Chapter 98: Chapter 98: A Family Must Be All Together
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The King of Skull Servants stared with its black hollow eyes on its skull head, unable to tear its gaze away for a long time.
It was truly foolish.
It had thought being stolen by the opponent in a Duel was the greatest humiliation, but it had never expected there was a greater humiliation than that.
The most distant distance in the world is perhaps when you are on this side, but your Lady is on the other side.
In the hands of a "Sword Tomb" it had ever seen as most detestable, filled with humiliation and helplessness, yet under the binding of an irresistible, powerful rule, it had to submit to the opponent, and had to obey any of the opponent's commands.
Oh, and then it had to watch from the opposite side with longing eyes.
The more it thought about it, the angrier it got.
The King of Skull Servants and the avatar it had summoned on its field both looked as if their eye sockets were about to split.
"Lady, wait for me. I will quickly defeat this brat and rescue you back! You... you just bear with it for a moment..."
Before it even finished speaking, You Xuan revealed another card from his hand.
"From my hand, the effect of 'Puppet Plant' is activated. By discarding this card from my hand to the Graveyard, I gain control of one Zombie-Type monster on your field.
I will gain control of 'King of Skull Servants' on your field."
King of Skull Servants: "..."
The magical effect of "Brain Control" in a Duel is naturally absolutely irresistible. And so, a second later, the King of Skull Servants watched helplessly as its avatar also ran over to the opponent's side.
Immediately following this, after its avatar defected to the other side, it actually reached out and took Lady in Wight's slender skeletal hand: "Lady, you've suffered. But fear not, I have arrived."
Lady in Wight was moved: "My King..."
The King of Skull Servants' avatar nodded vigorously: "It's alright now, we are together again."
The King of Skull Servants felt as if a heavy hammer had struck its chest. Its vision went black, and for a moment, it felt the world spinning.
"You... you freaking... cough cough cough..."
It clutched its chest as if it was too angry to speak.
If it wasn't a skeleton, it would probably be spitting blood right now.
"Banish 'Chaos Sorcerer', a LIGHT monster, and 'Breaker the Magical Warrior', a DARK monster, from the game from my Graveyard."
You Xuan held up a card in his hand.
"Light and Dark souls sacrifice themselves to the field of chaos. Here, I call forth the strongest warrior of legend to descend! Creation of Heaven and Earth—
—Level Eight, Chaos Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, Summon!"
The souls of Light and Dark both surged into the sky, interlacing as they flowed into the swirling vortex. Magic power surged, bright light erupted, and swords of light and dark split open a curtain of light like a waterfall. The warrior of chaos appeared from the surge of magic power.
[Chaos Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, ATK 3000]
The warrior's appearance instantly stirred up a chaotic storm on the field. An invisible pressure swept across the entire area. The skeleton soldiers outside the field immediately trembled uncontrollably, as if sensing a suppressive difference in power level.
Conversely, only the King of Skull Servants, standing on the altar and who should have felt that pressure the most, was at this moment oblivious to the appearance of the Chaos Soldier. Its gaze remained fixed, motionless, on the pair of Skull Servant couple on the opposite field.
The King of Skull Servants' avatar was holding his Lady's hand.
"This is good."
"Like this... we can be together forever."
"My King..."
King of Skull Servants: "..."
You Xuan: "Chaos Soldier, direct attack! Creation of Heaven and Earth: Double Break Slash!"
The blades of light and dark struck from mid-air, carrying with them a chaotic vortex that seemed to transcend space and time.
Until the very end, just before being swallowed by the sword light, the King of Skull Servants' gaze remained locked on the pair of Skull Servants affectionately together on the opposite side.
In its dying moments, it couldn't help but wonder, perhaps it was because its life had been filled with too much killing and sin, that fate suddenly sent down such a nascent East Sun to torment it to death in the cruelest way...
But at least it was finally coming to an end.
Just destroy me quickly.
Bone life isn't worth living.
[King of Skull Servants, LP 1600 → LP 0]
The green light circle contracted, and the soul of the King of Skull Servants surged into the sky, absorbed into the vortex in mid-air along the light pillar, disappearing without a trace.
Of course, its avatar was also immediately sucked away along with the main body. Not just the avatar, but also its Lady in Wight, Wightprince, Wightprincess...
The entire "Skull Servant Family Bucket" disappeared one after another with that sky-piercing green light.
It seemed that in this ritual on the altar, if you lost the duel, not only was the duelist on this side (King of Skull Servants) sacrificed, but the souls within the loser's Deck also seemed unable to escape their fate.
However, looking on the bright side, at least they were truly together forever.
A family still has to be all together, right?
You Xuan walked forward and pulled the Deck from the already defeated King of Skull Servants' body.
Although the King of Skull Servants itself was sacrificed in the ritual, the cards left behind no longer had spirits inhabiting them, but they should still be usable.
"Don't worry, you can rest assured," You Xuan said seriously, "Your cards, your Lady, and your children's cards, I will make good use of them. I won't let them go to waste."
Or at least sell them for money...
Well, that's a matter for another time.
After all, the Skull Servant archetype doesn't seem to be particularly rare outside; they aren't impossible to buy.
You Xuan continued to search the body, but a skeleton frame really didn't have much on it. Even the Duel Disk seemed to have been a transformation of its body, belonging to the mystic side and couldn't be taken away.
However, he did find a small green crystal.
"What's this?"
"An Orihalcum Fragment," the Chaos Soldier said.
The Great Envoy of the Beginning had fought against the Orihalcum forces in its own dimension for a while, so it should have some related knowledge.
"Is it dangerous?"
The Chaos Soldier shook its head: "It's just a symbol of status. It's a symbol of power granted by the Evil God to certain followers in occupied territories, representing it as the Evil God's proxy in this area."
You Xuan somewhat understood.
So it's like a military tally?
His mind quickly became active: "Then, if someone gets this thing, is it possible to infiltrate the organization and act as a spy?"
"Uh, I wouldn't know that," the Chaos Soldier shook its head.
This item was only held by figures at least at the regional leader level within the forces loyal to the Leech God; it wasn't something just any minion would have. So it hadn't seen many of them.
"A regional leader..."
You Xuan couldn't help but look at the defeated King of Skull Servants again.
So, this was actually a small boss after all...
You Xuan finished collecting his spoils and turned to look at the numerous skeleton soldiers below the altar.
With the appearance of the Great Envoy of the Beginning, the numerous skeleton soldiers had already been intimidated and dared not move. Especially after seeing the miserable state of the King of Skull Servants just now, no one dared to utter a sound.
Their simple brain structures weren't even quite sufficient to help them understand what had just happened.
In their eyes, the entire process probably went something like this: The Great King's wife ran to the other side, then the Great King himself also ran to the other side, and then the Great King croaked...
The good news was, their sacrifice ritual was very successful. The bad news was, the priest was sacrificed.
But one thing they did understand.
They couldn't afford to provoke this person.
You Xuan jumped down in front of the skeletons.
"Alright, now I have a few questions to ask."