Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

【Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA】With Hayato's wave of his hand to launch an attack, the breath of the Starry Sky Dragon was a single strike that utterly destroyed all the stone tablet monsters of the previous Pharaoh summoned by Bakura. Even 【Diabund】 was struggling to hold on and was about to be defeated.

In the light, Bakura stared at Hayato's figure, and for a moment, his image overlapped with a figure even taller than himself, causing Bakura's eyes to widen in shock: "You bastard, you bastard! Why are you in this era?!"

"boom!"

The white, half-snake, half-demon monster was pulverized, and Bakura was sent flying backward and crashed into the wall, his fate unknown!

Chapter 721 I Captured the High Ground

"Huh? Is this it? The Millennium Wisdom Wheel, one of the Millennium Artifacts?"

“Yes, great Pharaoh, in an earlier dynasty, there was an unnamed Pharaoh who sealed away evil in the name of the king. The Millennium Artifacts are products of that dynasty.” Kneeling beneath the throne, a priest held a tray in his hands. “Apart from the Millennium Cone that was buried with the unnamed Pharaoh, the previous Pharaoh Seti I possessed almost all of the rest.”

"Among them, the Millennium Scepter and the Millennium Jewelry were passed down by the Ishdar clan, to which the previous priest Isis belonged, while the Millennium Scales and the Millennium Key were passed down by the Sin clan, to which I, Xia Yixin, belong, and who is a descendant of the priest Shada."

"Besides the [Millennium Eye], which disappeared years ago, there is this [Millennium Wisdom Wheel] left. However, Pharaoh Seti I did not allow this [Millennium Artifact] to be his burial object, saying that this [Millennium Wisdom Wheel], which possesses evil power, is not worthy to enter his tomb. Therefore, he ordered his subordinates to hand it over to you for disposal on the day of your ascension to the throne."

The figure on the throne looked at the golden roulette wheel presented by his subordinates and smirked: "What right does old man Seth have to criticize others with his strange hobby? No one else would think of filling a tomb with dragons, would they?"

As he spoke, the pharaoh on the throne reached out to pick up the Millennium Wisdom Wheel. Seeing this, the priest holding the tray containing the Wheel quickly warned, "Please do not touch this Millennium Artifact, Pharaoh!"

"This [Millennium Artifact] does indeed possess evil power. Almost without exception, everyone who has come into contact with it has been bewitched and cursed by its dark power, and has died a violent death!"

However, the priest's advice did not affect the pharaoh's actions at all. He still went his own way, reached out and picked up the "Millennial Wisdom Wheel" on the tray, and held it up in front of his eyes, examining it with great interest.

Just as the priest said, at the same moment the Pharaoh picked up the Wheel of Wisdom, the dark will hidden within the Wheel of Wisdom attempted to reach the outside world through the Pharaoh's body, and a voice rang in the Pharaoh's ears.

"Hmph, not bad, quite muscular. Looks like you've been working out lately?"

"Perfect, absolutely perfect. Although you're a bit dim-witted, and knowing the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel] is dangerous yet still touching it directly, I'm not too picky. Your body is perfect for me, so I'll take you in—"

The evil voice paused, then suddenly became somewhat panicked, "Wait, wait a minute, what's going on?! Why is the dark power I infused into you having no effect on you?! Who exactly are you?!"

"Ha, would you ask why the sun is the sun, you lightless one?" The golden pharaoh said contemptuously, holding the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel]. "You don't even know my name, the only one in heaven and earth that needs to be engraved in the depths of your soul, yet you dare to touch my jade body with your weak and feeble power."

"Should I admire your courage to take action after seeing the vast difference between us, or should I be surprised that you haven't even seen the gap between us? This is really troubling for me."

As it spoke, the will within the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel] discovered that the power it had accumulated since its desperate escape and the murder of the person who touched the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel] was beginning to flow out uncontrollably. If this continued, the remaining power might not even be enough to sustain its own existence. It immediately begged for mercy:

"Wait! Stop it! Please let me go!"

"I can give you many things, anything you want: a larger territory, a powerful army, unparalleled strength, even eternal life, I can give you anything!"

It wasn't that He was cowardly; it was simply that He never imagined that the current Pharaoh would possess such powerful abilities, even having his own magic stolen by the other party. He truly had no idea what the other party's background was; the purity of his soul was as dazzling as the sun.

Upon hearing the words of the evil will, the Pharaoh raised an eyebrow: "Hmph, are you tempting me? Tempting me, who would despair even after witnessing my great deeds? Hmph, indeed, even the omnipotent me has things I cannot do. My physical body is far too easily decayed compared to my greatness."

"If I spare you, I will receive the eternal life you have given me..." As he spoke, the evil will could feel that the outflow of its power seemed to have slowed down.

The evil will sneered inwardly. In the end, the Pharaoh before him was merely human, easily swayed by his own desires. Even if his soul shone brightly, this darkness within him, even after thousands of years, would likely remain unchallenged by any human.

"...Do you think I would say that?"

"What!?" The flow of power accelerated once more, even faster than before, as his own power vanished from the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel]. The evil will found it unbelievable that the Pharaoh, who had just seemed somewhat hesitant, had actually rejected the immense temptation of "immortality," a pursuit that all humanity should eternally desire!

"The Pharaoh is a man protected by God, God's agent on earth. To demonstrate his kingship, eternal life is so tempting." The Pharaoh smiled confidently. "But I am the Pharaoh of Pharaohs, the King of Kings. Protected by God? It is the gods who are protected by me, and my glory surpasses that of the sun!"

"Give me eternal life? Hahahaha, you mere shadowy figure in the shadows beyond the light, it is already a blessing that you, who stand on the earth, can offer me your power. How dare you 'give' me?"

As its power waned, the fragmented soul that had escaped the seal of a previous pharaoh and was hiding within the [Millennial Wisdom Wheel] struggled unwillingly, its consciousness gradually fading, about to fall into a slumber from which it would never recover even after another thousand years: "You bastard, humans could never possibly suppress me..."

"Impossible? Hahahaha, nothing is impossible for a pharaoh on earth. All things and phenomena are in my palm!"

Bakura, who was sitting in his seat, suddenly stood up, panting heavily with a look of terror on his face, only to find himself standing in front of a large sand table.

The terrain on the sand table is extremely detailed, encompassing mountains, rivers, villages, and city-states. It is clearly the terrain of ancient Egypt three thousand years ago. Following the Nile River, in a huge city, there are many exquisite chess pieces. Among them, the image of one chess piece is almost identical to that of Bakura!

"Tch, damn it, it reminds me of bad memories. If it weren't for that guy, I would have been resurrected three thousand years ago. In the end, I was dragged into the grave by that guy for nearly a hundred years, and it was only by my fellow thieves that I was brought out. That guy, he really can live a lot."

Leaning back in his chair, Bakura stared at the sand table in front of him with a gloomy expression. "Is it because I dragged Kobayashi Hayato into the Dark Game too? I should have been able to stay clear-headed, but I actually became a pawn and almost couldn't extricate myself. I almost capsized in the gutter."

"I never expected that Kobayashi Hayato would draw such an ace. But thanks to that, I was able to wake up as the player. Thinking about it carefully, even if that guy were in his eight or nine-year-old state, he wouldn't be a threat. The advantage is in my hands."

While muttering to himself, Bakura glanced at the three small ornaments placed beside him and hesitated: "Fortunately, I regained consciousness not too late. If it had been any later, I might have been forced to use these three one-time-use cheat items."

“Luckily, I’m not a brainless brute. Although I stormed the palace, I left a backup plan,” Bakura said, tapping the edge of the sand table lightly with his fingers. Looking at the palace with its chess pieces, he smiled. “It’s about time it came into play.”

———The King's Memory is a tabletop RPG—————

【Long Yi Qiao - Tian Long Liu Xing = QUA】's attack successfully broke through 【Diya Bond】, and Bakura was also sent flying, crashing into the wall and creating a crater. His body was embedded in the wall, and his fate was unknown.

"Did they take him down?" Hayato had been thinking that Bakura would at least be defeated after this, when he heard Priest Seth behind him set a flag for Bakura.

Sure enough, almost at the same time Seth finished speaking, Bakura, whose body was embedded in the wall, coughed up a mouthful of blood with a "boo," and then actually used his hands to support himself against the wall and stood up again.

"Ugh, that hurts! Hayato Kobayashi, I was so close to dying." With a grim expression, Bakura wiped the blood from his chin and looked at Hayato behind [Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA]. "How many times has this happened? You always manage to give me some unexpected 'surprise'. But it's about time for me to go. I think I should take my leave now."

"How dare you! Do you think you can come and go as you please in the royal palace?" Because Hayato had successfully severely injured the assassin who had just given their priests so much trouble, the wind had stopped and the rain had ceased. Seth felt he was invincible again and actually raised the gladiator's disk to summon another stone monster to fight.

Judging from the opponent's appearance, they are like a candle in the wind. The strongest monster has been defeated. Whoever goes up now can get the kills. Watch me, Seth, be one step ahead at the crucial moment. How can I lose when I've beaten them to a pulp?

But just as Seth raised the gladiator disk, Bakura suddenly waved his hand in his direction, and Diaband, who had just been annihilated by the attack of [Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA], suddenly appeared beside him in an instant, and his body began to melt like wax, twisting and turning into a pure white version of [Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA]!

"boom!"

Hayato's [Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA] and Bakura's [Diabunde] transformed into [Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA] attacked simultaneously. The powerful energy collided and stirred up a storm within the palace. Seth was interrupted before he could even complete the summoning of the monster, and he looked at Bakura's [Diabunde] in surprise.

"If the demon in his heart were destroyed, he should have been severely injured and unconscious even if he didn't die. Why did this guy's demon regenerate after being destroyed, and even gain the power of other monsters!?"

"Is this the power of your [Ryugi Takumi], Hayato? The pure light power from the starry sky is so strong, it really exceeds my expectations." Bakura, though beaten to the point of spitting blood and needing to lean against the wall to stand, still had an arrogant expression on his face. "You don't think I'm scared and that's why I'm trying to run away, do you?"

"Yeah, right. It's because I've already achieved my goal: to humiliate you guys who wield dark power yet call yourselves righteous, and to gain immense power. That's what I wanted!"

"[Diabund] is the embodiment of my resentment, which cannot be sealed and is immortal. The stronger its power is before it is destroyed, the stronger it will be for me! Now I have obtained power that is almost comparable to that of a god!"

With one hand on his hip, Bakura laughed triumphantly, but he didn't notice that because he had been knocked away earlier, Simon and the other priests had brought the mummy of the previous Pharaoh Aknam, which he had been stepping on, back to Yami Yugi's side.

Almost at the same time that Bakura uttered "the power of the gods," Yami Yugi looked at the mummy that had come to his side, but in a daze, he heard a voice saying something to him.

"...Justice and God be with you..."

"Who is this voice?" Dark Game had no recollection of the voice that had suddenly appeared, but his intuition told him that "he" should know the owner of the voice.

Following his instincts, he lowered his head and looked at the mummy before him. A strange thought surfaced in Yami Yugi's mind. He subconsciously felt that the voice came from "his" deceased father, the pharaoh who had been mummified before him!

Judging from that voice and Bakura's words, do gods also exist in this era? Anyway, there's no harm in giving it a try. Yugi, who has no stone tablet monsters to summon, thought for a moment, raised his left hand, which was adorned with the Gladiator's Disk, and shouted, "The Three Egyptian Gods, respond to me! I will summon you here!"

“The most suitable god right now is—” Recalling the achievements of the Sky Dragon of Osiris, and considering that the current situation didn’t seem to suit the self-damaging effect of the Winged Dragon of Ra, Yami Yugi decisively shouted, “Descend, Obelisk the Titan!”

"What?! The new Pharaoh actually knows the names of the legendary Three Egyptian Gods?!" Simon was shocked to hear Yami Yugi shout the names of the gods, while Seth, who had just been humiliated, also clearly heard Simon's words, "Gods? [Obelisk]?"

A strong wind swept across the land, and the blue giant stood beside the star dragon summoned by Hayato, confronting Bakura's Diaband!

"A monster that can steal the power of monsters, huh? So strong, so incredibly strong, Bakura! But when dealing with a heretic like you, we don't need to talk about chivalry. This is a righteous two against one!" Hayato glanced at the [Giant God Soldier] and said smugly to Bakura, "Now we've taken the high ground!"

"Let's go!" X2

"【Obelisk the Colossus】!" "【Dragon Artoria - Heavenly Dragon Meteor = QUA】!"

"Divine Fist Shattering Strike!" "Dragon Star Cluster!"

Although 1+1 doesn't necessarily equal 2, the combination of 1+1 is at least greater than 1. Despite having painstakingly stolen Hayato's power of [Ryugi Takumi - Tenryu Meteor = QUA] at the cost of severe injury, Bakura never expected that Yami Yugi would also summon the equally powerful [Obelisk the Tormentor] to join the battle!

Diaband's attack was neutralized by the breath of Dragon Artoria - Heavenly Dragon Meteor = QUA, and then Obelisk the Tormentor unleashed his giant fist, about to strike the tapir again—

"The same trick won't work on me!" Bakura said with a ferocious expression. He adjusted his position and actually took the initiative to meet the attack of [Obelisk the Tormentor]. However, before being hit, he summoned a weak-looking monster to block his way.

"Boom!" The attack destroyed the shield monster that Bakura had temporarily summoned, but Bakura used the remaining impact force to fly backward toward the window and actually escape from the palace!

"You've been tricked, Yugi, Hayato, this is my escape route! When it comes to strategy, you can't beat me, Bakura!" Following the direction Bakura fled, Hayato and Yami Yugi were about to give chase when they saw several places in the city outside the palace burning with black smoke!

Chapter 722 Diaband feels no pain

Although today is a great day for the new pharaoh's coronation, it is clear that no matter how advanced the ancient Egyptians' technology became, they were far from being able to create fireworks to celebrate.

If it were just a few spots where black smoke was rising, it could be assumed that a fire had broken out somewhere by accident. But right now, there are so many places in chaos.

Someone is causing trouble in the city! This was the only thing Hayato and Yami Yugi could think of when they saw black smoke rising from multiple places, because Bakura had drawn their attention and they hadn't noticed it until now.

Bakura was also cunning. He waited until the situation was unfavorable to him and he planned to escape before officially revealing this. Moreover, he only arrogantly left a threatening message when he escaped from the palace to divert the attention of Hayato and Yami Yugi. As soon as he left the palace, he immediately kept silent and ran away in a low-key manner. Even Hayato, who rushed out of the palace with Bakura at the first moment, could not find him.

“I was originally planning that if I could kill Bakura here, it might be possible to end this Dark Game once and for all, but he still managed to escape.” Hayato said gravely, watching Yami Yugi follow him out. “If we could ignore the commotion and continue the pursuit, there might still be a chance to catch that Bakura guy. However…”

“Even knowing that this is the world from my memories, I feel I can’t just abandon the people.” Yami Yugi looked at the black smoke in the distance and made a difficult decision. “Even without the memories of the past, I believe I still have a responsibility as the Pharaoh to protect my people.”

"Therefore, Mahad, Set, Aknadi, Isis, Shada, Kalim, Simon!"

"Pharaoh!" Upon hearing Yami Yugi's words, the seven priests who had also witnessed the scene outside the palace bowed down, awaiting their Pharaoh's instructions.

"Take all available forces and go immediately to the areas where the unrest has occurred to protect the people." Yami Yugi didn't know what kind of personality he had or how he acted three thousand years ago, but he couldn't care less now. "Act with the resolve to protect the Pharaoh, and be quick. Now, get moving!"

"Yes!"

There were eight places around the palace where black smoke was rising. After assigning seven priests, including Simon, Yami Yugi said, "Then, I'll take care of the last one. As for Hayato, I'll ask you to go after Bakura."

“Very majestic, Yugi.” Hayato nodded. “Leave Bakura to me. Let’s not delay, I’ll set off now.”

As he spoke, Hayato raised his hand, and starlight shone down, converging above his head into the [Dragon Radiance Technique - Right Pivot α] that had appeared once before. Hayato's raised hand happened to grab a point of leverage on its body, and was carried away from the palace by the rising [Dragon Radiance Technique - Right Pivot α].

Watching Hayato fly away, Yami Yugi, who trusted him completely, wasted no time and was about to set off to quell the unrest within the city-state. But at that moment, the priest Isis asked Yami Yugi, "Pharaoh, I would like to know, who is that boy?"

"His name is Hayato, uh, Hayato Kobayashi. He's my friend, a friend I can completely trust, and he's incredibly strong, so don't worry." Yami Yugi glanced at the priest Isis, who bore a striking resemblance to Isis, but had no interest in gossip. After briefly introducing Hayato, he prepared to set off to save the people.

Simon, however, seemed quite interested and moved closer to Isis, asking, "Are you interested in that child, Isis?"

In Simon's mind, a dramatic emotional drama had already been rapidly imagined in a short period of time.

However, Isis shattered Simon's illusions with just one sentence: "No, Lord Simon, it's just that the boy took my gladiator's disk, so I need to know his name."

“Before today, I had never seen this boy in the city. Having been by the Pharaoh’s side since I was a child, I had no idea that the Pharaoh knew that boy.” Mahad, who was walking beside him, said seriously as he heard Simon and Isis discussing Hayato. “Although I trust the Pharaoh, I still find that boy quite suspicious.”

"Ha, is this an assessment you, as a priest in charge of the city's defense, made based on your professional competence?"

It started with Simon striking up a conversation with Isis out of gossip. Mahad shared his thoughts with the two of them, but Seth also joined in, saying, "With your repeated mistakes and dereliction of duty, your evaluation is probably not very credible. On the contrary, I believe that anyone who can help us and the Pharaoh, regardless of their origins, has value."

“Even just looking at that boy, you might think he’s an egoist who would not hesitate to sacrifice others to protect what’s important to him, but I think we can trust him enough, as Pharaoh said.”

After Seth finished speaking, he wanted to see how Mahad would debate with him. However, after Mahad finished telling Simon and Isis his views, he didn't listen to Seth at all and went straight after the Pharaoh who was walking faster. This made Seth a little angry.

"How dare he disregard me like that, that bastard Mahad!" Clenching his fists, Seth quickened his pace, suddenly recalling the scene in the main hall just now.

The powerful monster that even the combined might of all the priests couldn't defeat was repelled by the boy and the Pharaoh working together. Although Seth's words just now seemed to deliberately put him in opposition to Mahad, they were also his true thoughts. As someone who admires strength, he genuinely believes that Hayato is trustworthy and has high hopes for him.

However, Seth also did not forget the humiliating sight of himself, who considered himself the true strongest but had no chance to prove his talent, and how he was utterly defeated by the monster's power. This was actually a huge blow to the proud Seth, because it meant that Seth was not actually the strongest as he thought.