"My turn, draw!"
Tenjo Hikari drew a card and glanced at it.
"Completely crush?" Hearing Tenjo Hikari's words, Morishima couldn't help but laugh, as if amused, "Do you even know what that means?"
He raised his hand high and pointed to the gigantic Lord of Striking Thunder beside him: "Lord of Striking Thunder is one of the strongest card Monsters, its power can make any Spirit bow down, in this entire Union Hangar dimension, there's nothing that can stand against the Lord of Striking Thunder!
Are you saying that you can do what an entire dimension can't?"
Ha...
Tenjo Hikari chuckled at these words.
Union Hangar, those robots, right?
He could imagine how Morishima repelled those robots and controlled the Lord of Striking Thunder to crush them.
As one of the top cards, the Three Phantasm may be a bit of a joke among "top-tier big monsters" but remains overwhelmingly powerful against ordinary Spirits.
The robots in this dimension simply can't match the power of the Phantasm.
But that doesn't mean they'll lose in a Duel!
If Tenjo Hikari had ABC, VW, or XYZ, he felt he could beat Hamon with ease.
Spirits are Spirits, card strength is card strength!
"Moreover, as far as I know, your strongest Monster is just the 4400 ATK Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem, right?" Morishima crossed his arms and laughed arrogantly, "How will you defeat me then!"
How to defeat?
Tenjo Hikari glanced at his hand and couldn't help but smile.
"Tenjo Hikari, he's right!" Tierra looked a bit troubled, "Your hand is all green, seems a bit tough?"
"Difficult? Hehe, not at all!" Tenjo Hikari pointed to the Graveyard and suddenly shouted, "I activate the effect of Duality from the Graveyard!
During your Main Phase, you can banish this card from your Graveyard, by targeting 1 Light and 1 Dark Attribute Monster from your Graveyard. Return those 2 Monsters to the Deck, then draw 1 card from your Deck."
Tenjo Hikari lifted his Duel Disk, and the card in the Graveyard automatically rolled out for display: "I return Elemental Hero Prisma and Midrash from the Graveyard to the Deck. Draw a card."
Tenjo Hikari returned the cards to the Deck and Extra, then drew a card.
It came!
Seeing the golden Monster, Tenjo Hikari's eyes lit up.
He could now fulfill his initial goal!
"Returned Midrash, huh? Haha, indeed, not fusing was the right decision." Despite half of his body turning demon-like, Morishima maintained a considerable amount of sanity and calm.
Tenjo Hikari shrugged: "Well then... I activate the Continuous Spell Card, Brilliant Fusion!"
"This card can only be activated once per turn; when this card is activated, send the Fusion Materials listed on a 'Gem-Knight' Fusion Monster Card from your Deck to the Graveyard, and Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, making its ATK and DEF become 0!"
"Wait, Tenjo Hikari, you don't have any Gem-Knight cards in your hand, how could you possibly trigger that effect for Prism Crystal's summon?"
"I don't need that!" Tenjo Hikari's eyes narrowed sharply, "I want to prove, with the simplest, most direct, purest power, that I can defeat my enemy head-on!
I send Gem-Knight Crystal and Jade from my Deck to the Graveyard!"
"The Fusion condition is a 'Gem-Knight' Monster and a Rock-Type Monster!"
"Gentle and tranquil jade, diamond of fellowship!
Now, at this moment, unite and step into a new realm!
Fusion Summon, Gem-Knight Zirconia!"
Captain Crystal appeared on the field, Jade circled around him, then countless rocks separated from Crystal, merging into Jade's body, ultimately transforming into a knight equipped with Crystal's armor, but larger and more robust!
Gem-Knight Zirconia, LV 8, Earth Attribute, Rock-Type, Attack Power 2900.
Due to Brilliant Fusion's effect, ATK becomes 0.
"Hahaha, putting a Monster with 0 ATK in Attack Position? Tenjo Hikari, you must be crazy!"
He waved a hand, laughing aloud: "How can a Monster with only 0 ATK defeat the invincible Hamon?!"
Tenjo Hikari chuckled softly.
He looked sideways, as if through the wall he could see another Duel happening elsewhere: "On the other side of Hangar, students from our peer group, Blue Academy, accepted the challenge, to complete a Spirit Duel using Monsters with ATK 500 or less.
Ha, perhaps not even 500, all of them might be 0."
"Ha?" Hearing that, Morishima was dumbfounded, "That's impossible, totally impossible, isn't it?"
"Heh, I think, he can pull it off."
Morishima raised a brow, feeling this was absolutely absurd.
He'd dueled with those Spirits before; those Spirits couldn't defeat him, but using Monsters with 500 or even 0 ATK... it seemed impossible!
"Doesn't matter. In any case, both you and that guy will only meet a miserable end in this world!"
"Is that so..." Tenjo Hikari neither agreed nor disagreed.
"I then activate the effect of Evil Hero Adusted Gold from my hand. By discarding this card from my hand, I can add 1 'Dark Fusion' or a card that mentions it, except for a card with the same name, from my Deck to my hand."
Tenjo Hikari sacrificed a Monster for the effect.
This card was given to him by Judai after their duel together against the Seven-Star Combination "Golden Land Spirit", but since then, he never had the chance to use it, nor did he ever draw it, so it lay dormant in his Deck.
"I'm adding Dark Calling to my hand."
In the brightly lit room illuminated by lightning, a trace of darkness swept in and attached to his hand.
"Huh... Dark Calling, could it be that Inferno Wing? But, the Fusion Materials for Inferno Wing aren't in the Graveyard, so..."
"The Fusion conditions are a Fiend-Type Monster and a Rock-Type Monster!" Tenjo Hikari's eyes widened as he swiftly raised Dark Calling, "Activate the Spell Card, Dark Calling!
Banish the Monsters in your hand and Graveyard as Fusion Materials, and Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster that can only be Special Summoned using the effect of Dark Fusion as if you used Dark Fusion!"
I banish Gem-Knight Crystal from the Graveyard and Evil Hero Adusted Gold from the Graveyard!
Fuse these two Monsters!
Behold, the anti-hero driven by the heart of darkness!
Crush everything!
Fusion Summon!"
He claps his hands in front of him.
Crushed rocks, shattering debris, corpses of Spirits, countless things seemed to lose gravity and reverse!
"The hero formed from internal evil—
Evil Hero Dark Gaia!"
Dark Gaia is an Evil Hero clad in Rock Armor, with bat-like wings growing from its back. It floats in the air facing Hamon. The two observe each other closely, sharing almost similar structures despite their different appearances.
Evil Hero Dark Gaia, LV 8, Earth Attribute, Fiend-Type, ATK?
"Dark Gaia's ATK is the combined ATK of its Fusion Materials, which is... 4550 points!"
"F-Four thousand five hundred fifty!?" Morishima staggered back a half-step in shock, "H-How is this possible?! That ATK has already surpassed the legendary Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
"There's nothing impossible about it. This is the power created by our academy's, unlike yours, brand-new students!"
"Ugh..." Morishima showed a grim expression, "But even so, even if you restore Zirconia's ATK to 2900, I still have life points..."
Quickly calculating, he figured out his remaining Life Points for survival.
"No!" Tenjo Hikari shouted loudly, "My aim from the start, was this moment!"
Behind him, red light suddenly flared up, and a pair of eyes began to sparkle: "I activate the Equip Spell Card, Spirit Illusion!"
"Ah!!?" Morishima exclaimed in horror, "Could it be, you... No, no way, how could you render the invincible Hamon—"
Spirit Illusion can only be equipped to Fusion Monster Cards that are either Fiend-Type or Zombie-Type. Besides the ability to Fusion Summon, when this card attacks, it can decrease the opposing Monster's own ATK by an amount equal to the equipped Monster's ATK!
That is... 4550 points!
"It's too late now!" Tenjo Hikari shouted, "Battle, Dark Gaia, unleash it!"
This was the moment he had been waiting for!
Dark Gaia leapt forward, standing before Hamon. An intense dark mist erupted from its body, engulfing Hamon. Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder, let out a pained scream as its ATK began to plummet rapidly!
As its ATK decreased, a multitude of white lights emerged from its body. Some of them flew behind Tenjo Hikari, others merged into a fragment of a shattered mechanical shell, or into a card, and among them were countless voices.
"Thank you," "Gratitude," "Much obliged"...
Among them, some lights even drifted out of this dimension, flying towards some unknown world...
Meanwhile, the slumping Machine-Type Spirits in the laboratory gradually regained their vigor. Their worn-out, damaged shells were instantly rejuvenated, regaining vitality! They shone brilliantly like brand new machines!
"No, you can't, you mustn't!" Morishima screamed frantically, even rushing madly towards Hamon!
It was not easy to gather the souls of Other-Dimensional Spirits!
"Can't or not, it's already late!"
At this moment, Hamon's ATK had already been reduced to 0!
And at this point, Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder, instead of appearing angry, seemed extremely excited. It opened its mouth wide, cackling as it shattered the ice crystals on its body and willingly lunged towards Dark Gaia!
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
Countless ice fragments pelted Morishima, a once-rational Duelist who could no longer maintain composure, rushing towards Hamon, which only led to more severe consequences!
Because Hamon seemed deliberately to fall onto Morishima!
"Ahh!!!"
Morishima's LP: 1800 → 0!
Tenjo Hikari punched the air with great force!
Excellent!
Winning was never his objective!
His ultimate goal was to rescue all the Spirits!
Otherwise, why would he force Morishima to summon Phantasms?
And now, he had succeeded perfectly, even exceeding his expectations!