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Chapter 618 The Moment of Extinction (6K views, please vote!)
"They let this guy get through another round!"

"Ha, it's okay, this ram's skull isn't scary at all!"

Although Hikaru Amagi's attack was unsuccessful this time, the students watching the duel couldn't help but cheer.

Because Hikaru Amagi broke through their "fear"!
Up until just now, Darkness's performance had terrified them!

Yes, even the best duelists of this era felt fear when they saw Darkness's duels, and even with Amagi Hikaru's slogans to support them, they were still horrified.

Firstly, the effects of each of Dark Nether's individual cards are terrifying. Whether it's the initial Demon Bell Cave or the later three "King" cards, they all inspire fear.

Secondly, although Dark Nether discards monsters of various attributes, rendering them ineffective, Dark Nether's monsters can work in conjunction with these "self-restrictions" to exert even greater power.

This is quite a terrible thing for them.

This means that not only are Dark Nether's cards powerful, but his understanding of duels has also reached a superhuman level.

So, despite their constant encouragement for Hikaru Amagi and Judai Yuki, the pressure remained ever-present, making them feel increasingly desperate.

But now——

Hikaru Amagi shattered this "myth"!
Therefore, even if the attack is unsuccessful and achieves nothing, as long as Darkness reveals a weakness, it is something to be excited about.

Moreover, Amagi Hikaru not only made Anming anxious, but also exposed one of Anming's "flaws".

At first glance, his understanding of dueling seems extraordinary and terrifying, but in reality, he is far less frightening than he appears!
"End of round."

Because of the side effects of Nightmare Mirage, Hikaru Amagi had no cards in his hand, so after the attack ended, he could only silently choose to end his turn.

The countdown to the end: 8.

Darkness spread.

More humans were swallowed up into this world, more humans became aware of the scene in the sky, and more human voices rang in Amagi Hikaru's ears.

However, unlike the previous situation where fear and wailing dominated, more people saw "hope" because of Hikaru Amagi's attack.

"Well……"

Anming clutched his chest.

Although the attack was unsuccessful, Dark felt an immense sense of unease as he sensed the slowly rekindling flame of hope in humanity.

As expected, this man is Hikaru Amagi...

If things continue like this, this duel, under Amagi Hikaru's call, will probably gradually turn into a situation that is more worthy of celebration for humanity.

Now, it's time to move on to the second phase of the plan.

"My turn, draw cards." Darkness drew two more cards from the deck.

"At this very moment, thanks to the effect of Nightmare Mirage, I draw four cards from my deck!!" Hikaru Amagi shouted loudly, sounding quite excited.

Several people who knew him were even a little surprised, wondering why he was so happy.

Only Hikaru Amagi himself knew how much fun he felt when he drew those four cards.

That's a full 4 draws!
At other times, let alone drawing a 4, he would be lucky to even draw a 1. He had only used the Pot of Greed once.

Moreover, this is the Mirage Tower of Nightmares!

Cards banned for eternity!

Before coming to this world, Hikaru Amagi had never used this card; she could only watch Jaden enjoy using it in the anime. Now that she has this opportunity, she must be very happy.

On the other side, Anming didn't care about Tiancheng Guang's happiness. He looked at the card he had drawn and chuckled.

“It’s finally complete.”

"?"

"Open the face-down card—a trap card, Reckless Greed, two of them!"

"Eh?"

"It was just reckless greed?"

Almost everyone recognizes this card.

Draw two cards from your deck, and then skip your draw phase twice.

"Not only can trap cards not be activated directly, but they also have serious side effects, far inferior to cards like Pot of Greed. Yet he still used this card? And two of them at that?" Jian Shan looked on, unable to help but mutter to himself, "In that case, wouldn't that guy have to skip four card-drawing phases?"

“No—” Edward shook his head. “No matter how many reckless greedy cards you activate, you’ll only skip the draw phase twice in the end, so activating two cards to draw four cards is the best option. But…”

"But skipping two draw phases in exchange for four cards seems meaningless to Darkness, who used the Time-Tearing Demon Eye," Amon continued. "Normal duelists use this tactic to compensate for their hand size; exchanging two draw phases for four cards is a worthwhile trade. However, Darkness can draw two cards per turn, so skipping two to draw four is something he could have done anyway. Not only will it not increase his hand size, but it will also prevent his clone from drawing cards. Is it really worth it?"

"In that case, it really is... reckless greed."

"Greed and war—these are the things that make up human desires, causing people to fight each other," Darkness said quietly.

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Wan Zhangmu shouted.

"Don't you understand? Greed, strife, destruction—these desires will lead you humans to your own destruction, and this is the reason why so many nations in your human history have perished—"

Under the passage of time, everything will go from birth to death; this is an unchanging and eternal law.

"No one can live forever, and neither can humanity. Now, it is time for you to step towards your end, witnessed by time!"

"A Magic Card, Time Goddess's Prank!" (Note: 1)

Everyone slowly widened their eyes.

"Skip time and move on to my next phase of the battle!"

Time, let it pass!

As his voice rang out, everything began to accelerate!
In the human world, people began to escape faster; in just one second, someone could flee from their room onto the mainland.

The planet began to spin rapidly.

The torn sky began to crack and shatter rapidly.

Hikaru Amagi opened his mouth, as if a string of gibberish was resounding from it.

Time began to run wildly!

Battle phase, main phase 2, end phase.

The countdown to the end: 9.
Judai reached out his hand, said something, and then the ball was turned to him.

Jaden's gacha system consists of the following phases: gacha phase, preparation phase, main phase, battle phase, main phase 2, end phase...

The countdown to the end: 10!

Half of the Earth is covered in darkness!

Those who could see the sky began to panic.

They all knew what was happening, but there was nothing they could do but watch helplessly as time flew by!
The clone's phases include: preparation phase, main phase, and battle phase...

Next up was Amagi Hikaru's turn—

The countdown to the end: 12!

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The clock struck.

"You bastard!!!" Judai roared in fury, "You skipped four turns!!"

Four whole rounds were skipped!
Without doing anything, the countdown to the end has already fast-forwarded to 12!!!

Most of the Earth was plunged into complete darkness, and they were powerless to do anything about it!
This feeling is the most painful!
Because there's nothing they can do!
"It's time acceleration... Well, this guy has used the ability to reverse time before..." Fubuki spoke for the first time, "Damn it, this bastard..."

"Under the passage of time, humanity will eventually perish. Jaden Yuki, Hikaru Amagi, you are too obsessed with dueling and have forgotten my original purpose. For me, as long as humanity is destroyed, that's enough. So, I only need to bring the rounds to the 20th!"

Darkness spread his three pairs of skull wings, and countless card backs appeared on his wings: "Now, the 12th round has arrived, and you are getting further and further away from victory!"

The morale of humanity, which had just been boosted, plummeted to rock bottom once again.

Eight rounds!

Only eight rounds left!
We must win quickly!
“However, we still have the Psychic Executioner on the field. If we can find a way to reduce its health later, we can make the Psychic Executioner ignore the Darkness effect and fight to win, right?” Liuli suggested a possibility.

Although Hikaru Amagi's side has more health points than the opponent, there are still ways to deal with it.

"Activate the magic card, Chaos Ends!"

"This card can only be activated when seven or more of your cards are banished. Destroy all monsters on the field!" Dark said. "You have more Life Points than me, so Psychic Executioner will be affected by the card's activation effect."

Darkness pressed down.

All of humanity felt short of breath.

At this moment, even those humans on planets not shrouded in darkness felt pain.

The Psychic Executioner roared twice before turning into dust and disappearing from the field. Hikaru Amagi's fusion monster also entered the graveyard.

"Damn it, the powerful monster I finally got is gone."

Countless people regret this.

"Shadowfalcon's effect: If this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, you can Special Summon it from the Graveyard in face-down position."

Hikaru Amagi didn't care and pulled the falcon back as usual.

He did not initiate contact with the false incarnation of God.

As mentioned earlier, even monsters that are "particular" can sometimes "miss their activation opportunity." One such situation is when a monster destroys all the monsters on the field and is then chain-summoned.

In this situation, Nephilim's summoning effect, "Select one Shaddoll from your Deck and send it to the Graveyard," cannot be activated; only the effect of recycling Spell Cards from the Graveyard can be used.

Since that's the case, there's no need to waste it.

Anming looked at the monster that had returned several times and pondered for a moment.

Could that monster have some strange or unexpected trick up its sleeve?

"Hehe... I will then activate this card—" Dark Nether then revealed the last card that his clone had face-down, "Trap Card, Destiny of Extinction!"

The image on the card, depicting a meteorite striking Earth and annihilating the dinosaurs, seems as if it happened just yesterday.

"Pay 2000 Life Points to activate this effect during either player's Main Phase. At the end of the 3rd Battle Phase following this card's activation, both players must send all cards on their field to the Graveyard!"

Darkness, LP: 3700 → 1700.
"This..." The students' expressions grew increasingly grim.

Is this implying that we are destined for extinction?

"Damn it—after three rounds, it'll be the minister's turn!"

"Set three cards face down, summon a monster in Defense Position, and end your turn!"

The countdown to the end: 13!

The sky shattered completely!

Nearly two-thirds of the time has been consumed!
Humanity's existence has only one-third of its time left.

"At this moment, I'll activate the Quick-Play Spell Card, Very Fast." Amagi Hikaru thought for a moment and took the opportunity to quickly activate the Spell Card, "Send Nightmare Mirage and Contact with God's False Body from the field to the Graveyard and restore 2000 Life Points."

Although I feel the power of the mirror might be useless, keeping it is still a thought. As for the contact with the illusory body of the god, there are many ways to recover it. If it is left on the field until the turn of the tenth generation, it is very likely to block the position of magic and traps, so it should be sent to the graveyard as well.

Humans, LP: 7800 → 9800.
"why?"

"Yeah, since the Time Goddess's pranks have already been activated, there's no need to deal with the Nightmare Mirage anymore, right?" Xiang asked, a little puzzled. "Wasn't the effect of Darkness's reckless greed also skipped?" Yes.

This is strange, isn't it?

"Well..." Jaden took a moment to explain to everyone, "The effect of Nightmare Mirage is that you have to discard a card from your hand during your next Standby Phase. It's a guaranteed effect. Even if you skip a turn, you have to discard a card from your hand once you have your Standby Phase."

I see--

None of us had used Nightmare of the Mirage before, so we didn't know about these strange details. Now that we've heard Jaden explain it, we understand Amagi Hikaru's actions.

That's fine, I've already drawn 8 cards, this card has been very useful.

"I didn't expect you to know even this, Hikaru. I was just about to remind you." Jaden exclaimed in amazement once again.

"Ha, I just happen to know."

As they discussed this, the scene had become so vast that all the awakened humans were now watching the duel unfold.

This led to a heated argument between them.

"Damn it, only 7 rounds left!"

"What...what do I do now? I...I don't want to die!"

"It's alright, that guy has run out of tricks. He just sets a card face down, summons a monster in defense position, and that's all he can do!"

"From now on, all we need to do is attack!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

Judai drew a card and looked down at the five cards in his hand.

"Judai, don't be nervous," Hubert quickly reminded Judai.

"It's okay, I know," he said hesitantly.

However, the voice in his ear was urging him on, urging him to win the duel quickly.

no--

There is no rush.

He looked at the card in his hand.

No, I can't summon the new Winged Universe.

He glanced at the card in his hand, pondering it carefully.

His numerous searches and card draws were interrupted by Darkness, making it quite difficult for him to summon his ace now.

Fortunately, the hand is decent, allowing for a different approach.

"Usually summons phantom hero androids."

"If this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can activate this effect. Send 1 HERO monster from your Deck to the Graveyard. I send Evil HERO Claw Demon from my Deck to the Graveyard."

Then, I activate the effect of the android, banishing 1 HERO monster from my Graveyard. I add 1 Fusion Monster from my Deck to my hand. I banish Electro from my Graveyard.

Jaden received the card and grinned, saying, "Hikaru, here's another Fusion for you—I'm adding the [Displacement Fusion] from my deck to my hand."

Because he was on good terms with Hikaru Amagi and had always been intrigued by Amagi's tactic of using two main bodies to fuse and one substitution to fuse, Jaden had previously included substitution to fuse in his own deck, which was now being used by Amagi later.

"Then, I activate the magic card, Neo-Universe Fusion!"

Jaden plays this special card: "Send the Fusion Materials of a Fusion Monster from your hand, Deck, or field to the Graveyard, and Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck using only 2 monsters including Elemental HERO Neos as Fusion Materials, ignoring Summoning conditions. After this card is activated, I cannot Special Summon monsters until the end of this turn!"

"I'm sending Neos Knight from my deck, and the Ultimate Jewel Rainbow Dragon from my deck, to the graveyard!"

"Oh! It's Rainbow Dragon!" John couldn't help but cheer for Jaden when he saw his monster appear in the sky.

"The conditions for fusion are Neos and the Ultimate Jewel God Monster!"

"Witness the overwhelming hope, the power of the Rainbow Dragon!"

"Fusion Summon, Level 10, Rainbow Neos!"

With its golden wings spread, light spilled across the world, as if illuminating the colors of hope. Countless people fell silent at the appearance of this beautiful, noble, and godlike monster.

It gently raised its hands to the sky, and then a rainbow swept across the horizon, gently covering the dark earth and illuminating the world.

Overwhelming hope!

Rainbow Light New Universe Warrior, Level 10, Light Attribute, Warrior Race, Attack Power 4500.
"Wow!"

"Attack power 4500!"

"That's amazing! Just like the previous monster, it's reached the level of Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"

"Wow, is this a fusion of Big Brother and John Ace? So cool!"

Jaden excitedly exclaimed, "This is John's Rainbow Dragon power! Witness the effects of Rainbow Neos!"

"Once per turn, choose one of the following types of cards to send to the Graveyard, and return all chosen cards to the Deck."

One monster on your field: A monster on the field.

1 Spell/Trap Card on your field: Spell and Trap Cards on your opponent's field.

The top card of your deck, and cards in your opponent's graveyard.

I choose…

Judai hesitated for a moment.

Although he should have chosen spell and trap cards, he felt that the face-down monster was not right.

That darkness!

That Dark Underworld!

How could someone who prepared before the duel even began just casually cover up a monster and wait to die?!
"I send the Phantom Hero android on the field to the graveyard to activate the first effect!"

The android nodded slightly, transformed into a camera, and then turned into purple light, merging into the armor of the Rainbow Neos Knight.

Rainbow Universe Warrior spreads its arms, and a rainbow streaks across the sky.

"Cover card activated. Inhale the glittering magic mirror."

"As long as this card is on the field, the effects of LIGHT monsters activated on the field or in the Graveyard are negated."

"..." Judai was not surprised.

It was exactly as expected.

Thankfully, I didn't give away the power of the tomb mirror, otherwise I would have lost out.

He thought for a moment and looked at the card in his hand.

“Covering two cards…”

Jaden believed that it was not the right time to fight; the monster that covered the area was too unknown and strange, and they could not attack rashly.

but……

"How can you stop here!" "Attack! 4500 attack power!" "Such high attack power and you're not attacking? Are you trying to kill us?!" "Attack—" "Anyway, he's already used the Extinction Destiny, it's definitely not a powerful card, he's just trying to stall! Attack now!"

sound.

A multitude of human voices reached Jaden's ears.

One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, and even—over a billion voices!
All those human voices flooded into his mind!
He frowned, gritted his teeth, and reached out his hand, wanting to end his turn.

He understood that those people were under too much pressure, causing them to have mental breakdowns, and were urging him to win quickly.

This is normal. Even students from the Duel Academy can go to extremes under the pressure of Darkness, let alone the vast majority of ordinary people in the world.

Therefore, he can either accept it or ignore it.

He knew that at this moment, a hero should do the right thing!

He is no longer influenced by external voices like he used to!
He wouldn't make a foolish mistake at such a crucial moment!
but--

His hand, however, moved towards the battle phase!

He immediately widened his eyes, golden light bursting forth from them. Meanwhile, Hubert also urgently merged into Judai's body power, and Judai successfully regained control of his body. However, this still gave him quite a fright.

"I never knew such a thing could happen." Anming was stunned for a moment as he watched this scene.

Then, he couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Look—Yuki Jaden, Amagi Hikaru, this is the kind of humanity you want to save!"

"Foolish, short-sighted, greedy, only aware of the immediate opportunity, shrouded in a momentary false hope—unaware that it might be an abyss. Jaden Yuki, do you dare to attack?"

Despite the many rational voices in Jaden's ears that didn't want him to take any risks, more and more terrible and crazy voices entered his ears.

"Even the darkness of the universe, even humanity's last duelist, will be pushed forward by humanity's insane greed. What a pity. Don't you humans admire democracy? Shouldn't you attack us?"

“Or… since that’s the case, how about this—” Dark Nether opened his mouth, as if he had thought of a very good idea, “Why don’t you give up your identity as humans and become my new familiars? After humanity is destroyed, you will definitely become the most outstanding gods of destruction, destroying one dimension after another.”

He had always admired Hikaru Amagi, and now, it seemed that Jaden Yuki was also a very trustworthy duelist, worthy of being the chosen final duelist of the [Planet]—if he could get the help of these two, destroying this world and then other dimensions would become incredibly easy.

With his cards and their skills, what world can't be destroyed?
Upon hearing this, Judai's eyes widened.

He wasn't surprised by Anming's words, nor was he shaken by them; rather... he knew very well what the consequences of these words would be!
"He only has a sliver of life left!" "If the attack succeeds, everything will be alright!" "Please, attack already! I don't want to die!"

Jaden gritted his teeth. According to a duelist's instincts, he felt that he shouldn't attack at this moment. However, some of the surrounding voices did make sense... If the attack succeeded, it would reduce the burden.

Although the surrounding noise was chaotic, it was still bearable for him, because he was the duelist in this duel, not "all of humanity." The problem was... there were only 7 rounds left, and he had to win as soon as possible. So, after much deliberation, Jaden finally spoke: "...Battle! Rainbow Neos Attack!"

"Ha ha ha ha--!"

A red light enveloped the entire Earth!

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha--"

"Humanity's hope is nothing but an illusion created by heroes!"

"Let your inner impatience lead to your downfall!"

"The moment of extinction!!!"

Anming burst into wild laughter.

The card slowly unfolded, revealing a crimson demon, its hands folded in front of it, calmly guarding the scene.

The Red Lotus Monster Tai Yisha!
"As expected—" Judai was annoyed.

Crimson Lotus Monster Tower - Isha, Level 3, Fire Attribute, Demon Race, Defense ?
"The Crimson Beast's attack and defense are equal to the number of cards it banishes x 400 points!"

He opened his arms, and countless cards flew into the air; these were all the cards he had excluded!
Pot of Greed and Greed (20 cards), Blade of Greed (6 cards), Beginning of the End (5 cards), Tragodia (1 card), totaling 32 cards.

"I've discarded a total of 32 cards!"

"Therefore, the Crimson Lotus Beast's defensive strength is..."

12800 points!!

The hope that had just begun to rise was instantly crushed by despair!
　6K6K, I'll still write today. I should finish writing about A-Guang's turn like before, but I might not have time to finish it. After all, it's the real final battle of GX, so I want to write it as completely as possible, with enough development and transitions.

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　　Another point is Note 1: The card "Time Goddess's Mischief" should, in theory, enter the next turn of your character according to the card description; however, some readers have said that they have encountered it in YGO, where it skips 4 turns. Since there is no regular 2V2, the ruling here is actually quite difficult. For the sake of the story, the default is to skip 4 turns, to the turn of the player who initiated the attack.

　　
　
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