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Chapter 614 The Countdown to Doomsday! (5K)

After Anming activated his magic card, a strange unease suddenly arose in everyone's hearts.

Meanwhile, above the Duel Academy, which had returned to calm and laughter, dark clouds loomed over the island. The students and teachers, unaware of what was happening, were either panicked or cautiously glancing at the sky. Fortunately, they had experienced similar scenes before, so they were not too tense.

However, this is not the case in other places.

As dark clouds appeared, they blanketed the skies over the entire country of Japan.

No matter where they were or what they were doing, everyone looked up at the sky.

soon.

BJ, Seoul, Yangon, Beirut, Vientiane, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Stockholm, Bern, Athens, London, Brasilia, Lima, Washington...

The capitals of all countries, the territories of all countries, and all places where humans live are shrouded in dark clouds.

It was as if, in that instant, the whole world suddenly turned cloudy.

The sun, the light, the future, the hope—it all seemed to have vanished.

then.

In the Eastern Time Zone 9, a giant crimson eyeball floated in the air, followed by the Eastern Time Zone 8, then the Eastern Time Zone 7...

Twenty-four time zones, twenty different "suns" exist simultaneously, illuminating the earth. Yet, beneath this endless darkness and clouds, they appear precarious, as if they might be extinguished at any moment.

"Magic Card, Countdown to the End. On the twentieth turn after this card is activated, I win the duel."

Anming chuckled.

"what……"

"What, what is this?!"

A group of students, filled with passion and anger, questioned him.

"What is it?" Anming seemed a little confused at first, but then he looked around. Around him, there were 20 floating screens. Each screen showed an aerial view of the entire Duel Academy, and the students and people there could also be seen on it.

After the countdown to the end was fully activated, twenty large maps of the world appeared before them, centered on the main campuses and branch campuses of these twenty dueling academies.

"This is your human world." Darkness had no interest in hiding anything. "Hehehe, as you can see, after twenty rounds, all the humans in this world will disappear under my darkness. And these regions will be completely replaced by this world."

"You bastard, you're not keeping your word! This isn't what we agreed on!" Jianshan was so anxious that he wanted to take action, but Xiang quickly grabbed his arm and told him not to rush.

"This is your own choice. In order to protect your comrades, and to ensure that those you support, admire, or love can win this duel, you have added a lot of weight to their chances."

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. In this unlimited duel, the situation has long exceeded your human imagination—therefore, humans are so foolish that even without my existence, you would still perish due to your greed and all sorts of foolish choices.

The only difference is the perspective from which the ending is presented.

The group was so agitated that they practically wanted to have a full-blown fight with Anming.

“So, I told you, Judai, you don’t need those guys’ support.” Hubert, standing to the side, seized the opportunity to point and say, “I’m all you need. I’m incredibly strong.”

She said it with great confidence.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that two cards can be directly added back to the deck and transformed into Ubel Phantom is something that even Amagi Hikaru couldn't do, let alone the onlookers.

Upon hearing this, Judai did not follow her lead. Instead, she smiled and said, "Everyone's strength will not be a burden!"

"Hmph..." Hubert snorted coldly, but said nothing more.

"Hubert." On the other side, Anming seemed a little interested in talking about Hubert. "You accepted my power to fulfill your long-cherished wish, but in the end, you gave up your previous thoughts just because of a few sweet words. How foolish."

"It's not my place to talk about me... If it weren't for you, I would never have had the thought of hurting Judai."

Hard to say.

But blaming it on Darkness is definitely the right thing to do.

"Win after 20 rounds. In terms of effect alone, a card that can directly grant victory is always strong." Amon gently pushed up his glasses, pondering how to help the two on the field analyze the situation.

“But it takes a full 20 rounds to win, it’s not that simple,” Edward said, shaking his head in return.

"Yes, a full 20 rounds. Let alone 20, these days, a duel that lasts 10 rounds is probably considered a lot. Many times, the outcome is decided in three or four rounds. 20 rounds... it's unimaginable." Manjoume stroked his chin, pondering.

"So, there's actually no need to care too much about this card. You can even treat it like Darkness using it to deduct 2000 health points?" Jianshan asked.

Well... that's hard to say.

None of them responded.

Since this card is being used, it means that Darkness has absolute confidence that he can complete these 20 rounds.

"I cover three cards, end my turn."

But then, Darkness stretched out his skeletal hand, randomly selected three cards from his hand, and then covered them up.

Seeing this, all the students fell silent.

Hikaru Amagi wasn't particularly surprised.

In the original work, Darkness's deck is mainly composed of trap cards. He is a true "dark" final boss, not the kind who plays with big monsters. It is normal for him to have three cards face down waiting for his opponent.

at this time.

The countdown to the end: 1.
"Huh? What happened—"

"Wow!!"

In Tokyo, the thick black clouds grew even darker, pouring down from the sky like rain. People's figures were gradually enveloped in darkness. Not to mention ordinary people, even those humans who could travel into other dimensions vanished instantly.

Moments later, it seemed that no human being could move anymore in the entire island nation and the entire time zone; everyone had fallen into a "sleep," into a state of paralysis.

"What!" Jaden's hand, which had just reached for the deck, trembled slightly as he watched this scene.

So many humans "died" in just one "end round"?

"Jūdai, calm down!" Amagi Hikaru reacted even faster. "If you get distracted at this moment and we lose to him, that would be the real death."

Upon hearing this, Judai shook his head, quickly recovered, and understood the key point.

Dark Nether has the ability to do such a thing, but what happens in a duel ultimately depends on the outcome of the duel!

The only difference is that in normal dark duels, the enemies would harm the duelist, but now, Darkness wants to harm all of humanity.

If we defeat Darkness, then for humanity, this will just be a dream, a dream that everyone unexpectedly dreamt.

"My turn, draw a card——"

Jaden looked at the cards he had drawn and held one up: "Activate the effect of Evil Hero Dark Star Gold Demon. Discard this card and add 1 Dark Fusion or a card that describes Dark Fusion from your Deck to your hand. I add Evil Assault from my Deck to my hand."

Activate the Spell Card "Evil Assault," discard one card, and add one Evil HERO from your Deck to your hand or Special Summon it.

"I discard the Fiendish Corpse Demon from my hand and Special Summon Level 4 Evil Hero Death Prism Demon from my Deck."

A mirror appeared in front of Jaden. In the mirror's reflection, one side was flowing with blood, while the other side shone brightly. After a moment of selection, the shining hero jumped onto the field.

Evil Hero: Death Prison Prism Demon, Level 4, Light Attribute, Rock Race, Attack Power 1700.
"Hehehe, Judai Yuki, this is the moment I've been waiting for." Anmei slowly stretched out his hand and pointed to an overlay card. "Open the overlay card."

"Quick-attack magic, the end of the world."

?

Not only was Jaden puzzled, but Hikaru Amagi also looked at the card in surprise.

What kind of venue is this?
"The effect of 'Land of the End' can only be activated when your opponent successfully Special Summons a monster. Select 1 Field Spell Card from your Deck to activate it."

"I'm going to choose... the Field Spell Card, Magic Bell Cave."

ha?
Hikaru Amagi's eyebrows twitched wildly.

On the ground, a strange, thick fog slowly spread out, and everyone seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, unable to move.

"Field Spell Card, Magic Bell Cave. While this card is on the field, if your opponent controls more monsters than you control, they cannot activate monster effects or declare an attack. If you control more monsters than your opponent controls, you cannot activate monster effects or declare an attack."

If, during either player's End Phase, the number of monsters on either player's field is the same, activate this effect. Destroy this card.

"Oops!"

Almost all the students who supported it shouted it out in unison.

This card is too powerful!!

Because of this card, Jaden's Special Summoned Evil Hero, which was used to search for the card, instantly became a blank card. Not only that, the Evil Hero Fiend that Jaden had previously sent to the Graveyard could not activate its effect and could only remain on the field, completely useless.

"Tsk..." Huber snorted coldly from the side, "That bastard Darkness... I've heard that he collects all kinds of powerful cards from various dimensions, universes, past and future to create the strongest card deck... Demon Bell Cave, this card is too troublesome."

Both sides can only activate monster effects when they have the same number of monsters. Otherwise, they cannot use any monster effects or even declare an attack. This made Jaden, who was just about to show off his skills, instantly deflated, like punching cotton.

Judai looked at the card in his hand and hesitated for a moment.

"Spell Card, Seven Star Sword, banish 1 face-up Seven Star Monster from your hand or field to activate. Draw two cards. I banish Neos from my hand and draw two cards."

Jaden silently drew two cards, then looked at his four brand-new hand cards.

Without the Whirlwind, without the Judgment of Justice—even if they were, they wouldn't be of any use. Jaden is truly helpless against Darkness right now.

"Set two cards face down to end your turn." "Eh—"

"So this is the only way to end the round..."

Sho and Kenzan both looked on with deep regret as they saw that Jaden was unable to move.

“There’s nothing we can do about it,” John sighed. “Even if Judai is strong, he’ll be weakened if something like this happens unexpectedly. But the good thing is, now that we know the effects of the Demon Bell Cave, it’s not that hard to deal with.”

"After all, the Demon Bell Cave will be destroyed as long as the number of monsters is the same. However, if Darkness summons more monsters than Jaden, it will be unable to activate its effects or attack. At that time, Amagi can take advantage of this opportunity to counterattack!"

These are all opportunities!
"Hehehehe..."

Seeing that Judai was unable to do anything, the round ended, and among the several images floating in the sky, even more perilous situations began to unfold.

This time it's... Paris.

Countless people struggled in the darkness, their screams piercing, as if someone were shouting through a megaphone right next to the students' ears, causing Jaden to instinctively break out in a cold sweat.

The countdown to the end: 2.
Until now, Jaden has not been injured, but the pressure that Darkness has brought to Jaden is more terrifying than any of the previous duels!
At the end of each round, the human population of a city, a country, or even several countries "disappears"!
He had never experienced a duel like this before.

Let alone so many people, he had never accepted a duel before, not even one that risked the life of a friend!
He looked at Hikaru Amagi, wanting to ask him something. After all, in his opinion, Hikaru was someone who was absolutely unaffected by anything. However, when he turned his head, he saw Hikaru Amagi taking deep breaths. Although he was nervous, Hikaru Amagi forced himself to stare at the other person carefully.

Yes--

It dawned on him.

He suddenly laughed.

Bearing the weight of all humanity on their shoulders, they have no choice but to fight, and they must fight to defeat darkness!

This duel, which they had no choice to fight, was destined to be this way from the very beginning; they had already planned it out before they even came.

Bring back the hope of all people!

"My turn, draw a card." Darkness's clone drew a card from the deck and then silently summoned a monster.

"Normal Summon, Level 4, Ama-Iwato."

click-

Rumble!
The mountain of this world academy split open, and a gigantic rock, even taller than the mountain, slowly appeared in this world.

Tianyanhu, Level 4, Earth Attribute, Rock Race, Attack Power 1900, Soul.

"Ten-Iwato?" Manjoume's expression changed slightly upon hearing this name.

"What's wrong?" John asked curiously.

"Ama-no-Iwato is something from our country's mythology... It's a cave made of rock. Legend has it that Amaterasu was very angry because her younger brother caused trouble, so she hid in Ama-no-Iwato and wouldn't go out. The world lost its sun and fell into darkness, on the verge of destruction..."

“Eh—” John roughly understood.

"But more importantly, it's its effect." On the other side, Edward wasn't interested in this kind of mythology. Speaking of the card's effect, "The effect of Ama-no-Iwato is that as long as this card is in the Monster Zone, neither player can activate any effect other than a Soul Monster."

"It couldn't be activated anyway, so it doesn't matter." Serena spread her hands.

“No, more importantly, it’s a Soul Monster.” Jim’s face turned serious. “Soul Monsters are quite rare. What they all have in common is that they activate during the End Phase of the turn they are Summoned/Flipped. They return to their owner’s hand.”

This will... cause a lot of problems.

Many questions?

Serena and Liuli were puzzled.

What does it mean.

"Battle! Tianyanhu attacks the Death Prison Demon."

"Activate the Trap Card, Divine Shield - Mirror Force!"

"It only has an attack power 200 points higher than the Death Prison Demon, and it still activates this effect!?" Jian Shan was shocked when he saw this and hurriedly asked.

"We must launch it," Manjoume said in a deep voice.

why?
None of the three first-year students understood.

They didn't understand why the seniors were looking at this monster with such a serious expression, even though its attack power was only 1900.

“This turn, Jaden is destined to be unable to maintain the same number of monsters for both sides…” Edward said. “If it’s a card that renders an attack ineffective, Ama-Iwato will return directly to the hand. At that point, the captain and Jaden will still have more monsters on the field than their opponent. If possible, destroying Ama-Iwato first is the best option when there is no other choice.”

"Hehehe, the power of the mirror? Indeed, it's the best choice in this situation." Darkness watched from the side and laughed. "But it's not that easy."

His clone seemed to receive a command, pressing a button, and a trap card was automatically flipped open, revealing a Counter Trap!
"Counter-Trap, Red Reboot!"

Pull the power off!

Amagi Hikaru's eyebrows twitched wildly.

"You can activate this card when your opponent activates a Trap Card. Negate that activation and set that card. After that, your opponent can set 1 Trap Card from their Deck to their Spell & Trap Zone. After this card is activated, your opponent cannot activate any Trap Cards until the end of the turn."

"what?"

Just as the power of the mirror rose, a large hand pressed the switch, causing the card to be covered again.

"Ugh, this is really troublesome." Huber frowned.

"...Hikaru, what do you want?" Seeing that there was no hope of activating it and the power of the mirror was directly suppressed, Jaden knew that he could not stop it, so he asked Hikaru Amagi.

Are there virtual worlds?

"I see, I understand—then let's cover the virtual world!" Jaden picked up the deck, glanced at it, selected one card, and swished it onto the field.

At the same time, the light from the Heavenly Rock Cave also shone on the Death Prison Demon.

The black sun's rays instantly destroyed him, and when they shone on Jaden, he groaned and felt a wave of dizziness.

"Ten generations!"

"Big brother!"

Several elves and several classmates exclaimed in surprise at the same time.

"It's...it's alright—"

The sweat on Judai's forehead increased even more.

Humans, LP: 8000 → 7800.
“But this means Darkness will have more monsters on the field than Master and the others, and Darkness himself can no longer use monster effects,” Serena said.

"Can't activate the monster effect? ​​Huh—" Ruri's face gradually turned pale.

"What's wrong, Liuli?" Serena asked.

"Oh no, Serena, Ama-Iwato can't activate its effect!"

Is Ten'iwado unable to activate its effect?

The effect of Ten'iwado is... to return to the hand at the end of the turn...

Ah!
Serena understood instantly.

Because of the effect of the Demon Bell Cave, Amagi Hikaru cannot activate his own effect and therefore cannot return it to his hand. Thus, even if the Demon Bell Cave is destroyed, Amagi Hikaru still cannot use monster effects!

"It's not over yet, Amagi Hikaru," Anmei continued.

"Next round is yours, so you won't get any advantage."

Activate a Trap Card. Named End.

The clone draws a card from its hand: "Activate this effect by banishing one card from the hand. Neither player can activate any cards banished for the purpose of activating this card, nor any cards with the same name as those banished during this duel."

"Except for me... unfortunately, Hikaru Amagi, I just happened to draw this one, Future Fusion."

He picked up a version of the Continuous Spell Card Future Fusion and casually tossed it into the air.

As the end approaches, the knight of the end raises his sword, pointing it towards the endless void and the apocalypse.

The fusion symbolizing the future has been severed. Where will humanity's future lead?

Compared to the fact that Dark Nether can only summon five divine dragons at most, wouldn't it be better to remove them so that Heavenly City Light can't use them?
"Cover two cards, end the turn."

"Because of the effect of the Demon Bell Cave, my clones cannot activate monster effects, therefore, Ten-Iwato cannot return to my hand."

The doomsday rock, devouring darkness, seemed to mock everyone, radiating a warm "sunlight".

"Oh, and one more thing—don't forget this."

Darkness clapped his hands gently.

The countdown to the end: 3.
Another dark cloud began to press down on Earth.

More wailing, more destruction, more deathly silence!

This is... darkness!

　5K5K, extra chapter today! Extra chapter for the next few days until I finish writing!
　　
　
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