Chapter 1394: The Destroyed World

"This world wasn't like this originally."

The girl Ray introduced to the group as she walked.

She looked a bit dim when she said this, and her mood seemed very heavy.

"This world has gone through quite a lot of twists and turns. Integration, division, and then integration... finally, the demon awakened, and it became what it is today."

Her words were too abstract, and the others were all confused. Only Fujiki You Xuan, who had a basic understanding of the world setting of Arc-V, seemed to have guessed her meaning.

"The world was one at the beginning."

Ray looked at the endless sky, leading the group forward along the dilapidated streets of the abandoned town, and said.

"The beginning of everything stems from the development of the holographic projection system with mass." She said.

"With mass?" Judai was surprised, "Eh~ so amazing, does that mean the monsters summoned in duels are all physical?"

Ray nodded: "Yes."

The group was no stranger to this concept and soon thought that it was an invention that turned ordinary duels into dark duels.

Or more accurately, it should be said that it turned ordinary duels into telekinetic duels similar to Izayoi Aki's.

"This invention once made the whole world go crazy, and dueling stepped into a new era." Ray introduced, "Physical holographic projection was fully applied to dueling, and the summoned monsters gained physical bodies, as well as the ability to affect reality and truly harm duelists.

The fact that 'duelists will truly get hurt in duels' made dueling more exciting and made the audience more and more excited."

Ray sighed.

"In the cruel league, a god of slaughter was born. A professional duelist who would do anything for victory stood out. He won every duel in the most cruel way that could hurt his opponent, and every time he won, the cheers and praise of the audience made him even worse."

Ray continued to introduce.

"Finally, when that powerhouse known as the 'Demon Duelist' defeated all opponents and reached the pinnacle of the world, everything went completely out of control.

He was no longer satisfied with just winning duels and competitions. Victory after victory made him evolve into unparalleled power, and his monster spirits were eroded by his evil heart, gaining unparalleled power through physical images.

Then, the war broke out."

Pain appeared in Ray's eyes, as if she had fallen into painful memories.

"All the armies in the world united to resist that runaway duelist, but under the power of his powerful duel monster spirits, any technological weapons and armies seemed pale and weak.

All armies were easily defeated, and the world fell into darkness."

"How could this be!" Yuma said, "Too much, actually using the power of dueling for destruction..."

Judai asked: "What about the duelists? Didn't other duelists try to stop him?"

"Yes, the duelists naturally stood up to fight. But as I said, the Demon Duelist was almost the king who reached the top of the world at that time, and there were almost no opponents in the world who could rival him. So countless duelists fell before him..."

Yugi asked: "Then, is this world now the world under the rule of that Demon Duelist?"

Everyone looked around at this small town, feeling that the environment of this barren ruin and this background setting seemed to match.

But Ray shook her head.

"No, that rampage of the demon was finally stopped." She paused for a short time when she said this, showing a somewhat complicated expression.

"... I did it."

Fujiki You Xuan, who knew the original work, was not surprised, but the other Duel Kings immediately showed respect.

"Of course, it wasn't something I did alone. Even I probably wasn't Zarc's opponent. At that time, I borrowed the power of several cards developed by my father, who was a scientist... but it doesn't matter anymore."

Ray shook her head and said.

"In short, in the end, the duel between me and the demon caused the world to split into four. The Demon Duelist was eliminated... or rather, sealed. As the world split, the demon was also reincarnated into four new people, four teenagers who had nothing to do with the demon and had their own lives.

And I was also reincarnated into four girls, four girls who had completely different lives and different personalities from me..."

The more she said, the more mysterious it became, and the few people were a little confused.

"Wait, wait a minute!" Yuma said, "Then what is your situation now? Are you one of the four clones?"

"No, I am me, I am Ray, not a clone." Ray said, "This is what I want to say next. The world I had saved was integrated again, and the four dimensions were integrated into one again.

With this process, the four reincarnations of the demon also merged again, and the sealed Demon Duelist was resurrected again. And as if to fulfill the mission of eliminating the demon, my four reincarnated girls also merged again with the integration of the dimensions, turning back into the me now..."

The four Duel Kings looked at each other.

Reasonably speaking, they considered themselves to have seen all kinds of strange things in their respective dimensions, but this was the first time they had seen such a strange setting.

"But why would this happen?" Yugi said, "The dimensions that were clearly split, why would..."

Ray sighed: "Because... my father."

"Your father?" Yuma said, "But isn't your father... a righteous scientist who helped you create cards to defeat the demon and cared about saving the world?"

"You could say that, but he wasn't such a great person. He designed those cards and saved the world at first, actually more out of guilt." Ray said calmly, "Because my father, Akaba Leo, was the one who created the physical image system at the beginning."

Everyone understood.

Obviously, this scientist named Akaba Leo invented the physical image system, but it was the system he created that made the duel audience more and more extreme. In the end, it was the darkness in the hearts of the audience that changed the professional duelist and eroded the monster spirits.

Fujiki You Xuan said: "That demon, his name is Zarc, right?"

Ray nodded.

"Zarc might not have been a demon at first, he was just a duelist who wanted to win. So although Zarc was the one who destroyed the world in the end, it might actually be the darkness in the hearts of duelists all over the world that really led to that ending..." Ray said dimly.

Yusei and Dark Yugi both resonated with this.

It seems that no matter which world it is, no matter in what form, once the darkness in the hearts of duelists gathers, it can easily destroy the world.

Especially Yusei, who was even more convinced after hearing this that in his own dimension, the perpetual motion machine was not the culprit, but the human heart.

Even without the perpetual motion machine, people's greed, laziness, anger, and resentment, all emotions gathered together, will one day turn into some kind of manifestation.

Maybe it's Zero Reverse, maybe it's Orichalcos, maybe it's the Demon Duelist Zarc.

If you can't redeem the human heart, there is no hope for the future. ===== CHAPTER 1395 =====