Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

"Double your life points and then there's a monster on the opening field? Are you some kind of event-exclusive boss?" Hayato complained, somewhat annoyed that Blue God suddenly had an extra card compared to him. "And he even cheated by revealing that rule after my life points were already displayed."

"Speaking of which, 'sacrificing the divine weapon'... I mean the [Giant God Weapon], after freeing [Obelisk], all you got in return was a monster of that level?"

Hayato glanced at [Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] and said with some disdain, "Your cut is a bit high. [Obelisk] has 4000 points of attack and defense, how come you only have 3000 points left? That's only 70% left. Did you take a kickback for that 30%?"

Hearing Hayato's words, the Blue God scoffed and said contemptuously, "Nonsense, I can't understand it. Are you overwhelmed by the sight of me, this powerful and beautiful god? Hmph, don't worry, even if it were you, I would guide you into the gate of the dimensional realm without discrimination..."

"—After I completely destroy your existence with the power of the Dark Cube God - Crimson Nova! Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, and that 'White Devil' Bakura will also suffer my revenge. No one can escape my grasp!"

Standing behind Hayato, Sera heard Blue God's words and closed her eyes in despair: "You've been completely assimilated by hatred, Deva..."

"To be honest, it was a bit shocking. After all, I didn't expect monsters to be this ugly. They're ten or even nine times uglier than those 'Disruption' minions." Hayato rested his finger on the deck, no longer paying attention to Ayami's little tricks. "But to think you've already won with just a slight advantage is a bit too much of an underestimation of me, isn't it?"

“I’ll take the first turn, draw!” Hayato drew a card and skillfully placed a monster card face down on his field. Then he inserted three cards into the Spell Trap Zone. “Then I’ll summon a monster in face-down defense position and set three cards face-down on my back field. End my turn.”

[Hayato: 4000LP, 2 cards in hand]

[Inside-side defense position monster]

[GaiK] X3

Watching Hayato's perfectly fluid "T" shape unfold, a result of countless practice sessions, Blue God grinned unhappily, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth: "How annoying! Your covert tactics are utterly intolerable in higher dimensions, Kobayashi Hayato. But it doesn't matter, I'll make you understand that your resistance is completely futile."

"Use the power of 'God'!"

"My turn, draw a card." The Blue God plunged his long, sharp-nailed fingers into a golden cube on his wrist, drew a card, and activated it. "Then, first, I'll use this card to clear away the obstacles in 'God's' way!"

"Spell Card: Harpy's Feather Duster!"

Before Hayato could say anything after hearing the name of the card that Blue God had announced, Jonouchi, who was reaching out to grab the popcorn Honda was holding, froze in mid-air in the audience below the duelist. He stared in disbelief at the magic card that had appeared in Blue God's back field.

"That's Mai's card!? Why is it in that guy's hands?!"

Feeling somewhat worried that Mai the Peacock might have been attacked by the Blue God, Jonouchi couldn't sit still any longer. He was about to jump up on the spot, wishing he could immediately go to the high-rise platform to confront the Blue God face to face and force him to tell him where he got the [Harpie's Feather Broom].

It was only with the combined efforts of Honda and Malik, who were sitting next to Jonouchi, that they managed to hold Jonouchi down and make him notice that before he went to question Blue God, Blue God had already started talking about where his [Harpie's Feather Duster] came from.

"Hahaha, seeing a familiar face and a familiar card in my hand, Kobayashi Hayato, how do you feel?"

Blue God provocatively said to Hayato, "Through the power of the Quantum Cube, I can read memories and add cards to my deck at will. Mai Peacock's Feather Duster, Malik Ishtar's Mask of Sacrifice, and even your 'Three Egyptian Gods' can all be used as I please."

"In other words, I, who bear the responsibility of guiding all mankind to salvation and achieving 'dimensional ascension,' have the ability to use all the cards in the world that exist in the memories of others. If you are my enemy, you are an enemy of the entire world!"

"Now, [Harpie's Feather Duster] will destroy all the cards in your back row!"

As he watched his feather duster in the back row swing and create three vortexes that swept towards Hayato's three cards in the back row, Ayaka was quite pleased with himself.

【Dark Square Guardian - Crimson Nova】has the ability to attack again after destroying a monster, which can be destroyed once and then attacked again. Although we don’t know what monster Hayato Kobayashi summoned in the back defense position, it couldn’t possibly be a powerful monster with a defense of over 3000 points, right?

Use "Harpie's Feather Duster" to clear Hayato Kobayashi's back row of face-down cards, then you can use "Dark Square Kaiser - Crimson Nova" to relentlessly destroy the monsters in Hayato Kobayashi's front row and add an extra direct attack.

After that, at the end of the round, you can take advantage of the terrifying effect of [Dark Side Kaiju - Crimson Nova] to wipe out Kobayashi Hayato's last life points and win!

Blue God's idea was incredibly rosy, as if he had already planned everything out, and everyone else could only follow his plan. After all, in his view, as long as he disrupted Kobayashi Hayato's backcourt blocking, then Kobayashi Hayato would have nothing to fear.

However, seeing the Harpy's Feather Duster hurtling towards him, Hayato pressed the button to activate the face-down card: "Since it's going to be destroyed anyway, I'll activate this card before it's destroyed. Trap Card, Rainbow Life!"

As Hayato sent a card to the graveyard, fulfilling the activation condition for "Rainbow Life," the leftmost card on his back row was revealed, but in the next moment, it was torn apart along with two other cards by the whirlwind unleashed by "Harpie's Feather Duster."

Blue God noticed that one of the two destroyed cards was the supposedly cursed card – [Explosive Armor], while he didn't recognize the other card, but since both were destroyed, it didn't matter.

But that [Rainbow Life]...

“The Trap Card [Rainbow Life], although you have destroyed it, its effect has already taken effect after it was successfully activated and will last for one turn.” Hayato sent the destroyed card to the Graveyard. “During this turn, as a substitute for the battle and effect damage I received, I will recover an equal amount of Life Points.”

"Damn it, that's the effect." Blue God gritted his teeth and said unhappily, "Does that mean I can't kill you in this round? Tch, you got lucky and survived, Kobayashi Hayato."

"A life saved? Oh dear, I never said that [Rainbow Life] was the only card whose effect was activated because of your [Harpie's Feather Duster], although I did only 'activate' this one card." As Hayato finished speaking, a card wrapped in thin purple threads suddenly rose from the area of ​​the ground covered by his shadow at his feet and came to Hayato's hand, where he caught it.

"If this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect and is destroyed by [Harpie's Feather Duster], I can target one [Shaddoll] Spell/Trap Card in my Graveyard other than [Shaddoll's Feather Duster] and add it to my hand."

"The cost of activating [Rainbow Life] is discarding one card from my hand, and that card is a [Shaddoll] Spell/Trap Card." Hayato said, adding the card to his hand. "That's right, this time we're playing a 'pure [Shaddoll]' deck!"

"Shadowdew are the dead who have been stripped from and manipulated from the world's memories. They are blue gods who try to control human destiny and the memories of others. They are the perfect people to deal with you."

Blue God glanced at the threads that had shrunk back into Hayato's shadow. When he looked at them, he always had the feeling that something was hiding there, watching him.

"Although the card was retrieved, it's a fact that your back row has been cleared out, right?" Blue God sneered and waved his hand. "In that case, I can let [Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] attack without restraint!"

"Enter the Battle Phase, use [Dark Square Kaiser - Crimson Nova] to attack the face-down Defense Position monster on your field!"

As Blue God declared his attack, his Dark Side World God - Crimson Nova immediately thrust out the weapons from his arms, piercing through Hayato's face-down Defense Position monster in an instant.

Although the Dimensional Realm Duel has a rule that "when a monster is destroyed, it serves as a substitute for battle damage, and the monster's controller suffers damage equal to the monster's original attack power," this rule has also been inherited by Dark Dimensional Realm Duel. However, if the monster is in Defense Position, there is no such thing as battle damage, so Hayato will not be harmed when the monster is destroyed.

Blue God also saw the true form of the monster that Hayato summoned in the inner defense position before the monster was sent to the graveyard. It was a black and purple monster that looked like a lion and a tiger.

"The Reverse Monster [Shadowmon] can be activated when it is reversed."

Hearing Hayato's words, Blue God dismissed them: "It's useless. [Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] is a 'god'. The effects activated by monsters with an attack power of less than 3000 are ineffective against it!"

This resistance is also why Blue God doesn't take Hayato's hand seriously. Although cards like Rainbow Kuriboh are strong, their attack power of less than 3000 points is a fatal flaw, and they can't interfere with the attack of his Dark Square God of the Realm - Crimson Nova.

"Who said the effect of [Shaddoll] is for you?" Hayato's finger rested on the deck. "[Shaddoll] can only be activated when it's flipped face down. I draw two cards from my deck and then discard one from my hand. I discarded this [Shaddoll Lizard].

After drawing two cards and sending one to the graveyard, Hayato snapped his fingers. Suddenly, a pair of eyes opened in the shadow at his feet, and a lizard-like monster rose from the shadow but did not step out of it.

Blue God noticed that the golden armor on the black and purple lizard monster looked somewhat familiar. He was certain that he had seen that style of armor somewhere before, but he had no recollection of this lizard-like monster.

In addition, he noticed that the lizard monster had many thin purple threads attached to its body, leading into the shadows, as if the monster were a puppet controlled by those threads.

When Sera, who was behind Hayato, saw the lizard monster, she was also taken aback. She subconsciously took out her deck and drew a card to compare it.

Hayato, unaware of Sera's actions behind him, explained, "If Shaddoll is sent to the graveyard by its effect, it can still activate its effect. Send one Shaddoll card from my deck other than Shaddoll to the graveyard. I'm sending Shaddoll Hedgehog to the graveyard."

"Then, if [Shadowhedgehog] is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, activate this effect and add one [Shadowhedge] monster other than [Shadowhedge] from your Deck to your hand."

It was supposed to be Blue God's turn, and Blue God used a [Harpie's Feather Duster] to make Hayato lose three face-down cards in one go, but Hayato managed to replenish his hand to four cards during Blue God's turn.

Chapter 977 Pure [Shadowdew] Deck

"As expected of the King of Duels, he easily accomplished what we couldn't. I truly admire him!"

Watching Hayato and Aogami's duel above the arena, several duelists couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. However, the gamers sitting not far from them thought it was just a small-scale spectacle, and that the duelists were being a bit noisy.

"It's just two more cards in hand. These people have never seen Hayato gain more than ten cards in one turn," Jonouchi said with some helplessness. He glanced at the Duel above his head, but something felt off. "However, something still feels a bit off."

“Indeed, Hayato’s duel this time was quite normal; it was just a round to replenish his hand.” Yugi nodded in agreement. “When the back row was destroyed, there were no cards like ‘Troublemaker’, and when the monster was attacked, there were no cards like ‘Man-eating Bug’. That’s really strange.”

“Most importantly, that monster in Defense Position was actually a Shaddoll monster,” Malik added. “Can you believe it? My brother-in-law said it was a ‘pure Shaddoll’ deck and he’s actually using a ‘pure Shaddoll’ deck?”

"It's like a dream, it's unbelievable!"

Unaware of the slander his companions below were spreading, Hayato, who insisted that he was playing a "pure [Shadowdome]" deck, shrugged at Ayami after a series of chain effects: "Alright, I'll give your turn back to you, continue your turn."

"You... Hmph! You only added two more cards to your hand, but I still have more resources."

With five cards still in his hand, Blue God picked up a card and activated it, saying, "My battle phase is over, and then in Main Phase Two, I will activate this Continuous Spell Card [Fang Jie Ye]."

"As an effect that is activated, I can send any number of [Fangjieyin-Bijam] from my hand or Deck to the Graveyard. Target any [Fangjie] monster on my field other than one [Fangjieyin-Bijam] and increase its ATK by the number of [Fangjieyin-Bijam] sent to the Graveyard x 800."

Extending its claws into the deck, Blue God pulled out three cards and showed them to Hayato, saying, "Send all three of [Square Realm Lord - Vijam] from my deck to the graveyard, increasing the ATK of my [Dark Square Realm Lord - Crimson Nova] by 2400!"

"Devour, my 'god,' and then power will surge forth!"

Without hesitation, he sacrificed [Fangjieyin-Vijam], a core Soul Card in his deck, to [Dark Fangjie God-Crimson Nova], and Blue God watched with satisfaction as its attack power was increased.

[Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] [ATK3000→5400]

"Attack power of 5400!? That power surpasses even the Five Divine Dragons!" Sera exclaimed in surprise, then looked at Blue God with sorrowful eyes. "But the price is burying all of your [Fangjieyin-Vijam]. Is that price really worth it, Diva..."

“Of course it’s worth it, Sera. Relax your mind and body, so you can feel the charm from the dark side of the dimension that transcends this filthy world.” The Blue God opened his arms, looking completely captivated. “Don’t resist my beauty.”

"Sorry, but I can't." Hayato glanced at Aogami's deformed face and curled his lip. "Increasing attack power only after the battle phase is over is a bit too meaningless, isn't it?"

"Hmph, you only escaped from my grasp because of the effect of [Rainbow Life]. Do you think that's enough to give you the right to speak so arrogantly in front of me, who controls 'God'?"

Hearing Hayato's words, Aoki's eye, which had been looking at Sera, turned back to Hayato and said, "This world cannot bear humanity. Humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes and spreading tragedy. Then one day, this world will collapse. At that time, humanity will punish itself and atone for its sins against this world."

"Only 'dimensional ascension' can help humanity transcend its inescapable ultimate fate and avoid a catastrophic future!"

"Wake up, Hayato Kobayashi! Before me, who has a grand mission, and before the [Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] with an attack power of 5400, you can do nothing!"

"I place two cards face down, and my turn ends."

[Blue God: 8000LP, 2 cards in hand]

[Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] [ATK5400]

[Fang Jieye] [Gaika] X2

The moment Blue God declared the end of the round, his [Dark Side World God - Crimson Nova] on the field took action on its own, raising its arms and aiming at Blue God and Hayato respectively, suddenly firing two beams of light that exploded in front of the two!

"Well!"

[Blue God: 8000→5000LP]

"Mmm~"

[Hayato: 4000→7000LP]

"During my end phase, the effect of [Dark Side God of War - Crimson Nova] taken from [Obelisk the Colossus] activates, inflicting 3000 effect damage to both duelists." Despite suddenly losing 3000 life points, Blue God didn't even flinch, even though he currently didn't have an eyebrow-like component.

Hayato, on the other hand, was not only unharmed because the effect of [Rainbow Life] was still ongoing; in fact, his Element Score increased, and he even accidentally made a comfortable sound.

Hayato glanced at [Dark Cube World God - Crimson Nova] and shook his head: "I feel... it's not as good as [Obelisk]. Although it can be used without releasing monsters, it deals 4000 damage without hurting itself. Your 'god' is really lame."

"You've gone through all that fancy stuff, you've even willingly unleashed your monsters to go all out, so I won't hold back. My turn!" With his finger resting on the deck, Hayato drew a card and played it without even looking at it. "Draw!"

"Then, I activated the spell card 'Angel's Charity,' drew three cards from my deck, and discarded two cards from my hand. The two cards discarded were 'Shaddoll Falcon' and 'Shaddoll Beast.'"

"When both [Shaddoll Falcon] and [Shaddoll Beast] are sent to the Graveyard by card effects, their effects can be activated. C1 [Shaddoll Falcon] C2 [Shaddoll Beast], I first draw a card from my Deck using the effect of [Shaddoll Beast], and then Special Summon [Shaddoll Falcon] in face-down Defense Position using its own effect."

After playing a [Angel's Charity], Hayato gained a face-down [Shadowdow Falcon] on his field, and his hand size increased to six cards, which seemed unbelievable. After all, you only hear about cards decreasing with each use, not cards increasing with each play.

In the eyes of the Blue God who does not understand the importance of card difference, the significance of Hayato's operation is merely that he summoned an extra small monster that would be easily crushed by [Dark Square Kaiju - Crimson Nova] in addition to the normal summon.

"Trying to pile up monsters as a barrier to block my attack? Muda muda muda! I didn't use this ability before because of [Rainbow Life]. [Dark Cube Kaiju - Crimson Nova] has the ability to add attacks after destroying monsters. It's just that a barrier made up of one or two monsters is practically useless."

Ayagami stretched out his hand towards Hayato, "I'll destroy them as easily as breaking a twig with my fingers!"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush me. I've only just begun. Let me set off first, okay?" Hayato completely ignored Ayaka's taunts and drew a card. "The card I drew because of the effect of [Shadowmon] is this [Cotton Ball]. When this card is added to the hand from the Deck, its effect Special Summon it."

"Next, I usually summon [Summoner - Aleister] —"

"Wait a minute, something's not right, you idiot!" Just as Hayato played another card, Ayami couldn't help but interrupt him, pointing at the white cotton ball that appeared on Hayato's field and the yawning magician, "Didn't you say your deck was 'Pure Shaddoll'? What's with those two monsters?"