"OK, it's done! Very smooth."
Crystal swayed as it stood on Jupiter; at this moment, its appearance had changed significantly.
With the assistance of Tierra and Crystal's own endurance, its transformation was very smooth.
Though overall, it still looked like a knight, the gemstones on it became more dim. Outside the knight's body, there was a large amount of red puppet strings looping back and forth at its back, resembling an angel's wings.
El Shaddoll Grysta — which means God's guardian angel.
However, despite the name, Tierra obviously didn't think it through while naming — because the name "Grigori" also contains elements of a Darklord… well, considering what happened later, everything made sense.
"Oh, oh! This looks wonderful — you see, Tenjo Hikari, I told you it should be transformed into a Fire Attribute, right?" Tierra looked at Crystal's new appearance, held its head high, and kept talking.
"It's just a bit too big." Tenjo Hikari craned his neck.
To make Crystal endure more "pain and hatred," it had to be expanded and enlarged so it could gradually adapt to the new power normally and slowly.
But these things were not a problem for Crystal, as it could still simulate its previous forms.
Although the main body had turned into other cards, the Spirit could wander between its various cards, just like Judai's Wingman looks like Wingman, but is actually Great Tornado, yet able to use Wingman cards to display the form of Wingman.
Previously, Crystal could use Prism Crystal and Lapis Lazuli.
Now, Tenjo Hikari's hand even gained an Orange Yellow Crystal and Gem-Knight Master — even though these cards are still in the stage of "crushing and reconstructing" and need to be downsized to the appropriate size, there are plenty of "bodies" for it to use anyway.
After trying to move a bit, it turned into light, flowed into Tenjo Hikari's deck, and then emerged beside Tenjo Hikari, by which time it had already changed armor, becoming Prism Crystal.
It was still accustomed to this size.
Tenjo Hikari checked the time.
He turned his head to look at the Alchemist and Golden-Eyes Idol, who were the "research faction" and "rational faction" spirits within Tenjo Hikari's camp; such matters were most reliably entrusted to them: "I leave the awakening of other spirits to you."
"Don't worry, Master," the Alchemist confidently smiled, "I definitely have no problem!"
It had been following Tenjo Hikari learning Teacher Daitokuji's alchemy; though not a direct disciple, its alchemy had practically switched to Daitokuji's method, having long discarded the Metalfoes form of alchemy.
With the Era-Defining Alchemist's alchemy available for learning, it was sure to successfully forge Gold!
Seeing it prepared to perform significant actions and attempting its learning on the spirits, Tenjo Hikari chuckled powerlessly.
Fortunately, it wouldn't use live ones for alchemy.
Golden-Eyes Idol lightly patted its body, reassuring Tenjo Hikari. Despite often lacking presence and frequently being entangled by the Alchemist, because of the constant entanglement, it was best at handling Alchemist.
"Um... Lord Midrash..." Crystal intended to stay and assist with awakening Gem-Knight Lapis, so it sought to entrust Tierra with the protection of Tenjo Hikari.
"Alright, alright, go take care of that little knight. Do you think I can't handle it?" Tierra didn't even wait for Crystal to finish, "And you two Swordsmen too, stay in the workshop, don't come out without any reason, work hard, understand?"
The two Swordsmen looked at Tenjo Hikari; despite having witnessed Tierra's "Divine Might," despite many spirits in Tenjo Hikari's camp now more or less following Tierra's orders, the two brothers still only listened to Tenjo Hikari's command, without his permission, Tierra couldn't lead them.
Tenjo Hikari nodded, the Swordsmen saluted Tenjo Hikari, then Flame Sword, laughing and jokingly, patted Crystal's arm, and giggling headed to the "Cultivation Room" — also known as the core of the workshop, the location of the Philosopher's Stone.
After arranging the matters inside the workshop, Tenjo Hikari returned to the Human World, stretched his body, and opened his phone to see if anyone had contacted him during the day he was away.
Even though it was vacation, occasionally someone would still reach out to him.
For instance, Judai might want to call him to the activity room to play cards or something.
However, even though he was prepared, Tenjo Hikari didn't expect to find so many calls and voice messages in his phone.
What the...?
I was just out for a day.
What big event happened?
Tenjo Hikari first checked to ensure no contact from the company, and then went on to check the messages.
Messages from Manjome, Mitsuzawa, and Judai all appeared. What happened?
He played the messages.
"Oh!?" After listening to the messages, even Tierra was a bit interested.
"Seems pretty interesting, Tenjo Hikari."
Tenjo Hikari didn't urgently reply, instead swiftly played messages from other friends, confirmed the overall situation wasn't wrong, then hurriedly packed his things and rushed to the activity room of the Fusion Department.
Upon entering the activity room, the noise from Tenjo Hikari's sudden entrance startled a bunch of people; after confirming it was Tenjo Hikari, scattered voices began to ring.
"Hikari!" "Brother Hikari!" "Master—"
"Tenjo, where have you been yesterday!" Manjome noticed Tenjo Hikari rushing in, immediately called to him, inviting him over to sit, "Quick, quick, come over!"
"Did humans from the S Dimension decide to make their first contact with us? Really?" Tenjo Hikari asked subconsciously.
"Ah, that's right." He nodded first, then immediately said, "This is a good opportunity!"
This was what Tierra meant by interesting stuff.
Tenjo Hikari sat with his friends.
This was some internal information from Kaiba Company — even Manjome, at this moment, was not stingy about this "exclusive information" matter, much less considering that he was a disciple of Kaiba Seto, unable to borrow Kaiba Company's power at this time.
No moment better than now!
According to Kaiba Company's internal information, some official from the S Dimension decided to make first contact with their dimension, this was S Dimension's "attempt" which previously extremely rejected people from the Parallel World — previously, because Kaiba Company's expedition team inadvertently entered S Dimension and was discovered by its police, resulting in blockages to the interaction between their world and the S Dimension, as the other world continuously suspected this side of the world.
After half a year, S Dimension finally decided to ease the situation, making initial contact with them.
And — through a Duel.
"If the initial interaction succeeds, it will mean another fresh blue ocean!" Manjome calculated frantically.
For him, this was an opportunity to surpass his older brothers within the group, winning far greater prestige!
"How will the communication proceed then?" Tenjo Hikari curiously asked.
"Master is planning to hold competitions in different regions, selecting Duelists according to the requirements on S Dimension's side within different levels."
"That means there is a level for enrolled students, right!" Tenjo Hikari rubbed his hands eagerly.
"No, you don't need to participate." Manjome smirked.
"?" Tenjo Hikari raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"Your previous performance in the Duel with X Dimension was particularly outstanding, Master has preselected you — as long as you wish to go, you're in." Manjome couldn't help but laugh, "Absolute Fusion Master… Recently, online, people have often referred to you as such, especially after the video of your duel with Mr. Dinosaur Lyuzaki was circulated."
Wow.
Tenjo Hikari chuckled.
Is this the advantage brought by fame!
How delightful—