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Chapter 1190: The World-Ending Ritual
Chapter 1190: The World-Ending Ritual
When it happened, Aki Izayoi was still asleep.
In her dream, she saw Yusei Fudo—the man who, on the Lucky Cup battlefield, firmly told her that she needed to learn to love herself and think for herself.
Then she saw Rex Goodwin. This man had given her a second chance, allowing her to break free from her cursed past and embrace a new future.
But compared to Yusei Fudo, who also gave her the opportunity to change her life, she felt that Rex Goodwin had more hidden depths. Sometimes she even thought she had never truly known this silver-haired commander.
Perhaps that was why she had such a terrifying dream.
She dreamed that beneath Rex Goodwin's gentle exterior lay a truly terrifying presence. Something like a Dark Signer or an Earthbound Immortal, beyond her understanding, with unimaginable ambitions.
"Mmm..."
Aki suddenly jolted awake, finding her sheets and blankets drenched in sweat.
She sat up abruptly, clutching her chest and breathing heavily.
Why would she have such a far-fetched dream?
"Pain..."
It was then that Aki realized the pain that had woken her. Instinctively, she clutched her arm and saw the Dragon Mark on it pulsing with a red glow.
"Dragon Mark", Aki thought, puzzled.
After the Dark Signers were defeated, the Dragon Mark had stopped reacting. She had thought their duty as Signers was complete, and the Dragon Mark would never flash again.
Why now?
Aki looked out the window, her eyes widening in shock.
She saw a celestial phenomenon.
In the heart of Neo Domino, a bustling and vibrant city, the night sky was heavy with clouds. The neon lights refracted in the damp air, creating a hazy glow. The sky seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force. Lightning and thunder combined to form a breathtaking spectacle, each bolt like a sky in anger.
A vortex quietly opened in the dense clouds, emitting a deep, cold light, as if it were a gateway between reality and the unknown. The forces of nature were twisted in unimaginable ways, and the Nazca Lines miraculously reappeared in the sky, forming the image of a soaring Condor Geoglyph.
Yes, just like the Condor Geoglyph on the Nazca plains. But at this moment, the abstract lines were vivid and lifelike. The broad wings and sharp eyes seemed to transcend time and space, as if they were about to come to life.
At the same time, on the other side of the city, in the forgotten Satellite, the long-abandoned Perpetual Motion Machine suddenly came to life.
Once a symbol of human intellect, now a forgotten relic, the Perpetual Motion Machine emitted a brilliant, multicolored light beam that shot into the sky. The light was colorful and swirling, like a rainbow, as if it had forcibly torn a huge rift in the air.
"What's happening?"
Aki was stunned, clutching her arm.
"The battle with the Dark Signers was supposed to be over. Why is this pain happening?"
And the direction of the Nazca Condor Geoglyph's lines seemed to point toward... the Public Security Maintenance Bureau?
"Rex Goodwin!"
Without hesitation, Aki jumped out of bed and rushed to the Public Security Maintenance Bureau.
When Aki arrived at the location of the Condor Geoglyph, she was even more surprised.
She saw the Apocalypse Altar.
The towering Apocalypse Altar, with its steps seemingly reaching into the sky, stood beneath the Nazca Condor Geoglyph.
As she approached, she noticed Yusei Fudo, Jack, Crow, and even the young Signer Luna, along with Luna's brother Luka, had gathered there.
"Everyone?" Aki asked, puzzled. "Did the Dragon Mark guide you here too? What's going on?"
Yusei Fudo said, "We don't know, but the Dragon Mark suddenly reacted, and then we saw this happening outside."
Before he could finish, Crow suddenly said, "Hey! Look up there!"
Everyone then saw the figure standing atop the Apocalypse Altar.
Silver hair, handsome face, tall and lean, dressed in a white suit, hands behind his back, as if everything was under his control.
"Rex Goodwin?"
Yusei Fudo called out.
"What's going on?"
The figure standing atop the Apocalypse Altar, "Rex Goodwin", smiled and said, "What's going on? Exactly what you see. The Divine Power of the Five Dragons is resonating with the old Perpetual Motion Machine in Satellite. The gate to the Underworld is about to open."
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces paled.
"Does opening the gate to the Underworld mean the world is going to end!?" Yusei Fudo asked.
"Rex Goodwin" said calmly, "Exactly."
Yusei Fudo gritted his teeth. "But why? We were told we had won. The Dark Signers were defeated. Why is this happening?"
Jack shouted, "Rex Goodwin! Did you do something? I always thought there was something off about you!"
"Rex Goodwin" laughed. "The former king's intuition is sharp, but let's get back to the matter at hand. Didn't you all want to know where the final Signer is?"
"Why, if the battle with the Dark Signers is over, hasn't our final companion appeared?" he continued.
Everyone was shocked by his words.
Aki couldn't help but speak up first. "The final Signer isn't you, Rex Goodwin?"
"Rex Goodwin" chuckled coldly. "I never admitted to it. You all just assumed. Since you want to know the truth, I'll tell you now."
With that, he suddenly pulled out a transparent glass jar from behind his back. The jar was filled with a nutrient solution, and countless bubbles were rising to the surface.
At that moment, everyone was shocked to see what was stored in the nutrient solution: a severed hand!
A hand cut neatly at the elbow, with a Dragon Mark clearly visible on the arm.
This hand belonged to the final Signer!
Aki couldn't help but gasp.
How could this be?
The final Signer, the one with the Dragon Mark... it wasn't Rex Goodwin?
And the final Signer's arm had been cut off, held in Rex Goodwin's hand. What had he done to the final Signer?
Aki's mind flashed back to her nightmare.
Rex Goodwin, behind his gentle exterior, could he really be a demon that no one had noticed?
"I used the power of this final Dragon Mark to summon all of you here."
"Rex Goodwin" said calmly.
"Because only in this way can the final ritual be completed."
Yusei Fudo asked in a low voice, "What ritual?"
"Rex Goodwin" smiled sinisterly. "The ritual to summon the Sovereign of the Underworld and bring about the end of the world."
(End of Chapter)
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