Chapter Summaries

Ramon’s Thundurus shattered Lance Gascor’s God-Blessed Wall as Lance strengthened his Human Species spirits and sent the Hero King of Light to attack. Dark’s Blue-Eyes White Dragon broke through the Holy Shield of Light, while the duel left Thundurus kiting the paralyzed Hero King and Lance charging toward Dark; Dark countered from atop Blue-Eyes White Dragon as Crescemon fired a Dark Arrow at Lance.

• Ramon used Thundurus’s Thunder to destroy God-Blessed Wall, allowing the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Crescemon to attack Lance’s side.
• Lance summoned the Holy Stele of Light to link the Human Species spirits’ lives, then empowered the Hero King of Light with Hymn of Humanity and sent him after Thundurus.
• Dark ordered the Blue-Eyes White Dragon to use Burst Stream of Destruction, shattering the Holy Shield of Light and its protective barrier.
• Thundurus paralyzed the Hero King of Light with Wildbolt Storm and used his speed to keep out of reach.
• Crescemon and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon wounded Deified Angel, which survived in a near-death state and threw Lance clear.
• Lance charged at Dark with his warhammer, while Dark mounted Blue-Eyes White Dragon and ordered Blue-Eyes Baby Dragon and Crescemon to counterattack.

Dark fought Lance, whose Life Card and Holy Stele of Light let him lock his Life Points at 1 while sharing damage with his Magic Spirits. Lance’s defenses finally collapsed, but he summoned the Redemption Priest and raised an absolute defense, leaving him hoping to revive the Hero King of Light and turn the duel around.

• Crescemon attacked Lance, but his Life Points stayed at 1 because he had linked his Life Card to his Magic Spirits through the Holy Stele of Light.
• Lance drew another twelve-star Magic Spirit Card and risked a Tribute Summon while the Hero King of Light attacked Dark with Hero Light Wave.
• Dark used the Blue-Eyes White Dragon to block the attack, then Thundurus’s Wildbolt Storm killed the Hero King of Light and broke Lance’s shared-fate chain when Lance sacrificed the Light Clown.
• Lance summoned the Redemption Priest and activated Light of Redemption to protect himself, planning to revive the Hero King of Light and use Holy Light Seal to weaken Dark’s God Card.

Dark defeated Lance Gascoyle with Thundurus’s Thunderbolt, then gained a deeper understanding of Divine Factors. After the match, Professor Lily began her duel against Behemoth hero Heral, who prepared a secret ritual as the battle started.

• Dark ordered Thundurus to use Thunderbolt after Blue-Eyes White Dragon failed to touch the Holy Stele of Light, and the attack destroyed Lance Gascoyle’s Light of Redemption and reduced his life points to zero.
• The referee declared Dark the winner, and Dark noticed a great number of Divine Factors gathering around him after the duel.
• Sabrina Melville saw Lance Gascoyle’s defeat as an advantage, while Lei Qi Huojiya suspected that the Thunder God Dragon had abandoned him and hurried away to seek an answer.
• Dark returned to Saint Marian Academy’s group and looked ahead to Professor Lily’s match against Heral, a cultured Behemoth hero.
• Professor Lily and Heral began their duel, and Heral set a secret ritual beneath his feet as the Battle Phase started.

Professor Lily overwhelmed Heral with a fairy legion, a fused Super Great Fairy, and the Dragon Tooth Flute of Akato, which brought back spirits from the previous duel for a sacrificial summon. She summoned a startlingly powerful Professor Didi Maxwell, leaving Dark and Professor Kazel astonished by the spirit’s intelligence and Thunder God’s Might.

• Professor Lily summoned a legion of Pixies, and Heral copied them with his Mirror Beast before Lily fused her Pixies into the twelve-star Super Great Fairy.
• Heral used Orc Prophet to obtain Magitech Cards, then summoned Behemoth Fanatic with Advance Guidance and sent it to fight the Super Great Fairy.
• Heral recognized the Dragon Tooth Flute of Akato as Lily played it, causing Magic Spirits from the previous duel to reappear around her.
• Heral summoned Adamant Poison Tyrant and charged Lily through its spreading poison mist, while Lily used the reappeared spirits as sacrifices.
• Professor Lily summoned the twelve-star Didi Maxwell, and Dark noticed she carried Thunder God’s Might and appeared far more intelligent than Lily’s earlier version.

Professor Lily defeated Heral with the summoned Didi Maxwell and [Thunder God's Might], while Dark suspected Didi had secretly returned and resumed contact with Lily. Saint Marian Academy’s advancing contestants prepared for the third round, and the chapter ended as Duel City’s crowds anticipated the matches.

• Dark sensed that Professor Didi Maxwell was probably concealed in the competitors' lounge and wondered when she had reconnected with Professor Lily.
• Professor Lily’s summoned Didi and the Super Great Fairy defeated Heral’s Behemoth Emperor, ending their duel and leaving Heral determined to seek divine traces after the competition.
• Professor Lily returned to the lounge to confused faces, and Professor Jones told her to prepare an explanation for later that night.
• Thirty-two contestants advanced from the second preliminary round, and Dark’s group met over dinner to prepare for the third round, where Ergane announced she would not compete.
• Professor Kazel listed the leading third-round contestants as the contestants gathered around the Alchemy Beast.
• Duel City filled with crowds discussing the upcoming third round, while the popularity rankings shifted to feature the thirty-two remaining contestants.

The third round of the tournament began with Pandora Doragon facing Louis Kenan, a mysterious Sage’s disciple suspected of possessing a God Card. Pandora revealed an upgraded white dragon deck and began her duel with a powerful summoning, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Marilyn revealed the contestants’ popularity rankings, where Lily Laplace led and Charles’s popularity surged after his victory over Noah Sharp.
• The draw paired Pandora Doragon with Louis Kenan, while other early matchups included Abagon Molière versus Stilwell Matt and Ai Luli Clarissa versus Cole Toynbee.
• Dark considered Louis Kenan’s unpredictable deck and trusted Pandora to handle the challenge.
• Ergane told the contestants that Louis Kenan possessed a God Card, and Dark expected Pandora to have prepared for it.
• Pandora began the duel by using the Dragon-Turning Pot to summon the Sky White Dragon, then played Reincarnation of Light and Darkness to continue her summons.

Pandora fused the “Sky White Dragon” and “Despair Witch” into “Sky Dragon Witch,” countering Louis Kane’s ink-based fusion strategy. Louis ultimately abandoned his God Card after hearing the Akasha Spirit’s voice, lost the duel, and left the platform wrestling with regret.

• Pandora summoned “Despair Witch,” while Louis Kane used “Mysterious Library” to shield himself and create an ink dragon that corrupted the “Sky White Dragon.”
• Pandora set three secret rites, then fused “Despair Witch” with “Sky White Dragon” to summon the twelve-star “Sky Dragon Witch.”
• Louis fused his ink dragon with a witch copied from a book, but Pandora’s higher-tier Magic Spirits resisted his library’s corruption.
• Pandora’s secret rites and twelve-star Magic Spirits overwhelmed Louis’s defenses, forcing him toward a last-resort God Card summon.
• Louis heard the Akasha Spirit’s voice and gave up summoning “Akasha’s Record Book,” then lost the duel and left the platform filled with regret.

Louis stopped before finishing his duel with Pandora, then a draw paired Ergane with the aging Bloody Saintess Hayley Saint Meredith. Archbishop Abagon Molière defeated Stillwell Matt with a forbidden card, leaving all professional duelists eliminated as the preliminaries continued.

• Louis met the Son of the Valkyrie's Cosmic Brain Monster in the competitors' passageway, while Pandora and Dark speculated about why he had forfeited.
• Pandora was recognized as the first contestant to enter the main draw and received the title of Duel King.
• The draw paired Ergane with Bloody Saintess Hayley Saint Meredith, whose age and condition troubled the Holy Church representatives.
• Stillwell Matt summoned the dark God Card Blade Demon against Archbishop Abagon Molière, who used the forbidden Isaac Sacrifice to destroy it and win.
• Molière left the arena visibly aged, while Stillwell departed in a daze, completing the elimination of the professional duelists.

Dark discovered that the Cosmic Brain Monster had gained a huge amount of psychic power through a deal with Louis Canaan, while the tournament continued with Ai Luli’s elimination and Ergane’s unexpected forfeit. The fifth duel between Will Smith and Professor Power Jones began, with both contestants taking the stage.

• Dark learned that Louis Canaan’s deal with the Cosmic Brain Monster had caused a massive surge in his psychic power and told the maid to investigate Louis more closely.
• The fifth matchup was drawn: Will Smith, the “Titan Whale,” would face Professor Power Jones.
• Cole Toynbee defeated Ai Luli Clarissa by suppressing her fairy domain with “Path of Ice and Fire” and defeating “Legendary Fairy Nia” with “Super Ice-and-Fire Magister.”
• Eliza Clarissa was drawn to face Polka Poseidon of the “Sea Emperor Clan” in the sixth duel.
• Ergane forfeited her match against Hailey Saint Meredith, allowing Hailey to advance to the main tournament and pursue the Gift of God that could extend her life.
• Lucia Artemis and Lily Laplace were drawn against each other, and Will Smith and Professor Power Jones began their duel.

Professor Power Jones countered Will Smith’s water-filled arena with her Giant Kingdom deck and summoned the twelve-star City Giant. The City Giant crushed the ocean field and stepped down toward Will, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Will Smith opened the duel by summoning Heart of the Ocean and flooding the arena to suppress Professor Power Jones’s earth-affinity bloodline.
• Professor Jones summoned Gate Giant to shield her from the water, then brought out the towering Pillar Giant.
• The Pillar Giant’s Mountain-Cleaving, Stone-Shattering attack cracked the arena and forced Will to evade it while he deployed a Sea Puppet.
• Will sent the Sea Puppet’s Devil Hurricane toward the Pillar Giant, but Professor Jones sacrificed both giants to summon City Giant first.
• City Giant crushed the arena and dispelled Heart of the Ocean’s field as it stepped down toward Will Smith.

Will Smith's attempt to summon an abyssal Magic Spirit was stopped by Professor Jones's prepared Space Bomb, leaving both duelists with few cards and no effective Magic Spirits on the field. Professor Jones then used Giant Burial and summoned Giant Corpse Worm, setting up a graveyard-based strategy as the match continued.

• Will Smith used Abyss Summoning to pull the City Giant toward the abyss, but Professor Jones made it self-destruct and send it to the Graveyard.
• Will Smith summoned Twin Sea Light Orbs, split them into Sea Light Orbs, and sacrificed them to cast the Abyss Summoning Spell.
• Professor Jones's prepared Space Bomb detonated when the spell created spatial fluctuations, destroying the vortex and the emerging abyssal Magic Spirit.
• The seafolk prince realized that the Abyss Summoning Spell could now be countered, while Will Smith held his remaining cards and prepared to keep fighting.
• Professor Jones used Giant Burial to select two Magic Spirit Cards and send three to the graveyard, then summoned Giant Corpse Worm.

Professor Jones revived the Mountain Giant King, and Will Smith used his Sea King Trident, bloodline power, and a sea serpent mark to attack her while evading the giant’s blows. After the Mountain Giant King shattered Will Smith’s Giant Whale, Will saw Professor Jones holding a glowing Magitech Card, leaving the duel poised for her next move.

• Professor Jones revived the Mountain Giant King from the graveyard using the Giant Corpse Worm’s Ultimate Move, transforming the duel field into mountains.
• Will Smith enlarged his body, summoned the Sea King Trident, and evaded the Mountain Giant King’s strike before rushing toward Professor Jones.
• Professor Jones raised earthen walls and shifted through the terrain, while Will Smith summoned a sea serpent and attached its Sea Serpent Mark to his arm.
• Will Smith’s trident pierced the final wall, but Professor Jones had moved to his field, where the Mountain Giant King overturned the earth and trapped him beneath it.
• Will Smith used his Giant Whale bloodline power to break through the descending earth and escape, but the Mountain Giant King shattered the whale with a slap.
• Will Smith looked toward Professor Jones and saw her holding a glowing Magitech Card.

Professor Jones defeated Will Smith after countering his Abyss Monster with the Magitech Card Kingdom Fall. Will Smith survived the duel, and Jones advanced to the next round.

• Will Smith summoned the Steel-Wing Fish Snake Beast, then used it to summon the Abyss Monster and ordered both to attack Professor Jones.
• Professor Jones moved onto the Mountain Giant King's shoulder and prepared to counter Will Smith's assault.
• Will Smith and the Abyss Monster charged upward together, but Professor Jones activated Kingdom Fall and brought down the Giant Kingdom.
• The falling kingdom crushed the Abyss Monster and drove Will Smith into the ground, reducing his HP from 8000 to zero.
• Professor Jones won and advanced, while Will Smith recovered and left the duel platform.

After Professor Power’s duel, the tournament continued with Eliza losing to Polka’s God Card and Lucia losing to Professor Lily. Sloane defeated an elder elf using a second God Card, while the next matchups were drawn and Professor Steven Harvey learned he would face Stanford.

• Professor Jones and Professor Kazel discussed how the Abyss Summoning Spell worked, and Dark suggested that they learn it.
• Eliza fought Polka, but Polka summoned the God Card Sea Emperor Bird and defeated her; Eliza resolved to seek a God Card before the God's Cup.
• Lucia challenged Professor Lily, who vanished into the moonlight, and Lucia lost after failing to break through Lily's Magic Spirit Cards.
• Sloane faced an elder elf who initially suppressed him, then summoned the God Card Underworld Cerberus and won.
• The tournament drew the next matchups, and Professor Steven Harvey learned that his opponent would be Stanford, one of the Kingdom's Twelve Heroes.

Dark Dimon was drawn against Charles Clarissa in the third-round preliminaries and entered their duel wary that Charles had concealed his true strength. After their domains reacted to a familiar aura, the duel began, and both contestants reached Preparation Phase 2.

• Dark watched the remaining preliminary duels as Quintina North and Professor Kazel won their matches.
• The draw paired Dark with Charles Clarissa for the fourteenth duel, and Dark wondered whether his luck had brought him a good or bad match-up.
• Dark noticed that Charles seemed neither afraid nor nervous, and concluded that he had hidden his abilities in his first two duels.
• Dark and Charles unfolded their domains, sensed a familiar aura, exchanged a brief remark, and activated their Life Cards.
• Both contestants shuffled their decks, entered Preparation Phase 2, and drew their opening hands.

Dark faced Charles in a duel and used BlackMetalGreymon and Taomon against Charles's nine-star Insect Demon. Charles's summoned insect produced another egg as the Insect Demon battled BlackMetalGreymon, and Dark realized Charles was controlling the creature by implanting part of his consciousness in it.

• Dark summoned Agumon and evolved it into BlackMetalGreymon while Charles summoned a sack-mouthed giant insect that produced an egg.
• BlackMetalGreymon fired Giga Destroyer and Giga Storm, but Charles dodged the missiles and his Insect Demon split the energy barrage with Demon-Breaking Blade.
• Dark evolved Renamon into Taomon and ordered BlackMetalGreymon to use Megaton Crash against Charles as another giant insect began laying an egg.
• The Insect Demon countered Megaton Crash with Eighteen Hundred Insect Cry, then attacked BlackMetalGreymon but failed to break its Trident Arms defense.
• Dark recognized that Charles was controlling the Insect Demon by implanting part of his consciousness in it.

Dark exploited Charles’s insect demons’ vulnerabilities and used Devimon’s Instant Transmission to reach him, then evolved into LadyDevimon while the Blue-Eyes White Dragon fought Charles’s powerful summons. Charles narrowly avoided elimination by activating Insect Demon Nest, leaving himself surrounded by its defenses.

• Taomon bound the Insect Demon and destroyed it with two Ultimate Moves, while Charles incubated another nine-star Magic Spirit, Bee Demon Witch.
• Dark used Misty Terrain to protect himself, discovered Charles could revive dead insect demons as eggs, and watched a reincarnated Insect Demon return to battle.
• Dark summoned Devimon and used Instant Transmission to confront Charles; after Traptrix died, Charles’s secret ritual summoned the nine-star Ant Demon Man.
• Dark evolved Devimon into LadyDevimon as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon attacked; Bee Demon Witch and Insect Demon killed BlackMetalGreymon, while Taomon escaped into the mist.
• The Blue-Eyes White Dragon killed Ant Demon Man and Bee Demon Witch, then struck at Charles, who narrowly dodged by activating Insect Demon Nest.

Dark fought Charles’s emerging insect god while trying to destroy the Insect Demon Nest before it could produce another powerful creature. The nest began fusing two insect demons into a sixth-tier being, leaving the duel unresolved.

• LadyDevimon destroyed six six-star Fusion insect demons, and Dark learned that the Insect Demon had died.
• A black pillar emerged from the nest, so Dark summoned Thundurus and equipped Honedge as a safeguard.
• The four-armed Insect Demon appeared and used Demon-Breaking Blade to erase Thundurus’s attacks, forcing Dark to protect himself with Endless Blink Curse.
• Dark sent BlackMetalGreymon to bombard the nest with Giga Destroyer, Megaton Crash, and Giga Storm, but another black pillar rose from its remains.
• Two insect demons began fusing inside the pillar, and Dark realized the resulting creature would have sixth-tier power without being a God Card.

Charles created a second sixth-step Insect Demon and chose to send it after Dark while the Bee Mantis Demon kept Thundurus occupied. Dark escaped the Carapace Ant Demon’s charge and counterattacked, while Charles summoned Dark Fountain to protect himself from Thundurus.

• Charles emerged from the destroyed Insect Demon Nest beside the newly created Carapace Ant Demon, while Bee Mantis Demon continued pressuring Thundurus.
• Charles chose to attack Dark with Carapace Ant Demon and ordered it to use Explosive Carapace, then retreated to activate another card.
• Dark teleported out of the Fairy Mist as Carapace Ant Demon charged, leaving LadyDevimon to intercept it with Mind Whip (Bliss).
• Dark summoned Gabumon and triggered its Super Evolution as LadyDevimon used a spatial singularity to strike Carapace Ant Demon with Darkness Poison.
• Charles summoned Dark Fountain, causing a vortex of dark power to shield him from Thundurus’s Thunder Strike.

Dark and Charles battled amid the ruins, with Charles’s Carapace Ant Demon killing Thundurus and leaving both duelists near defeat. Charles used Traptrix to revive the Bee Mantis Demon from the Graveyard, leaving the duel poised for another clash.

• BlackMetalGreymon struck Charles with Trident Arm, sending him into Thundurus’s Wildbolt Storm, where the Bee Mantis Demon shielded him and was nearly killed.
• The Carapace Ant Demon ambushed and killed Thundurus with Destruction Insect Strike, while its shockwave killed LadyDevimon and damaged the arena.
• Dark stopped BlackMetalGreymon from finishing the Bee Mantis Demon, then changed his mind and ordered it to kill the demon before Charles could exploit the Dark Fountain.
• Dark and Charles positioned themselves for a decisive attack, each with almost no Life Points remaining, while Astamon targeted Charles with Hellfire.
• Charles summoned Traptrix, which died to trigger its last words and revive the Bee Mantis Demon from the Graveyard.