Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

Hayato's other card spirits, such as [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra], could easily defeat the target that seemed to be his killer if he used them. However, while unleashing the power of [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra], Hayato must also be prepared for the possibility that the power of [Ra] might destroy the entire aircraft.

If we can solve the problem by playing cards, that would be the best outcome.

Seeing Hayato pull out the Duel Disk, Camus smiled coldly and was about to release his power to envelop Hayato and Malik, who hadn't left. But to his surprise, the next second, an extremely terrifying dark power was released from Hayato's body, sweeping away everything around him in an instant.

To Camus's astonishment, the [Millennium Wisdom Wheel] hidden in Hayato's clothes emitted a golden light that pierced through the fabric, and the surrounding environment instantly transformed into a dark and deep open space.

"Such a high purity of dark power!"

Camus, though inwardly shocked, outwardly remained calm and said, "Hmph, all that fancy stuff. Do you think humans can contend with the noble vampires with just gadgets? You are no match for my invincible [Vampire] deck."

"I don't know, I've never thought about that. And to be honest, this isn't the first time I've faced a vampire." Hayato took out a deck and put it into the Duel Disk, casually saying to Camus, "Okay, this time the opponent is playing a vampire deck, but it doesn't matter, because this time we're playing a pure cyber deck."

"Duel!" x2

Camus: 4000LP, 5 cards in hand

[Hayato: 4000LP, 5 cards in hand]

Chapter 677 No Highs, It's Gone Gray

"I'll take the first turn, kid." Camus, having drawn a card from his deck and added it to his hand, wore a smug smile, seemingly pleased with his good draw.

Although Camus's skin was a rather sickly pale, he was still quite handsome overall because of his good-looking face, which fit the descriptions in the vampire fantasy romance novels that Kyoko often read.

"I activate the effect of [Skull Commander] in my hand, sending [Skull Commander] from my hand to the Graveyard, and Special Summon up to two Zombie-Type monsters from my hand with a combined ATK of 2000." Sending [Skull Commander] to the Graveyard, Camus, with two cards tucked between his fingers, triumphantly slapped them onto the Duel Disk. "Let the music of the past begin!"

"Special Summon in Attack Position: Goblin Zombie and Ghost Princess Pumpkin!"

In Camus's field, a goblin zombie with a thin, short body wrapped in a dirty, yellowish exoskeleton, and a strange pumpkin with tentacles and a single eye, wearing a white crown, appeared.

[Goblin Zombie] [ATK1100]

【Ghost Princess - Pumpkin Princess】【ATK900】

Camus Special Summoned two monsters with a combined attack power of exactly 2000. Despite having half of his hand resources consumed in one go, he managed to gather two monsters that could be used as tributes without using a Normal Summon. Surprisingly, this "vampire" Camus has some strength in Duel Monsters.

"Hmph, very good, the stage for the noble vampires to descend is ready." Looking at the monsters on his field, Camus's lips curled into a smile as he played a card. "Activate the Spell Card [Upgrade Transformation]. This card can be activated by sending one face-up monster I control to the Graveyard. Its effect is to Special Summon one monster from my Deck with the same Type and Attribute as the monster sent to the Graveyard, and a Level 1 higher!"

"A crimson fire burns fiercely in my eyes; this thirst for blood is about to be satisfied!"

"Come forth, my kin, [Vampire Red Death]!"

A powerful electric current erupted from Camus's [Upgrade Transformation], slamming into the Level 4 [Goblin Zombie] and instantly pulverizing it. At the moment of the [Goblin Zombie]'s death, a large amount of blood burst out and coalesced into a humanoid shape.

Seeing this, Camus laughed arrogantly: "Heh heh, heh ha ha ha ha, I'm having the time of my life!"

Just as Camus was about to take the card "Vampire: Red Reaper" from his deck and place it on the Duel Disk to complete the Special Summon, an unexpected event occurred. Despite it being Camus's turn, a phantom figure flew out of Hayato's hand and delivered a flying kick to the nearly completed "Vampire: Red Reaper".

"Bug!!!" Camus stared in astonishment as his [Vampire Red Death], which was supposed to be summoned, was kicked away by a suddenly appearing monster, letting out a strange cry before being kicked back into his deck!?

Not only that, the Goblin Zombie that I sent to the graveyard using the Cost from the Upgrade Transformation didn't return to the field!

"Hayato Kobayashi! You despicable bastard, you cheated!" In a fit of rage, Camus pointed directly at the innocent-looking Hayato.

"What nonsense are you talking about? My brother-in-law has been standing here the whole time without moving. Everyone saw it. How could my brother-in-law cheat?" Hayato, who looked completely innocent, didn't say anything. However, Malik, who was watching the game in this dark game space, immediately spoke up to support Hayato and asked Camus aggressively.

Camus was taken aback by Malik's question, but he moved his finger and pointed firmly at the short-haired yellow monster with cat ears and an orange bow tie on Hayato's field: "But it was clearly my turn, yet he was able to summon a monster from his hand and interfere with my monster summoning!"

Although Camus didn't know how Hayato did it, the fact that he inexplicably played his card during his opponent's turn, and that monster dressed like an old lady still haunting Hayato's field, was evidence of Hayato's cheating!

Upon hearing this, Hayato said disdainfully, "To dismiss something you can't understand as something that goes against tradition, you really have the style of an old-fashioned guy who can't accept the birth of new things. I'll let you die knowing why."

"The effect of 【Ash Blossom & Joyous Springs】 is that when any of the following effects of a Spell, Trap, or Monster are activated, I can discard this card from my hand to negate that effect. This effect can be activated during my opponent's turn."

"Do you dare disobey me, the one who owns Ulala?!"

After listening to Hayato explain the effect of the [Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring] he had activated, and watching [Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring] make a face at him before disappearing from Hayato's field, and hearing Hayato's taunts, Camus hardened, and his fists hardened.

But before he could lash out, he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, saying, "Fine~"

"Even if you prevented the arrival of a noble vampire, so what? I haven't even made a normal summon this turn," Camus said with a dark face. "Furthermore, if [Goblin Zombie] is sent from the field to the graveyard, I can also add a Zombie monster with 1200 or less DEF from my deck to my hand."

Although the effect of "Upgrade Transformation" was negated by Hayato's "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring," the fact that "Goblin Zombie" was sent to the graveyard occurred before the effect of "Upgrade Transformation" was activated, and therefore was not within the scope of "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring." Furthermore, Hayato did not have a second card with a similar effect to "Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring" in his hand, leaving Kamille to search for cards from his deck.

Upon hearing Camus's words, Malik scoffed, "Defense power below 1200? Those below 1200 are just weaklings and monsters."

Camus snorted and glared at Malik: "Hmph, how could mere mortals possibly imagine the nobility of us vampires? For the immortal vampires, defensive capabilities have always been unnecessary."

"I'm adding this monster to my hand, and I'm going to Normal Summon it!"

"Turning the resentment of the dead into playthings in your hands, reveal yourself, Lord of Zombies!"

As Camus slammed down the card in his hand, he finally succeeded in summoning the monster. A short, white-haired mage appeared on his field, manipulating the power of the dead and controlling a decaying corpse to become a puppet in front of him.

[Lord of the Zombies] [4☆/Dark]

[Undead/Effect]

[1800/0]

"I activate the effect of [Lord of Zombies]. Once per turn, I can send one monster card from my hand to the Graveyard, and then target one Level 4 or lower Zombie monster in either my or your opponent's Graveyard to activate this effect," Camus declared, sending one card from his hand to the Graveyard, leaving only his last card in his hand. "That Zombie monster will be resurrected on my field. Come forth, [Goblin Zombie]!"

Generally speaking, each race in Duel Monsters has a particular strength. For example, the Dragon race is prone to decks that excel at strong attacks, the Warrior race has many decks that rely on Equip Cards, the Spellcaster race is mostly focused on group actions, and the Zombie race is generally best at repeatedly moving around in the Graveyard.

As the Zombie Lord unleashed a burst of power into the ground, a gaunt arm cleaved the earth open, and the Goblin Zombie, which had just been sent to the graveyard by the effect of Upgrade and Transform, returned to Camus's field once more, standing beside the Zombie Lord as a guard.

[Goblin Zombie] [ATK1100]

Even though Hayato interrupted his run once, Camus still managed to summon a total of three monsters on his field in one turn. Although the quality of the monsters was not high, the number of them was enough to make up for the lack of quality.

Camus placed his cards face down on the back row and said smugly, "It's the first turn, so unfortunately I can't attack this turn. Otherwise, with the combined attack power of my monsters, which total 3800 points, I could easily reduce your Life Points to a sliver. Be glad, you foolish human."

"Flip a card over, and my turn ends."

Camus: 4000LP, 0 cards in hand

【Ghost Princess - Pumpkin Princess】【ATK900】

Lord of the Zombies [ATK1800]

[Goblin Zombie] [ATK1100]

【GaiKa】

"Surprisingly, you managed to pull off some pretty good plays, summoning so many monsters in just one turn." Hayato looked at the three monsters on Camus's field, completely disregarding Camus's threat, and said casually, "However, there's one thing I'm curious about."

"Why are all the monsters on your field zombies, wizards, or ghosts? What happened to the vampires?"

Upon hearing Hayato's words, Camus's smug expression froze. He snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, isn't that all thanks to you, you despicable bastard? You stopped me from summoning my fellow vampires and you still have the nerve to say that?"

"As for the other undead, hmph, they are all servants and slaves of our noble vampire clan. It doesn't matter if the vampire clan doesn't have a chance to take action. Just using these servants is enough to make you let out desperate wails."

"Heh heh, so confident, huh? Since you've received a bounty for killing me, it means you know how powerful I, Kobayashi Hayato, am, right? How can you still be so confident under such circumstances?" Hayato's fingers rested on his deck. "Well then, laugh a little longer. Duel Monsters is a game that can bring smiles, anyway, you won't be able to laugh in a bit."

"My turn, draw a card! Then I activate the Spell Card I drew, 'Foolish Burial,' and send a monster from my deck to the Graveyard."

As the card was activated, Hayato's Duel Disk began to automatically search for cards. A few seconds later, Hayato caught an extended card and showed it to Camus: "The card I sent to the Graveyard is this one, the monster card [Executioner - Demon Slayer]. And because of this monster's effect, during the turn it is sent to the Graveyard, I can activate a Trap Card directly from my hand without setting it."

After sending "Executioner - Demon Shura" to the Graveyard, Hayato inserted another card into the Spell & Trap Zone of his Duel Disk. Despite being a red-bordered Trap Card, it was activated by Hayato like a regular Spell Card. Kamille read out the card's name: "Chain Material?"

"The effect of this card is that when I perform a Fusion Summon this turn, I can choose the Fusion Material Monsters determined by the Fusion Monster from my hand, Deck, Field, or Graveyard, and banish them as Fusion Material," Hayato explained. "In other words, when I activate this card, all areas on this Duel Disk become areas where I choose materials."

"What?!" Camus was also surprised to hear this, because he remembered that Hayato had mentioned before the duel that he was using a deck called "Cyber ​​Stream".

Camus was not actually lying; he was indeed a vampire, born into the world hundreds of years ago in the Middle Ages.

In the era when Camus was born, the power of the vampire clan was at its peak. Taking advantage of humanity's ignorance at the time, they used their immense strength to amass wealth and power, becoming the unsung manipulators of human society.

But then one day, when Camus's family was raiding a nameless village for food to obtain the blood they needed for their daily needs, they were discovered by a traveler who also had green hair. At that time, the elders of the clan, because of the dark power and the aura of an immortal being emanating from him, mistook him for a member of their clan who had been separated from them and invited him to a feast.

Unexpectedly, the traveler became extremely angry because humans had been harmed, and even the celestial phenomena changed because of his mood. In the midst of a storm, Camus's people were forced to flee back to the castle due to the sudden attack of a large number of pythons. During this time, one of his people was unfortunately captured by the green-haired traveler.

Camus's people thought the matter was over and that it was over. They even planned to take revenge sometime later. However, almost no vampire in the world expected that after that day, the humans who were originally just people they could play with and hunt suddenly began to fight back and hunt them. Moreover, they were highly organized and even seemed to have a great understanding of the vampires' weaknesses and strengths.

It was as if a hidden hand, even more powerful than the vampires themselves, was pushing humanity to wipe out the vampires hidden among them!

Countless vampires died at the stake, on wooden stakes, and on silver swords. Camus's family was almost completely wiped out. Camus, who had just come of age, was separated from his clan and surrounded by a group of humans.

In a panic to avoid being killed, Camus hid on a ship heading out to sea and took refuge in a coffin. However, the coffin had a lock on the outside, which locked Camus inside completely.

Even more outrageous, the ship where Camus was hiding was hit by a rocket fired by a crazed witcher. In the sea of ​​fire, the coffin where Camus was hiding sank directly to the bottom of the sea. It's hard to say whether this was lucky or unlucky.

Not long ago, Camus's coffin was swept up from the seabed by a sudden change in ocean currents and retrieved, allowing Camus to return to this world. However, he discovered that hundreds of years had passed, and everything he knew, whether it was the mad witch hunters or his vampire brethren, had disappeared from the world.

Although he hoped that some of his former comrades who had escaped were still sleeping somewhere in the world, Camus had already made a plan: even if he was the last of the vampires, he would restore the glory of the vampires.

The first thing to do was to earn money to buy land as the vampire clan's territory. Thus, Camus became a mercenary walking the dark side of the world.

Because he doesn't know many things about the world today, Camus often conducts overly detailed investigations before taking action. For example, in this case, when he was tasked with killing Hayato, he not only found out the data on all the cards Hayato had publicly used so far, but he even knew that his favorite color was pink.

The "Cyber ​​Flow" deck was also within Camus's investigation scope. He remembered it very clearly; it was a super powerful deck that became terrifying once it started to fuse!

Is it coming? It's said to be the ultimate machine-type fusion monster, [Chimera Overload Dragon], capable of displaying brilliance beyond all.

Camus watched as Hayato suddenly drew more than ten cards from his deck, his face full of vigilance, only to hear Hayato say, "I activate the Spell Card [Fusion]! The Fusion Materials I've chosen are all eleven [Inferno] monsters in my deck!"

"Atheism, stupidity, rejection, insensitivity, cruelty, ugliness, lust, greed, instability, and materialism—ten forces converge here. Call upon the name of God!"

"Don't blink, what I'm about to show you is the ultimate secret of 'electron flow'!"

"Fusion Summon! [Hellfire Machine - Tiera]!"

Chapter 678 As a cybernetic player, a successful deck is simply having Cyber ​​Dragon in it.

"Don't blink, what I'm about to show you is the ultimate secret of 'electron flow'!"

"Fusion Summon! [Hellfire Machine - Tiera]!"

"This is some kind of insane electron flow!!!"

Camus never imagined that the "electronic flow" Hayato kept talking about would actually be this thing in front of him. Amidst his complaints, the eleven [Inferno Machine] monsters in Hayato's deck turned into points of light and flew out. The points of light of different colors converged behind Hayato to form a magic circle. The pattern at the node of the magic circle was clearly the inverted Kabbalah Tree of Life.

From within the magic circle, the enormous [Hellfire Machine - Tiera] appeared.

【Hellfire Machine - Tiera】【11☆/Flame】

[Demon Race/Fusion/Effect]

[3400/3600]

Listening to Camus's complaints, Hayato brazenly said calmly, "As we all know, 'Cyber ​​Stream' is good at boosting the deck, boosting the graveyard, and recycling the banished zone, and [Inferno Machine] can also boost the deck, boost the graveyard, and recycle the banished zone."

“And ‘Electron Flow’ is generally a monster of the Machine race. Coincidentally, the name of the [Hellfire Machine] also contains the character ‘machine’, so the equation still holds true. The [Hellfire Machine] is also an ‘Electron Flow’.”