"No one can achieve eternal life, likewise, neither can humanity. Now, under the witness of time, it is your turn to march towards the end!"
"Spell Card, Mischief of the Time Goddess!" (Note:1)
Everyone slowly widened their eyes.
"Skip time, enter my next Battle Phase!"
"Time, let it flow!"
With his voice, everything began to accelerate!
In the Human World, people's speed of escape began to quicken; in just a second, someone had fled from their room to the continent.
The planet began to spin rapidly.
The torn sky began to crackle and shatter quickly.
Tenjo Hikari opened his mouth, as if a stream of gibberish echoed from it.
Time began to operate wildly!
Battle Phase, Main Phase 2, End Phase.
Final Countdown: 9.
Judai extended his hand, said something, and then, the turn shifted to him.
Judai's Draw Phase, Standby Phase, Main Phase, Battle Phase, Main Phase 2, End Phase...
Final Countdown: 10!
Half of Earth was covered by darkness!
People who could see the spectacle in the sky began to panic.
They all knew what was happening now, but could do nothing but watch time speeding by helplessly!
The clone's turn—Standby Phase, Main Phase, Battle Phase...
Next up, it's Tenjo Hikari's turn—
Final Countdown: 12!
Ding——————————
The clock rang.
"You bastard!!!" Judai was furious, "You actually skipped 4 turns!!"
Skipped 4 whole turns!
Did nothing, and the Final Countdown fast-forwarded to 12!!!
Most of Earth was completely engulfed in darkness, and they were powerless!
This feeling is the most painful!
Because they could do nothing!
"It's unexpectedly time acceleration... Well, this guy has already used time-reversing abilities before..." Fubuki spoke for the first time, "Damn this bastard..."
"Under time, humanity will ultimately perish, Yuki Judai, Tenjo Hikari, you are too obsessed with dueling, you've forgotten my initial objective. To me, as long as humanity can be destroyed, it's enough, so I just need the turn to reach the 20th!"
Darkness unfolded his three pairs of skeletal wings, countless card backs appeared on his wings: "Now, time has reached the 12th turn, your distance to victory will grow farther!"
Just boosted, the spirits of humanity plummeted again to freezing point.
Eight turns!
Only eight turns left!
Must win quickly!
"But we still have Psychic End Punisher on the field, if we can find a way to lower our life points, then we can have the Psychic End Punisher ignore Darkness' effects and fight for victory, right?" Ruri suggested a possibility.
Although Tenjo Hikari's life points are higher than the opponent's, there's still a way.
"Activate Spell Card, Chaos End!"
"You can only activate this card when you have 7 or more cards banished. Destroy all monsters on the field!" Darkness declared, "Your life points are higher than mine, so Psychic End Punisher will be affected by the card's activated effect."
Darkness pressed down.
All humans felt their breathing become difficult.
At this moment, even humans on planets not shrouded by darkness felt pain.
Psychic End Punisher roared twice, then turned to dust and disappeared from the field, Tenjo Hikari's Fusion Monster also entered the Graveyard in succession.
"Damn, the powerful monster we finally obtained, just gone."
Many felt sorry for it.
"Shaddoll Falco's effect, when this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, it can be Special Summoned from the Graveyard in face-down position."
But Tenjo Hikari didn't care, normally bringing back Shaddoll Falco once more.
He didn't activate El Shaddoll Fusion.
It's mentioned before that even when it's a "field" monster, there can be cases of "missing the timing," and one such case is like now, when all field monsters are destroyed, he's unable to chain Special Summon.
In such moments, Nephilim's entrance effect "send one Shaddoll from the Deck to the Graveyard" cannot be activated, only the effect to recycle the Spell Card in the Graveyard is still usable.
In this case, there's no need to waste it.
Darkness looked at this monster that had returned several times, contemplating for a moment.
Could that monster have any peculiar backup plans?
"Hehe... I'll then activate this card—" Darkness proceeded to flip open the last card covered by the clone, "Trap Card, Extinction on Schedule!"
On the card image, a meteor strikes Earth, the scene of dinosaur extinction, as if yesterday.
"Pay 2000 LP to activate in your or your opponent's Main Phase. By the end of the 3rd Battle Phase after this card's activation, each player must send all cards on their field to the Graveyard!"
Darkness, LP: 3700→1700.
"This..." The classmates' expressions worsened.
"Is this attempting to say we are destined to become extinct?"
"Damn it—three turns later, is exactly when it's the minister's turn!"
"Set three cards, summon a monster in Defense Position, end the turn!"
Final Countdown: 13!
The sky completely shattered!
Nearly two-thirds of [time] has been eradicated!
The existence of humanity only has the last one-third of time remaining.
"At this moment, activate Quick-Play Spell Card, Extraordinary Food." Tenjo Hikari considered for a moment, and seized the opportunity to activate the Spell Card, "Send Mirage of Nightmare and El Shaddoll Fusion from the field to the Graveyard, recover 2000 LP."