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Chapter 666: Creator God
Although his System occasionally liked to spout nonsense in unimportant places, like slandering Hayato as an Underworld Duelist more than once, so far, it hadn't made a mistake.
Although Hayato didn't know what Dartz's final Set Card was, since the System said he had already defeated Dartz and even started the Settlement for the reward, Dartz was probably defeated.
After all, on the surface, Hayato's final blow seemed like a conventional Tribute Monster dealing Effect Damage for a Finishing Blow, but in reality, he had truly dedicated all his mental power. Not only did the Millennium Ring on his chest become dim after leaving the Orichalcos God's Body, but even Gaia returned to its card and fell into slumber.
Although Hayato was eager to claim the Quest's reward, there was something more important before him right now: he had to find a way to keep himself from falling from a great height into the Sea Surface and dying.
He wasn't a character in a video game who could survive any fall as long as there was a puddle or a haystack below. Hayato estimated the distance between himself and the Sea Surface. If he continued in freefall like this, turning into a puddle of mud would be a relatively good result.
However, luckily, although Hayato felt like he had dueled Dartz inside the Orichalcos God's Body for quite some time, that World seemed like a Mental World. In the Outside World, only less than a second had actually passed.
Actually, on the Atlantis City suspended in the air, Joey Wheeler, Kaiba, and Yugi hadn't even had time to worry about Hayato. They had just seen Hayato and The Winged Dragon of Ra, under the cover of the other Three Egyptian Gods, collide with the Orichalcos God, which had suddenly lit up with Neon lights and stopped moving. The next moment, they saw Hayato and the Orichalcos God falling separately, and Dartz had already disappeared.
Seeing The Winged Dragon of Ra immediately approach the falling Hayato and catch him, Kaiba secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon, which was almost placed on his Duel Disk, was withdrawn. He looked towards the direction of the Orichalcos God on the other side with vigilance: "What's going on? Where did Dartz go!?"
"I cannot tell, he was just there a second ago," Joey Wheeler's action was faster. He had even released his Red-Eyes Black Dragon to soar in mid-air. "More importantly, what about Hayato? Is he alright?"
"Have a little more confidence in Hayato, Joey Wheeler. Looking at The Winged Dragon of Ra, Hayato should be fine," Yugi reassured Joey Wheeler.
As duelists, having vision comparable to archers in red coats was only natural. The three clearly saw Hayato being caught by The Winged Dragon of Ra in the distance. After standing firm, Hayato even waved towards them, seemingly indicating that he was alright and nothing was wrong.
Seeing Joey Wheeler wave back from afar, Hayato knew they were relieved. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief and lay down on top of The Winged Dragon of Ra's head. Although defeating Dartz didn't mean everything was resolved, at least the biggest trouble had disappeared. Hayato could rest for a moment, catch his breath, and relax his tense nerves.
"Ying ying ying~"
A sound of malicious cuteness came from The Winged Dragon of Ra's card, which had returned to his hand. Hayato felt somewhat helpless about this: "Why didn't I use you in the duel? Stop acting spoiled, there was no way around it. If I had taken your card into that giant mud eel's body, who would have helped me open the Passage? So you were very important."
"Alright, alright, next time I'll prepare a magnificent Stage most suitable for your appearance."
While comforting The Winged Dragon of Ra, who showed no trace of the arrogance and dignity of a God Card in front of him, Hayato reached out to press the button on the System screen that appeared before him, to claim the reward from the completed System Settlement.
But just then, a huge roar echoed.
"Roar!!!"
The Orichalcos God, which should have fallen back into the deep sea after losing Dartz's control, somehow let out a roar after impacting the Sea Surface and flew back into the air!
The Orichalcos God's mood was quite bad right now. Although it was essentially a screening program for Surface civilization, this didn't prevent it from being so angry that it wanted to destroy everything it saw.
To think that as the aggregate of the Planet's Darkness, it was clearly positioned as the final Boss. Logically, it should have been full of presence. With absolute power, it even had the qualification to casually bestow power upon humans, deceiving them by saying, "Humans are truly interesting, so I won't destroy them."
Actually, ten thousand years ago, it truly did just that, lending its power to Dartz to wield. As a result, Dartz himself concluded that this World must be destroyed. However, in the very end, that attempt at World destruction was stopped by the Legendary Dragon from the Spirit World, and it itself was beaten into a state where it had to fall into slumber.
However, the opponent didn't fare well either. The Orichalcos God's struggle before being defeated also severely injured the opponent, forcing the opponent to also fall into slumber even after splitting itself.
It had planned to sleep for ten thousand years and fight again after waking up, but the Orichalcos God didn't expect that Dartz, that person with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would have so many crooked ideas and even targeted the Dark Power it possessed. He tampered with its body while it was in slumber. If someone hadn't cut off his connection to it, it might have ended up being just a background character from beginning to end.
However, there is no 'if'. Now it has successfully woken up. Although it lost some power because of this, it doesn't matter. Even after enduring ten thousand years of wear and tear, I, the Orichalcos God, am still invincible in this World!
Dartz is probably dead somewhere. So, you are next, humans!
Unlike Dartz's extravagance and wasted use of power, the Orichalcos God, after regaining control of its body, immediately chose to shrink its body. Although it was under control before, this doesn't mean the Orichalcos God didn't know what happened outside before. Mere Three Egyptian Gods, as long as that name isn't revealed, there is nothing to fear anymore.
Thinking this, the Orichalcos God coiled its still massive body around the Floating City - Atlantis, looking down at the three figures struggling to maintain their balance on the ruined street due to the Ground's tremors.
Before destroying the World, I'll use these three ants as an appetizer.
Opening its hideous giant mouth, the Orichalcos God thought in its heart and was about to take action.
But, somehow, it discovered something strange.
It clearly only wanted to shrink its body to its current length and end there, but why could it still feel its body shrinking little by little!?
From its skull alone being the same size as the Floating City - Atlantis at first, to its winding body being able to wrap around the entire Castle, this change was still within the Orichalcos God's own control. But why was its body continuing to shrink afterwards, even gradually reaching a point where its entire body could only cling to the Castle!
A human-like expression of shock and fear appeared on the monstrous, non-human face of the giant beast. It frantically surveyed its body with its gradually stiffening and powerless skull, only to find that on its surface, it was emitting various colors of radiance, like a Christmas tree wrapped in light bulbs!
Those were Hayato's Infernoids!
With the interruption of the connection between Dartz and the Orichalcos God, although the latter regained consciousness and was no longer under suppression, it also meant that the Infernoids were no longer restrained by Dartz. Like vines parasitizing a giant tree and unilaterally absorbing its nourishment, the Infernoid Monsters, led by Infernoid Decatron, were plundering the Dark Power that the Orichalcos God had accumulated for ten thousand years!
Although such a crude and simple forcible plundering would inevitably waste most of the energy, Hayato didn't feel any regret for it. After all, this power was obtained for free.
The Orichalcos God angrily tried to struggle, wanting to remove the parasites on its body, but could only watch helplessly as its Dark Power was absorbed and its torso became increasingly withered, while the lights on the Infernoid Monsters became brighter as they absorbed more Dark Power.
Even after the individual Infernoids were "full" and had reached the limit of the power they could absorb, tiny lights drifted towards Hayato's hand, gathering on a card.
"Don't think you have a reason to throw a tantrum just because you woke up from a nap, you bastard. Do you think other people don't get tired from dueling?" Standing on top of The Winged Dragon of Ra's head, Hayato looked down contemptuously at the Orichalcos God, which he didn't even consider a threat. "To go all out, I barely managed to defeat Dartz using a Pure Dragonmaid Deck, and you come out causing trouble again without even giving me time to rest."
"I was originally planning to deal with you slowly, but since you're like this, don't blame me!"
Saying this, Hayato flipped the Infernoid Tierra card in his hand and pointed it towards the Orichalcos God: "Although it's not comparable to the power of the Genesis System God Star Tree, I didn't intend to manifest the perfected form from the start. For now, using the Dark Power accumulated on this Planet over ten thousand years as nourishment, reveal your true nature from this shell!"
In Hayato's other hand, he pulled out the Philosopher's Stone - Hrel card. Both cards were raised above his head simultaneously.
"The creation power of the duality, reappearing with the numerous souls gathered under the Sun's Wings, the ultimate authority that returns everything to the origin now descends!"
Following Hayato's call, the Infernoid Monsters detached themselves from the Orichalcos God one after another, carrying the absorbed Power and converging into the card in Hayato's hand. Space warped as the giant monster's figure gradually appeared. The Orichalcos God widened its eyes, looking at the existence descending before it.
With ten dual-colored wings and scarlet bull horns, Infernoid Tierra was called out by Hayato. The Orichalcos God's Power was completely absorbed into its body, and then in the next moment, countless cracks appeared on its surface.
This appearance seemed like the power exceeded its bearing limit, but on the contrary, this indicated that Infernoid Tierra had met the condition for evolution!
Briefly losing the Infernoids' suppression, the Orichalcos God felt a threat of death. It moved its body, which had just recovered its freedom, wanting to let go of Atlantis City and escape, but in an instant, a sharp "lance" pierced a section of its torso, nailing it firmly to the rock wall!
The shell on Infernoid Tierra's surface peeled off, and four huge silver-white machine legs extended from within. One of them was piercing the Orichalcos God. Dust peeled off from the five pairs of black and white wings on its back, revealing ten transparent golden light wings. Scarlet bull horns burned with scorching flames.
The Creator God named Tierra, catalyzed by the almighty Wishing Machine, the Sage's Stone, and using the Orichalcos God as nourishment, was born from the Infernoids!
The Orichalcos God, filled with unwillingness, looked at the colossal giant object before it, feeling only "fear". It gave up thinking in the flames, watching helplessly as its remaining Dark Power was extracted again, becoming nourishment for Creator God - Tierra.
And Hayato, seeing the Orichalcos God stop struggling, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He put away the Super Polymerization card in his hand without using it.
In the original timeline, Yugi and the others, who had experienced many sacrifices along the way, successfully defeated Dartz in the end and saved many people. However, facing Dartz, who had combined with the Orichalcos God, even using the Three Egyptian Gods was insufficient.
This wasn't just because the Three Egyptian Gods' Power had been absorbed by the Orichalcos God. The key point was that the Orichalcos God itself was an aggregate of the Planet's Darkness. As long as humans couldn't cut off the inner darkness in their hearts, the Orichalcos God and Dartz couldn't be eliminated.
In the very end, Dark Yugi chose to use his own Soul as a vessel to carry that Darkness. As the Nameless Pharaoh, Dark Yugi sealed this Darkness and resentment within his own Soul, barely managing to temporarily eliminate the Orichalcos God.
However, it was ultimately just treating the symptom, not the cause.
How to eliminate future trouble completely? From the moment he decided to Join Doma, Hayato had been plotting this. Using the Infernoids as a framework to contain this Dark Power to the maximum extent, then combine it with the Power of the Red Orichalcos, which originates from the same source as the Green Orichalcos—in other words, the Sage's Stone—to construct the existence of Creator God - Tierra.
Since Darkness cannot be extinguished, why not simply bring it under human control? Looking at the Creator God - Tierra card in his hand, Hayato showed a tired smile.
Creator God - Tierra will continuously absorb this Darkness as a vessel, suppressing the Power of the Orichalcos to prevent it from descending into the Human World again. This Power will also serve as the source of power to maintain its existence in this World, preventing it from disappearing immediately.
In other words, the Power of the Orichalcos has been completely eradicated from the World by Hayato and will no longer have the opportunity to descend!
[System Prompt: You have obtained the Shaddoll Preconstructed Deck.]
Although his System occasionally liked to spout nonsense in unimportant places, like slandering Hayato as an Underworld Duelist more than once, so far, it hadn't made a mistake.
Although Hayato didn't know what Dartz's final Set Card was, since the System said he had already defeated Dartz and even started the Settlement for the reward, Dartz was probably defeated.
After all, on the surface, Hayato's final blow seemed like a conventional Tribute Monster dealing Effect Damage for a Finishing Blow, but in reality, he had truly dedicated all his mental power. Not only did the Millennium Ring on his chest become dim after leaving the Orichalcos God's Body, but even Gaia returned to its card and fell into slumber.
Although Hayato was eager to claim the Quest's reward, there was something more important before him right now: he had to find a way to keep himself from falling from a great height into the Sea Surface and dying.
He wasn't a character in a video game who could survive any fall as long as there was a puddle or a haystack below. Hayato estimated the distance between himself and the Sea Surface. If he continued in freefall like this, turning into a puddle of mud would be a relatively good result.
However, luckily, although Hayato felt like he had dueled Dartz inside the Orichalcos God's Body for quite some time, that World seemed like a Mental World. In the Outside World, only less than a second had actually passed.
Actually, on the Atlantis City suspended in the air, Joey Wheeler, Kaiba, and Yugi hadn't even had time to worry about Hayato. They had just seen Hayato and The Winged Dragon of Ra, under the cover of the other Three Egyptian Gods, collide with the Orichalcos God, which had suddenly lit up with Neon lights and stopped moving. The next moment, they saw Hayato and the Orichalcos God falling separately, and Dartz had already disappeared.
Seeing The Winged Dragon of Ra immediately approach the falling Hayato and catch him, Kaiba secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon, which was almost placed on his Duel Disk, was withdrawn. He looked towards the direction of the Orichalcos God on the other side with vigilance: "What's going on? Where did Dartz go!?"
"I cannot tell, he was just there a second ago," Joey Wheeler's action was faster. He had even released his Red-Eyes Black Dragon to soar in mid-air. "More importantly, what about Hayato? Is he alright?"
"Have a little more confidence in Hayato, Joey Wheeler. Looking at The Winged Dragon of Ra, Hayato should be fine," Yugi reassured Joey Wheeler.
As duelists, having vision comparable to archers in red coats was only natural. The three clearly saw Hayato being caught by The Winged Dragon of Ra in the distance. After standing firm, Hayato even waved towards them, seemingly indicating that he was alright and nothing was wrong.
Seeing Joey Wheeler wave back from afar, Hayato knew they were relieved. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief and lay down on top of The Winged Dragon of Ra's head. Although defeating Dartz didn't mean everything was resolved, at least the biggest trouble had disappeared. Hayato could rest for a moment, catch his breath, and relax his tense nerves.
"Ying ying ying~"
A sound of malicious cuteness came from The Winged Dragon of Ra's card, which had returned to his hand. Hayato felt somewhat helpless about this: "Why didn't I use you in the duel? Stop acting spoiled, there was no way around it. If I had taken your card into that giant mud eel's body, who would have helped me open the Passage? So you were very important."
"Alright, alright, next time I'll prepare a magnificent Stage most suitable for your appearance."
While comforting The Winged Dragon of Ra, who showed no trace of the arrogance and dignity of a God Card in front of him, Hayato reached out to press the button on the System screen that appeared before him, to claim the reward from the completed System Settlement.
But just then, a huge roar echoed.
"Roar!!!"
The Orichalcos God, which should have fallen back into the deep sea after losing Dartz's control, somehow let out a roar after impacting the Sea Surface and flew back into the air!
The Orichalcos God's mood was quite bad right now. Although it was essentially a screening program for Surface civilization, this didn't prevent it from being so angry that it wanted to destroy everything it saw.
To think that as the aggregate of the Planet's Darkness, it was clearly positioned as the final Boss. Logically, it should have been full of presence. With absolute power, it even had the qualification to casually bestow power upon humans, deceiving them by saying, "Humans are truly interesting, so I won't destroy them."
Actually, ten thousand years ago, it truly did just that, lending its power to Dartz to wield. As a result, Dartz himself concluded that this World must be destroyed. However, in the very end, that attempt at World destruction was stopped by the Legendary Dragon from the Spirit World, and it itself was beaten into a state where it had to fall into slumber.
However, the opponent didn't fare well either. The Orichalcos God's struggle before being defeated also severely injured the opponent, forcing the opponent to also fall into slumber even after splitting itself.
It had planned to sleep for ten thousand years and fight again after waking up, but the Orichalcos God didn't expect that Dartz, that person with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would have so many crooked ideas and even targeted the Dark Power it possessed. He tampered with its body while it was in slumber. If someone hadn't cut off his connection to it, it might have ended up being just a background character from beginning to end.
However, there is no 'if'. Now it has successfully woken up. Although it lost some power because of this, it doesn't matter. Even after enduring ten thousand years of wear and tear, I, the Orichalcos God, am still invincible in this World!
Dartz is probably dead somewhere. So, you are next, humans!
Unlike Dartz's extravagance and wasted use of power, the Orichalcos God, after regaining control of its body, immediately chose to shrink its body. Although it was under control before, this doesn't mean the Orichalcos God didn't know what happened outside before. Mere Three Egyptian Gods, as long as that name isn't revealed, there is nothing to fear anymore.
Thinking this, the Orichalcos God coiled its still massive body around the Floating City - Atlantis, looking down at the three figures struggling to maintain their balance on the ruined street due to the Ground's tremors.
Before destroying the World, I'll use these three ants as an appetizer.
Opening its hideous giant mouth, the Orichalcos God thought in its heart and was about to take action.
But, somehow, it discovered something strange.
It clearly only wanted to shrink its body to its current length and end there, but why could it still feel its body shrinking little by little!?
From its skull alone being the same size as the Floating City - Atlantis at first, to its winding body being able to wrap around the entire Castle, this change was still within the Orichalcos God's own control. But why was its body continuing to shrink afterwards, even gradually reaching a point where its entire body could only cling to the Castle!
A human-like expression of shock and fear appeared on the monstrous, non-human face of the giant beast. It frantically surveyed its body with its gradually stiffening and powerless skull, only to find that on its surface, it was emitting various colors of radiance, like a Christmas tree wrapped in light bulbs!
Those were Hayato's Infernoids!
With the interruption of the connection between Dartz and the Orichalcos God, although the latter regained consciousness and was no longer under suppression, it also meant that the Infernoids were no longer restrained by Dartz. Like vines parasitizing a giant tree and unilaterally absorbing its nourishment, the Infernoid Monsters, led by Infernoid Decatron, were plundering the Dark Power that the Orichalcos God had accumulated for ten thousand years!
Although such a crude and simple forcible plundering would inevitably waste most of the energy, Hayato didn't feel any regret for it. After all, this power was obtained for free.
The Orichalcos God angrily tried to struggle, wanting to remove the parasites on its body, but could only watch helplessly as its Dark Power was absorbed and its torso became increasingly withered, while the lights on the Infernoid Monsters became brighter as they absorbed more Dark Power.
Even after the individual Infernoids were "full" and had reached the limit of the power they could absorb, tiny lights drifted towards Hayato's hand, gathering on a card.
"Don't think you have a reason to throw a tantrum just because you woke up from a nap, you bastard. Do you think other people don't get tired from dueling?" Standing on top of The Winged Dragon of Ra's head, Hayato looked down contemptuously at the Orichalcos God, which he didn't even consider a threat. "To go all out, I barely managed to defeat Dartz using a Pure Dragonmaid Deck, and you come out causing trouble again without even giving me time to rest."
"I was originally planning to deal with you slowly, but since you're like this, don't blame me!"
Saying this, Hayato flipped the Infernoid Tierra card in his hand and pointed it towards the Orichalcos God: "Although it's not comparable to the power of the Genesis System God Star Tree, I didn't intend to manifest the perfected form from the start. For now, using the Dark Power accumulated on this Planet over ten thousand years as nourishment, reveal your true nature from this shell!"
In Hayato's other hand, he pulled out the Philosopher's Stone - Hrel card. Both cards were raised above his head simultaneously.
"The creation power of the duality, reappearing with the numerous souls gathered under the Sun's Wings, the ultimate authority that returns everything to the origin now descends!"
Following Hayato's call, the Infernoid Monsters detached themselves from the Orichalcos God one after another, carrying the absorbed Power and converging into the card in Hayato's hand. Space warped as the giant monster's figure gradually appeared. The Orichalcos God widened its eyes, looking at the existence descending before it.
With ten dual-colored wings and scarlet bull horns, Infernoid Tierra was called out by Hayato. The Orichalcos God's Power was completely absorbed into its body, and then in the next moment, countless cracks appeared on its surface.
This appearance seemed like the power exceeded its bearing limit, but on the contrary, this indicated that Infernoid Tierra had met the condition for evolution!
Briefly losing the Infernoids' suppression, the Orichalcos God felt a threat of death. It moved its body, which had just recovered its freedom, wanting to let go of Atlantis City and escape, but in an instant, a sharp "lance" pierced a section of its torso, nailing it firmly to the rock wall!
The shell on Infernoid Tierra's surface peeled off, and four huge silver-white machine legs extended from within. One of them was piercing the Orichalcos God. Dust peeled off from the five pairs of black and white wings on its back, revealing ten transparent golden light wings. Scarlet bull horns burned with scorching flames.
The Creator God named Tierra, catalyzed by the almighty Wishing Machine, the Sage's Stone, and using the Orichalcos God as nourishment, was born from the Infernoids!
The Orichalcos God, filled with unwillingness, looked at the colossal giant object before it, feeling only "fear". It gave up thinking in the flames, watching helplessly as its remaining Dark Power was extracted again, becoming nourishment for Creator God - Tierra.
And Hayato, seeing the Orichalcos God stop struggling, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He put away the Super Polymerization card in his hand without using it.
In the original timeline, Yugi and the others, who had experienced many sacrifices along the way, successfully defeated Dartz in the end and saved many people. However, facing Dartz, who had combined with the Orichalcos God, even using the Three Egyptian Gods was insufficient.
This wasn't just because the Three Egyptian Gods' Power had been absorbed by the Orichalcos God. The key point was that the Orichalcos God itself was an aggregate of the Planet's Darkness. As long as humans couldn't cut off the inner darkness in their hearts, the Orichalcos God and Dartz couldn't be eliminated.
In the very end, Dark Yugi chose to use his own Soul as a vessel to carry that Darkness. As the Nameless Pharaoh, Dark Yugi sealed this Darkness and resentment within his own Soul, barely managing to temporarily eliminate the Orichalcos God.
However, it was ultimately just treating the symptom, not the cause.
How to eliminate future trouble completely? From the moment he decided to Join Doma, Hayato had been plotting this. Using the Infernoids as a framework to contain this Dark Power to the maximum extent, then combine it with the Power of the Red Orichalcos, which originates from the same source as the Green Orichalcos—in other words, the Sage's Stone—to construct the existence of Creator God - Tierra.
Since Darkness cannot be extinguished, why not simply bring it under human control? Looking at the Creator God - Tierra card in his hand, Hayato showed a tired smile.
Creator God - Tierra will continuously absorb this Darkness as a vessel, suppressing the Power of the Orichalcos to prevent it from descending into the Human World again. This Power will also serve as the source of power to maintain its existence in this World, preventing it from disappearing immediately.
In other words, the Power of the Orichalcos has been completely eradicated from the World by Hayato and will no longer have the opportunity to descend!
[System Prompt: You have obtained the Shaddoll Preconstructed Deck.]
