When the incident happened, Akiza Izinski was still in her dream.
In the dream, she saw Yusei—the man who told her firmly in the arena of the Lucky Cup that she needed to learn to love herself, to think independently.
Then she saw Godwin. This person gave her the chance for rebirth, allowing her to break free from a cursed past and accept all aspects of herself to stride into a new future.
However, compared to Yusei, who also offered her a chance to change her life, she felt as though Godwin had even more hidden aspects. Sometimes she even thought that she never truly understood this silver-haired officer.
Perhaps it was for this reason that she had such a terrifying dream.
She dreamed that beneath Godwin's gentle surface, there was actually a quite frightening existence hidden. Something akin to the Dark Markers, akin to the Earth-Bound God, beyond her understanding, but in reality harboring unimaginable ambitions...
"Hmm... Ahhh..."
Qiu suddenly awoke, finding her bedsheets and quilt soaking wet.
Saturated with sweat.
She sat up suddenly, clutching her chest and panting heavily.
Why would she have such an unrealistic dream...
"Pain..."
It was then that Qiu realized that what seemed to have awakened her was a sharp pain. She instinctively clutched her arm, seeing the red glow of the Dragon Seal on her arm flickering in and out.
"Dragon Seal..." Qiu was a bit bewildered.
After the Dark Markers were defeated, the Dragon Seal no longer reacted. She once thought that their duty as Dragon Sealers was completed, and from now on the Dragon Seal would never flash again.
Why now...
Qiu looked out the window and her pupils suddenly contracted involuntarily.
She saw... celestial disturbances.
In the bustling heart of New Tongshiyi, under the veil of night, neon lights refracted through the moist air before the rain, casting a mesmerizing glow, and the sky seemed to be torn apart by invisible forces. Lightning and thunder intertwined into a stunning canopy, each flash like the anger of the heavens.
The vortex of dimensions silently opened amidst the dense clouds, emanating a deep, cold brilliance, seemingly connecting reality with the unknown. The forces of nature twisted in unimaginable ways, and the massive Nazca Lines miraculously reappeared in the sky, forming the image of a soaring eagle.
Yes, just like the eagle drawn on the Nazca ground. Only at this moment, those originally abstract strokes were so vivid and true, those broad wings, the sharp gaze, standing between heaven and earth, seemed to transcend the barriers of time and space, ready to come alive at any moment.
At the same time, across the city, in the forgotten Satellite District by the bustling New Tongshiyi, the long-abandoned Perpetual Motion Machine suddenly seemed to regain vitality.
The Perpetual Motion Machine, once a symbol of human wisdom, ultimately forgotten as a machine of ruin, burst forth from its rusty body with a dazzling beam of colorful light, shooting straight into the sky. The color was vibrant, spinning and intertwining, resplendent like a rainbow, seemingly tearing open a huge rift in the void.
"What's happening?"
Qiu was shocked, instinctively pressing her arm.
"The battle with the Dark Markers was supposed to be over, right? This pain... what's happening?"
And the direction of the Nazca eagle line, it seems to be... the Public Security Maintenance Bureau?
"Godwin!"
Without thinking further, Qiu hurriedly jumped from the bed and headed straight towards the Public Security Maintenance Bureau.
When Qiu reached the place beneath the eagle image, she was even more surprised.
She saw... an altar.
The tall altar, with its tiers of steps seemingly leading directly into the sky, just beneath the Nazca eagle image.
As she got closer, she noticed that Yusei, Jack, Clero, and even little Luna and Luna's brother Leo, who were also Dragon Sealers, had all gathered here.
"Everyone?" Qiu wondered, "Were you all guided here by the Dragon Seal? What's happening?"
Yusei said, "We don't know, but the Dragon Seal just suddenly reacted, and then we saw this commotion outside..."
Before he could finish, Clero suddenly said, "Hey! Look up there!"
Everyone then saw the figure that appeared at the top of the altar.
Silver hair, handsome face, upright stature, white suit, hands behind his back, as if everything were under control.
"Godwin?"
Yusei shouted.
"What's happening?"
The "Godwin" standing on the altar smiled and replied, "What's happening? Just this, as you see.
The Power of Evil God is resonating with the old Perpetual Motion Machine in the Satellite District, the gates to the Netherworld are about to open."
These words caused everyone present to look utterly shocked.
"The gates to the Netherworld opening... does that mean the world is going to be destroyed!?" Yusei asked.
"Godwin" replied indifferently, "Indeed."
Yusei gritted his teeth, "But why is this happening? Didn't we already win? Wasn't the Dark Markers defeated? Why is this still..."
Jack shouted sternly, "Godwin! Did you do something? I always thought there was something wrong with you!"
"Godwin" laughed heartily, "The Original King's intuition is sharp indeed... speaking of which, you've always wanted to know, where is the last Dragon Sealer?
Why has the battle with the Dark Markers ended, but your last companion hasn't shown up?"
Everyone was even more astounded by these words.
Qiu couldn't help but speak first, "Isn't the last Dragon Sealer you, Godwin?"
"Godwin" chuckled twice and said casually, "I've never admitted that, it's just what you insisted on thinking. Since you want to know so badly, now I'll reveal the truth to you..."
As he spoke, he suddenly pulled out a transparent glass jar from behind him, filled with a culture liquid, with countless transparent bubbles gurgling upwards.
At this moment, everyone watched in shock, seeing that stored within the culture liquid was clearly a severed hand!
Cleanly cut along the elbow, a section of a broken arm, with a Dragon Seal, just like the four of them, clearly visible on it.
This hand belonged to the last Dragon Sealer!
Qiu couldn't help but cry out in shock.
How could it be?
The last Dragon Sealer, the one with the Dragon Head Seal... is really not Godwin?
And the arm of the last Dragon Sealer has been chopped off, just being held by Godwin... what did he do to the last Dragon Sealer?
The nightmare just now flashed across Qiu's mind again.
Rex Godwin, beneath that gentle exterior, is there really a demon that everyone has failed to notice?
"I've borrowed the power of this last Dragon Seal to summon you all here."
"Godwin" said indifferently.
"Because only in this way can this final ritual be completed."
Yusei asked solemnly, "What ritual?"
"Godwin" showed a sinister smile and said, "Of course... the ritual to summon the King of the Netherworld, the ritual for the world's destruction."