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Chapter 791: Eternal Soul - Mahad
Looking at the figure that appeared before him, Dark Yugi was also full of surprise: "Mahad!?"
"No, the one you see now is..."
Mahad, standing before Dark Yugi, was not wearing the priest robe he had worn before, but rather a dark purple mage robe, holding an emerald green staff in his hand. He looked like Dark Yugi's most trusted duel monster from the modern era—the Dark Magician, identical in every way.
"Forgive me, Pharaoh, for not being able to remain by your side as a human, under the name of Mahad." Mahad, or rather, the Dark Magician, bowed respectfully to Dark Yugi, then turned to look at Diabound's attack, which he had completely blocked with a magic barrier. "But my soul will accompany you to the last, under the name of the Dark Magician!"
"Dark Magic Attack!"
Opening his palm, he pushed fiercely, and the magic barrier instantly exerted power, successfully pushing Diabound's attack away. It continued to strike fiercely against Diabound's body, causing it to reel backward and lose its balance.
The Dark Magician's attack continued. That barrier was just an opening move for him now, fundamentally not a serious attack.
Mystical power converged towards the staff in his hand. Only to see the Dark Magician rush forward. The staff in his hand stabbed out like a lance into the chest of the still recovering Diabound. Mystical power erupted fiercely. The human-sized Dark Magician actually blasted away the nearly ten-meter-tall Diabound, smashing it into the wall and embedding it!
"Ma-Master!?" "Mahad?!"
Seto and Mana, after the Dark Magician pushed away Diabound's attack, naturally saw him standing beside the completely unharmed Dark Yugi. They both called out in surprise.
"Priest Mahad, no, stone tablet monster Dark Magician, have you recovered from the previous battle!" The Great Dark Priest frowned, somewhat angry at the Dark Magician's appearance. They were just a hair's breadth away from finishing off the Pharaoh, and now someone else had come to interfere.
Before, Mahad, in order to finish off Bakura, had chosen to use forbidden power to merge his near-death self with the Illusion Magician, who was about to vanish. He transformed from a human into a stone tablet monster. Pity, in the end, he still couldn't drag Bakura down with him in a mutual destruction, and his own soul was damaged in that battle, forcing him to return to the tablet to slumber.
But luckily, he finally woke up in time and protected the Pharaoh at the key moment.
"As long as I am here, don't even think about harming the Pharaoh, you fallen one!"
Looking at the Great Dark Priest, the Dark Magician responded forcefully. The Dark Magician's words made the expression beneath the Great Dark Priest's mask look even worse. Could this guy know something?
"Hmph, saying it doesn't make it so. I just said, didn't I? The Harpie Lady that Diabound absorbed has the ability to split into three avatars. Let's go, the other Diabound!"
As the Great Dark Priest spoke, a third Diabound actually manifested out of thin air before him. The second Diabound, which had been blasted away by the Dark Magician, also dug itself out of the wall. All along, although Diabound possessed great strength and terrifying growth potential, fundamentally, what made it most apprehensive was its immortality.
Because of the Dark Magician's arrival, the party's reinforcements did increase. However, the Great Dark Priest also simultaneously increased the quantity of enemies. Seeing the Dark Magician immediately go up against the two Diabound in duel, Seto couldn't help but grip the Millennium Rod in his hand tightly.
Although the Dark Magician, formed by the combination of Mahad and Illusion Magician, possessed great strength, enough to suppress one Diabound, the quantity of Diabound with the same level of power, even excluding the one drawn away by Hayato, was still two. The Dark Magician could only barely withstand their attacks by relying on his rich magical arts.
However, compared to Diabound, whose power was continuously supplied by the geographical environment, the Dark Magician's power was still somewhat lacking. If the time dragged on, it would probably be difficult to avoid defeat.
It was at this moment that Seto, however, saw a flash of gold radiance in the nearby pile of rubble. He strangely swept away the rubble burying something, only to see a blood-stained Duel Arena.
"This is..." Seto then remembered that before they fell into this Underground area, they were beside Karim's remains. This Duel Arena before him seemed like the one Karim had used. It seemed like it had fallen here along with the ground collapse at that time.
Looking at the Duel Arena before him, Seto thought for a moment and made up his mind: "Although no one had ever succeeded before, at this moment, let's temporarily abandon the stance between you and me and fight for the Pharaoh, Karim."
Saying this, he actually picked up Karim's Duel Arena and put it on his other empty arm. He turned to look at the Dark Magician who was fighting Diabound.
Raising the Duel Arena above his head, Seto shouted: "This is a battle for the Kingdom! Lend me your power, Karim!"
Instantly, a large amount of electric current emerged from the arm Seto raised, conducting through his body and making him tremble. But relying on his will, Seto endured the sense of rejection from the Duel Arena while bathed in the electric current, shouting: "Answer me, Thunder Dragon Colossus!"
"Roar!"
From the hole that broke open above Seto's head, lightning descended from the sky. Before Seto's eyes, a massive flying dragon's body was woven from lightning.
The Duel Arena was an important item created by Alchemy during the Previous Pharaoh's time. Its use is simple: Actually, it links to the corresponding Stone Tablet Temple and remotely summons the Stone Tablet Monsters stored within. Each Duel Arena has its corresponding Stone Tablet Temple. Theoretically, if you get someone else's Duel Arena, you can summon other people's Stone Tablet Monsters.
But actually, it's not like that. Every Priest has prepared a domain in their own Temple that only they can pass through with permission, to prevent their Duel Arena from falling into the hands of others. The reason Bakura could summon monsters using the Previous Pharaoh's Duel Arena before was only because the Stone Tablet Monsters he summoned were burial offerings and were not stored in the Stone Tablet Temple.
Like Hayato, he successively obtained Isis's and Dark Yugi's Duel Arenas, but he only used the Duel Arena as a transfer station to summon his own monsters and could not summon their Stone Tablet Monsters.
But now, whether it's a miracle, or the aid of Karim's soul in heaven, or perhaps the Thunder Dragon Colossus called by Seto was also desiring an opportunity for revenge for its master, the Thunder Dragon Colossus that descended here fought alongside Seto's Duos, sharing the pressure for the Dark Magician and holding back one Diabound together.
Instantly, the situation changed again. The Dark Magician, Thunder Dragon Colossus, and Duos together were suppressing the two Diabound.
During this time, Mana also understood that the young girl who looked exactly like her and appeared beside her seemed like her Awakened Spirit. Having waited for the opportunity for a long time, she seized the chance and immediately began casting a spell in combination with her Spirit—the Dark Magician Girl, chanting a spell.
"Thunderous Carriage, Gap of the Spinning Wheel, this thing has light, and splits into six!"
The two young girls fiercely swung their staffs towards the Great Dark Priest, who was focused on defending against Dark Yugi and Seto and completely ignored Mana's side. An energy ball quickly formed and shot out towards the Great Dark Priest and the Diabound Tablet standing not far away on the Ground!
"Mana-Mana-chan's Double Magic Explosion!" "Dark Burning Attack!"
Although the opinions on the name seemed not to be unified, the magic achieved full effect. The Great Dark Priest, who had completely unexpected Mana could unleash such power, managed to flash away in time to avoid being directly hit by Mana and the Dark Magician Girl's attack. However, the Diabound Tablet beside him had no time to transfer and was directly hit and shattered by the attack!
The sudden explosion even blasted away the Great Dark Priest, sending him crashing into the wall nearby. The mask on his face finally completely shattered during the process of being blasted away.
Looking at the figure that appeared before him, Dark Yugi was also full of surprise: "Mahad!?"
"No, the one you see now is..."
Mahad, standing before Dark Yugi, was not wearing the priest robe he had worn before, but rather a dark purple mage robe, holding an emerald green staff in his hand. He looked like Dark Yugi's most trusted duel monster from the modern era—the Dark Magician, identical in every way.
"Forgive me, Pharaoh, for not being able to remain by your side as a human, under the name of Mahad." Mahad, or rather, the Dark Magician, bowed respectfully to Dark Yugi, then turned to look at Diabound's attack, which he had completely blocked with a magic barrier. "But my soul will accompany you to the last, under the name of the Dark Magician!"
"Dark Magic Attack!"
Opening his palm, he pushed fiercely, and the magic barrier instantly exerted power, successfully pushing Diabound's attack away. It continued to strike fiercely against Diabound's body, causing it to reel backward and lose its balance.
The Dark Magician's attack continued. That barrier was just an opening move for him now, fundamentally not a serious attack.
Mystical power converged towards the staff in his hand. Only to see the Dark Magician rush forward. The staff in his hand stabbed out like a lance into the chest of the still recovering Diabound. Mystical power erupted fiercely. The human-sized Dark Magician actually blasted away the nearly ten-meter-tall Diabound, smashing it into the wall and embedding it!
"Ma-Master!?" "Mahad?!"
Seto and Mana, after the Dark Magician pushed away Diabound's attack, naturally saw him standing beside the completely unharmed Dark Yugi. They both called out in surprise.
"Priest Mahad, no, stone tablet monster Dark Magician, have you recovered from the previous battle!" The Great Dark Priest frowned, somewhat angry at the Dark Magician's appearance. They were just a hair's breadth away from finishing off the Pharaoh, and now someone else had come to interfere.
Before, Mahad, in order to finish off Bakura, had chosen to use forbidden power to merge his near-death self with the Illusion Magician, who was about to vanish. He transformed from a human into a stone tablet monster. Pity, in the end, he still couldn't drag Bakura down with him in a mutual destruction, and his own soul was damaged in that battle, forcing him to return to the tablet to slumber.
But luckily, he finally woke up in time and protected the Pharaoh at the key moment.
"As long as I am here, don't even think about harming the Pharaoh, you fallen one!"
Looking at the Great Dark Priest, the Dark Magician responded forcefully. The Dark Magician's words made the expression beneath the Great Dark Priest's mask look even worse. Could this guy know something?
"Hmph, saying it doesn't make it so. I just said, didn't I? The Harpie Lady that Diabound absorbed has the ability to split into three avatars. Let's go, the other Diabound!"
As the Great Dark Priest spoke, a third Diabound actually manifested out of thin air before him. The second Diabound, which had been blasted away by the Dark Magician, also dug itself out of the wall. All along, although Diabound possessed great strength and terrifying growth potential, fundamentally, what made it most apprehensive was its immortality.
Because of the Dark Magician's arrival, the party's reinforcements did increase. However, the Great Dark Priest also simultaneously increased the quantity of enemies. Seeing the Dark Magician immediately go up against the two Diabound in duel, Seto couldn't help but grip the Millennium Rod in his hand tightly.
Although the Dark Magician, formed by the combination of Mahad and Illusion Magician, possessed great strength, enough to suppress one Diabound, the quantity of Diabound with the same level of power, even excluding the one drawn away by Hayato, was still two. The Dark Magician could only barely withstand their attacks by relying on his rich magical arts.
However, compared to Diabound, whose power was continuously supplied by the geographical environment, the Dark Magician's power was still somewhat lacking. If the time dragged on, it would probably be difficult to avoid defeat.
It was at this moment that Seto, however, saw a flash of gold radiance in the nearby pile of rubble. He strangely swept away the rubble burying something, only to see a blood-stained Duel Arena.
"This is..." Seto then remembered that before they fell into this Underground area, they were beside Karim's remains. This Duel Arena before him seemed like the one Karim had used. It seemed like it had fallen here along with the ground collapse at that time.
Looking at the Duel Arena before him, Seto thought for a moment and made up his mind: "Although no one had ever succeeded before, at this moment, let's temporarily abandon the stance between you and me and fight for the Pharaoh, Karim."
Saying this, he actually picked up Karim's Duel Arena and put it on his other empty arm. He turned to look at the Dark Magician who was fighting Diabound.
Raising the Duel Arena above his head, Seto shouted: "This is a battle for the Kingdom! Lend me your power, Karim!"
Instantly, a large amount of electric current emerged from the arm Seto raised, conducting through his body and making him tremble. But relying on his will, Seto endured the sense of rejection from the Duel Arena while bathed in the electric current, shouting: "Answer me, Thunder Dragon Colossus!"
"Roar!"
From the hole that broke open above Seto's head, lightning descended from the sky. Before Seto's eyes, a massive flying dragon's body was woven from lightning.
The Duel Arena was an important item created by Alchemy during the Previous Pharaoh's time. Its use is simple: Actually, it links to the corresponding Stone Tablet Temple and remotely summons the Stone Tablet Monsters stored within. Each Duel Arena has its corresponding Stone Tablet Temple. Theoretically, if you get someone else's Duel Arena, you can summon other people's Stone Tablet Monsters.
But actually, it's not like that. Every Priest has prepared a domain in their own Temple that only they can pass through with permission, to prevent their Duel Arena from falling into the hands of others. The reason Bakura could summon monsters using the Previous Pharaoh's Duel Arena before was only because the Stone Tablet Monsters he summoned were burial offerings and were not stored in the Stone Tablet Temple.
Like Hayato, he successively obtained Isis's and Dark Yugi's Duel Arenas, but he only used the Duel Arena as a transfer station to summon his own monsters and could not summon their Stone Tablet Monsters.
But now, whether it's a miracle, or the aid of Karim's soul in heaven, or perhaps the Thunder Dragon Colossus called by Seto was also desiring an opportunity for revenge for its master, the Thunder Dragon Colossus that descended here fought alongside Seto's Duos, sharing the pressure for the Dark Magician and holding back one Diabound together.
Instantly, the situation changed again. The Dark Magician, Thunder Dragon Colossus, and Duos together were suppressing the two Diabound.
During this time, Mana also understood that the young girl who looked exactly like her and appeared beside her seemed like her Awakened Spirit. Having waited for the opportunity for a long time, she seized the chance and immediately began casting a spell in combination with her Spirit—the Dark Magician Girl, chanting a spell.
"Thunderous Carriage, Gap of the Spinning Wheel, this thing has light, and splits into six!"
The two young girls fiercely swung their staffs towards the Great Dark Priest, who was focused on defending against Dark Yugi and Seto and completely ignored Mana's side. An energy ball quickly formed and shot out towards the Great Dark Priest and the Diabound Tablet standing not far away on the Ground!
"Mana-Mana-chan's Double Magic Explosion!" "Dark Burning Attack!"
Although the opinions on the name seemed not to be unified, the magic achieved full effect. The Great Dark Priest, who had completely unexpected Mana could unleash such power, managed to flash away in time to avoid being directly hit by Mana and the Dark Magician Girl's attack. However, the Diabound Tablet beside him had no time to transfer and was directly hit and shattered by the attack!
The sudden explosion even blasted away the Great Dark Priest, sending him crashing into the wall nearby. The mask on his face finally completely shattered during the process of being blasted away.
