Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

As he spoke, the Elder of the Graveyard breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the two monster cards successfully spat out from the Duel Disk. He then played the card in his hand, saying, "Special Summon this monster from my hand. Come forth, [Demon Shovel Worm]!"

Without the constraint of [Midrush], the Gravekeeper successfully performed a second Special Summon. A giant, centipede-like insect burst through the ground and appeared on the field, flanking the Gravekeeper on either side of [Ultimate Insect LV5].

【Demon Shovel Bug】【8☆/Land】

[Insect/Special Summon/Effect]

[2800/2600]

However, since this special summon was performed during the second main phase, the [Demon Shovel Bug] that appears at this moment does not have the ability to attack.

"My turn is over, now it's your turn, kid." The gravedigger gave a disgusting grin. "Although it only dealt 100 points of damage, that should be enough to make you feel excruciating pain, right?"

[Elder: 1800LP, 0 cards in hand]

【Ultimate Insect LV5】【ATK2300】

【Devil Shovel Bug】【ATK2800】

Upon hearing this, Hayato glanced at his trouser leg. Hayato had already noticed this at the very beginning of the duel. Although the old man seemed like just a mean old man, the elder of the tomb-guarding clan opposite him actually possessed the ability to activate the Dark Game. However, he was quite cunning, waiting until Hayato had already been injured and was about to retaliate before activating the Dark Game.

By doing this, he avoided the 2200 points of true damage from the direct attack of [Midrush], but the 100 points of damage that Hayato just received were amplified by the Dark Game and became true damage. Hayato's trouser leg was torn at the lower leg due to the storm caused by the attack of [Ultimate Insect LV5], revealing reddened skin.

"Heh, it's nothing. Is this the kind of attack you call 'heart-wrenching' that doesn't even qualify as a massage?" Having gone through so many dark games, a mere 100 points of damage wasn't even worth Hayato's attention. He said indifferently, "It's just a pity about those $20,000 pants I wore."

"Tch, why are all the kids so rich these days?" the Elder of the Graveyard said indignantly, but after glancing at the monsters on his field, he regained his confidence. "Well, it's clearly my victory now. During my preparation phase next turn, [Ultimate Insect] will evolve from LV5 to LV7. Its power will increase, and it will also regain the ability to spread scales to lower the opponent's monster's power."

"With the [Demon Shovel Worm] also present, no matter what kind of monster you summon, it will only be destroyed and annihilated by me!"

Looking at the two cards in Hayato's hand, the Gravekeeper Elder said disdainfully, "With just two cards in your hand that are revealed, you think you can defeat me in one turn when you can only draw a card once? There's no such thing as good luck in a duel."

As soon as he finished speaking, the tomb guardian saw Hayato actually laugh.

"Hmph, hehe, hahahahahaha!"

"Luck? While I don't deny that some people do have luck that's so outrageous it's like cheating (Jounouchi: Why are you looking at me?), only third-rate duelists would rely on luck for drawing cards."

"My turn!" With his fingers resting on the deck, Hayato, who was sitting with nothing around him, suddenly felt an updraft beneath his feet, causing his bangs to stand up. "A true duelist can draw whatever card he wants. Draw!"

“Then activate this card,” Hayato said, drawing the card and slamming it onto the Duel Disk without even looking at it, as if he already knew what card he would draw. “Spell Card: Angel’s Charity. Draw three cards from my deck and then discard two cards from my hand.”

Watching Hayato use the cards he drew so effortlessly without even looking at them, the Gravekeeper was dumbfounded. The scene before him was completely unexpected, and unable to understand why, he pointed at Hayato and shouted, "You bastard, you're definitely cheating! How could anyone guess what they drew without even looking at the cards!"

"Ha, you say I knew what I was going to draw beforehand? Aren't you the same? And don't judge me with your limited knowledge, you idiot." Hayato drew three cards from his deck, sent two of them to the graveyard, and proudly declared, "Nothing is impossible for me on this earth; all things are in my hands!"

"The cards I sent to the graveyard are the monster card [Shaddoll Lizard] and the trap card [Shaddoll's False Tome]. Here, I activate the effect of [Shaddoll Lizard]. If this card is sent to the graveyard by an effect, I send one [Shaddoll] card from my deck, other than [Shaddoll Lizard], to the graveyard. I chose [Shaddoll's Protocore]."

"If [Shaddoll Core] is sent to the Graveyard by an effect, target one [Shaddoll] Spell/Trap Card other than [Shaddoll Core] in my Graveyard, add it to your hand, and recycle [Shaddoll Pseudo-Scripture]."

After receiving a gift from an angel, Hayato's hand grew to four cards. He drew one of the cards, held it between his fingers, and raised it above his head, saying, "Now, I hold the future in my hands."

"At this moment, I have gathered five Mage monsters in my graveyard. I must immediately perform a noble Fusion Summon!"

"Activate the Spell Card [Fusion Magic]: This card can banish Fusion Materials from my field or Graveyard to Fusion Summon 1 Spellcaster-Type Fusion Monster from my Fusion Deck!"

Several phantom figures rose up behind Hayato.

[Summoner - Aleister],

Shaddoll Falcon

Shaddoll Hedgehog

【Shadowy Midrash】

【Shadowdoll Lizard】

The five mage-type monsters that had been sleeping in the graveyard released their power and transformed into five different colored magic spheres behind Hayato. A mysterious barrier rose beneath their feet, and the energy spheres in the air merged into it, forming a five-layered magic circle.

At the center of the converged power, a figure slowly appeared.

"Lend me your power, Mimi, Alai!" After inserting the cards into the Spell & Trap Zone of the Duel Disk, Hayato held the five banished monster cards in his hand and clenched his left fist.

"Yoshi! Let's go, Master!" Allai nodded, and Midrash also nodded and murmured "Mmm".

The phantom behind Hayato then opened its arms in an embracing motion, the energy ball merging into it, and the figure spoke: "Say my name!"

"Os!" Upon hearing this, Hayato abruptly raised the weapon-like Duel Disk on his left wrist and clenched his left fist above his head. "Fusion Summon! [Five-Element Magician]!"

Chapter 705 You Have at Least Three Things to Say to Me

"Fusion Summoning! [Five-Element Magician]!"

Five energy spheres that unfurled into magic circles merged into Hayato's figure behind him, maintaining the same raised left hand posture as Hayato. The Magician of SaiQ—the Five-Circle Magician—made his grand entrance!

[Five-Element Magician] [12☆/Dark]

[Mage Race/Fusion/Effect]

[4500/4500]

"He's here! The supreme mage who once used [Super Fusion] to instantly kill my sister, whose attack power is comparable to [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon], the [Five-Array Magician]!" Upon seeing the [Five-Array Magician] appear, the most excited was none other than Malik, who was watching the battle. "As expected of my brother-in-law, you easily accomplished what we couldn't do. I really admire you!"

Jonouchi, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but complain, "Why do you get so agitated when you talk about your sister's defeats?"

"No, impossible! They're just a bunch of weak monsters, and what's so similar about them that they can fuse into such a monster?" The Tomb Guardian looked at the appearance of the [Five-Array Magician] with disbelief. "Damn it! With an attack power of 4500, it can deal 2200 damage to me just by attacking my [Ultimate Insect LV5]!"

The tomb guardian looked at his meager 1800 life points with resentment. He was just missing the ability of [Ultimate Insect LV5] to lower the ATK of all monsters on the opponent's field by 500. He was only one effect away from victory, just 500 points less damage—

"Your next sentence will be, 'If my [Ultimate Insect LV5] could use its effect!'"

"What if my [Ultimate Insect LV5] could use its effects...?!"

Seeing the elder guarding the grave looking surprised, Hayato couldn't help but sneer, "Fool, your scheme was exactly what I expected. Even if your [Ultimate Insect LV5] could use its effects, or even if it evolved to LV7, it wouldn't make any difference; it wouldn't change the outcome at all!"

"This effect can only be activated if this card is successfully Fusion Summoned using five different Spellcaster monsters as materials. Destroy all cards on your opponent's field!" As he spoke, Hayato pointed to the sky. "At the moment when [Five Magician Magician] descends, having gathered the power of five different Spellcaster monsters, it will be like humans worshipping the sun. All your cards will bow down before me and face destruction!"

"The Hand of the God of Destruction!"

Shouting out the meaningless name of his technique, the [Five Array Magician] behind Hayato lightly raised his wrist, and an energy ball instantly formed, teleporting above the gravedigger's head with a magic circle. In an instant, countless beams of light were released from the energy ball, sweeping across the area.

"boom!"

The [Demon Shovel Bug] with an attack power of 2800 and the [Ultimate Insect LV5] with an attack power of 2300 were no different in strength in the face of this destructive power. They were hit and destroyed almost simultaneously and sent to the graveyard. The graveyard elder's area became empty in just one breath!

"My monsters!" The tomb guardian elder cried out in panic as the monsters he had used to protect him were wiped out in an instant. "Damn it! Now I'm left unprotected!"

"Even now, you're still thinking about such unnecessary things? How pathetic." Hayato waved his hand and gave the order, "This is the final attack! Go, [Five-Element Magician]! Take this! Nanto Suicho Ken Ultimate Technique—Flying White Beauty!"

Although he was a mage, due to Hayato's bias, the [Five-Array Magician] had no choice but to adopt a skilled attack stance, using his powerful magic to teleport himself in front of the Gravekeeper Elder. Then, he clenched his right fist, which was infused with all his magic power, and slammed it into the Gravekeeper Elder's face!

"Ughh ...

The tomb guardian elder, whose face had been severely injured three times, was sent flying by the attack of the [Five Array Magician], howling in pain as his basic score was reduced to zero.

Elder: 1800LP → 0

As the duel ended, Hayato walked toward the fallen Elder of the Graveyard. He patted the Five Elements Magician on the shoulder as he passed him, and the latter nodded back to Hayato. In the instant they passed each other, the latter's figure vanished and returned to the card.

After seeing the elder, who was considered one of the strongest in the clan during the duel, defeated by Hayato, the black-robed men brought by the tomb guardian elder, who was surrounded by people with swords, also panicked. They ignored Jonouchi and Yugi and ran straight to the tomb guardian elder who had been knocked to the ground, seemingly to protect the elder and block Hayato from getting close.

However, no matter how you look at it, it's just a formality. Every time Hayato takes a step closer, the black-robed men, who form a human wall with expressions of certain death, take a step closer with their swords, not daring to get even a fraction closer to Hayato.

Even when there was nowhere left to retreat, this human wall actually parted on its own, creating a passage to the tomb-guarding elder who was still lying on the ground, groaning and moaning. It was comparable to the bodyguards around the magnanimous An, but they did not provide any protection whatsoever.

Hayato ignored the group of bluffing men holding knives who didn't even dare to look him in the eye. He walked straight to the tomb guardian elder, and without waiting for the elder's reaction, he reached out and grabbed the elder's left wrist, intending to remove the golden dueling disk that the elder was wearing with a technique he had inexplicably mastered.

However, just as Hayato grabbed the other's wrist, the Gravekeeper also unleashed his potential, forcefully grabbing Hayato's left hand, which was about to untie the Duel Disk's strap, with a pleading expression.

But would Hayato care about that? Amidst the despair in his opponent's eyes, Hayato didn't hesitate to pry open his opponent's fingers and remove the Duel Disk.

Although Malik said that the Duel Disk seemed to have been in his clan since he was a child, Hayato found that although it was somewhat heavy, it was much lighter than he had expected, and it did not have the heavy feel of a gold object.

Upon closer inspection, Hayato immediately noticed something amiss, confirming that his guess was correct.

As Hayato attempted to draw cards from the Golden Duel Disk, he immediately noticed, after switching from the opponent's perspective to the user's perspective, that the deck area of ​​the Duel Disk, besides the card slots for placing the deck, was hollow on the side and contained other cards besides the main deck, such as [Angel's Charity], [Lightning Strike], and [Divine Shield - Mirror Power -].

Even the card slots where the deck is placed have a little trick: they can automatically move powerful cards to the desired positions when shuffling the deck!

"Just as I thought." Hayato removed the Duel Disk he had worn for the experiment and glanced contemptuously at the Elder Gravekeeper who was slumped on the ground. "This guy is nothing but a cheater in duels. He's not even as good as Keith. At least Keith's hand speed was developed through hard work."

Yugi, who had also sensed something was wrong, nodded when Hayato confirmed that the other party was a cheater. He looked at the gravedigger elder with some anger: "Cheating? I knew it. What a disgusting guy, using the same insect race as you."

Upon hearing what Yugi and Hayato said, the one who reacted the most was not anyone else, but rather the group of black-robed men surrounding them.

"The elder actually cheated during the sacred duel ceremony? How is that possible?" "Why would the strongest elder in the clan cheat? There's no reason for it!" "I can't accept this!"

Malik walked over to Hayato, glanced at the Golden Duel Disk that Hayato had abandoned on the ground, and after examining closely the mechanisms that Hayato had discovered, a smug smile appeared on his face: "I knew it. How could an old man who only sees Duel Monsters as tools in his power struggles draw any card he wants? So he cheated."

"In the tomb-guarding clan, this old fellow, besides being in charge of punishments, is also responsible for guarding the clan's precious artifacts and has certain rights to use them. Taking advantage of this privilege, he probably created this cheating artifact by imitating the clan's existing golden dueling disk. He took advantage of the fact that others don't have the right to inspect precious artifacts. Ha, what a despicable fellow."

"Now I understand. It's because of this external force that you were able to defeat the others in the clan. After all, compared to others who rely on luck to draw cards, you have a much better chance of winning because you know your deck layout in advance. And it's also because of this that you didn't want to activate the effect of your brother-in-law's [Half-Dragon Maid - Laundry Dragon Girl]."

"But even you, in this state, were mercilessly defeated by my sister." Malik paused, seemingly recalling some unpleasant memory, and murmured with a hint of regret, "in the same way that [the Underworld] had tormented me countless times..."

Upon hearing Malik's words, the tomb guardian elder sitting on the ground seemed to be enraged. Forgetting his despair and wails, or perhaps his resentment overwhelmed his despair, he angrily said, "That little girl, relying on her bloodline to inherit the clan's [Millennium Jewelry], how dare she be superior to me for such a ridiculous reason!"

"What 'strongest user in a thousand years'? So what if I can plan ahead what cards I'll draw next? That bastard is even more outrageous! He can even predict what cards I'll draw and then counter my counters, forcing me to stay at the position of elder. I want to be the clan leader!"

"Since she can use cheat items like the [Millennium Jewelry], what's wrong with me using such an item!"

As he spoke, the tomb-guarding elder suddenly stopped, staring at his hands in horror: "I... how could I have said everything!?"

He had just been thinking that even though his cheating had been exposed, he could still fool the young kids in front of him by playing the victim and making up a reason. He also thought that he could easily deceive his subordinates by explaining it as a "shameless frame-up," relying on his prestige within the clan over the years, and maintain his image as the "strongest of the tomb-guarding clan."

Once he got away, he could immediately regroup his troops and kill these bastards who had shamed him to silence them. But why, why did he have to blurt out the truth he had been keeping hidden in his heart?!

"You're not wondering why you blurted out your true feelings, are you?" Hayato chuckled coldly, revealing the Millennium Key and Millennium Scepter tucked at his waist, both emitting a faint golden glow. "Isn't it you who dared to challenge me to a dark game, the one who was so arrogant as to think you were above the law?"

"When you created that Duel Disk, did you use some items to imbue it with dark power? But unfortunately, in terms of authority in the Dark Games, I am still above you. However, I didn't impose any severe punishment, I merely placed the magic of these two Millennium Items on you, after all, there is no duelist more compassionate than me."

Hayato crouched down, looked at the terrified tomb guardian elder, and pointed at the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel], saying, "Look, when it lights up, someone will die. When someone dies, someone will cry. And when someone cries, they must speak their heart."

"Speak, you have at least three things to say to me."

The tomb guardian elder looked at the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel] emitting a faint sense of panic. The dark magic was pressing down on his nerves almost without reservation. He tried hard to shut his mouth, but he just couldn't.

"To undermine Isis's prestige, I fabricated rumors that Isis, despite being the head of the tomb-guarding clan, didn't stay in the clan properly and was probably lovesick and wanted to date, thus wasting the resources of a clan leader. If it were me, I would definitely, definitely do even worse than her! After all, I've worked so hard for so long, cultivated such a persona within the clan, all for the sake of becoming the clan leader and enjoying the fruits of my labor!"

The Millennium Key unlocks the mind, the Millennium Scepter controls thought; the tomb guardian elder speaks his mind without reservation.

Hayato raised an eyebrow, looking somewhat displeased, and shook his head slightly, narrowing his eyes: "That's not it."

"Hehe, you're in trouble this time. Your brother-in-law is a very petty person," Malik said with a wicked grin. "Guess why I call him brother-in-law?"

The tomb guardian stared wide-eyed at Hayato in disbelief, never expecting that his fabricated rumor was actually true—that little girl Isis was indeed having an affair, and right in front of him.