Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

I've only ever used it on the simulator, how dare they steal my card's precious first time!

The second half of the sentence was a little embarrassing, so even the seahorse wisely refrained from saying it.

“I’m sorry, Kaiba, I can apologize to you later, but right now I have to defeat that guy.” Yugi gritted his teeth as he mentioned what Anubis had done, “How dare he take Aibo away from me!”

In his anger, Yugi glanced down at the card he had taken from Kaiba.

[Blue-Eyes Light Dragon] [10☆/Light]

[Dragon Clan/Effect]

[3000/2500]

[Effect: This card cannot be Normal Summoned. You can Special Summon it by Tributing 1 Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon you control. This card gains 300 ATK for each Dragon-Type monster in your Graveyard. Players can choose whether to accept Spell/Trap/Monster effects used on your monsters or Duelists. Furthermore, you can Tribute this card to destroy any number of cards on the field. This effect cannot be negated and can be activated during your opponent's turn.]

After reading the effect of [Blue-Eyes Light Dragon], even someone as experienced as Yugi fell silent for a moment. After all, the effect of this card was rather unbelievable, and he now understood where Kaiba's confidence in defeating him and Hayato came from.

What does "the player chooses whether to accept" mean? What does "any number of destructions cannot be invalidated" mean?

This shameless effect is so reminiscent of Pegasus! That guy likes to randomly print card effects whenever he gets inspired, without caring whether the cards are even strong enough. It's unforgivable, Pegasus!

After his usual rant about Pegasus, Yugi reread the effect of [Blue-Eyes Light Dragon]. This card is undeniably powerful, but its summoning is incredibly troublesome. It cannot be Normal Summoned, but it can be Special Summoned by Tributing [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]. Since only Kaiba possesses [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon], this means that even printing dozens or hundreds more copies of this card won't affect the Duel Monsters meta.

If we were to design the game, firstly, we would change "can be Special Summoned" to "can only be Special Summoned," then we would have to remove that ridiculous effect that allows you to choose to accept the special summon, and finally, we would have to remove the "cannot negate" clause from that card-destroying effect that can even destroy gods, and it would only be able to destroy one card. That way, these cards would be slightly more reasonable.

Although the game developers have their complaints about the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon's strength, in the current situation, the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon, with its overpowered effects, is just the right choice. In order to defeat Anubis, it wouldn't be a problem if the effects were even stronger.

However, the problem facing the game now is that he doesn't have any cards in his hand that can Special Summon Blue-Eyes Light Dragon. After all, he doesn't have many high-level Dragon monsters in his deck, and he also hasn't drawn Monster Reborn to revive Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon in Anubis Graveyard.

However, the game does include a [Autonomous Action Device] card, and "coincidentally" drew a [Mysterious Chinese Pot] card that allows you to gain the Life Points required to activate the [Autonomous Action Device] by releasing monsters and recovering Life Points...

Unaware that Yugi was watching him with a subtle gaze, [Dark Magician] suddenly shivered, and then heard Yugi's voice: "Anubis, in order to defeat you, I am willing to abandon my old friend [Dark Magician] and activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Mysterious Chinese Pot]."

"Unleash [Dark Magician], my Life Points will be restored to the value of [Dark Magician]'s attack power, which is 2500 points!"

With the bewildered expression on [Dark Magician's] face, a giant cauldron fell from the sky and pinned him beneath it, sending him to the graveyard, at which point the game's base score was restored.

[Game: 600 → 3100 LP]

"With enough Life Points, I can activate this card and equip the Spell Card 'Autonomous Action Device'. By paying 1500 Life Points, I can Special Summon one monster from my opponent's Graveyard to my field in Attack Position and equip it with 'Autonomous Action Device'. And I've chosen Anubis from your Graveyard, 'Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon'!"

"Come to my field! [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]!"

[Game: 3100 → 1600 LP]

After going around in circles, the game's base score returned to the value scored by Kaiba, but a three-headed white dragon appeared on his field.

"This is the second time someone has used my Blue-Eyes in front of me. But if it's used to defeat someone who dares to interfere with my duel, you can settle your score later." Kaiba's face darkened at the appearance of Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, but perhaps because he was used to seeing his Blue-Eyes change hands during his duel with Hayato, Kaiba's anger was mostly directed at Anubis.

"However, if my Blue-Eyes loses to a fourth-rate duelist who looks like he's using a third-rate deck, you'd better be prepared to apologize, Yugi!"

"Don't worry, Kaiba, I want to defeat this guy even more than you do."

In response to Kaiba, Yugi raised the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon, which he had previously added to his hand, high above his head: "Now, I will continue the summoning that Kaiba failed to complete earlier, and release the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field!"

"A summons from the ultimate monster, a dragon of light that will erase everything!"

Following closely behind the game, Kaiba seemed to be about to summon a new old... a new [Blue Eyes], and stood up excitedly, saying, "Let your light completely tear away the filth and darkness! Strong, invincible, strongest! Shatter, shatter, great cheer!"

"Descend!" x2

"【Blue-Eyes Light Dragon】!!"

"Brut-Ace-Seninger-Doragon!!!"

The body of the three-headed ultimate dragon suddenly cracked open with countless fissures, as if endless light was bursting forth from the cracks. Accompanied by a series of shattering sounds, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon broke out of the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's body!

Countless totem-like blue stripes lit up its slender body, and its sharp surface resembled a suit of mechanical armor. Pegasus, the father of Duel Monsters who created the Egyptian God Cards, called it the strongest card that surpassed the God Cards. The Blue-Eyes Light Dragon made its grand entrance!

[Blue-Eyes Dragon] [ATK3000]

A holy and dazzling white dragon descended onto the field. Even Yugi was quite shocked when he saw the white dragon before him: "Is this the strongest evolution of [Blue Eyes]?"

"Hmph, this is the symbol of my power, [Blue-Eyes Light Dragon]," Kaiba said smugly. "If it weren't for that troublesome guy earlier, I would have defeated you, Yugi."

"Whatever," Yugi said with a hint of helplessness, his sharp gaze sweeping over Anubis. "Although I don't have enough dragon monsters in my graveyard to power [Blue-Eyes Light Dragon], my goal is simply to maximize its effect."

"Release [Blue-Eyes Light Dragon] to activate its effect. I choose to destroy [Sphinx Andrgenius], [Pyramid of Light], and that face-down card in your back row, Anubis!"

"I've reached my limit. Now's the time to destroy all your cards!"

Anubis, upon hearing Yugi's words, scoffed, "Muda muda muda, the [Pyramid of Light] isn't your ordinary Duel Monster Card. It harbors a power capable of destroying the world. How could it be destroyed by a mere monster—"

"Pfft!?"

Halfway through his sentence, Anubis suddenly let out a painful scream, clutching the crystal pyramid to his chest, his voice filled with confusion: "W-what happened?! What have you done?!"

———Inside the Pyramid of Light———

“So that’s how it is. That ‘Destroyer’ actually wants to destroy the world and turn it to ashes. What a dangerous guy.” Yugi sat on a pile of empty coffins scattered on the floor of a room with Hayato, learning a lot from Hayato beside him.

Not far away, the remains of many mummies were scattered on the ground. Although they were so resilient that they could still move even when they were broken into pieces, they were too weak and were easily suppressed by [Disruption Yellow] and the [Disruption] monster.

"But Hayato, why is Bakura here too?" Yugi glanced at the far end of the room, where a white-haired man with rabbit ears was squatting next to a mummy, his hand pressed tightly against the crystal pyramid on its chest, releasing energy from it continuously. "And I have a feeling you're using Bakura."

"Don't get the wrong idea. I am indeed using Bakura, but this Bakura is not the Bakura you know from the game." Hayato looked at the pleased Bakura beside the game. "That guy is no good. It's a mutual exploitation, but compared to Anubis, I'd rather that guy get some benefits."

"However, all things considered, that guy still owes me a debt of gratitude."

As the power accumulated within the crystal pyramid for thousands of years was released, although a large portion was wasted and some returned to the cards of the three Egyptian Gods, Bakura, or rather, the Great Evil God Zorc appearing in Bakura's form, still absorbed a considerable amount of power that satisfied him.

"It's like wearing brand new underwear to greet the first day of the new year. Thank you so much, Hayato Kobayashi."

"See, you're even thanking me."

Chapter 532 You think you can kill me in one round?

When Hayato first entered the Pyramid of Light, he never expected to encounter Bakura. However, after seeing Bakura, Hayato understood what the Pyramid of Light really was.

Compared to the Millennium Items, which are powerful artifacts that store immense energy by sacrificing human lives during their creation, the Pyramid of Light is more of a versatile conversion device. It can not only transform the power of destroyed monsters into its own life force, as it did in the duel with Hayato, but it can even swap spaces.

The gravity-distorted labyrinth that appeared after the "Pyramid of Light" was something Hayato had wondered about when watching the anime in his previous life, as it resembled Yami Yugi's "Mental Room." Now it seems that it's not just a matter of similarity, but rather that Anubis used the "Pyramid of Light" to directly replace Yami Yugi's "Mental Room" within the Millennium Puzzle.

Therefore, the connection between the surface game and the dark game, which should have been connected through the Millennium Puzzle, was directly severed due to the substitution. Along with this, the remnant soul of the Great Evil God hiding in the Millennium Puzzle, namely "Bakura," was also transferred to the Pyramid of Light.

Hayato, who knows Yami Yugi's real name and true identity, deduced a conclusion: Anubis intends to take advantage of the inextricable fate of the struggle between Kaiba and Yugi that has been entangled for thousands of years, and even plans to replace Yami Yugi's position to rise above the world and carry out the destruction of the world for the "Light of Destruction" behind him!

Since the other side wasn't a good person, Hayato didn't need to pretend to be a gentleman anymore. He and Bakura hit it off immediately, and he used the power of the Millennium Wisdom Wheel to find Anubis's location—that guy had directly replaced Yami Yugi's mental room with his own room, and even decorated it like a newly unearthed tomb, which was a clear case of usurping someone else's place.

Although the mummy horde guarding the room was an insurmountable size for ordinary people and also possessed the characteristic of being unkillable, neither Hayato nor Bakura were ordinary people. They easily suppressed these mummies, who were useless except for their vitality and numbers, and who, if replaced by Honda or Jonouchi, could simply unleash their full power.

Because he was worried that Anubis might tamper with the crystal pyramid in its main body, Hayato left it to Bakura to handle. Bakura, however, was quite picky and had no interest in the power transformed by the crystal pyramid. Instead, he was very interested in the negative emotions such as resentment within it.

Hayato also discovered at this time that after the Pyramid of Light replaced the Millennium Puzzle, his Millennium Wisdom Wheel actually retained some of its ability to restrain the Millennium Item, which led to the scene where Hayato informed Yami Yugi of the situation earlier.

Inside the small world of the "Pyramid of Light," Bakura was feasting, while Hayato found the still-lost Yugi and took him with him. Outside the world of the "Pyramid of Light," Anubis, who was dueling with Yugi, stared in disbelief at the crystal pyramid on his chest that was gradually cracking.

"No, no, it can't be! How could it have turned out like this!?"

"Shouldn't that Millennium Cone only contain the weak soul of the Dark King's reality vessel? I clearly observed it carefully for a long time before deciding to replace the Pyramid of Light with the Millennium Cone!"

"What's with that evil spirit? And that guy who barged in? It's Kobayashi Hayato!"

"Onolei!"

"My perfect plan was ruined by a guy who's even more vulgar than frog pee!"

"I could kill you a thousand times over, and that still wouldn't be enough! Hayato Kobayashi!"

It wasn't that Anubis was selectively holding grudges; he actually harbored a great deal of resentment towards Bakura, who was tampering with his crystal pyramid. However, he didn't know Bakura's name at all, and he hadn't paid any attention to the game's name either, only remembering Hayato. So he simply vented all his anger on Hayato.

However, Anubis's anger at this moment was ultimately just impotent rage.

On the field, the holy dragon of light rose into the air, and countless slender beams of light burst forth from the stripes on its body.

When the beams of light swept across the game and the seahorse, they appeared to be just ordinary light sources, merely passing by without leaving any trace. However, when the beams of light struck the surrounding blue light walls, it was as if quicklime had met boiling water, causing the ground to shake and tremble violently.

There's also the Sphinx Andrgenius on Anubis's field. Although its attack power is boosted to an absurdly high 13500 points due to its own effect, enough to take down four and a half Blue-Eyes White Dragons, it is ultimately just a weakling without any resistance. Under the holy light released by the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon, the flesh that comes into contact with the pillar of light swells up, as if it is about to explode at any moment.

"Before you think about taking revenge on others, worry more about yourself, Anubis."

The game's sound came through, followed by the sound of a seahorse:

"As punishment for interfering with my sacred duel, you will have all hope extinguished by the power of my invincible Blue-Eyes Light Dragon."

"Take this, Anubis!" x2

"Shining Nova!!" x2

As Yugi and Kaiba shouted the same move name in perfect unison, the power of Blue-Eyes Rayquaza reached its peak. For a moment, it was as if a supernova was truly exploding in the Pyramid of Light, and holy white light enveloped everything!

The Pyramid of Light, destroy it!

"Ughhhhhh!!!"

Amidst the light, Anubis screamed in agony.

The "Pyramid of Light" that trapped Yugi and Kaiba was completely destroyed by the power of the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon, returning the two to the "open-air" venue of the Kaiba Dome.

In mid-air, countless particles drifted from the body of the Blue-Eyes Dragon, gradually becoming transparent. However, before it disappeared, it turned its head to look at the seahorse.

As the seahorse gazed at the Blue-Eyes Dragon, it saw a hint of reluctance in her eyes, and a sudden sadness and heartache welled up inside it, though it didn't know why.

"Qi..." For some reason, Kaiba wanted to say a name, but couldn't remember what to say. Taking the [Blue-Eyes Light Dragon] card back from Yugi's hand, Kaiba silently stared at the white dragon on the card.

In the stands, everyone naturally saw Yugi and Kaiba return to the arena the moment the "Pyramid of Light" disappeared.

"Game!" "Brother!"

The shouts of Jonouchi, Keihei, and the others caught the attention of Yugi and Kaiba. Looking in the direction of the sound, Yugi hadn't even had a chance to greet Jonouchi and the others when he noticed what was above their heads. His face darkened: "Everyone, get out of there!"

The bewildered crowd looked up, their expressions changing drastically.

Previously, after absorbing the power of the three Egyptian Gods, the "Pyramid of Light" released a towering pillar of light, creating a scene of the end of the world, and also pierced a large hole in the roof of the seahorse egg that was blocking its way.

Now, with the disappearance of the "Pyramid of Light" and the absence of the pillars of light, the already unstable dome is further disintegrating, and a large piece of debris is falling towards the audience below under the influence of gravity!

"boom!"

"Kuihei!" "Kyoko, Jonouchi, Honda!"

Even though the game alerted them to the danger above, time was far too short. The audience members had no chance to escape before being covered by the dust kicked up by the falling debris.

Yugi and Kaiba shouted anxiously, but received no response.

However, amidst the smoke and dust, Jonouchi, who was nervously clinging to Honda beside him out of fear, did not feel any pain for a long time.