After the duel victory, Tenjo Hikari walked to the place where Divine once stood and bent down to pick up his Duel Disk.
Although the vast majority of cards, Tenjo Hikari wouldn't use, there are still some things to pay attention to.
He looked at the card placed on the Duel Disk.
"That card..." Jack's expression was grave.
"It seems indeed as he said, it is an [Artificial God]," Tenjo Hikari listened to Tierra's explanation while picking up the card.
The card emitted a heavy black aura visible to the naked eye, which was crazily smoking, furthermore, there was a lot of green electricity on it.
Tenjo Hikari silently felt the duel energy.
Back when Tenjo Hikari had a duel with the brainwashed Fubuki, after the duel ended, he gained massive duel energy that was enough to directly knock him unconscious. But as time passed, now after the duel ended, although he could still feel great Darkness power, it was not enough to make him faint.
Merely——
This power was indeed as he imagined, the power of Darkness.
Likewise, this "Psychic End Punisher" card too had the same eerie power as the mask card that once troubled Tenjouin Fubuki.
Tenjo Hikari cautiously stored the card with the [Emerald Book].
It was an important alchemy material——Back then, Tenjo Hikari used the card as a template and base material to manufacture many useful cards, and his successful Polymerization of [Midrash] was owed much to the power of darkness.
At that time, Tenjo Hikari was still thinking of dueling the seven stars when he encountered them, then heavily farming duel energy, trying to refine cards, yet unexpectedly, the subsequent few seven stars——including even Teacher Daitokuji, didn't have such massive duel energy.
As a result, this time, Tenjo Hikari unexpectedly encountered Darkness again.
Though unlike last time, then Tenjo Hikari faced Fubuki controlled by Darkness, this time, Darkness perhaps learned from past experience, probably realizing that in terms of dueling, it indeed lacked talent, so merely led humans to self-destruct.
From the results, this time its attempt was actually quite good.
Because, it seems in this world, the world acknowledges the existence of [Artificial Gods], so if Divine really developed quietly and then jumped out to propagate his creed when the apocalypse was about to come, it would be very tempting for those humans who lost hope and waited for death.
"What a pity, although the card is complete, [God] is merely a prototype." Tierra shook her head beside him.
Tierra could tell at a glance that this card was absolutely not crafted by Divine because the card's "energy" was quite like the Cosmic God Light of Destruction they encountered before, but the inclination of energy was completely different.
But to become a God, and even become The One, clearly is not something which a small laboratory can achieve.
To truly make this Thought Ruler Archfiend become a Divine-level Being, at least it requires integrating enough people into that constructed Spiritual World, just ten or twenty people are far from sufficient.
Furthermore, due to being cut in half head-on during the duel, the power of the Thought Ruler Archfiend was destroyed and couldn't become "God."
This is also the greatest problem faced by "Artificial Gods"——
Tenjo Hikari glanced at Jack Atlas and Carly Nagisa.
Since in this world, Dark Signers and Signers will gradually come together due to the reason of The One, and even duel each other, then naturally in the process of nurturing Gods, Artificial Gods will collide with other [Chosen Ones].
In the original work, Divine would throw Carly Nagisa off the high building with superpowers during a duel, letting Carly Nagisa die from the fall; however, after that, Carly Nagisa received the favor of an Earthbound Immortal, resurrected and became a Dark Signer, and dueled Divine again, killing Divine in a Darkness Duel.
Though the world's development wasn't too similar, Carly Nagisa still came here—just that this world has a Jack added.
Perhaps even if Tenjo Hikari hadn't come, Divine would have faced countless duelists.
Unless he's blessed with heaven's mandate and defeats all Signers and Dark Signers, then he can naturally become The One's emissary.
However, even if it doesn't become a god, this card is not bad.
Just dismantle it later and use it to create the most important "Lilith" for Tierra, the scraps can even make other things.
"How are the kids?" Tenjo Hikari put away the items and took a moment to ask Jack.
Jack shielded Carly behind him and said, "Of course there's no problem."
"That's good—You should have enough ways to settle those kids in the Upper City, right?" Tenjo Hikari continued to ask.
In his memory, basically every male from the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's protagonist group liked kids a lot; Yusei would teach children in the Satellite Area in the original work, Crow would adopt kids and earn money to support the family, though Jack was a life's wastrel, he was known far and wide as the children's king, adored and admired by kids.
"Are you...Tenjo Hikari from the F Dimension?"
"Ha, you guys just love starting your lines like this, huh? Previously, that Crow from the Lower City Area also started like this."
"You've met Crow? Could it be—" Jack suddenly recalled some news.
Although he had been staying in the hospital room, he never missed the possibility of finding traces of Yusei: "Could it be, you were the one saved by Yusei before, an Other Dimension Person?"
Tenjo Hikari nodded.
Jack immediately rushed before Tenjo Hikari, grabbed his collar, and asked in a very unfriendly manner, pursuing, "You've seen Yusei!? Where the hell did he go, what the hell is he doing!?"
"Jack!! Don't be so rude!" Carly was panic-stricken beside him, trying to stop him but not daring to get close, only ceaselessly waving her hands.
Tenjo Hikari gently pulled his hand away.
Though Jack was someone who could single-handedly take on a dozen people and still beat them up, Tenjo Hikari recognized straight away that his physical condition was not perfect, obviously somewhat frail.
However——even so, he was already much stronger than an average person, thus noticing that Tenjo Hikari could actually pull his grasp, Jack was somehow surprised.
"Sorry, even if you ask me, I wouldn't know because I've only met him once too."
"Tch..." Jack let go unwillingly.
Indeed——
Even Lua and Luka haven't been notified, not even him, Crow, nor Izayoi Aki; disappearing alone from the public view, what Yusei is going to do, how could he casually tell it to an Other Dimension person who's not particularly close?
He sighed, then immediately recalled his "job duty," looking at Tenjo Hikari's left hand.
Dark Signer huh...
Though——
If willing to come and duel Divine, whom even Yusei had supported once, then he should not be a particularly evil person.
Seeing he didn't pursue further, Tenjo Hikari looked at his own Dark Sign, chuckled softly, "Let's talk while walking."
Tenjo Hikari pointed towards the laboratory: "Let's first confirm the survival status and conditions of the personnel."
Right!
Jack suddenly realized, striding away, Carly hurriedly followed.
Tenjo Hikari also stepped into the laboratory.
Walking into the laboratory, one could see row after row of white grids like honeycombs, connected by pipes, leading outside.
Divine, that guy, to save space and money, didn't even spare rooms for the children, directly stuffing them into one after another of only half-person-high transparent grids, piled up in separate sub-laboratories.
Tenjo Hikari's face darkened instantly.
He followed Jack to the control of the laboratory, where some groaning guards still lay on the floor—clearly, these were people knocked out by Jack in advance to save the children.
They were miserable because Jack obviously hadn't held back, but they were also lucky.
If they were still conscious, they might have been eaten by the Thought Ruler Archfiend.
Carly took pictures, evidently preserving more evidence.
Tenjo Hikari checked the control console of the laboratory, noticed a card used as a "link," pulled it out and took a look.
Huh?
His eyes lit up.
Mutant Myutant?
He looked up around, discovering more cards.
It seemed every sub-laboratory, every key linking channel had such cards.
Truly worthy of Darkness... really generous.