Reading settings
## Chapter 331: The Irreversible Ultimate Power
In the Virtual World, Hayato found what he was looking for, while Yugi and the others were still in their Duels.
Meanwhile, back to the other scene.
In the Real World, Marik swung the **Millennium Rod** in his hand, smashing the eye of a Robot he had underfoot.
"Tch, so annoying. How many more are there?"
Marik looked back impatiently at the sealed Door behind him.
Rewinding time to before the "St. Ann" was hijacked by Noah, specifically to the end of the fourth Duel in the Top 8 to Top 4 stage—the one between Yugi and Marik.
At that time, because he had lost the Duel and the last of his Three Egyptian God Cards, **Slifer the Sky Dragon**, Marik was extremely annoyed. He felt that since he couldn't defeat Yugi and the others in a Duel, he had to resort to some underhanded tactics.
However, to be safe, he wanted to find an ally to act with. After all, among the three people currently holding the Three Egyptian God Cards, Yugi was protected by the **Millennium Puzzle**, Kobayashi Hayato also had the **Millennium Ring**, and Seto Kaiba, the only one without a **Millennium Item** for protection, was someone Marik's **Millennium Rod** was ineffective against and would even occasionally side with him.
If he was going to find an ally, Marik immediately thought of Bakura Ryo, with whom he had previously had a "pleasant cooperation".
This was why Bakura and Marik had "disappeared" together from the Infirmary when the Airship landed inside this Steel Fortress.
According to Bakura, he had tampered with the **Millennium Puzzle** before and could remotely sense its location. Avoiding everyone, the two white-haired individuals twisted and turned through the maze-like Fortress. Under Bakura's guidance, Marik actually found Hayato and his group, who were somehow unconscious.
Following the Robots that took Hayato and the others away, Bakura and Marik arrived at a place called the Transfer Room. The Door here was tightly shut, and because it used an Electronic Lock instead of a Mechanical Lock, Marik's attempt to bypass it with Magic Power also ended in failure.
Just when Marik thought he had no way to retrieve the Three Egyptian God Cards from Hayato and the others locked inside, Bakura, who was with him, told Marik that he had a way to unlock the password, but it would trigger an Alarm and attract those troublesome Robots.
So, Marik was arranged by Bakura to stand guard and block the Robots.
After some time, Marik, who was standing by the Door and constantly vigilant of his surroundings, heard the sound of the Door opening from behind him. He turned back in surprise, only to find that Bakura, having the advantage of proximity, had already entered the Transfer Room ahead of him.
Although he was puzzled as to why the Alarm Bakura mentioned hadn't triggered at all, Marik also walked towards the Transfer Room. But just then, looking at Marik walking towards him, Bakura's face revealed a sinister smile. Under Marik's astonished gaze, he punched and shattered the glass cover over a button next to his hand!
As the Alarm sounded, the opened Transfer Room Door closed. Marik, who wanted to squeeze in, hadn't even run two steps before a wave of Dark Energy struck him.
Although he blocked Bakura's Attack with the **Millennium Rod**, Marik was unable to catch up and was shut out by the heavy iron Door. At the same time, the entrance was surrounded by the Robot Force that had rushed over because the Alarm had sounded.
In the instant before the Door closed, Marik heard Bakura's "message" to him—
"Cooperate with me? Do you, this idiot, even have the qualification? Hayato was right about you, just a mere six-year-old."
Under Marik's furious gaze, Bakura's face disappeared from his sight. "Consider this the subsequent reward for our last transaction, idiot Marik!"
Clearly, Bakura had been holding a grudge about the last time Marik commissioned him to take down Rishid, only for Marik to break the agreement halfway through. He had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time to get his revenge.
The enraged Marik swung the pure gold **Millennium Rod** at the Door, leaving an insignificant small dent on the steel Door. Powerlessly raging, Marik, who had no way against the Door or the Electronic Lock, could only deal with the endless stream of Robot Force.
Time flowed again, returning to the present.
While the six-year-old Marik, who didn't understand advanced things like Electronic Locks and couldn't open the Door by force, was rampaging through a pile of Robots, in the Virtual World, Yugi used **Absorption Shield** to block the Attack of **Guardian Angel Joan** on "Téa"'s Field. He couldn't help but frown.
Because just now, for some unknown reason, the ground beneath them trembled slightly. Although the tremor was minor and didn't have much influence, in that instant, Yugi saw "Téa"'s appearance flicker like a television screen with a bad signal.
"What was that just now?" Original Yugi was a little doubtful, wondering if he had just imagined it.
"No, Aibo, I saw it too," Pharaoh in the **Millennium Puzzle** said. "And I think I saw that beneath 'Téa''s appearance, there seemed to be a Robot?"
The ground trembled again. This time, not only Yugi, but the others also noticed something strange about their opponents.
Especially Joey Wheeler, who pointed at "Serenity Wheeler" standing opposite him with a look of horror: "What's going on?! Serenity, why have you become like this?!"
The previously expressionless "Serenity Wheeler" in front of him, due to the recent ground tremor, had glitchy code-like patterns appear on half of her face, revealing a glowing red electronic eye within?!
Kaiba keenly noticed something and questioned Gozaburo Kaiba, who had just woken up due to the ground trembling, not far away: "Gozaburo, you said you controlled their bodies, but you were lying, weren't you!"
"Heh, too slow to react, Seto. Or is it because Mokuba is involved that you can't think of anything else?" Gozaburo got up from the ground dejectedly, looked at the shattered floor-to-ceiling window and the Door kicked open by Hayato not far away, walked to the desk in the Office, pulled out the boss's chair, and sat down.
"That's right, I deceived you. The ones appearing here are not your companions at all, and even your current bodies are not your real bodies."
Saying that, Gozaburo clapped his hands, intending to release the disguise he had placed on "Téa", "Mokuba", and the others. But looking at "Téa" and the others whose appearances hadn't changed at all, Gozaburo's face showed a tragic smile: "As expected, they've completely gone berserk."
"Heh, heh hahahaha, it ends here, Seto. The destruction of this World is completely fated. Come to hell with me!"
But Yugi and Kaiba didn't pay attention to Gozaburo, who had suddenly started laughing like a madman.
After learning that the opponents in front of them were not their companions, they, who had been suppressing themselves for a long time, unleashed their true power.
"How dare you impersonate Mokuba's face, **Blue-Eyes White Dragon**!"
"Go, **Celestial Knight**!"
"**Red-Eyes Black Dragon**, take down that imposter!"
"**Amazoness Queen**, let's go too!"
"**Blast Held by a Tribute**!"
Amidst the roars of the four monsters and the wails of "Duke Devlin"'s Dice Dungeon, the "imposter"s standing in front of everyone completely shattered their disguise because their Life Points were depleted. Five Robots fell to the ground.
And along with the high will of the few people, the ground tremors intensified, and even cracks began to spread rapidly on the surrounding walls.
The building where this Office was located was about to collapse!
Not only that, looking out from the shattered floor-to-ceiling window, Yugi also found that cracks were starting to spread on the "Earth" outside. Even the starry sky beyond the Earth was shattering. After the illusory scene shattered, the falling fragments collapsed towards the endless deep space hidden behind the scene.
"Hey, Gozaburo, what did you do!" After the Duel ended, Kaiba, who was closest, immediately ran to Gozaburo Kaiba sitting behind the desk and angrily grabbed his collar. "Let us out!"
"Heh, it's truly a nostalgic feeling, sitting in this chair and watching the kid opposite me rage impotently. The only regret is probably that in my life, I was the one raging." Gozaburo's face showed a cold smile, and he didn't struggle free from Kaiba's hand. "It's too late, Seto, that card is already complete."
"The **Super Polymerization** card possesses the power to fuse everything. That's what the guy named Bakura Ryo told me. My original idea was to use it as the strongest weapon."
He paused, then Gozaburo turned his head to look at his wrist. The Deck Zone on his Duel Disk was empty: "That guy named Kobayashi Hayato took **Super Polymerization** from me. He probably thought of getting away from here to slow down how quickly **Super Polymerization** absorbs your dueling will as much as possible."
"But he was still a step too slow. Thanks to your decisive final attack just now, **Super Polymerization** is already complete, and due to the joy of its new birth, **Super Polymerization** has automatically activated and taken this World as its fusion material."
Gozaburo snapped his fingers, but besides the increasingly intense tremors around them, nothing happened.
"As you can see, this World has completely lost control due to the power of **Super Polymerization**. Even I cannot open the path to the Real World anymore."
Saying that, Gozaburo pried open Kaiba's fingers, straightened his collar, and sat back down in his boss's chair, watching the world gradually shatter outside.
Meanwhile, on Hayato's side.
Looking at the **Super Polymerization** in his hand, which had already activated on its own and could not be stopped or reversed, Hayato ignored Marik's self-deprecating grumbling from within the **Millennium Ring** and resolutely slapped it onto a crack in front of him: "If I can't stop **Super Polymerization**, then I'll actively guide it!"
"Our destiny will be changed by me! Watch me one-life clear!"
It's already November, and I'm really not interested in Double Eleven. There are so many tricks every year, I'm too lazy to bother.
Still, the Animal Crossing update on 11.5 is worth looking forward to.
However, this update is the last free major update, and the DLC is also the last paid major update. It seems there will only be minor updates like bug fixes in the future, sigh.
(End of Chapter)
In the Virtual World, Hayato found what he was looking for, while Yugi and the others were still in their Duels.
Meanwhile, back to the other scene.
In the Real World, Marik swung the **Millennium Rod** in his hand, smashing the eye of a Robot he had underfoot.
"Tch, so annoying. How many more are there?"
Marik looked back impatiently at the sealed Door behind him.
Rewinding time to before the "St. Ann" was hijacked by Noah, specifically to the end of the fourth Duel in the Top 8 to Top 4 stage—the one between Yugi and Marik.
At that time, because he had lost the Duel and the last of his Three Egyptian God Cards, **Slifer the Sky Dragon**, Marik was extremely annoyed. He felt that since he couldn't defeat Yugi and the others in a Duel, he had to resort to some underhanded tactics.
However, to be safe, he wanted to find an ally to act with. After all, among the three people currently holding the Three Egyptian God Cards, Yugi was protected by the **Millennium Puzzle**, Kobayashi Hayato also had the **Millennium Ring**, and Seto Kaiba, the only one without a **Millennium Item** for protection, was someone Marik's **Millennium Rod** was ineffective against and would even occasionally side with him.
If he was going to find an ally, Marik immediately thought of Bakura Ryo, with whom he had previously had a "pleasant cooperation".
This was why Bakura and Marik had "disappeared" together from the Infirmary when the Airship landed inside this Steel Fortress.
According to Bakura, he had tampered with the **Millennium Puzzle** before and could remotely sense its location. Avoiding everyone, the two white-haired individuals twisted and turned through the maze-like Fortress. Under Bakura's guidance, Marik actually found Hayato and his group, who were somehow unconscious.
Following the Robots that took Hayato and the others away, Bakura and Marik arrived at a place called the Transfer Room. The Door here was tightly shut, and because it used an Electronic Lock instead of a Mechanical Lock, Marik's attempt to bypass it with Magic Power also ended in failure.
Just when Marik thought he had no way to retrieve the Three Egyptian God Cards from Hayato and the others locked inside, Bakura, who was with him, told Marik that he had a way to unlock the password, but it would trigger an Alarm and attract those troublesome Robots.
So, Marik was arranged by Bakura to stand guard and block the Robots.
After some time, Marik, who was standing by the Door and constantly vigilant of his surroundings, heard the sound of the Door opening from behind him. He turned back in surprise, only to find that Bakura, having the advantage of proximity, had already entered the Transfer Room ahead of him.
Although he was puzzled as to why the Alarm Bakura mentioned hadn't triggered at all, Marik also walked towards the Transfer Room. But just then, looking at Marik walking towards him, Bakura's face revealed a sinister smile. Under Marik's astonished gaze, he punched and shattered the glass cover over a button next to his hand!
As the Alarm sounded, the opened Transfer Room Door closed. Marik, who wanted to squeeze in, hadn't even run two steps before a wave of Dark Energy struck him.
Although he blocked Bakura's Attack with the **Millennium Rod**, Marik was unable to catch up and was shut out by the heavy iron Door. At the same time, the entrance was surrounded by the Robot Force that had rushed over because the Alarm had sounded.
In the instant before the Door closed, Marik heard Bakura's "message" to him—
"Cooperate with me? Do you, this idiot, even have the qualification? Hayato was right about you, just a mere six-year-old."
Under Marik's furious gaze, Bakura's face disappeared from his sight. "Consider this the subsequent reward for our last transaction, idiot Marik!"
Clearly, Bakura had been holding a grudge about the last time Marik commissioned him to take down Rishid, only for Marik to break the agreement halfway through. He had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time to get his revenge.
The enraged Marik swung the pure gold **Millennium Rod** at the Door, leaving an insignificant small dent on the steel Door. Powerlessly raging, Marik, who had no way against the Door or the Electronic Lock, could only deal with the endless stream of Robot Force.
Time flowed again, returning to the present.
While the six-year-old Marik, who didn't understand advanced things like Electronic Locks and couldn't open the Door by force, was rampaging through a pile of Robots, in the Virtual World, Yugi used **Absorption Shield** to block the Attack of **Guardian Angel Joan** on "Téa"'s Field. He couldn't help but frown.
Because just now, for some unknown reason, the ground beneath them trembled slightly. Although the tremor was minor and didn't have much influence, in that instant, Yugi saw "Téa"'s appearance flicker like a television screen with a bad signal.
"What was that just now?" Original Yugi was a little doubtful, wondering if he had just imagined it.
"No, Aibo, I saw it too," Pharaoh in the **Millennium Puzzle** said. "And I think I saw that beneath 'Téa''s appearance, there seemed to be a Robot?"
The ground trembled again. This time, not only Yugi, but the others also noticed something strange about their opponents.
Especially Joey Wheeler, who pointed at "Serenity Wheeler" standing opposite him with a look of horror: "What's going on?! Serenity, why have you become like this?!"
The previously expressionless "Serenity Wheeler" in front of him, due to the recent ground tremor, had glitchy code-like patterns appear on half of her face, revealing a glowing red electronic eye within?!
Kaiba keenly noticed something and questioned Gozaburo Kaiba, who had just woken up due to the ground trembling, not far away: "Gozaburo, you said you controlled their bodies, but you were lying, weren't you!"
"Heh, too slow to react, Seto. Or is it because Mokuba is involved that you can't think of anything else?" Gozaburo got up from the ground dejectedly, looked at the shattered floor-to-ceiling window and the Door kicked open by Hayato not far away, walked to the desk in the Office, pulled out the boss's chair, and sat down.
"That's right, I deceived you. The ones appearing here are not your companions at all, and even your current bodies are not your real bodies."
Saying that, Gozaburo clapped his hands, intending to release the disguise he had placed on "Téa", "Mokuba", and the others. But looking at "Téa" and the others whose appearances hadn't changed at all, Gozaburo's face showed a tragic smile: "As expected, they've completely gone berserk."
"Heh, heh hahahaha, it ends here, Seto. The destruction of this World is completely fated. Come to hell with me!"
But Yugi and Kaiba didn't pay attention to Gozaburo, who had suddenly started laughing like a madman.
After learning that the opponents in front of them were not their companions, they, who had been suppressing themselves for a long time, unleashed their true power.
"How dare you impersonate Mokuba's face, **Blue-Eyes White Dragon**!"
"Go, **Celestial Knight**!"
"**Red-Eyes Black Dragon**, take down that imposter!"
"**Amazoness Queen**, let's go too!"
"**Blast Held by a Tribute**!"
Amidst the roars of the four monsters and the wails of "Duke Devlin"'s Dice Dungeon, the "imposter"s standing in front of everyone completely shattered their disguise because their Life Points were depleted. Five Robots fell to the ground.
And along with the high will of the few people, the ground tremors intensified, and even cracks began to spread rapidly on the surrounding walls.
The building where this Office was located was about to collapse!
Not only that, looking out from the shattered floor-to-ceiling window, Yugi also found that cracks were starting to spread on the "Earth" outside. Even the starry sky beyond the Earth was shattering. After the illusory scene shattered, the falling fragments collapsed towards the endless deep space hidden behind the scene.
"Hey, Gozaburo, what did you do!" After the Duel ended, Kaiba, who was closest, immediately ran to Gozaburo Kaiba sitting behind the desk and angrily grabbed his collar. "Let us out!"
"Heh, it's truly a nostalgic feeling, sitting in this chair and watching the kid opposite me rage impotently. The only regret is probably that in my life, I was the one raging." Gozaburo's face showed a cold smile, and he didn't struggle free from Kaiba's hand. "It's too late, Seto, that card is already complete."
"The **Super Polymerization** card possesses the power to fuse everything. That's what the guy named Bakura Ryo told me. My original idea was to use it as the strongest weapon."
He paused, then Gozaburo turned his head to look at his wrist. The Deck Zone on his Duel Disk was empty: "That guy named Kobayashi Hayato took **Super Polymerization** from me. He probably thought of getting away from here to slow down how quickly **Super Polymerization** absorbs your dueling will as much as possible."
"But he was still a step too slow. Thanks to your decisive final attack just now, **Super Polymerization** is already complete, and due to the joy of its new birth, **Super Polymerization** has automatically activated and taken this World as its fusion material."
Gozaburo snapped his fingers, but besides the increasingly intense tremors around them, nothing happened.
"As you can see, this World has completely lost control due to the power of **Super Polymerization**. Even I cannot open the path to the Real World anymore."
Saying that, Gozaburo pried open Kaiba's fingers, straightened his collar, and sat back down in his boss's chair, watching the world gradually shatter outside.
Meanwhile, on Hayato's side.
Looking at the **Super Polymerization** in his hand, which had already activated on its own and could not be stopped or reversed, Hayato ignored Marik's self-deprecating grumbling from within the **Millennium Ring** and resolutely slapped it onto a crack in front of him: "If I can't stop **Super Polymerization**, then I'll actively guide it!"
"Our destiny will be changed by me! Watch me one-life clear!"
It's already November, and I'm really not interested in Double Eleven. There are so many tricks every year, I'm too lazy to bother.
Still, the Animal Crossing update on 11.5 is worth looking forward to.
However, this update is the last free major update, and the DLC is also the last paid major update. It seems there will only be minor updates like bug fixes in the future, sigh.
(End of Chapter)
