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"That's because I'm here watching other people watch my video. There's a huge difference between watching it from a screen and watching it from a distance." Bakura's eyes were already glistening with tears of anxiety.

"Oh, it's alright, Bakura. That commercial only goes on once," Kyoko comforted Bakura, pointing to the arena. "Look, the commercials are over, and the opening duel is about to begin."

As one side of the stage opened, Ayane rose up on the lift platform, while Guiping backstage saw on the real-time monitoring screen that more than a dozen Prana signals had appeared inside the Seahorse Dome.

Chapter 969 Seahorse VS Blue God

On one side of the stage, the semi-transparent rising platform beneath his feet made Lan Shen's heart race slightly. The reason was simple: this disc, designed for only one person to stand on, had no support underneath and floated in mid-air.

Although before taking the stage today, Lan Shen arrogantly told Haima, "Let me see the performance of Haima Group's technology," now all Lan Shen wants to say is, "What kind of monsters is Haima Group's technology?"

Whether it's anti-gravity flight or a virtual projection system that conceals the actual support and creates the illusion of the disc flying out of thin air, Blue God, whose abilities are still restricted by the seahorse, is not some Prana, but just an ordinary person who would die if he fell.

However, although Ayaka was nervous, it was only a physiological inability to control himself, not out of fear. Compared to himself standing on the high place, he was actually more concerned about what Kaiba and Hayato had told him earlier.

Looking into the Seahorse Dome, although Pranah and Pranah could sense each other, with so many people interfering with his senses, even Blue God couldn't find Sera and the other companions. He wondered if they had appeared in the Seahorse Dome as Seto Kaiba and Hayato Kobayashi had predicted.

Having lost his sensory abilities, Blue God could only make out the audience members closest to the stage with his eyesight. Among them, he saw people cosplaying as "Dark Magician Girl" and "Dark Knight Gaia," and even people imitating Yugi Muto, Hayato Kobayashi, and Seto Kaiba, but he couldn't find Sera and the others at all.

The reason why no one is cosplaying as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon seems to be because Seto Kaiba announced that the copyright of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon had been transferred from Kokusai Gensou to Kaiba Entertainment Group and now belongs to him. He also made a strict rule that no one else is allowed to cosplay as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

Just as Blue God was looking around searching for Sera and the others, Sera and her companions also arrived inside the Seahorse Dome. However, instead of entering through the proper ticket check at the entrance, they used their abilities as Prana to teleport directly to a corner of the venue where no one was paying attention.

However, although no one paid attention to their location before they were transferred, that was no longer the case after they were transferred. The improved Plana Detection Device 2.0, with its lower latency, locked onto Sera and the others immediately.

“Diva…” Sera frowned as she looked at the Blue God standing on the stage, holding the Quantum Cube in her hand. Her thoughts drifted back to the day Diva lost control a month ago.

When the Millennium Wisdom Wheel and the Quantum Cube converged in the hands of the Blue God, the Blue God was forced into a state of dimensional ascension under the guidance of that power. At that time, Sera also felt something dark and terrifying descend upon the Blue God.

After Sera left with the Quantum Cube, she carefully examined it but couldn't sense the dark and terrifying power within it. However, when she brought the Quantum Cube to the Seahorse Dome, she discovered that the terrifying aura had reappeared faintly.

However, since it didn't originate from the [Quantum Cube] in her own hands, Sera couldn't sense where that aura came from.

In that case, could it be that the aura came from—

"Oh, so you're Sera?"

A voice suddenly rang out behind Sera, startling her so much that she almost dropped the Quantum Cube in her hand. When she turned around, she saw that Kobayashi Hayato had somehow found her and appeared silently behind her.

"Kobayashi Hayato!?"

Sera watched Hayato warily. Although she had been thinking about meeting Hayato ever since her duel with Kaiba, she had never had a good opportunity. The last time Ayami approached Bakura, Hayato was with Kaiba and those menacing-looking combatants. If Sera had been slower, she might have been captured along with Ayami.

And this time was no different, because Sera immediately noticed the glittering, eye-catching golden disc hanging on Hayato's chest.

"The Millennium Wisdom Wheel—that's an ominous object, it brings misfortune to the wearer." Sera's gaze shifted from the Millennium Wisdom Wheel to Hayato's face. "You actually wear that thing?"

"Hmm? Ah, well, I've been wearing it for a while now, and it feels a bit light after taking it off." Hayato looked down at the Millennium Wisdom Ring on his chest after hearing Sera's words. "Although it's not the original, the weight feels about the same."

“Lord Shadi said that the Millennium Wisdom Wheel possesses the most evil and powerful dark power among the seven Millennium Items. It is not something that ordinary people can come into contact with, let alone control. They would only become its puppets.” Sera looked at Hayato and took a step back. “Although this Millennium Wisdom Wheel was just a byproduct that Deva unintentionally brought out, it is undoubtedly an evil entity as well.”

“Even compared to the genuine Millennium Wisdom Wheel, which was able to free its evil will due to having a suitable host, this Millennium Wisdom Wheel, born from memories, is far more evil. Could it be that the dark and terrifying aura I sensed earlier originated from you, Hayato Kobayashi?”

No wonder Sera thought that way. If we use the process of elimination, the Millennium Wisdom Wheel and the Quantum Cube that were gathered together released such a dark aura, and the Quantum Cube was normal, then the problem could only be the Millennium Wisdom Wheel.

Hayato raised an eyebrow and asked curiously, "Why would you think that?"

"Because the [Millennium Wisdom Wheel] is evil, if the user doesn't use powerful magic to suppress it, simply wearing it will cause it to turn against them or even kill them!"

Sera said confidently, and Hayato, hearing her words, calmly replied, "Indeed, thinking about it, it seems like none of the guys who wore the [Millennium Wisdom Ring] had a good ending. Mahad, Bakura, Zok, and Bakura also suffered quite a bit. However, I'm different, because I was born to be a king!"

"It's just a mere [Millennial Wisdom Wheel], how can dust block the sun's brilliance?"

As Hayato spoke, he strode toward Sera. "Instead of all that, hand over the Quantum Cube in your hand to me, if you don't want that darkness and terror that you fear to descend upon you."

Upon hearing this, Sera gripped the Quantum Cube even tighter, refusing to let go, and said firmly, "The Quantum Cube is an important tool for dimensional ascension, and it must not be given to you to bring Pharaoh Atum back to the human world. Moreover, the darkness I sensed has nothing to do with the Quantum Cube."

Sera thought that after hearing that she had refused his request and refused to hand over the [Quantum Cube], Hayato might take action directly. After all, in the information she had gathered in the past, there were many cases of Hayato Kobayashi being greedy and taking other people's entire decks at the drop of a hat. Using any means to achieve his goals was one of the labels attached to Hayato Kobayashi.

But when he heard that Sera had refused his request, Hayato nonchalantly lowered his hand: "Oh, if you won't hand it over, so be it."

"Ah?"

Looking at Sera's puzzled expression, Hayato spread his hands: "I can't help it. Although I really want to get that thing, putting aside Atum's matter, leaving you kids alone would cause a lot of trouble. But, I just can't bring myself to lay a hand on a seven or eight-year-old girl."

"Seven or eight years old?" Upon hearing Hayato's words, Sera subconsciously looked down, her gaze falling unobstructed at her feet. This made Sera feel a little embarrassed and annoyed. "Who's eight years old? I'm already fifteen!"

"Fifteen? That's it?" Hayato raised an eyebrow, glancing at Sera with pity in his eyes. "How pathetic. Even Rebecca is better than you, and she's nowhere near as good as Kyoko, let alone Isis. No, maybe Jonouchi's pectoral muscles are..."

Noticing that Sera's gaze had become quite dangerous, Hayato quickly raised his hands in surrender. "Alright, alright, I won't say anything more. But since you won't hand over the Quantum Cube to me, would you mind telling me how you plan to use it after bringing it here?"

Although still wary of Hayato, Sera had no intention of lying or hiding anything, and replied, "I'm here to take Devata away, but I'll definitely encounter resistance from you and Seto Kaiba along the way, so I'll deliver the Quantum Cube to Devata, and then—"

"And then, as I said, the darkness and terror you fear will descend." Hayato interrupted Sera. "Although I don't know how Shadi described the beauty of dimensional ascension to you, in this world, miracles and magic are never free. The more beautiful the result, the more arduous the journey to reach it; and a destination that can be easily reached will not have a very beautiful landscape."

"Just by having the Quantum Cube and not needing to put in any effort, you can achieve the so-called 'salvation of all mankind'? Ask yourself honestly, is there such a good thing in the world?"

Hearing Hayato's words, Sera was slightly taken aback, but the impression that Shady had left on her over the years was still deeply ingrained: "You can't convince us, Hayato Kobayashi. If words alone could convince each other, there would be no wars in the world."

"You can understand but not accept it? Oh dear." Hayato said nonchalantly. "Then go try it. Go give the Quantum Cube to your brother. By the way, is Aokiji's real name Dva? What? I thought it was a woman's name, but it's a man's?"

Seeing that Hayato didn't actually stop her, Sera hesitated but still chose to trust Hayato for the time being and left, blending into the crowd gathered in the Seahorse Dome and moving closer to the central stage.

As he watched Sera leave, Hayato heard Keipai's voice in his ear: "Why did you let that woman leave, Hayato-nii? That person was someone you specifically warned me to pay special attention to, right?"

"Yeah, why? I'm looking for the reason too." Hayato replied casually, adjusting his earphones slightly. "Maybe it's because I'm a kind person, wanting to help an uneducated brother and sister see the scenery at the end of their dreams? Even though it's just darkness."

"Although I don't know what those people's dreams are, from what you're saying, Hayato-kun, are their dreams something that can't be achieved, or something that will be achieved in a completely different way than expected, like world peace or something like that?" Keihei paused. "It's really despicable that you enjoy seeing other people's dreams shattered and falling into despair, Hayato-kun."

"Nonsense, there's no duelist kinder than me, absolutely not." Hayato paused, then asked Keihei, who was monitoring the entire Kaiba Dome venue backstage, on the other end of the headset, "Besides Blue God on stage and Sera, how's the capture of the other Prana going?"

"The others are much faster than you, Hayato. They've all got it under control. I have to say, Isono did a really good job."

Hayato nodded and said, "I am a kind-hearted person and can't bear to see others suffer. Those children from Prana are scattered all over the place, which is really pitiful. So let's gather them together and lock them up."

"As expected of you, Hayato-nii."

Before Blue God, Kaiba appeared on the same circular rising platform and returned to the stage, announcing loudly: "At the start of the GeneX tournament, I will fight a specially selected duelist, a duelist named Blue God who has dueled the legendary duelist Yugi Muto, the Duel King Hayato Kobayashi, and the simply lucky but incompetent Katsuya Jonouchi."

"But the result will only be that I beat them to a pulp!"

"Onore Seahorse!"

Faintly hearing excited shouts coming from below the stage, Ayaka watched as the platform he was standing on rose up with Kaiba, and arrogantly said, "Oh? The mighty Seto Kaiba actually needs others to elevate his opponent to show off his abilities? But unfortunately, I can't duel with you."

Standing on the elevator platform, Blue God still wore the restraint device on his wrist. Although he could move freely, he was always at risk of being electrocuted again at any moment. He raised his hand and said, "The deck I'm using isn't in my possession, and I don't even have a Duel Disk. Although I really want to defeat you, unfortunately—"

This is a lie.

Even if he were an idiot, after being utterly defeated by Hayato, Yugi, Jonouchi, and Malik three times, Ayami finally realized where his full strength lay. He knew that he was no match for a legendary duelist like Kaiba in Duel Monsters, and that taking on Seto Kaiba would just be a death sentence.

Having lost every duel, Blue God didn't want the title of "unbeatable legend" who was always defeated. He had a perfect reason to refuse Seahorse, and he could also cause an accident at this large-scale event hosted by the Seahorse Group and make him lose face.

But before Lan Shen could finish speaking, he heard a voice say, "Brother, catch it!"

Something was thrown into his hands from afar. Blue God subconsciously reached out to catch it, only to see that it was the [Quantum Cube]?

Chapter 970 The rain stopped, the sky cleared, and Blue God felt he was back to his old ways.

Why did they have to send the Quantum Cube back to me?!

Sera, what are you doing, Sera!

Following the direction from which the Quantum Cube came, Blue God looked down and, with the help of the security personnel from the Seahorse Group who were pushing through the crowd to go in one direction, he quickly found Sera, who had been noticed for delivering the Quantum Cube. In order to avoid being captured, Sera's body had become semi-transparent and was about to be transferred again. After noticing Blue God's gaze, she reached out her hand to him from a distance.

Although Blue God couldn't hear or see what Sera was saying due to the light and distance, Prana's ability allowed Blue God to understand Sera's thoughts.

"Deewa, use [Cube] on Seto Kaiba, just for my sake."

Blue God couldn't help but put on a mask of pain.

However, when he looked up at Kaiba, he concealed his emotions well and said arrogantly, "You're finished, Seto Kaiba. Prana's comrades have handed the victory that crushed you to me!"

"We are invincible ahead!"

But Kaiba only glanced at him and said, "Heh, that's for the best. If you lose too quickly, it will bore me. In my Duel Disk, the power of 'God' was recorded in my duel with you. Show me the power of 'God' and present a duel that won't be too boring for me and the world!"

"Oh right, I also have the 'God Card'."

Only after being reminded by Kaiba did Blue God belatedly realize that he had used the power of the Quantum Cube to extract the cards of the "Three Egyptian Gods". He also realized that, like the "Cube" deck, those three cards had been placed in the Quantum Cube by Blue God to prevent them from being taken by some people who liked the "Furious" deck, and then Sera took them away.

Now, as Sera returns the Quantum Cube to Blue God, the cards of the "Three Egyptian Gods" also arrive in Blue God's hands along with the Cube deck.

Thinking of this, Blue God suddenly felt confident again.

Previously, when he fought against Jonouchi and Malik, it was only because those two guys were too cunning, trying to trick and ambush him, that he was careless and failed to dodge, taking a series of damage from Jonouchi Katsuya, which led to him being killed by that despicable Malik.

But now, there's only one person on the other side, and in a one-on-one situation, I have the advantage of having the "God Card"!

Blue God felt he had a great advantage, so he immediately took out his deck and the cards of the "Three Egyptian Gods" from the [Quantum Cube]. However, he stopped before adding the three cards to his deck.

After a moment's thought, he unhesitatingly drew the card "Sky Dragon of Osiris" and decided not to add it to his deck.

This wasn't because Blue God believed what Jonouchi and the others said about the "Heavenly Pit Dragon," absolutely not. It was mainly because he didn't have enough space in his deck, hmm.

Not only did he take out the [Sky Dragon of Osiris] card separately, but after thinking for a moment, Blue God clenched his fist tightly. Instead of crumpling up, the [Sky Dragon of Osiris] card shattered into golden particles and dissipated in his hand.

I won't even bring it with me. Let's see how you manage to trick me now.

Thinking smugly, Blue God suddenly saw that the card of [Ra the Winged Dragon of Ra] in his other two "God Cards" suddenly lit up, and ancient Egyptian priestly script gradually appeared in the blank effect text box, but what followed was a golden flame burning on the card.

"Hiss!" Caught off guard, Blue God's finger was burned by the flames on the card. Although he did not throw the card away, he subconsciously loosened his grip slightly.

But as soon as he let go, Blue God saw the card of [Ra's Winged Dragon] suddenly break free from his hand and fly away in the distance as a golden meteor.

Hayato raised the card in his hand to catch the flying "meteor," then lowered his hand and glanced at the card in his hand, "Ra's Winged Dragon - Sphere." He saw that another card had suddenly split off from the bottom of the card, and the card art showed "Ra's Winged Dragon" soaring with outstretched wings. It was an alternate art version different from Pegasus's original design.

"Even though it's not my [Ra] card, you should still get along well with others." Hayato glanced at the [Ra Winged Dragon of Ra] card, put it away, and also comforted the other [Ra] inside the [Ra Winged Dragon of Ra - Spherical] card, who seemed to be jealous and quite unhappy.

Although Hayato lent out the cards of the "Three Egyptian God Cards" during the duel between Atem and Yugi, and those three cards were taken to the underworld along with Atem's deck, the spirit of "Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra" stayed inside the card "Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere" and refused to leave Hayato.

However, without the card [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra] as an intermediary, the conversion process from [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere] to [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra] to [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Phoenix] cannot proceed.

Until now, as Ayane took out the cards of the "Three Egyptian Gods" from the Quantum Cube, because this was the closest they had ever been, Hayato felt that Ra's Winged Dragon in Ayane's hand was constantly calling out to him, and he also responded by guiding it to his side. However, Ra's Winged Dragon - Sphere seemed a little jealous.

"Birds soar in the sky, fish swim in the sea; this is the natural order of things, just as the sun is meant to be held in my hands!"

Hayato muttered to himself as he retrieved the [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra] card, wondering when he could add a Pokémon to the [Ra's Winged Dragon of Ra - Phoenix] card set, and maybe even create a [Ra's Ultimate Dragon] in the future.

Despite the distance, Blue God could feel the joy emanating from Hayato, who was also from Prana. Holding the only remaining copy of [Obelisk the Tormentor], Blue God was just as unhappy as Hayato was.

"Even if only this one 'God' card is left..." Adding the card [Obelisk the Tormentor] to his deck, Blue God unfolded his [Quantum Cube], transforming it into a Duel Disk, and placed it into his deck. "The advantage is still mine!"

"Hmph, then bring it on!" Kaiba, who had been waiting impatiently, raised his arm, unfolded his Duel Disk, and shouted, "Duel!"