judai looked at the face-down card.

His face-down card was Blast.

That was an Elemental HERO that could recover a Normal Monster and then destroy a monster on the opponent's field with lower attack power than that monster.

At this time, if he recovered Neos, he could directly destroy Blazing Mars.

But...

"Grand Neos's effect, once per turn, choose 1 monster on the opponent's field and return it to the hand!"

"Nebula Hole!"

Grand Neos raised his drill, aimed at Blazing Mars, and under a burst of attraction, Blazing Mars's figure returned to its original position.

Actually...

His expression became increasingly ugly.

With just two monsters, he easily gathered 5500 attack points!

In a situation where he had tried his best and only had 2400 points, with just four cards, he had completed a reversal!

Judai exhaled slowly.

Judging from the content of the duel, in fact, the opponent really wasn't strong, not to mention the seal duelists encountered in this dimension, even in the previous few dimensional travels, this Blazing Mars couldn't be considered very strong.

But...

He just felt blocked in his heart.

"Battle!"

However.

No matter what.

He had to defeat his opponent!

The two spirits loyal to Judai nodded, responded, and rushed up, attacking twice separately, knocking Blazing Mars's life points to 0.

Even though there were only 200 life points left before.

Even though he still had 5500 life points!

Why—

The legendary Blazing Mars struggled painfully.

"Alright, Blazing Mars, I won—" Judai turned back. "Tell me why you attacked here, and... you need to compensate—"

"Compensate?" Blazing Mars was stunned when he heard Judai's words. "Hahaha—hahahaha—"

"Blazing Mars?"

Under the shocked gazes of Judai and the many humans and spirits present, those surrounding light curtains all concentrated on him, and at the same time, black smoke rose from his body.

Immediately after, violent flames rose from the ground.

"Blazing Mars, what are you doing!!!" Judai had originally wanted to go and see the state of the spirits, but seeing this, he hurriedly rushed out, wanting to stop Blazing Mars.

"Big Brother! Don't go over there!!"

Kenzan and Sho hurriedly stopped Judai.

"Haha... hahaha..." Blazing Mars opened his eyes and knelt down powerlessly.

In the end, in his eyes, he saw his former home, saw the slaughter he had caused in this dimension, and also saw... a pitch-black figure.

The flames burned out.

Sho and Kenzan also let go of Judai.

Judai staggered over, lowered his body, as if kneeling, and came to a card.

A card that was burned to only one-third left, and even the whole body couldn't be seen.

Legendary Blazing Mars.

"I never wanted you to die—" Judai said painfully.

This was a complete death.

He looked around.

The spirit village, let alone its former prosperity, didn't even have a few beams left that hadn't turned into charcoal. The whole village was burned pitch-black, like a wilderness. Judai stood in the center of the village, only feeling that the world was as absurd as a joke.

He clutched the card.

"Judai, wait for me—"

A puff of black gas dissipated from the card. He turned his head sharply but could see nothing.

In the end, he could only silently put the card, which was burned to only a piece, into his arms under the silent support of his two younger brothers.

Those black gases...

That group of light—

That light curtain!!

And, that voice!

Coming for him?

Judai didn't know.

He turned back to look at the spirits.

At least...

At least... he saved these spirits.

Fortunately, there were no "why didn't you protect our home" or "why did you fight that guy, wouldn't it have been better to let him leave happily" type of unreasonable people among the spirits. After this, Judai and the others received the treatment that heroes deserved.

A group of spirits had basically never welcomed guests, were very happy about their arrival, and soon forgot the pain.

Although they had nothing to entertain Judai and the others, as long as they were still alive, then they still had hope.

After all, the lifespan of spirits is very long.

It's just that this kind of treatment made Judai's heart even more tangled.

He didn't do his best.

Maybe he should have gone all out from the beginning?

Maybe he shouldn't have fished for two days halfway, otherwise he could have arrived here before Blazing Mars came.

Maybe...

Under various thoughts, Judai decided to help the spirits rebuild the village first, and then set off.

And at this time—

"Hmm, can we finally pass?" Tenjou Hikari stood in front of the train station and asked curiously.

"That's right!" The Kaiba Corporation employee on the train nodded. "Tomorrow, this station will set sail again, and you can go directly to the rainforest or volcanic zone. Please choose your destination, students!"

Rainforest and volcano, huh...