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# Chapter 655
Having infinite Life Points is a rare experience not everyone gets to have, and facing infinite ATK is equally rare.
Ah, but Dartz's luck was quite good; in this duel, he got to experience both of these rare occurrences.
The slash of Combine God Dragon Timaeus dispelled the black mist surrounding Dartz. His infinite Life Points were canceled out to zero by the attack of Combine God Dragon Timaeus, which also had ∞ ATK. Dartz wore an expression of disbelief, saying: "I cannot accept this!"
The next instant, he was blasted away: "Ugh!!!"
[Dartz: ∞ → 0]
Standing before Yugi, Combine God Dragon Timaeus completed this one-time infinite attack. Golden particles scattered from its armor. The three knights, originally combined into one, separated again like afterimages, appearing before Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, and Yugi.
But even after dispelling their combination and returning to their knight form capable of action in the Human World, the Legendary Knights were barely holding on. The human figures on their cards flickered, as if they could turn back into their "Legendary Dragon" form at any moment.
To get revenge on the "Orichalcos God" and Dartz, and to frustrate their conspiracy to destroy the World once more, even though they had fallen into slumber due to the battle ten thousand years ago, the "Legendary Dragon"s, just like Dartz, had been continuously accumulating power during this time.
However, the power they had accumulated was ultimately limited. Although that direct attack on Dartz just now allowed them to vent a lot of frustration and was quite satisfying, the Legendary Knights knew very well that this was not the true final battle. It would be too stupid to vent their accumulated power on Dartz out of impulse.
Therefore, the power the "Legendary Dragon"s put into their knight form because of Legendary Heart was actually not much. After completing the attack, it was almost completely depleted. Next, they would turn back into "Legendary Dragon" cards to prepare for what was about to happen.
Moreover, as a safety measure, the Legendary Knights, in addition to the power entrusted to Yugi and the others, had prepared an additional amount of power for unforeseen circumstances.
With Dartz defeated and lying on the Ground, after the duel ended, Yugi and the others, unlike Hayato, didn't immediately rush forward to snatch Dartz's Deck, nor did they hurry to finish off the temporarily motionless Dartz. Instead, they first turned around to check on the condition of everyone Off-field.
At the beginning of the duel, their Companions who had come with them had their souls forcibly extracted and fell into a comatose state due to Dartz's setup. What's more, Dartz immediately activated the Seal of Orichalcos, preventing Yugi and the others from going to the Outside World.
However, thanks to Rex, due to the protection of his card spirit that is still an egg, Rex was in even better condition than Ishizu and Marik, the siblings. Just now, when Dartz used the second and third layers of the barrier, it was he who moved the fallen people away like carrying bags of cement to prevent them from being hit by the spreading Seal of Orichalcos.
What made Yugi and the others sigh in relief was that although Tristan and the others had collapsed in a coma before, as if their souls had been devoured by the "Orichalcos God", along with Dartz's fall, their souls seemed to have returned to their original positions. Without even needing them to shake their shoulders and call their names like in a romance drama, everyone slowly woke up.
"Huh? What just happened?" Clutching the back of his head, Tristan sat up from the Ground. Seeing that everyone else also looked like they had just woken up, he had a confused expression. "Oof~ Why does my head hurt so much?"
Rex, standing to the side, casually whistled, but subtly with his feet, he put a little distance between himself and Tristan . Tristan 's headache wasn't an aftermath of having his soul extracted. When Dartz activated the Seal of Orichalcos earlier, Rex was a bit rushed with his movements when moving the others, and he accidentally seemed to have bonked Tristan 's head on the stone Ground.
Hopefully, he won't notice?
Fortunately, Tristan didn't think too much about why his head hurt. His last memory was of Yugi, Joey Wheeler, and Dartz about to start their duel, so he hurriedly searched for Yugi and Joey Wheeler. He immediately saw the two walking towards them. Tristan quickly got up from the Ground and asked, "How are you guys, Yugi, Joey Wheeler?"
"Heh heh, are you worried about Yours Truly, Idiot Tristan ? Lord Joey Wheeler easily defeated that Dartz, you know." Seeing that Tristan was okay, Joey Wheeler sighed in relief. At the same time, he proudly put his hands on his hips, taking all the credit for defeating Dartz and fooling Tristan , who was in a comatose state at the time. "Unlike you, you actually collapsed in a coma and didn't see Yours Truly's heroic figure at all, how pathetic!"
"What are you being proud about, you jerk? Do you think I'd believe you?" Tristan couldn't stand Joey Wheeler's smug attitude. He immediately extended his arm and used his bicep to lock Joey Wheeler's neck, putting him in a headlock. "So you're saying you're brave, huh!"
Yugi didn't get involved in their unique way of communication. Instead, he took Téa's hand and helped her up from the Ground where she was still figuring out the situation. "Are you okay, Téa?"
"I'm fine, I just feel like I took a nap..." Holding Yugi's hand, Téa stood up and said with a slight confusion. "That guy named Dartz, has he already been defeated, Yu—"
As she spoke, Téa herself was also taken aback, because she suddenly noticed that the features on Yugi's face were much softer than before she had collapsed, and his gaze wasn't that overbearing feeling, but gently watching her.
As Yugi's childhood friend, Téa naturally realized immediately that the person before her was Yugi, but not the Nameless Pharaoh "Dark Yugi" revived from the [Millennium Puzzle], but High School Yugi.
It was only at this moment that Téa realized that, unconsciously, Yugi's height had belatedly started growing and had grown to be as tall as her.
"Yeah, I'm back, Téa." Yugi understood that Téa had recognized him and smiled gently at her.
The instant Dartz was defeated by Combine God Dragon Timaeus, the Seal of Orichalcos that had been wrapped around him within the [Millennium Puzzle] was also shattered along with that slash. Only then was he able to leave the [Millennium Puzzle] and return to the Real World.
"Yugi is back too? That's great." Keipei, who wasn't too far from Yugi, also heard his conversation with Téa. The boy smiled happily at Yugi's return.
"Hmph, you've become weak again, Yugi." Kaiba was still his usual tsundere appearance, as if he would suddenly die if he were to express his joy at the others' return. And even though he had just experienced the duel with Dartz, he still insisted on his persona of believing in science and didn't believe in "soul" or other supernatural things.
"Even if you don't want to believe in supernatural things like 'Soul', Brother," Keipei looked at Kaiba with a helpless expression, "could you please put me down first?"
After defeating Dartz, the extracted souls of everyone returned to their bodies. However, Kaiba, worried about his younger brother's safety, acted too quickly. Before Keipei had woken up after the barrier was dispelled, he hurriedly rushed to Keipei's side and picked him up.
Fortunately, Keipei woke up relatively quickly and didn't stay asleep, otherwise, Keipei would probably have already been sent into an airplane by the overly energetic Kaiba, preparing for emergency treatment.
Yugi looked around. Marik and Ishizu were comforting Rishid, who was apologizing to them for failing in his duty as a Guardian. Joey Wheeler and Tristan were still using Doma's Temple as a changing room to wrestle. Kujaku Mai was standing to the side, looking at the two with a helpless expression. Everyone was safe and sound.
But there was one thing Yugi was very concerned about.
"Dartz!" Stepping towards the spot where Dartz was blasted away and fell, Yugi had a serious expression. "Where exactly did you take Hayato?!"
Dartz of Organization Doma, which wanted to destroy Human Civilization, had been defeated. So the next thing to do was to bring back their important Companion—Hayato, who had joined Doma.
At that time, after Dark Yugi's duel with Rafael, Yugi Mutou had received help from Hayato within the shrinking Seal of Orichalcos of soul sealing. Therefore, he was absolutely certain that Hayato had temporarily joined Doma for the sake of justice.
However, now that Dartz has also been defeated, Hayato was still nowhere to be seen. This left Yugi very confused. But it doesn't matter, Dartz, lying on the Ground unconscious, definitely knows where Hayato is.
And Dartz, as expected of an old man who has lived for ten thousand years, is very tenacious. After taking the sword strike that was more about venting anger than defeating the enemy from Combine God Dragon Timaeus, although his Life Points were reduced to zero in the Dark Game, he surprisingly didn't die from it. Hearing Yugi's voice, Dartz struggled to get up from the Ground.
"Heh, I don't think there's a need to answer this question. Hayato is my Hero, my necessary dawn for the New World to descend." His elegant robe was stained with the dust from the Ground, and a crack appeared in the Orichalcos Fragment embedded as a decoration in the pendant on his forehead. "I won't let you take him away."
"He is—"
"This ends here!"
Before Dartz could finish speaking, he heard the sound of something shattering suddenly coming from an Open Space not far from him. A voice extremely familiar to Yugi and the others came from within it.
The Space shattered along with the Orichalcos Fragment on Dartz's forehead. The next instant, three human figures appeared in the original Open Space!
"Even though it was just a Space Barrier, it was unexpectedly difficult to break through, but it couldn't stop me, the Great Sage of the Code, ya know!" Having put in a lot of effort and finally breaking through the Space Barrier after Yugi, Joey Wheeler, and Dartz's duel ended, allowing Hayato to return to the Real World, Aleister the Invoker started humming proudly, "Aleister's magic technique is the best in the world—!!!"
Before he could finish singing, he was grabbed by a hand holding a card, pressed down on his head, and stuffed into his own card. His unpleasant voice came to an abrupt halt.
Putting away Aleister the Invoker's card, Hayato looked at Dartz, who had a look of shock, and said with a smile, "Dartz! I'm back again!"
Having infinite Life Points is a rare experience not everyone gets to have, and facing infinite ATK is equally rare.
Ah, but Dartz's luck was quite good; in this duel, he got to experience both of these rare occurrences.
The slash of Combine God Dragon Timaeus dispelled the black mist surrounding Dartz. His infinite Life Points were canceled out to zero by the attack of Combine God Dragon Timaeus, which also had ∞ ATK. Dartz wore an expression of disbelief, saying: "I cannot accept this!"
The next instant, he was blasted away: "Ugh!!!"
[Dartz: ∞ → 0]
Standing before Yugi, Combine God Dragon Timaeus completed this one-time infinite attack. Golden particles scattered from its armor. The three knights, originally combined into one, separated again like afterimages, appearing before Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, and Yugi.
But even after dispelling their combination and returning to their knight form capable of action in the Human World, the Legendary Knights were barely holding on. The human figures on their cards flickered, as if they could turn back into their "Legendary Dragon" form at any moment.
To get revenge on the "Orichalcos God" and Dartz, and to frustrate their conspiracy to destroy the World once more, even though they had fallen into slumber due to the battle ten thousand years ago, the "Legendary Dragon"s, just like Dartz, had been continuously accumulating power during this time.
However, the power they had accumulated was ultimately limited. Although that direct attack on Dartz just now allowed them to vent a lot of frustration and was quite satisfying, the Legendary Knights knew very well that this was not the true final battle. It would be too stupid to vent their accumulated power on Dartz out of impulse.
Therefore, the power the "Legendary Dragon"s put into their knight form because of Legendary Heart was actually not much. After completing the attack, it was almost completely depleted. Next, they would turn back into "Legendary Dragon" cards to prepare for what was about to happen.
Moreover, as a safety measure, the Legendary Knights, in addition to the power entrusted to Yugi and the others, had prepared an additional amount of power for unforeseen circumstances.
With Dartz defeated and lying on the Ground, after the duel ended, Yugi and the others, unlike Hayato, didn't immediately rush forward to snatch Dartz's Deck, nor did they hurry to finish off the temporarily motionless Dartz. Instead, they first turned around to check on the condition of everyone Off-field.
At the beginning of the duel, their Companions who had come with them had their souls forcibly extracted and fell into a comatose state due to Dartz's setup. What's more, Dartz immediately activated the Seal of Orichalcos, preventing Yugi and the others from going to the Outside World.
However, thanks to Rex, due to the protection of his card spirit that is still an egg, Rex was in even better condition than Ishizu and Marik, the siblings. Just now, when Dartz used the second and third layers of the barrier, it was he who moved the fallen people away like carrying bags of cement to prevent them from being hit by the spreading Seal of Orichalcos.
What made Yugi and the others sigh in relief was that although Tristan and the others had collapsed in a coma before, as if their souls had been devoured by the "Orichalcos God", along with Dartz's fall, their souls seemed to have returned to their original positions. Without even needing them to shake their shoulders and call their names like in a romance drama, everyone slowly woke up.
"Huh? What just happened?" Clutching the back of his head, Tristan sat up from the Ground. Seeing that everyone else also looked like they had just woken up, he had a confused expression. "Oof~ Why does my head hurt so much?"
Rex, standing to the side, casually whistled, but subtly with his feet, he put a little distance between himself and Tristan . Tristan 's headache wasn't an aftermath of having his soul extracted. When Dartz activated the Seal of Orichalcos earlier, Rex was a bit rushed with his movements when moving the others, and he accidentally seemed to have bonked Tristan 's head on the stone Ground.
Hopefully, he won't notice?
Fortunately, Tristan didn't think too much about why his head hurt. His last memory was of Yugi, Joey Wheeler, and Dartz about to start their duel, so he hurriedly searched for Yugi and Joey Wheeler. He immediately saw the two walking towards them. Tristan quickly got up from the Ground and asked, "How are you guys, Yugi, Joey Wheeler?"
"Heh heh, are you worried about Yours Truly, Idiot Tristan ? Lord Joey Wheeler easily defeated that Dartz, you know." Seeing that Tristan was okay, Joey Wheeler sighed in relief. At the same time, he proudly put his hands on his hips, taking all the credit for defeating Dartz and fooling Tristan , who was in a comatose state at the time. "Unlike you, you actually collapsed in a coma and didn't see Yours Truly's heroic figure at all, how pathetic!"
"What are you being proud about, you jerk? Do you think I'd believe you?" Tristan couldn't stand Joey Wheeler's smug attitude. He immediately extended his arm and used his bicep to lock Joey Wheeler's neck, putting him in a headlock. "So you're saying you're brave, huh!"
Yugi didn't get involved in their unique way of communication. Instead, he took Téa's hand and helped her up from the Ground where she was still figuring out the situation. "Are you okay, Téa?"
"I'm fine, I just feel like I took a nap..." Holding Yugi's hand, Téa stood up and said with a slight confusion. "That guy named Dartz, has he already been defeated, Yu—"
As she spoke, Téa herself was also taken aback, because she suddenly noticed that the features on Yugi's face were much softer than before she had collapsed, and his gaze wasn't that overbearing feeling, but gently watching her.
As Yugi's childhood friend, Téa naturally realized immediately that the person before her was Yugi, but not the Nameless Pharaoh "Dark Yugi" revived from the [Millennium Puzzle], but High School Yugi.
It was only at this moment that Téa realized that, unconsciously, Yugi's height had belatedly started growing and had grown to be as tall as her.
"Yeah, I'm back, Téa." Yugi understood that Téa had recognized him and smiled gently at her.
The instant Dartz was defeated by Combine God Dragon Timaeus, the Seal of Orichalcos that had been wrapped around him within the [Millennium Puzzle] was also shattered along with that slash. Only then was he able to leave the [Millennium Puzzle] and return to the Real World.
"Yugi is back too? That's great." Keipei, who wasn't too far from Yugi, also heard his conversation with Téa. The boy smiled happily at Yugi's return.
"Hmph, you've become weak again, Yugi." Kaiba was still his usual tsundere appearance, as if he would suddenly die if he were to express his joy at the others' return. And even though he had just experienced the duel with Dartz, he still insisted on his persona of believing in science and didn't believe in "soul" or other supernatural things.
"Even if you don't want to believe in supernatural things like 'Soul', Brother," Keipei looked at Kaiba with a helpless expression, "could you please put me down first?"
After defeating Dartz, the extracted souls of everyone returned to their bodies. However, Kaiba, worried about his younger brother's safety, acted too quickly. Before Keipei had woken up after the barrier was dispelled, he hurriedly rushed to Keipei's side and picked him up.
Fortunately, Keipei woke up relatively quickly and didn't stay asleep, otherwise, Keipei would probably have already been sent into an airplane by the overly energetic Kaiba, preparing for emergency treatment.
Yugi looked around. Marik and Ishizu were comforting Rishid, who was apologizing to them for failing in his duty as a Guardian. Joey Wheeler and Tristan were still using Doma's Temple as a changing room to wrestle. Kujaku Mai was standing to the side, looking at the two with a helpless expression. Everyone was safe and sound.
But there was one thing Yugi was very concerned about.
"Dartz!" Stepping towards the spot where Dartz was blasted away and fell, Yugi had a serious expression. "Where exactly did you take Hayato?!"
Dartz of Organization Doma, which wanted to destroy Human Civilization, had been defeated. So the next thing to do was to bring back their important Companion—Hayato, who had joined Doma.
At that time, after Dark Yugi's duel with Rafael, Yugi Mutou had received help from Hayato within the shrinking Seal of Orichalcos of soul sealing. Therefore, he was absolutely certain that Hayato had temporarily joined Doma for the sake of justice.
However, now that Dartz has also been defeated, Hayato was still nowhere to be seen. This left Yugi very confused. But it doesn't matter, Dartz, lying on the Ground unconscious, definitely knows where Hayato is.
And Dartz, as expected of an old man who has lived for ten thousand years, is very tenacious. After taking the sword strike that was more about venting anger than defeating the enemy from Combine God Dragon Timaeus, although his Life Points were reduced to zero in the Dark Game, he surprisingly didn't die from it. Hearing Yugi's voice, Dartz struggled to get up from the Ground.
"Heh, I don't think there's a need to answer this question. Hayato is my Hero, my necessary dawn for the New World to descend." His elegant robe was stained with the dust from the Ground, and a crack appeared in the Orichalcos Fragment embedded as a decoration in the pendant on his forehead. "I won't let you take him away."
"He is—"
"This ends here!"
Before Dartz could finish speaking, he heard the sound of something shattering suddenly coming from an Open Space not far from him. A voice extremely familiar to Yugi and the others came from within it.
The Space shattered along with the Orichalcos Fragment on Dartz's forehead. The next instant, three human figures appeared in the original Open Space!
"Even though it was just a Space Barrier, it was unexpectedly difficult to break through, but it couldn't stop me, the Great Sage of the Code, ya know!" Having put in a lot of effort and finally breaking through the Space Barrier after Yugi, Joey Wheeler, and Dartz's duel ended, allowing Hayato to return to the Real World, Aleister the Invoker started humming proudly, "Aleister's magic technique is the best in the world—!!!"
Before he could finish singing, he was grabbed by a hand holding a card, pressed down on his head, and stuffed into his own card. His unpleasant voice came to an abrupt halt.
Putting away Aleister the Invoker's card, Hayato looked at Dartz, who had a look of shock, and said with a smile, "Dartz! I'm back again!"
