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Chapter 763: You Are the Dragon!
"Seto!"
Witnessing the iron plate carrying Seto, Kisara, and the others fall from the sky as the chains snapped, Aknadin could no longer maintain his indifferent facade. He stood up excitedly from his seat and shouted towards the deep pit.
Everything he had done here, although under the guise of a great cause, others might not know, but he himself knew perfectly well. All of this, everything, was for Seto. If Seto died, what meaning would everything he had done have?
Aknadin's heart was enveloped by despair. The Millennium Eye in his left eye emitted a faint golden radiance. But just as Aknadin thought Seto was doomed, he suddenly saw an arm clinging to a broken iron chain. Judging by the golden ring on the arm, it couldn't be a prisoner; it could only be Seto!
With one hand clinging to the broken chains, Seto's other hand was firmly gripping the handle of the Millennium Rod. Kisara was holding onto the Millennium Rod with both hands, which was why they hadn't fallen into the deep pit together.
The physical condition of humans cannot be generalized. Seto's body, due to years of training, far surpassed that of ordinary people. However, at this moment, to bear the weight of two people with one arm, while simultaneously using only grip strength with the other hand to hold the handle of the Millennium Rod carrying Kisara's weight, although he could barely maintain it for a while, he definitely couldn't hold on for too long.
If this were a melodramatic television show, there would definitely be passages like "Let go," "I'd rather die than let go," "Goodbye," "No!" and perhaps even a plot device for a reunion sixteen years later. However, this is the world of Duelists!
"Duos!"
Shouting towards the distance, the Duos that Seto had summoned earlier had not left the field due to the previous actions. At this moment, it was flying in the air, spreading the pair of wing cases on its back which were not merely decoration.
As a high-level Stone Tablet Monster, flying could be said to be the most basic ability. How could a monster spirit not be able to fly?
Although Seto could only barely support himself at this moment, the freely flying Duos could lend a hand. Carrying two people together and flying was simply too easy for Duos.
But just as Duos decreased its height slightly and approached Seto and Kisara, it suddenly stopped abruptly, as if it had hit something, and its limbs made movements of continuously struggling but were unable to move.
The sharp-eyed Seto noticed immediately that, accompanying Duos's struggle, there were faint, thread-like things in the air above that were intermittently visible due to light reflection: "Is that silk thread? Could it be—!?"
"That's right, Priest!"
Following the direction of the voice, Seto suddenly looked up, but saw Insect Queen hanging in the air, stepping on a web. And Moth Wing, whom Seto had thought had fallen to his death with the iron plate earlier, was now holding onto a section of Insect Queen's torso, with an arrogant expression on his face.
Looking at the struggling Seto and Kisara, Insect Queen immediately spat out a large amount of silk thread, wrapping Seto, Kisara, and the iron chain together, preventing the two of them from falling.
However, this wasn't him showing mercy or kindness to save them. Because of Insect Queen's silk, the Duel Arena Seto had opened was completely wrapped in silk thread. Seto's action of trying to summon another Stone Tablet Monster the moment he saw Moth Wing was also interrupted by this, and he looked at the arrogant Moth Wing with a gloomy face.
"You escaped death by weaving a net with silk threads and staying in the air, you Small Fry!"
"Hehehehe, say whatever you want, Priest. Being able to survive is the truth. For survival, us small figures will struggle desperately," Moth Wing boasted triumphantly. "Furthermore, do you really think I, Moth Wing, am some small character who can only live for two chapters? Idiot, I can live for at least three chapters!"
"Now, it's my turn to 'Judgment' you, Priest!"
Moth Wing laughed loudly, making Aknadin extremely anxious: "Stop it! Seto is not your target for battle, are you disobeying my order!"
"Huh?" Hearing Aknadin's words, Moth Wing raised an eyebrow and laughed contemptuously, "Did you misunderstand something, Priest? Although I really want freedom, I know very well that you never intended to let us out from beginning to end. Not only did you arrange things so we couldn't achieve ten consecutive victories, but even if we did win ten times, you would kill us, right?"
"Since that's the case, at least I'll drag a high and mighty Priest down to Hell with me!"
Moth Wing grinned, and the faint Eye of Wjat/Udjat on his forehead gradually faded.
'Because he interfered with the minds of too many prisoners, his inner desire and malice swelled, causing his influence to weaken!?' Aknadin gritted his teeth in anger, but he couldn't summon a Stone Tablet Monster.
Although Bakura had told some lies earlier to mislead Dark Yugi and the others, in order to make the lies harder to expose, Bakura had indeed done some things, including taking the tablets stored in Aknadin's Stone Tablet Temple.
This resulted in Aknadin having no Stone Tablet Monsters to summon at this moment to assist Seto, and he could only watch helplessly as Moth Wing controlled Insect Queen to approach Seto.
"Go taste the flavor of a Priest, my Insect Queen!" With an order, Moth Wing manipulated Insect Queen to pounce on Seto. The entangled Seto couldn't summon a Stone Tablet Monster, Aknadin couldn't offer assistance, and Duos was also in the same shackled state.
Seeing that Seto and Kisara were about to die under Insect Queen's attack, Kisara's eyes gradually glowed with a blue radiance, and her pure white long hair floated up as if blown by wind.
The enormous magic power on Kisara that Aknadin observed was certainly not an illusion, but a real existence. However, unlike his guess, Kisara's inner thoughts did not nurture any great monster spirit, nor was there any external force residing within her.
The source of this power had never been anything else; it had always come from Kisara herself. Kisara had always been quite aware of the power she possessed, but she never wanted to use this power on humans.
Her meeting with Seto when she was young not only etched her bond with Seto into Kisara's heart but also left behind an aspiration for the Seto who fought for justice back then. The figure of Seto fighting to become an Ally of Justice was simply incredibly cool. Therefore, since then, Kisara had always emulated Seto in fighting to protect others.
For example, before this, a village was targeted by Bakura's personnel. They organized many monster beasts to attack, attempting to create a massacre tragedy that would wipe out the village. Kisara, the partner of the Ally of Justice—the "Young Girl of Justice"—naturally couldn't stand by and do nothing. She used her power to eliminate all those annoying monster beasts.
It was just that the aftermath of the battle was a bit large. Carelessly, Kisara's battle at that time affected a nearby river, causing the river to change direction to another place. Also, because she was alone, Kisara couldn't handle the corpses of the dead monster beasts. However, these small troubles should be more acceptable than the death of the entire village.
It was just a pity that, although Kisara had done many things for numerous strangers, they did not know of Kisara's contribution. They still ostracized Kisara, who had rare white hair, and thought that Kisara always followed misfortune to protect them, mistakenly believing that Kisara would bring misfortune.
Despite this, Kisara had always held a kind heart and did not care about the unkindness of others, emulating Seto, who had saved her in the past, to protect others.
Just recently, on the day the Pharaoh ascended, Kisara, who had not entered the city because of her appearance, sensed the dark aura emanating from the Royal City. Worried about the safety of Seto, who was serving the Pharaoh in the Royal City, Kisara, who had always stayed away from crowds and lived in seclusion, entered the city, until now.
Kisara had come specifically to protect Seto, and now that Seto was in danger, it was only natural that she would take action!
As something unusual appeared on Kisara, a radiance surged from within her body, enveloping her entire being and rushing into the air to block Insect Queen's attack!
At this moment, everyone in the dungeon widened their eyes in unison, unable to believe the scene before them, whether it was Moth Wing, Seto, or Aknadin.
The radiance enveloping "Kisara" dissipated. A pair of vast dragon wings that covered the sky spread open, and a slender dragon tail coiled around, completely surrounding and protecting Seto behind her. A massive dragon head opened its mouth and roared at Moth Wing and Insect Queen!
"Roar!!!"
Blue eyes, a pure white divine body, the giant dragon's characteristics were exactly the same as Kisara's. Kisara, who was just a young girl moments ago, had transformed into a dragon to protect Seto!
And looking at the white dragon before him, Seto remembered. He clearly remembered that the ones who had destroyed his village and killed his mother, the slave traders, were completely annihilated by this giant white dragon before him!
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Is this your power, Kisara!" Seto murmured. Although he had once thought that Kisara might be related to that white dragon from back then, Seto had never thought that the white dragon resided within Kisara; rather, she *was* the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!
Because Seto was in danger, the divine monster spirit Kisara had transformed into—Blue-Eyes White Dragon—showed a human-like angry expression, glaring at Moth Wing and Insect Queen. It emitted a terrifying and dangerous aura, making the originally certain victory Moth Wing extremely nervous, his heartbeat also accelerating.
"H-how could such an existence be possible? How could the legendary White Dragon God of the Desert be real!?" Moth Wing, who had heard travelers crossing the desert speak of the legend of the White Dragon God protecting humans, felt his hands and feet turn cold and trembled slightly with fear. "This is too much, such an opponent, I cannot win at all!"
"No, it must be an illusion, you can't fool me, it must be an illusion!" Seemingly scared to the extreme, Moth Wing even became somewhat mentally unstable, shouting frantically, "Insect Queen, go! Don't let it get close to me!"
Insect Queen received Moth Wing's instruction. If it were a monster beast without wisdom, it would naturally bravely pounce forward like it did when attacking Seto. But because of Moth Wing's continuous victories and his swelling darkness, she, who had initially gained wisdom, had also learned to read the atmosphere. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon on the other side, even ignoring the gap in size, just its aura alone was something a Small Fry like her couldn't handle.
No matter how much Moth Wing urged, Insect Queen, whom he had previously regarded as his most precious treasure, showed no gratitude for Moth Wing raising her. She stayed put, curling up and refusing to advance, even lowering her body and showing a pleading expression to Seto and Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
However, Blue-Eyes White Dragon didn't care about the opponent's attitude at this moment. She remembered everything that had been done to Seto earlier. She opened her mouth and took a deep breath, and dazzling radiance gathered in Blue-Eyes White Dragon's mouth.
Then, the giant dragon breathed towards its target. The brilliant flood of light completely swallowed Moth Wing and Insect Queen in an instant. Forget about any semblance of resistance; facing the white dragon's attack, the two didn't even have room to wail. In an instant, they were completely wiped from the world and sent to rebirth.
---Hopefully, that guy will have some sense in his next life and not provoke people he can't afford to provoke.
After the flood of light piercing everything in front of it, it broke through the ground, creating a perfectly circular large hole in the ceiling of the dungeon. Witnessing Blue-Eyes White Dragon, witnessing the great power displayed by Kisara, Aknadin covered his Millennium Eye with one hand and couldn't help but exclaim: "What magnificent power, it's simply comparable to a deity, no, it's simply power that surpasses a deity!"
"Such power even exceeded the power of the three Egyptian Gods who protect the Pharaoh. With such power, Seto, he will definitely become the Pharaoh!"
And on the ground, the commotion caused by Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the dungeon attracted the attention of many people, whether it was Priest Shimon, who was anxiously heading towards Dark Yugi's location in the Royal Palace because the Pharaoh was unconscious, or Kaiba Seto, who was attempting to infiltrate the Royal Palace and happened to arrive near the dungeon where the guard personnel had been drawn away.
"What kind of power is this?" Witnessing the radiance bursting from underground, Kaiba inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity from it, and he always felt that there was some existence inside that was attracting him.
Originally, he had planned to go to the Royal Palace first, but due to the appearance of this light, Kaiba changed direction out of curiosity and went near the dungeon.
Coincidentally, when Kaiba, relying on his characteristic of not being seen by others, bypassed the guards and arrived at the dungeon, he happened to see Seto leaving the dungeon, holding Kisara in his arms.
"Seto!"
Witnessing the iron plate carrying Seto, Kisara, and the others fall from the sky as the chains snapped, Aknadin could no longer maintain his indifferent facade. He stood up excitedly from his seat and shouted towards the deep pit.
Everything he had done here, although under the guise of a great cause, others might not know, but he himself knew perfectly well. All of this, everything, was for Seto. If Seto died, what meaning would everything he had done have?
Aknadin's heart was enveloped by despair. The Millennium Eye in his left eye emitted a faint golden radiance. But just as Aknadin thought Seto was doomed, he suddenly saw an arm clinging to a broken iron chain. Judging by the golden ring on the arm, it couldn't be a prisoner; it could only be Seto!
With one hand clinging to the broken chains, Seto's other hand was firmly gripping the handle of the Millennium Rod. Kisara was holding onto the Millennium Rod with both hands, which was why they hadn't fallen into the deep pit together.
The physical condition of humans cannot be generalized. Seto's body, due to years of training, far surpassed that of ordinary people. However, at this moment, to bear the weight of two people with one arm, while simultaneously using only grip strength with the other hand to hold the handle of the Millennium Rod carrying Kisara's weight, although he could barely maintain it for a while, he definitely couldn't hold on for too long.
If this were a melodramatic television show, there would definitely be passages like "Let go," "I'd rather die than let go," "Goodbye," "No!" and perhaps even a plot device for a reunion sixteen years later. However, this is the world of Duelists!
"Duos!"
Shouting towards the distance, the Duos that Seto had summoned earlier had not left the field due to the previous actions. At this moment, it was flying in the air, spreading the pair of wing cases on its back which were not merely decoration.
As a high-level Stone Tablet Monster, flying could be said to be the most basic ability. How could a monster spirit not be able to fly?
Although Seto could only barely support himself at this moment, the freely flying Duos could lend a hand. Carrying two people together and flying was simply too easy for Duos.
But just as Duos decreased its height slightly and approached Seto and Kisara, it suddenly stopped abruptly, as if it had hit something, and its limbs made movements of continuously struggling but were unable to move.
The sharp-eyed Seto noticed immediately that, accompanying Duos's struggle, there were faint, thread-like things in the air above that were intermittently visible due to light reflection: "Is that silk thread? Could it be—!?"
"That's right, Priest!"
Following the direction of the voice, Seto suddenly looked up, but saw Insect Queen hanging in the air, stepping on a web. And Moth Wing, whom Seto had thought had fallen to his death with the iron plate earlier, was now holding onto a section of Insect Queen's torso, with an arrogant expression on his face.
Looking at the struggling Seto and Kisara, Insect Queen immediately spat out a large amount of silk thread, wrapping Seto, Kisara, and the iron chain together, preventing the two of them from falling.
However, this wasn't him showing mercy or kindness to save them. Because of Insect Queen's silk, the Duel Arena Seto had opened was completely wrapped in silk thread. Seto's action of trying to summon another Stone Tablet Monster the moment he saw Moth Wing was also interrupted by this, and he looked at the arrogant Moth Wing with a gloomy face.
"You escaped death by weaving a net with silk threads and staying in the air, you Small Fry!"
"Hehehehe, say whatever you want, Priest. Being able to survive is the truth. For survival, us small figures will struggle desperately," Moth Wing boasted triumphantly. "Furthermore, do you really think I, Moth Wing, am some small character who can only live for two chapters? Idiot, I can live for at least three chapters!"
"Now, it's my turn to 'Judgment' you, Priest!"
Moth Wing laughed loudly, making Aknadin extremely anxious: "Stop it! Seto is not your target for battle, are you disobeying my order!"
"Huh?" Hearing Aknadin's words, Moth Wing raised an eyebrow and laughed contemptuously, "Did you misunderstand something, Priest? Although I really want freedom, I know very well that you never intended to let us out from beginning to end. Not only did you arrange things so we couldn't achieve ten consecutive victories, but even if we did win ten times, you would kill us, right?"
"Since that's the case, at least I'll drag a high and mighty Priest down to Hell with me!"
Moth Wing grinned, and the faint Eye of Wjat/Udjat on his forehead gradually faded.
'Because he interfered with the minds of too many prisoners, his inner desire and malice swelled, causing his influence to weaken!?' Aknadin gritted his teeth in anger, but he couldn't summon a Stone Tablet Monster.
Although Bakura had told some lies earlier to mislead Dark Yugi and the others, in order to make the lies harder to expose, Bakura had indeed done some things, including taking the tablets stored in Aknadin's Stone Tablet Temple.
This resulted in Aknadin having no Stone Tablet Monsters to summon at this moment to assist Seto, and he could only watch helplessly as Moth Wing controlled Insect Queen to approach Seto.
"Go taste the flavor of a Priest, my Insect Queen!" With an order, Moth Wing manipulated Insect Queen to pounce on Seto. The entangled Seto couldn't summon a Stone Tablet Monster, Aknadin couldn't offer assistance, and Duos was also in the same shackled state.
Seeing that Seto and Kisara were about to die under Insect Queen's attack, Kisara's eyes gradually glowed with a blue radiance, and her pure white long hair floated up as if blown by wind.
The enormous magic power on Kisara that Aknadin observed was certainly not an illusion, but a real existence. However, unlike his guess, Kisara's inner thoughts did not nurture any great monster spirit, nor was there any external force residing within her.
The source of this power had never been anything else; it had always come from Kisara herself. Kisara had always been quite aware of the power she possessed, but she never wanted to use this power on humans.
Her meeting with Seto when she was young not only etched her bond with Seto into Kisara's heart but also left behind an aspiration for the Seto who fought for justice back then. The figure of Seto fighting to become an Ally of Justice was simply incredibly cool. Therefore, since then, Kisara had always emulated Seto in fighting to protect others.
For example, before this, a village was targeted by Bakura's personnel. They organized many monster beasts to attack, attempting to create a massacre tragedy that would wipe out the village. Kisara, the partner of the Ally of Justice—the "Young Girl of Justice"—naturally couldn't stand by and do nothing. She used her power to eliminate all those annoying monster beasts.
It was just that the aftermath of the battle was a bit large. Carelessly, Kisara's battle at that time affected a nearby river, causing the river to change direction to another place. Also, because she was alone, Kisara couldn't handle the corpses of the dead monster beasts. However, these small troubles should be more acceptable than the death of the entire village.
It was just a pity that, although Kisara had done many things for numerous strangers, they did not know of Kisara's contribution. They still ostracized Kisara, who had rare white hair, and thought that Kisara always followed misfortune to protect them, mistakenly believing that Kisara would bring misfortune.
Despite this, Kisara had always held a kind heart and did not care about the unkindness of others, emulating Seto, who had saved her in the past, to protect others.
Just recently, on the day the Pharaoh ascended, Kisara, who had not entered the city because of her appearance, sensed the dark aura emanating from the Royal City. Worried about the safety of Seto, who was serving the Pharaoh in the Royal City, Kisara, who had always stayed away from crowds and lived in seclusion, entered the city, until now.
Kisara had come specifically to protect Seto, and now that Seto was in danger, it was only natural that she would take action!
As something unusual appeared on Kisara, a radiance surged from within her body, enveloping her entire being and rushing into the air to block Insect Queen's attack!
At this moment, everyone in the dungeon widened their eyes in unison, unable to believe the scene before them, whether it was Moth Wing, Seto, or Aknadin.
The radiance enveloping "Kisara" dissipated. A pair of vast dragon wings that covered the sky spread open, and a slender dragon tail coiled around, completely surrounding and protecting Seto behind her. A massive dragon head opened its mouth and roared at Moth Wing and Insect Queen!
"Roar!!!"
Blue eyes, a pure white divine body, the giant dragon's characteristics were exactly the same as Kisara's. Kisara, who was just a young girl moments ago, had transformed into a dragon to protect Seto!
And looking at the white dragon before him, Seto remembered. He clearly remembered that the ones who had destroyed his village and killed his mother, the slave traders, were completely annihilated by this giant white dragon before him!
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon! Is this your power, Kisara!" Seto murmured. Although he had once thought that Kisara might be related to that white dragon from back then, Seto had never thought that the white dragon resided within Kisara; rather, she *was* the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!
Because Seto was in danger, the divine monster spirit Kisara had transformed into—Blue-Eyes White Dragon—showed a human-like angry expression, glaring at Moth Wing and Insect Queen. It emitted a terrifying and dangerous aura, making the originally certain victory Moth Wing extremely nervous, his heartbeat also accelerating.
"H-how could such an existence be possible? How could the legendary White Dragon God of the Desert be real!?" Moth Wing, who had heard travelers crossing the desert speak of the legend of the White Dragon God protecting humans, felt his hands and feet turn cold and trembled slightly with fear. "This is too much, such an opponent, I cannot win at all!"
"No, it must be an illusion, you can't fool me, it must be an illusion!" Seemingly scared to the extreme, Moth Wing even became somewhat mentally unstable, shouting frantically, "Insect Queen, go! Don't let it get close to me!"
Insect Queen received Moth Wing's instruction. If it were a monster beast without wisdom, it would naturally bravely pounce forward like it did when attacking Seto. But because of Moth Wing's continuous victories and his swelling darkness, she, who had initially gained wisdom, had also learned to read the atmosphere. The Blue-Eyes White Dragon on the other side, even ignoring the gap in size, just its aura alone was something a Small Fry like her couldn't handle.
No matter how much Moth Wing urged, Insect Queen, whom he had previously regarded as his most precious treasure, showed no gratitude for Moth Wing raising her. She stayed put, curling up and refusing to advance, even lowering her body and showing a pleading expression to Seto and Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
However, Blue-Eyes White Dragon didn't care about the opponent's attitude at this moment. She remembered everything that had been done to Seto earlier. She opened her mouth and took a deep breath, and dazzling radiance gathered in Blue-Eyes White Dragon's mouth.
Then, the giant dragon breathed towards its target. The brilliant flood of light completely swallowed Moth Wing and Insect Queen in an instant. Forget about any semblance of resistance; facing the white dragon's attack, the two didn't even have room to wail. In an instant, they were completely wiped from the world and sent to rebirth.
---Hopefully, that guy will have some sense in his next life and not provoke people he can't afford to provoke.
After the flood of light piercing everything in front of it, it broke through the ground, creating a perfectly circular large hole in the ceiling of the dungeon. Witnessing Blue-Eyes White Dragon, witnessing the great power displayed by Kisara, Aknadin covered his Millennium Eye with one hand and couldn't help but exclaim: "What magnificent power, it's simply comparable to a deity, no, it's simply power that surpasses a deity!"
"Such power even exceeded the power of the three Egyptian Gods who protect the Pharaoh. With such power, Seto, he will definitely become the Pharaoh!"
And on the ground, the commotion caused by Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the dungeon attracted the attention of many people, whether it was Priest Shimon, who was anxiously heading towards Dark Yugi's location in the Royal Palace because the Pharaoh was unconscious, or Kaiba Seto, who was attempting to infiltrate the Royal Palace and happened to arrive near the dungeon where the guard personnel had been drawn away.
"What kind of power is this?" Witnessing the radiance bursting from underground, Kaiba inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity from it, and he always felt that there was some existence inside that was attracting him.
Originally, he had planned to go to the Royal Palace first, but due to the appearance of this light, Kaiba changed direction out of curiosity and went near the dungeon.
Coincidentally, when Kaiba, relying on his characteristic of not being seen by others, bypassed the guards and arrived at the dungeon, he happened to see Seto leaving the dungeon, holding Kisara in his arms.
