#440 - The last dimension

The finals entered the second stage of the revival tournament. Although the duelists participating in these matches have all lost at least once, each of them has their own special skills, making the battles far from boring.

After all, high-intensity dueling competitions like this are rare to see on ordinary days.

However, since it's the second round of the revival tournament, some relatively busy people can naturally afford to pay less attention to the matches and focus on things more important to them.

For example, someone who had been watching the matches all along.

"Brother, a new dimension has been discovered!" Kaiba's younger brother connected with Seto Kaiba's signal and then stepped aside, allowing the staff to begin reporting to Seto Kaiba.

At this moment, Seto Kaiba was in a high-rise hall, standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the events on the ground.

Yes, Seto Kaiba had been at the finals venue all along, watching the duels with his own eyes!

Since teaching Gozaburo a lesson and igniting his fighting spirit, Seto Kaiba had come here.

He was naturally fully aware of the Dark World invasion, but to him, it wasn't a crisis at all. In fact, he thought it was even better.

How could a group of students grown in a greenhouse become true duelists without experiencing some trials and tribulations?

Without external evil invasions, these guys would never know how to improve!

If they couldn't even handle an invasion by a demon clan, they should just quit being duelists and go home to be losers.

He was even slightly dissatisfied with the current outcome.

Students like Hikari Amatsuki, Jaden Yuki, and Zane Truesdale were simply too strong, far stronger than ordinary students. As a result, only a small number of people encountered real danger.

Of course, that didn't matter.

He wouldn't observe students who couldn't seize even this kind of opportunity anymore.

At least this Dark World incident gave him a very good answer sheet. In his mind, those students who were active in the incident would receive extra points as appropriate—although many people might have forgotten, Seto Kaiba was one of the founders of Duel Academy.

He simply left the affairs of each academy to the respective principals on ordinary days, but in activities where he was personally present, he would naturally pay attention.

Just like how he knew about Hikari Amatsuki wanting the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" not long after she mentioned it, he wasn't really here in this dimension purely to indulge his card game addiction.

In addition to Hikari Amatsuki, Jaden Yuki, Zane Truesdale, and other students he had already specially marked, he had also discovered many new promising talents.

Sho Marufuji, Aster Phoenix, Jim Crocodile Cook, and Zane's younger brother Syrus Truesdale were all very good. Although Syrus Truesdale was still a bit young, he was indeed worthy of being Kaiser's younger brother and was quite talented. Among these people, the most surprising to him was Alexis Rhodes.

It was really quite a pleasant surprise.

But the others could only be considered passable.

After all, they were students taught by Duel Academy, not duelists who left ordinary schools on their own initiative and fought against unscientific forces and powers on their own.

Although Kaiba didn't care about other things, he still hoped to see more duelists with "soul."

As for now, he could just listen to the situation of this new dimension. He naturally knew that the "new dimension" his brother was talking about wasn't the Spirit World, since new dimensions like that were discovered every day.

Since his brother would personally contact him, it must be a dimension where humans could survive.

"President, that dimension calls itself the Standard Dimension," the reporting staff member said first.

Standard?

Kaiba frowned slightly.

"It seems to be a very special dimension," the staff member said, flipping through the data. "They don't have our dimensional technology, but they seem to be very aware that such technology exists in the world, and they also have protective technology similar to the Xyz Dimension.

In addition to this, they also have a special technology, which is the Solid Vision technology."

"Oh? Interesting," Kaiba said, slightly intrigued.

Recently, KaibaCorp's research direction had been Solid Vision technology, and he didn't expect that this newly discovered so-called Standard Dimension actually had mature technology.

"Some of their people seem to know a lot about different dimensions. In fact, they not only call their world the Standard Dimension, but also call us the Fusion Dimension, and know about the Synchro and Xyz Dimensions."

"Laughable," Kaiba snorted coldly.

Although the Xyz and Synchro Dimensions were referred to as "X" and "S," in reality, that was just a placeholder, just like how they allowed the other two dimensions to call them the "F Dimension."

But the names Fusion, Xyz, and Synchro Dimensions were obviously unreasonable and unqualified.

How could a dimension be represented by a certain summoning method? Not to mention that both X and S could perform Fusion Summons, even if they really had to use a card to represent a dimension, it should be represented by the most symbolic card or special point.

For example, if they really had to represent, their dimension should obviously be called the "Egyptian God" Dimension, and the S Dimension should be called the "Speed Duel" Dimension.

If that didn't work, names like "Dimension Travel Dimension" or "Perpetual Motion Machine Dimension" would also be acceptable. How could there be such stupid naming methods like Xyz and Synchro?

A true duelist should understand all possibilities!

Besides—what about Ritual Summons?

"They are even more resistant to us than the Synchro Dimension, and it's very difficult to communicate with them."

"Hmph, take your time to contact them. Just like before, when the relationship is about right, tell our citizens."

"Yes."

"So, are there any other points? For example, any summoning methods we don't know about?"

"Uh, no—their dimension can learn Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz at the same time."

"Hmph, then it would be more appropriate to call themselves Mixed. Forget it, let's not look for a placeholder for now. We'll talk about it when we officially communicate with them."

"Yes!"

Although in the previous few times, the public announcements were that they suddenly encountered other dimensions, then started communicating, and then contacted the media and so on.

But how could that be true?

After all, even Kaiba couldn't be sure whether the connected dimension was friendly or not.

Similarly—

The people on the "Standard Dimension" side also couldn't be sure whether the other side was friendly or not.

In a huge laboratory, a tall, expressionless young man gently pushed up his glasses.

The long red scarf fluttered gently in the wind.

His name was—Declan Akaba.

As everyone could see.

The son of Leo Akaba, the president of the Leo Corporation, the founder of the LDS, and the genius duelist of this dimension who was always ready to resist his father's invasion—Declan Akaba.

Declan Akaba's face was grim.

He recalled the content of his previous conversation with the interdimensional people.

KaibaCorp was a company he had never heard of.

His intelligence was limited. Except for an accidental experiment a few years ago that accidentally dropped him into the Fusion Dimension, he had almost never successfully gone to other dimensions, so he knew very little. He only knew that his father wanted to launch the "Arc Project" to rule all dimensions.

This dimension was still discovered by humans from other dimensions after all.

He was worried.

Because he had been to the "Fusion Dimension" before, he knew that compared to other dimensions, the people in this world lacked a very dangerous but also very necessary power—the power of spirits.

Although Solid Vision technology was already very advanced, compared to the supernatural power of spirits, Solid Vision was not only inconvenient, but its destructive power and power were also not as strong.

And besides that, although under the promotion of their Leo Corporation, the people of this dimension had begun to slowly master stronger summoning methods, such as the power of Synchro, Fusion, and Xyz, the people of his dimension were far behind those who had been immersed in them for decades.

The cards were not strong enough, and the power was not strong enough—

Even if that KaibaCorp wasn't an evil military force like his father, how could different dimensions so easily trust each other?

As an informed person in this dimension, he had to prepare for this.

[How is it, mortal?]

While he was thinking, a figure suddenly appeared on the calm glass in front of him.

It was the image of a magical girl with red pigtails and a staff.

If Hikari Amatsuki was here, she should be able to recognize that this was the Ritual Beast Tamer Zefrawendi.

Declan Akaba didn't recognize this card. However, what he was even more aware of was that what was in front of him was not a "card" at all, but some kind of ancient existence that was even more ancient and elusive!

A god!

Zefrawendi's voice was without any fluctuations, and it seemed that she didn't expect Declan Akaba's answer at all. She was just borrowing a convenient image to descend here and talk with Declan Akaba.

Declan Akaba was silent for a while.

More than half a month ago, this god suddenly appeared in this dimension. It seemed that their dimension and a certain dimension were "directly connected," and because there were some cards related to her, she directly appeared here.

She directly approached Declan Akaba and said that she could grant him power. As a price, he had to collect "multiple types of power" for this god to revive her.

There were many requirements, and Declan Akaba happened to be the kind of human who could use and adapt to all types of summoning methods and all types of spirit power. Therefore, he was found by her and chosen as a "priest."

As long as Declan Akaba was willing to accept, then this god could provide this dimension with many "cards" rich in spirit power. In response, he only needed to have the duelists under his command collect energy from various types of summoning methods for the god.

Logically speaking, this was a very good proposal for him, because what their world lacked was "the power of spirits."

Moreover, the consumption of dueling energy would only make the duelists feel tired and would not be life-threatening, so it could be seen that this god's behavior was not too intense. It was a kind of subtle influence.

However—Declan Akaba could also feel that this god was not a "good god" or a "harmonious god."

If he agreed to her, it would be tantamount to making the humans of this dimension become this god's "workers" or even, to put it badly, "slaves," being exploited for power without their knowledge.

But conversely, if he didn't cooperate with this god at this time, then he had no other choices.

Declan Akaba gently pushed up his glasses. The glasses reflected a burst of light, and then he said in a deep voice, "I can promote the cards you provide in various duel schools and tell them that as long as they are willing to pay the price of power, they can learn."

Now that things had come to this, he could only take a step back.

He would be open and honest, at least letting those who were willing to become workers know that learning stronger "dueling" required more "power," stamina, and brainpower. This could be considered cooperation.

The god didn't say much. The figure disappeared from the mirror, and at the same time, three sets of cards wrapped in black and white light slowly fell from the void and appeared in this dimension.

A Fusion Deck: Gem-Knights; a Synchro Deck: X-Sabers; an Xyz Deck: Constellars.

A set of decks each—

He pushed up his glasses again, and with a calm voice, the glasses reflected a pure white light, and he said nothing.

He wondered if Yuya Sakaki had successfully used the Dimensional Machine to get to the Fusion Dimension, and why there had been no return message until now.