The Silent Magician's strike blasted out, the white light piercing through the darkness. Hades' highly anticipated Overlord Array was also shredded into pieces by the Magic Burst attack, dispersing the thick black fog around, shattering the barrier to dust.
The high light in Hades' eyes vanished, along with that kingly silhouette reflected in his pupils.
But perhaps it was just an illusion.
For a moment, Judai felt as if, behind that Elf stood an incredibly frightening overlord, as if seeing him through those eyes.
It almost seemed to say to him——
——I see you.
But it was only for a moment. Judai shook off his brief stupor forcefully shaking his head, feeling that it might have all just been an illusion.
The duel ended, but the Silent Magician wasn't returned to the card deck by Yugen. She still held her magic staff, standing in the air as if stepping on a transparent white array, her robes and silver hair fluttering in the wind, her cold eyes coldly sweeping over those generals around her.
This Netherworld King was clearly the absolute core of the team. Seeing their commander fall, the rest were already almost scared out of their wits, daring not to entertain any thoughts of resistance. One by one, they trembled and knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe too loudly.
At this moment, the blond girl who brought them here was even paler.
This wasn't her first time doing this. Many elves, warriors, and travelers from other dimensions ended up either dead or captured, without exception until now.
However, to be so composed as to counterattack, even that terrifying Hades Demon King fell in a few moves, today they clearly messed with someone they shouldn't have.
The girl hadn't left, but stayed and watched the battle from behind a hidden rock at a distance. Now seeing Hades being dealt with by the other party, knowing that most of his subordinates would likely not fare well either, she silently retreated, holding her breath, attempting to escape.
Hades' group was definitely beyond saving. Her pressing task now was to preserve herself and quickly retreat to the nearest camp to report. She must quickly let Lord Overlord know this.....
But just as she thought of this, she hadn't turned around yet, when she suddenly felt a chill down her spine, surrounded by an eerie darkness she didn't know when it had enveloped her. A devilish voice seemed to whisper in her ear: "Where do you think you're going, little girl?"
Her heart tightened, instinctively turning her head, she saw the pitch-black demon had somehow silently appeared behind her. It was a Demon King as terrifying as an abyss, with a body seemingly hidden in evil black mist, its frightening eyes staring at her as if gazing into hell itself.
The girl let out a heart-piercing scream.
"..."
Half a minute later, Evil Emperor Gaius nonchalantly lifted the girl as if she was a chick and threw her down.
The minions all subdued, looked helplessly at Yugen.
"Don't be nervous, we're just going to ask a few questions." Yugen said gently, "We come from a peaceful world and always dislike violence, we won't harm anyone unnecessarily."
The minions' gazes involuntarily shifted to the motionless Hades lying on the ground, seemingly out of breath.
"Oh." Yugen said nonchalantly, "He's just sleeping."
The minions: "......"
Like an infant's sleep, huh? If you say so, then that's that.
We won't dare to dispute.
"We need to discuss something with your Lord Overlord." Yugen got straight to the point.
He noticed that when he mentioned this name, the people in front of him visibly shivered.
"We are just interested in the ruler who unified the Twelfth Dimension and just wanted a casual chat." Yugen said, "But as you have seen, we are outsiders and unfamiliar with the terrain, couldn't find our way around.
So please kindly give us some directions, just tell us how to get to Overlord City."
Their faces turned bitter.
It's not that they didn't want to say, nor was it a sense of loyalty to the Overlord that prevented them from disclosing — in fact, Yugen had initiated a simple Dark Game, and these friendly enthusiastic minions voluntarily lost to him, which equaled signing a contract of "telling everything they know".
So even if they wanted to withhold information, they couldn't.
"Only Lord Overlord's confidants can go to Overlord City, we really don't know the exact location... but!"
The person answering hurriedly spoke, as if fearing if they were slow, people might think they were useless and their heads would roll the next second.
At this point, behind Yugen to the left was the Silent Magician and to the right was Evil Emperor, one an utterly pure Light Magician, while the other a Darkness Emperor seemingly evil to the core. They had never seen such an incongruous pairing, but also knew that without their commander, they couldn't afford to provoke either.
"We know who knows!" the person said, "If you go north from here, all the way north, there is a camp much bigger than ours, the guardian over there will definitely know the location of Overlord City.
To be honest, although we carry the Overlord Army's banner, we were actually conscripted and forced to join, from the start of our service, we were stationed here.
It's just recently, with the disturbances at the dimensional borders, manpower is needed everywhere to hunt down the troublesome gambling duelists. Otherwise, there'd be no chance of regularization for us..."
"Wait." Yugen interrupted, "Hunt who?"
"Ah, you're fresh from the outer domains and wouldn't be aware of this." The minion said, "It's said that due to recent dimensional turbulence, every now and then, elves and travelers from other dimensions invade our territory.
Among them is a duelist, it's said that he got into conflict with the garrison at one of the dimensional borders. After that, he was listed as a high-risk fugitive.
Later, this person had conflicts with Overlord Army everywhere, killing several of our generals, including some skilled duelists.
They all say this person is not only powerful, but his dueling style is quite bizarre. Mastering an extraordinary dice technique, every time when in a disadvantageous position, he'd suddenly draw a die, achieving an extreme turnaround, the tactics are quite unpredictable.
The Overlord Army has already had several generals falling into this person's traps..."
Yugen: "..."
This description... no way?
He contemplated and confirmed.
"The person you mentioned, does he happen to have blonde hair?"
"Hmm? Do you know him?"
The person was surprised.
Yugen pondered.
Legendary Duelist Joey Wheeler, has been missing since the Duel City event. It was only rumored that he had a conflict with Little Lobster Tragodia, after which there has been no news.
And Little Lobster has never been the type to value dueling honor or engage in a fair face-to-face duel. His methods outside the field are notorious, never hesitating to win by cunning means if he can avoid personally engaging in a match.
With this inference, if Little Lobster encountered Joey and found his dice skills hard to handle, even if he stepped in himself, he still had no guarantee of victory. He'd most likely choose to evade his edge.
Such as digging a pit to trap Joey into the Elf Realm, and then blocking the exit or something...