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Chapter 533: Degradation, Monster Card
"Activate **Berserker Soul**!"
After activating the card in his Hand, Yugi saw that Anubis still wore an indifferent expression, and knew that he wasn't aware of the effect of the card **Berserker Soul**.
So he "kindly" explained: "Because of **Berserker Soul**'s effect, I draw a card from the top of my Deck. If it's a Monster Card, I send it to the Graveyard, and then my **Mystical Elf** on the Field can attack you again."
"Dorō! (Draw!)"
Placing his finger on the Deck, Yugi drew the card from the top like a samurai drawing his sword. Without even looking at what card he drew, he shouted loudly,
"Monster Card! (Monster Card!)"
The **Mystical Elf**, which hadn't returned to the Field in front of Anubis, swung the long sword in its Hand again with this shout. The sharp blade once again slashed through Anubis's body. Although his body healed again, a portion of his Life Points was taken away once more.
[Anubis: 13100→11700 LP]
"Tsk, troublesome kid." Anubis frowned and said, annoyed, "But it's still just minor, insignificant injuries, not worth mentioning—"
"Dorō!"
After sending the previously drawn **Mammoth Graveyard** to the Graveyard, Yugi drew a card again, interrupting Anubis's unfinished words, "Monster Card!"
[Anubis: 11700→10300 LP]
"Ugh!" Anubis was choked by the **Mystical Elf**'s attack. Besides the pain, a confused expression appeared on his face. "Why... why did it attack again!?"
"The continuous attacks performed by **Berserker Soul**'s effect don't have a once per turn restriction. It can continue until I draw a card other than a Monster Card!" Yugi sent **Giant Soldier of Stone** from his Hand to the Graveyard. "Even if your Life Points are cleared, **Berserker Soul**'s effect can still continue to resolve."
"Here I come, Anubis. Do you have enough Life Point reserves?"
"Third Dorō!"
As he spoke, Yugi drew another card.
Seeing Yugi so proud, Anubis was also extremely angry: "You kid, you just got lucky and drew two Monster Cards in a row. How many Monster Cards can possibly be left in the Deck, and how many more can you draw?"
"As for how many Monster Cards are in the Deck, I haven't really checked, but for a True Duelist, every draw is destined. You can even create your own future."
Yugi said, showing the drawn card to Anubis again, **Guardian Winged Dragon**, "Monster Card!"
"Pfft!"
[Anubis: 10300→9900 LP]
"Ugh!" His heart pierced by a sharp blade again, even though the wound on Anubis's body healed rapidly once more, the speed of recovery was noticeably slower to the naked eye. "You bastard!"
"You actually made me make such a humiliating sound!"
"I won't let you off!"
Yugi looked at Anubis and said coldly: "Hmph, suit yourself. You can even tell the Jailers of the Underworld about that obsession after you die."
"But there's one thing I won't leave to the Jailers of hell to do."
Yugi pointed his finger at Anubis, "Interfering with others' sacred duels, attempting to destroy the World, and harming Aibo, you've completely angered me, Anubis!"
"Upon you, I shall bring down the punishment of ten thousand swords piercing the body!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
[Anubis: 9900→8500→7100→5700→4300→2900→1500→100 LP]
Drawing seven cards consecutively, Yugi drew seven more Monster Cards. By sending these seven cards to the Graveyard, **Mystical Elf** delivered seven relentless attacks. Swords pierced like rain, reducing Anubis's Life Points in one go to only the last 100 points.
"Ya, Yarou! My Life Points were originally a full fourteen thousand five hundred points, and yet, and yet I, Anubis, have been reduced to this state!"
Anubis's gaze filled with hatred was fixed on Yugi, but Yugi merely placed his finger on the Deck again.
"Dorō!" With another draw, Yugi drew a **Kuriboh**, sending it to the Graveyard. "This is the final blow, Anubis."
"Monster Card!"
Although not comparable to the MVP **Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon** which turned the tide in this Duel, **Mystical Elf**, which dealt the most damage, raised the long sword in its Hand one last time and swung it down forcefully!
"Ugh!!"
[Anubis: 100 LP→0]
"Dorō!"
Although Anubis's Life Points had been cleared and his body had even begun to gradually turn into dust and disperse, Yugi still drew a card because of **Berserker Soul**. However, this time, he drew **Monster Reborn**, which was a Spell Card, not a Monster Card.
After achieving its goal, **Berserker Soul** precisely ended its effect at the right time, without continuing to "whip the corpse" of Anubis, although attacking Anubis, who had died a thousand years ago, was broadly speaking "whip the corpse" anyway.
Yugi wouldn't do something as despicable as shouting "Monster Card" when he clearly drew a Spell Card. If he did, even **Dark Magician Girl** might be scared into losing a star (level). He ended this Duel, looking at Anubis, whose body was gradually turning back into a decaying mummy, with the sole scarlet eyeball on his half-transformed face glaring at him.
"Your ambition is over, Anubis."
Anubis seemed like he wanted to say something, but the dispersal of his body had completely spread. Before he could open his mouth to say anything, his body completely collapsed, falling to the ground, even crushing the already shattered Crystal Pyramid on his chest.
The scarlet eyeball from the Eye of Wjat/Udjat rolled onto the ground.
Joey Wheeler and the others, who had moved from the Spectator Area to the Field, also witnessed Yugi's victory in the Duel.
"He did it!" "Yugi won!" "Alright, Yugi!"
No matter how you looked at it, this Duel was Yugi's victory, as Anubis himself had been defeated with his Life Points cleared by Yugi's continuous attacks from **Berserker Soul**.
It was at the same time the Crystal Pyramid shattered that Yugi and Hayato, who were in the Pyramid of Light World, felt everything around them begin to vibrate violently.
"It looks like the Duel outside is over," Hayato said, looking at the ancient walls and floor tiles around them shattering, revealing the void World, knowing that Dark Yugi must have defeated Anubis.
"Yeah, because The Other Me is very strong," Yugi smiled and nodded, noticing his body gradually becoming transparent, seemed like returning to the soul state he would appear in within the normal **Millennium Puzzle** before.
Almost in one go, accompanied by the cracking of the surrounding space, Yugi's figure disappeared, seemed like returning to the normal World.
Hayato smiled as he watched Yugi leave: "Not just The Other Yugi, you, Yugi, are also very strong."
However, this sentence wasn't heard by Yugi, but it was heard by the other "person" sitting slumped in this Room. But that was someone completely uninterested in Duel Monsters.
"Heh heh, what a feast I had. I never thought that ugly guy had such a rich foundation."
Bakura, looking relaxed, sat casually on the Stairs like a pregnant woman in a very undignified manner. Although the space cracks around him were gradually approaching him, he didn't care at all, letting them spread.
Opening his narrowed eyes, he glanced at Hayato, who walked up the Stairs and picked up the red gem lying among the Crystal Pyramid fragments from Anubis's chest. Bakura said casually: "Are you interested in that thing? It's just a converter, although it also has the ability to transfer and store energy. The energy inside is completely cleared now; it has no usefulness whatsoever."
"Of course, if you're willing to slaughter humans using the method this thing was created with at that time, you can also gain power by converting human souls."
"I wouldn't go that far just for power. I'm still very interested in **Double Jump**." Hayato tossed the red gem in his Hand. "However, you seem like you know the origin of this thing?"
"Of course I do, who do you think I am?"
Bakura's face showed some pride: "When that ugly guy named Anubis got the method to make this thing from the existence behind him, I remembered some of it. And I also know the true form of this thing and how to use it."
"In terms you can understand, this thing is equivalent to a wish machine. It can almost make your wishes come true, the only cost is that you need to pay some equivalent things in advance to fulfill the wish. Because it's an equivalent exchange, it's somewhat useless, which is why I'm not very interested in that thing."
"Equivalent exchange?" Hayato's expression became a little strange upon hearing this, as he thought of something.
Bakura, who was paying attention to Hayato, naturally knew from Hayato's expression what he was thinking of: "That's right, 'Fifth Element'. I remember people outside called this thing that, also called 'Philosopher's Stone', 'Red Elixir', etc. I feel 'Red Elixir' is more appropriate, since they're both red."
"Of course, it seems like it's more commonly known as 'Sage's Stone'," Bakura said with a look of dark humor. "I can tell you how to make it. It's actually very simple, just use weapons made of Orichalcum to kill enough people, and you can reverse the attribute of the green Orichalcum. But unfortunately, even if you have the courage to murder, this World probably hasn't had Orichalcum for a long time, and there won't be a second..."
As he spoke, Bakura looked at a card Hayato took from his Waist and suddenly fell silent.
"Tsk, if you had **Sage's Stone**, you should have said so earlier. You wasted my time."
Taking out the **Philosopher's Stone - Sabatiel** card from the Warehouse, Hayato looked at the red gem in his Hand, which was identical to the one in the card art, smiled, and put them away together. He raised his gradually transparent Hand: "Actually, you wasted my time more, since it looks like I have to leave too."
Unlike Yugi, Hayato used his true form when entering the Pyramid of Light. Although he could stay a little longer than Yugi, who was directly kicked out, he would still be forced out if he stayed longer. And if he were forcibly kicked out, Hayato wasn't sure he could protect himself. He didn't want to become a spirit or a space ghost for now.
As for the information Bakura mentioned, it wasn't entirely wasted time. Through Bakura's words, Hayato finally knew the answer to a question that had puzzled him in his previous life.
Several years later, in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, during Judai's story, in Judai's third year of enrollment, he would meet transfer students from other Duel Academy branch schools. Among them was a student named Jim Crocodile Cook. When he was a child, he lost his right eye after being injured while saving his alligator friend named Karen, but he received a red eyeball called the **Eye of Orichalcum** from a man he didn't know.
Many events happened during that school year, causing Judai to awaken the dark power in his heart and transform into **Supreme King Judai**, almost becoming a completely different person. However, he later returned to being Judai because another mercenary companion named O'Brien used Jim's **Eye of Orichalcum**.
According to Bakura, **Sage's Stone** is essentially reversed Orichalcum, which is Orichalcos. This explains the operation where Jim's red **Eye of Orichalcum**, at the cost of his Life Points, turned Judai back.
However, a new question arose. Bakura said that this World no longer had Orichalcum, which is Orichalcos. Where did the person who gave the **Eye of Orichalcum** to Jim when he was a child get the Orichalcum, and how did they complete its creation?
Hayato temporarily suppressed this question in his heart. He took a deep look at Bakura, who outwardly had nothing to do with the Great Evil God or anything similar, and looked more like a lazy person hyped up after eating fried chicken. His figure disappeared from this World.
As Hayato left, Bakura yawned a little boredly: "Honestly, I'm the only one left again. But, he even has **Sage's Stone**. He's really an incredible guy, Hayato Kobayashi."
"However, I, who am left in the **Millennium Rod**, am just a backup soul fragment of the true form. It's the true form outside that needs to worry; it's not my turn at all."
Bakura, with his legs crossed, was destroyed along with everything around him, returning to the **Millennium Puzzle** where he had been hiding before.
After arriving outside at the Kaiba Dome, which had been destroyed into something like a "bird's nest", Hayato didn't rush to greet Ishizu and Yugi, who had noticed his appearance nearby. Instead, he immediately searched for something on the ground full of building wreckage.
His movements were fast, and within a few seconds, he found a red gem that was quite conspicuous even among the sundries. Its appearance was the same as the one Hayato had obtained before, but when he tried to pick up the red gem, he was ultimately a step too late.
Black flames ignited on the red gem ball that had fallen to the ground. The red radiance suddenly burst forth, and from within came the voice of Anubis, whom Yugi and the others thought should have been dead:
"I was sealed for a thousand years, and forced to leave my homeland."
"You dare to provoke me again and again? You are truly seeking your own death!"
"Activate **Berserker Soul**!"
After activating the card in his Hand, Yugi saw that Anubis still wore an indifferent expression, and knew that he wasn't aware of the effect of the card **Berserker Soul**.
So he "kindly" explained: "Because of **Berserker Soul**'s effect, I draw a card from the top of my Deck. If it's a Monster Card, I send it to the Graveyard, and then my **Mystical Elf** on the Field can attack you again."
"Dorō! (Draw!)"
Placing his finger on the Deck, Yugi drew the card from the top like a samurai drawing his sword. Without even looking at what card he drew, he shouted loudly,
"Monster Card! (Monster Card!)"
The **Mystical Elf**, which hadn't returned to the Field in front of Anubis, swung the long sword in its Hand again with this shout. The sharp blade once again slashed through Anubis's body. Although his body healed again, a portion of his Life Points was taken away once more.
[Anubis: 13100→11700 LP]
"Tsk, troublesome kid." Anubis frowned and said, annoyed, "But it's still just minor, insignificant injuries, not worth mentioning—"
"Dorō!"
After sending the previously drawn **Mammoth Graveyard** to the Graveyard, Yugi drew a card again, interrupting Anubis's unfinished words, "Monster Card!"
[Anubis: 11700→10300 LP]
"Ugh!" Anubis was choked by the **Mystical Elf**'s attack. Besides the pain, a confused expression appeared on his face. "Why... why did it attack again!?"
"The continuous attacks performed by **Berserker Soul**'s effect don't have a once per turn restriction. It can continue until I draw a card other than a Monster Card!" Yugi sent **Giant Soldier of Stone** from his Hand to the Graveyard. "Even if your Life Points are cleared, **Berserker Soul**'s effect can still continue to resolve."
"Here I come, Anubis. Do you have enough Life Point reserves?"
"Third Dorō!"
As he spoke, Yugi drew another card.
Seeing Yugi so proud, Anubis was also extremely angry: "You kid, you just got lucky and drew two Monster Cards in a row. How many Monster Cards can possibly be left in the Deck, and how many more can you draw?"
"As for how many Monster Cards are in the Deck, I haven't really checked, but for a True Duelist, every draw is destined. You can even create your own future."
Yugi said, showing the drawn card to Anubis again, **Guardian Winged Dragon**, "Monster Card!"
"Pfft!"
[Anubis: 10300→9900 LP]
"Ugh!" His heart pierced by a sharp blade again, even though the wound on Anubis's body healed rapidly once more, the speed of recovery was noticeably slower to the naked eye. "You bastard!"
"You actually made me make such a humiliating sound!"
"I won't let you off!"
Yugi looked at Anubis and said coldly: "Hmph, suit yourself. You can even tell the Jailers of the Underworld about that obsession after you die."
"But there's one thing I won't leave to the Jailers of hell to do."
Yugi pointed his finger at Anubis, "Interfering with others' sacred duels, attempting to destroy the World, and harming Aibo, you've completely angered me, Anubis!"
"Upon you, I shall bring down the punishment of ten thousand swords piercing the body!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
"Dorō! Monster Card!"
[Anubis: 9900→8500→7100→5700→4300→2900→1500→100 LP]
Drawing seven cards consecutively, Yugi drew seven more Monster Cards. By sending these seven cards to the Graveyard, **Mystical Elf** delivered seven relentless attacks. Swords pierced like rain, reducing Anubis's Life Points in one go to only the last 100 points.
"Ya, Yarou! My Life Points were originally a full fourteen thousand five hundred points, and yet, and yet I, Anubis, have been reduced to this state!"
Anubis's gaze filled with hatred was fixed on Yugi, but Yugi merely placed his finger on the Deck again.
"Dorō!" With another draw, Yugi drew a **Kuriboh**, sending it to the Graveyard. "This is the final blow, Anubis."
"Monster Card!"
Although not comparable to the MVP **Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon** which turned the tide in this Duel, **Mystical Elf**, which dealt the most damage, raised the long sword in its Hand one last time and swung it down forcefully!
"Ugh!!"
[Anubis: 100 LP→0]
"Dorō!"
Although Anubis's Life Points had been cleared and his body had even begun to gradually turn into dust and disperse, Yugi still drew a card because of **Berserker Soul**. However, this time, he drew **Monster Reborn**, which was a Spell Card, not a Monster Card.
After achieving its goal, **Berserker Soul** precisely ended its effect at the right time, without continuing to "whip the corpse" of Anubis, although attacking Anubis, who had died a thousand years ago, was broadly speaking "whip the corpse" anyway.
Yugi wouldn't do something as despicable as shouting "Monster Card" when he clearly drew a Spell Card. If he did, even **Dark Magician Girl** might be scared into losing a star (level). He ended this Duel, looking at Anubis, whose body was gradually turning back into a decaying mummy, with the sole scarlet eyeball on his half-transformed face glaring at him.
"Your ambition is over, Anubis."
Anubis seemed like he wanted to say something, but the dispersal of his body had completely spread. Before he could open his mouth to say anything, his body completely collapsed, falling to the ground, even crushing the already shattered Crystal Pyramid on his chest.
The scarlet eyeball from the Eye of Wjat/Udjat rolled onto the ground.
Joey Wheeler and the others, who had moved from the Spectator Area to the Field, also witnessed Yugi's victory in the Duel.
"He did it!" "Yugi won!" "Alright, Yugi!"
No matter how you looked at it, this Duel was Yugi's victory, as Anubis himself had been defeated with his Life Points cleared by Yugi's continuous attacks from **Berserker Soul**.
It was at the same time the Crystal Pyramid shattered that Yugi and Hayato, who were in the Pyramid of Light World, felt everything around them begin to vibrate violently.
"It looks like the Duel outside is over," Hayato said, looking at the ancient walls and floor tiles around them shattering, revealing the void World, knowing that Dark Yugi must have defeated Anubis.
"Yeah, because The Other Me is very strong," Yugi smiled and nodded, noticing his body gradually becoming transparent, seemed like returning to the soul state he would appear in within the normal **Millennium Puzzle** before.
Almost in one go, accompanied by the cracking of the surrounding space, Yugi's figure disappeared, seemed like returning to the normal World.
Hayato smiled as he watched Yugi leave: "Not just The Other Yugi, you, Yugi, are also very strong."
However, this sentence wasn't heard by Yugi, but it was heard by the other "person" sitting slumped in this Room. But that was someone completely uninterested in Duel Monsters.
"Heh heh, what a feast I had. I never thought that ugly guy had such a rich foundation."
Bakura, looking relaxed, sat casually on the Stairs like a pregnant woman in a very undignified manner. Although the space cracks around him were gradually approaching him, he didn't care at all, letting them spread.
Opening his narrowed eyes, he glanced at Hayato, who walked up the Stairs and picked up the red gem lying among the Crystal Pyramid fragments from Anubis's chest. Bakura said casually: "Are you interested in that thing? It's just a converter, although it also has the ability to transfer and store energy. The energy inside is completely cleared now; it has no usefulness whatsoever."
"Of course, if you're willing to slaughter humans using the method this thing was created with at that time, you can also gain power by converting human souls."
"I wouldn't go that far just for power. I'm still very interested in **Double Jump**." Hayato tossed the red gem in his Hand. "However, you seem like you know the origin of this thing?"
"Of course I do, who do you think I am?"
Bakura's face showed some pride: "When that ugly guy named Anubis got the method to make this thing from the existence behind him, I remembered some of it. And I also know the true form of this thing and how to use it."
"In terms you can understand, this thing is equivalent to a wish machine. It can almost make your wishes come true, the only cost is that you need to pay some equivalent things in advance to fulfill the wish. Because it's an equivalent exchange, it's somewhat useless, which is why I'm not very interested in that thing."
"Equivalent exchange?" Hayato's expression became a little strange upon hearing this, as he thought of something.
Bakura, who was paying attention to Hayato, naturally knew from Hayato's expression what he was thinking of: "That's right, 'Fifth Element'. I remember people outside called this thing that, also called 'Philosopher's Stone', 'Red Elixir', etc. I feel 'Red Elixir' is more appropriate, since they're both red."
"Of course, it seems like it's more commonly known as 'Sage's Stone'," Bakura said with a look of dark humor. "I can tell you how to make it. It's actually very simple, just use weapons made of Orichalcum to kill enough people, and you can reverse the attribute of the green Orichalcum. But unfortunately, even if you have the courage to murder, this World probably hasn't had Orichalcum for a long time, and there won't be a second..."
As he spoke, Bakura looked at a card Hayato took from his Waist and suddenly fell silent.
"Tsk, if you had **Sage's Stone**, you should have said so earlier. You wasted my time."
Taking out the **Philosopher's Stone - Sabatiel** card from the Warehouse, Hayato looked at the red gem in his Hand, which was identical to the one in the card art, smiled, and put them away together. He raised his gradually transparent Hand: "Actually, you wasted my time more, since it looks like I have to leave too."
Unlike Yugi, Hayato used his true form when entering the Pyramid of Light. Although he could stay a little longer than Yugi, who was directly kicked out, he would still be forced out if he stayed longer. And if he were forcibly kicked out, Hayato wasn't sure he could protect himself. He didn't want to become a spirit or a space ghost for now.
As for the information Bakura mentioned, it wasn't entirely wasted time. Through Bakura's words, Hayato finally knew the answer to a question that had puzzled him in his previous life.
Several years later, in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, during Judai's story, in Judai's third year of enrollment, he would meet transfer students from other Duel Academy branch schools. Among them was a student named Jim Crocodile Cook. When he was a child, he lost his right eye after being injured while saving his alligator friend named Karen, but he received a red eyeball called the **Eye of Orichalcum** from a man he didn't know.
Many events happened during that school year, causing Judai to awaken the dark power in his heart and transform into **Supreme King Judai**, almost becoming a completely different person. However, he later returned to being Judai because another mercenary companion named O'Brien used Jim's **Eye of Orichalcum**.
According to Bakura, **Sage's Stone** is essentially reversed Orichalcum, which is Orichalcos. This explains the operation where Jim's red **Eye of Orichalcum**, at the cost of his Life Points, turned Judai back.
However, a new question arose. Bakura said that this World no longer had Orichalcum, which is Orichalcos. Where did the person who gave the **Eye of Orichalcum** to Jim when he was a child get the Orichalcum, and how did they complete its creation?
Hayato temporarily suppressed this question in his heart. He took a deep look at Bakura, who outwardly had nothing to do with the Great Evil God or anything similar, and looked more like a lazy person hyped up after eating fried chicken. His figure disappeared from this World.
As Hayato left, Bakura yawned a little boredly: "Honestly, I'm the only one left again. But, he even has **Sage's Stone**. He's really an incredible guy, Hayato Kobayashi."
"However, I, who am left in the **Millennium Rod**, am just a backup soul fragment of the true form. It's the true form outside that needs to worry; it's not my turn at all."
Bakura, with his legs crossed, was destroyed along with everything around him, returning to the **Millennium Puzzle** where he had been hiding before.
After arriving outside at the Kaiba Dome, which had been destroyed into something like a "bird's nest", Hayato didn't rush to greet Ishizu and Yugi, who had noticed his appearance nearby. Instead, he immediately searched for something on the ground full of building wreckage.
His movements were fast, and within a few seconds, he found a red gem that was quite conspicuous even among the sundries. Its appearance was the same as the one Hayato had obtained before, but when he tried to pick up the red gem, he was ultimately a step too late.
Black flames ignited on the red gem ball that had fallen to the ground. The red radiance suddenly burst forth, and from within came the voice of Anubis, whom Yugi and the others thought should have been dead:
"I was sealed for a thousand years, and forced to leave my homeland."
"You dare to provoke me again and again? You are truly seeking your own death!"
