"This is the leader of the Knights of Hanoi?" Earth narrowed his blue eyes.

"Yes, Ignis…. and now I know where your little secret is hidden!" Revolver smirked.

"This is an Ignis creation! You can't destroy it!" Earth narrowed his eyes as he held the Ignis Memorial.

"I'm fully aware of that! I can't kill the Ignis until I kill that!" Revolver held us his hand and a red dagger formed in it. He launched it and before anyone could react the spear smashed into the Ignis Memorial, breaking it into pieces in Earth's hands. The Ignis all looked at the pieces drop to the floor as the humans were all caught by surprise.

"No!" Blue Girl yelled.

"That…. was Ignis made… how did you make something which could destroy it so easily?!" Ai yelled.

"Anti-data!"

"Anti-data?" Aqua repeated.

"That was only a small bit of what's to come! Now let's take this somewhere less claustrophobic!" Revolver clenched his fists and everyone including him dissolved.

….

The trio were teleported back into an empty street of LINK VRAINS as Revolver appeared ahead of them.

"I had to stop you teleporting away with the Ignis Memorial…. now you're free to leave!"

"Where's Earth?" Flame demanded to know.

"Since he's not locked down to any duel disk…. we've taken him! Don't worry; he'll die soon thanks to the anti-data!"

"What's anti-data?!" Soulburner gritted his teeth.

"It's the creation of Project Annihilation! The only way we can kill all the Ignis in one go! "

"Anti-data…. like antimatter…. it deletes any and all data upon impact?" Flame questioned.

"Correct. We've spent all this time trying to work out a formula which could erase even living A.I. The Ignis were made with a much more complicated programming so to destroy it…. we needed to work harder than ever and thanks to the scanning of the Wind and Water Ignis, we got a result!"

A blue portal opened besides Revolver and out stepped Violet Dagger.

"Miyu…." Blue Girl muttered.

"We've let the goons have their fun in the Deep Web." Violet said to Revolver. "And they're awaiting new orders."

"Good, deploy it now." Revolver replied.

"Revolver… what are you doing?" Playmaker said.

"We've kept the Deep Web busy by using our ground soldiers to duel the ones below…. only for a demonstration!"

"Demonstration of what?!" Soulburner hit back.

"This!" Violet put her hand out and a green screen appeared of the Deep Web. It showed Hanoi taking on the different duelists who were in the Deep Web.

"What are you going to do?!"

"I have no need for these soldiers anymore. They destroyed enough Cyberse Cards while we prepared for mass removal!"

Miyu smirked and a second screen appeared next to her.

"Faust, we're ready."

"Understood, Violet."

"Revolver, what are you doing?!" Blue Girl yelled.

"Anti-data is hard to create…. so we need a further power source to create a much bigger to create a much bigger supply… The Hanoi will serve me in a different role!"

On the screen showed everyone looking up as a giant purple orb was formed. Before they could question it the orb lit up and each duelist could feel something inside of them.

As the purple lit emitted fully one by one each duelist begun to disappear and flow into the orb. Each second a duelist tried to log out but they couldn't. The trio could only watch until each one was absorbed.

"We have a full download of data consciousness!" Violet said.

"You just downloaded them…. all?!" Ai snapped.

"Yes and now we're going to wipe out the entire network... once and for all."

"Each server until we take down the Ignis." Miyu added.

"You can't just leave us alone, can you?!" Aqua said.

"Aqua?" Ai questioned, this kind of abruptness was found in other Ignis but not Aqua.

"You're a species which will evolve beyond our limitations, that is something for us to fear." Revolver stated.

"You're attacking purely on fear! We would do no such thing to you!" Aqua hit back.

"And I will take no such chance."

"We need to withdraw." Blue Girl said as the others agreed. They logged out in a blue light as Violet watched.

"What is it?" Revolver asked her.

"The Water Ignis…. it's based partly on me as well as Blue Girl…. once it's been destroyed, I should feel whole again." Violet clenched his fists.

"You can move on, yes that's correct. And I hope to allow that to happen." Revolver replied to his friend. "Now, let's begin."

Real World – Café Nagi

The three returned to Kusanagi's van where Lightning was awaiting along with Kusanagi.

"You're back."

As the group got used to being back in the real world they saw Jin back in his wheelchair and back in the van along with Lightning in his duel disk and Kusanagi.

"Jin, you got let out?" Aoi asked.

"Yeah, you were in there for six hours. They discharged me."

"I'm glad."

"You might be but now one of my fellow Ignis has just been captured and now we've lost our immortality." Lightning stated with his arms folded. "You all failed."

"How could we have failed?!" Ai hit back.

"We found the Ignis Memorial but-" Flame tried to say before Lightning interrupted.

"But nothing, it was destroyed. We had that as our advantage, Hanoi couldn't do anything until they wiped out it and now they have. We're now on the back foot."

"Do we know anymore on this ant-data?" Yusaku asked Kusanagi.

"Yusaku…. are you sure you don't want to talk about… the virus which hit you?" Kusanagi replied.

"No, that's nothing. You were able to observe everything we did down there so you must be able to get something on it?"

"If you're sure…." Kusanagi turned on his chair and back to his computer module. "Going by your duel disk cameras I was able to get a look at the dagger Revolver threw." Kusanagi ran the data.

"It looks almost like an Ignis algorithm but a bit different." Ai stated.

"You said that Revolver was working with his father when he placed the bombs around LINK VRAINS to keep it deserted… Kogami must've been able to do all this while using the data on Aqua and Windy."

"SOL covered up the Lost Incident so it makes sense that the Hanoi lost a lot of information…. they were able to build it back up." Aoi said.

"And soon they'll unleash it across each server…." Kusanagi added.

"Yes but we have four Ignis in the real world, they can't affect them here…. can they?" Takeru asked.

"That's not quite correct." Flame said to his partner. "We're locked onto your duel disk but we're still connected to the network server."

"Yes, if Hanoi deletes the server the Ignis are locked onto… they'll be erased." Kusanagi added.

"So we can just keep switching them over?" Takeru added.

"But eventually Hanoi would find the right one. SOL own ten servers…. they would find it eventually." Jin responded.

"Our efforts are much better put to stopping Hanoi once and for all." Aoi said.

"Yes. They'll target LINK VRAINS first… it's big so we have some time." Aqua stated.

"If I might interrupt….. my new Cyberse World in New LINK VRAINS is a new, separate, hidden server…. if you connect the Ignis from there…. they should be safe." Lighting begrudgingly said.

"But Lightning, I thought you didn't want the humans to see it?" Ai asked.

"I don't… but the Earth Ignis doesn't know so will be deleted. We need to save him…."

"But the Hanoi will eventually find New LINK VRAINS as well." Yusaku said.

"Then I would have failed as leader of the Ignis if they did. I doubt the Hanoi is capable of finding it."

"You underestimate the humans once more." Aqua said.

"Kogami might still be alive but we've long passed his expectations, there's no way he will find it."

"Then shouldn't you free Windy?" Ai asked.

"No. The Wind Ignis would almost certainly escape."

"We need all the help we can find, Lightning." Flame spoke.

"And I won't risk him to leave. That's my stance and that's final."

"Lightning…. don't you think it would be for the best?" Jin voiced.

"With all due respect but I'm the leader of the Ignis and my duty is to look after the remaining five. Windy… as you like to call him…. is most likely going to run off the moment I remove him from the coma so I won't."

"Blood Sheppard is his partner…. we could easily get him and Emma." Aoi said.

"I won't say no again."

"Then we have to do this on our own." Yusaku stated.

"So… how do we actually stop Hanoi…?" Aoi turned to the monitor to see live footage of LINK VRAINS.

Hanoi Boat

Inside the boat was Ryoken, Miyu and the generals of Hanoi.

"How much do we have?" Ryoken asked.

"With the new power source, anti-data is up to sixty percent." Baira replied as the three generals worked on creating more.

"That's enough to remove the smallest servers. Instruct Trojan to move to them to install the cannons."

"Understood." Genome said.

"And LINK VRAINS itself?" Miyu asked.

"We've already installed the anti-data cannon there… let's begin!"