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Chapter 656: The Dual-Souled Emperor Standing Eternally at the Peak (Not)
Yugi and the others looked at Hayato, or more accurately, after seeing the person standing next to Hayato, their minds collectively froze.
Although their clothes were different, the Green-haired Man standing next to Hayato looked exactly the same as Dartz who was not far away!
"There are two Dartz?" Joey Wheeler, who had broken free from Tristan 's arm, rubbed his eyes in disbelief. "Am I seeing things?"
"No, although their appearances looked slightly different, that is also undoubtedly Dartz."
Kaiba also frowned, put down Keipei, and raised his Duel Disk, maintaining a guarded stance. "What in the world is this...?"
Unlike the first Dartz who wore a long robe, the second Dartz who appeared with Hayato wore a suit of armor and had a cape trailing behind him. The difference between the two was like that between a priest and a general.
After appearing here with Hayato, the second Dartz walked towards the direction of the first Dartz.
"You bastard, you actually ran out!" Dartz gritted his teeth, looking at the "Dartz" approaching him.
"Yes, thanks to Hayato." Compared to Dartz, who was covered in dust and looked miserable, the "Dartz"'s demeanor was relaxed and carefree. "It looks like you've been defeated and are on your last breath."
"You..." Dartz seemed like he wanted to say something else, but the pain left by the duel interrupted him before he could speak. He could only cover his chest and watch "Dartz" continue to approach him.
"Although I don't know who that guy is, the one we defeated just now was Dartz, right?" Joey Wheeler watched "Dartz" continue forward and reached out, wanting to stop him. "Hey, you over there, step back. Things are about to get ugly."
However, before he could get closer, Hayato, who was standing still, raised his hand and stopped Joey Wheeler.
"Hayato?"
"Let that guy go ahead. If we want everything to truly end." Hayato said nonchalantly, watching "Dartz" and Dartz approach each other.
Hayato's location wasn't too far from the Altar where Dartz was. Therefore, in the time it took Hayato to stop Joey Wheeler, "Dartz" had already arrived in front of Dartz, who could barely stand.
"Stop struggling." "Dartz" smiled coldly, looking at Dartz standing before him. He extended his hand and placed it on Dartz's chest. "If you can't even defeat the 'Legendary Dragon', then you have already lost."
"I won't lose, I won't lose to the 'Legendary Dragon'," Dartz said with a gloomy face, turning his head to look at the Legendary Knights who had already completely dissipated not far from Yugi and the others. "I just need power, more power."
"Of course, I completely understand." "Dartz" showed a strange smile, looking at Dartz. "You and I, we were originally one, without difference. But you lost me, and I also lost you."
"And now, we are connected by these same feelings."
Saying this, "Dartz" used force with his hand, plunging it into Dartz's body. In the next moment, both of their bodies were simultaneously enveloped by the radiance that suddenly burst forth!
"What's going on!?" The scene before them caught everyone off guard. It was difficult to understand what had happened. In their confusion, they all turned their heads to look at the only person who might know the truth—Hayato, who was calmly organizing his deck.
Noticing everyone's gaze, Hayato put away his deck and sighed. "Do you know about dual personality?"
Dual personality refers to a person having two relatively distinct and separate personalities. For ordinary humans, it might be difficult to understand, but everyone present had some understanding of dual personality because of the two best examples: Yugi and Marik.
It was from Hayato's mouth that everyone learned that Dartz actually also had a dual personality. However, compared to others, Dartz's dual personality was much more extreme, even splitting to the extent of becoming two separate individuals, which were the "Dartz" and Dartz they had just seen.
Hayato also only learned about this when he was trapped by Dartz in that independent Space, watching Yugi and the others' duels, and had accidentally encountered "Dartz". The other Dartz said Hayato could call him Lemuria.
Upon hearing this name, Hayato also recalled that he had actually encountered him once a long time ago during the Duelist Kingdom. However, Lemuria's appearance at that time was different from the Dartz in Hayato's memory, so Hayato had never connected the Lemuria he had only met once with Dartz.
The splitting of dual personality mostly originates from external factors, such as traumatic life events, the pressure of a difficult environment, or the inability to unify one's identity. Marik's own personality disorder stemmed from the subtle influence of the dark power within the Millennium Rod and the shock of Rishid being branded with a tattoo in front of him. According to Lemuria, his situation was also extremely similar to Marik's.
Ten thousand years ago, after the Atlantean Civilization had obtained the power of the Orichalcos for a period, the inner darkness in the inflated human heart activated the mystical power of the Orichalcos, gradually beginning to transform the bodies of the Atlanteans whose desires were out of control. However, at that time, the Atlanteans did not realize that the source of the problem was the Orichalcos, thinking they were just isolated cases.
Until one night, Dartz, in his palace, discovered something was wrong with his queen—Ivoray. First, there was a severe headache, then one arm twisted and deformed, her skin turned pitch-black, and her nails became sharp. Queen Ivoray, fearing the anomaly appearing on her body, immediately fled from Dartz's side, not wanting Dartz to see her hideous appearance.
At that time, Dartz didn't fully react to what was happening, nor did he forcefully obstruct Ivoray's departure. Only after a slight delay did he follow the departing queen, wanting to see what was going on.
But it was precisely that slight delay. By the time Dartz caught up with the departing Ivoray, the Ivoray who reappeared before him had already completely transformed into a twisted monster, with bat wings on its back, blood-red eyes, and a mouth that could stretch to its ears, revealing a full set of sharp teeth. The originally dignified and elegant queen had turned into a beast within a few breaths. Even when Dartz found her, she, or rather, it, was still tightly biting the neck of an attendant.
Sharp teeth pierced the attendant's skin, and blood dripped from the teeth onto the ornament on the former Queen Ivoray's chest. It was a pendant that Dartz had once given her, inlaid with a finely polished Orichalcos Fragment, and it was emitting an ominous green light.
His lover transformed into a beast before him, his gentle queen became a fiend who wantonly massacred living beings. The painful Dartz took action and delivered a finishing blow to the monster that Queen Ivoray had become.
However, Queen Ivoray was not the only one who turned into a monster. Overnight, the power of the Orichalcos began to run wild. The prosperous Atlantean Civilization fell into panic and massacre. Throughout the entire night, Dartz, overlooking the country under his rule, remained bewildered and in silence, clutching the Orichalcos Fragment taken from the deceased Ivoray, helpless against everything the Atlantean Civilization was experiencing.
It was under these circumstances, through the Orichalcos Fragment in Dartz's hand, that the just awakened "Orichalcos God" encountered Dartz. It conveyed to Dartz the reason why the Atlantean Civilization was experiencing all of this and presented him with a view of the future.
Under the triple influence of the impact of knowledge, the pain in his inner thoughts, and the power of the Orichalcos, Dartz's inner thoughts also split from that moment on. The gentle Atlantean Prince Dartz and the obsessed Atlantean Emperor Dartz completed their separation. Dartz's pupils also became heterochromatic eyes, one green and one yellow, from that time.
At the very beginning, the personality of Dartz, who wanted world destruction, gained the advantage. The Atlantean Civilization, having been too deeply permeated by the power of the Orichalcos, had no future left. He therefore chose to completely bury the Atlantean Civilization to serve as the energy for the "Orichalcos God", in order to destroy the world and re-create it. That collection of energy was the collection of the Atlanteans' inner darkness—**Serpent God - Avatar of Darkness**.
However, not everyone in the Atlantean Civilization agreed with Dartz's action. For example, Dartz's father, the former Emperor Aenheart, was unwilling to see the Atlantean Civilization destroyed like this. He took Dartz's sister, Chris, with him to the Spirit World to seek aid. What happened after that was the confrontation between the 'Legendary Dragon' and the "Orichalcos God" that Yugi and the others know about.
After the war ten thousand years ago, the 'Legendary Dragon' which fought across worlds and the "Orichalcos God" which had not been awakened for long, both fell into slumber. Dartz's world destruction plan was destroyed. It was also taking advantage of this opportunity that the suppressed Dartz began his counter-offensive. The two personalities fell into a stalemate, neither able to gain complete control of the body.
Thus, the struggle between the two Dartz continued for seven thousand years. During these seven thousand years, Human Civilization, which had been shattered and destroyed by the great war, was rebuilt. Furthermore, because the power of the spirits in the Real World had been scattered across the world and sealed into tablets to slumber during that war, without coexisting with spirits, Human Civilization gradually developed in a completely different direction from Atlantis at that time.
This allowed the gentle Dartz to gradually suppress the obsessed Dartz. With one side having the advantage, Dartz recovered his ability to move around, observing the human world under different identities. Until Three thousand years ago, he came to Ancient Egypt and personally witnessed a priest of the Pharaoh at that time, in order to resist the invasion of enemy countries, cast an evil ritual at the stake of a village's life to refine seven items, awaken the spirit power within the tablets.
Those were the seven **Millennium Items**.
Spirit power driven by dark power fell into human hands. An incident identical to the one he had experienced seven thousand years ago was presented before his eyes once again. At this point, the suppressed Dartz turned the offensive, seizing control of the body back from the Dartz who had merely been observing human development.
He could not accept the tragedy of Atlantis descending upon the world again. Therefore, he had to guide Human Civilization, so that it would not walk the path of ruin.
Thus, Doma was born. And because humans began to walk alongside spirits once again, Dartz, who was filled with pessimism about the future of Human Civilization, also began collecting human souls once more, preparing to awaken the "Orichalcos God".
Thus, another three thousand years passed. Doma spread its branches and leaves throughout the world, rooting itself deep within Human Civilization.
Out of curiosity towards Pegasus, who had created a new vessel for spirits—Duel Monsters Cards, Dartz decided to see what kind of person he was before destroying humanity. He utilized Doma's faction to participate in the Duelist Kingdom. However, his first impression of Pegasus was very poor, because he discovered that Pegasus was fundamentally being controlled by the dark power of the **Millennium Eye**, completely lacking the qualification to be taken seriously by him.
Very disappointed, Dartz had planned to leave then and there, to finish collecting souls and destroy Human Civilization sooner. However, in a situation he hadn't expected, because of a demonstration duel showcasing the new rule for Duel Monsters used in the Duelist Kingdom, he saw Hayato's appearance.
Completely different from all the humans he had seen up to that point, at that time, although Hayato was enveloped by a layer of dark power around him that only Dartz could observe due to the influence of Pegasus's **Millennium Eye**, this did not affect Dartz's ability to see the pure white purity within Hayato's inner thoughts, and that soul that shone like the sun.
Dartz, who had no interest in the New World and only wanted to destroy everything, was countered by the personality of the other Dartz, who had been suppressed for three thousand years. Because of Hayato's appearance, he rekindled hope for a New World. As long as there was Hayato, it was not without possibility for the humans of the New World to overcome the future of ruin!
Using the alias "Lemuria", Dartz observed Hayato's performance in the Duelist Kingdom, watching him gradually obtain things like the **Millennium Ring**, little by little dispersing the darkness around him and becoming stronger. After watching Hayato duel and defeat Keith, Dartz gifted Hayato a card and left.
He was filled with hope for Hayato's existence, and became even more firmly resolved to destroy all existing humans and bring about the descent of the New World. However, before that, he decided to first create a space and isolate the other personality, which he had managed to suppress with great difficulty, inside it, to prevent it from hindering his subsequent action.
"I see, I completely understand!" Joey Wheeler clenched his fist and struck his palm. "So, the good Dartz and the bad Dartz have now combined into one again, right?"
"Does that mean Dartz has given up on world destruction?"
"No, not at all," Hayato rubbed the tip of his nose and spread his hand. "Although the two Dartz have some divergence, their lack of confidence in humans is a consensus."
"In other words..." Without finishing his sentence, Hayato turned his head and looked in Dartz's direction.
The radiance dispersed, and only one Dartz remained before everyone's eyes. Still with heterochromatic eyes, one green and one yellow, Dartz looked at Hayato and showed a smile.
(End of Chapter)
Yugi and the others looked at Hayato, or more accurately, after seeing the person standing next to Hayato, their minds collectively froze.
Although their clothes were different, the Green-haired Man standing next to Hayato looked exactly the same as Dartz who was not far away!
"There are two Dartz?" Joey Wheeler, who had broken free from Tristan 's arm, rubbed his eyes in disbelief. "Am I seeing things?"
"No, although their appearances looked slightly different, that is also undoubtedly Dartz."
Kaiba also frowned, put down Keipei, and raised his Duel Disk, maintaining a guarded stance. "What in the world is this...?"
Unlike the first Dartz who wore a long robe, the second Dartz who appeared with Hayato wore a suit of armor and had a cape trailing behind him. The difference between the two was like that between a priest and a general.
After appearing here with Hayato, the second Dartz walked towards the direction of the first Dartz.
"You bastard, you actually ran out!" Dartz gritted his teeth, looking at the "Dartz" approaching him.
"Yes, thanks to Hayato." Compared to Dartz, who was covered in dust and looked miserable, the "Dartz"'s demeanor was relaxed and carefree. "It looks like you've been defeated and are on your last breath."
"You..." Dartz seemed like he wanted to say something else, but the pain left by the duel interrupted him before he could speak. He could only cover his chest and watch "Dartz" continue to approach him.
"Although I don't know who that guy is, the one we defeated just now was Dartz, right?" Joey Wheeler watched "Dartz" continue forward and reached out, wanting to stop him. "Hey, you over there, step back. Things are about to get ugly."
However, before he could get closer, Hayato, who was standing still, raised his hand and stopped Joey Wheeler.
"Hayato?"
"Let that guy go ahead. If we want everything to truly end." Hayato said nonchalantly, watching "Dartz" and Dartz approach each other.
Hayato's location wasn't too far from the Altar where Dartz was. Therefore, in the time it took Hayato to stop Joey Wheeler, "Dartz" had already arrived in front of Dartz, who could barely stand.
"Stop struggling." "Dartz" smiled coldly, looking at Dartz standing before him. He extended his hand and placed it on Dartz's chest. "If you can't even defeat the 'Legendary Dragon', then you have already lost."
"I won't lose, I won't lose to the 'Legendary Dragon'," Dartz said with a gloomy face, turning his head to look at the Legendary Knights who had already completely dissipated not far from Yugi and the others. "I just need power, more power."
"Of course, I completely understand." "Dartz" showed a strange smile, looking at Dartz. "You and I, we were originally one, without difference. But you lost me, and I also lost you."
"And now, we are connected by these same feelings."
Saying this, "Dartz" used force with his hand, plunging it into Dartz's body. In the next moment, both of their bodies were simultaneously enveloped by the radiance that suddenly burst forth!
"What's going on!?" The scene before them caught everyone off guard. It was difficult to understand what had happened. In their confusion, they all turned their heads to look at the only person who might know the truth—Hayato, who was calmly organizing his deck.
Noticing everyone's gaze, Hayato put away his deck and sighed. "Do you know about dual personality?"
Dual personality refers to a person having two relatively distinct and separate personalities. For ordinary humans, it might be difficult to understand, but everyone present had some understanding of dual personality because of the two best examples: Yugi and Marik.
It was from Hayato's mouth that everyone learned that Dartz actually also had a dual personality. However, compared to others, Dartz's dual personality was much more extreme, even splitting to the extent of becoming two separate individuals, which were the "Dartz" and Dartz they had just seen.
Hayato also only learned about this when he was trapped by Dartz in that independent Space, watching Yugi and the others' duels, and had accidentally encountered "Dartz". The other Dartz said Hayato could call him Lemuria.
Upon hearing this name, Hayato also recalled that he had actually encountered him once a long time ago during the Duelist Kingdom. However, Lemuria's appearance at that time was different from the Dartz in Hayato's memory, so Hayato had never connected the Lemuria he had only met once with Dartz.
The splitting of dual personality mostly originates from external factors, such as traumatic life events, the pressure of a difficult environment, or the inability to unify one's identity. Marik's own personality disorder stemmed from the subtle influence of the dark power within the Millennium Rod and the shock of Rishid being branded with a tattoo in front of him. According to Lemuria, his situation was also extremely similar to Marik's.
Ten thousand years ago, after the Atlantean Civilization had obtained the power of the Orichalcos for a period, the inner darkness in the inflated human heart activated the mystical power of the Orichalcos, gradually beginning to transform the bodies of the Atlanteans whose desires were out of control. However, at that time, the Atlanteans did not realize that the source of the problem was the Orichalcos, thinking they were just isolated cases.
Until one night, Dartz, in his palace, discovered something was wrong with his queen—Ivoray. First, there was a severe headache, then one arm twisted and deformed, her skin turned pitch-black, and her nails became sharp. Queen Ivoray, fearing the anomaly appearing on her body, immediately fled from Dartz's side, not wanting Dartz to see her hideous appearance.
At that time, Dartz didn't fully react to what was happening, nor did he forcefully obstruct Ivoray's departure. Only after a slight delay did he follow the departing queen, wanting to see what was going on.
But it was precisely that slight delay. By the time Dartz caught up with the departing Ivoray, the Ivoray who reappeared before him had already completely transformed into a twisted monster, with bat wings on its back, blood-red eyes, and a mouth that could stretch to its ears, revealing a full set of sharp teeth. The originally dignified and elegant queen had turned into a beast within a few breaths. Even when Dartz found her, she, or rather, it, was still tightly biting the neck of an attendant.
Sharp teeth pierced the attendant's skin, and blood dripped from the teeth onto the ornament on the former Queen Ivoray's chest. It was a pendant that Dartz had once given her, inlaid with a finely polished Orichalcos Fragment, and it was emitting an ominous green light.
His lover transformed into a beast before him, his gentle queen became a fiend who wantonly massacred living beings. The painful Dartz took action and delivered a finishing blow to the monster that Queen Ivoray had become.
However, Queen Ivoray was not the only one who turned into a monster. Overnight, the power of the Orichalcos began to run wild. The prosperous Atlantean Civilization fell into panic and massacre. Throughout the entire night, Dartz, overlooking the country under his rule, remained bewildered and in silence, clutching the Orichalcos Fragment taken from the deceased Ivoray, helpless against everything the Atlantean Civilization was experiencing.
It was under these circumstances, through the Orichalcos Fragment in Dartz's hand, that the just awakened "Orichalcos God" encountered Dartz. It conveyed to Dartz the reason why the Atlantean Civilization was experiencing all of this and presented him with a view of the future.
Under the triple influence of the impact of knowledge, the pain in his inner thoughts, and the power of the Orichalcos, Dartz's inner thoughts also split from that moment on. The gentle Atlantean Prince Dartz and the obsessed Atlantean Emperor Dartz completed their separation. Dartz's pupils also became heterochromatic eyes, one green and one yellow, from that time.
At the very beginning, the personality of Dartz, who wanted world destruction, gained the advantage. The Atlantean Civilization, having been too deeply permeated by the power of the Orichalcos, had no future left. He therefore chose to completely bury the Atlantean Civilization to serve as the energy for the "Orichalcos God", in order to destroy the world and re-create it. That collection of energy was the collection of the Atlanteans' inner darkness—**Serpent God - Avatar of Darkness**.
However, not everyone in the Atlantean Civilization agreed with Dartz's action. For example, Dartz's father, the former Emperor Aenheart, was unwilling to see the Atlantean Civilization destroyed like this. He took Dartz's sister, Chris, with him to the Spirit World to seek aid. What happened after that was the confrontation between the 'Legendary Dragon' and the "Orichalcos God" that Yugi and the others know about.
After the war ten thousand years ago, the 'Legendary Dragon' which fought across worlds and the "Orichalcos God" which had not been awakened for long, both fell into slumber. Dartz's world destruction plan was destroyed. It was also taking advantage of this opportunity that the suppressed Dartz began his counter-offensive. The two personalities fell into a stalemate, neither able to gain complete control of the body.
Thus, the struggle between the two Dartz continued for seven thousand years. During these seven thousand years, Human Civilization, which had been shattered and destroyed by the great war, was rebuilt. Furthermore, because the power of the spirits in the Real World had been scattered across the world and sealed into tablets to slumber during that war, without coexisting with spirits, Human Civilization gradually developed in a completely different direction from Atlantis at that time.
This allowed the gentle Dartz to gradually suppress the obsessed Dartz. With one side having the advantage, Dartz recovered his ability to move around, observing the human world under different identities. Until Three thousand years ago, he came to Ancient Egypt and personally witnessed a priest of the Pharaoh at that time, in order to resist the invasion of enemy countries, cast an evil ritual at the stake of a village's life to refine seven items, awaken the spirit power within the tablets.
Those were the seven **Millennium Items**.
Spirit power driven by dark power fell into human hands. An incident identical to the one he had experienced seven thousand years ago was presented before his eyes once again. At this point, the suppressed Dartz turned the offensive, seizing control of the body back from the Dartz who had merely been observing human development.
He could not accept the tragedy of Atlantis descending upon the world again. Therefore, he had to guide Human Civilization, so that it would not walk the path of ruin.
Thus, Doma was born. And because humans began to walk alongside spirits once again, Dartz, who was filled with pessimism about the future of Human Civilization, also began collecting human souls once more, preparing to awaken the "Orichalcos God".
Thus, another three thousand years passed. Doma spread its branches and leaves throughout the world, rooting itself deep within Human Civilization.
Out of curiosity towards Pegasus, who had created a new vessel for spirits—Duel Monsters Cards, Dartz decided to see what kind of person he was before destroying humanity. He utilized Doma's faction to participate in the Duelist Kingdom. However, his first impression of Pegasus was very poor, because he discovered that Pegasus was fundamentally being controlled by the dark power of the **Millennium Eye**, completely lacking the qualification to be taken seriously by him.
Very disappointed, Dartz had planned to leave then and there, to finish collecting souls and destroy Human Civilization sooner. However, in a situation he hadn't expected, because of a demonstration duel showcasing the new rule for Duel Monsters used in the Duelist Kingdom, he saw Hayato's appearance.
Completely different from all the humans he had seen up to that point, at that time, although Hayato was enveloped by a layer of dark power around him that only Dartz could observe due to the influence of Pegasus's **Millennium Eye**, this did not affect Dartz's ability to see the pure white purity within Hayato's inner thoughts, and that soul that shone like the sun.
Dartz, who had no interest in the New World and only wanted to destroy everything, was countered by the personality of the other Dartz, who had been suppressed for three thousand years. Because of Hayato's appearance, he rekindled hope for a New World. As long as there was Hayato, it was not without possibility for the humans of the New World to overcome the future of ruin!
Using the alias "Lemuria", Dartz observed Hayato's performance in the Duelist Kingdom, watching him gradually obtain things like the **Millennium Ring**, little by little dispersing the darkness around him and becoming stronger. After watching Hayato duel and defeat Keith, Dartz gifted Hayato a card and left.
He was filled with hope for Hayato's existence, and became even more firmly resolved to destroy all existing humans and bring about the descent of the New World. However, before that, he decided to first create a space and isolate the other personality, which he had managed to suppress with great difficulty, inside it, to prevent it from hindering his subsequent action.
"I see, I completely understand!" Joey Wheeler clenched his fist and struck his palm. "So, the good Dartz and the bad Dartz have now combined into one again, right?"
"Does that mean Dartz has given up on world destruction?"
"No, not at all," Hayato rubbed the tip of his nose and spread his hand. "Although the two Dartz have some divergence, their lack of confidence in humans is a consensus."
"In other words..." Without finishing his sentence, Hayato turned his head and looked in Dartz's direction.
The radiance dispersed, and only one Dartz remained before everyone's eyes. Still with heterochromatic eyes, one green and one yellow, Dartz looked at Hayato and showed a smile.
(End of Chapter)
