The duel in the Doma Divine Hall continued.
Since Orichalcos Tritos had already been activated and no one could interfere with this duel, Youyu was temporarily a spectator in the Spirit Realm, watching the big shots play cards from the front row.
Although, compared to the animation, Dartz had prematurely sacrificed his soul to the Evil God to extend his life, greatly increasing his power beyond the original, his avatar had just suffered a significant blow from Youyu here, greatly diminishing his power.
Youyu thought that logically this duel should not be problematic.
However, Yugi and his friends were at a disadvantage because the enemy was hidden in darkness while they were in the light. Dartz knew every deck and strategy of theirs inside out, but they didn't even know the effects of each card that Dartz printed and had to explore slowly while playing.
The infinite resurrection of Orichalcos Kyutora, the life points recovery from Orichalcos Deuteros, and the lockdown of direct attacks, followed by the Mirror Knight with a forced one-for-one ability and the large, clumsy Orichalcos Shunoros...
Every time Dartz played a new card, it was like setting a trap for the three, leaving Yugi, Kaiba, and Jonouchi stumbling into traps, as the pile of cards with bizarre effects from Orichalcos left them helpless...
Moreover, this Dartz was particularly sneaky, always explaining only half of a card's effect, forcing the trio to hit every single effect once to uncover its full nature, being extremely underhanded.
Watching them play, Youyu couldn't help but feel fortunate, damn it, good thing I saw the original. On a closer thought, if he didn't know the opponent's strategies and card effects in advance, Dartz's deck was somewhat sinister. This guy was like a total recluse for millennia...
(Dartz: What? Recluse? Are you kidding me? Say that again, I dare you.)
Without knowing the opponent's effects, Yugi and his friends were like players returning to Yu-Gi-Oh after years, watching the opponent narrate like a madman, unleashing a field full of white and black monsters out of nowhere, and suddenly losing eight thousand life points.
At moments like this, you'll start to question deeply: Who am I? Where am I?? What am I doing???
It was foreseeable that playing under such conditions would be a considerable disadvantage. Before long, their side suffered casualties—Jonouchi was the first to fall under the attack of Orichalcos Shunoros, with an attack power of over twenty thousand.
Originally, the second to receive his miserable fate should have been Yugi. But just at the moment Dartz delivered the finishing blow to Yugi, Kaiba timely flipped a Set Card, "Attack Guidance Armor," forcing Dartz's attack target to his own monster.
Thus, Kaiba shielded Yugi from the blow, shortly after collapsing himself.
At this moment, President Haima finally managed to briefly capture the attention of the Pharaoh, who usually had eyes only for AIBO.
"Kaiba!!!"
Yugi hurriedly stepped forward, catching the barely conscious, fallen President.
The President was already breathing faintly, his soul on the brink of fading away. But he used the last of his strength to say: "Don't... misunderstand, I'm just... paying back the favor..."
After speaking, the President's head slumped, and he was gone.
Incidentally, the "favor" the President referred to was a card effect Yugi activated a few turns ago, allowing him to draw a card...
...Yes, exactly, it was simply the favor of drawing a card.
The Pharaoh became enraged, teetering on the edge of an outburst.
Even though the Pharaoh had little interest in anyone besides AIBO, and typically ignored Kaiba's relentless enthusiasm for dueling...
...even so, he could not allow Kaiba to fall before him!
Not to mention, Kaiba had even shielded him from a strike.
This enraged the King to the extreme!
Even when his good friend Jonouchi was defeated, he hadn't reached this level of rage!
(Jonouchi: I...)
"Prepare yourself, Dartz!" Yugi shouted, "My turn, draw a card!"
The Pharaoh on the brink of an outburst skipped steps and went all out, directly using the legendary "Millennium Card Printer"...
"What I'm activating is, this card!"
Without even looking, Yugi smacked down the card he drew—I'm directly playing a Non-Effect Card!
Dartz was bewildered upon seeing it.
What the heck? What did you play? A blank card?
Are you playing poker here? With jokers too?
"I activate 'Legend of Heart'! To summon the true power of the three Legendary Dragons!"
Dartz: Don't fool me; nothing is written on that card...
Yugi: Shut up! "Legend of Heart" can special summon the true forms of the Legendary Dragons freed from my hand, graveyard, or deck, the Legendary Three Musketeers!
As everyone knows, the characteristic of Non-Effect Cards is that nothing is written on them, so the effect can be anything you claim.
To sum it up, if the King says it exists, it does!
However, Yugi claimed that as the Duel King and Pharaoh, he was upright and never cheated, adhering to the basic laws of card printing.
The stronger the card, the higher the cost, which is common knowledge in dueling. So, as the activation cost of "Legend of Heart," Yugi decided to pay a whopping thousand life points and also sacrifice the Celtic Guardian on his field!
Yugi: Pay 1000 life points and offer the Celtic Guardian on the field as a sacrifice! Banish the three Legendary Dragons in the graveyard from the game, and special summon the Legendary Knights, Timaeus! Critias! Hermos!
Dartz: Wait, you shouldn't have those three monsters in your deck...
Yugi (ignoring Dartz): The legendary Three Knights, descent!!!
Dartz: ...
Thus, under the concerted efforts of the Three Musketeers, Dartz's Orichalcos Shunoros was swiftly smashed into scrap iron...
But it didn't matter!
Dartz, whose trump card was defeated, laughed instead, saying foolish Pharaoh, you've already stepped into my trap! When Shunoros is destroyed, the Divine Serpent Geh with infinite power will descend!!!
As he finished speaking, the enormous serpent emerged once again from the black hole.
Having just been beaten up by the Three Egyptian God, the bruised and battered Divine Serpent Geh reappeared from the black hole, seemingly giving Dartz one more chance to see if Earth was really that treacherous...
Seeing this entity shocked the King: "Attack power... infinite!?"
Dartz laughed heartily: "The power of the Divine Serpent Geh is infinite, you've lost! You will be a sacrifice to the Evil God, and this world will be engulfed in darkness!"
Though stunned for a moment, Yugi quickly regained his composure.
It's just infinite attack power, right? What's there to fear?
Watch me hammer it back!
Yugi gave a dramatic wave: "Critias! Hermos! Attack the Divine Serpent Geh!"
Dartz was taken aback: "You're actively attacking the Divine Serpent Geh with infinite attack power!?"
"At this moment, activate Critias's effect to absorb the Trap Card effect from the graveyard! I absorb the trap left by Kaiba in the graveyard, 'Attack Guidance Barrier'! (Anime card)
Attack Guidance Barrier can redirect the opposing monster's attack target to another monster on my field! I switch the Divine Serpent Geh's attack target to Hermos!"
Dartz: Wait a minute, Attack Guidance Barrier can only redirect attack targets when my monster launches an attack; you are attacking me now...
Yugi (still ignoring): "Attack Guidance Barrier allows the absorption of a monster's attack power, transferring it to another monster! I absorb the attack power of 'Divine Serpent Geh', transferring it to Hermos! Therefore, Hermos's attack power also becomes infinite!"
Dartz: Wait, Attack Guidance Barrier's effect is to change the attack target to a defense position monster, and that defense position monster's attack increases by 600, ending the Battle Phase...
Yugi (perhaps didn't hear): "Moreover, Hermos's effect can return the attack power with three times the value by banishing three monsters in the deck from the game! Meaning his attack power can become three times Geh's attack power—which is infinite!
And Hermos's effect can be activated more than once per turn, so the attack power can become three times infinitely!"
Dartz (having given up speaking): ...
Yugi: "It's not over yet! The ability of the Legendary Knight Timaeus! It fuses the three Legendary Knights on the field! The power formed by our bonds now materializes into a brand new future, appear! Timaeus the Knight of Destiny!
Go forth, Timaeus the Knight of Destiny! Destroy Dartz's monster, shatter the darkness, and bring light through our bonds!"
The three knights merged into a brilliantly shining armored knight, raising his sword and advancing forward with a shout. Under the brilliance of the divine sword of the knight, the infinitely powerful Divine Serpent Geh let out a wail and finally vanished into thin air, disappearing from the field...