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"Chapter 679: Will You Remember How Many Slices of Bread You've Eaten?"
"【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】!"
Calling out the name of God, the card Hayato held high above his head turned into golden light points and disappeared from his Hand, then reformed into a card on Camus's Duel Disk.
In exchange, the three monsters on Camus's Field were all Tributed and sent to the Graveyard, leaving a bewildered Camus staring at his Field, which now only contained the God Card "gifted" by Hayato.
When Marik first heard Hayato was Tributing the monsters on Camus's Field, he naturally assumed Hayato had Drawn 【Lava Golem】. Seeing Camus's astonished expression, he felt a bit disdainful, thinking, *He's surprised by this? What kind of situations haven't I, Marik, seen? I wouldn't even frown.*
Normally, there aren't many cards currently circulating on the market that have the ability to "Tribute the opponent's monsters." In fact, there's essentially only 【Lava Golem】. It's understandable for ordinary Duelists to be surprised and shocked the first time they encounter this kind of effect, especially since the rarity of 【Lava Golem】 isn't low at all.
However, as if something had gone wrong somewhere, while Marik's luck with drawing other cards wasn't necessarily good, he kept drawing 【Lava Golem】 one after another. He ended up with three copies in his Deck, with enough left over for Ishizu to also have three, and even Tristan got three copies of 【Lava Golem】 in his Deck.
If Hayato hadn't also already put three copies in his Deck, and Rishid's wasn't a Pure Trap Deck, Marik would have given them his excess 【Lava Golem】 cards too. He was practically a 【Lava Golem】 wholesaler.
But then he saw that the monster Hayato Tributed wasn't two, but three, and the monster appearing wasn't the 【Lava Golem】 he was extremely familiar with, but a new card he had never seen before, which also had 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 in its Name.
"This situation, I really haven't seen before." Looking at 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 descending through the Dark Game space and appearing at the Zenith, Marik couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Back then, Marik stole two of the Three Egyptian Gods cards created by Pegasus and entrusted to the Tomb Keepers for safekeeping: 【Slifer the Sky Dragon】 and 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】. Due to the clear gap in card strength, Marik was relatively good at using 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】, and his dark personality, who had long since died, was the same, even more skilled at using it than Marik himself.
But even so, Marik had never heard of 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 having the form he was seeing now, despite having the card for so long. Marik did know of a similar stance; when 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 is Summoned, if the Summoner doesn't have the ability to read the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text on the card, 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 will take on that stance.
But he'd never heard of being able to send 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 in this stance directly to the Opponent's Field! And Marik had wanted to rant about this for a long time: since Hayato got 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 from him, he seemed to have never once properly read the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text on the card, making it seem like that concept was completely ignored.
Also, don't think you can fool others into thinking 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 is some kind of "Cyber Style" just by changing the summoning chant! That kind of boring persistence is enough!
Hayato didn't pay attention to Marik's rant. After Summoning 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】, Hayato Set a card from his Hand in his Back Row and declared, "Do you like this gift? Or not? Either way, I won't ask for your permission."
"Because of 【Chain Material】's effect, I cannot attack this turn. So, after Setting a card, I End my turn."
【Hayato: 7600 LP, Hand 0】
【Infernoid Lilith】【ATK 2900】
【Cyber Dragon】【ATK 2100】
【Set Card】
Seeing Hayato finally End his flashy operation, Camus was only then able to examine the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 card Hayato had placed on his Field at the end.
At first, Camus, like Marik, thought of the extremely rare 【Lava Golem】, considering the monster that could be Summoned by Tributing three of the opponent's monsters at once. At the very least, it should have a powerful ATK comparable to 【Blue-Eyes White Dragon】, like 【Lava Golem】. Not to mention, the card Hayato played had the rare "Divine-Beast" attribute.
But upon seeing the card on his Field, Camus was dumbfounded.
【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】【Level 10/Divine-Beast】
【Divine-Beast Type/Effect】
【?/？】
What does it mean for ATK and DEF to both be "?"???
Camus wasn't completely ignorant about Duel Monsters. He knew that some monsters had "?" for ATK and DEF, but those monsters' ATK would change after appearing due to their respective effects, right? However, the "?" on the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 currently stuck on his Field seemed to be frozen, not moving at all.
Camus had been thinking of using this monster that Hayato forced onto his Field to attack the 【Cyber Dragon】 on Hayato's Field, which had the lowest ATK, to at least chip away some of his excessively high Life Points. But if the ATK and DEF are both "?", doesn't that mean it's equivalent to a weak monster with 0 ATK and 0 DEF?!
You're a god, why are you so weak?!
Camus glared angrily at the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 in the sky. But what he didn't expect was that 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】, which was so docile in Hayato's Hand and only made "Sound of crying" sounds every day, felt provoked by his gaze. It suddenly unleashed intense radiance that shone down on Camus. The strong light stimulated Camus, who had looked up, almost blinding his eyes, and he let out a scream at the same time.
"Hmph, hmph, mm-hmm~ Ahhhhhh, ahhhhhh!"
Although the sound Camus made was terrible, like a methane leak, 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 felt quite good about itself, believing it had delivered a sufficiently strong penalty to defend its authority/dignity as a noble god. It Converged its light again, becoming an ordinary-looking giant golden egg suspended in the sky.
"Damn, you actually used such despicable means to ambush me!" One hand tightly covering his bloodshot eyes, Camus barely recovered from the stimulation of staring directly into the dazzling strong light. He glared at Hayato, clearly blaming Hayato for 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】's retaliation as well.
Seeing this, Hayato spread his hands helplessly and said, "That is the greatness of the sun. Even the dark dust in the corners will be illuminated. However, if you ignore hierarchy and stare directly at the sun, and thus suffer punishment, you cannot blame it on the sun."
"But what I'm more curious about is, didn't they say vampires are very afraid of the sun? I thought you'd be sunburned to death as soon as 【Ra】 appeared."
"That kind of thing is obviously just made up, right? Garlic, silver items, wooden stakes, and the sun, how are these things even associated with vampires, zombies, and the like? An immortal creature dies after eating a bite of garlic? Even a comedy manga wouldn't have such a strange concept. Vampires aren't allergic to onion, ginger, and garlic, are they?"
Marik, who had also looked away from the never-before-seen 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】, chimed in, "Compared to that setting actually being true, I'm more suspicious that it was lies made up by garlic-planting farmers, gold and silver shop salespeople, and carpenters with average skills back then to trick people into buying things."
Seeing Hayato and Marik chatting as if no one else was there, Camus frowned, but then spoke up to correct them, "No, silver items and wooden stakes do have a special effect on our Vampire Race. Silver items can suppress our regeneration, and a wooden stake piercing our heart, the source of power, can completely kill us Vampire Race. This was something we only learned hundreds of years ago during the extermination you humans launched against us Vampire Race."
"Huh? It's actually true?"
Even now, Camus still couldn't understand. When he was born, their Vampire Race had already existed in the world for about a thousand years. In those thousand years, there weren't any members of the Vampire Race who liked courting death and would self-harm in various ways to enjoy the pain, but in that thousand years of time, the Vampire Race truly couldn't discover the special effect of wooden stakes and silver items on themselves. Yet, after a human was captured by that Green-haired Man back then, several weaknesses were successively revealed.
It was as if their Vampire Race, which had existed for a thousand years, hadn't lived as long as that human. Just thinking about it was a bit embarrassing.
The main reason he corrected Hayato and Marik was that since Camus revived in this world and walked for so long, he occasionally encountered humans who discovered his Vampire Race identity. When they wanted to kill him, they would always unaccountably forcibly drag him, who didn't like being in the sun, under the scorching sun, and feed him foul-smelling garlic. Although it had no effect, it just felt very annoyed and uncomfortable.
Camus wanted to revive the Vampire Race, but the first thing to do was to debunk this unaccountably rumor. Their Vampire Race wasn't afraid of the sun and garlic; it affected their reputation too much.
"Do you know why I'm telling you the weaknesses of the Vampire Race, you despicable human, Hayato Kobayashi, who uses wicked means, has no bottom line, no reverence for power, and doesn't know what fear is? The answer is, I felt it. The dense dark power on the card at the Top of my Deck."
Raising his Duel Disk, Camus revealed a confident smile, his expression fierce, "Although the performance you made during your turn was quite good, if you think this level is enough to make the noble Vampire Race submit to you, then you are greatly mistaken!"
"Tremble before this card that represents the ultimate power of the Vampire Race!"
"My turn! Here I display the glory of the Vampire Race and the despair of darkness! Draw!"
Suddenly drawing the card from the top of his Deck, Camus's smile became more arrogant, and the dark power residing in the card he drew overflowed because it was no longer suppressed!
"Clang!"
However, before the dark power from the card in Camus's Hand could spread far, the 【Millennium Ring】 on Hayato's chest suddenly lit up with a golden light. At the same time, the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 in the sky also synchronously emitted a strong light like a sun disc, suppressing the darkness from that card around Camus and preventing it from spreading.
Although he wasn't affected by the emitted dark power, Hayato frowned with a strange expression. The reason was simple: he had a very strange feeling, which was that he seemed to have felt the same kind of dark power somewhere before.
Isn't it strange? Camus said that card was the ultimate power of the Vampire Race, something that existed hundreds of years ago, yet Hayato had a familiar feeling.
Before Hayato could think for too long, he saw Camus play the card from his Hand. A giant door suddenly rose behind Camus, and an extremely familiar doorway slowly opened.
"...F*ck." Looking at the great door before him, Hayato slightly fell silent, slowly uttering that one word.
Anyone who saw something that had once almost killed them appear again wouldn't be able to stay calm. You know, the last time he saw this kind of thing before him, Hayato had the resolve to sacrifice himself.
His fists had hardened. Recalling how Anubis had almost killed him back then, Hayato naturally transferred that resentment to Camus, who was using this move for the second time, regardless of whether Anubis himself had actually been fused into a card by Hayato.
The card Camus played at this moment was none other than the product formed by Anubis, who was at his wits' end and giving up at the end of the "Pyramid of Light" incident long ago, wanting to drag Hayato down with him, using the knowledge he learned from the 【Millennium Spellbook】 to operate and gather the Three Sacred Beasts——— an existence named 【Phantasm Gate】!
Camus didn't know what Hayato, whose face had suddenly turned gloomy, was thinking. He only thought Hayato felt the powerful strength of 【Phantasm Gate】 and was trembling in fear. Laughing proudly, he said, "【Phantasm Gate】! This card is the true ace card in my Deck, possessing absolutely invincible power, and it is also the ultimate power inherited by the noble Vampire Race since its birth!"
"The effect of this card is: Destroy all monsters on the Opponent's Field!" Camus pointed his hand towards Hayato's Field, "Let everything be guided towards the demise of nothingness!"
As Camus finished speaking, 【Phantasm Gate】 also completely opened. With a bang, 【Infernoid Lilith】 and 【Cyber Dragon】 on Hayato's Field were powerlessly crushed by the dark power released from within the door, destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.
But it wasn't over yet. Camus immediately after said, "After that, I can select one monster from all monsters the opponent has Summoned in this Duel, and Special Summon it to my Field, ignoring all restrictions."
"The monster I will choose is the one with the highest ATK, that one in your Graveyard, 【Infernoid Tierra】!"
Amidst Camus's laughter, 【Infernoid Tierra】, who was sent to the Graveyard by Hayato before, appeared again. Its whole body was enveloped in dark aura, and it looked like it became very evil.
【Infernoid Tierra】【ATK 3400】
Although it wasn't much better to begin with.
"Seeing your own monster appear on the Opponent's Field, Hayato Kobayashi, how do you feel now? How do you feel now!"
Seeing Camus laughing so arrogantly, Marik couldn't help but complain, "That effect, isn't that a bit too much like cheating? Without any stakes, you can actually use such an exaggerated card?"
"Without any stakes? Heh heh, that's not the case." Hearing Marik's words, Camus explained proudly because he felt he had certain victory, "【Phantasm Gate】 has a terrifying activation condition. The soul of the loser of this Duel will be absorbed by the 'Sacred Beasts' within 【Phantasm Gate】."
Giving a cold smile, Camus pointed to himself and said, "To use your words, 'Powerful cards often come with great risk'? But pity, I prepared a bargaining chip beforehand to substitute for my soul. Humans are really useful. Not only can they provide blood for the Vampire Race to feed on, their souls can also be used to pay the stakes for using powerful strength."
As he spoke, Camus snapped his finger. A phantom soul actually emerged from his body and merged into the great door behind him.
Seeing this, even Marik, who was once a notorious villain organization leader, couldn't help but feel annoyed. Looking at Camus, he said, "To actually harm Innocent People like this! You guy, how many people have you killed up until now!"
"Heh, will you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten?" Hearing Marik's question, Camus said lightly.
End of Chapter
"【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】!"
Calling out the name of God, the card Hayato held high above his head turned into golden light points and disappeared from his Hand, then reformed into a card on Camus's Duel Disk.
In exchange, the three monsters on Camus's Field were all Tributed and sent to the Graveyard, leaving a bewildered Camus staring at his Field, which now only contained the God Card "gifted" by Hayato.
When Marik first heard Hayato was Tributing the monsters on Camus's Field, he naturally assumed Hayato had Drawn 【Lava Golem】. Seeing Camus's astonished expression, he felt a bit disdainful, thinking, *He's surprised by this? What kind of situations haven't I, Marik, seen? I wouldn't even frown.*
Normally, there aren't many cards currently circulating on the market that have the ability to "Tribute the opponent's monsters." In fact, there's essentially only 【Lava Golem】. It's understandable for ordinary Duelists to be surprised and shocked the first time they encounter this kind of effect, especially since the rarity of 【Lava Golem】 isn't low at all.
However, as if something had gone wrong somewhere, while Marik's luck with drawing other cards wasn't necessarily good, he kept drawing 【Lava Golem】 one after another. He ended up with three copies in his Deck, with enough left over for Ishizu to also have three, and even Tristan got three copies of 【Lava Golem】 in his Deck.
If Hayato hadn't also already put three copies in his Deck, and Rishid's wasn't a Pure Trap Deck, Marik would have given them his excess 【Lava Golem】 cards too. He was practically a 【Lava Golem】 wholesaler.
But then he saw that the monster Hayato Tributed wasn't two, but three, and the monster appearing wasn't the 【Lava Golem】 he was extremely familiar with, but a new card he had never seen before, which also had 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 in its Name.
"This situation, I really haven't seen before." Looking at 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 descending through the Dark Game space and appearing at the Zenith, Marik couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Back then, Marik stole two of the Three Egyptian Gods cards created by Pegasus and entrusted to the Tomb Keepers for safekeeping: 【Slifer the Sky Dragon】 and 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】. Due to the clear gap in card strength, Marik was relatively good at using 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】, and his dark personality, who had long since died, was the same, even more skilled at using it than Marik himself.
But even so, Marik had never heard of 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 having the form he was seeing now, despite having the card for so long. Marik did know of a similar stance; when 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 is Summoned, if the Summoner doesn't have the ability to read the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text on the card, 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 will take on that stance.
But he'd never heard of being able to send 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 in this stance directly to the Opponent's Field! And Marik had wanted to rant about this for a long time: since Hayato got 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 from him, he seemed to have never once properly read the Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Text on the card, making it seem like that concept was completely ignored.
Also, don't think you can fool others into thinking 【The Winged Dragon of Ra】 is some kind of "Cyber Style" just by changing the summoning chant! That kind of boring persistence is enough!
Hayato didn't pay attention to Marik's rant. After Summoning 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】, Hayato Set a card from his Hand in his Back Row and declared, "Do you like this gift? Or not? Either way, I won't ask for your permission."
"Because of 【Chain Material】's effect, I cannot attack this turn. So, after Setting a card, I End my turn."
【Hayato: 7600 LP, Hand 0】
【Infernoid Lilith】【ATK 2900】
【Cyber Dragon】【ATK 2100】
【Set Card】
Seeing Hayato finally End his flashy operation, Camus was only then able to examine the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 card Hayato had placed on his Field at the end.
At first, Camus, like Marik, thought of the extremely rare 【Lava Golem】, considering the monster that could be Summoned by Tributing three of the opponent's monsters at once. At the very least, it should have a powerful ATK comparable to 【Blue-Eyes White Dragon】, like 【Lava Golem】. Not to mention, the card Hayato played had the rare "Divine-Beast" attribute.
But upon seeing the card on his Field, Camus was dumbfounded.
【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】【Level 10/Divine-Beast】
【Divine-Beast Type/Effect】
【?/？】
What does it mean for ATK and DEF to both be "?"???
Camus wasn't completely ignorant about Duel Monsters. He knew that some monsters had "?" for ATK and DEF, but those monsters' ATK would change after appearing due to their respective effects, right? However, the "?" on the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 currently stuck on his Field seemed to be frozen, not moving at all.
Camus had been thinking of using this monster that Hayato forced onto his Field to attack the 【Cyber Dragon】 on Hayato's Field, which had the lowest ATK, to at least chip away some of his excessively high Life Points. But if the ATK and DEF are both "?", doesn't that mean it's equivalent to a weak monster with 0 ATK and 0 DEF?!
You're a god, why are you so weak?!
Camus glared angrily at the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 in the sky. But what he didn't expect was that 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】, which was so docile in Hayato's Hand and only made "Sound of crying" sounds every day, felt provoked by his gaze. It suddenly unleashed intense radiance that shone down on Camus. The strong light stimulated Camus, who had looked up, almost blinding his eyes, and he let out a scream at the same time.
"Hmph, hmph, mm-hmm~ Ahhhhhh, ahhhhhh!"
Although the sound Camus made was terrible, like a methane leak, 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 felt quite good about itself, believing it had delivered a sufficiently strong penalty to defend its authority/dignity as a noble god. It Converged its light again, becoming an ordinary-looking giant golden egg suspended in the sky.
"Damn, you actually used such despicable means to ambush me!" One hand tightly covering his bloodshot eyes, Camus barely recovered from the stimulation of staring directly into the dazzling strong light. He glared at Hayato, clearly blaming Hayato for 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】's retaliation as well.
Seeing this, Hayato spread his hands helplessly and said, "That is the greatness of the sun. Even the dark dust in the corners will be illuminated. However, if you ignore hierarchy and stare directly at the sun, and thus suffer punishment, you cannot blame it on the sun."
"But what I'm more curious about is, didn't they say vampires are very afraid of the sun? I thought you'd be sunburned to death as soon as 【Ra】 appeared."
"That kind of thing is obviously just made up, right? Garlic, silver items, wooden stakes, and the sun, how are these things even associated with vampires, zombies, and the like? An immortal creature dies after eating a bite of garlic? Even a comedy manga wouldn't have such a strange concept. Vampires aren't allergic to onion, ginger, and garlic, are they?"
Marik, who had also looked away from the never-before-seen 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】, chimed in, "Compared to that setting actually being true, I'm more suspicious that it was lies made up by garlic-planting farmers, gold and silver shop salespeople, and carpenters with average skills back then to trick people into buying things."
Seeing Hayato and Marik chatting as if no one else was there, Camus frowned, but then spoke up to correct them, "No, silver items and wooden stakes do have a special effect on our Vampire Race. Silver items can suppress our regeneration, and a wooden stake piercing our heart, the source of power, can completely kill us Vampire Race. This was something we only learned hundreds of years ago during the extermination you humans launched against us Vampire Race."
"Huh? It's actually true?"
Even now, Camus still couldn't understand. When he was born, their Vampire Race had already existed in the world for about a thousand years. In those thousand years, there weren't any members of the Vampire Race who liked courting death and would self-harm in various ways to enjoy the pain, but in that thousand years of time, the Vampire Race truly couldn't discover the special effect of wooden stakes and silver items on themselves. Yet, after a human was captured by that Green-haired Man back then, several weaknesses were successively revealed.
It was as if their Vampire Race, which had existed for a thousand years, hadn't lived as long as that human. Just thinking about it was a bit embarrassing.
The main reason he corrected Hayato and Marik was that since Camus revived in this world and walked for so long, he occasionally encountered humans who discovered his Vampire Race identity. When they wanted to kill him, they would always unaccountably forcibly drag him, who didn't like being in the sun, under the scorching sun, and feed him foul-smelling garlic. Although it had no effect, it just felt very annoyed and uncomfortable.
Camus wanted to revive the Vampire Race, but the first thing to do was to debunk this unaccountably rumor. Their Vampire Race wasn't afraid of the sun and garlic; it affected their reputation too much.
"Do you know why I'm telling you the weaknesses of the Vampire Race, you despicable human, Hayato Kobayashi, who uses wicked means, has no bottom line, no reverence for power, and doesn't know what fear is? The answer is, I felt it. The dense dark power on the card at the Top of my Deck."
Raising his Duel Disk, Camus revealed a confident smile, his expression fierce, "Although the performance you made during your turn was quite good, if you think this level is enough to make the noble Vampire Race submit to you, then you are greatly mistaken!"
"Tremble before this card that represents the ultimate power of the Vampire Race!"
"My turn! Here I display the glory of the Vampire Race and the despair of darkness! Draw!"
Suddenly drawing the card from the top of his Deck, Camus's smile became more arrogant, and the dark power residing in the card he drew overflowed because it was no longer suppressed!
"Clang!"
However, before the dark power from the card in Camus's Hand could spread far, the 【Millennium Ring】 on Hayato's chest suddenly lit up with a golden light. At the same time, the 【The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode】 in the sky also synchronously emitted a strong light like a sun disc, suppressing the darkness from that card around Camus and preventing it from spreading.
Although he wasn't affected by the emitted dark power, Hayato frowned with a strange expression. The reason was simple: he had a very strange feeling, which was that he seemed to have felt the same kind of dark power somewhere before.
Isn't it strange? Camus said that card was the ultimate power of the Vampire Race, something that existed hundreds of years ago, yet Hayato had a familiar feeling.
Before Hayato could think for too long, he saw Camus play the card from his Hand. A giant door suddenly rose behind Camus, and an extremely familiar doorway slowly opened.
"...F*ck." Looking at the great door before him, Hayato slightly fell silent, slowly uttering that one word.
Anyone who saw something that had once almost killed them appear again wouldn't be able to stay calm. You know, the last time he saw this kind of thing before him, Hayato had the resolve to sacrifice himself.
His fists had hardened. Recalling how Anubis had almost killed him back then, Hayato naturally transferred that resentment to Camus, who was using this move for the second time, regardless of whether Anubis himself had actually been fused into a card by Hayato.
The card Camus played at this moment was none other than the product formed by Anubis, who was at his wits' end and giving up at the end of the "Pyramid of Light" incident long ago, wanting to drag Hayato down with him, using the knowledge he learned from the 【Millennium Spellbook】 to operate and gather the Three Sacred Beasts——— an existence named 【Phantasm Gate】!
Camus didn't know what Hayato, whose face had suddenly turned gloomy, was thinking. He only thought Hayato felt the powerful strength of 【Phantasm Gate】 and was trembling in fear. Laughing proudly, he said, "【Phantasm Gate】! This card is the true ace card in my Deck, possessing absolutely invincible power, and it is also the ultimate power inherited by the noble Vampire Race since its birth!"
"The effect of this card is: Destroy all monsters on the Opponent's Field!" Camus pointed his hand towards Hayato's Field, "Let everything be guided towards the demise of nothingness!"
As Camus finished speaking, 【Phantasm Gate】 also completely opened. With a bang, 【Infernoid Lilith】 and 【Cyber Dragon】 on Hayato's Field were powerlessly crushed by the dark power released from within the door, destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.
But it wasn't over yet. Camus immediately after said, "After that, I can select one monster from all monsters the opponent has Summoned in this Duel, and Special Summon it to my Field, ignoring all restrictions."
"The monster I will choose is the one with the highest ATK, that one in your Graveyard, 【Infernoid Tierra】!"
Amidst Camus's laughter, 【Infernoid Tierra】, who was sent to the Graveyard by Hayato before, appeared again. Its whole body was enveloped in dark aura, and it looked like it became very evil.
【Infernoid Tierra】【ATK 3400】
Although it wasn't much better to begin with.
"Seeing your own monster appear on the Opponent's Field, Hayato Kobayashi, how do you feel now? How do you feel now!"
Seeing Camus laughing so arrogantly, Marik couldn't help but complain, "That effect, isn't that a bit too much like cheating? Without any stakes, you can actually use such an exaggerated card?"
"Without any stakes? Heh heh, that's not the case." Hearing Marik's words, Camus explained proudly because he felt he had certain victory, "【Phantasm Gate】 has a terrifying activation condition. The soul of the loser of this Duel will be absorbed by the 'Sacred Beasts' within 【Phantasm Gate】."
Giving a cold smile, Camus pointed to himself and said, "To use your words, 'Powerful cards often come with great risk'? But pity, I prepared a bargaining chip beforehand to substitute for my soul. Humans are really useful. Not only can they provide blood for the Vampire Race to feed on, their souls can also be used to pay the stakes for using powerful strength."
As he spoke, Camus snapped his finger. A phantom soul actually emerged from his body and merged into the great door behind him.
Seeing this, even Marik, who was once a notorious villain organization leader, couldn't help but feel annoyed. Looking at Camus, he said, "To actually harm Innocent People like this! You guy, how many people have you killed up until now!"
"Heh, will you remember how many slices of bread you've eaten?" Hearing Marik's question, Camus said lightly.
End of Chapter
