Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

Upon hearing Hayato's explanation, Malik sighed helplessly and said, "This kind of sophistry that can't convince anyone is just like my brother-in-law's style."

"A monster with 3400 ATK?" Camus glanced at [Hellfire Machine - Tierra], then at the three Attack Position monsters on his field, and said dismissively, "A monster of this level won't pose any threat to me at all. If it attacks, it will only deduct a few insignificant Life Points from my score."

"The undead legion under the command of the vampires cannot be destroyed!"

Hearing Camus's words, Hayato shrugged: "In fact, even if I wanted to do that, I couldn't. Powerful cards often come with huge risks. During the turn when the [Chain Material] effect is active, I cannot attack. This effect is a duelist effect, and even monsters that are not affected by effects cannot avoid it."

"Also, Fusion Monsters fused using the effects of [Chain Material] will be destroyed at the end of the turn."

Hearing Hayato say that, Camus did not relax his guard at all; on the contrary, he became even more vigilant as he looked at Hayato's [Hellfire Machine - Tierra] on the field.

【Hellfire Machine】is a deck that Hayato started using after joining Doma to fit the villainous role he was playing at the time. Although it has become well-known to Yugi, Kaiba, and others because Hayato used it many times, the Duelist whose soul was sealed by Hayato with 【Hellfire Machine】 has not yet been able to compile detailed information about 【Hellfire Machine】. Therefore, Camus is quite unfamiliar with 【Hellfire Machine - Tierra】.

Since the [Chain Material] Fusion Summoned [Hellfire Machine - Tiera] cannot attack, it means that it must have the effect that Hayato needs, and it is very likely that it is the kind of effect that can create a huge advantage even if it only exists for one turn, or even directly lead to the possibility of victory!

Because the summoning of [Hellfire Machine - Tiera] was successful, Hayato began explaining the effects of its immediate activation, and Camus also learned about its effects.

"Depending on the number of fusion material monsters used during fusion, [Inferno-Tiera] can activate different numbers of effects upon successful fusion summoning. Since I used a total of eleven [Inferno] monsters as materials, [Inferno-Tiera] will activate all of her effects."

"However, before [Inferno-Tiera] activates its effect, I first chain her Fusion Summon to activate the Quick-Play Spell Card [Mysterious Chinese Pot] in my hand, which will then Tribute [Inferno-Tiera] on my field, and my Life Points will be restored to the value of her DEF."

【Hellfire Machine - Tiera】 can only activate its effect when it is successfully Fusion Summoned. When it is on the field, it is basically equivalent to a vanilla monster with higher attack power than 【Blue-Eyes White Dragon】. It has good synergy with 【Skill Drain】, and at the same time, it makes it easy for Hayato to release it without any burden.

Since the [Chain Material] effect is combined with [Hellfire Machine - Tiera], it can't attack anyway. Once the effect is activated, it can continue to be processed even if it leaves the field. So it's better to let Hayato cook and eat it before it's destroyed.

With a bewildered expression on [Hellfire Machine - Tiera]'s face, she was sent to the graveyard for the second time in her second appearance so far, and Hayato's base score increased accordingly.

[Hayato: 4000→7600LP]

After dealing with the effect of [Mysterious Chinese Pot], the effect of [Inferno Machine - Tierra], which had already left the field, came next. Hayato had three more cards in his hand: "First, if [Inferno Machine - Tierra] has three or more Fusion Materials, both players choose three cards from their respective Fusion Deck and send them to the Graveyard."

The three cards in his hand were flipped over and displayed. Camus could only see that the three cards were all Fusion Monster cards with purple borders. Hayato then sent those three cards to the graveyard, and Camus was also forced to take out three cards and send them to the graveyard as well.

But it wasn't over yet. After watching Camus send the three Fusion Monsters to the graveyard, Hayato placed his finger on top of the deck and drew three cards.

"Then, if there are five or more types of Fusion Material, send three cards from the top of both players' decks to the Graveyard."

Hayato glanced at the three cards flipped up on top of his deck and raised an eyebrow.

Among the cards he sent to the graveyard was a prestigious limited card, "Heavenly Treasure," the only one of its kind in the entire deck. The other two cards were mysterious cards with unclear meanings.

You actually sent such a good card to the graveyard of the Blind Pile! Unforgivable, Little Blue! Oh... it wasn't Little Blue's graveyard, then it's alright.

Hayato had two extremely important cards thrown into the graveyard, and Camus's luck didn't seem to be much better. As he watched the cards [Pot of Greed], [Angel's Charity], and [Undead World] being sent to the graveyard, his already bad expression turned even worse.

Both players sent the top cards of their respective decks to the graveyard, but the effect of [Inferno - Tierra] was not yet finished. Hayato held up three fingers: "Third effect: When there are eight or more types of materials, each player can choose up to three of their banished cards to return to the graveyard. However, only I have cards banished, so I will return these three cards to the graveyard."

Hayato retrieved the three cards from the previously discarded "Hellfire Machine" from his pocket and sent them to the graveyard, explaining the final effect: "And, the final fourth effect: when there are ten or more types, both players send all cards from their hands to the graveyard!"

"Huh?" Upon hearing Hayato's words, Camus was momentarily stunned, seemingly unsure of the effect of what he had heard.

After glancing at the single card remaining in Hayato's hand and his own empty left hand, Camus let out a cold laugh: "Hmph, hahahaha, you're so caught up in the thrill of summoning monsters that you've completely forgotten what their effects are, Kobayashi Hayato?"

"I don't have any cards in my hand that need to be discarded. On the contrary, you have to discard your last card because of the effect of your monster."

"I was even a little nervous because of that monster's aura, but in the end you spent all your cards just to absorb that monster's power to increase your own lifespan and survive my next turn? I have to say, that's absolutely hilarious, hahaha!"

Camus found it genuinely funny, his lips parting into an exaggerated grin that revealed a mouthful of sharp teeth. "I never imagined that after a hundred years, humans would become so interesting. I almost don't want to kill you anymore."

"Unfortunately, for the sake of the vampire clan's revival, I need the precious reward I'd gain from killing you. So continue, Kobayashi Hayato, continue your struggle!"

"So he really isn't human." Malik exclaimed upon seeing Camus's strange appearance. Although he himself possessed supernatural powers, this was the first time Malik had ever seen a supernatural being other than a Card Spirit in this world. He couldn't help but carefully examine Camus's entire body, trying to figure out what made the latter different from humans.

However, aside from having greater strength in their limbs than ordinary people, a paler complexion than fair-skinned people who pay attention to sun protection, and slightly different mouth structures, "vampires" don't seem to be any different, in fact...

Malik grinned and sneered, "But you're still just as foolish. You seem even more foolish after people find out you're an immortal vampire. You made blind judgments based on appearances without considering that there could never be an unusable condition for a duelist."

"For true duelists, it's not unreasonable to set up an ability that costs the same as doing two squats but grants 24 hours of invisibility. Even the negative effects of the cards can be utilized."

Just as Malik had predicted, when Hayato initially chose fusion materials using the effect of [Chain Material], he could have freely selected less than ten fusion materials for the [Hellfire Machine - Tiera] fusion summon, but he still chose all eleven.

It's important to know that the Fusion Material selected by [Chain Material] is banished, rather than sent to the graveyard, which is like home for [Inferno], making it relatively difficult to recover. He had already planned from that moment on to use the effect of [Inferno - Tierra] to send one of his cards to the graveyard.

That card is—

"Because of the effect of [Inferno - Tierra], this card in my hand will be sent to the graveyard, but because of this, a new chain will be born starting with this card!" Hayato showed the card in his hand that was about to be sent to the graveyard, "The card I'm sending to the graveyard is this one, [Cyber ​​Dragon Core]!"

"I already told you, the deck I'm using is 'Cyber ​​Deck'!"

Hayato sent Cyber ​​Dragon Core to the graveyard and then suddenly waved his hand, saying, "When Cyber ​​Dragon Core is sent to the graveyard, I activate its effect: I select one Cyber ​​Dragon from my Deck or Graveyard, other than this card, and add it to my hand!"

"However, this is not the only chain. My equation for victory was established the moment I summoned [Hellfire Machine - Tiera]!"

Beside Hayato, the figure of [Electronic Loongson] emerged from the graveyard, but then, two more beams of light suddenly appeared from the graveyard area.

"If [Shaddoll-Seven Sages Giant Kunma] is sent to the Graveyard from my Fusion Deck by the first effect of [Inferno-Tira], you can activate this effect: Add one [Shaddoll] card from my Deck or Graveyard to your hand, then discard one card from your hand."

"The effect of 'Laundry Dragon's Dilemma,' which is sent from the top of my deck to the graveyard by the second effect of 'Hellfire Tira,' is that if this card is sent from the deck to the graveyard by an effect, you can target one other card that was sent to my graveyard this turn and add that card to your hand. However, the effect of that card added to your hand by this effect cannot be activated until the end of my next turn."

As he spoke, Hayato took out a mysterious card from the graveyard, and at the same time retrieved two cards from his deck and added them to his hand, one of which was the [Cyber ​​Dragon] retrieved by [Cyber ​​Dragon Core].

"I added a Shadowdome to my hand using the effect of Shadowdome - Seven Sages Giant Kunma. Then I sent Shadowdome to the Graveyard. At the same time, Shadowdome's effect activated, and I could draw one card from my Deck."

After a brief explanation, Hayato quickly restored his hand to three cards, but at the cost of having an empty field with no monsters present.

However, if you look at Hayato's graveyard at this moment, you can see that in just one turn, Hayato has piled up graveyards in multiple areas, accumulating a terrifying amount of resources in his own graveyard. As long as there are cards that can make the most of the graveyard's resources, Hayato can squander the cards in his graveyard at will.

"Activate the effect of my card [Cyber ​​Dragon]: If there is a monster on your opponent's field and no monster on my field, this card can be Special Summoned from my hand."

Hayato placed the Cyber ​​Dragon in his hand onto the Duel Disk, then snapped his fingers. "And, since the combined level of all my Effect Monsters on the field is 8 stars or less, I Special Summon Inferno Lilith, excluding the three Inferno monsters in my Graveyard: Inferno Lava, Inferno Baal, and Inferno Tierra!"

"The moment [Inferno Lilith] enters the field, all Spell/Trap Cards on both sides' fields, except for [Inferno], will be destroyed!"

As blue flames spread across the ground, the slender, winged serpent [Hellfire Machine Lilith] descended, its flames, which devoured all life, swept across the undead monsters on Camus's field that were not living beings, and shattered the face-down card in Camus's back row—[Explosive Armor], just as Hayato had predicted.

【Electronic Dragon】【ATK2100】

[Hellfire Machine - Lilith] [ATK2900]

Seeing that his [Explosive Armor] in the back row was destroyed, Camus sneered and said, "Tch, it really is as I investigated. This card actually has an unactivatable curse on it?"

"It doesn't matter. Even if I summon a monster with high attack power, so what? Because of the effect of [Chain Material], you can't attack this turn, right, Hayato Kobayashi? In that case, it doesn't matter whether I have [Explosive Armor] to protect my monster or not."

"That's true, but who says I can't deal with your monster just because I can't attack?" Hayato said, playing a card. "If I'm the only one with a high-level monster on the field, isn't that a bit pathetic for you? In that case, I'll give you a super powerful monster. Don't get burned by this light~"

"I haven't performed a Normal Summon this turn, so I'll Tribute all three monsters on your field to Summon Kami!"

"O bird that burns fiercely in the sun, burn your wings of longing to illuminate my soul! Behold this will of iron, this resilience of steel!"

"Descend, [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Spherical Shape]!"

Camus stared wide-eyed as all three of his monsters turned to ashes in an instant, and then, in the next moment, the sun rose!

Chapter 679 Do you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten?

"【Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Spherical Shape】!"

Invoking the name of God, Hayato raised the card above his head, and it vanished from his hand as golden specks of light, before returning to its card form on Camus's Duel Disk.

In exchange, all three of Camus's monsters on the field were released and sent to the graveyard, leaving Camus looking bewildered as he stared at the only remaining God Card "given" by Hayato on his field.

When Malik heard that Hayato was going to release the monster on Kamille's field, he naturally assumed that Hayato had drawn [Lava Demon]. When he saw Kamille's surprised expression, he was somewhat dismissive, thinking that this was surprising. He thought that he, Malik, had seen all kinds of situations and would not even flinch.

Normally, there aren't many cards on the market that have the ability to "deliver the opponent's monsters," and in fact, there's only one such card: [Lava Demon]. It's understandable that ordinary duelists would be surprised and astonished when they first encounter this effect, since [Lava Demon] is quite rare.

However, it seems like something went wrong somewhere. Malik's luck with other cards wasn't always good, but he kept getting the Lava Demon card one after another. This resulted in his deck being full of three copies of it, with enough left over for Isis to also have three copies. Even Honda's deck had three copies of the Lava Demon.

If Hayato hadn't already played three copies of the same card and if Rishid hadn't been playing a pure trap deck, Malik would have given them his abundant Lava Claw cards; he would practically have become a Lava Claw wholesaler.

But when Hayato released the monsters, he was surprised to find that there were not two but three monsters, and the monsters that appeared were not the familiar [Lava Demon], but new cards that he had never seen before, which also had the same [Ra's Winged Dragon].

"I've never seen anything like this before." Malik raised an eyebrow as he watched the [Ra's Winged Dragon - Sphere] descend from the Dark Game's space and land on the ceiling.

Malik stole two of the Egyptian God cards created by Pegasus and entrusted to the Gravekeepers: "Sky Dragon of Osiris" and "Winged Dragon of Ra". Due to the obvious difference in the strength of the cards, Malik was more proficient in using "Winged Dragon of Ra". His long-dead Dark Personality was the same, and even more so than Malik.

Even so, Malik had never heard of Ra's Winged Dragon having this form in all the time he had the card. Malik did know of a similar form, though. If the summoner did not have the ability to pronounce the ancient Egyptian priestly script on the card after Ra's Winged Dragon was summoned, then Ra's Winged Dragon would be in this form.

However, I've never heard of sending this form of [Ra's Winged Dragon] directly to the opponent's field, have I? Moreover, Malik has wanted to complain about this for a long time. Since Hayato got [Ra's Winged Dragon] from him, he seems to have never seriously read out the ancient Egyptian priestly script on the card, making this setting seem like it has been eaten up.

Also, don't think that changing the summoning phrase will fool people into thinking that [Ra's Winged Dragon] is some kind of "Cyber ​​Stream" build. That kind of pointless persistence is really enough!

Malik's sarcastic remarks went unheard by Hayato. After summoning [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere], Hayato placed the card in his hand face down on the back row and declared, "Do you like this gift? Or not? But I won't ask for your permission."

"Because of the effect of [Chain Material], I cannot attack this turn, so after setting one card face down, my turn ends."

[Hayato: 7600LP, 0 cards in hand]

[Hellfire Machine - Lilith] [ATK2900]

【Electronic Dragon】【ATK2100】

【GaiKa】

Seeing that Hayato had finally finished his fancy maneuvering, Camus was finally able to see the [Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere] card that Hayato had placed on his field at the end.

At first, Camus, like Malik, thought of the extremely rare "Lava Demon," believing that it could unleash the monsters summoned by the opponent's three monsters in one go, and that it would at least have the same powerful attack power as "Lava Demon" and "Blue-Eyes White Dragon," not to mention that the card played by Hayato also had the rare "God" attribute.

But when Camus looked at the card on his field, he was dumbfounded.

【Ra's Winged Dragon - Spherical】】【10☆/God】

[Phantom Beast Race/Effect]

【？ /？】

What does it mean that both attack power and defense power are marked with "?"?

Camus wasn't completely ignorant about Duel Monsters; he knew the attack and defense stats of some monsters. But wouldn't the attack stats of those monsters change after they were brought onto the field due to their respective effects? However, the [Ragnaros the Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere] currently on his field seemed to be stuck and wouldn't move at all.

Camus had been thinking of using this monster that Hayato had forced onto his field to attack Hayato's lowest-ATK monster, Cyber ​​Dragon, and deduct some of its excessively high Elemental Points. But if its ATK and DEF are both ?, then it's essentially a weak monster with 0 ATK and DEF!

Aren't you a god? Why are you so weak?

Camus glared angrily at the Winged Rathalos in the air, but to his surprise, the Winged Rathalos, which was usually so docile in Hayato's hands and only whimpered all day, seemed to be provoked when it sensed his gaze. It suddenly unleashed a burst of intense heat that shone on Camus, blinding him as he looked up, and he let out a scream.

"Hmph, hmph, mmm~ Ahhhhhh, ahhhhhh!"

Although Camus's cry was foul, like a swamp gas leak, Ra's Winged Rathalos - Spherical felt quite good about itself, believing it had unleashed a sufficiently strong punishment to uphold its dignity as a noble god, and retracted its light, transforming it into a large, unremarkable golden egg hanging in the air.

"Damn it! How dare they use such despicable means to ambush me!" Camus barely recovered from the shock of staring at the blinding light, clutching his bloodshot eyes with one hand. He glared at Hayato, clearly blaming Hayato for the revenge he had suffered at the hands of [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Spherical Shape].

Seeing this, Hayato helplessly spread his hands and said, "That is precisely the greatness of the sun. Even the darkest dust in the corners is illuminated. However, if you look directly at the sun without knowing your place and are punished as a result, you can't blame the sun."

"But what I'm more curious about is, aren't vampires supposed to be terrified of the sun? I thought you'd be sunburned to death the moment [La] appeared."

"That kind of thing is obviously made up. Garlic, silverware, wooden stakes, and the sun—how did these things get associated with vampires or zombies? An immortal creature dies after eating a bite of garlic? Even a comedy manga wouldn't have such a bizarre setting. Vampires aren't allergic to onions, ginger, and garlic, are they?"