Chapter 1229

Kira Gu staggered, retreating unsteadily, and the gleam in his eyes gradually faded.

"Thunderbolt. Emperor."

He never imagined, even if beaten to death, that the opponent's deck would consist entirely of low-level insects, and that after playing for a while, such a thing would suddenly pop out at the end.

Unlike the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon of the first generation of Dark Magicians, in the dimensional history of ZEXAL, there seems to have been no such legendary appearance as the Three Phantom Demons in the past. So Kira Gu, as well as Xin Cheng and others, are seeing this for the first time today.

But even as a first encounter, it does not affect his feeling and worship of this monster's ferocity—no, perhaps it can no longer even be called a "monster."

Thunder Emperor Hamon, this aura, this sense of awe, is undoubtedly beyond the ordinary meaning of "monster." In the world of Duel Monsters, whether in which parallel universe or dimension, one either calls it a god or a demon.

Kira Gu never imagined that before this mere human, whom the noble Barians viewed as a lowly race, would actually command such a terrifying monster.

Such an existence actually mingles among a swarm of insects.

"I was careless."

The Barian lost consciousness. At the same time, his masked attire disappeared, and the Barian body was released, becoming human in posture as if weakened.

Speaking of which, it's strange. Theoretically, the human form is merely a disguise for Barians to blend into the human world; their true appearance should be that of Barians.

However, when defeated in a duel, or even sometimes merely suffering great damage during a duel, Barians will undo their transformation and revert to human form. This is depicted in the anime.

This actually sounds unreasonable at first hearing. Because the human form should be their illusory guise, and Barians are their true selves. How could the true self, defeated, revert back to the illusion?

This feels as if the Barian form is merely their battle state, while the human form is their true nature.

To some extent, this detail setting might even be foreshadowing—the souls of the Barian Seven Emperors were originally human. They thought they were born as superior Barians, but it was merely the indoctrination of the Upper Thousand Lords.

They were originally human, and moreover, they ought to have been sages among humans, possessing both the finest abilities and the noblest character.

Well, yes, even this fellow who came to the human world neglecting his duties, spending all day holed up in his hut chasing anime and buying figurines to cheer for idols, the plump otaku jester among the Seven Emperors, is no exception.

Kira Gu completely fainted.

His human form actually looks as per his character design—quite amusing. Thick lips like sausages, clearly a burly man, yet with a pair of angelic small wings mismatched to his body proportions, a body of rock-like muscles, and on his bald forehead a tuft of green hair like fish fins.

Anyone who sees Kira Gu's face would likely believe the saying "appearance reflects inner nature" is not entirely baseless, for he looks just as his character design says—comical.

On You Xuan's side, the duel ended. He looked up and saw that the position where Mr. Xin Cheng had been was already empty.

Mr. Xin Cheng seemed to have seen the great Barian Seven Emperor suffer defeat, noticed the situation was dire, and before Thunder Emperor Hamon's strike instantly felled Kira Gu, he hastily fled, already making a clean getaway.

Mr. Xin Cheng is the strongest among this group of four; once he ran, the remaining posed no further threat. You Xuan glanced and felt that the current situation could be handled by Yu Ma and Ku Dou with ease.

Then he could take the opportunity to attend to his own original and most important purpose in coming to this dimension.

You Xuan looked up, toward the blood-colored rift in the sky, the vortex leading to the Barian world.

He intends to go to the other side of the vortex and confront Bekuta directly.

The Silent Magician was summoned to his side, he waved his hand and released a pale magical halo. The white halo enveloped both her and his master, and together they lifted off the ground, flying toward the vortex in the sky.

Beside him, Yu Ma, still dueling, exclaimed in surprise: "You Xuan? You want to?"

Beside him, Ku Dou also perceived You Xuan's intention, and in his heart felt no great surprise.

This guy. Actually intends to directly charge into the Barian dimension!

Ku Dou considers himself already reckless enough, but never imagined someone would be even braver than him. Know that this is outside the human world, to them a completely unknown dimension.

Even setting aside that the other side is the enemy's main base, the situation, environment, everything in the opposite world is a mystery to them; whether they could survive after going there is uncertain.

This person actually dares, under these conditions of knowing nothing about that information, to go straight to raid their home?

Of course, what they do not know is that actually only they are ignorant of the Barian dimension's situation. You Xuan, though he dare not say he specially understands, still has a rough idea of the general state of that dimension in his mind.

Those who have read the script have confidence.

Seems to have noticed this side's gaze, You Xuan flew in midair, turned around, and smiled at Yu Ma and Ku Dou.

As if saying, don't worry, I have it in mind.

Go and return quickly.

One minute later, he had already become a pure white energy arrow, shooting into the vortex in the sky and completely vanishing without a trace.

"You Xuan." Yu Ma couldn't help but worry.

Starlight Body Dao said: "Don't worry, Yu Ma, focus on our duel. You Xuan is very strong, stronger than what he currently shows, stronger than what we thought. He will be fine."

"That's what you say." Yu Ma nodded, "Good! Then we here also need to hurry and settle the enemy."

The duel on Ku Dou's side has also neared its end.

In fact, this duel also put Ku Dou into a hard fight. His opponent is the "Mosquito Ninja" from the Xin Cheng four-man group, whose ace is the "No. 2 Mosquito Study Ninja-Shadow Mosquito" from the falsely numbered cards hand-rubbed by the Upper Thousand Lords.

【No. 2 Mosquito Study Ninja-Shadow Mosquito, Attack 0】

It's not that the opponent is so strong as to put Ku Dou in a hard fight, but rather the opponent played an off-board move, using a high-tech mosquito carrying a virus to bite Ku Dou once, injecting toxin. This toxin seeps into the duelist's body as the game progresses, eventually allowing the Mosquito Ninja to win without fighting.

But it doesn't matter.

Upon noticing he was poisoned, Ku Dou did not give up, roared loudly, and directly summoned the Super Galaxy Eye. As the Super Galaxy Eye landed, his entire body seemed to turn crimson, rage seemingly materializing as flames bursting outward, enveloping his whole body.

In that instant, the flames of the Super Galaxy Eye instantly burned the toxin within his body to nothing.

It ignited! (Physically)

The Mosquito Ninja was then shocked: "Impossible! Why? How could my toxin fail?"

Ku Dou raised his fist, declaring righteously: "Because my duelist's spirit does not allow me to fall before your dirty tactics! The duelist's instinct activates my immune system, burning热血 body temperature surges sharply, instantly incinerating all toxins within my body!"

Well, almost none of this explanation has anything to do with science.

Unscientific, but very Yu-Gi-Oh!

The Mosquito Ninja went berserk: "Can it really be like this!?"

Damn, this burning热血 body temperature increase is already in the realm of superpowers, right?

Dueling to the point of invulnerability to all poisons—do you dare believe it?

"Have you prepared your confession!?" Ku Dou shouted, "Super Galaxy Eye Photon Dragon, attack 'No. 2 Mosquito Study Ninja-Shadow Mosquito'!"

【Super Galaxy Eye Photon Dragon, Attack 4500】

【No. 2 Mosquito Study Ninja-Shadow Mosquito, Attack 0】

"Wait a moment!" the Mosquito Ninja hurriedly said, "Shadow Mosquito inflicts zero battle damage to itself and cannot be destroyed by battle! Moreover, when the opponent attacks, you can remove Xyz Materials to place a 'Phantom Marker' on them!"

The effect of a monster with a Phantom Marker placed on it is negated. Furthermore, if Shadow Mosquito battles a monster with a Phantom Marker, the battle damage can be taken by the opponent instead. (Anime effect)

The Mosquito Ninja's mouth curled upward, revealing a cold smile of a scheme successfully executed.

Place a Phantom Marker on Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon; if a battle occurs afterward, instantly reflect 4500 battle damage.

Victory!

Kaito, expressionless: "When Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon is summoned, all face-up cards on the field—other than Galaxy-Eyes itself—of course including your 'Mosquito Ninja·Shadow Mosquito'—have their effects negated!"

The Mosquito Ninja's smile froze instantly.

Following that, their expression gradually became exaggerated over several seconds.

"Nananani!?"