Duels should be played with a smile.

She clearly sensed the faint sense of fear in the professional commentator's heart.

Combining the audience's reactions with the frantically beeping communication device on her body, Ella had a rough idea of ​​the current situation.

"Humans are always like this: when a major problem arises, their first thought is to cover it up, to get away with it, and to try to solve the huge mess they've made with a drop in the ocean. They never consider the bigger picture..."

Ella has experienced many kinds of despair, and the situations that lead to despair are not unlike what she is experiencing now.

"If it weren't for... his sake, I would have no choice but to cooperate with your performance. But I'm curious, if things get out of control here, will those who caused this mess be held accountable, or will they be punished with a couple of drinks?"

Having connected with the organizers, Ella calmly cooperated with the arrangements and entered into a duel with the Faceless Ones who appeared before her.

The audience was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the finalists would perform a one-against-many duel before the finals. Coupled with the infectious voice of the professional commentator, the brief panic on the field gradually subsided.

However, everyone in the know understands that this is only temporary.

Paper cannot hold fire.

In Ella's perception, many powerful duelists had appeared in this area one after another to clear out the Faceless Ones who had also appeared without warning. These should be the insurance measures prepared by the organizers.

"But...your insurance doesn't cover anything."

One Faceless One after another was destroyed, but apart from those devoured by Ella, all the other defeated Faceless Ones turned back into black mist after leaving behind a blank card.

It drifted slowly toward the center of the arena.

……

"Such intense malice!"

Upon entering the virtual world, Jaden felt the growing malice. The power of the Overlord not only gave him more heroes, but also allowed him to personally experience darkness and malice.

After observing the surrounding situation, Jaden also tried to log out and return to the real world, but as mentioned in the report, the area used to host the competition is now a restricted area that cannot be logged into or out of. He was able to log in directly because of a one-time backdoor he had left in advance, and he could only log in, not log out.

"The situation is far too serious. If this incident isn't handled properly, not only will the Fusion Academy be in trouble... but the entire world will be in trouble!"

It's worth noting that the reason the competition was moved to the virtual world was not only because Pendulum Dimension had additional needs, but also because there were too many viewers. In the virtual world, there is no limit to the number of viewers, so basically everyone comes to watch the competition in the virtual world unless they have something to do in the real world.

With so many people trapped in the virtual world, the consequences are unimaginable.

"This situation... I feel like my teacher mentioned it when she was bored and telling me a story before? I think it was called something like 'sao'?"

"If I weren't certain you were no longer in this world, I might actually suspect you were behind this..."

With a hint of doubt, a touch of curiosity, and a suppressed anger, Jaden took out the deck he used when he fought his enemies as the Overlord and put it into his Duel Disk.

"No matter what kind of malice you harbor, since your existence is harmful to the fusion of dimensions, I will definitely erase you!"

……

"Is this the potential problem that Leyou mentioned before?"

"It seems to have exceeded expectations."

Professor Chronos, who was waiting in the virtual world, looked worried. He was starting to doubt whether getting on that pirate ship was the right decision.

"Professor, I think instead of lamenting these things, let's just take action and clean them all up!"

Manjoume remained noncommittal about the professor's explanation. Always arrogant, he was naturally not deterred by these minor obstacles after gaining even greater power.

“Manjoume is right. Regardless of whether it’s his plan or not, we would have eliminated such things as soon as they appeared in the real world. The current anomaly could very well be caused by them, so we have even less reason to let them go.”

Ed has always been quite direct, and when he saw the Faceless Men who had previously sent him to the hospital, he was already itching to take action.

He's not the type to fall twice in the same place. This time, his teammates are all in good condition, so he no longer needs to hold back because of them.

"That's right, and didn't we agree from the beginning that we're here to help Jaden? We owed Jaden so much in the past, we have to find a chance to pay it back, and isn't this a very good start?"

John has always cherished his friendship with Jaden. The bond he formed with Jaden in the other world is one of the things he cares about most. Now that he has the opportunity to help his former partner, he naturally takes the lead.

Seeing his former comrades from another world gathered together, John felt a pang of emotion.

"If Caesar hadn't gone to the Hyperion and Asuka hadn't gone to seek even greater power, we would have truly gathered together this time."

Manjoume waved his hand and said, "It's alright! There will be many more opportunities to help Judai in the future. The two of them will definitely come back in the future, and when they are even stronger, they can contribute even more!"

"That's true. Since everyone's doing this, I can't fall behind! Class, I hereby announce that it's time for make-up class!"

"The task is to fully demonstrate your power and contribute to your partners, my students, the overlords of dimensional fusion!"

"Yes!" ×3

……

"Oh my! Ladies and gentlemen! A new surprise is coming!"

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the professional commentator felt he was about to run out of things to say.

In the center of the arena, the sudden appearance of four renowned duelists rendered his prepared explanations useless. He had to think of a way to explain himself to these intruders in those few seconds.

And, surrounded by the four of them, was a huge cloud of black mist.

A few minutes earlier, he had noticed Professor Chronos and his group, but they had just come out of the players' tunnel and hadn't done anything special, so he hadn't paid any attention. However, after the black mist from all directions condensed into something that looked very strange in the center of the arena, they quickly surrounded that thing.

They then took out their duel disks, ready for battle.

"Next, you will witness four renowned duelists from the Fusion Dimension battling against the suddenly descending Demon King of Destruction!"

"They will show us just how powerful their will and strength are, having experienced fierce battles when the apocalypse struck!"

The professional commentator didn't care whether his words were inappropriate or hurtful. At this moment, he recalled the advice given to him by a senior commentator: "Commentary is just nonsense."

Surprisingly, the audience didn't boo much at his obviously exaggerated nonsense. Instead, they calmed down amidst a commotion and laughter.

It was as if they had believed his nonsense and were waiting for the duel to begin.

In that instant, he couldn't help but wonder if, when there are enough people, it is really very easy to be guided.

"It must be said that when enough people are considered as a whole, the total IQ of that whole is fixed, but as the number of people increases, the average IQ will only decrease."

"Idiots and idiots are contagious."

In the players' tunnel, Leyou leaned against the wall, watching the farce unfold on the field.

The black mist gathered into a huge sphere, which then slowly condensed into a giant whose face was obscured. Beside the giant were Professor Chronos and others, while Ella had already finished eating and slipped away.

The giant was initially tens of meters tall, but after being continuously condensed, he became only two or three meters tall, and he also had an object on his arm that was very much in line with the characteristics of this world.

Duel Disk.

This is why the audience actually believed the professional commentator's nonsense.

We haven't figured out exactly what this thing, which is probably formed from countless Faceless Ones, is, but with Professor Chronos and the others handling it, there shouldn't be any problems.

If something really goes wrong, then we can just clean up the mess later.

Essentially, it was the Fusion Academy and the Pendulum Dimension that caused this mess, and Leyou didn't have the heart to clean up their mess.

He has more pressing concerns now.

For example...

"It feels... a bit strange."

A slightly magnetic voice came from the other end of the passage. In the darkness, the Overlord, dressed in jet-black armor, slowly walked towards them.

"To be honest... I also feel it's quite complicated."

Leyou crossed her arms and leaned against the wall, turning her head to look at Judai as he slowly walked towards her, feeling a sense of unreal temporal displacement.

Not long ago, a child he was leading turned into an adult who was about the same age as him, or even a few years older, and it seemed to be a corrupted version of him.

The young Jaden he had raised, the teenage Jaden he had seen in the anime, and now the Jaden King who appeared before him, both familiar and unfamiliar to him—the figures of the three Jadens flashed through Leyou's eyes one by one.

"Well then, let's not ask you why you're waiting for me here for now." Judai continued to walk slowly toward Leyou, his calm gaze carrying a considerable sense of pressure.

He gazed at Leyou and spoke again.

What should I call you?

"Is it a stranger whose name I don't know?"

"Or perhaps an ordinary person with a familiar name?"

"Or perhaps, my dear, former, and detestable teacher?"

"Leyou?"

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Chapter 91 Reveal It! The Path of the Overlord!

"These strange things are happening more and more often... I really don't understand how the virtual world can escape my control."

Somewhere in the virtual world, Philvo, appearing in her true form, was busy. Countless data streams were converging from all directions, which she examined, processed, and searched for the cause of the anomaly.

Not long ago, she noticed some anomalies in the data of the area in the virtual world that was used as a competition venue by the Fusion Dimension and the Pendulum Dimension, but she didn't take it too seriously at first.

It's perfectly normal for programs to have bugs, and the unique virtual world itself has a certain self-healing ability. As long as it's within a reasonable range, bugs can be handled by themselves and won't cause any major problems.

However, Murphy's Law always applies when things don't go as planned.

The areas where the data was abnormal were expanding, and Philvo, who should have been able to process the abnormal data in a timely manner, suddenly found that he had lost control of those areas.

Her highest level of authority in the virtual world has been invalidated.

This is almost impossible for her; as long as the virtual world remains a virtual world, it will inevitably be under her control.

unless.

"I've really lived a long time, so I've seen all sorts of things... What's going on with this world? It feels like a random, cobbled-together setup, completely a product of a whim."

"The virtual world can actually transform into the real world; now it's truly a combination of the virtual and the real."

Faced with his own conclusion, Fairwall found it hard to believe, but as a famous saying goes, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however outrageous, must be the truth.

For unknown reasons, centered on the area chosen as the competition venue, the virtual world is slowly transforming into the real world.

It is transforming data into entities in ways that even Philvo cannot comprehend.

"Dimensional turmoil... This seems to be the source of everything. It looks like I won't be able to leave for a while, at least not until I figure out what's going on."

"Hopefully, while I'm away, that guy can control his wild ideas and not surprise me with something else..."

At the very least, I should give him a surprise first.

……