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Chapter 1798 Untitled
“Ugh, Lucy.” John Duck sat on the ground with a sad expression. “How did you manage to pull out a ‘Called One of the Grave’?”

"I encountered the King of Duels in the Elf World. His explosive power was as strong as a monster. I tried my best but couldn't defeat him." Caesar was still making sarcastic remarks, acting as if it was none of his business. Anyway, I finished one round and had some fun before handing it over to John. It wasn't a duel that I lost under my control. So, rounding it up, it's as if I didn't lose.
While Caesar was mentally triumphant, Hayato put away his cards and said, "What an interesting duel, John. I don't think I'll ever forget your duel."

"Yeah, right, Hayato-sensei, you'll probably forget about this victory that's all too common for you by tomorrow," John retorted, standing up.

Although John was very confident just now, saying that he would let the newly appeared [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] return everything to its original state, the cost for his [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] to activate its effect is precisely to release itself.

Although this activation cost allows John to use the effect of "Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon" to turn the tide when facing cards like "Skill Drain," Hayato happens to have a "Called by the Grave" card in his hand.

Besides being used to deal with hand traps like [Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring], [Called by the Grave] is essentially a way to deal with monster effects activated in the opponent's graveyard. As long as it's not a type that is activated by banishing itself in the graveyard, it can effectively counter whether it's discarded from the hand or Tributed from the field. Naturally, it can also banish and negate [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] that John Tributed to the graveyard.

Without the [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon], the outcome for John is self-evident: Hayato's monsters swarmed him and instantly wiped out his life points.

"With a single drumbeat, a thousand troops stir; after scooping up the yellow sand to wash their iron armor," [Knight of Instruction - Friedris] sheathed her longsword, loosened her helmet, and let her previously tied-up pale purple hair fall loose over her shoulders, exclaiming with emotion, "What a great victory!"

"Has my sister been corrupted by Hayato?" The [Saintess of Guidance - Acricia], who showed absolutely no respect for Hayato, looked at her sister without a second thought and laughed smugly with her hands on her hips. "But anyway, it was definitely a satisfying battle. Hmph, we two sisters are invincible, let's go on a rampage and slaughter everyone!"

"Fredris is in charge of the rampage, and you're in charge of sneaking biscuits on the sidelines, right?" Hayato retorted with a card he hadn't played yet—[Albus's Fallen Heir].

"Albus, shut up!" [Saintess of Teaching - Acyria] blushed and rushed to Albus's side, waving her pink fists and banging them around. She was obviously very concerned about her ability to eat, and especially concerned about it being mentioned.

Although it seemed like a playful banter between the young couple, seeing Albus's pale face and the fact that she looked like she was about to vomit blood, Hayato quickly stopped the super-strong girl's embarrassed and angry attack: "Alright, alright, you guys have all finished playing cards and aren't you going back? If you want to flirt, go somewhere where there's no one else around."

(She provides weapons and goggles, helps prepare clothes and tie her hair; Kit is the kind of woman who could be the mother of a gluttonous saint!)
"We've finally come to a world where we can move around freely, can't we at least relax a bit?" The foodie, who doesn't admit to being a foodie, complained, while holding up a piece of clothing, "I even prepared clothes suitable for the desert."

Looking at the clothes in the foodie's hand, Hayato complained, "Did you prepare those yourself? It was clearly Kit who prepared them, okay? And where are the black pantyhose? Where are the black pantyhose you wore when you were the White Saintess?"

(In the alternate art of the White Saintess, she's wearing a short dress and doesn't even say thank you to Kit for the clothes.)

"That thing is with me~" Hayato said softly. The [White Remains of the Guide to Evil], which had been added to the deck but not drawn, was not in the form of the [Guide to Evil], but rather in the form of the [Guide to Evil] who taught the 666 saintesses of the past to "eat mud together", but had expelled the [Saintess of Teaching - Exeria] - that is, the [Saintess of Guidance - Kua].

Pulling at her stockings, [Guiding Saintess - Kua] wore a meaningful smile: "Mr. Hayato, would you like to confirm this?"

"Wow, that old woman Kuem is getting more and more perverted." Looking at the appearance of [Guiding Saintess - Kuem], Acrisia had a disgusted expression on her face. "And she's the first Saintess, now she looks so pathetic."

"Why does this old woman act so self-righteously?" Not only Akrysia, but also Friedris felt a bit disgusted with [Guiding Saintess - Kua]. After all, in their original world, they had once been "fused" into her body and became [Herrscher Saintess - Caltesia]. Even now, because of Hayato, they were barely able to get along with her, but that was only to the extent that they wouldn't fight each other. It was completely impossible for them to smile at her.

But the Guiding Saintess - Kua simply smiled gently: "Really, I'm the same age as everyone else, don't say anything hard to understand~"

"Ugh, pretending to be young is disgusting. Anyway, let's go back quickly, sister, Albus." Exeria, who had just wanted to wander around outside, changed her mind because of the existence of [Guiding Saintess - Kua] and took the initiative to return to the card. Fledelis did the same. Albus shrugged helplessly at Hayato and followed them back.

Only the [Guiding Saintess - Kua] remained, smilingly standing beside Hayato, showing no intention of returning. In fact, when Hayato looked at her, she spoke up before he could say anything, "I don't want to either, because if I go back, Acrisia and the others might run out, right? For Mr. Hayato, leaving me alone outside is more acceptable than having a whole bunch of others come out, isn't it?"

“I even went out of my way to help you, Mr. Hayato, tie up [Disruption Yellow] and the others.”

Upon hearing [Guiding Saintess - Kua]'s words, Hayato realized why he hadn't heard [Disruptor Huang] and the other guys buzzing around him for the past two days. It was unusually quiet, and he had thought they were too scared to come out because of the [Harpies] that had come to the vicinity of the academy.

"In that case, you can stay outside, but don't bother my students."

"Mmm, I'll only provoke you, Mr. Hayato~"

Watching Hayato interact with his Pokémon, John sighed, "Hayato-sensei must have a tough time too."

"How to get along with your Pokémon is also an art, especially when your teacher Hayato has so many Pokémon." John's [Jade Pegasus] had appeared beside him in response to the dangerous aura emanating from [Guiding Saintess - Kua]. After realizing that she didn't pay any attention to John, it wasn't in a hurry to go back. Instead, it turned to John and said, "Also, you did a great job just now, Johnny."

"Hehe, it's alright. It's all thanks to Sapphire and everyone who trusted me and responded to me with their strength."

“Your strength is also very important, John!”

The Gem Beasts call John by his family nickname "Johnny," while Caesar prefers to call him by his full name, including his surname. Hayato is still dealing with Ms. Kuem, who makes no attempt to hide her inappropriate feelings for her master. The person calling him John now is Jaden, who has been watching the duel until it ends. "Oh, Jaden!" John greets Jaden, whom he hasn't known for very long but with whom he has an extremely close understanding and can even be considered a soulmate, with a bright smile. "Your battle is over too."

"Yeah, although the [Beast Warriors] are all very strong, as expected, I and the [Hero] are invincible together!" Jaden said with a grin. "Everyone saw your duel just now, it was a pretty good battle, especially the appearance of the [Rainbow Bridge Dragon] at the end, super cool!"

"Although he was still defeated by Hayato-sensei as expected." Manjoume didn't care about John's feelings at all and directly exposed him. He paused, then turned his head to the side, "But it was not bad. The rainbow light was quite beautiful."

"Oh, Kenzan, what's this kind of behavior called again?" "Isn't it called tsundere, senpai?" "Hehehehehehe."

Hearing Xiang and Jianshan's banter, which sounded like a comedy routine, Wan Zhang glared at them and snapped, "You two are so noisy!"

"However, it seems that the true power of the [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Dragon] has finally been awakened. That's great news."

Not only Fubuki noticed the real key point, but Asuka also looked at John after he finished speaking and asked, "So, the power of the [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] really can..."

Faced with his companions' questions, John gave an affirmative answer without hesitation: "Yes, if it's the [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon], I even feel that if necessary, I can have the [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] take us back to our original human world right now."

"However, I want to stabilize the power of the [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] a bit more, so that I can safely bring everyone back to their original world."

Because Hayato was too powerful, the "Light of Destruction" personally attempted to destroy the Earth. However, because Hayato repelled the "Light of Destruction," Yubel gained power far exceeding anything he had ever possessed. This chain reaction accumulated, and the resulting butterfly effect meant that the "Great Transfer" initiated by Yubel was no longer a problem that could be solved by the power of the "Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Dragon" from another timeline. Even the current "Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon" and John needed to increase their chances of success.

However, this incident can actually be considered resolved, since the most important "key" needed to return to the human world has been obtained. Because Hayato has brought all the students from the other three dormitories scattered across the vast desert back to headquarters, Johan could easily bring the people from headquarters back without any problem, ignoring the other three dormitory buildings. The only trouble afterward would be rebuilding the academy on Duel Academy Island.

However, even just knowing that there was a definite hope of returning to their original world was enough to make everyone overjoyed. Even the mature and steady O'Brien and Jim couldn't help but show expressions of relief. O'Brien even let out a long sigh of relief and showed a relaxed expression: "That's really good news."

"Ow!"

"Haha, Karen already wants to go back to the island and take a good bath," Jim said with a laugh, patting the crocodile Karen on the ground.

"Huh? I thought Jim would be curious about what's buried underground in this world and would be reluctant to leave." Jaden tilted his head and stepped forward to rub the crocodile Kallen's head a couple of times. Despite being covered in hard armor, it still felt really nice to the touch. After all, Jim had taken good care of it as family, and it hadn't lost weight even after coming to this other world.

"As for me, I'm definitely more interested in the ancient history beneath our original world." Jim smiled and adjusted his hat brim, watching Marufuji Sho, who was also curious and wanted to approach but was scared away by Karen's intimidating half-open mouth. "There are too many things we don't know about the underground world of the human world alone. It would be too greedy to be interested in the world of the elves as well."

"I wish Liu Zhe thought like Jim," Asuka complained. "He's been writing formulas on the bread they serve him at mealtimes lately, he's almost gone mad."

"I have a feeling that when we're about to go back, he might be reluctant to leave and want to stay."

Just as everyone relaxed and the atmosphere became more relaxed because John had completed the evolution of [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon], Hayato suddenly looked into the distance and frowned: "What's going on with this aura?"

"Such a strong aura of power. Why are so many elves approaching this way?" Kuem stood on Hayato's back and secretly sniffed Hayato's scent when no one was looking, but calmly said, "They don't seem to have any good intentions."

Is it possible that, to the native inhabitants of the elven world, humans like us are the outsiders?

Hearing Hayato's words, Kuem tilted his head: "Why does Mr. Hayato keep saying such strange things? Isn't this world yours?"

"Hmph, although it's obvious you're just flattering me, I love hearing sweet talk." Hayato chuckled, dispelling the field magic card and sending everyone back to the desert outside the academy. Judai and John, no longer affected by visual interference, both changed their expressions.

"This feeling of being threatened... My gut tells me there's danger!"

In fact, they didn't need to warn each other anymore, because not long after Hayato led the students back to the desert, Caesar and the others could clearly see a team of countless card spirits rushing towards Duel Academy, riding the sandstorm that was being kicked up.

However, rather than being called a "team," the chaotic lineup had no discipline whatsoever; it would be fair to call it a disorderly "tide."

"Academy setting, beast horde sieges, what kind of fantasy novel are we in?" Hayato complained, then called to the students, "Now you know how necessary the practical training I just had you do was, right? Alright, class exercises are over, now it's time for after-class practice. Those random guys over there are getting close to the academy, we need to take the initiative and fight them off!"

The leaked data from Pokémon Legends: ZA DLC suggests Garchomp will be getting a Mega Z form. First, the importance of Speed ​​was reduced, then the effectiveness of moves like Dragon Dance was diminished, and now they're even giving it a second Mega form. Garchomp fans are really throwing milk at the developers!