Chapter 1024: Chapter 1024: Shadows of Another World

"Hey? You there?"

"Don’t sleep—I have a few questions for you."

"..."

A moment of silence.

Then, a surging darkness erupted. Black fog surged like night itself, enveloping Kira.

The surrounding furniture, his dorm, and even the whole academy seemed to vanish, leaving only utter darkness—just like when he was in the Wicked Gods’ realm.

Then, from the darkness, three gigantic, twisted, indescribable shadows appeared.

The Wicked Eraser, The Wicked Dreadroot, and The Wicked Avatar, each rising before him in turn, their eyes cold and sinister.

"We’re all family now—no need to look at me like that," Kira grinned. "I just have a few questions."

Eraser snorted, "What’s there to talk about?"

"Let’s chat about what you kept mentioning before." Kira said. "You said there are other worlds outside ours, right?"

The three Wicked Gods exchanged glances.

Dreadroot spoke, his voice dull: "You already know this, don’t you?"

When they tried to draw out Kira’s fear, they instead saw things that even gods would fear.

Worlds beyond this one—realms even they, as gods, had never seen. Dimensions born from all kinds of summoning laws, with countless rules far beyond their understanding.

The Wicked Gods were still shocked, wondering who this man really was and why he knew so much.

Kira said, "Yeah, I know our world is likely part of a multiverse, and that parallel realities probably exist. Maybe I know a little about the rules of other dimensions too.

But that doesn’t explain you."

He paused, sweeping his gaze over the three, eyes narrowing.

"You’ve had contact with another dimension, haven’t you?"

"Is your recent revival related to that contact?"

The Wicked Gods fell silent, no one answering at first.

Several seconds later, the leader, Avatar, finally spoke.

Avatar said deeply, "At this point, there’s no harm in telling you... Our agreement seems to have been broken anyway."

As soon as he spoke, Eraser angrily chimed in, "That bastard clearly promised that if things got critical, he’d help. But now, not even a shadow of him.

We never should’ve trusted him."

He stopped abruptly as Avatar shot him a cold look, shivering and falling silent.

Kira asked, "So you really had an accomplice. Who?"

"We don’t know," Avatar said coldly.

"I’d hope you could find out who that backstabber is. But unfortunately, we don’t know either."

"We were trapped in darkness, with ages still left on our seal—until that guy appeared."

"He came from another world—we could sense it, his aura was completely different."

"Then he said he could loosen our seal, give us a chance. He even showed us the future—a chaotic, destroyed future."

"Not just this world, but all dimensions, countless dark futures. Worlds colliding, destroying each other. Demon gods rising from the darkness, generations of duel kings falling..."

Avatar stared unblinking at Kira.

"He said, that era would be ours. Darkness, chaos, despair—we were born for such an era."

Kira asked, "Then he gave you cards from another world?"

"That’s right," Avatar said.

"The so-called unique ’Supreme Sun’ of the Planet series, and others.

Even the ’Darklord’ deck."

Avatar did not say it, but in fact, when he first encountered the ’Darklord’ deck, he was stunned.

The deck was truly powerful.

In the past, the Wicked Gods were strong, but their strength lay in themselves, not their deck. If they had to duel, they relied on godly destiny, not their cards.

They thought themselves gods—believing their own power was all that mattered, and they could crush any foe just by showing up. Who needed a deck?

But even these arrogant gods were shaken when they saw the Darklord system.

Such a powerful system!

It could search and access any resource from the deck with ease—though, for gods confident in their own destiny, that wasn’t important.

What mattered more was that the deck could casually summon many high-level Darklords. It could swarm the field quickly, had strong staying power, and could prepare three tributes for a Wicked God without needing normal summons.

Even the "Divine Evolution" they used this time was brought by that man from another world.

At this point, the Wicked Gods looked at Kira with a bit more resentment.

Because, no matter how powerful the cards from another world were, now they all belonged to Kira...

Even the three of them.

"So even the Darklord deck was given by an outsider?"

Kira didn’t mind their glares, just propped his chin and thought.

"So, you really have no clue who he is?"

"Did he ever fight? Did he duel? Use any novel monster summoning method?"

"No," Avatar replied.

But after a moment’s hesitation, he grunted.

"But there is one thing...I suppose I can tell you. Though he never showed his true face, for a split second, I seemed to sense a familiar presence."

"Who?" Kira asked.

Avatar lightly spat out a name.

"Zorc."

Kira’s brows furrowed.

He immediately thought of the one he’d met not long ago.

The one who used the card "Dark Master - Zorc," seemingly connected to the fallen Wicked God.

"Well, just a thought," the Wicked God said, exhaling softly.

"It was only for a moment—maybe just my imagination."

Kira asked no more.

Another world, huh...

KaibaCorp had been researching dimensional fields for years—maybe they’d found something. He’d check them out when he had time.

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