"My turn, draw!"
It was Hikaru's turn.
Hikaru glanced at his hand, then looked at his opponent.
Madame Verre was still yawning. She looked genuinely tired. Tierra had told Hikaru the same thing.
This spirit, Witchcrafter Madame Verre, was not simply "slacking off." From a soul analysis, she was indeed very tired, even "exhausted."
This was actually slightly different from the original source. The true Madame Verre was the type who was very good at slacking off and whose ideal was to find a place to slack off forever.
But no matter what, the opponent was indeed a little distracted.
"Activate Spell Card, Toy Vendor."
"Add one Edge Imp monster and one Polymerization from my Deck to my hand.
I add Polymerization and Edge Imp Sabres to my hand."
"Toy Vendor?" Madame Verre heard the card's name, looked up slightly, and mumbled. "Is that from the Spirit Dimension that invaded the Xyz human world...?"
Hikaru accurately caught this remark and was immediately surprised.
She even knew about that?
"Then, I activate the Spell Card I just added, Polymerization, to Fusion Summon by combining Edge Imp Sabres from my hand with Fluffal Penguin from my hand."
"Fusion Summon! Frightfur Tiger!"
A sharp blade suddenly pierced through the middle of a plush tiger, and a pair of scissors split the monster in two, roaring as it appeared.
Frightfur Tiger Level 6, DARK, Fiend, ATK 1900
"When Frightfur Tiger is Fusion Summoned, I can target cards on the field up to the number of Fusion Materials used, and destroy them."
"Then, the effect of Fluffal Penguin: if it is sent to the GY as Fusion Material for a Frightfur monster, draw two cards, then discard one."
Hikaru pointed at Madame Verre. "I'll destroy you."
"A Fusion that destroys monsters?"
"It feels more and more familiar."
The surrounding spirits whispered, finding Hikaru increasingly recognizable.
"Hmph." Madame Verre saw this, couldn't help but become a little serious, and picked up a card in her hand. "Activate my own effect: during either player's turn, discard one Spell Card from my hand. All face-up monsters on your opponent's field have their effects negated until the end of the turn!
Discard Witchcrafter Collaboration."
She gently raised her hand, and countless threads surrounded Frightfur Tiger, sealing it like a doll in a museum.
"Wow!?"
"So strong..."
"Cannot be destroyed by battle or effects, can discard Spell Cards to negate all monsters on the field, has 2800 DEF, and can recover all Spell Cards from the Graveyard every turn?"
"Hiss... truly worthy of a member of the highest-ranking Spellcaster Three Sages."
It had to be said that her effect was indeed very strong, and combined with her ATK-boosting effect, it became even stronger.
At least in this world, she alone was enough to resolve most situations.
However, it was only "most."
Hikaru drew two cards from his Deck, glanced at them, and sent Metalfoes Fusion to the Graveyard. "Activate the effect of Metalfoes Fusion in the GY. Return it to the Deck, shuffle, and draw one card."
"Fusion again?" Madame Verre couldn't help but tilt her head. "How many Fusions are you going to use...?"
"How many? The answer is all of them."
?
Madame Verre was slightly stunned, then couldn't help but start to frown.
She vaguely felt that someone had said something similar to Hikaru's words to her, but she had been too busy recently and couldn't quite recall the details.
And while she was struggling to remember, the surrounding spirits finally, through those words which weren't a direct sign but almost immediately brought it to mind, realized Hikaru's identity.
"Ah ah ah ah! It's him, it's him!"
"It's Hikaru! The absolute Fusion wielder, the human who pursues ultimate Fusion!"
"The GX Champion from the Fusion Dimension!"
"That person who pursues infinite Fusion!" The spirits immediately erupted, talking endlessly about Hikaru.
Unlike the people in the Synchro Dimension who hadn't known Hikaru.
Although these spirits had not seen Hikaru with their own eyes, in the Spirit World, Hikaru's previous duel footage had spread widely. Many spirits had heard of him and knew his deeds.
At this moment, Madame Verre was completely startled.
"It's the one Aleister asked me about..." She looked back at Haine, who stood with her chest out and head held high, as if to say, "I told you this guest is different, but you wouldn't listen!"
She shook her head.
She certainly couldn't complain about Haine right now. After all, it was her own fault for not listening properly, thinking it was just another overconfident Warrior.
She hadn't expected such a celebrity.
She had been busy with something very important to the Spirit World, so she didn't have free time to watch popular duel footage, and now it seemed she was a bit out of touch.
Interesting.
So many spirits, and even Haine was so excited about this duelist, which made her develop some interest in Hikaru.
"Absolute Fusion wielder... interesting. Let me see what your Fusion looks like." She watched Hikaru with curiosity.
She was still very confident.
"Then, I activate the Spell Card, Fusion Recovery. Return Polymerization from the GY and Fluffal Penguin from the GY to my hand."
"And then..." He looked at his Extra Deck.
It was a perfect opportunity to test the card that the alchemist had analyzed from the power of the Light of Destruction.
"Activate Spell Card, Polymerization!"
"The Fusion condition is one monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck and one monster from the hand."
"Such high requirements!" Almost all the spirits present exclaimed internally.
"I Fusion Summon by combining Frightfur Tiger on the field and Edge Imp Chain from my hand!" Hikaru raised his right hand. A purple vortex formed in his palm, and then light shone above the two dimensions.
Hikaru felt as if he was in the starry sky, the universe itself.
"Combine, combine..."
"A step further toward Fusion!"
"Fusion Summon!"
"Level 8!"
"Magnum the Reliever!"
Zzzzzzz... A harsh screeching sound rang out, and in front of Hikaru, a fiend appeared with movements almost identical to his own. This fiend gathered the surrounding Fusion power, transforming it into a vortex. Combined with the vortex in the sky, this monster was like "Fusion" itself.
Hikaru felt as if he could see a giant fiendish form made of light, lowering its head and looking at him with red, alluring eyes.
It worked!
Magnum the Reliever, Level 8, LIGHT, Fiend, ATK 2800