"Cough... cough cough..."
Ed gradually woke up. He propped himself up and stood.
Although his soul was sealed inside the Chaos Ruler, he had been watching the duel, so he roughly knew what had happened.
Tenjo Hikari assisted him to his seat, leaning back and resting.
Even though Tenjo Hikari was healed by the Wave of Light after the duel, the mental exhaustion hadn't faded much.
The Wave of Light cards were of much higher average quality than his, making the battle very tense.
In fact, starting from the beginning, the Wave of Light could have created a terrifying scene and had the probability to defeat him directly.
After all, Tenjo Hikari didn't know cards like Arcana Spread, but he did know Arcana Reading and the effects of the Arcana Force cards.
Moreover, if the Magic Jammer covered by Shadow of Saiou interfered with Polymerization, he would not have had a guaranteed victory.
In summary, this was all due to "choices." Without the Power of Destiny like Saiou himself, His tactics differed from Saiou in that they focused more on the "strength" of cards rather than combos.
After resting for a while, Tenjo Hikari returned Ed's cards to him. Ed looked at the deck, smiled and nodded, then couldn't help but cough a bit.
"Sorry, Ed, I used that power before you could create your own future."
"Destiny always favors me, so you don't need to worry. In the future, I will spread my wings again." Ed coughed for a while, responded with a smile, then opened the deck and picked out a card. "By the way, Minister, this card shall be in exchange for Fusion Destiny."
He handed over a Monster Card.
Tenjo Hikari hesitated for a moment, then took it: "Then I won't be polite."
Ed leaned against the chair, gazed at the starry sky, and laughed heartily.
The father-slayer was dead, his friend's fate had completely changed, and he now had the power to rewind the clock's hands. Life suddenly became very beautiful.
"Got any plans next?"
"Go back to surfing," Ed said.
"Hahaha..."
"Well... no, come to think of it, it's pretty dangerous here, so I better go out and save people." In the next second, Ed's face became solemn as he shook his head and sighed.
Indeed.
The issue with Saiou was indeed over.
But it didn't mean there were no more problems in this dimension.
The invasion of the Dark World still threatens this dimension.
After this, Tenjo Hikari and Ed cleaned up the tower. Saiou was still unconscious, and the affairs of the Light Society were mostly handed over to his sister. Because of Saiou's failure, the brainwashing of the Light Society was lifted. Many ordinary students looking back at the past had a sense of confusion.
Fortunately, Saiou Mizuchi was slightly versed in Yin Yang Arts and various spells of earth, water, fire, and wind were quite good. She could use the Yin Yang Mirror... In short, with Saiou Mizuchi's help, personnel were quickly re-adjusted and comforted.
Now, Tenjo Hikari didn't have to worry about internal bombs going off and could focus on dealing with the Dark World invasion.
Of course, after this, Tenjo Hikari also had time to take out that card.
Infernoid Tierra.
"Revive" your friends.
Tenjo Hikari didn't expect such a polite revival.
Besides Saiou and Ed, even Tierra was counted.
Tenjo Hikari stayed in his room, looking at the card; Tierra beside him also watched, her eyes seemingly sparkling.
Protecting Tenjo Hikari were Flame Sword, Black Flame, and Crystal; they finally knew what Tenjo Hikari meant by "Tierra," realizing deeply how strong a "Monster" Tierra was.
"It was right after I woke up, wasn't it? Still without a soul and missing some body parts, but it was still pretty good." Tierra said with excitement.
The Wave of Light is the root of "destruction and war." In some sense, it's a type of "god" similar to Tierra, thus capable of providing destructive power, forcefully granting Tenjo Hikari the Infernoid Tierra card.
However, the power of creation from Tierra's side cannot be provided by the Wave of Light.
Honestly, this made Tierra quite surprised.
According to her own calculations, even in this half-awake, half-revived state, Tenjo Hikari would need to create his 10 components from low to high, then rely on Super Polymerization to slowly gather Duel Energy, and eventually produce a fusion version of herself.
Then, recreate the ten components in reverse order, complete the path to the soul, in order to fully revive her as a card.
Now, the Wave of Light directly skipped the first process, creating her half-revived state, saving a considerable amount of time and consumption.
This way, Tenjo Hikari wouldn't have to walk back from the tail again.
However, in response—
This wasn't without a price.
That's what made this card a "Card" created for Tenjo Hikari by the Wave of Light, whose ownership belongs to Tenjo Hikari, not her.
In this regard, Tierra was quite particular, just as Tenjo Hikari never used Infernoid cards in his deck.
To let her live like a Spirit, directly lodging in this card, would not do.
But, since there was this card, she believed Tenjo Hikari would certainly try harder to create her body components.
After all, Fusion Monster—no way he wouldn't notice—he would always think of using it.
Aside from this...
Tenjo Hikari took out his deck.
His deck had several cards filled with light.
Just like how Saiou held glowing cards in his hand during the duel and shouted a name to unleash it, the Wave of Light never stingy.
He looked at those cards; they flashed with patterns. It seemed either he had to recognize them to use or use Duel Energy to stimulate them.
He glanced at them, took one out, and handed it to Tierra.
Infernoid Piaty, LV 5 Infernoid High-Level Monster.
Regardless, in terms of ATK, definitely higher than Tierra's current four.
The single card effects of Infernoid are actually quite good, but the deck's problem is there's a high probability of dead draws.
After viewing one card, he looked at the other flashing cards.
Oh!
This card is nice.
Tenjo Hikari's eyes gleamed.
Masked Hero Koga!
Though not Dark Claw, it's still good. As he used lots of Hero during the duel, the Wave of Light gave him the Hero Cards saw in other dimensions.
He looked at more cards, even discovering Evil Hero Lightning Golem.
Basically all Monsters were Light Attribute, among which there were numerous fusion monsters that made Tenjo Hikari's eyes light up. As there were so many, Tenjo Hikari didn't even know which ones were gifted by Super Polymerization and which ones by the Wave of Light.
Even more so, Tenjo Hikari found that The Claw of Hermos, which hadn't moved for a long time, seemed much more solid, achieving about half its form.
Simply put, although the scene was tough, everything gained was worthwhile; the rewards were exceptionally abundant.
After doing all this, he stretched lazily, finally able to relax a bit.