Gil Blanco

*American Style Stand-Off: Gil Blanco County* is the second Raid in Road To Paradise's second chapter. It takes place in the fictional county of Gil Blanco, Arizona and involves a race to awaken the World Legacy-World Sheild as well as an infiltration on Carter's main base of operations: The King Industrials office building. The main boss of this Raid is still unknown as of the moment, but is expected to be either Eibon or Rail Vanir.

## Plot

### Prologue

The Resistance returns to Crypha in rather low spirits after getting so close, but ultimately failing, to stopping Via Paradisi in their previous Raid. Yuki goes around town to clear her head after feeling a bit useless in Cuzco, and encounters a small probe near the underground subway entrance. She follows it to an abandoned railyard and meets a hologram of a mysterious man in a skull mask who challenges her to a duel. Despite, losing, Yuki's determination is reknewed and the masked man disappears with encouraging words, "Every man and every woman is a star" a quote from famous occultist Aleister Crowley. Meanwhile, Kazugo sneaks into Carter's old room and discovers some hastely left over documents, one of which is a crudely drawn map pointing out possible locations for the first 3 Legacies: Crypha, Cuzco, and Arizona. There, he also finds a curious photo of Carter as a child posed next to a chubby blonde boy and a girl with purple hair. Upon finding out about Carter's reason for starting his plans and finding out the truth about the original Galatea's death, Kazugo's resolve to fight Via Paradisi is shaken and he decides that he will confront Carter about his motivations and true goal to see whether he should keep fighting or not. Lastly, he discovers a magazine hinting at mysterious paranormal phenomena having occuredin Gil Blanco during a previous National Dueling Tournament, further confirming the possibility that a World Legacy is there.

### The Mysterious Tower

Meanwhile, in Gil Blanco, Carter resolves to train himself and the rest of Via Paradisi for some of the losses they suffered in Cuzco. Also, upon arriving at the airport, he is greeted by Eibon and Rail, the two mysterious members who run the King Industrials office while Carter was gone. Eibon informs Carter on the progress of an experiment they were working on and ushers him to the office building while the other members of Via Paradisi are lead to a series of employee guest rooms on the premices. We find out that Carter has a secret laboratory built underneath the building, where he and Eibon research Duel Spirits. After some breif rest and training, the Resistance head to Gil Blanco via boat and plane. Upon arriving, they take the first day to look around town for clues on what Via Paradisi could possibly be doing, and if this is even the right place. They split into two groups, one going to meet some celebrity duelists at the local stadium, and another to check out an amusement park on the outskirts of town. The group at the stadium witnesses a duel between current American National Champion Fiona and the Ex-Champion Deacon Blues. Meanwhile, the group at the theme park buy tickets for the park's main attraction, The House of Mysteries. Inside, they are greeted by Galatea who has taken the role of event MC and the main performer, Rail Vanir. Rail uses his psychic powers to dazzle the crowd and even performs a dance number, summoning his Duel Spirits in the process. Afterwards, Rail challenges Smuschenny to a duel. He puts up a good fight, but is defeated which causes him to lose focus.

The entire park turns out to be an illusion overlayed onto an abandoned mining town, and Rail havin acquired the necessary amount of energy from his duel, awakens the World Sheild burried beneath the town. A giant tower appears in the face of the canyon overlooking the ghost town, this is where the World Sheild is hidden. The Resistance rushes up to the tower and attempt to explore it, but are ambushed by several Shaddolls along the way, which are later revealed to be controled by Eibon. They swiftly defeat the Shaddolls before running into Eibon at the top floor. Eibon explains that it's useless to claim the World Sheild right now, as it is still connected to an owner: Deacon Blues. Eibon distracts them and gives enough time for his companion Aleister King to grab the World Sheild and escape. Eibon then challenges Kazugo to a friendly duel to give time for the Resistance to catch up to Aleister and begin infiltrating the King Industrials Building where Carter and Eibon have previously set up some sort of elaborate ritual to sever the connection between Blues and the Sheild. Eibon defeats Kazugo, but Kazugo does not join the Resistance in the infiltration, instead heading off seemingly to meet with George, who he finds out, is prone to hanging out around the port.

## Duels

* Smushchenny Khorek vs Rail Vanir
* Kazugo Ishida vs Shaddoll Hound
* Sayori Fujimoto vs Shaddoll Dragon
* Arian Gonzales & Jack Fiain vs Shaddoll Falco & Shaddoll Beast
* Akari Watanabe vs El Shaddoll Winda
* Kazugo Ishida vs Eibon
* Raiko vs Rail Vanir
* Takuya Akama vs Guards
* Sayori Fujimoto vs Aleister King
* Getusmei Suzuki vs Sil Faw
* Artoria Arakawa vs Julius Dragnov
* Rail vs Grave Akama
* Yuki Takamaki vs Eibon