After Darkness activated the Spell Card, an inexplicable unease appeared in everyone's hearts for no reason.
At the same time, over the Duel Academy, which had just regained its calm and laughter, dark clouds gathered above the island. Students and teachers, unsure of what was happening, either panicked or cautiously looked at the sky. Fortunately, they had experienced similar scenes before, so they weren't very nervous.
However, it wasn't the same everywhere else.
Along with the appearance of the dark clouds, the entire sky above Japan was covered in clouds.
No matter where they were or what they were doing, everyone looked toward the sky.
Soon after.
Beijing, Seoul, Yangon, Beirut, Vientiane, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Stockholm, Bern, Athens, London, Brasilia, Lima, Washington...
All the capitals of every country, all the lands of every country, every place inhabited by humans, were completely shrouded by dark clouds.
It was as if, at that instant, the entire world had suddenly entered a gloomy day.
The sun, light, future, hope, it seemed everything disappeared.
Then.
Starting from the ninth time zone, an enormous crimson eye floated in the sky, followed by the eighth time zone, the seventh time zone...
Twenty-four time zones, twenty different "suns" existed simultaneously, illuminating the Earth, yet under this endless darkness and clouds, they seemed flickering and ready to be extinguished at any moment.
"Spell Card, Doomsday Countdown, on the twentieth turn that this card activates, I win the Duel."
Darkness laughed and said.
"What the heck..."
"What... what is this?!"
A group of classmates, full of passion and anger, questioned him.
"What is it?" Darkness seemed not to understand at first, but then he looked around. Surrounding him were 20 floating screens, each showing an overview map of the Duel Academy, with visible figures of students and people there.
After the Doomsday Countdown was fully activated, twenty large maps centred around these twenty Duel Academy Main School and branches appeared before them.
"This is your human world." Darkness had no interest in hiding it, "Haha, as you can see, once the 20 turns are over, all humans in the world will disappear under my Darkness. And these regions will be completely replaced and substituted by this world."
"You bastard, don't go back on your word! This doesn't match what we agreed!" Kenzan anxiously wanted to act immediately, while Shou quickly held his arm, telling him not to rush.
"This was your choice. To protect your companions, to let the ones you support, admire, or care for, win this Duel, you added a lot of weights for them.
A qualitative change caused by a quantitative one. In this unrestricted Duel, things already surpassed your human imagination—so humans are so foolish. Even without my existence, you would still walk toward destruction because of your various foolish choices driven by greed.
The only difference is the angle of the ending."
Several people were emotionally stirred, eager to jump into a brawl with Darkness.
"So I told you, Judai, you don't need the support from those guys." Yubel took the chance to point out, "Having me is enough. I'm very strong."
Her words were full of confidence.
Without further ado, directly sending two cards back to the Deck and transforming into the Phantom of Yubel was something not even Tenjo Hikari could do, never mind those onlooking students.
Judai, hearing this, instead of agreeing, just smiled and said, "Everyone's power will not become a burden!"
"Hmph..." Yubel snorted coldly but said nothing more.
"Yubel." On the other hand, Darkness was slightly interested in talking about Yubel's situation, "You accepted my power to fulfill your wish, and in the end, you abandoned your previous thoughts just because of some sweet talk. How stupid."
"It's not up to you to lecture me... If it weren't for you, I would never have thought of hurting Judai."
Hard to say.
But blaming Darkness was certainly not wrong.
"Winning after 20 turns. If we speak of effect, a card that directly leads to victory is indeed powerful." Amon gently adjusted his glasses, pondering how to help the two on the field analyze the situation.
"But, to win after a whole 20 turns, is it really that simple?" Ed shook his head in response.
"Exactly, a whole 20 turns, don't mention 20, nowadays a Duel rarely even lasts 10 turns, often victory or defeat is determined in three or four turns. 20 turns... that's hard to imagine." Manjome mused, stroking his chin.
"So, there's actually no need to be too concerned with this card, you could even say Darkness took 2000 Life Points from himself?" Kenzan asked.
Well... probably not so easy to say.
None of them responded.
If he's using this kind of card, it indicates that Darkness has absolute confidence in completing these 20 turns.
"I cover three cards, ending my turn."
Darkness extended a skeletal hand, casually selecting three cards from his Hand Card, and then placed them face down.
Seeing this, all the students fell into silence.