Chapter 1134

Magician's Disciple - Dark Magician Girl, Level 6, Spellcaster, ATK 2000.

This stat line made people feel very familiar at first glance, wondering if this wasn't just the classic Dark Magician Girl? But when you look closely, look at the card art image, you will find...

Damn, it really seems to be the classic skin.

Yes, that's right. Besides having the same level, same race, and same stats, even the card art looks basically the same; it would be perfectly fine to call it an alternate art of Dark Magician Girl. It's likely that even the designers felt that the image design of Dark Magician Girl, as the early face of Yu-Gi-Oh!, was already excellent enough and didn't need much modification, so even when releasing new cards, they couldn't change into a new outfit.

Of course, such a judgment is not without reason. After all, she's fair, soft, blonde, and blue-eyed; what more could you ask for?

In fact, it's not just that she looks the same and has the same stats; this new card can even be treated as "Dark Magician Girl" by name. And this card can be Special Summoned directly by discarding one card from the hand; although she is Level 6, she can basically hit the field as soon as she's in your hand.

And when this card is summoned, you can search for one "Shining Sarcophagus" from your deck to your hand. This effect is the key; as everyone knows, in the entire Sarcophagus card series, this card "Shining Sarcophagus" is the most critical core, and without this core, most of the other cards basically become blank slates immediately.

And the existence of this Dark Magician Girl is equivalent to having an extra key search point for the Sarcophagus, which can be regarded as the starter for the deck.

Finally, this card's ATK increases by 300 for each "Shining Sarcophagus" series monster in both graveyards. This effect obviously pays tribute to the original Dark Magician Girl's "Master being sacrificed makes her stronger" buff, except this time the buff has also been upgraded; now the sacrifice target is not limited to the Master, and even sacrificing any teammate can make her stronger.

Of course, her Master has actually joined the Shining Sarcophagus family pack. Atum's strongest servant, the classic old monster "Dark Magician," also has a Shining Sarcophagus-exclusive outfit.

Black Magician - Dark Magician, also has the exact same stats as the original. When "Shining Sarcophagus" is on the field, he can be Special Summoned unconditionally, and his card name can also be treated as the original "Dark Magician." And when this card is destroyed by an effect, if there is a Level 5 or higher monster on the field, he can immediately resurrect on the spot, and afterward, he can search for any "Dark Magician"-related Spell or Trap from the deck.

This Dark Magician can connect the Shining Sarcophagus series and the Dark Magician series, establishing a connection between two otherwise unrelated decks, just as if Yugi Muto and the departed Atum were still fighting hand in hand.

Hmm, but unfortunately, Fujiki You Xuan hasn't released the Sarcophagus version of the Master yet, only the Dark Magician Girl.

However, besides being part of the Sarcophagus series, this Dark Magician Girl also has the "Magician Girl" tag. In other words, this deck has also been interconnected with the "Magician Girl" series he was already using.

Speaking of which, Fujiki You Xuan suddenly had this thought again—the cards he had from Yugi Muto seemed to be getting more and more numerous.

Now, he still occasionally thinks of that dream on the night he received the Sarcophagus.

Yugi Muto, now that so much time has passed since the end of DM, what realm has he reached?

What kind of mindset was he in when he entrusted the Sarcophagus to him?

Xyz Dimension.

"It's truly unbelievable!"

Mr. Heartland stood on a circular floating platform, holding his square-framed glasses.

"Even that Vetrix..."

He stole a glance at Faker on the throne behind him. At this moment, Dr. Faker was silent, but sitting in his chair, half of his face shrouded in shadow, looking gloomy, as if he were not happy.

Mr. Heartland had also heard a little about the grudge between Vetrix and Dr. Faker; he knew that Vetrix was also an enemy to their camp, and a high-threat opponent at that. So, he should have been happy about Vetrix being dealt with.

But clearly, having had a high-threat opponent dealt with, Mr. Heartland felt he couldn't be happy at all.

If you ask why...

"Just how dangerous is this Fusion Dimension?" Heartland said in a low voice, "Even that Vetrix actually..."

In the anime, Vetrix could be said to be a character with top-tier conventional combat power in the early stages; even Kite, who had obtained his brother's power and cheated at card-printing, couldn't beat him. Except for the Yuma and Astral duo who had more expensive cheats and could dual-wield and fuse, no one could steadily beat Vetrix in the early stages.

But Vetrix, who had that level of strength, had only gone to the Fusion Dimension for a short while before he actually suffered a crushing defeat and couldn't return.

At this moment, in Mr. Heartland's eyes, this Fusion Dimension was simply like a bottomless pit; once anyone went in, it was hard to come out. Kite was the only one who had been there and managed to return—but even he had been severely injured and was still bedridden at this moment.

It was truly a hellish place. But just at this moment, the dark vortex in the center of the sealed room began to squirm. At first, it was just a faint dark red halo, like subterranean magma peeking through a crack. But in an instant, dozens of crimson beams of light pierced toward the dome like awakened tentacles, transforming into a mass of shadows that constantly changed shape in the sealed space. It rolled like thick smoke, turning into a humanoid outline in a semi-misty state. The moment a pair of red lights lit up, the entire room seemed to dim a little. It seemed those weren't eyes, but more like two holes leading to a scorching hell.

That was the projection of the Barian.

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"My patience is running out, Faker..." the Barian said.

Faker looked up at the shadow: "The situation... is changing too fast. I need to readjust the deployment, gather new personnel, and need new intelligence..."

"No more excuses, Faker. Your methods don't work, your subordinates aren't up to the task, then you go yourself. We gave you the power of the Barian; you should be able to do it."

After a pause, the Barian's red eyes widened, and it sounded as if it had let out a harsh laugh.

"Or is it that your lovely son... it doesn't matter even if he never wakes up again?"

The mist in the sky churned, transforming into a projection screen similar to real-time monitoring. The screen showed Hart in a coma.

Faker pondered for a few seconds and said: "I understand, I will go personally."

"Ha, very good, then I'll wait for your good news."

The Barian let out a "jie jie jie" laugh, then the energy retracted and disappeared into the vortex at the bottom of the room.

Mr. Heartland said worriedly: "But..."

"It's fine."

Faker stood up from his chair, staring at the vortex below, and said coldly.

"What he said makes sense. Since other methods don't work, perhaps I really do have to do it myself."

What the other party said was true. He had indeed obtained the power of the Barian, and he was very confident in his current strength.

"There is one more thing, sir." Mr. Heartland said.

Faker glanced at him: "What?"

"Well, it's one of our duelists... a duelist named Girag."

Faker showed a look of recollection: "I have some impression. He's the partner of the woman named Dextra, right? Dextra seems to have been dispatched to the Fusion Dimension before and hasn't returned yet.

What's wrong?"

"Yes, that's the one. Earlier today, Girag disobeyed the standby order, acted on his own initiative to infiltrate the headquarters, and then..."

Mr. Heartland sighed.

"He went to the Fusion Dimension."