Duels should be played with a smile.

Previously, the ability of the Skybreaker Giant Love to attack multiple times was useless in the Paradox scenario, but here, it is precisely the key to defeating the Paradox.

"Because I have three Xyz Materials, my Skybreaker Giant Love can attack four monsters!"

"Advance to the combat rank!"

"Breaking through the heavens with immense love, aiming at the Sinful Stardust Dragon, fire the cannons and blast his mother!"

Boom—

With a cannon blast, the Sin Star Dust Dragon shattered instantly.

[Paradox LP: 2750→1250]

"Breaking through the heavens, double shot, aim at Sigma, kill him!"

Boom—

The invincible Crimson Swordsman was no match for the massive cannonballs, for times had changed.

[Paradox LP: 1250→250]

"Finally, a devastating burst of love, a triple shot, aimed at the sinful blue eye, that seahorse's fallen wife, let's help her find liberation!"

Boom—

[Paradox LP: 250→0]

"Young man, have you learned how to fire the cannon yet?"

Chapter 104 The Blue-Eyed White Dragon Gets a Beating? Why am I having such a strange dream?

One morning.

"Hmph! As expected, with my talent, the development of Duel Link is only a matter of time. I will immediately distribute this brand-new Duel Disk with Duel Link built in to duelists all over the world!"

"Then, I will defeat everyone and become the one and only Duel King!"

"Alright, they've all logged into the game, including that ordinary guy Jonouchi and the woman who lost to my Tyrant Dragon. These guys are pretty quick."

"First, you, mortal, come and fight! Kneel before my evolved, strongest Blue-Eyes!"

"8000 LP? Two extra monster zones? Oh, right, it's the new rules."

"Hahahaha! Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon, Blue-Eyes Sub-White Dragon, Blue-Eyes Elf Dragon, and my most powerful Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Now they are all gathered on my field, Mortal, next turn will be your death day!"

"What? Link Summoning? How can someone of your mortal form know this?"

"Azure Locked Dragon Serpent? What kind of monster is that?"

"Red-Eyes Fusion? Is there such a card? How do you fuse it from the deck?"

"【Super Magical Dragon Knight - Red-Eyes Dragon Knight】What kind of monster is this? What's going on?! How could I lose to a mere mortal?!"

"..."

"Hmph, there must have been a problem with the system just now. Let me fight this woman again!"

"Hahahaha, what era are we living in? Still using those outdated and incredibly weak monsters like the Harpie Girl? Just wait to be crushed by me!"

"Wait, are you using Link Summoning too? Iron Beast Front? What's that?"

"Wait, how come my invincible Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon is excluded?"

"Iron Beast's Resistance? How could you Link Summon during my turn? And how did you banish my monster?"

"What happened?! How did I lose to a woman again?"

"..."

"Hmph! A game! Let me have my way with you!"

"Hmph, game! Looks like you're out of touch too. You don't even know how to use Link Summoning? You just ended your turn by covering the back row?"

"My ultimate, invincible monster is about to make its appearance! Wait, skill extraction? Ha, no way! Even if my invincible Blue-Eyes is nullified, it still possesses the strongest attack and defense. No monster can break through its defenses!"

"Wait, weren't all the monsters on the field negated? How come your monster still has a 1000-point ATK and DEF boost? And it can't be destroyed by effects?"

"Wait? Why did you send my monster to the graveyard?"

"Wait, what's with this Xyz Summon? And what's with this cannon?"

"Aaaaaah! I lost again!!!"

"Hmph! That must have been an illusion. It was you in the end, Leyou! I will definitely defeat you!"

"What kind of deck is this? How do you play so many tricks? And why are you constantly jumping back and forth between the graveyard and the field?"

"Searching for ritual magic? What era are we living in? Everyone else is using Link Summoning and Xyz Summoning, and you're still using that outdated Ritual Summoning? Is Ritual Summoning the only thing you know?!"

"What?! It requires attack power as a material? And it can target Ritual Monsters from the Graveyard? This Spell Card can even be recycled? What kind of fake card is this?"

"The Proclaimer of Glory? You went through all that trouble to make this? A cricket with 3000 defense points? Watch my invincible Blue-Eyes kick it to death!"

"Invalidate me? It's a waste of time. The bond between me and Blue-Eyes can't be broken by a single invalidation!"

"Wait, how come you can still invalidate my code?"

"What? Not once per round?"

"My Blue-Eye, you evil monster, I remember you! I never imagined this monster was used like this!? What are you doing? You actually intend to defeat me with my Blue-Eye! You bastard!!!"

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!"

……

"Hahaha--"

Gasping for breath, the blinding sunlight from the window gradually roused the seahorse from its reverie.

"The Blue-Eyes White Dragon lost to a bunch of weird things? Why would I have such a strange dream?"

Recalling the incredibly vivid details of his dream, the seahorse was somewhat bewildered.

After getting up, washing up, eating, and changing clothes, Haima efficiently completed this series of actions and prepared to head to the company. However, as soon as he stepped out, he turned back.

"It seems that I've been so focused on developing Duel Links lately that I've become a bit mentally unstable. I'll go to the company this afternoon and get myself back in shape."

"By the way, it's been a long time since I practiced dueling... those dreams... let's not worry about those for now, let's just practice a couple of matches, lest my skills decline because I haven't dueled for so long."

After calling the company's R&D department and putting himself on a fake Duel Disk, Kaiba put on his Duel Disk, set up his deck, and prepared to start the home computer battle system, he felt that he was not in good condition after playing a couple of games. In the end, he took off the Duel Disk and sat in front of the TV.

"No rush. We've been busy with research and development lately and haven't been keeping up with the outside world. Let's check the news first."

I turned on the TV and randomly flipped through the news on various channels. Most of the news this morning wasn't particularly noteworthy, or rather, that's how the morning news has been lately—most of it was about Seahorse Corporation, or about the International Vision Agency, and then there were a few scattered reports about a company called Paradis, and the rest were just other news snippets.

Speaking of which, Pegasus himself hasn't been seen in recent reports from the International Vision Agency. It seems like other executives from his company have been releasing the information on his behalf?

As he was looking around, a news article suddenly caught the seahorse's attention.

It looked like a street interview, somewhat like a magic show, but also seemed a little different?

"Sir, what's this about you being able to communicate with Duel Monsters?"

On television, a reporter holding a microphone interviewed someone.

"It means exactly what it says. I was dueling with someone that day, and I won the duel with my favorite card. When I got home, I found someone next to me, and upon closer inspection, it was the exact same card as my favorite card."

"At first I thought it was a hallucination, but then I found that I could communicate with her, and after a conversation, she even gave me some cards that could be used to help her in battle. Look!"

The interviewee took out four cards from the deck: one monster card and three spell/trap cards. All three cards featured the monster in them, so they were undoubtedly a set.

The reporters then asked the person many more questions, their words tinged with suspicion, because in their view, these were just publicity stunts—after all, the world's two largest Duel Monsters-related companies, Kaiba Corporation and Illusion International, seemed to be secretly planning something, and the interviewee's situation was clearly being taken as a signal.

Unlike the reporter's suspicions, Kaiba only felt something was strange, because he could see a phantom next to the interviewee on the television, which was the monster from that card.

It seems to be an elf with the same blue eyes as mine?

"Kisara, are you there?"

"I'm here, Lord Seto."

"I've said it many times, you don't need to use honorifics when addressing me."

“...Okay, Seto.”

"..."

I felt a little awkward being addressed with honorifics by Kisara before, but now... oh well, I'll get used to it.

"So, what do you think of the situation described in that report?"

Although Kisara did not appear in person, her consciousness was always with Kaiba, except in some inconvenient situations, so she had seen the report just now.

As a rather unique existence among Pokémon, Kisara possesses many abilities that normal Pokémon do not have, such as being able to exist without relying on cards. However, she also lacks some abilities that normal Pokémon should have, such as her understanding of the Pokémon world.

"I'm sorry, Seto, if we were face to face, I should be able to tell, but in this situation..."

Kisara shook her head. Seeing Kaiba's disappointed look, she thought for a moment and then continued, "If you have any questions about Pokémon, you can ask Lady Philvo. Although I don't remember exactly who she is, she gives me the feeling that she is naturally several levels above ordinary Pokémon."

Philvo has been spending most of her time at Hikari Corporation helping with the development of Duel Links. She's been handling all the database-related work and solving all the technical problems. It's no exaggeration to say that if Hikari were leading the development alone, the progress might not even be one-tenth complete yet—but the current situation is that only one-tenth is left.

"That woman... So, she might be the one that Leyou mentioned at the beginning? That guy seems to be pretty quick?"

With his intelligence, the seahorse quickly figured out many things, but he didn't care what Philvo's identity was. For him, only the result could explain everything, and other details were simply irrelevant.

After watching several news reports without finding anything noteworthy, Kaiba turned off the TV and returned to his home dueling practice room. This time, however, his opponent was not a human player.

Kisara used the power of the spirits to materialize a brand new deck and began her battle against Kaiba.

Playing against his own deck might reveal more differences and possibilities. Kaiba is no longer satisfied with the current Blue-Eyes. He is not the kind of person who will only rely on Kisara to gain new power. He is confident that he can use his talent, together with Kisara, to discover a more powerful and more suitable new generation of Blue-Eyes!

……

At the bottom of the ocean, Dartz looked at the few elves that had appeared around him and fell silent.

What's going on? Wasn't the Spirit World severely damaged in the Great War of Ten Thousand Years? How come it's now directly connected to the human world? Moreover, these monsters, whose power comes from the god Orichalcos, shouldn't be able to give birth to Spirits, because essentially, these monsters are just a part of the god Orichalcos.

Dartz's original plan was to use the power of the gradually recovering Orichalcos to deliver the final blow to the Spirit World, which was not yet recovered and powerless to resist divine power. To do this, he needed to use the power of the Egyptian Gods to open the gate to the Spirit World, and he also needed sufficiently powerful duelists as sacrifices to replenish the energy of the Orichalcos, which had not yet recovered to its full strength.

According to his plan, by seizing the three Egyptian Gods and opening the gates to the Elf Realm, without the protection of the legendary dragons, he could easily unleash the power of the god Orichalcos, causing the remaining elves in the Elf Realm to go berserk.

In this way, all the elves will go through that gate to the human world and destroy humanity. He will then achieve his goal amidst the chaos: to completely resurrect the god Orichalcos and utterly destroy the world.

But now... looking at the strange-looking elves around him, Dartz had an urge to completely overturn his plan and start over—having stepped into the unknown from the very first step, was there really any need to continue with such a plan?

"Ten thousand years! I've been preparing for this plan for a full ten thousand years! And just when everything was ready, this unexpected turn of events occurred!"