Chapter 1499: Fighting for the City

After all prior reconnaissance, safety testing, and modifications, the Key of the Emperor was activated again.

Re-entering the void of the multiverse, this time the shuttle was more violent than any previous time. Especially when approaching the location of the distortion coordinates, the scene in front of the Key of the Emperor was almost disintegrated into mosaic-like color blocks. Time and space seemed to lose their meaning when approaching that coordinate point, and even the pitch-black nothingness was sucked into the rotating dark vortex.

After violent bumps, the Key of the Emperor finally landed again.

The dark nothingness disappeared, and the mosaic-like color blocks dissipated from everyone's eyes. The world behind the distortion was completely revealed to everyone.

"Finally arrived?"

Yuma was already a bit dizzy in the Key of the Emperor. He rubbed his head, stood up, and looked out.

Then he was stunned.

"Where... is this?"

Outside the Key of the Emperor, a vast and boundless barren land, the horizon was like a torn wound, blurring the sky and dust together. Cracked mud, withered thorns, made sobbing rustling sounds in the wind.

A city stood in front of everyone's field of vision.

The towering broken walls were like the bones of giants, stabbing obliquely into the sky, and the broken glass windows reflected pale light. Fragments and rubble piled up on the streets, and twisted steel bars poked their heads out of the concrete, like dying tentacles.

And the sky was like a torn gray mold, and dark purple light curtains penetrated through the lead-gray clouds, spreading like blood stasis, with unnatural orange-red edges, like embers struggling in the haze.

In short, no matter from what angle you look at it, it is definitely not a normal place.

"Anyway, let's go to a place with people first." Fujiki You Xuan said.

"Um... okay." Yuma nodded.

When arriving in a new dimension, you still have to go to a place with people to collect information, see what the situation is in this world, and understand whether Zorc is in this world and what role he plays.

Several people stepped on the solid ground and moved toward the direction of the dilapidated city not far away. Walking a little closer, Yuma suddenly made an "eh" sound.

"By the way, Astral, do you think this place is a bit... familiar?" Yuma asked.

"Um, it is a bit." Astral looked at the dilapidated city.

Yuma squinted his eyes and looked for a while, then suddenly was shocked: "? Is this... Heartland City!?"

That is the city where Yuma lives in his dimension. Because the dimension he is in has advanced technology, and the architectural style is different from the main stages in other Yu-Gi-Oh generations, it is relatively easy to identify.

Yuma was immediately nervous: "Could it be that our world, our city has been..."

"No, look carefully Yuma, it's just a similar style." Astral said. "But it's still very different from the Heartland City we know."

It looks like a Heartland City in another world, just with a similar architectural style. And this city looks like it has been through the vicissitudes of life and has experienced unimaginable devastation of war.

"Wait, what is that?"

Judai pointed to the sky.

Everyone looked up. I saw a pitch-black small dot approaching them rapidly from above the dilapidated city.

"Is it a bird?" Yugi said.

At this time, the flying object approached a little more.

Yusei: "Is it a plane?"

"No." Fujiki You Xuan squinted his eyes. "Looks like we have company."

That thing flapped its wings and dived down. It looked like a black flying bird, but its body was wrapped in steel armor, and it made a sound like a breaking air and an engine-like hum when diving. It is a Duel Monster.

A duelist is diving down on the monster.

The duelist in a blue-black trench coat jumped down, landed in front of everyone in a half-squat. The warplane-like flying bird kept circling above them, in a defensive posture, as if ready to snipe the invading enemy for its master at any time.

"Stop." The man said coldly. "I will never allow you to get any closer from here."

Fujiki You Xuan felt that he seemed to recognize this person: "Are you... Shay Obsidian?"

Shay Obsidian, a duelist from the Arc-V dimension—or more accurately, the Xyz Dimension in Arc-V. He is one of the main forces of the resistance army against the Academy army in the Xyz Dimension in the anime, using the "Raidraptor" deck.

Fujiki You Xuan muttered to himself: "Strange. In that case, is this still a dimension based on Arc-V?"

But then he scanned the surroundings and the strange sky again.

"No, it doesn't seem that simple..."

"..."

"No matter what, I will protect our city until the last moment." Shay Obsidian raised his Duel Disk and shouted. "I will defeat you intruders one by one with a duel."

Yuma hurriedly waved his hand: "Wait... wait a minute! We are not intruders, we are just passing by..."

"..."

"There is no need for such clumsy lies."

Shay Obsidian interrupted his words mercilessly.

Shay Obsidian: "In this 'Survival Dimension', everyone is an intruder, this is the rule. If you are thinking of letting me relax my vigilance and then take advantage of the situation, I advise you not to waste time."

Several people looked at each other.

"Survival Dimension? Everyone is an intruder... rule?" Judai was puzzled.

Yusei: "Sure enough, there is something strange about this dimension..."

"..."

"It seems there is only one battle, if you don't defeat him first, he won't let go, and he won't be willing to open his mouth to speak." Astral said.

"Okay." Yuma stepped forward. "Then this one is up to me."

Judai smiled: "Oh, Yuma has good momentum today. Okay, then let's leave it to you first."

Yuma unfolded the Duel Disk: "Come on, I'll be your opponent!"

Shay Obsidian looked down at the lobster head that looked like a primary school student, and frowned slightly.

"Don't think I'll be careless because it's a child." Shay Obsidian said. "No matter who the opponent is, I will defeat them mercilessly. Look, our city will definitely survive to the end in this dimension."

Yugi and Judai looked at each other.

"Here we go again, city, and survival..." Judai wondered.

"Um." Yugi nodded. "There is something very strange about this dimension."

"Duel!"

【Yuma, LP 4000】

【Shay Obsidian, LP 4000】

"Okay, let's start with me!" Yuma said. "Draw..."

Astral: "Wait Yuma, you can't draw cards in the first turn of a duel in this dimension."

"Oh, I see."

Yuma hurriedly retracted his hand and laughed awkwardly.

"So dangerous, almost forgot... then my turn, no draw."

Shay Obsidian on the opposite side couldn't help but frown impatiently again.

Is this guy deliberately pretending to be stupid to let himself relax his vigilance? That acting is too clumsy.

He thought it was impossible for someone to come to play cards without even remembering the rules? ===== CHAPTER 1500 =====