Heroic Spirit Deck in Yu-Gi-Oh!

"Gather the divine power from the strongest spirits—Girl, unite the gods into one!"

Hoshino looked up at the Evil God while searching for an angle and replied,

"Gather the power of the gods and unite them? I get it—you mean fusion, right!"

"No, fusion magic alone isn't enough to merge gods into one... And don't just casually peek at things you shouldn't be seeing!"

With a serious expression, Hoshino responded solemnly,

"A giant-sized beautiful girl like this is an extremely rare sight. If I don't take a few extra looks now, I might never get another chance!"

"Miss Hoshino, how did you even pass the criteria for a pure-hearted king? Just how low were the standards ten thousand years ago?"

"But since fusion doesn't work, then how do we unite the power of the gods?"

"With the Pharaoh's true name. As long as the Pharaoh recalls his real name, the Three Egyptian Gods will return to their ultimate form!"

Dodging a counterattack from the Leviathan that shattered part of the seal, the Evil God hurriedly explained while trying to stay on her feet.

After absorbing Zorc, the Leviathan now surpassed the Evil God in terms of raw power.

In fact, even without Zorc, the serpent—harboring the dark power of nearly ten millennia—was already a being no modern-era Beast like her could rival.

"The Pharaoh's true name?"

Hoshino and Yugi exchanged a look. They'd tried asking Mahad about it before, but the moment he was about to say it, a loud "BEEP—!" sound censored the rest like an unspeakable redaction.

"Mana, I'm asking you: What is the Pharaoh's true name?"

Despite knowing it was a long shot, Hoshino gave it another try.

"Hm?" Mana tilted her head and thought hard. Having called him "Prince" her whole life, she found her mind drawing a blank.

"I remember it being... Arthu... something..."

"You actually said it?!"

Hoshino and Yugi shouted in unison. Unlike when they asked Mahad, this time—although incomplete—Mana's vague recollection somehow slipped through the rules of the memory world.

"Still, half a name doesn't really count as the 'true name,' does it?" Hoshino stroked her chin and suggested,

"How about this, Yugi—you tell the three gods to accept half as a deposit, and the other half will come later when you remember the rest?"

Yugi's eye twitched.

"What, you think this is some kind of business deal with payment plans?"

"Okay, yeah, maybe that doesn't work." Hoshino scratched her head and turned her hope once again to Mana, who was still trying her best to remember.

"You can do it, Mana! Use your childhood friend (loser-in-love) bond to awaken those memories!"

"Ugh!" Mana pressed her finger to her temple, swaying left and right as the name hovered just on the edge of her mind.

"I think it was Arthu... or maybe A-something-mu... or Tu-mu...?"

"(╯°Д°)╯ How is this even working?! I think I figured out your real name, Yugi!"

"I've remembered it too... no—I've truly remembered it."

The blocked-off memories surged back into Yugi's mind like a dam breaking.

He never expected to recover his name this way... though perhaps it was all thanks to Mana always calling him "Prince."

"With my true name, I command you—reveal your original, radiant power, Three Egyptian Gods!"

Raising his arm, Yugi declared toward the three gods locked in battle with the Leviathan above.

"—My name is... Atem!"

Using Atem's real name as the medium, the embodiments of the Sun, Thunder, and Wind—Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon, and The Winged Dragon of Ra—merged into one in a dazzling light. Just as the Evil God foretold, they transformed into the ultimate being capable of obliterating all darkness.

Though perhaps "fusion" isn't the right word—this felt more like offering up the three gods' power to summon something even higher.

"Dispel the darkness with divine light—The Creator God of Light, Horakhty!"

[The Creator God of Light, Horakhty ★★★★★★★★★★ (Level 12)][Divine][Creator God/Effect][ATK ?/DEF ?]

The brilliance of the Creator God filled every corner of the Atlantis Seal. With golden wings spread wide, Horakhty locked onto the Leviathan, who was still grappling with the Evil God.

"I knew it would work. I knew you wouldn't let me down, Girl!"

Feeling the warmth of divine radiance, and seeing the successful summoning of Horakhty, the Evil God broke free of the serpent's hold and stood between the other two evil gods.

In the middle of two grotesque, sanity-draining abominations stood a sexy, super-giant anime girl—a surreal image unlike anything seen before.

"Where there is light, there will also be shadow! Now, in the name of the strongest Evil God, I command the fusion of the three evil gods to create the opposite of divine brilliance—Shadow!"

Unlike the heavenly display of the Egyptian Gods' fusion, a monstrous deity emerged from the depths of hell, its cold aura sweeping across the barrier as it stepped onto the battlefield, empowered by the three Evil Gods.

[The Creator God of Darkness, Zuleyredes ★★★★★★★★★★ (Level 12)][Divine][Creator God/Effect][ATK ∞/DEF ∞](OG)

"Is this... the god summoned by the Evil Gods' combined power?!"

Hoshino looked up in disbelief at Zuleyredes, the manifestation of creation's shadow and counterpart to Horakhty.

The two supreme gods—one of light, one of darkness—stood on either side of the Star-Eater Serpent, trapping it in a divine pincer attack within the Atlantis barrier.

Horakhty's deep voice boomed first:

"Since the dawn of creation, we've never fought side by side... I never expected to battle alongside you, Zuleyredes."

Zuleyredes replied with a voice as cold as death:

"The one who's plunged our creation into chaos—Orichalcos, born from beyond this world—must be eliminated."

Even the once-arrogant Serpent now moved cautiously, recognizing the overwhelming presence of the dual Creator Gods. Its massive, starlit body coiled slowly, bracing itself for the clash.

Then, both gods attacked simultaneously—light and darkness bursting forth from their hands. These were attacks at a scale that dwarfed anything before them.

"—Genesis Light!!"

"—Dark Creation!!"

The wave of light and shadow crashed down on the Leviathan, whose resistance faltered before the chaos of opposing divine energies.

Its serpentine eyes glowed with lingering malice, barely visible as its body was slowly engulfed by the fusion of light and darkness.

"Go for it! This time, it has to work!"

The onlookers clenched their fists in excitement, their eyes fixed on the unfolding scene. The attack before them—a fusion of light and darkness—radiated an overwhelming power that defied logic. Just witnessing it was enough to feel its crushing force. This was the kind of strength only a Duel Monster born from the Creator Gods could possess.

"Rrraaaahhh!"

After several minutes of relentless assault, the combined forces of light and darkness finally obliterated the massive form of the Serpent. Consumed by the energy of creation, the Orichalcos seemed to disintegrate completely within the Atlantis barrier.

Lowering their hands from channeling the divine energy, Horakhty spoke slowly.

"The Orichalcos, originating from beyond the stars, is a mysterious substance drifting through the cosmos. It descends onto targeted planets via meteors. Lacking a lifeform of its own, the Orichalcos seeks out the strongest being on the planet to parasitize, absorbing its power and evolving in the process."

Zuleyredes added:

"Every planet infected by the Orichalcos experiences a cycle of destruction and rebirth. Each cycle strengthens it further—until it assimilates the entire planet, transforming it into the next Orichalcos meteor, drifting through the universe to find a new host."

Hearing this, Hoshino swallowed hard, a cold chill creeping down her spine.

"After assimilating one planet, it just drifts through the stars looking for another... That means this Orichalcos has probably destroyed several planets already, hasn't it?"

Now that the battle seemed won, Hoshino breathed a sigh of relief and tried to comfort herself.

"Don't scare yourself like that, partner. The Orichalcos has been completely wiped out. We beat it—both in the real world and the world of memory. There's no way Earth's going down that easily~"

"No... We've lost this time..."

Crack—!

Two sharp, sickening cracks echoed from the backs of the Creator Gods, where their radiant wings had once spread. Massive fractures began forming across their colossal bodies, and from those cracks, a familiar, sinister aura seeped out.

Horakhty's voice grew faint, now laced with an unsettling undertone.

"We underestimated it. The Orichalcos, which always seeks out the strongest lifeform on a planet to parasitize... has chosen us—the Creator Gods—as its final hosts."

Zuleyredes tore away what remained of its shattered wings. Across its divine body, a starry luster—eerily similar to the Leviathan's skin—began to spread.

"If even the Creator Gods have been parasitized by the Orichalcos... then this planet is doomed. Earth will soon be fully assimilated, becoming a new Orichalcos meteor—stripped of all life and civilization."

Hoshino's pupils contracted. The sudden escalation to a god-tier crisis felt like a surreal nightmare.

"This has to be a joke... Even the two gods who created light and darkness... lost?!"

No—"lost" wasn't the right word. Once the Orichalcos switched its host to the Creator Gods, it gained access to an incomprehensible level of power.

Their ultimate trump card had been twisted into a weapon of annihilation. The reversal crushed Hoshino and the others, dragging them from the heights of victory into the depths of despair.

"Bow before the power of the Orichalcos—and vanish along with this planet!"

Though the voice still sounded like Horakhty's, the will speaking through it was unmistakably the Orichalcos.

"Perish—CREATION LIGHT!!"

A blast of radiant energy—on par with the previous attack that had destroyed the Leviathan—surged toward Hoshino and the others. Still in shock, they hadn't even begun to react. After all, who could immediately accept that even the gods had fallen?

Well... except for one man.

"Block it—Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon! —— Shining Burst!!"

Kaiba's ultimate monster—Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon—descended onto the field. Once hailed as a being surpassing even the God Cards, it appeared in a blaze of pure white radiance. Without the layered effects of the millennia-old Atlantis seal, Kaiba's soul energy would never have been enough to summon it.

The shining dragon, its body gleaming like polished silver, spread its wings before the group, using its supreme resistance to Duel Monster effects to withstand a Creator-level attack head-on.

"Creator of Light? Creator of Darkness? I, Seto Kaiba, don't believe in any so-called gods creating this world!"

It was truly awe-inspiring. Even in a world where spirits, magical beasts, and gods waged war beyond all reason or science, Kaiba clung stubbornly to his belief in rationality. His nerve was unshakable.

Or perhaps, more accurately—he was the ultimate embodiment of pure egocentrism.

"Kaiba, thank goodness for that stubbornness of yours," Hoshino Alter said, her voice filled with gratitude as she looked at him standing tall, the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon shielding them all.

"Hoshino! Yugi! Just because your God Card monsters got taken over, you're going to give up?! You're the opponents I, Seto Kaiba, have acknowledged—don't tell me that's all the strength you've got!"

Kaiba's sharp words snapped Hoshino and Atem out of their haze of despair.

"Even if humans didn't create this world, we're the ones who will create its future!"

"You said it, Kaiba!"

Hoshino smiled, gratitude shining in her eyes. She often complained about Kaiba's stubborn denial of reality, but in this moment—facing down the Creator Gods themselves—she stood proudly by his side.

"The ones who shape the future... aren't light, darkness, or gods. It's humanity! This is my final barrier—Atlantis, passed down for millennia! Let it guide us into the future!"

The radiant barrier began to transform once more. Now, Hoshino's final trump card—a triple-layered seal—would be their answer to the Orichalcos-corrupted Creator Gods.

"——Field Spell Activate! Third Seal: Future-Gazing Atlantis!"