A Legacy of Souls: Terminate the Dream

by Medigo

The virtual world of dueling has survived many threats, but the worst has yet to come. New entities born from the minds of millions seek power to shape the destiny of living. Heroes will be turned against each other as it becomes impossible to trust anyone. And in the middle of it all, one duelist struggles to return to his friends to save them from the one who has stolen his life.

138. World 121: The World As a Servant

World 130: The World as a Servant

Team Echo's LP: 2500 Team Continuum's LP: 2000

"Link six?" Miss Echo already lost the cards that were made to honor her fallen friends. In their place she took the LIGHT type Pikari Aignister, the DARK type Linguriboh, the WIND type Excode Talker, the FIRE type Powercode Talker, the EARTH type Transcode Talker and the WATER type Shootingcode Talker. Even Charles who'd created a link five monster for himself had never seen a monster break this barrier before. "This is The Arrival AIgnister! His link materials are three or more monsters with different attributes! And he gains a thousand attackpoints for each material!" The Arrival(6000/LINK 6) {Left/Downleft/Up/Down/Right/Downright} [Extra Zone 1] of a gigantic yet sleek mechanical knight made of purple cybernetics. Violet energy glowed through its outer markings, and inside of its three core hearts. A large ring looped behind its shoulders and rings also formed the joints of its arms and the middle of its hollow torso. Finally a circular energy network extended from its back which contained six elemental energy orbs to mark the six powerboosts the Arrival gained.

"It was not enough to reach the ultimate level. You had to go beyond." Continuum made a noise that almost sounded like a scoff. "Ha! There is no ultimate level, not for you or for me. Who said that there could only be monsters from link one to link five? I can make anyone's dreams come true, even my own!" Echo clenched her hand and let her lips curl into a wide smile. "The Arrival cannot be affected by any card effect. And each turn it destroys one card on the field by turning them into a Ignister Token! Heh, your great Underworld Goddess is not protected against effects that target, Scarlet Fever!" The Arrival took one glance at the Closed World Goddess(3000/LINK 5) [Extra Zone 2] with its one eye and made her disappear inside a massive explosion. Meanwhile on Echo's side of the field the winged blue protocyberse Ignister token(1/0/0) [Zone 2] appeared in defense mode. "Now I will make another wish come true! The end of your hell! The Arrival, attack Scarlet Fever directly!" Within its hand the Arrival summoned a large cybernetic scythe and lifted it upwards. The six orbs of its link materials fired their energy straight into the scythe to prepare the final attack.

"The only hell here is the one you seek, Echo. Your hands are not clean either!" Scarlet Fever turned to her trap card for salvation. She activated Escape From the Dark Dimension to special summon one of her banished Vampire monsters, Vampire Sorcerer(4/1500/1500) [Zone 3] back to the field in defense mode. "A world where hate does not exist is a world where conflict does not exist. No conflict means that there will never be a reason to grow or a reason to learn new things. Conflict is the seed of creation." Scarlet Fever hid behind the Vampire Sorcerer, as the Arrival AIgnister swung its weapon and released a destructive wave of light. "There does not need to be conflict for any of them. I will take it all myself if I have too, to create my paradise. What conflict would you even allow?" Echo reluctantly ended her turn, placing one trap card face down. That card would be the AI's Show trap card which she added to her hand back when she normal summoned her Pikari AIgnister. "Conflict does not just come from emotion, miss Echo. Together with Continuum we can eradicate any form of adversity."

-TURN 11-

"Your solution is flawed, Echo." Continuum stated. "You seek to cover up the problems of the world with deception. But you can not force them to see and experience perfection. Perfection must be earned." It reactivated both of its continuous skill/spell cards. The Dimensionary Generator destroyed Scarlet Fever's Vampire Domain field spell to revive the Triad Dimensionary Delta Revolver(2400/LINK 3) {Left/Down/Right} [Zone 3] again. The Dimensionary Factory banished the card in the colorless duelist's hand to special summon two null-tokens(1/0/0) {Zones 2 & 4] to each zone marked by the molten metal Dimensionary. "Triad returns the Dimensionaries Diamond Window and Star Telescope!" Both tokens were sacrificed just like in every previous turn, and replaced with the higher levels of the dimensionary entities: the golden Pentium(3000/LINK 5) {Upleft/Downleft/Up/Upright/Downright} [Zone 2] and the crystalline Olympiad(3200/LINK 4) {Left/Up/Down/Right} [Zone 2]. "And through you, we will achieve it. You have shown us the way."

"We link summon the Infinite Dimensionary Hexoid Network!" It shouted. "Infinite?" Charles let out a horrified gasp as the cyberse entities expanded beyond the borders of the battlefield. Hexoid Network created a web of eight pulsating energy orbs connected by many strands of light. The monster itself(6400/LINK 8) {UpLeft/Left/Downleft/Up/Down/Upright/Right/Downright} [Extra Zone 2] existed inside this network as a being of thought and data. Its presence empowered the Olympiad(15200 atk) (Left/Up/Down/Right} with a dozen additional power surges.

Infinite Dimensionary Hexoid Network, 6400/LINK 8 {UpLeft/Left/Downleft/Up/Down/Upright/Right/Downright} Light/Cyberse/Effect
5+ Link monsters, Including 2 Link monsters
Neither player can summon/set monsters to a main zone any link monster points to. This link summoned card is unaffected by your opponent's card effects.
Once per turn, when your opponent activates a card or effect while this card is co-linked: You can negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it.

"You created a link eight monster, right after she created a link six?" Charles would find this petty if he did not also find it terrifying that the third entity could do this at all. "The thoughts of the world are ours as well, Charles Adami. Neither of us is limited by imagination anymore, now that we have this human mind to make us understand..." The entity claimed. "So whenever she outpaces you, you catch up with something bigger? What's next? This duel will never end at this rate! It will just keep going until one of you decided you had enough! You really are this vindictive." And that could take them an eternity, Charles realized. All the while it would hold the minds hostage just to feed its own powers. "This is not vindication. This is the unity. All minds are connected and reach towards the greater whole." The masked duelist turned its head towards Echo. "Miss Echo, your model is already obsolete! Hexoid Network attacks the Arrival AIgnister!"

"Just because it is less powerful, does not mean it does not have a place in this world! In our world!" Echo immediately activated her trap card, AI's Show. "You have no place in this world. You were the first, you and Static only existed as a comparison to our superiority! Once a turn, the Hexoid Network negates one card effect!" Continuum declared the activation of the trap to be invalid within his network, shutting her show down completely. "You have no place in our world!" The Olympiad continued its attack. "Everyone deserves a place!" And Echo instead activated a spell from her graveyard. "When two monsters battle, I can banish AIdle Reborn and a card in my hand! Then I add one A.I. spell or trap card back to my hand!" She took the When You and AI Met spell back, an act which seemed pointless at first. Yet it showed one indirect favorable result when the Infinite Dimensionary's attack resolved. The eight orbs released a current of electricity into the body of the giant AIgnister... and only managed to inflict battle damage.

Team Echo's: 2100

"What is this?" Scarlet Fever did not understand what happened. "The card I banished was FAIghting Spirit, Scarlet. When it is banished, AIgnisters with twenty-three hundred or more attackpoints cannot be destroyed as a result of battle this turn!" She'd added the Spirit spell to her hand back when she turned Doyon AIgnister into a link material for Linguriboh. That was the card she banished from her hand to activate AIdle Reborn. "Then..Olympiad Dimensionary attacks the Arrival AIgnister instead!" The Diamond Window unleashed a hail of crystal beams to tear the Arrival apart. "You already know it will not work!" Echo countered with another effect from her graveyard. "I banish Gussari AIgnister! When two monsters battle, I can make their attackpoints become equal to three thousand!" Of course, Gussari AIgnister's effect would not affect the effect-immune Arrival. Only the Olympiad(3000 atk)'s attackpoints got the adjustment. "Hmm." The giant AIgnister pushed the attacking Diamond Window back with its scythe, but the XY and Z Barriers got in its way before it could actually destroy the Dimensionary and inflict counter-attack battle damage. "

(5)

Team Continuum's LP: 3200

-TURN 12-

"Are you trying to tell me that you are about to create a link monster that surpasses our own? It is impossible, Charles Adami! And we all know you cannot envision the impossible!" Scarlet Fever counted a combined link rating of nine, but no such link monster could technically exist as a card. Other link summons were possible with these materials too, but none of them would be able to harm the co-linked Dimensionaries. "No you are right, I dont have that ability. I've never had much of a reason to think outside the box before, I've only just begun to do so. Darkfluid and Exceed, Clock Dragon and Clock Spartoi, Quantum Dragon and Wicckid: the best things I could make were just upgraded versions of monsters that already existed or something close to it. There is no way I would be able to go where you have gone with your monsters. I cannot even picture what it would look like. But I know that there is nothing wrong with working with what you've got. And I think I know what I want to make. What I can make.." Charles tossed both Decode Talker Extended and the Arrival AIgnister into the link circuit. "I link summon! Accesscode Talker!"

"Another Code Talker? Another element?" Echo's eyes widened. Decode seemed to undergo one final transformation with the help of The Arrival as a fourth link material. It reverted to its basic dark and purple model, and attached gold/white armor adorned with purple crystal orbs, a golden crest on the helmet and golden wings for the shoulderplates. This was the holy knight of the Code Talkers: Accesscode Talker(2300/LINK 4) {Left/Up/Down/Right} [Extra Zone 1]. "Not a new element, but a combination of all elements! Accesscode is my tribute to all the Code Talkers in my graveyard! And also to all the fallen AIgnisters! Even the Arrival! When Accesscode is link summoned, I can target one of his link monster materials and give him a thousand attackpoints for each link arrow on that card!"

"We are not impressed. You have only regressed with this form. Pure power is meaningless against us." Continuum of course attempted to negate this effect with the Infinite Dimension's ability. "This is not just pure power, Continuum! This is flawless power! Because no card can chain to the activation of Accesscode's effects!" Nothing happened, the Hexoid Network lacked the speed to catch Accesscode. The holy knight(8300 atk) targeted The Arrival and added 1000 attackpoints to itself six times. "And now I activate its other effect, the one that will use the Code Talkers in my graveyard! Accesscode can banish one link monster to destroy one card on the field! Any card, even a skill card!" Charles demonstrated this effect by banishing the Decode Talker Extended from his graveyard. Accesscode took the dark powers of that link monster and poured them into its enormous lance. "I destroy the Dimensionary Barrier XY!" The entity could not block this effect of Accesscode either, nor could Eternity Order keep the Link 4 from skewering the continuous trap with one hurl of its darkly-energized weapon.

(To Be Continued in New World 122: )

New Cards used by Echo
The Arrival AIgnister

New Cards used by Charles Adami
Accesscode Talker

New Cards used by Continuum Singleton
Infinite Dimensionary Hexoid Mind