Chapter 221: This City Will Become a Battlefield!

Chapter 221: This City Will Become a Battlefield!

A month later.

"According to your request, Brother Hayato, the new Duel Disk is ready. Look, it's this one." Mokuba bent down, took a Duel Disk from the shelf next to the control panel, and placed it in front of Hayato. "Although they're a bunch of random functions, they were simple enough, and I handled it all myself, hmph!"

Hayato put on the Duel Disk Mokuba had given him. "With this, I can defeat any Sun Monster. Thanks, Taro."

"How am I not even a person this time!" Mokuba complained, but judging by the expression on his face, he seemed to have gotten used to Hayato's jokes. "Speaking of which, Brother Hayato, why did you think of adding those strange functions to the Duel Disk?"

"How is the function that plays BGM when Life Points drop below 1000 strange? Rather, it's strange that a Duel Disk *doesn't* have this function," Hayato said. "Honestly, I even asked Seto to record a few lines in it, but that guy absolutely refused."

The weight of the Duel Disk had been rebalanced; despite being such a large metal "arm blade," it wasn't heavy on his hand. Furthermore, functions for automatically shuffling the Deck and automatically ejecting Cards from the Deck and Graveyard were specially added.

However, according to Mokuba, this automated function had only just been completed and hadn't been debugged, which was why it hadn't been added to Hayato's Duel Disk yet.

"It's really rare that Brother managed to resist hitting you, Brother Hayato," Mokuba complained, continuing to busy himself in front of the control panel. The data fluctuating wildly on the screen was dazzling, and Hayato watched for a long time, unable to make sense of it.

However, even without understanding the specifics, Hayato could tell what kind of data it was. Walking a few steps towards the window, bypassing the control panel where Mokuba was, Hayato saw Seto Kaiba Dueling against a Duel Robot on an empty Field below.

Hayato came to KaibaCorp this time both to pick up the Duel Disk he had asked Mokuba to modify and to discuss many rules about Duel City with Kaiba. The most crucial among them was that "Fusion Monsters can Attack on the Turn they are Summoned."

Originally, Kaiba thought his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon was so strong that it should have a restriction, but Hayato taught him a lesson using Change of Heart—blindly Summoning a powerful Monster that couldn't be used was no different from giving it away for free.

"Seto really likes Dueling Duel Robots." It seems that from this time onwards, that guy Kaiba officially embarked on the path of an AI Dueling King, where he's "meek and timid when Dueling others, but strikes hard when Dueling AI Duelists"?

Mokuba didn't catch the hidden meaning in Hayato's words and thought Hayato was praising KaibaCorp's Duel Robot. He said somewhat proudly, "Hmph hmph, I've input all the Duel Recordings that have circulated publicly into that Duel Robot so far, and the Duel data of famous Duelists have all been collected and analyzed by that machine."

"Thief, Fisherman, King of the Ocean, Insect, Dinosaur, Electronic Flow, even the data of Maximillion Pegasus, Yugi Mutou, and Brother Hayato have been collected." Mokuba proudly lifted his head. "In other words, the program of the Duel Robot I designed is a collection of all the Duelists in the world."

"However..."

As he spoke, Mokuba looked somewhat hesitantly at Kaiba, who was standing in front of the Duel Robot. "My brother, he said he wanted to 'test the limits of a God's power,' and gave his three Blue-Eyes White Dragon and the Deck he uses to that robot, while he himself is using a weak Deck."

On one hand, Mokuba was quite confident in the Duel Robot whose program he helped design, believing it was Invincible in the game of Duel Monsters. On the other hand, as a younger brother, Mokuba didn't want to see his older brother, Kaiba, suffer a crushing defeat.

"Duel Monsters cannot be summarized by mere data," Hayato comforted Mokuba. "Even if you calculate the Deck order, the Cards they use, and the Duelist's tactics, the Bond between the Duelist and their Duel Monsters is the only thing that cannot be quantified."

"Furthermore, even if he uses a weak Deck, the power of a God won't be limited by that."

The worry on Mokuba's face didn't fade at all, because he discovered that the Duel Robot opposite Kaiba, relying on the powerful Combo of Ruler of Dragons and The Flute of Summoning Dragon, had Summoned two Blue-Eyes White Dragon onto the Field in one go. Adding the one that had already been Summoned before, the Duel Robot's Field now had all three Blue-Eyes White Dragon!

Meanwhile, on Kaiba's Field, there were currently only five Wall Monsters, not even one with over 2000 ATK. The Attack of the three Blue-Eyes was imminent!

At the critical moment, Kaiba activated the only Set Card in his Back Row. "Trap Card Activate, Attack and Receive! Negate the Attack of Blue-Eyes and end your Battle Phase!"

"Set Card, one. Turn, end." The Attack was negated, and after making its judgment, the Duel Robot Set a Card and ended its Turn.

However, although he had narrowly escaped, Kaiba's crisis was still not resolved. The Attack and Receive he just activated was his last Set Card. Although he still had a Tribute to the Doomed in his hand, due to the presence of Ruler of Dragons, it was completely ineffective against Blue-Eyes.

In that case, all hope rested on the next Card.

"My Turn! Drawing Cards, betting everything!" Kaiba sharply drew a Card from his Deck. The unique blue border made him pause slightly, and then he suddenly burst into loud laughter. "Hmph hahahaha, I've been waiting for you, Obelisk the Tormentor!"

"Offer three Monsters on my Field as Tribute to the God! Tremble, wail, fear, despair!" He slapped the Obelisk the Tormentor Card in his hand onto his Duel Disk. Behind Kaiba, a colossal giant that looked nothing like a Duel Monster's image Stood Tall upon the earth. "Descend! With scorching gales blowing across the earth, turn all things into corpses!"

"Obelisk the Tormentor!"

Obelisk the Tormentor [10☆/DIVINE]

[Divine-Beast Type/Effect]

[4000/4000]

"Dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun, dun dun..." Along with the descent of Obelisk the Tormentor, a stirring piece of music suddenly resounded in the Duel Field. Kaiba couldn't help but turn his head to look at Hayato above.

"A God's first battle can't be dull. The music composed for the God has already begun to play." Hayato looked at the towering figure of the God behind Kaiba—the one they called the 'Sacrificial God Soldier,' the 'Black-Soled One,' the 'Giant God Soldier'—and took his hand off the side of the music player. "Oh 'God' who transcends Duel Monsters, return to the World and display your divine might to the world!"

"That's my line!" Kaiba interrupted Hayato. If he let him continue, that guy might even come up with names for his Attacks himself.

At this moment, the Duel Robot activated its Set Card. "Set Card Activate, Instant Fusion. The three Blue-Eyes White Dragon on the Field Fuse, Summon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."

Facing Obelisk the Tormentor with 4000 ATK, the Duel Robot immediately made a judgment. It Sent the three Blue-Eyes on the Field to the Graveyard and Summoned Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which had 500 more ATK than the God.

"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, standing at the Apex of Duel Monsters, can even a God not surpass it?" Mokuba looked somewhat worriedly at Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which had appeared opposite Kaiba.

"Muda muda muda, don't imagine the power of Obelisk the Tormentor with the mindset of Duel Monsters! This isn't a Monster, it's a God!" Kaiba pointed at Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with his hand. "Blue-Eyes, even you, if you stand before me, are destined only for defeat!"

Obelisk the Tormentor's two palms each gripped a Giant Soldier of Stone and a Gaia The Fierce Knight. Without seeming to exert any effort, the two Monsters were crushed into particles of light and then absorbed into Obelisk the Tormentor's body.

On Obelisk the Tormentor's fist, a dazzling white orb of light appeared. He fiercely smashed it towards the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon before him—

"Obelisk the Tormentor's Effect Activate! By Tributing two Monsters on my Field, I release Obelisk the Tormentor's true power, increasing its ATK to infinity!"

"God Hand Crush - Shockwave!"

With just one strike, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, once hailed by Kaiba as "Tough! Invincible! Strongest!", was annihilated by Obelisk the Tormentor, whose ATK had soared to infinity. The overflowing Damage even surpassed the limits that a Duel Disk could simulate, and the Duel Robot opposite Kaiba Exploded with a "boom," with black smoke even rising from the connected control panel.

Admiring everything the "God of Destruction" had wrought, Kaiba watched Obelisk the Tormentor gradually become transparent and disappear. His face seemed expressionless, but inwardly he was immensely excited: 'This is the kind of power that deserves the name of a God!'

'Obelisk the Tormentor's power, I understand it completely now. Wait for my return, Yugi Mutou!'

"Congratulations, Seto, it looks like the power of a God has satisfied you." Hayato watched Kaiba return to the control room and clapped his hands.

Kaiba glanced at Hayato. "Hmph, 'mada mada' (not yet). There are still two more Gods with such power. To become the flawless strongest, no matter who stands in my way, I will obtain those two cards. Even you, Kobayashi Hayato. If you want to taste the pain of defeat again, then by all means, try to stop me."

"You talk as if I lost back then, when it was clearly you, you bastard, who ran away halfway through," Hayato said dismissively. He stood up and walked outside with Kaiba. This was the top floor of the KaibaCorp headquarters building. As the tallest building in Domino City, looking out from here, one could easily take in the scenery of the entire Domino City.

And on the helipad on the rooftop, a helicopter was already prepared.

A few minutes later, riding in the helicopter, Hayato and Kaiba arrived above a bustling shopping street in Domino City. On the large screens on both sides of the street, which originally displayed advertisements, Kaiba's face was now projected simultaneously.

"In one week, KaibaCorp will hold a Duel Monsters tournament in this city!" Kaiba stood at the helicopter's doorway, looking down at the Duelists gathered on the ground, who had gathered after the information was leaked. Among them, he immediately spotted Yugi Mutou with his distinctive starfish-shaped hair.

'Hmph, as expected, you came too, Yugi Mutou. Our dispute will be settled in this tournament!'

Pointing a hand towards the sky, Kaiba's booming voice couldn't be drowned out even by the helicopter's rotors. "The stage for battle is the entire Domino City!"

"Starting next week, this city will become a battlefield!"