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**Chapter 750: The Invincible Minotaur Falls**
Riding on his war horse, Dark Yugi was caught off guard by the large quantity of monsters that suddenly appeared.
However, thanks to the Soldiers guarding him who stalled for a little time, disregarding their own safety, using their bodies as a barrier to protect Dark Yugi, he was able to react and promptly summon.
"These monsters, where did they appear from!"
While muttering to himself, Dark Yugi raised the Golden Duel Plate he had been wearing on his left wrist as a precaution since leaving the City. Amidst the radiance, he guided the power from the Stone Tablet Temple, which wasn't too far away, releasing the power of the Stone Tablet Monsters and summoning them before him.
Because the tablets from Priest Mahad's Stone Tablet Temple had been moved to his own Temple, Dark Yugi was able to use the tablets that had belonged to Priest Mahad to summon Stone Tablet Monsters. And very coincidentally, after successively summoning three Stone Tablet Monsters, Dark Yugi recognized all of them: they were Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1, Kuriboh, and Spirit Swordsman.
In modern times, these three monsters existed in the Deck that Dark Yugi, or rather Yugi, collected in his early days, and had accompanied Yugi through many battles. Even if they didn't possess the same strength as Dark Magician, they still had excellent, trustworthy combat power.
Under Dark Yugi's command, the three Stone Tablet Monsters charged towards the monsters that had invaded the Army Formation.
After witnessing the awakening of the spirits in the Royal Palace, except for Priest Aknadin, who seemed to have consumed too much energy and had to return for rest and recuperation, and Priest Shimon, who was too old for horse riding — it definitely wasn't because his legs were too short — he brought Priest Seto and Priest Shada outside the City to see what exactly had fallen from the sky earlier.
Also accompanying them were Troops of nearly a hundred people drawn from the City, ensuring enough were left to maintain order within the City. Although it was questionable whether they could serve the purpose of protecting Dark Yugi and the two Priests, considering the considerable area of the Desert outside the City, he felt that bringing more Soldiers would always be useful.
And the facts were indeed so. Fortunately, thanks to the existence of the Soldiers, Dark Yugi and the two Priests were protected from being successfully sneak attacked by the monsters, preventing damage to the high-level combat power.
And after Dark Yugi summoned the Stone Tablet Monsters, Seto and Shada also reacted, calling forth their respective Stone Tablet Monsters to join the battle.
"Minotaur!" "Axe Raider!" "King of Yamimakai!"
"Cyclops!" "Baphomet!" "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts!"
On the Duel Arenas worn by the two Priests, the deployed wing-shaped components manifested the corresponding emblem patterns of the Stone Tablet Monsters they had summoned. A total of six Stone Tablet Monsters followed the three monsters previously summoned by Dark Yugi, aiding the Soldiers in battle.
Considering that they weren't the only ones around, but there was a large quantity of Soldiers present, when summoning Stone Tablet Monsters, none of them chose large Stone Tablet Monsters with area attack capability. Instead, they tried their best to select types with sufficient combat power and decent movement speed.
However, the reason why only these monsters were summoned in the end wasn't because the filtering was too strict and only these monsters met the conditions. The main reason was actually that a Duel Arena can only summon a maximum of three monsters; this is an inherent flaw in the hardware limitations.
However, although Priest Shada didn't react at first, after summoning three monsters, he suddenly remembered that he was no longer the same as before.
Although a Duel Arena indeed has a limit of three monsters, the spirit he called forth, which had only awakened this morning, was not subject to the Duel Arena's hardware limitations.
"Come forth, my Tamashii!"
With a loud call, only to see Ankh Kuriboh manifest from Shada's body, and as soon as it appeared, it scattered a wave of radiance from its own body, which fell upon several Soldiers near Dark Yugi, who had been injured earlier while actively resisting the suddenly appearing monsters to protect the Pharaoh.
The several Soldiers had originally thought that their injuries were so severe they would likely not be healed and would sooner or later have their souls return to the Underworld, but they didn't expect that after Ankh Kuriboh's light fell, the injuries on their bodies suddenly healed rapidly as if time had flowed backward, even the blood that had spurted from their wounds, splashed onto the Ground, and seeped into the Earth flowed back.
In the blink of an eye, they were already fully revived?!
Although they couldn't see the Stone Tablet Monsters and spirits summoned by Dark Yugi, Shada, and Seto, and weren't quite sure what exactly happened for them to suddenly recover, but fundamentally, it must have been the Pharaoh and the Priests who took action!
That's amazing! The power of the Pharaoh and the Priests is too invincible, it's simply a divine miracle!
A classic line from a certain Shanghai idol popped up in their inner thoughts; the Soldiers healed by Ankh Kuriboh's power immediately returned to the front line and began battling the monsters attacking the Pharaoh.
And Seto couldn't help but glance at the small spherical monster floating beside Shada: "A healing ability powerful enough to allow those near death to return to the battlefield? You really awakened quite a gentle ability, Shada. And, it's not subject to the Duel Arena's restriction?"
"If I had been able to detect this power of the Millennium Key earlier, perhaps with the blessing of an additional spirit, Priest Mahad's destiny could have also been changed." Hearing Seto's words, Shada couldn't help but say with some emotion, but he quickly calmed his mood again. "But now is not the time to talk about that."
Driving their vehicles to Dark Yugi's side, the two quickly asked Dark Yugi: "Please forgive your subordinates for inadequate protection. You are not injured, are you, Pharaoh?"
Dark Yugi shook his head, indicating that he was not injured. "I'm fine, but do you know where these monsters appeared from, Seto, Shada?"
"This is the main road into the City. Yesterday, when your subordinates brought the transferred Troops into the City, we didn't find anything unusual, and because there's constant traffic, there shouldn't be an ambush here," Priest Seto said, frowning.
"Without the Millennium Necklace, which can warn of crisis, and the Millennium Ring, which can detect dark power, here, we fundamentally don't know where these unaccountably spirits appeared from."
And Shada also looked at the spirits battling their Stone Tablet Monsters not far away and said, "Furthermore, those spirits are very unusual. Logically, people without a certain level of training shouldn't be able to see spirits; even Mana the Magician, Priest Mahad's disciple, is still a bit short of the realm where one can see spirits."
"But these spirits that suddenly attacked you, Pharaoh, can even be seen by ordinary people in the Army, and even the attacks of ordinary people with no special qualities can hit their bodies. This doesn't seem like the characteristic that spirits born from people's hearts should have at all; instead, they are like ordinary creatures."
Although Shada said so, everyone knew that these spirits heading straight for Dark Yugi were indeed existences similar to Stone Tablet Monsters. Putting aside the strange dark aura wrapped around them, at the very least, you would absolutely not find a giant elephant in nature that has no flesh on its entire body and only a skeleton.
And just at this time, because of its largest size and being the most noticeable, the giant elephant's skeleton — which is the spirit named Mammoth Graveyard — was fiercely struck and killed with an axe by the Minotaur summoned by Seto, as if dealing with a pure love warrior; its skeleton scattered across the Ground.
Seto and Shada were Priests after all, the Stone Tablet Monsters they used were naturally not bad. Although they weren't invincible existences that could crush the entire Field on their own, crushing these Small Fry spirits with an equivalent ATK of less than 1500 points on the front line Battlefield was still easy.
However, Shada and Seto hadn't even had time to feel some relief. The two who were about to shift their attention from the fallen Mammoth Graveyard heard Dark Yugi speak from beside them: "This is bad, those monsters are not ordinary monsters, but monsters harboring dark power!"
Hearing this, Seto's heart tightened subconsciously. Mammoth Graveyard's attribute should clearly be EARTH attribute if anything, how could it be dark power? And why, upon hearing the Pharaoh say this, did I suddenly feel annoyed?
Not knowing that three thousand years later, Seto, whose Pharaoh beside him would use the monster Mammoth Graveyard to perform incredibly absurd rule bending, only thought that the feeling in his heart was merely an illusion.
After defeating Mammoth Graveyard, Minotaur, holding an axe, turned around to NTR the next... *cough*... perform a finishing blow on the next target. But just as he turned around, a bone spike suddenly protruded from his chest; it was none other than Mammoth Graveyard's tusk!
Mammoth Graveyard, which should have already been defeated, unexpectedly revived at this moment under the effect of the dark aura wrapped around its skeleton, and backstabbed Minotaur while it wasn't paying attention. The sharp tusk pierced through Minotaur's chest from behind, and the dark aura also wrapped around it at the same time!
Minotaur lost?!
"Impossible! It actually revived?! Ugh—!" Seto widened his eyes, watching in disbelief as Mammoth Graveyard's scattered skeleton automatically reassembled and stood upright on the Earth once more.
Before he could say more than a couple of words, the instant the dark aura wrapped around Minotaur, the erosion of that dark power was also transmitted to Seto, causing him to let out a muffled groan, and the "Soul" on his Duel Arena also began to decrease.
Fortunately, Shada's support was timely. He immediately had Ankh Kuriboh beside him fly out to heal Minotaur, who was impaled on the tusk. The latter desperately pulled himself off the tusk, and after finally managing to escape, he recovered his state with Ankh Kuriboh's support.
However, what made Dark Yugi and the others' expressions look grim was that not just Mammoth Graveyard, although some of the other spirits that attacked them had been taken down by the countering Stone Tablet Monsters before, with the help of that dark aura, they unexpectedly revived once again.
With this back and forth, the Stone Tablet Monsters summoned by Dark Yugi and the others were fundamentally no match for the spirits that could continuously revive. If it weren't for Shada's Ankh Kuriboh providing healing, they would have been defeated long ago!
Even the Soldiers whose morale had greatly increased due to the miracle Shada achieved with Ankh Kuriboh's power couldn't help but shrink back a little, not daring to move forward anymore.
More importantly, Ankh Kuriboh is after all not some bug existence that can make people revive infinitely. His power also has a certain limit. As time passes, his speed in healing the Stone Tablet Monsters was also gradually getting slower and slower.
The situation is very unfavorable!
Looking back at the City Wall they had left not long ago, Dark Yugi knew that if he were to issue the order to retreat now, the Stone Tablet Monsters, even if they couldn't defeat the spirits, could still stall for time, providing enough time for him to take the Soldiers back to the City for defense.
But would he just let these undying spirits roam outside the City then? Impossible. He had to know that there were also his subjects in the Residential Area outside the City. He had to stay here and take down all these spirits!
"Everyone retreat, I'm going to summon a God!" Immediately, Dark Yugi shouted to the Soldiers in front, recalling the three Stone Tablet Monsters he had summoned before, to make space for the God's descent.
And hearing the Pharaoh's words, the Soldiers felt as if they had received a great pardon and immediately ran towards Dark Yugi and the others, getting as far away as possible from the undying spirits in front as they could, while Seto and Shada also immediately focused completely on controlling their Stone Tablet Monsters to resist the attacks of the numerous spirits.
Although there were three fewer Stone Tablet Monsters for defense due to Dark Yugi, but because the defense perimeter shrank, Seto and Shada also successfully blocked the spirits' attacks, but it wouldn't last for too long.
And Yugi, looking at the large quantity of spirits, couldn't help but start thinking.
Any one of the Three Egyptian Gods possesses power that can be used against groups. Among them, Obelisk the Tormentor possesses the pure power to destroy everything, and The Winged Dragon of Ra also has a similar immortal phoenix fire.
Although Dark Yugi believed that both of them could annihilate all these spirits in front with one attack, the spirits possess immortality and would revive again, while the God's area attack has a huge consumption.
Then, there is only one answer!
"Chant for Slifer!"
His palm opened and stretched towards the sky, the symbol of the Eye of Udjat appeared on Dark Yugi's forehead. At the same time, dark clouds suddenly gathered in the originally clear sky, thunder and lightning!
Accompanied by the Millennium Rod on Dark Yugi's chest emitting brilliant gold light, floating up and swaying for no reason, a huge long shadow moved between the dark clouds, a section of a red body occasionally emerged from the dark clouds.
A red dragon head with two layers and two mouths emerged from between the low-hanging dark clouds, responding to the Pharaoh's summon on the Ground!
"Descend, Slifer the Sky Dragon!" Dark Yugi pointed at the many spirits in front of him and commanded, "Superconductive Wave-Thunder Force!"
Riding on his war horse, Dark Yugi was caught off guard by the large quantity of monsters that suddenly appeared.
However, thanks to the Soldiers guarding him who stalled for a little time, disregarding their own safety, using their bodies as a barrier to protect Dark Yugi, he was able to react and promptly summon.
"These monsters, where did they appear from!"
While muttering to himself, Dark Yugi raised the Golden Duel Plate he had been wearing on his left wrist as a precaution since leaving the City. Amidst the radiance, he guided the power from the Stone Tablet Temple, which wasn't too far away, releasing the power of the Stone Tablet Monsters and summoning them before him.
Because the tablets from Priest Mahad's Stone Tablet Temple had been moved to his own Temple, Dark Yugi was able to use the tablets that had belonged to Priest Mahad to summon Stone Tablet Monsters. And very coincidentally, after successively summoning three Stone Tablet Monsters, Dark Yugi recognized all of them: they were Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1, Kuriboh, and Spirit Swordsman.
In modern times, these three monsters existed in the Deck that Dark Yugi, or rather Yugi, collected in his early days, and had accompanied Yugi through many battles. Even if they didn't possess the same strength as Dark Magician, they still had excellent, trustworthy combat power.
Under Dark Yugi's command, the three Stone Tablet Monsters charged towards the monsters that had invaded the Army Formation.
After witnessing the awakening of the spirits in the Royal Palace, except for Priest Aknadin, who seemed to have consumed too much energy and had to return for rest and recuperation, and Priest Shimon, who was too old for horse riding — it definitely wasn't because his legs were too short — he brought Priest Seto and Priest Shada outside the City to see what exactly had fallen from the sky earlier.
Also accompanying them were Troops of nearly a hundred people drawn from the City, ensuring enough were left to maintain order within the City. Although it was questionable whether they could serve the purpose of protecting Dark Yugi and the two Priests, considering the considerable area of the Desert outside the City, he felt that bringing more Soldiers would always be useful.
And the facts were indeed so. Fortunately, thanks to the existence of the Soldiers, Dark Yugi and the two Priests were protected from being successfully sneak attacked by the monsters, preventing damage to the high-level combat power.
And after Dark Yugi summoned the Stone Tablet Monsters, Seto and Shada also reacted, calling forth their respective Stone Tablet Monsters to join the battle.
"Minotaur!" "Axe Raider!" "King of Yamimakai!"
"Cyclops!" "Baphomet!" "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts!"
On the Duel Arenas worn by the two Priests, the deployed wing-shaped components manifested the corresponding emblem patterns of the Stone Tablet Monsters they had summoned. A total of six Stone Tablet Monsters followed the three monsters previously summoned by Dark Yugi, aiding the Soldiers in battle.
Considering that they weren't the only ones around, but there was a large quantity of Soldiers present, when summoning Stone Tablet Monsters, none of them chose large Stone Tablet Monsters with area attack capability. Instead, they tried their best to select types with sufficient combat power and decent movement speed.
However, the reason why only these monsters were summoned in the end wasn't because the filtering was too strict and only these monsters met the conditions. The main reason was actually that a Duel Arena can only summon a maximum of three monsters; this is an inherent flaw in the hardware limitations.
However, although Priest Shada didn't react at first, after summoning three monsters, he suddenly remembered that he was no longer the same as before.
Although a Duel Arena indeed has a limit of three monsters, the spirit he called forth, which had only awakened this morning, was not subject to the Duel Arena's hardware limitations.
"Come forth, my Tamashii!"
With a loud call, only to see Ankh Kuriboh manifest from Shada's body, and as soon as it appeared, it scattered a wave of radiance from its own body, which fell upon several Soldiers near Dark Yugi, who had been injured earlier while actively resisting the suddenly appearing monsters to protect the Pharaoh.
The several Soldiers had originally thought that their injuries were so severe they would likely not be healed and would sooner or later have their souls return to the Underworld, but they didn't expect that after Ankh Kuriboh's light fell, the injuries on their bodies suddenly healed rapidly as if time had flowed backward, even the blood that had spurted from their wounds, splashed onto the Ground, and seeped into the Earth flowed back.
In the blink of an eye, they were already fully revived?!
Although they couldn't see the Stone Tablet Monsters and spirits summoned by Dark Yugi, Shada, and Seto, and weren't quite sure what exactly happened for them to suddenly recover, but fundamentally, it must have been the Pharaoh and the Priests who took action!
That's amazing! The power of the Pharaoh and the Priests is too invincible, it's simply a divine miracle!
A classic line from a certain Shanghai idol popped up in their inner thoughts; the Soldiers healed by Ankh Kuriboh's power immediately returned to the front line and began battling the monsters attacking the Pharaoh.
And Seto couldn't help but glance at the small spherical monster floating beside Shada: "A healing ability powerful enough to allow those near death to return to the battlefield? You really awakened quite a gentle ability, Shada. And, it's not subject to the Duel Arena's restriction?"
"If I had been able to detect this power of the Millennium Key earlier, perhaps with the blessing of an additional spirit, Priest Mahad's destiny could have also been changed." Hearing Seto's words, Shada couldn't help but say with some emotion, but he quickly calmed his mood again. "But now is not the time to talk about that."
Driving their vehicles to Dark Yugi's side, the two quickly asked Dark Yugi: "Please forgive your subordinates for inadequate protection. You are not injured, are you, Pharaoh?"
Dark Yugi shook his head, indicating that he was not injured. "I'm fine, but do you know where these monsters appeared from, Seto, Shada?"
"This is the main road into the City. Yesterday, when your subordinates brought the transferred Troops into the City, we didn't find anything unusual, and because there's constant traffic, there shouldn't be an ambush here," Priest Seto said, frowning.
"Without the Millennium Necklace, which can warn of crisis, and the Millennium Ring, which can detect dark power, here, we fundamentally don't know where these unaccountably spirits appeared from."
And Shada also looked at the spirits battling their Stone Tablet Monsters not far away and said, "Furthermore, those spirits are very unusual. Logically, people without a certain level of training shouldn't be able to see spirits; even Mana the Magician, Priest Mahad's disciple, is still a bit short of the realm where one can see spirits."
"But these spirits that suddenly attacked you, Pharaoh, can even be seen by ordinary people in the Army, and even the attacks of ordinary people with no special qualities can hit their bodies. This doesn't seem like the characteristic that spirits born from people's hearts should have at all; instead, they are like ordinary creatures."
Although Shada said so, everyone knew that these spirits heading straight for Dark Yugi were indeed existences similar to Stone Tablet Monsters. Putting aside the strange dark aura wrapped around them, at the very least, you would absolutely not find a giant elephant in nature that has no flesh on its entire body and only a skeleton.
And just at this time, because of its largest size and being the most noticeable, the giant elephant's skeleton — which is the spirit named Mammoth Graveyard — was fiercely struck and killed with an axe by the Minotaur summoned by Seto, as if dealing with a pure love warrior; its skeleton scattered across the Ground.
Seto and Shada were Priests after all, the Stone Tablet Monsters they used were naturally not bad. Although they weren't invincible existences that could crush the entire Field on their own, crushing these Small Fry spirits with an equivalent ATK of less than 1500 points on the front line Battlefield was still easy.
However, Shada and Seto hadn't even had time to feel some relief. The two who were about to shift their attention from the fallen Mammoth Graveyard heard Dark Yugi speak from beside them: "This is bad, those monsters are not ordinary monsters, but monsters harboring dark power!"
Hearing this, Seto's heart tightened subconsciously. Mammoth Graveyard's attribute should clearly be EARTH attribute if anything, how could it be dark power? And why, upon hearing the Pharaoh say this, did I suddenly feel annoyed?
Not knowing that three thousand years later, Seto, whose Pharaoh beside him would use the monster Mammoth Graveyard to perform incredibly absurd rule bending, only thought that the feeling in his heart was merely an illusion.
After defeating Mammoth Graveyard, Minotaur, holding an axe, turned around to NTR the next... *cough*... perform a finishing blow on the next target. But just as he turned around, a bone spike suddenly protruded from his chest; it was none other than Mammoth Graveyard's tusk!
Mammoth Graveyard, which should have already been defeated, unexpectedly revived at this moment under the effect of the dark aura wrapped around its skeleton, and backstabbed Minotaur while it wasn't paying attention. The sharp tusk pierced through Minotaur's chest from behind, and the dark aura also wrapped around it at the same time!
Minotaur lost?!
"Impossible! It actually revived?! Ugh—!" Seto widened his eyes, watching in disbelief as Mammoth Graveyard's scattered skeleton automatically reassembled and stood upright on the Earth once more.
Before he could say more than a couple of words, the instant the dark aura wrapped around Minotaur, the erosion of that dark power was also transmitted to Seto, causing him to let out a muffled groan, and the "Soul" on his Duel Arena also began to decrease.
Fortunately, Shada's support was timely. He immediately had Ankh Kuriboh beside him fly out to heal Minotaur, who was impaled on the tusk. The latter desperately pulled himself off the tusk, and after finally managing to escape, he recovered his state with Ankh Kuriboh's support.
However, what made Dark Yugi and the others' expressions look grim was that not just Mammoth Graveyard, although some of the other spirits that attacked them had been taken down by the countering Stone Tablet Monsters before, with the help of that dark aura, they unexpectedly revived once again.
With this back and forth, the Stone Tablet Monsters summoned by Dark Yugi and the others were fundamentally no match for the spirits that could continuously revive. If it weren't for Shada's Ankh Kuriboh providing healing, they would have been defeated long ago!
Even the Soldiers whose morale had greatly increased due to the miracle Shada achieved with Ankh Kuriboh's power couldn't help but shrink back a little, not daring to move forward anymore.
More importantly, Ankh Kuriboh is after all not some bug existence that can make people revive infinitely. His power also has a certain limit. As time passes, his speed in healing the Stone Tablet Monsters was also gradually getting slower and slower.
The situation is very unfavorable!
Looking back at the City Wall they had left not long ago, Dark Yugi knew that if he were to issue the order to retreat now, the Stone Tablet Monsters, even if they couldn't defeat the spirits, could still stall for time, providing enough time for him to take the Soldiers back to the City for defense.
But would he just let these undying spirits roam outside the City then? Impossible. He had to know that there were also his subjects in the Residential Area outside the City. He had to stay here and take down all these spirits!
"Everyone retreat, I'm going to summon a God!" Immediately, Dark Yugi shouted to the Soldiers in front, recalling the three Stone Tablet Monsters he had summoned before, to make space for the God's descent.
And hearing the Pharaoh's words, the Soldiers felt as if they had received a great pardon and immediately ran towards Dark Yugi and the others, getting as far away as possible from the undying spirits in front as they could, while Seto and Shada also immediately focused completely on controlling their Stone Tablet Monsters to resist the attacks of the numerous spirits.
Although there were three fewer Stone Tablet Monsters for defense due to Dark Yugi, but because the defense perimeter shrank, Seto and Shada also successfully blocked the spirits' attacks, but it wouldn't last for too long.
And Yugi, looking at the large quantity of spirits, couldn't help but start thinking.
Any one of the Three Egyptian Gods possesses power that can be used against groups. Among them, Obelisk the Tormentor possesses the pure power to destroy everything, and The Winged Dragon of Ra also has a similar immortal phoenix fire.
Although Dark Yugi believed that both of them could annihilate all these spirits in front with one attack, the spirits possess immortality and would revive again, while the God's area attack has a huge consumption.
Then, there is only one answer!
"Chant for Slifer!"
His palm opened and stretched towards the sky, the symbol of the Eye of Udjat appeared on Dark Yugi's forehead. At the same time, dark clouds suddenly gathered in the originally clear sky, thunder and lightning!
Accompanied by the Millennium Rod on Dark Yugi's chest emitting brilliant gold light, floating up and swaying for no reason, a huge long shadow moved between the dark clouds, a section of a red body occasionally emerged from the dark clouds.
A red dragon head with two layers and two mouths emerged from between the low-hanging dark clouds, responding to the Pharaoh's summon on the Ground!
"Descend, Slifer the Sky Dragon!" Dark Yugi pointed at the many spirits in front of him and commanded, "Superconductive Wave-Thunder Force!"
