Xyz Dimension.
This is Heartland City, created by the rare genius Dr. Faker, a city filled with laughter and joy.
In this city, "dueling" is considered the most entertaining activity. Whether it's at work or school, students are taught how to duel.
Within Heartland, a man with eyes wide open and hair standing on end is observing countless images, the surveillance across Heartland.
In the surveillance footage, he can see a valiant and imposing youth using robots to duel, chasing one duelist after another, extracting their souls into cards and then abandoning the aged humans.
"Well done, well done, Kaito."
He is the creator of this city, the rare genius "Dr. Faker," Dr. Faker.
The power is evident just from the name!
While he was watching, suddenly bizarre voids appeared in the sky, on the ground, everywhere.
The smile on his face grew even stronger.
His eyes became even rounder.
Many giant robots appeared at the borders of Heartland, and duelists in purple uniforms appeared in alleys across Heartland.
The most important materialized machine was not delivered on time, but for Akaba Leo, the predetermined date for the attack couldn't be easily changed, so he didn't pursue it further and immediately used a backup plan.
It might not be as suitable as the original, but it should work.
After all, the duelists of the Xyz Dimension focus primarily on entertainment, and during previous dimensional exchange duels, those duelists performed very ordinarily.
Last year, Tenjo Hikari easily defeated the Xyz Dimension's duelists with simple tactics, showing how freely young people are educated in the Xyz Dimension.
Only high-level duelists can surpass high-level duelists from their dimension, but if you don't duel, how will you respond?
So—
We will win!
Yuri clapped his hands, passed through a Dimension Gate, and, while dusting off, glanced around and couldn't help but chuckle, "Oh~~"
He saw a girl with a dangerous braid hairstyle, wearing a white dress, and a bracelet on her right hand.
The girl was stunned when Yuri appeared abruptly before her, and the bucket in her hand fell to the ground, "Yuto? No—something feels off... Who are you?"
The girl became alert, took out her Duel Disk from behind, but before dueling, a purple light flashed, she screamed once, and fainted to the ground.
"There's always a dangerous feeling..." Yuri murmured to himself. He sensed his opponent might be a skilled duelist, but since arriving in this dimension, he constantly felt danger, instinctively reacting this way.
If he went for a duel, it would probably take a long time to defeat the opponent, better to leave now.
So, without further ado, he grabbed the girl and swiftly activated the convenient transport to leave quickly.
"Ruri!!!!" At this moment, a tall, wing-haired boy saw the scene and screamed the girl's name—just as both figures vanished!
"Ruri!!!!!!!"
The boy shouted with a more heartwrenching scream.
And within his cry.
A gigantic mechanical giant, with its head, limbs, and joints made of mechanical dog heads, landed above Heartland with a boom, its eyes scanning the entire Heartland from above, then lasers gathered on top.
Throughout Heartland, fires seem everywhere, and dueling seems to be happening everywhere.
And it will destroy the central hub of Heartland, taking advantage of the soldiers drawing attention—
A fierce Laser Cannon burst from its head!
The scorching flames even reddened the sky.
In an instant, the laser reached the ground from hundreds of meters high, about to slice Heartland in half!
Just then.
In this instant.
At this very moment.
Ka—
Time suddenly lost its color.
Like when pausing a video midstream, pausing everything casually while getting food, everything was halted.
The scorching Laser Cannon was about to slice Heartland, but in that moment, at that instant, what was "fractions" became "ten miles."
Tierra took a bite of noodles.
"Machine broken?" The screen froze, so she asked.
"You know more than me, right?" Tenjo Hikari certainly didn't know more about technology than Tierra.
"Then it's not broken." Tierra lightly circled with her fork in the air.
The answer was only one.
Time Stop happened.
The next second—
Boom!
Rumble—
In an instant, ten-headed mechanical giants exploded, the laser that was about to hit the ground vanished instantly.
Countless attacking Ancient Gear Golems began to collapse.
In just a blink, without even a moment to react.
Everything disappeared.
In the sky, only a tail coiling like a serpent, with purple wings, remained—a giant dragon—and on its belly, a series of eerie numbers flickered, revealing its identity!
No.
From Tenjo Hikari's memory, probably No. 92.
"What!?" Seeing this, Akaba Leo stood up, shocked.
Impossible?
All in an instant!?
How was this done!
His mechanical army, his mechanical monsters were completely obliterated in an instant?
He was anxious to launch the attack partly due to the Wave of Light's influence and also because, watching Tenjo Hikari duel with Heartland youth, he knew Heartland duelists seemed quite "basic," very "entertaining," so he felt reassured.
But unexpectedly—
Before he could say more, countless dragon silhouettes, countless breaths, countless lights blasted from the other side of the dimension.
"Professor!" The Guards screamed.
His "throne" started collapsing, his figure wobbled—only to be struck by a falling rock with a bang, his head immediately bloodied.
"Deploy the Spirit troops immediately!" He clasped his head with one hand, quickly thinking of emergency measures. Despite the head injury, he didn't care; he could create mechanical bodies to assist his work—the crucial thing is to be steady now, "Deploy the Spirit troops!"
Unlike the Fusion Army, even when controlled, the Spirit's main attack method remains dueling, and only initially they can barely attack, but without later control, they will instinctively duel.
Given the current situation, controlling Spirit fighting is just wishful thinking.
Quickly withdraw troops to minimize losses, relocate positions—this is the correct strategy!
"Retreat! Retreat! Quickly, quickly!"
Fusion Army soldiers were panic-stricken, only instinctively fumbling around.
Although the main target wasn't achieved, Yuri seemed to accomplish the "secondary target," and for the marshal now this result is barely quite acceptable.
While they struggled to relocate bases, a phantom figure, at some unknown time, appeared in the "base dimension's" sky, scrutinizing them, pondering something unknown.
Faintly, sinister laughter seemed to echo above this dimension.
"Is that it?" Tierra instinctively patted the screen that turned into static snowflakes, and after yet another round of counterattack, the computer completely broke. She clicked her tongue and said, "If it were my created machines, even if their owner died, they would perfectly complete the owner's task."
She indeed had the qualifications to say this.
But she created machines using "Divine Arts," not technology!
"Too arrogant." Tenjo Hikari casually said, "The opposite world, its hidden secrets aren't smaller than ours."
One move Time Stop, no matter how strong your mechanical army is, it's bound to fall into oblivion.
"It's a chance, Tenjo Hikari!" With a clang, Tierra drew out a laptop—something Tenjo Hikari found in the dimension that held Lapis—containing a massive amount of Fusion Army information.
It hid many dimensional coordinates.
Expectedly, in the short term, the Fusion Army might retreat, tighten defenses, regroup, and seek other methods.
It's just right for testing the Dimension Gate and going with other companions to seek more trouble.