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Chapter 722: Diabound Has No Pain
Although today was a great day for the new Pharaoh's ascension, it was clear that no matter how much the Ancient Egyptian people advanced their technology tree, they were still far from the point of manufacturing fireworks to celebrate.
If it were just black smoke rising from one place, it could be dismissed as an accidental fire somewhere, but at this moment, trouble was breaking out in so many different locations.
Someone is causing destruction in the City! This was the only thing Hayato and Dark Yugi could realize when they saw the black smoke rising from multiple places. Because Bakura had attracted their attention, they had only just noticed this now.
Bakura was also cunning. He waited until the situation was unfavorable to him and he was planning to escape before formally revealing this. Furthermore, he only deliberately left arrogant harsh words as he fled the Royal Palace to draw Hayato and Dark Yugi's attention. The moment he stepped out of the Royal Palace, he immediately fell silent and ran away discreetly. Even Hayato, who rushed out of the Royal Palace right after Bakura, couldn't find his figure.
"I was originally planning that if I could defeat Bakura here, there might be a possibility of ending this Dark Game once and for all, but he still managed to escape." Watching Dark Yugi walk out behind him, Hayato said with a solemn expression, "If we could ignore the commotion happening now and continue the pursuit, there might still be a possibility of catching that guy Bakura. However..."
"Even knowing this is a world from memory, I don't think we can leave the people unattended." Dark Yugi looked at the black smoke in the distance and made a difficult choice. "Even without the memories of the past, I believe I still have the necessary responsibility as Pharaoh to protect my subjects."
"Therefore, Mahad, Seto, Lord Aknadin, Isis, Shada, Karim, Simon!"
"Pharaoh!" Hearing Dark Yugi's words, the seven priests who also saw the scene outside the Royal Palace bowed down, awaiting their Pharaoh's instructions.
"Take all the power you can mobilize and immediately go to the places where the commotion is occurring to protect the people." Dark Yugi didn't know what his personality was like three thousand years ago or how he usually did things, but he couldn't worry about that anymore. "Act with the resolve to defend the Pharaoh, and you must act quickly. Now, all of you, move out."
"Yes!"
There were eight places around the Royal Palace where black smoke was rising. After assigning seven priests, including Simon, Dark Yugi said, "Then, the remaining one will be left to me. As for Hayato, I ask you to go and chase Bakura."
"Quite the Pharaoh's authority, Yugi." Hayato nodded. "Leave Bakura to me. Without further ado, I'll set off now."
Saying this, Hayato raised his hand. Starlight shone down and converged above his head into the Drytron Alpha Thuban that had appeared once before. Hayato's raised hand just happened to grab onto a point of leverage on its body, and he was lifted up by the ascending Drytron Alpha Thuban, leaving the Royal Palace.
Watching Hayato fly away, Dark Yugi, who was very reassured by him, didn't waste time. He was about to set off to quell the chaos within the City-State, but just then, Priest Isis inquired of Dark Yugi, "Pharaoh, I wish to know, who is that young man?"
"His name is Hayato, uh, Hayato Kobayashi. He is my friend, a friend I can completely trust, and his strength is very great. Don't worry." Glancing at Priest Isis, who looked very much like Ishizu, Dark Yugi didn't have any gossipy thoughts. After a brief introduction of Hayato, he was about to set off to save the people.
On the other hand, Simon, quite interested, leaned over to Isis's side and asked her, "Are you very interested in that child, Isis?"
In Simon's mind, a grand emotional drama had already been quickly imagined in a short time.
However, Isis shattered Simon's illusion with just one sentence: "No, Lord Shimon, it's just that the young man took my Duel Arena, so I must know his name."
"Before today, I had never seen this young man's figure in the City. Having been by the Pharaoh's side since childhood, I also never knew the Pharaoh was acquainted with that young man," Mahad, who was walking beside them, said seriously upon hearing Simon and Isis discussing Hayato. "Although I trust the Pharaoh, I still feel that young man is quite suspicious."
"Heh, is that the evaluation you've made with your professional quality as a priest responsible for the City's defense work?"
Initially, Simon had only spoken to Isis out of gossip. Mahad sharing his idea with the two caused Seto to join in as well. "Someone as derelict as you, repeatedly making mistakes, I suppose your evaluation isn't very credible. On the contrary, I believe that anyone who can help us, help the Pharaoh, regardless of their origin, has value in being utilized."
"Even if just looking at that young man makes me feel he is a self-interested person who would sacrifice others without hesitation to protect what is important to him, I believe we can, as the Pharaoh said, place enough trust in him."
After Seto finished speaking, he wanted to see how Mahad would debate with him. However, after telling Simon and Isis his opinion, Mahad hadn't really listened to him at all and had gone straight to follow the Pharaoh, who was walking faster, leaving Seto somewhat angry.
"How dare he disregard me like this, that bastard Mahad!" Clenching his fist, Seto also silently quickened his pace. The scene from the Great Hall just now suddenly came to his mind.
The powerful spirit that the combined efforts of the priests couldn't contend with was repelled by the team-up of that young man and the Pharaoh. Although Seto's words just now were partly intended to stand on the opposite side of Mahad, they were also his true inner thoughts. As someone who admired power, he truly believed Hayato could be trusted and thought highly of him.
However, besides that, Seto also hadn't forgotten the shameful appearance of being in a sorry state under the spirit's power, he who prided himself as the true Strongest Priest but had no opportunity to prove his talent. This was actually a considerable blow to the arrogant Seto, because it meant Seto was not actually the Strongest Priest as he thought himself to be.
'A spirit that can contend with the power of a Divine-Beast, huh? That means as long as I defeat the opponent, it will be enough to prove that I am the Strongest Priest, but the premise is that I must obtain great power comparable to a Divine-Beast.'
Recalling the Blue Giant Divine-Beast's attack just now, Seto narrowed his eyes. '[Obelisk the Tormentor], is that the name of the Divine-Beast? Although it is a high and mighty Divine-Beast, since that young man can also summon a spirit almost comparable to a Divine-Beast, it proves that although Divine-Beasts are powerful, there are still spirits that possess ability close to a Divine-Beast. I am not without opportunity to obtain similarly great power!'
"Seto..." Someone reached out and patted Seto's shoulder, bringing back his attention. Releasing his clenched palm, Seto looked back and turned to face the opponent, "Lord Aknadin?"
"I can see that you seem to be struggling with the loss just now." Although he didn't use the [Millennium Eye] on his left eye to read Seto's inner thoughts, Aknadin easily guessed Seto's feelings and tried to console him. "Don't take it too much to heart. Although it's just a rough intuition, I believe that Grave Robber is fundamentally not human."
"Did you see that with the [Millennium Eye], Lord Aknadin?"
Aknadin nodded: "Ah, I saw the Grave Robber's inner darkness, if what I saw was indeed his inner thoughts. Compared to a human, that guy is practically composed of pure malice and resentment. Just these are enough to maintain his form."
"You have reached the ultimate that an ordinary human can achieve, Seto. Your combat power just now, even Mahad, whom others praise as the Strongest Priest, his [Illusion Magician]'s performance was far inferior to your stone tablet monsters."
Seto heard Aknadin say he had done well enough, but the unwillingness in his heart didn't lessen even slightly. Instead, a stronger competitiveness arose.
"But Lord Aknadin, that young man, and the Pharaoh are not---"
"I don't know about that young man, Seto, but the Pharaoh is special. The Pharaoh, as the Divine-Beast's representative on the Surface World, cannot be compared to ordinary humans." Aknadin interrupted Seto's words, looked at Dark Yugi who was some distance away, and sighed, thinking of something in his heart.
Hearing Aknadin's words, Seto gritted his teeth: "Is that so? Humans have a limit? No matter how many spirits from sinners' hearts are collected and sealed into tablets, the power obtained cannot compare to the Divine-Beast controlled by the Pharaoh?"
"In that case..." Hiding the rest of his words in his heart, Seto slightly bowed to Aknadin, thanking him for his consolation, and walked forward. A dark idea that startled even himself surfaced in his heart.
---If the power of the spirit nurtured in the heart of a heinous sinner is insufficient, then what if a group of sinners combine the power of the spirits in their hearts?
Furthermore, spirits are born from the human heart, so is it possible that besides sinners, ordinary people also have the possibility of nurturing spirits in their hearts?
However, as soon as this idea emerged, Seto himself rejected it. Although he pursued power, he felt that the cost of obtaining power must never break through his bottom line. If power could only be obtained at the cost of harming the weaklings who should be protected by him, a priest in a high position, he would disdain to use such power.
Watching Seto walk away quickly, Aknadin sighed again. Having read Seto's inner thoughts with the power of the [Millennium Eye], he was both surprised by Seto's pursuit and obsession with power and proud of the pride in Seto's heart. However, a similar feeling of unwillingness also surfaced in Aknadin's heart.
'Humans have a limit, and the Pharaoh cannot be discussed in the same way as humans. But, Seto, you should have had the opportunity too. You originally also had the possibility...'
"All spirits, when attacked and damaged, will feel pain and fear, thus affecting their combat power and revealing flaws." Hayato's face showed a solemn expression. "But, Diabound doesn't have that feeling!"
"Nobody said that, except for you, the guy who talks to oneself! Don't just make things up randomly, Hayato Kobayashi!"
With the help of the white snake on Diabound's lower body, Bakura's body was thrown out, dodging the Drytron Meteonis Draconids's attack. Only Diabound was left to wail as it was hit by the Drytron Meteonis Draconids's attack.
Although it had managed to obtain power comparable to Drytron Meteonis Draconids before, Diabound's power was merely "transforming" rather than "increasing". It could only be on par with Drytron Meteonis Draconids but couldn't surpass it.
If Hayato only had Drytron Meteonis Draconids to use, Bakura wouldn't have needed to escape while leaving harsh words. But beside the Drytron Meteonis Draconids at this moment, there was another [Drytron Meteonis Dracodes] present!
"Boom!"
The Drytron Meteonis Dracodes's attack fell. The already injured Diabound actively met the attack to protect Bakura from being hit. Its body exploded and was directly broken through. Even though Diabound could be reborn an infinite number of times, Bakura was still inevitably affected by its destruction. He stumbled and almost fell to the ground, allowing Hayato behind him to close the distance.
Not daring to linger, Bakura continued to run forward, and once again summoned the Diabound that had just died once behind him, trying his best to delay Hayato.
Because Hayato's pursuit was quite timely, it only took him a little time to successfully find Bakura's figure escaping from the Royal Palace. After discovering Hayato heading straight towards him, Bakura, hiding in the Alleyway, didn't hold onto any false hope and immediately started to escape. Because of the two [Drytron] monsters Hayato summoned, he had no choice but to similarly summon Diabound, starting the current chase battle.
'No, at this rate, that Kid will catch up soon. I have to find a way to shake him off!'
Watching Diabound delay him for just over ten seconds before being broken through again, Bakura was extremely anxious in his heart.
At the very beginning, it could delay him for nearly a minute, allowing him to almost shake off Hayato, but after only a few times, Hayato's two [Drytron] monsters had mastered the method of breaking through Diabound. The efficiency of the massacre was getting higher and higher. Diabound facing those two monsters was simply like a dead pork facing the machine processing pork on the assembly line in a meat processing plant; it had fundamentally no ability to fight back!
It was at this moment that the sharp-eyed Bakura suddenly saw in the distance a Little Girl walking on the street holding two bottles of beer, looking over with a bit of curiosity about what commotion was happening here.
'Got it! You're the one!' An inspiration surged into Bakura's heart. He summoned Diabound again, but this time Bakura didn't abandon it. Instead, he controlled the white snake on its lower body to go straight towards the Little Girl in the distance, shouting, "You forced me to do this, Hayato Kobayashi! Look over there!"
"If you take another step towards me, don't blame me for laying a hand on that Little Girl over there! You don't want Innocent People to be injured because of your action, do you!"
Looking at the young girl grabbed by Bakura's Diabound, Hayato frowned: "This is truly a bad, terrible result. Why are you here, Nefertari?"
"Huh? Didn't Meriamun ask me to help you find two bottles of beer?" The young girl held Hostage by Diabound had her body wrapped by the white snake and couldn't move, but she seemed not to have understood the current situation, tilting her head and looking at Hayato.
The Ascension celebration is today, considering whether to update more, but the refreshing leave request is tempting me to slack off.
(End of Chapter)
Although today was a great day for the new Pharaoh's ascension, it was clear that no matter how much the Ancient Egyptian people advanced their technology tree, they were still far from the point of manufacturing fireworks to celebrate.
If it were just black smoke rising from one place, it could be dismissed as an accidental fire somewhere, but at this moment, trouble was breaking out in so many different locations.
Someone is causing destruction in the City! This was the only thing Hayato and Dark Yugi could realize when they saw the black smoke rising from multiple places. Because Bakura had attracted their attention, they had only just noticed this now.
Bakura was also cunning. He waited until the situation was unfavorable to him and he was planning to escape before formally revealing this. Furthermore, he only deliberately left arrogant harsh words as he fled the Royal Palace to draw Hayato and Dark Yugi's attention. The moment he stepped out of the Royal Palace, he immediately fell silent and ran away discreetly. Even Hayato, who rushed out of the Royal Palace right after Bakura, couldn't find his figure.
"I was originally planning that if I could defeat Bakura here, there might be a possibility of ending this Dark Game once and for all, but he still managed to escape." Watching Dark Yugi walk out behind him, Hayato said with a solemn expression, "If we could ignore the commotion happening now and continue the pursuit, there might still be a possibility of catching that guy Bakura. However..."
"Even knowing this is a world from memory, I don't think we can leave the people unattended." Dark Yugi looked at the black smoke in the distance and made a difficult choice. "Even without the memories of the past, I believe I still have the necessary responsibility as Pharaoh to protect my subjects."
"Therefore, Mahad, Seto, Lord Aknadin, Isis, Shada, Karim, Simon!"
"Pharaoh!" Hearing Dark Yugi's words, the seven priests who also saw the scene outside the Royal Palace bowed down, awaiting their Pharaoh's instructions.
"Take all the power you can mobilize and immediately go to the places where the commotion is occurring to protect the people." Dark Yugi didn't know what his personality was like three thousand years ago or how he usually did things, but he couldn't worry about that anymore. "Act with the resolve to defend the Pharaoh, and you must act quickly. Now, all of you, move out."
"Yes!"
There were eight places around the Royal Palace where black smoke was rising. After assigning seven priests, including Simon, Dark Yugi said, "Then, the remaining one will be left to me. As for Hayato, I ask you to go and chase Bakura."
"Quite the Pharaoh's authority, Yugi." Hayato nodded. "Leave Bakura to me. Without further ado, I'll set off now."
Saying this, Hayato raised his hand. Starlight shone down and converged above his head into the Drytron Alpha Thuban that had appeared once before. Hayato's raised hand just happened to grab onto a point of leverage on its body, and he was lifted up by the ascending Drytron Alpha Thuban, leaving the Royal Palace.
Watching Hayato fly away, Dark Yugi, who was very reassured by him, didn't waste time. He was about to set off to quell the chaos within the City-State, but just then, Priest Isis inquired of Dark Yugi, "Pharaoh, I wish to know, who is that young man?"
"His name is Hayato, uh, Hayato Kobayashi. He is my friend, a friend I can completely trust, and his strength is very great. Don't worry." Glancing at Priest Isis, who looked very much like Ishizu, Dark Yugi didn't have any gossipy thoughts. After a brief introduction of Hayato, he was about to set off to save the people.
On the other hand, Simon, quite interested, leaned over to Isis's side and asked her, "Are you very interested in that child, Isis?"
In Simon's mind, a grand emotional drama had already been quickly imagined in a short time.
However, Isis shattered Simon's illusion with just one sentence: "No, Lord Shimon, it's just that the young man took my Duel Arena, so I must know his name."
"Before today, I had never seen this young man's figure in the City. Having been by the Pharaoh's side since childhood, I also never knew the Pharaoh was acquainted with that young man," Mahad, who was walking beside them, said seriously upon hearing Simon and Isis discussing Hayato. "Although I trust the Pharaoh, I still feel that young man is quite suspicious."
"Heh, is that the evaluation you've made with your professional quality as a priest responsible for the City's defense work?"
Initially, Simon had only spoken to Isis out of gossip. Mahad sharing his idea with the two caused Seto to join in as well. "Someone as derelict as you, repeatedly making mistakes, I suppose your evaluation isn't very credible. On the contrary, I believe that anyone who can help us, help the Pharaoh, regardless of their origin, has value in being utilized."
"Even if just looking at that young man makes me feel he is a self-interested person who would sacrifice others without hesitation to protect what is important to him, I believe we can, as the Pharaoh said, place enough trust in him."
After Seto finished speaking, he wanted to see how Mahad would debate with him. However, after telling Simon and Isis his opinion, Mahad hadn't really listened to him at all and had gone straight to follow the Pharaoh, who was walking faster, leaving Seto somewhat angry.
"How dare he disregard me like this, that bastard Mahad!" Clenching his fist, Seto also silently quickened his pace. The scene from the Great Hall just now suddenly came to his mind.
The powerful spirit that the combined efforts of the priests couldn't contend with was repelled by the team-up of that young man and the Pharaoh. Although Seto's words just now were partly intended to stand on the opposite side of Mahad, they were also his true inner thoughts. As someone who admired power, he truly believed Hayato could be trusted and thought highly of him.
However, besides that, Seto also hadn't forgotten the shameful appearance of being in a sorry state under the spirit's power, he who prided himself as the true Strongest Priest but had no opportunity to prove his talent. This was actually a considerable blow to the arrogant Seto, because it meant Seto was not actually the Strongest Priest as he thought himself to be.
'A spirit that can contend with the power of a Divine-Beast, huh? That means as long as I defeat the opponent, it will be enough to prove that I am the Strongest Priest, but the premise is that I must obtain great power comparable to a Divine-Beast.'
Recalling the Blue Giant Divine-Beast's attack just now, Seto narrowed his eyes. '[Obelisk the Tormentor], is that the name of the Divine-Beast? Although it is a high and mighty Divine-Beast, since that young man can also summon a spirit almost comparable to a Divine-Beast, it proves that although Divine-Beasts are powerful, there are still spirits that possess ability close to a Divine-Beast. I am not without opportunity to obtain similarly great power!'
"Seto..." Someone reached out and patted Seto's shoulder, bringing back his attention. Releasing his clenched palm, Seto looked back and turned to face the opponent, "Lord Aknadin?"
"I can see that you seem to be struggling with the loss just now." Although he didn't use the [Millennium Eye] on his left eye to read Seto's inner thoughts, Aknadin easily guessed Seto's feelings and tried to console him. "Don't take it too much to heart. Although it's just a rough intuition, I believe that Grave Robber is fundamentally not human."
"Did you see that with the [Millennium Eye], Lord Aknadin?"
Aknadin nodded: "Ah, I saw the Grave Robber's inner darkness, if what I saw was indeed his inner thoughts. Compared to a human, that guy is practically composed of pure malice and resentment. Just these are enough to maintain his form."
"You have reached the ultimate that an ordinary human can achieve, Seto. Your combat power just now, even Mahad, whom others praise as the Strongest Priest, his [Illusion Magician]'s performance was far inferior to your stone tablet monsters."
Seto heard Aknadin say he had done well enough, but the unwillingness in his heart didn't lessen even slightly. Instead, a stronger competitiveness arose.
"But Lord Aknadin, that young man, and the Pharaoh are not---"
"I don't know about that young man, Seto, but the Pharaoh is special. The Pharaoh, as the Divine-Beast's representative on the Surface World, cannot be compared to ordinary humans." Aknadin interrupted Seto's words, looked at Dark Yugi who was some distance away, and sighed, thinking of something in his heart.
Hearing Aknadin's words, Seto gritted his teeth: "Is that so? Humans have a limit? No matter how many spirits from sinners' hearts are collected and sealed into tablets, the power obtained cannot compare to the Divine-Beast controlled by the Pharaoh?"
"In that case..." Hiding the rest of his words in his heart, Seto slightly bowed to Aknadin, thanking him for his consolation, and walked forward. A dark idea that startled even himself surfaced in his heart.
---If the power of the spirit nurtured in the heart of a heinous sinner is insufficient, then what if a group of sinners combine the power of the spirits in their hearts?
Furthermore, spirits are born from the human heart, so is it possible that besides sinners, ordinary people also have the possibility of nurturing spirits in their hearts?
However, as soon as this idea emerged, Seto himself rejected it. Although he pursued power, he felt that the cost of obtaining power must never break through his bottom line. If power could only be obtained at the cost of harming the weaklings who should be protected by him, a priest in a high position, he would disdain to use such power.
Watching Seto walk away quickly, Aknadin sighed again. Having read Seto's inner thoughts with the power of the [Millennium Eye], he was both surprised by Seto's pursuit and obsession with power and proud of the pride in Seto's heart. However, a similar feeling of unwillingness also surfaced in Aknadin's heart.
'Humans have a limit, and the Pharaoh cannot be discussed in the same way as humans. But, Seto, you should have had the opportunity too. You originally also had the possibility...'
"All spirits, when attacked and damaged, will feel pain and fear, thus affecting their combat power and revealing flaws." Hayato's face showed a solemn expression. "But, Diabound doesn't have that feeling!"
"Nobody said that, except for you, the guy who talks to oneself! Don't just make things up randomly, Hayato Kobayashi!"
With the help of the white snake on Diabound's lower body, Bakura's body was thrown out, dodging the Drytron Meteonis Draconids's attack. Only Diabound was left to wail as it was hit by the Drytron Meteonis Draconids's attack.
Although it had managed to obtain power comparable to Drytron Meteonis Draconids before, Diabound's power was merely "transforming" rather than "increasing". It could only be on par with Drytron Meteonis Draconids but couldn't surpass it.
If Hayato only had Drytron Meteonis Draconids to use, Bakura wouldn't have needed to escape while leaving harsh words. But beside the Drytron Meteonis Draconids at this moment, there was another [Drytron Meteonis Dracodes] present!
"Boom!"
The Drytron Meteonis Dracodes's attack fell. The already injured Diabound actively met the attack to protect Bakura from being hit. Its body exploded and was directly broken through. Even though Diabound could be reborn an infinite number of times, Bakura was still inevitably affected by its destruction. He stumbled and almost fell to the ground, allowing Hayato behind him to close the distance.
Not daring to linger, Bakura continued to run forward, and once again summoned the Diabound that had just died once behind him, trying his best to delay Hayato.
Because Hayato's pursuit was quite timely, it only took him a little time to successfully find Bakura's figure escaping from the Royal Palace. After discovering Hayato heading straight towards him, Bakura, hiding in the Alleyway, didn't hold onto any false hope and immediately started to escape. Because of the two [Drytron] monsters Hayato summoned, he had no choice but to similarly summon Diabound, starting the current chase battle.
'No, at this rate, that Kid will catch up soon. I have to find a way to shake him off!'
Watching Diabound delay him for just over ten seconds before being broken through again, Bakura was extremely anxious in his heart.
At the very beginning, it could delay him for nearly a minute, allowing him to almost shake off Hayato, but after only a few times, Hayato's two [Drytron] monsters had mastered the method of breaking through Diabound. The efficiency of the massacre was getting higher and higher. Diabound facing those two monsters was simply like a dead pork facing the machine processing pork on the assembly line in a meat processing plant; it had fundamentally no ability to fight back!
It was at this moment that the sharp-eyed Bakura suddenly saw in the distance a Little Girl walking on the street holding two bottles of beer, looking over with a bit of curiosity about what commotion was happening here.
'Got it! You're the one!' An inspiration surged into Bakura's heart. He summoned Diabound again, but this time Bakura didn't abandon it. Instead, he controlled the white snake on its lower body to go straight towards the Little Girl in the distance, shouting, "You forced me to do this, Hayato Kobayashi! Look over there!"
"If you take another step towards me, don't blame me for laying a hand on that Little Girl over there! You don't want Innocent People to be injured because of your action, do you!"
Looking at the young girl grabbed by Bakura's Diabound, Hayato frowned: "This is truly a bad, terrible result. Why are you here, Nefertari?"
"Huh? Didn't Meriamun ask me to help you find two bottles of beer?" The young girl held Hostage by Diabound had her body wrapped by the white snake and couldn't move, but she seemed not to have understood the current situation, tilting her head and looking at Hayato.
The Ascension celebration is today, considering whether to update more, but the refreshing leave request is tempting me to slack off.
(End of Chapter)
