After returning to the real world, the feeling of being watched again emerged in Hikaru's heart. But he didn't mind too much, because he'd roughly guessed who the source of the surveillance was.
Clearly, it was Rex Goodwin.
Likely, he'd actually been watching this world's participants all along.
Finishing E-Ra was, no matter for whom, an extraordinary good matter. After ending E-Ra's life, Hikaru felt the great stone on his heart had completely come down.
For now at least, there seemed to be no more enemies before him making him thoroughly uncomfortable, enemies he absolutely had to find a way to resolve.
The One God matter was ultimately Yusei's matter. Hikaru could perhaps help Yusei handle intermediate affairs, but the further along, the less Hikaru could intervene.
Now, the matters Hikaru could still help with were only City Hall and the Fusion team-related things.
Of course, considering some additional factors, Hikaru was also interested in the Pendulum team. If Yusei wanted to find them to chat, Hikaru was quite willing to help.
But actually, in these 30 days, it wasn't just Yusei's team acting. It wasn't just 5D's directly challenging other teams.
Within a few days of Hikaru and others returning to the real world, plenty of new information was flooding before Team 5D's members.
Team Sun went all out, summoning the legendary Sleeping Giant Zushin, said to be no less than god cards. The result was cut down by Team New World's combined effort.
Team Ragnarok commanded god cards and easily defeated several powerful teams in succession.
A certain team, due to poor arena performance, consciously felt they couldn't advance and chose to withdraw.
In these short few days, plenty of news erupted.
"If that's the case, won't our duels also be easier!?" Leo cheered.
"No, even eliminated teams we'll go visit." Yusei lightly shook his head.
"I see... what a shame..." Luna weakly said.
Every Team 5D's member had been conducting high-intensity duels during these 30 rest days. Even after defeating E-Ra before, even after enduring such high-intensity duels, they hadn't abandoned their ideals, and had found time to exchange with different teams.
Time was pressing. No matter how exhausted, they couldn't retreat, let alone delay.
But this way, even with everyone rotating duels, appearing every other day, they'd be very exhausted.
In this situation, even having to duel eliminated teams was truly exhausting.
Just yesterday, Yusei had specifically found Team Sun for a standard Riding Duel team match, waiting until Team Sun summoned Sleeping Giant Zushin, then surpassing this invincible monster through technique and wisdom.
You could say Team 5D's was battling various exaggerated things almost every day.
Just monsters claiming to be invincible, they had to deal with several in a day. The day before yesterday at Team Despair, they'd truly encountered genuinely invincible monsters. And encountered them twice in a row.
Under such high pressure, forget those actually dueling, even Leo and Luna watching the duels felt physically and mentally exhausted, let alone Yusei who was on duty daily.
But there was a bit of good news.
That was, after the duel with Gossip Shadow, Akiza's deck had grown stronger. Also, Akiza had obtained a portion of unbound despair power. Combined with her originally monstrous Psychic abilities, consecutive duels were very easy for her. This could let Yusei's trio have one more rotation to rest.
Regardless, though exhausted, Team 5D's was moving forward on track.
Of course, Hikaru hadn't forgotten the important matter, which was asking A-Boss if he could help watch the despair world.
Hikaru first summarized the situation during this period, then listed goals and knowledge he wanted to obtain, as well as the final request. He brought Azathoth's second body fragment and had Tierra send it together to the Oblivion School's dimension.
Actually, according to Hikaru's travel experience in the Star War dimension, current Hikaru, if he merged with Tierra, might be able to directly chat with A-Boss in the Oblivion School's world. That would be easier and more direct.
But considering that though A-Boss and Visas were both gods of the same world and universe, their tendencies differed. So he abandoned the idea.
After all, A-Boss had genuine mental contamination, while Visas's specialty seemed to be reincarnation. When Riumheart appeared, even Tori Meadows wasn't affected.
Hikaru didn't expect A-Boss to send much.
After all, Hikaru had already received the Forbidden Apocrypha single card and the card-check that card came bundled with from A-Boss earlier.
This advance payment, for Hikaru, was even more useful than several Forbidden cards combined.
After all, no matter how strong a Forbidden card, it was only a card. The card-check directly transcended cards, becoming an information bit coordinating all cards. It would make Hikaru easier when dueling no matter what.
Setting aside other things, if Hikaru encountered Paradox, he wouldn't be like Jack facing the opponent's monster effects not knowing what to do.
But what Hikaru hadn't expected was that even with the advance payment, A-Boss hadn't disappointed Hikaru.
Cards sent!
Just like last time, still 3 cards!
The first was Hecahands Jauzah, LIGHT Attribute, an Illusion-Type Fusion Monster!
"Illusion?" Tierra widened her eyes looking at the card. "Hasn't Illusion-Type not been born yet?"
"From the look of it, it should have already been born in Mr. Pegasus's hands."
Going back, he might be able to receive Chimera from Mr. Pegasus. Super good news.
Fusion condition was Invisible Hand and an Illusion-Type monster, or tribute 1 Illusion-Type monster and 1 face-up monster on my field originally owned by the opponent to directly Special Summon?
Holy, cow!?
Hikaru looked at this strange card.
On the card was an angel spreading its "two hands" radiating divine light. Only its "two hands" and the angel's wings were all composed of countless tiny hands!
"Wow."
Hikaru read it again.
Could search 1 Invisible Hand card during the Main Phase. Looked like a middle-stage card, not endgame. But it was a Fusion Monster Hikaru had never seen, and an Illusion-Type one at that. Anyway, very novel, put it away.
The second was a Quick-Play Spell Card called Hecahands Tartaros. Hikaru glanced at it and found it was a Quick-Play Spell, resistance. Besides the classic "the following effects of this card's name can each only be chosen once per turn," Hikaru found one Fusion condition on this card very interesting.
Banish monsters on my field or Graveyard as Fusion Materials, Fusion Summon 1 Invisible Hand Fusion Monster. When using monsters on my field originally owned by the opponent as Fusion Materials, they can also be treated as Invisible Hand monsters.
Standard Graveyard Fusion. But the interesting part was he could use the opponent's monsters as Fusion Materials.
Very interesting.
Hikaru speculated this Invisible series should be a deck centered on "stealing" and "NTR" tactics. Strength Hikaru couldn't speculate for now, but it would absolutely mess with people's mentality anyway.
Didn't know if it was A-Boss's dark sense of humor, or possibly because Hikaru had indeed been supplementing minor Fusion tributaries recently. All sorts came, like big-mouth-arguments and NTR tactics.
"The design is really interesting." Tierra commented on this card.
Strength aside, with only one monster, neither of them could judge.
But this design style was really very interesting, perfectly combining the anomaly of Cthulhu mythos with the divinity of traditional mythology. Even though it wasn't the mechanical she loved, this design sense was still very astonishing.
"Very A-Boss style." Hikaru nodded.
The third card was a blank card. Hikaru didn't know what it was for, so after putting it away, he looked at A-Boss's reply.
The audio letter was still quite poor. Couldn't be directly listened to, could only be translated and read.
In the reply, A-Boss first discussed his own impressions of this duel. A very interesting and comfortable duel.
Hikaru's three used their respective strategies and thinking, cooperated in a short time, mutually created self-restraint, then used each other's cards, finally connected together, dueled, achieved victory. The feeling of connection, lubrication, fusion.
As for Hikaru's request for supervising E-Ra, A-Boss directly accepted the job.
He said for him it was only a minor matter.
He himself outside his own world didn't have invincible power. So when E-Ra discovered his body, then found a way to kill the body's holder and take the card, he could only simply observe.
Though he could also chase E-Ra, block her door, and trade blows with her, no telling how many spirit dimensions and worlds would be destroyed along the way.
His own concept was mixed with too much madness and chaos.
Hikaru had smoothly resolved E-Ra and recovered his components, which made him very satisfied. A minor matter like supervising E-Ra, he could naturally accept.
After all, setting aside other things, in the matter of observation he was very skilled. After all, he was covered in eyes.
Summed up, he was very satisfied.
Watched his fill.
So besides the card-check given before, he'd specially created two of his own cards and gifted them to Hikaru.
"Actually a card from the Oblivion School?" Tierra was stunned.
Though Hecahands' style looked Cthulhu-like, the two had before just treated it as coincidence.
Now looking at it this way, A-Boss truly was a god who mastered card knowledge. This card-printing ability was stronger than other types of peers. Replace him with Boss Light, and in half a year he couldn't produce one new card. But A-Boss, when the mood was right, could just send Hikaru two cards he could master.
After that, A-Boss told Hikaru.
Hikaru didn't need to think about matters of his body for a while.
After recovering these two cards, he needed some time to recover and restore. Once restored, based on the conclusions he'd gotten from close-range observation of Hikaru this time, next time Hikaru could directly try coming to the Oblivion School.
He welcomed Hikaru and Tierra to visit his dwelling. He was very bored.
Also, going directly to the Oblivion School would let them more conveniently trace the source of the Engraving Dragon of All Things.
"As expected..." Hikaru looked at this information and nodded.
A-Boss also knew about the Engraving Dragon of All Things.
Seemed gods of different dimensions and worlds did have detailed differences.
Even though the strength gap wasn't large, gods like Azathoth and Visas, relying on their size and status in the spirit world, could more deeply understand the spirit world's secrets.
While gods of the human world like Light of Destruction and Darkness, though they could sense the red light, due to their own characteristics, couldn't understand the existence of the Engraving Dragon of All Things.
Humans had their strengths and weaknesses. Naturally between gods there were plenty of differences and distinctions too.
Finally, regarding the third card A-Boss gifted, the blank card.
As a satisfied repayment for this duel, A-Boss additionally gifted Hikaru a special information card.
As long as Hikaru placed the card he wanted to create on this information card, this information card would transform into an information-equivalent card related to and parallel to the card Hikaru desired. By then, relying on Hikaru's own alchemy, he could find a way to create it.
Of course, cards Hikaru didn't have couldn't be produced. And don't think about creating Super Polymerization or Philosopher's Stone.
This was more of a card A-Boss specially sent Hikaru for duplication work or sublimation work.
According to A-Boss's words, this information card couldn't let Hikaru immediately obtain extremely high-level cards. But Hikaru could take it to try evolving his ace cards.
Too high didn't work. Basically Earthbound Immortal level couldn't be done, but related cards could all be equivalent.
Hikaru pondered for a while, thought it over, researched his own deck and backup cards. He hesitated for a time, then slowly took out a stack of cards.
Gem-Knight Master Diamond!
For now, among the materials he'd mastered, it was one of the few ace cards Hikaru could still evolve. Considering that other cards he'd been using recently were actually self-evolving, like Albaz, Andal, and other spirits that didn't need special sublimation, Hikaru found Master Diamond.
Hikaru placed the card a distance above the information-equivalent card. The card's shadow slowly fell on the information card. Then the captain's figure gradually dispersed from the previous card and slowly merged into the next one. It then produced a Gem-Knight Master Diamond taller, bigger, more savage, and more gorgeous than Master Diamond!
Gem-Knight Master Diamond - Dispersion!
Hikaru blinked.
It had color, card art, text.
Completion 50%!
By his own judgment from experience, this card's completion was directly at 50%. If he fully tried to create this card in the near term, it might be born earlier than those cards he'd been loading before!
Hikaru looked at Master Diamond on his left, now turned into a blank card, and scratched the back of his head.
This card wasn't the captain's main body. The Master Diamond in Hikaru's team was essentially Shaddoll Construct. So the card's disappearance didn't affect the captain much.
But if possible, no effect would still be best.
Missing one form would ultimately reduce the captain's spirit strength. Good news, Hikaru currently had more than one Gem-Knight Master Diamond on hand. After letting the captain adapt a bit, things should quickly return to normal and continue.
Good news!
Hikaru looked at Gem-Knight Master Diamond - Dispersion with a smile on his face.
Looking at the familiar card, he thought of friends from the Fusion Dimension.
The Xyz matter was resolved, no more worries. The Fusion friends could also go search for Zane and Misawa.
This was also a decent task. It was about time to let Yusei and the others stop grinding, go find classmates and friends from the Fusion Dimension, and relax for a day.
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