Fusion is the noblest form of summoning!

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The duel ended, and Tenjoin Hikari waved to the audience as cheers erupted from all directions.

"He's really strong, Masked HERO." On the other side, Illusionist Chen Lue also walked over, scratching the back of his head and muttering, "As long as it's a HERO Fusion Monster, it can change forms. So, does that mean someone who admires HEROes can also transform into a Masked HERO?"

Although Form Change was used just now, Chen Lue heard the words "Masked Change", so he guessed there must be other transformation methods.

Tenjoin Hikari turned around and shook his hand with a smile: "Your Phantom HEROes are also very powerful, able to command any HERO. I'm afraid even Aster and Judai would like them."

"Aster and Judai? Oh, those two, right." Chen Lue had been in the Nexus for so long,

so he naturally knew about the users of those two HERO decks. Mentioning them, he suddenly became curious, "Why haven't I seen those two?"

Since they were both HERO deck users, he really wanted to see those two duelists.

After all, Tenjoin Hikari wasn't purely a HERO user, but a more dedicated Fusion user.

"They're both busy," Tenjoin Hikari said vaguely.

Chen Lue wasn't very familiar with him after all. Although curious, he knew he couldn't press further after hearing this answer, so he nodded lightly. Then, he took out his cards again, looking at the Phantom Knights' cards.

"Actually, the Phantom Knights have already come to this dimension." He looked at the cards, as if receiving some information, then looked up at Tenjoin Hikari and said, "Not just the Phantom Knights, but also many interesting spirits have come to this dimension.

After all, the Nexus is a world connected to all Spirit Worlds. It's a world where you can start from this dimension and reach any Spirit Dimension, so many spirits curious about us human duelists have also come here."

Oh?

Does that mean the number of spirits in this dimension is actually more than what's apparent?

That makes sense.

Tenjoin Hikari looked at the nearby camera.

Earlier, he had felt as if he was being watched by a camera.

Noticing Tenjoin Hikari's action, Chen Lue smiled: "That's right, it's pretty much what you felt like. It seems other Phantom Knights are also observing you, and they have a good impression of you."

"That's great, I welcome any existence." With that, Tenjoin Hikari waved at the camera, but this time, the camera didn't seem to respond.

Chen Lue chuckled twice.

Phantom HEROes are relatively solitary. If discovered, they'll likely change their observation spot.

But this also shows that Tenjoin Hikari is very popular with Phantom HEROes.

Afterward, he said goodbye to Tenjoin Hikari and walked in another direction, while Tenjoin Hikari returned to the waiting hall.

When Tenjoin Hikari returned, the friends in the room had already begun to congratulate him. At the same time, the next round of duels began.

A total of 37 duelists collected enough 8 stamps. The first round of duels took about a few days. Except for one duelist who received a bye, there were a total of 18 people.

Then, the competition didn't immediately enter the second round, but instead began the "Resurrection Round".

Yes, immediately after the first round, the Resurrection Round began.

The eighteen duelists would compete to determine 9 duelists, who would be re-promoted. Then, these duelists would participate in the competition again, and after two more rounds of duels, 7 participants for the grand finals would be determined. Then, one person would be resurrected again from the dozen or so duelists who lost the match to duel with the duelist who received a bye among the 7 grand finalists.

Then, it would be a normal quarter-final.

Because the number of people was odd, it seemed quite troublesome.

In short, because of this schedule, the duelists who won the first round could have a considerable amount of rest time to rest or gather information about others.

"Attention all duelists, the second round of duels will no longer use the gashapon machine format for random duels. Instead, there will be a clear match table. Please confirm your match table."

While speaking, a staff member from Kaiba Corporation pushed out a machine. The machine automatically played a holographic image,

displaying it to all the duelists in the hall.

This time, the duels included not only numbers but also the names of each duelist. In addition, there were some special blank spaces on the list, with "First Resurrection Match No. 1 Winner" written on them.

"Am I fighting the No. 3 winner?" Misawa Daichi looked at his number and then at the blank space on the list, pondering for a while and figuring out the logic.

"It should be to provide more advantages to the first-round winners, so the duelists in the winners' bracket can know who the duelists in the losers' bracket are in advance, and can think and target them earlier."

"I thought the winners' bracket was useless, just to make up a number," Fubuki said with a laugh.

He saw his name and knew his opponent, but that wasn't the main point.

If his calculations were correct, as long as he won, then his next opponent would be Ryo!

He didn't believe that the current Ryo would lose to any professional duelist.

"What a pity, there's no way to face you in the first round." At some point, a girl approached Tenjoin Hikari. She had long golden hair and wine-red eyes, and standing there, she looked quite imposing.

Her long black boots and white long gloves made her seem a bit feminine.

It was Gloria Tyler.

After arriving at the hall, he hadn't spoken to her. Her sister didn't participate in the finals, saying she didn't like single duels, so only she participated, while her sister cheered her on from the audience.

According to Misawa, the two of them had gained the Queen's recognition after a month of hard work, so they had a stronger, higher-level Fusion Monster, "Amazoness Empress", and their goal this time was to defeat Tenjoin Hikari.

But—

Tenjoin Hikari looked at her name, raising his eyebrows.

Her name and Tenjoin Hikari's name were exactly "opposite extremes". Tenjoin Hikari was on the far right, and her name was on the far left.

"It's good to be confident, but your opponent is Manjoume Jun, he's very strong." Tenjoin Hikari raised his eyebrows and pointed to Manjoume, who was also looking at the match table. Noticing his action, Manjoume looked over and waved to him.

Gloria looked at Manjoume, her confident smile undiminished: "Hmph, Manjoume Jun, right? Kaiba's disciple, an elder of the Fusion Department, but in the last duel with you, he was just an assistant.

I will win."

Tenjoin Hikari leaned back slightly, looking at Gloria in surprise.

He hesitated for a moment, feeling that his relationship with her wasn't that bad, and in fact, it was quite good, so he simply said, "Gloria, you know what? Since I started taking classes at Duel Academy, everyone who claimed they 'will win' has lost."

"Huh? What's that, metaphysics?" Gloria responded in confusion. Then, she waved her hand lightly, saying that she would definitely see Tenjoin Hikari in the finals and so on. In short, she left like that.

What could Tenjoin Hikari say? He wished her good luck.

What's more, he also had to think about how to deal with his opponent.

Because his opponent was No. 31—Skill Drain's Ansyel!