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Chapter 330: The Out of Control Virtual World
Exodia's attack, like a Kamehameha, destroyed everything with unstoppable force, sending Gozaburo's entire body flying backward to land flat on the ground. The enlarged office serving as the background was also a mess, with the massive floor-to-ceiling window shattering with a crash.
The instant Hayato defeated Gozaburo, he received the reward issued by the system.
However, he didn't have time to check the details of the reward just yet.
Walking quickly forward, Hayato held the Millennium Ring in one hand and grabbed Gozaburo Kaiba by the collar with the other. "The Duel is over, Gozaburo Kaiba. As one of the dead, you have no right to interfere with the world of the living. Go back to the afterlife!"
As he spoke, Hayato raised the Millennium Ring as if it were brass knuckles, about to press it against Gozaburo's face.
The principle behind using a Millennium Item to send a soul to the afterlife was quite simple; it was essentially just using a large amount of Dark Energy to directly scatter the soul. As for whether Gozaburo and Chikuzen Ohoka before him actually entered the underworld, Hayato didn't care.
The Millennium Ring, glowing with golden light, slowly approached his forehead. Gozaburo wanted to resist, but having just suffered defeat in the Duel, he was completely unable to move and could only let Hayato do as he pleased.
Just as the Dark Energy swirling on the Millennium Ring was about to invade Gozaburo's body, Hayato suddenly let go of Gozaburo like a wild rabbit sensing a hunter approaching, tossing him aside and rolling away from his original spot.
And in the next second, a beam of golden light missed its target, and a voice Hayato was quite familiar with rang out: "Isn't it a bit too cruel to go for the kill like this, Hayato-kun?"
Through the shattered floor-to-ceiling window, a gust of air rushed into the office, fluttering the speaker's long coat tails. Beneath a mess of white hair was a face full of smiles. It was Bakura, who had disappeared from the infirmary.
Next to Bakura, a golden eyeball floated in mid-air like a floating cannon, and the beam that had just interrupted Hayato's Dark Energy came from it.
"Bakura, you actually came to this world too? Tsk, what a headache, everyone's gathering here." Hayato held the Deck he had just taken from Gozaburo's Duel Disk in his hand. As a large number of Cards turned into data and disappeared, only a single blank card remained in Hayato's hand.
Bakura smiled. "You're taking someone else's Deck again, Hayato-kun. You really haven't forgotten your roots. If I remember correctly, you also took my Deck once, didn't you?"
"Well, our family rule is 'If you don't pick it up when you go out, it's a loss.' But don't slander me, I asked for your opinion back then."
As the Duels of the other five people around them progressed, Hayato's expression became a little heavy. Because holding the Card, he discovered that an energy different from Dark Energy was surging towards him centered on the blank card in his hand. At the same time, the energy that had been concentrated in the Card was rotating in a vortex shape, even showing a tendency to pull the surrounding space into rotation with it.
This Gozaburo guy, just by analyzing KaibaCorp's internal database, was able to recreate Super Polymerization to this extent? Hayato didn't believe it.
But Hayato thought that if there was someone who knew a little about the existence of Super Polymerization providing guidance from the side, then it would be understandable.
Thinking this, Hayato looked at Bakura and asked, "The method Gozaburo Kaiba knows for making Super Polymerization, you provided it to him, didn't you, Bakura?"
"Well, after all, a person's dream has no end. Seeing him work so hard for his dream, I just gave him a little push from behind."
Bakura's expression was quite composed. He walked over to Gozaburo Kaiba, who was lying on the ground, looked at his dishevelled state, curled his lips, and kicked out fiercely. "However, this guy really disappointed me too much."
These words were a complete replica of what Gozaburo had said when he killed Noah just now.
"You, you actually dare to kick me!" Gozaburo, kicked in the abdomen by Bakura, curled up his body, trying to get up and counterattack. But for some reason, even though he had clearly used willpower to interfere with the virtual world, the world seemed to have lost connection and no longer responded to him.
"How is this possible!?"
Gozaburo couldn't help but widen his eyes, green data streams surging within them. Although he didn't have Millennium Items or similar items, Gozaburo, who had analyzed Dark Energy from Hayato and Noah's Duel, was quite certain that in his Duel with Hayato just now, Hayato had not used a Millennium Item to turn the Duel into a Dark Game and place a stake.
Within the virtual world, although Hayato's administrator authority was still retained, the holder of the supreme authority was still Gozaburo himself.
But for some reason, despite having issued the command to "erase everyone present except himself" to the world, neither Hayato, Yugi Mutou, Seto Kaiba, nor Bakura were affected by him.
He tried to control other things again.
The shattered floor-to-ceiling window behind him seemed to undergo time reversal, the glass gradually repairing itself. But halfway through the repair, the speed of the glass restoration slowed down dramatically, like a file about to finish downloading, and it directly froze halfway, no longer changing.
He wanted to displace the surrounding space to another location, but the scene only flickered slightly before remaining in this world.
The virtual world was actually gradually slipping out of his control!
Bakura noticed Hayato's gaze towards him and quickly waved his hand. "This has nothing to do with me. If you have to say it, the culprits are actually Yugi Mutou, Seto Kaiba, and Hayato-kun, the three of you."
"My reason for coming to this world is quite simple. Besides answering a question that has troubled others for a long time, I haven't done anything else." Saying this, Bakura walked to the floor-to-ceiling window that had finally been halfway repaired, kicked the glass to shatter it, turned around to face Hayato, and smiled. "Well then, everyone, see you in the real world, Ciao~"
With that, he actually leaned back and fell out of the floor-to-ceiling window.
Hayato had no intention of stopping Bakura, because he knew that Bakura, or rather, the evil god within him, was as tenacious as a cockroach and wouldn't die easily. Moreover, he was quite satisfied with Bakura's body and wouldn't mess around recklessly.
He lowered his head to look at the blank card in his hand. The pattern on it was becoming clearer and clearer, seemingly being completed as the Duels of the others around him progressed. At the same time, the sense of distortion interfering with space was also becoming more obvious.
If he didn't move faster, the Super Polymerization Card would probably be completed soon!
Hayato looked at Gozaburo, who had fainted directly because Bakura kicked the glass he had painstakingly repaired halfway, and then looked at the others who were still Dueling. He made up his mind and once again raised the Millennium Ring on his chest.
Golden light bloomed on the golden disk, and the five dangling cones all pointed in one direction. Hayato took a step and quickly ran in the direction indicated by the Millennium Ring.
Before, because he was interrupted by Noah, he couldn't find what he was looking for and was dragged into consecutive Duels. Now he had to speed up and quickly find that thing.
Within the Millennium Ring, Marik sat cross-legged, looking at Hayato and asking, "Brother-in-law, what exactly are you looking for?"
His expression was quite leisurely.
Well, in a sense, he wasn't much different from a deceased person, having left his body. If he could live in the Millennium Ring, he would live. If he couldn't, then he just couldn't.
Hayato kicked open the door to the KaibaCorp Office. Behind the door was a desert. Hayato strode forward on the soft sand, but the sand absorbed the power from his feet, making it a bit difficult to walk.
Hearing Marik's question, he explained, "A long time ago, I, Yugi Mutou, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, and Kaiba, a few of us, participated in an online game developed by KaibaCorp centered around Duel Monsters."
"Although the world of that online game looked like a normal game world, in reality, that world was quite magical. Have you ever seen a spirit you met in a game turn into a card and come into your hands in the real world?"
"How is that possible? If even something like that could be done, card spirits would be too cheap," Marik said casually, but after a pause, he said with some uncertainty, "Brother-in-law, you don't mean..."
Hayato nodded. "Yugi and I both got cards from that world. You should have seen the card I used, it's that Earthbound Immortal."
After crossing a sand dune, although there was a vast expanse of sand in front of him, Hayato did not continue forward. Instead, he walked to a large rock beside the sand dune, and holding the Millennium Ring, passed through the rift in the rock. Hayato instantly arrived in a dense jungle.
"This world is a bit too messy, isn't it? It's almost like it's pieced together." Marik complained.
"What you said isn't quite accurate, because this world isn't 'like it's pieced together,' it *is* pieced together. With the development of the game I mentioned earlier, all sorts of leftover scenes were crammed into this world that originally had nothing. Saying it's pieced together is actually a compliment."
The light of the Millennium Ring in Hayato's hand became increasingly bright, seemingly indicating that he was extremely close to his destination. Hayato turned his body, confirmed a direction, and pushed aside a patch of grass beside him.
In front of his eyes, a very strange rift appeared, completely out of place with the surrounding green.
Seeing this rift, Hayato smiled. "Finally found it."
Exodia's attack, like a Kamehameha, destroyed everything with unstoppable force, sending Gozaburo's entire body flying backward to land flat on the ground. The enlarged office serving as the background was also a mess, with the massive floor-to-ceiling window shattering with a crash.
The instant Hayato defeated Gozaburo, he received the reward issued by the system.
However, he didn't have time to check the details of the reward just yet.
Walking quickly forward, Hayato held the Millennium Ring in one hand and grabbed Gozaburo Kaiba by the collar with the other. "The Duel is over, Gozaburo Kaiba. As one of the dead, you have no right to interfere with the world of the living. Go back to the afterlife!"
As he spoke, Hayato raised the Millennium Ring as if it were brass knuckles, about to press it against Gozaburo's face.
The principle behind using a Millennium Item to send a soul to the afterlife was quite simple; it was essentially just using a large amount of Dark Energy to directly scatter the soul. As for whether Gozaburo and Chikuzen Ohoka before him actually entered the underworld, Hayato didn't care.
The Millennium Ring, glowing with golden light, slowly approached his forehead. Gozaburo wanted to resist, but having just suffered defeat in the Duel, he was completely unable to move and could only let Hayato do as he pleased.
Just as the Dark Energy swirling on the Millennium Ring was about to invade Gozaburo's body, Hayato suddenly let go of Gozaburo like a wild rabbit sensing a hunter approaching, tossing him aside and rolling away from his original spot.
And in the next second, a beam of golden light missed its target, and a voice Hayato was quite familiar with rang out: "Isn't it a bit too cruel to go for the kill like this, Hayato-kun?"
Through the shattered floor-to-ceiling window, a gust of air rushed into the office, fluttering the speaker's long coat tails. Beneath a mess of white hair was a face full of smiles. It was Bakura, who had disappeared from the infirmary.
Next to Bakura, a golden eyeball floated in mid-air like a floating cannon, and the beam that had just interrupted Hayato's Dark Energy came from it.
"Bakura, you actually came to this world too? Tsk, what a headache, everyone's gathering here." Hayato held the Deck he had just taken from Gozaburo's Duel Disk in his hand. As a large number of Cards turned into data and disappeared, only a single blank card remained in Hayato's hand.
Bakura smiled. "You're taking someone else's Deck again, Hayato-kun. You really haven't forgotten your roots. If I remember correctly, you also took my Deck once, didn't you?"
"Well, our family rule is 'If you don't pick it up when you go out, it's a loss.' But don't slander me, I asked for your opinion back then."
As the Duels of the other five people around them progressed, Hayato's expression became a little heavy. Because holding the Card, he discovered that an energy different from Dark Energy was surging towards him centered on the blank card in his hand. At the same time, the energy that had been concentrated in the Card was rotating in a vortex shape, even showing a tendency to pull the surrounding space into rotation with it.
This Gozaburo guy, just by analyzing KaibaCorp's internal database, was able to recreate Super Polymerization to this extent? Hayato didn't believe it.
But Hayato thought that if there was someone who knew a little about the existence of Super Polymerization providing guidance from the side, then it would be understandable.
Thinking this, Hayato looked at Bakura and asked, "The method Gozaburo Kaiba knows for making Super Polymerization, you provided it to him, didn't you, Bakura?"
"Well, after all, a person's dream has no end. Seeing him work so hard for his dream, I just gave him a little push from behind."
Bakura's expression was quite composed. He walked over to Gozaburo Kaiba, who was lying on the ground, looked at his dishevelled state, curled his lips, and kicked out fiercely. "However, this guy really disappointed me too much."
These words were a complete replica of what Gozaburo had said when he killed Noah just now.
"You, you actually dare to kick me!" Gozaburo, kicked in the abdomen by Bakura, curled up his body, trying to get up and counterattack. But for some reason, even though he had clearly used willpower to interfere with the virtual world, the world seemed to have lost connection and no longer responded to him.
"How is this possible!?"
Gozaburo couldn't help but widen his eyes, green data streams surging within them. Although he didn't have Millennium Items or similar items, Gozaburo, who had analyzed Dark Energy from Hayato and Noah's Duel, was quite certain that in his Duel with Hayato just now, Hayato had not used a Millennium Item to turn the Duel into a Dark Game and place a stake.
Within the virtual world, although Hayato's administrator authority was still retained, the holder of the supreme authority was still Gozaburo himself.
But for some reason, despite having issued the command to "erase everyone present except himself" to the world, neither Hayato, Yugi Mutou, Seto Kaiba, nor Bakura were affected by him.
He tried to control other things again.
The shattered floor-to-ceiling window behind him seemed to undergo time reversal, the glass gradually repairing itself. But halfway through the repair, the speed of the glass restoration slowed down dramatically, like a file about to finish downloading, and it directly froze halfway, no longer changing.
He wanted to displace the surrounding space to another location, but the scene only flickered slightly before remaining in this world.
The virtual world was actually gradually slipping out of his control!
Bakura noticed Hayato's gaze towards him and quickly waved his hand. "This has nothing to do with me. If you have to say it, the culprits are actually Yugi Mutou, Seto Kaiba, and Hayato-kun, the three of you."
"My reason for coming to this world is quite simple. Besides answering a question that has troubled others for a long time, I haven't done anything else." Saying this, Bakura walked to the floor-to-ceiling window that had finally been halfway repaired, kicked the glass to shatter it, turned around to face Hayato, and smiled. "Well then, everyone, see you in the real world, Ciao~"
With that, he actually leaned back and fell out of the floor-to-ceiling window.
Hayato had no intention of stopping Bakura, because he knew that Bakura, or rather, the evil god within him, was as tenacious as a cockroach and wouldn't die easily. Moreover, he was quite satisfied with Bakura's body and wouldn't mess around recklessly.
He lowered his head to look at the blank card in his hand. The pattern on it was becoming clearer and clearer, seemingly being completed as the Duels of the others around him progressed. At the same time, the sense of distortion interfering with space was also becoming more obvious.
If he didn't move faster, the Super Polymerization Card would probably be completed soon!
Hayato looked at Gozaburo, who had fainted directly because Bakura kicked the glass he had painstakingly repaired halfway, and then looked at the others who were still Dueling. He made up his mind and once again raised the Millennium Ring on his chest.
Golden light bloomed on the golden disk, and the five dangling cones all pointed in one direction. Hayato took a step and quickly ran in the direction indicated by the Millennium Ring.
Before, because he was interrupted by Noah, he couldn't find what he was looking for and was dragged into consecutive Duels. Now he had to speed up and quickly find that thing.
Within the Millennium Ring, Marik sat cross-legged, looking at Hayato and asking, "Brother-in-law, what exactly are you looking for?"
His expression was quite leisurely.
Well, in a sense, he wasn't much different from a deceased person, having left his body. If he could live in the Millennium Ring, he would live. If he couldn't, then he just couldn't.
Hayato kicked open the door to the KaibaCorp Office. Behind the door was a desert. Hayato strode forward on the soft sand, but the sand absorbed the power from his feet, making it a bit difficult to walk.
Hearing Marik's question, he explained, "A long time ago, I, Yugi Mutou, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, and Kaiba, a few of us, participated in an online game developed by KaibaCorp centered around Duel Monsters."
"Although the world of that online game looked like a normal game world, in reality, that world was quite magical. Have you ever seen a spirit you met in a game turn into a card and come into your hands in the real world?"
"How is that possible? If even something like that could be done, card spirits would be too cheap," Marik said casually, but after a pause, he said with some uncertainty, "Brother-in-law, you don't mean..."
Hayato nodded. "Yugi and I both got cards from that world. You should have seen the card I used, it's that Earthbound Immortal."
After crossing a sand dune, although there was a vast expanse of sand in front of him, Hayato did not continue forward. Instead, he walked to a large rock beside the sand dune, and holding the Millennium Ring, passed through the rift in the rock. Hayato instantly arrived in a dense jungle.
"This world is a bit too messy, isn't it? It's almost like it's pieced together." Marik complained.
"What you said isn't quite accurate, because this world isn't 'like it's pieced together,' it *is* pieced together. With the development of the game I mentioned earlier, all sorts of leftover scenes were crammed into this world that originally had nothing. Saying it's pieced together is actually a compliment."
The light of the Millennium Ring in Hayato's hand became increasingly bright, seemingly indicating that he was extremely close to his destination. Hayato turned his body, confirmed a direction, and pushed aside a patch of grass beside him.
In front of his eyes, a very strange rift appeared, completely out of place with the surrounding green.
Seeing this rift, Hayato smiled. "Finally found it."
