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Chapter 820: Unstoppable, Irresistible, I Am the Great Cataclysm
The hourglass's countdown reached its end. As the last grain of sand fell, the Millennium Stone Tablet submerged beneath the Thief Village Underground finally completely shattered.
Radiance rose from Underground towards the sky. Bathed in the magenta wicked light, the World Breaker of this Memory World crawled out from the Underworld.
And the body of the Player Bakura, who was sitting in front of the Chessboard before, turned into dust little by little amidst his loud laughter.
"Hahahaha, it's here, it's here, it's here! My true form has finally been revived! The winner of this ultimate dark game has already been decided, Nameless Pharaoh, and Hayato!"
"As long as this Memory World is completely destroyed along with it, not only in this game, but my body in the Real World will also be completely revived..."
The dust of Bakura's body was transferred into the Memory World and merged into one with the giant existence crawling out from the Underworld. The giant Great Evil God with a ferocious appearance opened its eye. Its mouth, full of sharp teeth, opened, breathing the long-lost air of the Real World. "I am the night, I am revenge, I am the Great Evil God of Darkness—Zorc Necrophades!"
Great Evil God Zorc roared up at the sky. Having re-merged with the part of himself that split off three thousand years ago, He raised his arm. In his spread open palm, he held the wreckage of the shattered Millennium Stone Tablet, as well as the seven Millennium Items that were previously used to dispel the seal.
However, with Zorc's revive, these Millennium Items all became dim and lusterless, clearly having lost their original might because they were no longer powered by Zorc's power.
"Hmph hmph hmph hmph, items created by theft of my power, yet they were the key to my release. I was almost tempted to collect them as souvenirs," Zorc said, casually flicking his hand. The Millennium Items and stone were casually discarded by him like trash. "But never mind. I don't think Kennedy would collect a sniper rifle if given the chance."
Propping his empty hands on the Ground, the Ground in front of him was torn open, revealing a larger space. Zorc Necrophades lifted his legs and pulled out his lower body from Underground as well, standing tall upon the Earth.
His entire pitch-black body had no luster to speak of, as if it were a Black Hole swallowing all light it touched. Fine dragon scales covered his entire body. Whether it was his thick limbs or the pair of enormous bat wings extending from his back that blotted out the sky, compared to the fiend's head with a pair of backward-pointing bull horns, the most striking was still the thick dragon head growing below Zorc Necrophades' abdomen, between his legs.
It wasn't something that had to be described vaguely because it had color, but a genuine pitch-black dark dragon head. Not only could it freely turn its head up, down, left, and right, that dragon head could even blink and breathe.
Although both the dragon head itself and Zorc's own appearance gave off an extremely ferocious and terrifying feeling, only after the two were combined, the position where the dragon head grew was simply too sensitive, instead making people can't help but wonder what the designer was thinking when they created such an existence and put the dragon head there.
However, such a sensitive design was only a little funny at most when Zorc Necrophades' size was still average. But as Great Evil God Zorc came onto the Surface World, He began to absorb the abundant mystical power from all over the World, and his size surged. Five meters, ten meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters—in almost just a few breaths, Great Evil God Zorc's body had already grown to an extremely exaggerated size.
When Great Evil God Zorc could almost touch the low dark clouds in the sky, His change finally stopped. But by then, His height had reached over a thousand meters. The originally somewhat funny "dragon head between the legs" now became a terrifying ferocious giant beast for the people on the Ground.
"I remember, it should be this direction," Great Evil God Zorc turned his head and looked towards the Royal City, stepped forward, and began His world-destroying journey amidst the Ground's trembling.
And even though the Royal City was a thousand miles away, because Zorc's body was too huge, the guards on the City Wall still saw Zorc's figure advancing towards the Royal City. They immediately sent an alarm into the City, making everyone on the Plaza aware of this message.
"A giant black monster is walking towards this city. Could that be the evil will revived from beneath the Millennium Stone Tablet?" Isis said with a frown. Beside her, Simon and Shada were somewhat confused. Because the two were left in the City before and didn't catch Aknadin's explanation, the information they knew was at least two or three versions behind others.
However, after the two were rescued by Isis from the Dungeon, they also updated their information a bit, at least knowing about Aknadin's situation and Seto's betrayal. But Isis hadn't had time to explain about Zorc to them.
Kaiba glanced at Seto, who had been subdued by Simon and was being tied up by Shada, remaining silent. He said, "Are you satisfied now? Although I don't believe in reincarnation, based on my own personality, what exactly did Bakura give you as a deal to make you help him 'revive' that thing called Zorc?"
Seto didn't look at Kaiba either. He said, "Power, of course it's power, I've already said that."
"For power, you betrayed the Pharaoh and handed the Millennium Necklace to that Bakura?"
Isis was somewhat unable to understand, and Seto gave her a glance, with some disdain. "Idiot, you fundamentally don't know how pathetic it is to have no power. Only power can pioneer the future."
"To obtain power, I can even give up almost everything, but precisely..." Seto's voice lowered, looking at Kaiba. "You bastard, you took Kisara away from me! It's all because of you, otherwise how would Kisara have become like this now!"
"Hmph, have you gone mad? You're the one who killed Kisara. Do you have the qualification to say such things after killing Kisara?" Kaiba glared back, unwilling to show weakness.
Looking at Seto and Kaiba, whose conversation completely revolved around the name of a woman they didn't know, "Kisara", Shada had a headache. He looked at Isis and said, "So many matters happened in an instant, it's really a headache. That enemy called 'Zorc' is approaching the Royal City, yet they're still arguing endlessly. Speaking of which, Priest Isis, where did the Pharaoh go?"
"Before, after Priest Aknadin was taken captive, he revealed to us that when he communicated with Great Evil God Zorc and created the Millennium Items, he specifically prepared counter-measures for it. The Pharaoh went to activate that means under his leadership." Isis's face was filled with worry. "Although I don't know how much time the Pharaoh needs to return, before then, we must substitute for the Pharaoh and protect this City well."
Simon and Shada heard this. The master and disciple exchanged a glance and nodded towards Isis.
To resist Great Evil God Zorc who was coming towards the Royal City, as the only remaining Priests, Isis, Shada, and Simon immediately integrated Seto's troops within the Royal City and the army Isis brought back, and began preparing defense works.
Because of Ancient Egypt's system, with the Pharaoh not yet returned, the authority of the entire Royal City was concentrated in the hands of the Priests. This allowed Seto before to so easily take authority into his own hands and complete the usurpation after clearing out Simon and Shada, and also allowed the three Priests now to easily mobilize the City Defense Force and the material reserves within the Royal Treasury.
In an extremely short amount of time, catapults were mobilized one after another to the position Outside the City Gate facing the Thief Village. One enormous rock after another was constructed by the Court Magicians using spells and placed on the catapults' throwing arms. At the same time, a large amount of bows and crossbows and anti-cavalry obstacles were also transported Outside the City.
However, Kaiba was deeply suspicious of how much use these conventional tools from human warfare could be against Great Evil God Zorc, because as Zorc got closer, his terrifying size was already clear to most people. Could anyone truly counter such a giant existence?
"Kuri, Kuriboh~"
The unique voice of the **Kuriboh** series monsters entered Kaiba's ears. He turned his head, confused, but found that the voice came from Shada's direction. There was also a **Kuriboh** spirit beside him, but it wasn't Hayato's **Rainbow Kuriboh** or Yugi's **Kuriboh** that he knew, but Shada's own awakened spirit, **Ankh Kuriboh**.
The dispirited **Ankh Kuriboh** huddled in Shada's arms, trembling: "Kuriboh."
After being rescued by Isis from the Dungeon, while Simon and Isis led people to transport city defense machinery, Shada went to perform the task of integrating the troops. Because of Seto's brutal means before, many innocent sufferers were imprisoned in the Dungeon, and Shada's **Ankh Kuriboh**'s healing ability came into use.
However, although **Ankh Kuriboh** before spent a lot of strength to heal others and allow them to be converted into combat power, after all, it was healing ordinary people. Compared to the strength spent healing the combat-use Millennium Stone Spirit, it was much less, and wasn't enough to make **Ankh Kuriboh** become like this now.
Rather than saying "healing spent energy", it's better to say **Ankh Kuriboh** noticed the approach of dark power, and was therefore "fearful".
"Ankh Kuriboh." Holding the small spirit in his arms, Shada comforted it, looking at the distant dark sky, his tone holding a hint of confusion. "Priest Aknadin and Seto betrayed us. Priest Mahad and Priest Karim sacrificed themselves. Only Priest Isis and I are left of the Pharaoh's Priests..."
"Can we defeat that Great Evil God Zorc?"
Among the six Priests when Dark Yugi took office, Shada could be said to be the most inconspicuous one. His personality determined that he was someone who liked stability and peace, and wouldn't contend. The lack of desire also meant his inner thoughts weren't firm enough, and he was easily influenced by others.
He could, at that time, when Bakura attacked Dark Yugi for the second time, desperately push himself to use **Ankh Kuriboh**'s power to support and protect Dark Yugi, but that didn't mean he didn't have fear of death. With Great Evil God Zorc approaching now, Shada's heart was full of pressure, and he had no confidence at all about whether they could defeat Zorc.
If there was no one he could rely on, no one who could guide direction for him, someone with Shada's personality could very easily choose to give up in confusion. And fortunately, he still had a Teacher.
"Don't say such discouraging words, Shada." One hand patted Shada's shoulder. Simon, standing on the High Platform nearby, was barely as tall as Shada by using the height difference of the platform. Knowing the personality of his chosen disciple well, he also saw the confusion in Shada's heart and spoke, "You've been like this since before. Although you're good at learning from others, you're also easily influenced by others."
"Sometimes, there are matters a person must accomplish alone, even if they know the outcome, they must stake everything and fight hard."
"Lord Shimon." Hearing Simon, who taught him to become a Priest, counsel him, Shada turned his head to look at him and nodded. "I understand. Regardless of whether we can defeat that Great Evil God Zorc, as the Pharaoh's Priests, protecting the Royal City for the Pharaoh is the duty we must fulfill here."
Simon nodded and smiled satisfied. "That's right. You know, we Priests are still the leaders of the soldiers under our command. We must show enough courage in front of them and play a leading role."
Hearing this, Shada glanced at the soldiers lined up behind the defense machinery in front of him. They were also looking this way, observing the reactions of the few of them. Lord Shimon was right, as army commanders, we Priests must set a good example.
And Kaiba looked at Shada, who had gathered courage again, and tilted his head curiously. He didn't know if it was an illusion. Although he did hear **Ankh Kuriboh** in Shada's arms making "Kuriboh" "Kuriboh" sounds, he should have heard two "Kuriboh" "Kuriboh" calls.
Compared to **Ankh Kuriboh**'s call, the other voice sounded unusually familiar to Kaiba, as if he had heard it countless times. However, he couldn't find the source of that voice no matter what.
Besides Shada, was there any other Kuriboh Series Spirit?
"What's wrong, Seto, are you thinking about something?" **Maiden with Eyes of Blue** looked at Kaiba and said somewhat confused. Kaiba also shook his head. "No, it's nothing."
On the Royal City City Wall, Kaiba and **Maiden with Eyes of Blue** stood together, hand in hand. Beside them was the City Defense Force controlling large bows and crossbows;
Below the City Wall, large catapults were ready. Their command was Shada;
And behind the City Wall, Isis led the Court Magician Group in urgently applying various magic reinforcements to various parts of the City Wall, and afterwards would also go to various places as support to fill the gaps in manpower;
In a position further back, the elderly Priest Simon presided as Commander-in-Chief. Beside him was Seto, who was tied up and had a magic power isolation spell applied.
Great Evil God Zorc, remaining distance from the Royal City, one kilometer.
"All units, begin attack!"
In the instant Great Evil God Zorc stepped within the one-kilometer range, Simon ordered, allowing each unit to begin their attack. The attacks from various machinery, whose range was doubled after being enhanced by magic and alchemy, seemed to be fired out, attacking towards the giant Zorc. Seeing the rain-like attacks arrive, Zorc grinned ferociously. He didn't dodge at all, allowing the attacks to touch his body, but they were completely swallowed by darkness.
"What!?" "Were the attacks ineffective?" "Didn't they work!"
On the Ground, the soldiers were astonished that their attacks had no effect. And Zorc grinned, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth, and said arrogantly, "Unstoppable, irresistible."
"I am the Great Cataclysm!"
(End of Chapter)
The hourglass's countdown reached its end. As the last grain of sand fell, the Millennium Stone Tablet submerged beneath the Thief Village Underground finally completely shattered.
Radiance rose from Underground towards the sky. Bathed in the magenta wicked light, the World Breaker of this Memory World crawled out from the Underworld.
And the body of the Player Bakura, who was sitting in front of the Chessboard before, turned into dust little by little amidst his loud laughter.
"Hahahaha, it's here, it's here, it's here! My true form has finally been revived! The winner of this ultimate dark game has already been decided, Nameless Pharaoh, and Hayato!"
"As long as this Memory World is completely destroyed along with it, not only in this game, but my body in the Real World will also be completely revived..."
The dust of Bakura's body was transferred into the Memory World and merged into one with the giant existence crawling out from the Underworld. The giant Great Evil God with a ferocious appearance opened its eye. Its mouth, full of sharp teeth, opened, breathing the long-lost air of the Real World. "I am the night, I am revenge, I am the Great Evil God of Darkness—Zorc Necrophades!"
Great Evil God Zorc roared up at the sky. Having re-merged with the part of himself that split off three thousand years ago, He raised his arm. In his spread open palm, he held the wreckage of the shattered Millennium Stone Tablet, as well as the seven Millennium Items that were previously used to dispel the seal.
However, with Zorc's revive, these Millennium Items all became dim and lusterless, clearly having lost their original might because they were no longer powered by Zorc's power.
"Hmph hmph hmph hmph, items created by theft of my power, yet they were the key to my release. I was almost tempted to collect them as souvenirs," Zorc said, casually flicking his hand. The Millennium Items and stone were casually discarded by him like trash. "But never mind. I don't think Kennedy would collect a sniper rifle if given the chance."
Propping his empty hands on the Ground, the Ground in front of him was torn open, revealing a larger space. Zorc Necrophades lifted his legs and pulled out his lower body from Underground as well, standing tall upon the Earth.
His entire pitch-black body had no luster to speak of, as if it were a Black Hole swallowing all light it touched. Fine dragon scales covered his entire body. Whether it was his thick limbs or the pair of enormous bat wings extending from his back that blotted out the sky, compared to the fiend's head with a pair of backward-pointing bull horns, the most striking was still the thick dragon head growing below Zorc Necrophades' abdomen, between his legs.
It wasn't something that had to be described vaguely because it had color, but a genuine pitch-black dark dragon head. Not only could it freely turn its head up, down, left, and right, that dragon head could even blink and breathe.
Although both the dragon head itself and Zorc's own appearance gave off an extremely ferocious and terrifying feeling, only after the two were combined, the position where the dragon head grew was simply too sensitive, instead making people can't help but wonder what the designer was thinking when they created such an existence and put the dragon head there.
However, such a sensitive design was only a little funny at most when Zorc Necrophades' size was still average. But as Great Evil God Zorc came onto the Surface World, He began to absorb the abundant mystical power from all over the World, and his size surged. Five meters, ten meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters—in almost just a few breaths, Great Evil God Zorc's body had already grown to an extremely exaggerated size.
When Great Evil God Zorc could almost touch the low dark clouds in the sky, His change finally stopped. But by then, His height had reached over a thousand meters. The originally somewhat funny "dragon head between the legs" now became a terrifying ferocious giant beast for the people on the Ground.
"I remember, it should be this direction," Great Evil God Zorc turned his head and looked towards the Royal City, stepped forward, and began His world-destroying journey amidst the Ground's trembling.
And even though the Royal City was a thousand miles away, because Zorc's body was too huge, the guards on the City Wall still saw Zorc's figure advancing towards the Royal City. They immediately sent an alarm into the City, making everyone on the Plaza aware of this message.
"A giant black monster is walking towards this city. Could that be the evil will revived from beneath the Millennium Stone Tablet?" Isis said with a frown. Beside her, Simon and Shada were somewhat confused. Because the two were left in the City before and didn't catch Aknadin's explanation, the information they knew was at least two or three versions behind others.
However, after the two were rescued by Isis from the Dungeon, they also updated their information a bit, at least knowing about Aknadin's situation and Seto's betrayal. But Isis hadn't had time to explain about Zorc to them.
Kaiba glanced at Seto, who had been subdued by Simon and was being tied up by Shada, remaining silent. He said, "Are you satisfied now? Although I don't believe in reincarnation, based on my own personality, what exactly did Bakura give you as a deal to make you help him 'revive' that thing called Zorc?"
Seto didn't look at Kaiba either. He said, "Power, of course it's power, I've already said that."
"For power, you betrayed the Pharaoh and handed the Millennium Necklace to that Bakura?"
Isis was somewhat unable to understand, and Seto gave her a glance, with some disdain. "Idiot, you fundamentally don't know how pathetic it is to have no power. Only power can pioneer the future."
"To obtain power, I can even give up almost everything, but precisely..." Seto's voice lowered, looking at Kaiba. "You bastard, you took Kisara away from me! It's all because of you, otherwise how would Kisara have become like this now!"
"Hmph, have you gone mad? You're the one who killed Kisara. Do you have the qualification to say such things after killing Kisara?" Kaiba glared back, unwilling to show weakness.
Looking at Seto and Kaiba, whose conversation completely revolved around the name of a woman they didn't know, "Kisara", Shada had a headache. He looked at Isis and said, "So many matters happened in an instant, it's really a headache. That enemy called 'Zorc' is approaching the Royal City, yet they're still arguing endlessly. Speaking of which, Priest Isis, where did the Pharaoh go?"
"Before, after Priest Aknadin was taken captive, he revealed to us that when he communicated with Great Evil God Zorc and created the Millennium Items, he specifically prepared counter-measures for it. The Pharaoh went to activate that means under his leadership." Isis's face was filled with worry. "Although I don't know how much time the Pharaoh needs to return, before then, we must substitute for the Pharaoh and protect this City well."
Simon and Shada heard this. The master and disciple exchanged a glance and nodded towards Isis.
To resist Great Evil God Zorc who was coming towards the Royal City, as the only remaining Priests, Isis, Shada, and Simon immediately integrated Seto's troops within the Royal City and the army Isis brought back, and began preparing defense works.
Because of Ancient Egypt's system, with the Pharaoh not yet returned, the authority of the entire Royal City was concentrated in the hands of the Priests. This allowed Seto before to so easily take authority into his own hands and complete the usurpation after clearing out Simon and Shada, and also allowed the three Priests now to easily mobilize the City Defense Force and the material reserves within the Royal Treasury.
In an extremely short amount of time, catapults were mobilized one after another to the position Outside the City Gate facing the Thief Village. One enormous rock after another was constructed by the Court Magicians using spells and placed on the catapults' throwing arms. At the same time, a large amount of bows and crossbows and anti-cavalry obstacles were also transported Outside the City.
However, Kaiba was deeply suspicious of how much use these conventional tools from human warfare could be against Great Evil God Zorc, because as Zorc got closer, his terrifying size was already clear to most people. Could anyone truly counter such a giant existence?
"Kuri, Kuriboh~"
The unique voice of the **Kuriboh** series monsters entered Kaiba's ears. He turned his head, confused, but found that the voice came from Shada's direction. There was also a **Kuriboh** spirit beside him, but it wasn't Hayato's **Rainbow Kuriboh** or Yugi's **Kuriboh** that he knew, but Shada's own awakened spirit, **Ankh Kuriboh**.
The dispirited **Ankh Kuriboh** huddled in Shada's arms, trembling: "Kuriboh."
After being rescued by Isis from the Dungeon, while Simon and Isis led people to transport city defense machinery, Shada went to perform the task of integrating the troops. Because of Seto's brutal means before, many innocent sufferers were imprisoned in the Dungeon, and Shada's **Ankh Kuriboh**'s healing ability came into use.
However, although **Ankh Kuriboh** before spent a lot of strength to heal others and allow them to be converted into combat power, after all, it was healing ordinary people. Compared to the strength spent healing the combat-use Millennium Stone Spirit, it was much less, and wasn't enough to make **Ankh Kuriboh** become like this now.
Rather than saying "healing spent energy", it's better to say **Ankh Kuriboh** noticed the approach of dark power, and was therefore "fearful".
"Ankh Kuriboh." Holding the small spirit in his arms, Shada comforted it, looking at the distant dark sky, his tone holding a hint of confusion. "Priest Aknadin and Seto betrayed us. Priest Mahad and Priest Karim sacrificed themselves. Only Priest Isis and I are left of the Pharaoh's Priests..."
"Can we defeat that Great Evil God Zorc?"
Among the six Priests when Dark Yugi took office, Shada could be said to be the most inconspicuous one. His personality determined that he was someone who liked stability and peace, and wouldn't contend. The lack of desire also meant his inner thoughts weren't firm enough, and he was easily influenced by others.
He could, at that time, when Bakura attacked Dark Yugi for the second time, desperately push himself to use **Ankh Kuriboh**'s power to support and protect Dark Yugi, but that didn't mean he didn't have fear of death. With Great Evil God Zorc approaching now, Shada's heart was full of pressure, and he had no confidence at all about whether they could defeat Zorc.
If there was no one he could rely on, no one who could guide direction for him, someone with Shada's personality could very easily choose to give up in confusion. And fortunately, he still had a Teacher.
"Don't say such discouraging words, Shada." One hand patted Shada's shoulder. Simon, standing on the High Platform nearby, was barely as tall as Shada by using the height difference of the platform. Knowing the personality of his chosen disciple well, he also saw the confusion in Shada's heart and spoke, "You've been like this since before. Although you're good at learning from others, you're also easily influenced by others."
"Sometimes, there are matters a person must accomplish alone, even if they know the outcome, they must stake everything and fight hard."
"Lord Shimon." Hearing Simon, who taught him to become a Priest, counsel him, Shada turned his head to look at him and nodded. "I understand. Regardless of whether we can defeat that Great Evil God Zorc, as the Pharaoh's Priests, protecting the Royal City for the Pharaoh is the duty we must fulfill here."
Simon nodded and smiled satisfied. "That's right. You know, we Priests are still the leaders of the soldiers under our command. We must show enough courage in front of them and play a leading role."
Hearing this, Shada glanced at the soldiers lined up behind the defense machinery in front of him. They were also looking this way, observing the reactions of the few of them. Lord Shimon was right, as army commanders, we Priests must set a good example.
And Kaiba looked at Shada, who had gathered courage again, and tilted his head curiously. He didn't know if it was an illusion. Although he did hear **Ankh Kuriboh** in Shada's arms making "Kuriboh" "Kuriboh" sounds, he should have heard two "Kuriboh" "Kuriboh" calls.
Compared to **Ankh Kuriboh**'s call, the other voice sounded unusually familiar to Kaiba, as if he had heard it countless times. However, he couldn't find the source of that voice no matter what.
Besides Shada, was there any other Kuriboh Series Spirit?
"What's wrong, Seto, are you thinking about something?" **Maiden with Eyes of Blue** looked at Kaiba and said somewhat confused. Kaiba also shook his head. "No, it's nothing."
On the Royal City City Wall, Kaiba and **Maiden with Eyes of Blue** stood together, hand in hand. Beside them was the City Defense Force controlling large bows and crossbows;
Below the City Wall, large catapults were ready. Their command was Shada;
And behind the City Wall, Isis led the Court Magician Group in urgently applying various magic reinforcements to various parts of the City Wall, and afterwards would also go to various places as support to fill the gaps in manpower;
In a position further back, the elderly Priest Simon presided as Commander-in-Chief. Beside him was Seto, who was tied up and had a magic power isolation spell applied.
Great Evil God Zorc, remaining distance from the Royal City, one kilometer.
"All units, begin attack!"
In the instant Great Evil God Zorc stepped within the one-kilometer range, Simon ordered, allowing each unit to begin their attack. The attacks from various machinery, whose range was doubled after being enhanced by magic and alchemy, seemed to be fired out, attacking towards the giant Zorc. Seeing the rain-like attacks arrive, Zorc grinned ferociously. He didn't dodge at all, allowing the attacks to touch his body, but they were completely swallowed by darkness.
"What!?" "Were the attacks ineffective?" "Didn't they work!"
On the Ground, the soldiers were astonished that their attacks had no effect. And Zorc grinned, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth, and said arrogantly, "Unstoppable, irresistible."
"I am the Great Cataclysm!"
(End of Chapter)
