Super God Academy: Kabuto

The surrounding scenery was not anywhere he was familiar with, but an endless, pure nothingness that seemed to blur even the concepts of time and space. Lin Yu cautiously looked around, the Kabuto insect device hovering silently on his shoulder, its compound eyes flashing with alertness.

Just then, a steady and clear sound of footsteps suddenly rang out in this space that should have been deathly silent.

Tap...tap...tap...

Lin Yu suddenly turned his head and saw the familiar red figure with seven-colored energy wings, "Hyper Kabuto," slowly walking out of the void and stopping not far in front of him.

"It's you." Lin Yu looked at this version of himself from the future, his tone calm. "Did you come to see me this time because you have something to give me?"

Hyper Kabuto didn't answer, but simply raised his hand and tossed over a stack of cards that shimmered with an unusual luster. The movement was casual, yet undeniably precise.

Lin Yu reached out and caught the card. The moment his fingertips touched the card, a feeling of mixed strange power surged into his heart. He looked down and saw that the card was engraved with knight emblems of various shapes. One of them was the most eye-catching. On a magenta background, there was a symbolic barcode and a knight's head.

"This is... a Decade card?" A hint of surprise flashed in Lin Yu's eyes as he looked up at Hyper Kabuto. "How did you get this?"

Hyperion's icy blue compound eyes calmly gazed at him, offering a concise yet almost arrogant answer:

"The winner."

Just as Lin Yu lowered his head, preparing to carefully examine the stack of cards in his hand that contained different knight powers, Hyper Kabuto's figure appeared behind him like a ghost without warning!

Before Lin Yu could even react, he felt a hand covered in red armor gently press against his back.

A gentle yet profound power, seemingly containing the essential rules of space, flowed into his body like a gentle stream without hindrance, rapidly merging with his own energy.

Lin Yu's body trembled slightly. He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the new seed of power that had appeared within his body. Unlike Kabuto, it wasn't about time, but rather a more fundamental affinity and sense of leverage towards "space."

"I think I've... discovered something," he murmured to himself, feeling the strange imprint that seemed to be rooted deep within his energy core like a seed. "What is that?"

Hyperion retracted his hand, his voice remaining calm and unwavering:

"The seed for the Aurora Curtain. It will be useful to you later."

Lin Yu turned around, looking at the being before him who shared the same origin as him yet far surpassed his current state, and waved the stack of Imperial Knight cards in his hand:

"Did you 'win' this too?"

"No," Hyper Kato denied. "I found it by chance in a strange, otherworldly dimension." He paused, then added, "You'll need to develop and understand it yourself. But without a doubt, it will be of immense help to you..."

After saying that, without waiting for Lin Yu to ask any more questions, he raised his hand and made a sweeping motion in front of him, and a dazzling light curtain (aurora curtain) that seemed to be composed of countless light particles unfolded out of thin air.

Hyper Kabuto glanced at Lin Yu one last time before stepping into the light barrier and disappearing. As he left, the void that had supported their meeting began to tremble and collapse violently, crumbling like a shattered mirror.

Lin Yu felt a slight dizziness, and the scene before his eyes changed rapidly.

When he regained his senses, he found himself standing in his familiar neighborhood. The evening breeze blew gently, as if everything that had just happened was merely a fleeting dream. But the stack of tangible cards in his hand, and the clearly perceptible "Aurora Veil" seed within him, silently proclaimed that the future had opened another door for him.