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"I'll take the first turn, kid." Drawing a card from his Deck before Hayato and adding it to his Hand, Camus seemed to have drawn a good card and revealed a proud smile.

Although Camus's skin color was a rather sickly white, because he had a handsome face, he was quite handsome overall, fitting the description in the kind of vampire fantasy romance novels Téa often read.

"I activate the effect of **Skull Conductor** in my Hand. By sending **Skull Conductor** from my Hand to the Graveyard, I can Special Summon up to two Zombie-Type monsters from my Hand whose ATK totals 2000." Sending the **Skull Conductor** card to the Graveyard, Camus held two cards in his Hand and proudly slammed them onto his Duel Disk. "Let the melody from the past resound!"

"Special Summon in Attack Position, the two monsters **Goblin Zombie** and **Ghost Princess - Pumpkin Princess**!"

On Camus's Field, **Goblin Zombie**, with its thin, short body wrapped in dirty yellow exoskeleton, and the strange pumpkin with a white crown, tentacles, and a single eye appeared.

**Goblin Zombie** [ATK 1100]

**Ghost Princess - Pumpkin Princess** [ATK 900]

Two monsters with a total ATK of exactly 2000 were Special Summoned by Camus. Although half of his Hand resources were consumed in one go, he managed to gather two monsters that could be used as Tributes without using a Normal Summon. This "Vampire" Camus unexpectedly had some strength in Duel Monsters.

"Heh heh, very good. The Stage for the descent of the noble Vampire Race is ready." Looking at the monsters on his Field, Camus curled his lips and played a card. "I activate the Magic Card **Super Polymerization**. This card can be activated by sending one face-up monster on my Field to the Graveyard. Its effect is to Special Summon one monster from my Deck with the same Type and Attribute as the monster sent to the Graveyard, but with a Level 1☆ higher!"

"Scarlet fire burns fiercely in my eyes, this desire for blood is about to be satisfied at this very moment!"

"Come forth, my kin, **Vampire Red Baron**!"

A strong electric current surged from the **Super Polymerization** activated in Camus's Spell/Trap Zone, striking the Level 4☆ **Goblin Zombie** and crushing it instantly. From the instant **Goblin Zombie** died, a large amount of blood burst forth, converging into a human figure.

Seeing this, Camus laughed arrogantly: "Heh heh, heh hahahaha, I'm so hyped!"

But just as Camus was about to take out the **Vampire Red Baron** card from his Deck and place it on the Duel Disk to complete this Special Summon, an accident occurred. Even though it was Camus's turn, a phantom figure flew out from Hayato's Hand, delivering a flying kick to the nearly formed **Vampire Red Baron**.

"Bugah!!!" Camus looked on in astonishment as his **Vampire Red Baron**, which should have been summoned, was kicked away by a monster that suddenly appeared, letting out a strange cry, and was kicked back into his Deck!?

Not only that, the **Goblin Zombie** that he sent to the Graveyard as the cost for activating **Super Polymerization** also didn't return to the Field!

"Hayato Kobayashi! You despicable guy, you're cheating!" In his anger, Camus pointed his finger directly at the innocent-looking Hayato.

"What nonsense are you spouting? My Brother-in-law has been standing here without moving, everyone saw it. How could my Brother-in-law be cheating?" Hayato, looking completely guilt-free, didn't say anything. Marik, who was watching the Duel in this Dark Game Space, was the first to speak up in support of Hayato, aggressively questioning Camus.

Camus was stunned by Marik's retort, but he moved his finger and pointed firmly at the yellow-haired monster on Hayato's Field wearing cat ears and an orange bow: "But it's clearly my turn, yet he can summon a monster from his Hand, and even interfere with my monster summoning!"

Although Camus didn't know how Hayato did it, the monster that inexplicably played a card from Hand during the opponent's turn and was still lingering on Hayato's Field, dressed like a middle-aged woman, was evidence of Hayato's cheating!

Hearing this, Hayato said contemptuously: "Dismissing something you can't understand as going against tradition, your behavior truly has the style of someone who can't accept the birth of new things and relies on their age. Let me explain it so you can die understanding."

"The effect of **Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring** is, when a Spell/Trap/Monster Effect is activated that includes adding a card from the Deck to the Hand, Special Summoning a monster from the Deck, or sending a card from the Deck to the Graveyard, I can discard this card from my Hand to activate this effect and negate that effect. This effect can be activated during the opponent's turn."

"Do you dare defy me, who possesses Urara?!"

Listening to Hayato finish explaining the effect of the **Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring** he activated, watching **Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring** make a face at him before disappearing from Hayato's Field, and then hearing Hayato's taunt, Camus's fists hardened.

Annoyingly, he couldn't do anything about it. Clenching his fists, he said through gritted teeth: "Fine~"

"Even if you stopped the descent of a noble Vampire Race once, what does that matter? I haven't performed a Normal Summon this turn." Camus said with a dark face. "Furthermore, if **Goblin Zombie** is sent from the Field to the Graveyard, I can add one Zombie-Type monster with 1200 DEF or less from my Deck to my Hand."

Although **Super Polymerization** was negated by the **Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring** Hayato discarded, the **Goblin Zombie** being sent to the Graveyard happened before the effect activation of **Super Polymerization**, and was not within the jurisdiction of **Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring**. Moreover, Hayato didn't have a second card with a similar effect to **Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring** in his Hand, so he could only let Camus search for a card from his Deck.

Marik heard Camus's words and said disdainfully: "1200 DEF or less? Aren't those all just Small Fry?"

Hearing this, Camus gave a cold snort and glared at Marik: "Hmph, how could a mere mortal imagine the nobility of us Vampire Race? DEF has always been an unnecessary existence for the undying Vampire Race."

"The monster I will add to my Hand is this one, and I will Normal Summon it!"

"Transform the unwillingness of the dead into a trinket in my Hand, appear, **Zombie Master**!"

As Camus played the card in his Hand, this time he finally successfully summoned a monster. Appearing on his Field was a short, white-haired mage, manipulating the power representing souls in his Hand, controlling a decaying corpse to become a puppet before him.

**Zombie Master** [Level 4☆/Dark]

[Zombie Type/Effect]

[1800/0]

"I activate the effect of **Zombie Master**. Once per turn, I send one Monster Card from my Hand to the Graveyard, and I can target one Level 4 or lower Zombie-Type monster in my or my Opponent's Graveyard," Sending a card from his Hand to the Graveyard, Camus, with only one card left in his Hand, waved his hand and declared, "That Zombie-Type monster will be revived on my Field, come forth, **Goblin Zombie**!"

Generally speaking, each Type in Duel Monsters has a relative direction they are good at. For example, Dragon Type often has Decks good at beatdown, Warrior Type has many Decks that rely on Equip Cards, Spellcaster Type mostly acts in groups, and Zombie Type is generally best at bouncing back and forth in the Graveyard.

As **Zombie Master** sent a beam of power underground, the Ground was broken open by a thin arm, and the **Goblin Zombie** that was just sent to the Graveyard by the effect of **Super Polymerization** returned to Camus's Field once again, standing beside **Zombie Master** as a guard.

**Goblin Zombie** [ATK 1100]

Even though his field setup was interrupted once by Hayato, Camus still successfully summoned a total of three monsters on his Field within one turn. Although the quality of the monsters wasn't top-notch, this quantity was enough to make up for the lack of quality.

Setting a card in his Back Row, Camus said proudly: "Since it's the first turn, unfortunately, I cannot attack this turn. Otherwise, the power of the monsters on my Field, with a total ATK of up to 3800 points, would easily reduce your Life Points to a flickering candle. Be grateful, foolish human."

"Set a card, I end turn."

[Camus: 4000 LP, Hand 0]

**Ghost Princess - Pumpkin Princess** [ATK 900]

**Zombie Master** [ATK 1800]

**Goblin Zombie** [ATK 1100]

[Set Card]

"You can actually pull off some decent operations, summoning so many monsters in just one turn." Hayato looked at the three monsters on Camus's Field, not taking Camus's threat seriously at all, and said very casually, "However, there's something I'm a bit curious about."

"Why are the monsters on your Field all Zombies, wizards, or ghosts? What happened to the Vampire Race you talked about?"

Hearing Hayato's words, the proud expression on Camus's face froze, and he gave a cold snort: "Hmph, isn't that all thanks to you, you despicable guy? You stopped me from summoning my Vampire Race brethren, and you still have the nerve to say that?"

"As for the other Zombie Types, heh heh, they are all servants and slaves of our noble Vampire Race. It doesn't matter if the Vampire Race doesn't get a chance to act, I can make you let out cries of despair just with these subordinates."

"Ho ho, so confident, huh? Since you accepted the bounty to kill me, it means you know how amazing I, Hayato Kobayashi, am, right? With that premise, you still have such confidence?" Hayato's finger rested on his Deck.

"Well then, keep laughing for a while longer. Duel Monsters is a game that brings smiles to people, anyway, you won't be able to laugh anymore later."

"My turn, draw! Then I activate the Magic Card I drew, **Foolish Burial**. I send one monster from my Deck to the Graveyard."

As the card was activated, the Duel Disk Hayato was wearing automatically began to search for a card. After a few seconds, a card that was extended was received by Hayato, and he showed it to Camus: "The card I'm sending to the Graveyard is this one, the Monster Card **Executioner - Makyura**. And because of this monster's effect, during the turn it is sent to the Graveyard, I can activate Trap Cards directly from my Hand without setting them."

After sending **Executioner - Makyura** to the Graveyard, a card was also inserted by Hayato into the Spell & Trap Zone of his Duel Disk. Although it was a Trap Card with a red border, it was activated directly by Hayato like a normal Magic Card. Camus read out the card's name: **Chain Material**?

"The effect of this card is, if I perform a Fusion Summon this turn, I can choose the Fusion Material monsters determined by the Fusion Monster from my Hand, Deck, Field, or Graveyard, and banish them as Fusion Material," Hayato explained.

"In other words, after I activate this card, all zones on this Duel Disk will become the zones from which I choose material."

"Nani!?" Hearing this, Camus was also shocked, because he remembered that Hayato had mentioned before the start of the Duel that the Deck he was using this time seemed to be called "Cyber Style".

Camus was actually not lying, he was indeed a Vampire Race, commonly known as "vampire". He was born into this World hundreds of years ago in the Middle Ages.

In the era when Camus was born, their Vampire Race's faction could be said to be at its peak. Utilizing the foolishness of humans at that time, they used the powerful dark power of the Vampire Race to accumulate wealth and power, becoming unknown manipulators in Human Society.

But then one day, when Camus's Family was plundering humans as food in an unnamed Small Village for their daily blood consumption, they were discovered by a traveler who also had green hair. At that time, the elders of the Family mistakenly thought the other party was a lost kin because of the dark power and immortal race aura they also emitted, and invited them to a feast.

But unexpectedly, that traveler showed extreme anger because the humans were harmed, and even the weather changed because of his mood. In the gale and heavy rain, Camus's kin had to flee back to the Castle because of the attack of a large number of pythons that suddenly appeared. During this time, one of their kin was unfortunately grabbed by that green-haired traveler.

They thought the matter was over, and Camus's kin were thinking of retaliating later, but almost all the Vampire Race in the World didn't expect that after that day, the humans, who were originally just playthings they could prey on at will, suddenly began to counterattack and hunt them, and they were extremely organized, even showing that they were extremely knowledgeable about the weaknesses and strengths of the Vampire Race.

It was as if there was a hand hidden deeper than their Vampire Race pushing humans to clean out the Vampire Race hidden among them!

Countless Vampire Race died in the human sea of fire, wooden stakes, and silver swords. Camus's Family was almost completely slaughtered. Camus, who had just reached adulthood at that time, was also separated from his kin and surrounded by a group of humans.

To avoid being killed, Camus hurriedly hid in a Ship sailing towards the sea, concealing himself in a coffin. But unexpectedly, that coffin had a lock installed on the outside, which completely locked Camus inside.

Even more outrageous, the Ship Camus was hiding in was shot by crazy demon hunters with rockets. In the sea of fire, the coffin Camus was hiding in sank directly to the Seabed. It's hard to say whether this was lucky or unfortunate.

It was only recently that Camus's coffin was swept up from the Seabed by a sudden change in ocean currents and salvaged by someone, allowing Camus to return to this World. However, he found that hundreds of years had already passed, and everything he was familiar with, whether it was the crazy demon hunters or his Vampire Race brethren, had disappeared from the World.

Although he hoped that somewhere in the World there were still Companions who had escaped and were sleeping, Camus already had a plan: even if he was the last Vampire Race, he would restore the glory of the Vampire Race from back then.

And the first thing to do was to make money to buy land as the territory of the Vampire Race. Camus thus became a Mercenary walking in the dark world.

Because there were many things he didn't know about the current World, Camus often conducted overly detailed investigations before taking action. For example, for this commission to kill Hayato, he not only investigated all the data of the cards Hayato had publicly used so far, but even knew that his favorite color was pink.

And the "Cyber Style" Deck was also within Camus's investigation range. He remembered very clearly that this was a terrifyingly powerful Deck once it started Fusion Summoning!

Is it coming, the ultimate Machine-Type Fusion Monster said to be able to display power that surpasses everything, **Chimeratech Overdragon**?

Camus watched Hayato suddenly draw over ten cards from his Deck, his face full of vigilance, but then he heard Hayato say: "Activate the Magic Card **Polymerization**. The Fusion Material I choose are all eleven **Infernoid** monsters in my Deck!"

"Atheism, dullness, rejection, apathy, cruelty, ugliness, lust, greed, instability, materialism, ten kinds of power converge here, call forth the name of God!"

"Don't blink, I will now show you the 'Cyber Style' ultimate technique!"

"Fusion Summon! **Infernoid Tierra**!"

(End of Chapter)

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