Tenjo Hikari returned to the temporary base.
This time the gain was immense, so much so that Tenjo Hikari wanted to pause his current work and try to improve the connection method of the "Emerald Book."
And when he really wanted to do that, he had actually already begun attempting it.
In the night, today, Manjome seemed to have no free time to find him, and Tenjo Hikari didn't have much time either. He needed to simply sort out the current situation before calculating the Alchemy Formula.
In the base Yusei provided him, Tenjo Hikari could see a large map hanging on the wall, with different names marked on it.
It was the map of this world, this "City."
At the bottom of the map marked as "Here," it probably indicated Tenjo Hikari's current position, in other words, it was actually the location Yusei marked for himself when testing the D-wheel in this base.
From here, moving directly upward, you reach the "Strata" where the lower-class people of this world live.
Or perhaps it shouldn't be called the bottom layer but rather "ground."
From the ground upwards, on the left is the Psychokinetic Research Institute "Arcadia Movement" that Tenjo Hikari visited today, while the right upper corner of the strata is the remote "Shelter."
Because the nobles of the Upper City did not want to see people from the Lower City "polluting" their view, both the Arcadia Movement, such civil organizations, and the official prison are located as remotely as possible to prevent people from going up.
This layer is also called the Isolation Area.
The city as a whole is structured in a spiral upward direction. Lower City people are not only lower city in the social sense, but also lower in the literal, physical sense.
It is worth mentioning that from Lower to Upper City there are not only these two roads but also a vertical channel leading directly upward, though that passage is strictly guarded by law enforcement officers. The last time Tenjo Hikari tested he was discovered there.
Today, Tenjo Hikari drove to the edge of City and watched the entire "City" from afar, roughly considering this city, kingdom, as an inclined, ascending tower connected by numerous runways between each area.
Leaving these relatively short positions and ascending further, it's a hexagonal grid-like rank.
If the Lower City and Isolation Area are "Untouchable Areas," ascending further truly enters the upper ranks of City, directly above Lower City is the "Civilian Layer," the largest area besides Lower City.
Further up are the nation's genuine "upper-class people."
However, only a few places are marked with names other than the nation's highest place "Taiyi Garden" and the northeast place second to the Sky Garden "Moment Research Institute," the rest are not labeled.
Tenjo Hikari stroked his chin.
In terms of numbers, Tenjo Hikari is now at the bottom layer 10, ascending to 9 base strata, then Arcadia Movement 8, prison at 7...
Tenjo Hikari slowly frowned.
These numbers...
Next to him, Tierra looked at the patterns above, calmly placing both hands behind his head, unexpectedly not commenting on anything.
Tenjo Hikari stared at the eerie map for a while, shook his head, and no longer obsessed with the oddities in his heart, focusing on studying the runway to calculate tomorrow's trip to Shelter.
Speaking of Shelter and prison, Tenjo Hikari remembered that in the original work, this place is a relatively special spot.
Moreover, this location is a spot appearing in both "Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's" and "Yu-Gi-Oh! A5," with both animation protagonists having served time in it, making it a must-see spot for protagonists.
This place is quite important, both in 5D's and A5, many key characters appear within, including "Tokumatsu Chojiro," a famous lower-class Duelist from A5. However, unlike innocent lower-class people, this Duelist's imprisonment seemed fair after all.
Tokumatsu Chojiro is a Duelist of lower-class origin who became a popular Duelist after gaining fame, loved teaching kids to duel, and advised young people to settle fights through dueling rather than fists, thus he was favored by Lower City impoverished.
Later, because he hated nobles who only shouted hollow slogans but never listened to the appeals of Lower City impoverished, and hated the current situation of class division, he challenged upper-area Duelists.
To win, to fight for interests, but in the end, he resorted to cheating during duels, ultimately leading to his arrest.
To sum up, he was an idealist Duelist ground down by reality.
According to Tenjo Hikari's recent understanding of the S-Dimension, this person should be in this Shelter.
Even Divine might be involved in the competition for "The One," not sure if this person has a chance.
After all, in the original work, he was quite a significant character in the Synchro Dimension arc, no less important than previously encountered Shinji.
Tenjo Hikari finalized the route, backed it up in his Duel Disk, then checked his Deck.
Trying to handle various things, Tenjo Hikari didn't even have time to check if there were any unusual cards in his Deck, and indeed found one while browsing.
"Hmm? Teleport Fusion?" Tenjo Hikari was surprised to pull out a brand new polymerization from the Deck.
This was indeed unheard of.
However, his Deck previously featured the novel "Gem-Knight Dispersion" polymerization, so seeing a new Fusion Spell Card didn't surprise him much, he instead checked its effect.
"During both players' Main Phase, banish Psychic-Type Monsters from the field or Graveyard to perform a Psychic-Type fusion." Tenjo Hikari looked at the card effect, and purely in terms of effect, it wasn't bad, a standard banished fusion.
Aside from that, when a face-up Psychic-Type Monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck is destroyed by battle or effect, this card can be banished from the Graveyard to Special Summon a banished Psychic-Type Monster...
"Oh—pretty good." Tenjo Hikari nodded lightly.
Though not as astonishing as the previous Gem-Knight Dispersion, it is still a decent fusion, just right to pair with today's acquired Myutant or Metalfoes for fusion.
At least there's an additional fusion.
Unfortunately, no changes in Tenjo Hikari's Extra Deck, it seems the duel with Divine didn't bring any new Fusion Monsters—he could only provide this new fusion.
Tenjo didn't get too greedy, today's gains surpassed his original expectations, and now with a brand new fusion addition, it's even better.
The next day, having experimented overnight, Tenjo Hikari yawned slightly, mounted the D-wheel, and headed towards the target. Barely halfway there, he heard.
"Boom!"
In Tenjo Hikari's astonished gaze, from a distance, a blue-black mushroom cloud suddenly rose.
That's exactly where the Shelter is located!
Explosion!???