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Chapter 332: Noah Arc, End
Between sleep and wakefulness, Yugi heard a soft "beep" sound by his ear.
Opening his eyes, he saw the door of the hibernation pod slowly opening.
His head still a bit groggy, he sat up from inside the pod and looked around. There were more than ten other hibernation pods beside him, identical to the one he was lying in. Joey, Kaiba, and the others were also just waking up, looking similarly groggy.
"Are we... back in the Real World?"
Mai asked somewhat doubtfully. Beside her, Joey pinched his arm hard, looking unsure. Tears almost welled up from the pain, and only then did he say with certainty, "Yeah, this is definitely the Real World. It hurts."
"Idiot, it would hurt just the same even in the Virtual World," Mai retorted, looking around at the unfamiliar environment. "Where exactly is this? Also, how did we suddenly get out of that world?"
Yugi recalled.
After defeating the Duel Robots Gozaburo had summoned, which were disguised as their companions, they pressed Gozaburo for answers but got nothing. Seeing the rifts spreading everywhere they looked, the world shattered with a roar and was sucked into a vortex. A white light swallowed Yugi and the others.
And now, here they were, waking up from the Virtual World.
Hayato was the last of them to wake up. Ishizu, whose hibernation pod was closest to his, found him immediately after waking up. Seeing Hayato sit up from the hibernation pod, Ishizu asked with concern, "Are you alright, Hayato?"
"See? I told you my sister had a good impression of you, brother-in-law!" Hayato hadn't even said anything yet, but Marik, inside the Millennium Ring on his chest, spoke with great excitement, looking like he was "shipping" them.
Ignoring the three-year-old's comment, Hayato moved his shoulders and neck, which were a bit stiff from not moving for a long time, and replied with a smile, "Yeah, completely fine. This kind of simple game can be cleared with a one-life clear."
Though he said it was simple, Hayato felt quite pained about his DP points that had been spent like flowing water again.
From the moment he entered the Virtual World, based on the unusual reactions of Rainbow Kuriboh and Ojama Yellow, Hayato began to suspect that the Virtual World might be related to the world of Card Spirits. After all, Hayato had even obtained Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca, which had a spirit residing within it, in the DM Online Game world, which was extremely similar to this one.
Thanks to the Millennium Ring's Direction Guidance function, after defeating Gozaburo and snatching the unfinished Super Polymerization card from him, Hayato managed to find the evidence of the Virtual World connecting to other worlds, and also the entrance for traveling between worlds—that is, the rift Hayato found at the very last moment.
Speaking of coincidences, Hayato only discovered after finding it that the rift was actually just as Bakura had said before, caused by the three of them: Yugi, Kaiba, and himself—that rift was actually the residual effect of the attack collision between Dragon Master Knight and Five-Headed Dragon back then!
In other words, the DM Online Game and Noah's Virtual World were not just similar; they were directly connected!
Gozaburo's purpose in completing Super Polymerization was to use it as the strongest weapon to rule the world. The method he used was actually very simple: using Super Polymerization to fuse the Real World with the Virtual World, which was completely under his control, to create a brand new world.
Once the Super Polymerization card was completed, its activation could not be stopped. However, Hayato actually had no intention of stopping it. All he did was exchange the target of Super Polymerization.
Although it is a consensus among most people that "reality is a terrible game," Hayato was not so extreme as to destroy the Real World because of it. Therefore, by utilizing the existence of that rift, Hayato excluded the Real World from the fusion target and instead chose to fuse the Virtual World with the other world that the rift led to.
Of course, this action was not free. Guiding the fusion target to the world of Card Spirits, which he had no idea how to reach, was not an easy task. Hayato's long-saved DP points were completely spent, used to purchase a card to serve as the coordinates for the fusion.
And that card, which Hayato had redeemed and hadn't even held for long, disappeared under the power of Super Polymerization. However, now that Super Polymerization had ended, Hayato had also gained an unexpected surprise.
Raising his wrist, he drew the deck from his Duel Disk. As soon as he fanned out the deck, Hayato saw two cards appearing at the very top of the deck. One of them was precisely the Super Polymerization that was completed in the Virtual World.
And the other card was the surprise Hayato mentioned.
Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier!
Looking at this extremely versatile Fusion Monster in his hand, which resulted from the loose material selection, Hayato couldn't help but mutter. The card he redeemed earlier was chosen by the system for Hayato. It disappeared within seconds of him getting it due to Super Polymerization, so Hayato didn't see what was being fused at all.
Now that such a monster had appeared in his hand, it made Hayato wonder—could he have fused those three 'Dragons of the Ice Barrier' from across multiple worlds?
With doubt, Hayato crawled out of the hibernation pod. Seeing Kaiba still researching the electronic lock, which was completely locked because the emergency alarm button beside it was also destroyed, he wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he went to the back of the hibernation pod, fiddled with it a bit, and pulled out something similar to a storage device.
Under the influence of Super Polymerization's power, the two worlds selected as the fusion target shattered together. Yugi and the others were sent out of the Virtual World by Hayato at the last moment of the fusion, along with Gozaburo.
As the last two people holding administrator authority, Gozaburo's thought when he regained control authority for just a moment was not to intercept Yugi, Kaiba, and the others, but to take advantage of the world's shattering and try to burrow into Hayato's body to seize his body.
And then there was no "then." The Millennium Ring is not just for show. Gozaburo's "body snatching" attempt met its biggest nemesis.
It wasn't just a failure; he couldn't even reside within the Millennium Ring. Marik said, "It's full in here," and kicked him out, just happening to be carried out along with the data stream.
Now, Gozaburo was locked inside the storage device in Hayato's hand.
"My great undertaking was so easily destroyed by you bunch of kids! Damn it, damn it! I could have become the god of the new world!"
Inside the storage device, which Hayato had named "USB Drive," Gozaburo raged powerlessly, but only Hayato and Marik could hear his roar.
Marik, who was idle in the Millennium Ring, glanced at Gozaburo and retorted, "What a weak god. You couldn't even rule ants, could you?"
Meanwhile, Marik...
"Tch, finally found this place." Waving the Millennium Rod, he smashed the last mechanical soldier's monitor beside him. Taking advantage of the time before the next batch of robot troops arrived, Marik ran into a Control Room.
Looking at the large area of red and green buttons and keys in front of him, the six-year-old Marik, who had never seen such high-technology equipment, felt a headache.
"What is this? Don't these people know to label what each button is for?" Gritting his teeth, Marik turned his gaze to the largest red button on the operation console, covered by a glass dome.
Among all the buttons, this one was the most eye-catching. According to Marik's guess, this was definitely the self-destruct device button for this fortress.
Touching the Millennium Rod in his hand with a slight pang of regret, Marik smashed it down hard, breaking the glass dome with one blow, and then pressed the button!
Then, the sinister smile on Marik's face became stiff, because he found that the display screen in front of the operation console had actually opened a famous game, 'Galaxian/Galaga.' Pixelated spaceships were constantly shooting in space to defend against invading attackers.
"Which idiot designed this?!"
Marik was about to explode with rage. Needless to say, this was definitely installed by some slacker playing games during work hours. To avoid being discovered, they even made it look like a self-destruct device button!
Furious, Marik angrily smashed and pounded the control console randomly, destroying most of the buttons and displays. He didn't know what he had pressed, but before the projection screen was destroyed, it actually displayed "30:00:00" and started a countdown.
At the same time, a broadcast sounded inside the fortress: "Self-Destruct Device Activated. Countdown starting now. Time remaining until self-destruction: 30 minutes."
Seeing that his random smashing had actually achieved results, Marik snorted proudly and turned to walk out of the Control Room.
As the dark personality, Dark Marik did not have Regular Marik's obsession with becoming Pharaoh. For him, destruction was the greatest pleasure. Although the 'Three Egyptian God Cards' possessed great power, they were not indispensable. Since Bakura had tricked him, the childish Marik decided to go all out and make everyone die here!
What he didn't know was that Hayato and the others had already woken up from the Virtual World just as Marik walked into the Control Room. And because of Marik's previous messing around, the door of the Transfer Room, which was completely locked and even Kaiba couldn't do anything about temporarily, had also opened.
As soon as they walked out of the Transfer Room, everyone heard the broadcast from above. Hearing that this place was about to self-destruct, Kaiba quickly pressed a microphone on his collar: "Calling S.S. Anne! Is the airship still usable?"
When the airship landed, Noah not only hijacked the airship but also used several mechanical arms to completely fix and lock the airship inside the fortress, so that even if Mokuba and the others on the airship accidentally bypassed Noah's control, they couldn't escape.
As Noah died in the Virtual World because Gozaburo was going to create 'Super Polymerization,' the airship's control system was indeed freed from Noah's hijacking. However, due to the presence of the mechanical arms, the people on the airship had no way to leave even if they wanted to, let alone the fact that Kaiba and the others hadn't returned to the ship yet.
In Kaiba's miniature pager, Mokuba's excited voice rang out: "Brother, Brother, are you alright?"
"The mechanical arms controlling the airship have just been released, and the airship's control system has also been restored. We're just waiting for you to board!"
Because of the presence of the self-destruct device, everyone had no intention of staying here any longer. Under the Guidance of Hayato's Millennium Ring, although they weren't sure how they got here, everyone quickly returned to the heliport where the airship was located.
Running all the way, everyone found that from the moment they left the Transfer Room they had been lying in, there had been remnants of mechanical soldiers along both sides of the road. Many of these mechanical soldiers were still sparking with electricity. Judging by the dust on them, they had clearly been destroyed not long ago.
However, everyone didn't have enough curiosity to stop and study these robots. These mechanical soldiers were undoubtedly the "guards" of this steel fortress. Under normal circumstances, after Hayato and the others came out of the Transfer Room, they would have inevitably had to face them.
Although they didn't know who did it, since they destroyed so many mechanical soldiers, clearing the obstacles for them, they might as well consider them allies for now.
Meanwhile, the "ally" Marik was once again entangled in a fight with mechanical soldiers.
Led by Hayato, as soon as they returned to the airship, Iso and the others who were waiting at the boarding hatch were overjoyed to see Kaiba return and said excitedly, "President Kaiba!"
"There's no time for talk. Hurry and take off from here!" Kaiba said calmly. "This is a war fortress. Who knows how far the blast will reach when it self-destructs."
The airship, cursed with the name "S.S. Anne," was already prepared because Kaiba had given notice earlier and quickly left the heliport and ascended. As the hatch at the entrance opened, it escaped the sea fortress and saw the outside real sky again.
And not long after the airship flew away, from a long distance, the people on the airship heard a loud "boom" from behind.
The sea fortress, symbolizing Gozaburo, sank forever into the underwater world. And the S.S. Anne was finally able to fly towards its final destination for this voyage—Devil's Island.
There was still some distance to Devil's Island. Everyone who had experienced the Virtual World journey returned to their respective rooms to rest for a while. Hayato also took this opportunity to check his gains from this time—he hadn't checked the reward for defeating Gozaburo Kaiba without taking damage using 'Library Exodia' yet.
As the 'Machine Type Structure Deck' was opened, Hayato's eyes widened, because the deck he had just prayed in his heart to open was actually opened!
Regretting that he should have wished for 'Drytron' just now, Hayato also thought of something—if Samejima saw this deck of mine, would he come over to collect copyright fee?
Thanks to the "Farmer's Hand" for the 100 Qidian Coins, thank you.
Today is just this one chapter, there will be more Duel content starting tomorrow. I plan to post more, so the reading experience will be more continuous.
(End of this chapter)
Between sleep and wakefulness, Yugi heard a soft "beep" sound by his ear.
Opening his eyes, he saw the door of the hibernation pod slowly opening.
His head still a bit groggy, he sat up from inside the pod and looked around. There were more than ten other hibernation pods beside him, identical to the one he was lying in. Joey, Kaiba, and the others were also just waking up, looking similarly groggy.
"Are we... back in the Real World?"
Mai asked somewhat doubtfully. Beside her, Joey pinched his arm hard, looking unsure. Tears almost welled up from the pain, and only then did he say with certainty, "Yeah, this is definitely the Real World. It hurts."
"Idiot, it would hurt just the same even in the Virtual World," Mai retorted, looking around at the unfamiliar environment. "Where exactly is this? Also, how did we suddenly get out of that world?"
Yugi recalled.
After defeating the Duel Robots Gozaburo had summoned, which were disguised as their companions, they pressed Gozaburo for answers but got nothing. Seeing the rifts spreading everywhere they looked, the world shattered with a roar and was sucked into a vortex. A white light swallowed Yugi and the others.
And now, here they were, waking up from the Virtual World.
Hayato was the last of them to wake up. Ishizu, whose hibernation pod was closest to his, found him immediately after waking up. Seeing Hayato sit up from the hibernation pod, Ishizu asked with concern, "Are you alright, Hayato?"
"See? I told you my sister had a good impression of you, brother-in-law!" Hayato hadn't even said anything yet, but Marik, inside the Millennium Ring on his chest, spoke with great excitement, looking like he was "shipping" them.
Ignoring the three-year-old's comment, Hayato moved his shoulders and neck, which were a bit stiff from not moving for a long time, and replied with a smile, "Yeah, completely fine. This kind of simple game can be cleared with a one-life clear."
Though he said it was simple, Hayato felt quite pained about his DP points that had been spent like flowing water again.
From the moment he entered the Virtual World, based on the unusual reactions of Rainbow Kuriboh and Ojama Yellow, Hayato began to suspect that the Virtual World might be related to the world of Card Spirits. After all, Hayato had even obtained Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca, which had a spirit residing within it, in the DM Online Game world, which was extremely similar to this one.
Thanks to the Millennium Ring's Direction Guidance function, after defeating Gozaburo and snatching the unfinished Super Polymerization card from him, Hayato managed to find the evidence of the Virtual World connecting to other worlds, and also the entrance for traveling between worlds—that is, the rift Hayato found at the very last moment.
Speaking of coincidences, Hayato only discovered after finding it that the rift was actually just as Bakura had said before, caused by the three of them: Yugi, Kaiba, and himself—that rift was actually the residual effect of the attack collision between Dragon Master Knight and Five-Headed Dragon back then!
In other words, the DM Online Game and Noah's Virtual World were not just similar; they were directly connected!
Gozaburo's purpose in completing Super Polymerization was to use it as the strongest weapon to rule the world. The method he used was actually very simple: using Super Polymerization to fuse the Real World with the Virtual World, which was completely under his control, to create a brand new world.
Once the Super Polymerization card was completed, its activation could not be stopped. However, Hayato actually had no intention of stopping it. All he did was exchange the target of Super Polymerization.
Although it is a consensus among most people that "reality is a terrible game," Hayato was not so extreme as to destroy the Real World because of it. Therefore, by utilizing the existence of that rift, Hayato excluded the Real World from the fusion target and instead chose to fuse the Virtual World with the other world that the rift led to.
Of course, this action was not free. Guiding the fusion target to the world of Card Spirits, which he had no idea how to reach, was not an easy task. Hayato's long-saved DP points were completely spent, used to purchase a card to serve as the coordinates for the fusion.
And that card, which Hayato had redeemed and hadn't even held for long, disappeared under the power of Super Polymerization. However, now that Super Polymerization had ended, Hayato had also gained an unexpected surprise.
Raising his wrist, he drew the deck from his Duel Disk. As soon as he fanned out the deck, Hayato saw two cards appearing at the very top of the deck. One of them was precisely the Super Polymerization that was completed in the Virtual World.
And the other card was the surprise Hayato mentioned.
Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier!
Looking at this extremely versatile Fusion Monster in his hand, which resulted from the loose material selection, Hayato couldn't help but mutter. The card he redeemed earlier was chosen by the system for Hayato. It disappeared within seconds of him getting it due to Super Polymerization, so Hayato didn't see what was being fused at all.
Now that such a monster had appeared in his hand, it made Hayato wonder—could he have fused those three 'Dragons of the Ice Barrier' from across multiple worlds?
With doubt, Hayato crawled out of the hibernation pod. Seeing Kaiba still researching the electronic lock, which was completely locked because the emergency alarm button beside it was also destroyed, he wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he went to the back of the hibernation pod, fiddled with it a bit, and pulled out something similar to a storage device.
Under the influence of Super Polymerization's power, the two worlds selected as the fusion target shattered together. Yugi and the others were sent out of the Virtual World by Hayato at the last moment of the fusion, along with Gozaburo.
As the last two people holding administrator authority, Gozaburo's thought when he regained control authority for just a moment was not to intercept Yugi, Kaiba, and the others, but to take advantage of the world's shattering and try to burrow into Hayato's body to seize his body.
And then there was no "then." The Millennium Ring is not just for show. Gozaburo's "body snatching" attempt met its biggest nemesis.
It wasn't just a failure; he couldn't even reside within the Millennium Ring. Marik said, "It's full in here," and kicked him out, just happening to be carried out along with the data stream.
Now, Gozaburo was locked inside the storage device in Hayato's hand.
"My great undertaking was so easily destroyed by you bunch of kids! Damn it, damn it! I could have become the god of the new world!"
Inside the storage device, which Hayato had named "USB Drive," Gozaburo raged powerlessly, but only Hayato and Marik could hear his roar.
Marik, who was idle in the Millennium Ring, glanced at Gozaburo and retorted, "What a weak god. You couldn't even rule ants, could you?"
Meanwhile, Marik...
"Tch, finally found this place." Waving the Millennium Rod, he smashed the last mechanical soldier's monitor beside him. Taking advantage of the time before the next batch of robot troops arrived, Marik ran into a Control Room.
Looking at the large area of red and green buttons and keys in front of him, the six-year-old Marik, who had never seen such high-technology equipment, felt a headache.
"What is this? Don't these people know to label what each button is for?" Gritting his teeth, Marik turned his gaze to the largest red button on the operation console, covered by a glass dome.
Among all the buttons, this one was the most eye-catching. According to Marik's guess, this was definitely the self-destruct device button for this fortress.
Touching the Millennium Rod in his hand with a slight pang of regret, Marik smashed it down hard, breaking the glass dome with one blow, and then pressed the button!
Then, the sinister smile on Marik's face became stiff, because he found that the display screen in front of the operation console had actually opened a famous game, 'Galaxian/Galaga.' Pixelated spaceships were constantly shooting in space to defend against invading attackers.
"Which idiot designed this?!"
Marik was about to explode with rage. Needless to say, this was definitely installed by some slacker playing games during work hours. To avoid being discovered, they even made it look like a self-destruct device button!
Furious, Marik angrily smashed and pounded the control console randomly, destroying most of the buttons and displays. He didn't know what he had pressed, but before the projection screen was destroyed, it actually displayed "30:00:00" and started a countdown.
At the same time, a broadcast sounded inside the fortress: "Self-Destruct Device Activated. Countdown starting now. Time remaining until self-destruction: 30 minutes."
Seeing that his random smashing had actually achieved results, Marik snorted proudly and turned to walk out of the Control Room.
As the dark personality, Dark Marik did not have Regular Marik's obsession with becoming Pharaoh. For him, destruction was the greatest pleasure. Although the 'Three Egyptian God Cards' possessed great power, they were not indispensable. Since Bakura had tricked him, the childish Marik decided to go all out and make everyone die here!
What he didn't know was that Hayato and the others had already woken up from the Virtual World just as Marik walked into the Control Room. And because of Marik's previous messing around, the door of the Transfer Room, which was completely locked and even Kaiba couldn't do anything about temporarily, had also opened.
As soon as they walked out of the Transfer Room, everyone heard the broadcast from above. Hearing that this place was about to self-destruct, Kaiba quickly pressed a microphone on his collar: "Calling S.S. Anne! Is the airship still usable?"
When the airship landed, Noah not only hijacked the airship but also used several mechanical arms to completely fix and lock the airship inside the fortress, so that even if Mokuba and the others on the airship accidentally bypassed Noah's control, they couldn't escape.
As Noah died in the Virtual World because Gozaburo was going to create 'Super Polymerization,' the airship's control system was indeed freed from Noah's hijacking. However, due to the presence of the mechanical arms, the people on the airship had no way to leave even if they wanted to, let alone the fact that Kaiba and the others hadn't returned to the ship yet.
In Kaiba's miniature pager, Mokuba's excited voice rang out: "Brother, Brother, are you alright?"
"The mechanical arms controlling the airship have just been released, and the airship's control system has also been restored. We're just waiting for you to board!"
Because of the presence of the self-destruct device, everyone had no intention of staying here any longer. Under the Guidance of Hayato's Millennium Ring, although they weren't sure how they got here, everyone quickly returned to the heliport where the airship was located.
Running all the way, everyone found that from the moment they left the Transfer Room they had been lying in, there had been remnants of mechanical soldiers along both sides of the road. Many of these mechanical soldiers were still sparking with electricity. Judging by the dust on them, they had clearly been destroyed not long ago.
However, everyone didn't have enough curiosity to stop and study these robots. These mechanical soldiers were undoubtedly the "guards" of this steel fortress. Under normal circumstances, after Hayato and the others came out of the Transfer Room, they would have inevitably had to face them.
Although they didn't know who did it, since they destroyed so many mechanical soldiers, clearing the obstacles for them, they might as well consider them allies for now.
Meanwhile, the "ally" Marik was once again entangled in a fight with mechanical soldiers.
Led by Hayato, as soon as they returned to the airship, Iso and the others who were waiting at the boarding hatch were overjoyed to see Kaiba return and said excitedly, "President Kaiba!"
"There's no time for talk. Hurry and take off from here!" Kaiba said calmly. "This is a war fortress. Who knows how far the blast will reach when it self-destructs."
The airship, cursed with the name "S.S. Anne," was already prepared because Kaiba had given notice earlier and quickly left the heliport and ascended. As the hatch at the entrance opened, it escaped the sea fortress and saw the outside real sky again.
And not long after the airship flew away, from a long distance, the people on the airship heard a loud "boom" from behind.
The sea fortress, symbolizing Gozaburo, sank forever into the underwater world. And the S.S. Anne was finally able to fly towards its final destination for this voyage—Devil's Island.
There was still some distance to Devil's Island. Everyone who had experienced the Virtual World journey returned to their respective rooms to rest for a while. Hayato also took this opportunity to check his gains from this time—he hadn't checked the reward for defeating Gozaburo Kaiba without taking damage using 'Library Exodia' yet.
As the 'Machine Type Structure Deck' was opened, Hayato's eyes widened, because the deck he had just prayed in his heart to open was actually opened!
Regretting that he should have wished for 'Drytron' just now, Hayato also thought of something—if Samejima saw this deck of mine, would he come over to collect copyright fee?
Thanks to the "Farmer's Hand" for the 100 Qidian Coins, thank you.
Today is just this one chapter, there will be more Duel content starting tomorrow. I plan to post more, so the reading experience will be more continuous.
(End of this chapter)
