The android nodded lightly, transforming into a camera and then into purple light, merging with the armor of Rainbow Neos.
Rainbow Neos spread his arms wide, and a rainbow swept across the sky.
"Activate the Set Card. Absorb Flash Magic Mirror."
"As long as this card is present on the field, the effects of Light Attribute Monsters activated on the field or in the Graveyard are negated."
"..." Judai was not surprised.
It was just as expected.
Fortunately, Mirror Force wasn't sent to the Graveyard, or it would have been a waste.
He thought for a moment, looking at his hand cards.
"Set two cards..."
Judai believed that now was not the right time to fight; the Set Monster was too unknown and eerie, so he couldn't attack rashly.
But...
"How can you stop here?" "Attack, with ATK 4500!" "With such high ATK and not attacking, are you trying to get us killed?" "Attack—" "Anyway, he's already used Extinction on Schedule, it must not be any powerful card, he just wants to stall! Attack quickly!"
Voices.
A multitude of human voices flooded into Judai's ears.
One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million, ten million, even—over a billion voices!
All those human voices poured into his mind!
He furrowed his brows, gritting his teeth, extending his hand, wanting to end his turn.
He understood that these people were mentally collapsing due to overwhelming pressure, urging him to win quickly.
It was understandable; even students of Duel Academy would go to extremes under the pressure of Darkness, let alone most ordinary people in the world?
So, he could accept it, or he could choose to ignore it—
He knew that a Hero at this moment should do the right thing!
He would no longer be influenced by the voices of the outside world like he used to be!
He wouldn't act foolishly at such a critical moment!
But—
His hand, however, pressed towards the battle phase!
He quickly widened his eyes, golden light erupting from them, and on the other side, Yubel urgently merged into Judai's physical strength, allowing Judai to regain control over his body smoothly. But this moment still startled him with cold sweat.
"So this can happen?" Darkness was stunned watching this scene.
Then he couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Look— Yuki Judai, Tenjo Hikari, this is the humanity you wish to save!"
"Foolish, short-sighted, greedy, only aware of the immediate opportunity, enveloped by a moment's false hope—little do they know, it could be an Abyss. Yuki Judai, do you dare to attack?"
Despite many rational voices around Judai, not wishing him to take risks, more, and more terrible and crazy voices surged into his ears.
"Even the Darkness of the Cosmos, even the last Duelist of humanity, will be pushed forward in the face of human's insane greed, what a pity. Isn't humanity very fond of democracy? It should attack now."
"Or... given this, maybe it's better this way—" Darkness suggested, seemingly thinking of a very good idea, "You might as well abandon your identity as humans and become my new Followers. After humanity's destruction, you will surely become the finest God of Destruction, destroying one Dimension after another."
He had always admired Tenjo Hikari, and now it seemed that Yuki Judai, too, was quite trustworthy as a Duelist, truly deserving of being chosen by the Planet as the Apocalypse Duelist—if he could get the help of these two, destroying this world and then other Dimensions would become easy as pie.
With his cards and their skills, what world couldn't be destroyed?
Hearing this, Judai's eyes widened.
He wasn't shocked by Darkness' words, nor was he swayed by them, but... he knew very well what these words would result in!
"He has just a little life left!" "As long as the attack is successful, everything will get better!" "Please, attack quickly! I don't want to die!"
Judai gritted his teeth; by the instinct of a Duelist, he felt that attacking now was inappropriate. But the surrounding voices also did have some reasonable points... if the attack succeeded, it could ease the burden somewhat.
Those chaotic voices around were endurable to him since he was the Duelist in this Duel, not "all of humanity," the problem is... only 7 turns remain, and he must win promptly, so finally, in his dilemma, Judai declared: "...Battle! Rainbow Neos, attack!"
"Hahahahaha—!"
Red light enveloped the entire Earth!
"Hahahahahahaha—"
"The hope of humanity is just an illusion created by heroes!"
"Destroyed in the impatience within!"
"Extinction moment!!!"
Darkness laughed crazily.
The card slowly flipped over, a crimson Archfiend, with hands crossed in front, calmly defending.
Gren Maju Da Eiza!
"Indeed—" Judai was annoyed.
Gren Maju Da Eiza, LV 3, Fire Attribute, Fiend-Type, DEF?
"The ATK and DEF of Gren Maju are the number of his banished cards times 400 points!"
He spread his arms, countless cards flew up into the sky, these were all his banished cards!
Pot of Desires 20 cards, Gordian Slicer 6 cards, The Beginning of the End 5 cards, Tragoedia 1 card, a total of 32 cards.
"I've banished a total of 32 cards!"
"So, Gren Maju's DEF is...
12800 points!!"
The freshly risen hope, instantly crumbled before despair!