Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

Jōnouchi was stopped by Honda.

“If I’m not mistaken, that ‘Eye of Ugato’ seems to be continuously absorbing the surrounding energy to power the light of the ‘Pyramid’,” Malik sighed helplessly. “Ordinary people would have their souls stolen instantly just by getting close to it.”

"However, there is a way to break in: to envelop oneself in some powerful force and move forward. But that powerful force must be what the 'Eye of Ugato' requires. That is—"

“【Ra's Winged Dragon】.” Hayato drew the card from his waist and placed it on the Duel Disk. 【Ra's Winged Dragon】 did not appear alone as it usually did in duels, but instead transformed into flames in the form of a “phoenix”, wrapping around Hayato.

Upon hearing Malik's explanation, Jonouchi understood Hayato's meaning. Although he was very unwilling, it seemed that only Hayato could enter that eye.

"Hayato, I'm entrusting this to you." Jonouchi looked at Hayato and solemnly entrusted him with the task.

Hayato turned his head, glanced back at everyone, and gave a thumbs up: "Yeah, I'll come back with the game, it's a promise."

【Ra's Winged Dragon】carried Hayato toward the crimson "Eye of Ugato". Hayato successfully entered the giant eyeball and arrived in a world of spatial distortion.

As soon as he entered this space, the last wisp of power from the Winged Dragon of Ra wrapped around Hayato was completely stripped away.

"Hey..."

The sound of "Ra" in his ears gradually faded. He landed firmly on the ground and glanced at the grayed-out card "Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra" on his Duel Disk. He felt a little apologetic: "Sorry, 'Ra,' I'll need you to work hard for a while."

After putting the card away, Hayato finally had time to take in the world around him, a world completely upside down and disorganized. Stairs, walls, roofs, and floors were arranged haphazardly, making it difficult to discern directions. Furthermore, countless doors were interspersed throughout, further increasing the complexity of the space.

Hayato's waist felt somewhat empty at this moment, because before entering this place, he had left the Millennium Scepter behind to help Isis protect them within the castle. However, the Millennium Wheel of Wisdom had accompanied Hayato into this place. And fortunately, the Millennium Wheel of Wisdom's "pathfinding" function seemed to still be working properly here.

Hayato had a vague recollection of the details of the "Pyramid of Light" incident. He knew that the image he had previously seen in the "Eye of Ugato" was that of Yugi, who had switched places with Yami Yugi. However, due to the power of the Pyramid of Light, Yugi, along with everything else in the Millennium Puzzle, was transferred to the Pyramid of Light.

Hayato remembered that the space inside the "Pyramid of Light" wasn't actually that dangerous, but it contained the key to destroying the card that was the "Pyramid of Light," which was Anubis's true form.

The last duel taught Hayato that even using Dark Games wouldn't be enough to defeat Anubis; it seemed that only by destroying the cards of the Pyramid of Light during the duel could he defeat him. This time, Hayato stopped Jonouchi for two reasons: first, to prevent him from taking risks according to the original storyline, and second, to achieve the fastest possible "speedrun".

Hayato wasn't worried about Yugi's current situation. After all, he knew that the "Pyramid of Light" wasn't actually that dangerous. The only danger was the room where Anubis's true form was kept. Therefore, it would be faster to go directly to that dangerous room and deal with Anubis than to go looking for Yugi, who might be wandering around.

Thinking this, Hayato used the power of the Millennium Wisdom Wheel to search for "the evil power in this space". However, to Hayato's surprise, the five golden cones of the Millennium Wisdom Wheel, which should have pointed in one direction, were now pointing in two directions. One of the directions was a door not far behind him.

Even Hayato was a little confused about what had happened.

"Did I just run straight to the door of the final boss's room?"

Puzzled, Hayato drew several cards in his hand, ready to activate them at any moment, while carrying the Millennium Wisdom Wheel in his other hand as he approached the room.

Hayato turned the doorknob and easily pushed open the unlocked door. Looking behind the door, both unexpected and yet perfectly logical, Hayato couldn't help but sigh, "It really is the final boss's room..."

"Heh, are you surprised, Hayato-kun?" Inside the room, the white-haired man looked at Hayato at the door with a smug expression.

Chapter 529 The esteemed Pharaoh conquers his faithful world today.

"It seems we've gathered another piece of divine power..."

Inside the Pyramid of Light, Anubis replenished his energy reserves using the power of Osiris and Obelisk absorbed by the Pyramid of Light, thus creating a physical interference within the Pyramid of Light to enter the duel between Yugi and Kaiba.

This new body was in excellent condition, its powerful grip tightly constricting the seahorse's neck, preventing him from speaking or breathing, and causing him to "die" from nerve compression, falling into a coma.

Just then, Anubis felt the Pyramid of Light send him another powerful force, which felt very similar to the power he had absorbed from Osiris and Obelisk before. It must be the Winged Dragon of Ra.

Anubis, in a very good mood, reached out to the Duel Disk on Kaiba's wrist, removed the Duel Disk along with all of Kaiba's cards, and then casually tossed the unconscious Kaiba aside like trash.

"The power is still surging up, hum~ hum, this feeling is so wonderful, so wonderful that I want to sing a song."

"This feeling of joy and comfort is unprecedented. The power of the God Cards is just right for me. It's making me incredibly high!"

Laughing, Anubis put the Seahorse's Duel Disk on his hand, then pressed his face against the open [Pyramid of Light] card inside the Duel Disk. The cool, smooth surface of the card rubbed against his face, allowing him to feel the power within the card.

"However, since we haven't completely won yet, it's better to calm down a bit. Rubbing such a smooth and soft card on my face really does make me feel calm~"

Opposite Anubis, Yugi controlled the anger in his heart that arose from the separation from his cherished Aibo and his suspicion of being the instigator of Anubis's actions, and watched him warily.

"Who exactly are you?"

"Hmph?" Anubis glanced at the game, seemingly annoyed that his closeness with the [Pyramid of Light] had been interrupted by the game. "You nobody like you dare to know my name?"

"If it weren't for the prophecy that required the existence of you and that nobody over there to create the perfect conditions for my resurrection, do you think I would have spared that mortal's life?"

Anubis looked at the game with a cold smile: "However, even that guy named Kobayashi Hayato from before can't stop me from destroying this world now, so it's permissible to be a little lenient and let a lowly being like you address me as 'Lord Anubis'."

Anubis?

On one hand, Sugoroku Muto had worked in Egypt for a long time with the archaeological team led by Professor Arthur and often brought back "souvenirs". On the other hand, Yami Yugi also learned from Isis, Malik and others that he was probably a pharaoh of Egypt at some point in time before he lost his memory, so he also knew a little about the name.

In his memory, this seemed to be the name of the god of death in Egyptian mythology, and he repeated it subconsciously during the game.

However, Anubis suddenly became angry because of the playful attitude: "What's with that tone of yours? It's not 'Anubis' but 'Lord Anubis'! Speak my name with the respectful tone of a slave who would give his life for his master, you foolish mortal!"

"I have no intention of degrading myself. Besides, you seem to be the mastermind behind my inability to hear Aibo's voice, right?" The game's eyes were quite dangerous, as if to confirm the saying, "You can't hide the look in someone's eyes when they want to kill them." "If that's the case, then as long as I take you down, I can bring Aibo back to my side!"

"Heh, you fool, you want to dance too?" Anubis glanced arrogantly at the serious-looking Game. "Do you really think you can defeat me just by saying some big words like 'I'll definitely kill you'?"

Anubis, who had been hiding inside Kaiba's deck with the "Pyramid of Light" card and had been watching the duel between the two, didn't think Yugi was very strong. In his opinion, Yugi had been dominated by Kaiba almost the entire time. Although he almost managed to turn the tide with "Osiris," he was still very weak, with only 1600 Life Points and only one "Dark Magician" on the field.

Although he had been killed by Hayato once and barely managed to escape, Anubis did not believe that duelists with Hayato's level of strength were commonplace in this filthy world, which was as corrupt as it was a thousand years ago. There would be at most one or two, and it was unlikely that the one in front of him with his colorful hair that looked like a starfish was such a coincidence.

"Even if you don't attack me, your life will still be taken by me because it's necessary for my complete resurrection. But since you've taken the initiative to challenge me, you must be prepared to suffer both soul and body punishment." Anubis casually glanced at the cards he had taken from the seahorse and drew one out.

"Since the world's destruction is still a little while away, I'll just have some amusement from your pain and wailing. However, I don't really want to use these cards, so I'll use this card instead: [Hand Elimination],"

Having previously tested the Duel Disk in his Dark Game with Hayato, Anubis, relying on his immense physical strength and precision, casually tossed a card into the Duel Disk's Spell & Trap Zone, causing a projection of the card [Hand Elimination] to appear in front of him.

"The effect of [Hand Elimination] is that a duelist with cards in hand discards all cards in their hand and then draws the same number of cards discarded from their deck."

As Anubis spoke, he threw all six cards he had casually taken from the seahorse into the graveyard: "I will discard all six of these cards and then draw six cards from my own deck."

Having absorbed the power of the three Egyptian God cards, Anubis had plenty of energy to squander, conjuring up a deck out of thin air and placing it on the Duel Disk to replace cards. However, when using Kaiba's Duel Disk, the automatically activated Shuffle and Slice function made Anubis frown.

It seems he messed up the card order when building his deck, so the Duel Disk's automatic shuffling disrupted the card order?

After the deck was automatically shuffled, Anubis drew six cards. After glancing at the cards he had drawn, he breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had drawn the cards he wanted.

The game also discarded three cards from its previous hand and drew three cards. Although it was Anubis' turn, it played a card: "Because of your [Hand Elimination] effect, I drew [Cotton Ball] from my deck. And because of the card effect, [Cotton Ball] added to my hand from my deck can be Special Summoned to my field immediately."

I Special Summon Cotton Ball in Defense Position.

【Cotton Ball】【DEF300】

"Tsk tsk, a monster so weak it surpasses my imagination. It's even weaker than those monsters I saw before, which seemed to be called 'Disruption.' After all, even those disgusting monsters had at least 1000 points of defense." Anubis looked at the white ball that appeared on the game field and commented contemptuously, "However, it matches the user perfectly; they're all equally inferior."

"Let me show you a monster truly suited for the Duel Ritual, and what real power and might are!" Anubis drew two cards from his hand. "Because [Pyramid of Light] is on my field, I pay 500 Life Points twice to Special Summon these two monsters from my hand!"

"[Sphinx Andrew] and [Sphinx Dereya]!"

Anubis: 4000→3500→3000LP

As if he had no new tricks up his sleeve, he used the Sphinx and the two monsters with human bodies and lion faces that he had used once before in his duel with Hayato. As Anubis paid off his combined 1000 life points, they crashed onto his field accompanied by lightning, creating an imposing sight.

[Sphinx Andrew] [ATK3000]

【Sphinx Deleur】【ATK2500】

"Monsters with an attack power of 2500 and 3000 can be easily summoned with only 500 base points?!"

Yugi stared in shock at the two monsters on Anubis's field. After all, his and Kaiba's ace monsters, Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon, only had attack power of 2500 and 3000 respectively, but both required tributes of two monsters to be Tribute Summoned.

However, how could anyone possibly use two monsters and one Normal Summon to perform a Triple Summon just because of a single, ineffective Bone?

Something that can be solved with a single [Ancient Rules] card, or a card like [Star Blast] or [Reduce Cost], or even a special summon card like [Sage's Jewel].

Using the [Fusion] and [Fusion Deactivation] combo to summon is even more foolish.

Of course, there is absolutely no implied meaning towards any particular person here.

Anubis was very satisfied with the game's expression. It was only natural for him to have this surprised look when his monster appeared. Before, Kobayashi Hayato had remained calm despite seeing such a powerful monster, and the panicked expression that Anubis had finally managed to force was just a pretense to trick him. It was infuriating to think about.

"Although I hate that guy, there's a truth to it: my [Sphinx Andrew] and [Sphinx Dereia] are such powerful cards, they naturally come with considerable risks."

"Not only do Special Summoning require the payment of Life Points, but they cannot attack during the turn they are Summoned or Special Summoned."

Listening to Anubis's self-praise, Yugi was somewhat speechless. He had only slightly remarked that the monsters summoned by the other party were not bad in terms of combat power, and had no other intentions. If those two Sphinx monsters did not have any other troublesome effects, they were just average cards.

When it comes to powerful cards, Yugi doesn't think those monsters can compare to god-tier cards like Osiris, Obelisk, and Ra. In fact, Yugi feels that his Dark Magician is stronger than the opponent's if he has enough card support, especially since those two Sphinxes even have a self-limiting effect that prevents them from attacking.

Anubis noticed the confidence in the game's eyes, raised an eyebrow, and said unhappily, "However, although the self-effects of [Sphinx Andrew] and [Sphinx Dereia] have the restriction of not being able to attack, that doesn't mean you're safe, mortal."

"I activate the Spell Card 'Foolish Burial' to send 'Executioner - Demon Asura' from my Deck to the Graveyard, allowing me to activate Trap Cards directly from my hand this turn. I pay 1000 Life Points to activate 'Skill Drain' from my hand!"

Anubis: 3000→2000LP

As [Skill Drain] is activated, blue smoke rises from Anubis and the four monsters on the field and dissipates in the air, clearing away their effects.

However, the Cotton Ball on the field only had one Special Summon effect, and Dark Magician was a Normal Monster with no effect at all, so the Skill Drain spell was useless against them.

However, Anubis's original goal was simply to restore the attack abilities of Sphinx Andrew and Sphinx Dereia.

"Entering my battle phase, I will first attack your Defense Position Dark Magician with Sphinx Andre!" Anubis pointed to the field. "When Sphinx Andre destroys a Defense Position monster, inflict Life Points equal to half of the destroyed monster's ATK!"

Upon hearing Anubis's words, Yugi pressed the button to activate a face-down card: "In that case, I'll activate my backrow face-down card, the Trap Card [Dark Magician Illusion]!"

As the game's face-down card was activated, the Dark Magician, who was kneeling on one knee on the field, slashed the ground in front of him with his emerald wand. The magic power left on the ground by the wand head formed a magic shield that blocked the Dark Magician's path.

Sphinx Andrew, which launched the attack on Anubis's orders, swung its claws, but even with an attack power of 3000, it was only bounced off the shield when it hit it!

"My Spellcaster-Type DARK monsters with 2000 or more ATK will not be destroyed by battle until the end of the turn, will not be affected by my opponent's effects, and will have their own effects negated," Yugi said proudly. "And my [Dark Magician] is a Normal Monster, so it will not be negated by [Dark Magician Illusion] or your [Skill Drain] effect."

"Tch, in the end it's just like a turtle, and the only dark attribute mage monster you have with an attack power of over 2000 is that [Dark Magician]."

Anubis looked at the other [Cotton Ball] on the field, "Then I'll attack that [Cotton Ball] with [Sphinx Dereia], and the effect of [Sphinx Dereia] is that when attacking a defense position monster, it can be destroyed directly without damage calculation."

Although Sphinx Dereia has the appearance of a woman, she fights with the ferocity of a lion, leaping out and killing and destroying the Cotton Ball on the field with a single blow.

"However, because of [Skill Drain], the effect of [Sphinx Dereia] is nullified. But even without this effect, destroying monsters that are even lower than frog pee is a piece of cake."

Anubis sneered contemptuously, but at that moment, he discovered that the destroyed cotton ball did not go directly into the graveyard, but suddenly turned into a hand.

"Since you look down on [Cotton Ball] so much, at least experience its power." The game player moved his hand away from the button to activate the face-down card, and the face-down cards on his field were flipped up, revealing their names—

to be continued

Chapter 530 Attack power 13500!? So strong, too strong!

"The card I opened was, 'Fellow Traveler'!"

Under Anubis's gaze, Yugi announced the name of his face-down card: "When a monster on the field is destroyed and sent to my Graveyard, you can target one of your opponent's monsters and destroy it as well."

A ghostly hand emerged from the destroyed Cotton Ball, reaching towards Anubis's field. The game commentator continued, "Anubis, in my opinion, you are just someone who has some cards but has no grasp of their power or mind."

"If it were anyone else, upon seeing me use [Dark Magician Illusion] to protect [Dark Magician], they would most likely start wondering why I went to the trouble of summoning [Cotton Ball]. But you just recklessly launched an attack with an arrogant and conceited attitude."