Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

The Jewel 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 thoughts about her master. The person calling him John now is Jaden, who watched the duel from the sidelines until the end.

“Oh, Judai!” John greeted Judai, whom he hadn’t known for very long but with whom he had an extremely good understanding and who could even be called 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: "This aura... what's going on?"

"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!"

Chapter 1799

Before going into detail about the current situation, what is your understanding of "big"?

Of course, it's not the "big" in "big thunder," since there are different things between Azur Lane players. What we're talking about here is just the sheer size of the item.

Compared to a grain of rice, a fist is certainly large, and a house is obviously enormous compared to a person's fist. This shows that the concept of "large" needs to be highlighted through comparison.

However, even compared to the massive Duel Academy building, the single entity among the Pokémon located near the Duel Academy seemed far too "large"—

Like a colossal god capable of supporting the heavens, or a demon crawling out of hell, a skeletal exoskeleton is attached to a ghastly green body, with white hair growing haphazardly all over its body, making it look like a synthetic monster—[Synthetic Monster - Gazette] acts as the vanguard of the "beast tide".

"Mamma mia!"

Although they didn't react as quickly as Hayato, nor did they possess the basic sensory abilities of a "New-Type" like Jaden and John, Professor Chronos and his group had the advantage of having been paying attention to the area around the school all along. With the help of a high vantage point and equipment like binoculars, they weren't too far off and were able to spot the approaching beast tide in time.

Let's set aside the possibility that these swarming card monsters are trying to steal discounted bento boxes from the supermarket. No matter how you look at it, they're definitely headed for the school. So we have to act quickly to intercept them and stop them from getting any closer and causing damage to the academy.

...That's to say, when they saw the colossal beast [Synthetic Monster - Gazette], which was quite eye-catching among the conspicuous beast tide, many people were frightened by its exaggerated size.

In normal battles, the size of [Synthetic Monster - Gazette] is only slightly taller than that of a typical human-sized monster, not even comparable to the size of a monster like [Blue-Eyes White Dragon]. However, now that [Synthetic Monster - Gazette] has materialized in the Spirit World, it displays an exaggerated size that defies common sense. It feels like it could go to a mecha anime and fight against Mobile Armor alongside Gundam, or push Axis alongside Kamen Rider!

—In fact, Pegasus did reference the classic 70s robot manga series *Mazinger Z* when designing *Synthetic Monster Gazette*, as did the *Great Monster Gazette*, which referenced *Great Mazinger*. This guy has always been adept at being too lazy to design and simply copy, but since he bought the original manga, you can't even really accuse him of plagiarism.

The size of Duel Monsters has never been what the virtual projection system can show even when it is limited to the largest size. The best example is Jaden's [E·hero Neos], which, like the [Synthetic Monster - Gazette] in ordinary duels, appears as a humanoid monster that can climb to the height of a person in a duel, but its actual size is a "giant of light" that is even taller than Duel Academy. After all, Jaden's design prototype is a hero of light, a cosmic superman.

"W-Can a monster of this size really be taken out to fight?" Professor Chronos said uncertainly. "Although students can fight freely with the help of the 'Duel Energy Distributor' when fighting within the academy, they will have to rely on their own strength when fighting in other environments."

"We can't stray too far from the academy, which is the main reason why we can only repel the attacking elves but can't chase them down, aru." Standing next to Professor Chronos, Instructor Napoleon, who was also looking at the rapidly approaching beast tide through binoculars, looked worriedly at one of the students gathered below, wearing a yellow dormitory uniform, but quickly looked away.

“This defensive line we built using miscellaneous items from the academy itself represents the maximum protection range of the ‘Duel Energy Distributor.’ Fighting outside this range makes it very easy to be affected by the ‘Death Gauntlet’ and have your life threatened, aru.” He then looked at the academy entrance not far behind, which was less than two hundred meters away. “But for a monster of that size, this distance is definitely not enough, is it?”

“My Ancient Mechanical Titan might be able to fight at a similar size, but Coach Zeon is right, this distance will affect the academy.” Unlike when he first arrived in this world, Professor Chronos wore his Advanced Teacher Duel Disk, his expression resolute. “Therefore, when necessary, I, Chronos de Medici, will charge out to fight!”

"But Professor Chronos, you're wearing the 'Death Gauntlet' too, aren't you?" Ayukawa Megumi said seriously. "Even with the 'Duel Energy Disperser,' the students have been under immense strain from duels while fighting around the school lately, and this strain can't be completely eliminated. If you leave the effect zone, Professor Chronos—"

“But now there’s no more room for us to dwell on such things!” Professor Chronos, exercising his privilege as the temporary vice-principal, dismissed everyone else’s opinions with a single sentence. Without hesitation, he jumped down from the bunker and walked to the front of the defensive line under the gaze of all the students. “Although I’m in another world, I am still a professor at the Duel Academy and the highest-ranking person in charge of practical tests. In the name of Chronos de Medici, no student will ever be injured before me!”

"Watch closely, classmates! In the duels to come, you must all face difficulties with courage and persevere!"

Drawing a card from his deck, Professor Chronos proclaimed, "My ace, descend! Warrior of honor and dignity, [Ancient Mechanical Giant]!"

As the card was placed on the duel disk in front of his chest, Professor Chronos's "Death Gloves" emitted an undeniably bright yellow light, and at the same time, the sand in front of him trembled, and a gigantic gear-like warrior crawled out.

But that wasn't all! Professor Chronos didn't just put one card on his Duel Disk; he slapped out all three of his Ancient Gear Giant cards at once. His already pale face turned even paler from summoning so many powerful monsters in one go, but he concealed this from his students by staring straight ahead and never looking back.

The towering gear-like giant stood on the earth like a high wall between the students and danger. However, Professor Chronos could clearly see that his Ancient Mechanical Giant was still too small compared to the Synthetic Monster Gazette, and he needed to summon a stronger monster.

"The ultimate fusion of four Ancient Mechanical Titans, centered around this Ancient Mechanical Dark Titan!" Professor Chronos took out an Ancient Mechanical Dark Titan that met the conditions and could be used as an Ancient Mechanical Titan. He completed his preparations step by step and summoned a mechanical giant that was much larger, almost three times the height of the original Ancient Mechanical Titan.

"Ancient Mechanical Chaos Giant!"

Professor Chronos's strongest ace monster, which defeated the "Vampire Lady" Camilla, one of the Seven Stars who attacked two years ago, has made a long-awaited return. It can be said that there is a creature whose size can rival that of the [Synthetic Monster - Gazette]. Professor Chronos did not hesitate and took the initiative to attack: "Even in this other world, the duel will not be swallowed by darkness and despair, but will still be full of light."

"I will thoroughly clear the path of light for the students to see!"

"Chronos de' Medici, [Ancient Mechanical Chaos Giant], launch!"

With steady and elegant steps, Professor Chronos walked forward, facing the beast tide that was only a few kilometers away from the academy. The Ancient Mechanical Chaos Giant also stepped forward in sync with him.

Although the act of summoning a monster outside the "Duel Energy Distributor" circle instead of within it seems somewhat abstract, Professor Chronos has his own considerations. Rather than summoning a monster in its full state within the circle and then being affected by the loss of protection, he prefers to adapt to an environment without energy protection from the beginning.

Moreover, this approach has its advantages—with teachers leading the way, students are highly motivated.

"As expected of Professor Chronos, he easily accomplished what we couldn't!" The students of the Blue Dormitory were very proud of their dormitory leader's heroic performance. One of them took the lead and said, "In that case, I want to fight alongside the teacher!"

"We can't let the guys in the blue dorms have the best memories in the future!" The students in the yellow dorms were not to be outdone. Some of them stood up and followed the students in the blue dorms to climb over the bunker and keep up with Professor Chronos.

In this atmosphere, although some people in the red dormitory still asked, "Isn't it too dangerous and unwise to do this, to leave the front line and rush out to fight?", most students were at the age of high spirits and were able to answer without hesitation, "This is a critical moment for the survival of the academy, it is worth a try."

Seeing the students, led by Professor Chronos, leaving their bunkers to fight, Instructor Napoleon felt he couldn't just stand by and watch, and wanted to rush out as well, but was quickly pulled back by Teacher Ayukawa.

“Wait a moment, Coach Gene. I understand your desire to fight alongside Professor Chronos.” After a pause, Ayukawa Emi said calmly, “But there are students here, and students in the academy behind us also need you.”

"We must help maintain this last line of defense, provide support and logistical assistance to those fighting on the front lines, and ensure that they are met if they retreat, and that they are not surrounded by enemies from both sides."

"Only you can do these things."

"...Since you've put it that way, alright, I'll coordinate the rest of the students." Coach Napoleon glanced at the students who remained. The student from the yellow dormitory, whom he had paid special attention to before, hadn't rushed out with the others in a fit of enthusiasm. He had almost forgotten about the boy because of Professor Chronos's example, and now that he saw him still there, he breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll also have to ask Ayukawa-sensei for your help."

"I just don't know how so many elves managed to gather together, Aru."

The person who could answer Napoleon's questions was not here. Even Hayato and the others, who had noticed the situation and were rushing here from the other side of the school, were not sure. Only a golden energy life form on the shoulder of the giant demon god—[Synthetic Demon Beast - Gazette]—knew the answer.

"I can feel an immense power right here!" [Synthetic Beast - Gazette] stared intently at the Duel Academy with its right eye, saliva dripping from its open mouth, even forming long strands. "It seems you weren't lying to me; there really is a powerful dark force hidden here!"

"Of course, I don't have a habit of lying." Yubel explained to himself that he was just not finishing his sentence. He maintained the form of [Yubel Phantom] and smiled smugly on the surface. "It's just that the ones who occupy this place are powerful beings from the human world. I came to you because I couldn't get those powers that were taken for themselves."

"Hmph, the so-called 'driving away wolves to devour tigers,' right? But they're just a bunch of small fry. Although they have some strength, they can't do anything to me or stop me from getting that power."

Seeing the Ancient Mechanical Chaos Giant gradually charging forward, the Synthetic Beast Gazette also gradually accelerated, preparing to charge as well. At the same time, it didn't forget to communicate with the Yubel Phantom on its shoulder, saying, "However, in exchange for providing me with information about this place without telling anyone else, I only allow you to take half of that energy. Don't let me find out that you sneaked in and stole my spoils while I was dealing with the small fry here!"

"Don't worry, I'm not that malicious. We'll definitely distribute that power fairly." [Yubel Phantom] casually replied to [Synthetic Beast - Gazette]. "But the enemy is about to attack. Are you still so confident you can easily defeat that big guy?"

"You don't actually think this is my full power, do you?" [Synthetic Beast - Gazette] said, and suddenly the bones on its hands made a "crack" sound. The red exoskeleton that originally only covered half of its body expanded to the other half of its body as if it were a copy. The proliferating bone armor forced [Yubel Phantom] to fly away from its body. At the same time, white fur proliferated all over [Synthetic Beast - Gazette]'s body, and purple highlights appeared at the ends.

A pair of arms grew out of the skin from under the armpits, and the arms were wrapped around the chest. A pair of bird wings pierced through the muscles on the back and emerged, giving the [Synthetic Monster - Gazette] the ability to fly.

However, at this moment, the true form of [Synthetic Monster - Gazette] should be renamed [True Monster - Gazette]. This card spirit, which is also based on the super robot "Shin Mazinger Z", immediately raised the charge power to another level with the acceleration of its wings as it showed its battle stance, and suddenly collided with [Ancient Mechanical Chaos Giant]!

The monsters summoned by the students and the gathered beasts, birds and other spirits began to attack each other, and a battle was about to break out!

Chapter 1800 Kobayashi Hayato? Amuro Ray!

Yubel's plan went smoothly, successfully drawing the attention of most people in the academy to the elves she had managed to attract.

From the start of the plan to the receipt of results, she hasn't spent much time (referring to Chapter Sixteen). Although the quality of the elves she has gathered is not top-notch, she feels it is enough. If there were more, she might not have enough time.

If Hayato Kobayashi and his friends were given enough time to find a way to escape this world, Yubel would really be at a huge loss. A combat power like [True Demonic Beast - Gazette] would be enough to restrain most of the students in the Duel Academy—at least Yubel thought it would be enough.

However, just as she was flying in the air, admiring the massive battle between the [Ancient Mechanical Chaos Giant] and the [True Demon Beast - Gazette] that seemed like something out of a tokusatsu movie, a series of blood-red needles suddenly rained down on her. Frowning, [Yubel Phantom] dodged the attack and looked at the location of the attacker.

"A golden energy life form, materialized into a deformed left hand covered in scales... You, are you the culprit who brought everyone to this world? What a truly evil creature, inside and out."

Unlike Caesar, who was interested in John's "Jewel Beast," Edward did not attend Hayato's additional "Spirit Coexistence Course." Instead, after learning that while the academy had enough patrol personnel, it lacked leaders capable of decisively defeating powerful enemies, he volunteered to join the campus patrol team.

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, and Edward is a perfect example of that. He may seem like a reserved and elegant nobleman, but he's actually quite lively and active. He's not only good at extreme sports like skydiving, skiing, and surfing, but he's also an outgoing and passionate hero enthusiast—even though he's a dark-themed [D·hero], he's still a [Hero].

After the "beast tide" of card spirits led by [True Monster - Gazette] appeared, Edward initially thought of helping Professor Chronos and working together to defeat him, but his sharp mind suddenly realized that it was very abnormal for these spirits to gather together and attack Duel Academy.

He suspected that there must be some force behind this anomaly that led to "everyone's attention being focused on the 'beast tide'", so although he rushed out of the cover with the others, he did not join the battle immediately after summoning his [D·hero Doctrine], but instead searched around.

If no suspicious entities were found on the ground, then let's check the air. If there's still nothing there, perhaps we can find some clues in the direction the beast tide came from. Fortunately, in the "air," Edward already found a very suspicious person—a strange guy flying not far from [True Demonic Beast - Gazette], watching the battles of other cards, but like himself, not joining any battles.

Although Edward wasn't present when Yubel carried out the "Great Transfer" and was merely caught up in the world of spirits, the members of Duel Academy weren't the kind of people who, despite their fathers being scammed out of 168 billion yen and having to work to earn tuition and stop playing in the band, refused to tell the truth and instead blamed others for needing more practice when leaving the team. They had information that Jaden and the others had already exchanged with Edward and the others.

Because Yubel was still in the form of [Yubel Phantom], Ed immediately recognized her based on her features and launched a sneak attack, but Yubel, being too perceptive, dodged it.

Upon hearing Edward's words, Yubel glanced at [D·hero Blood Demon-D], who, although no longer possessed that special aura, still retained traces of being possessed by the "Light of Annihilation" in the past, before responding to Edward: "And you, Edward Phoenix, do you consider yourself some kind of hero? You just shamelessly ambushed me once."

"You know me? But that's not important. Hayato-sensei said that although greeting is a duelist's etiquette, duelists can launch a sneak attack before greeting, and that this is also recorded in the Kojiki." After a pause, Edward casually remarked, "But I don't really think that book, which I have no interest in flipping through, contains such nonsense."

"Leaving aside the ambush, what kind of hero am I? I won't answer that question, because I never care about other people's definitions of 'hero.' I just need to do what a 'hero' should do in my heart." Staring at [Yuber] in front of him, Edward said, "For example, since you were able to capture everyone here and transfer everyone to this world, you must also have a way to bring everyone back to their original world, right?"

"So you're even willing to just stand by and watch your comrades get hurt?" Yubel, completely oblivious to being targeted by Edward, wore a relaxed expression. He pointed to the desert below, where Card Spirits and Duel Monsters were already engaged in battle, and some Duel Academy students were injured in the fierce fighting. "What a cold-blooded 'hero'~"

"This is a necessary sacrifice—that's what Hayato-sensei would say to you, right? But my answer would be: I have faith in the students of the academy. Not only in the students below who willingly joined this most dangerous close-quarters battle, but also in the students behind!"

While it appeared to be just a conversation, Edward had actually been secretly preparing a card. Once he finished preparing and the conversation had reached a point where they had nothing more to say, he suddenly unleashed the card: "[D·hero Destroy the Phoenix]! Let's all attack together!"