A white giant slowly rose from the ground, its enormous mechanical skirt made of blue and purple. Countless purple puppet strings draped over the entire station sky.
No, it wasn't just this station.
The entire volcanic zone, at this moment, was shrouded in the shadow of this enormous giant.
Countless purple puppet strings covered the sky of this zone, with a few strings landing next to the students, emitting an incomprehensible glow.
El Shaddoll Construct, LV 8, Light Attribute, Fairy-Type, Attack Power 2800.
Tenjo Hikari raised his head.
This scene was beyond his expectations.
He never imagined he would see Shaddoll one day.
Up until now, he had encountered Gem-Knight, Jurrac, and Steelswarm version of Tenjo Hikari, and he had never seen another person besides himself use Shaddoll.
"That's... that's actually Shaddoll?!" Mitsuzawa Daichi also looked at the sky, at the giant.
"I never thought I'd see another El Shaddoll Monster appear..."
"Master will be okay, right?" Serena was somewhat worried about Tenjo Hikari.
Having an opponent use his own monster to create a more powerful one should easily affect his mindset.
"Shaddoll Falco's effect, if this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, this card can Special Summon itself in Defense Position." Tenjo Hikari truly did not expect to encounter such a scene, but he still had to proceed with the operations.
"Heh... no matter! Tenjo Hikari, let me show you my duel under the Power of Death and Construct Power!
Activate Trap Card, Return from the Different Dimension!"
Haruki LP: 2800 → 1400.
Wow...
Exaggerated.
So that's the tactic.
But...
If it's like this, the thought process seems a bit off, doesn't it?
"Pay half of your Life Points, and Special Summon as many of your banished monsters as possible. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect are banished at the end of the turn!"
"I Special Summon Dimensional Alchemist, Barrier Statue of the Heavens!"
The two monsters appeared on his field again.
"It's not over yet!" Haruki wore a cold smile, his confidence evident, "That Thunder Dragon Colossus of yours has the effect of substituting its destruction with a Thunder-Type monster in the Graveyard. If I don't take it down, there's no way to continue the duel—so I will use this.
Continuous Spell Card, Different Dimension Gate!"
He grinned, "Choose 1 monster on your field and 1 monster on your opponent's field to banish them. I choose Barrier Statue of the Heavens and your Thunder Dragon Colossus!"
The figures of the two monsters gradually turned ethereal, with Thunder Dragon Colossus wanting to help Tenjo Hikari but vanishing almost instantly from the field.
"Activate Dimensional Alchemist's effect, banish the top card of my Deck, and increase ATK by 500 points!"
Dimensional Alchemist, ATK: 1300 → 1800
"Battle! Use El Shaddoll Construct to attack Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon!"
Controlling the giant towering above, Haruki seemed not fully conscious, slowly raising his hand to command the giant to attack.
"What? Attack Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon?"
"The attack power is the same, doesn't that mean self-destruction?"
"The high-level monster we finally summoned is going to crash now?"
Quite a few students were amazed.
"Heh heh heh, hahaha—any Special Summoned monsters are no match for Construct!"
Amidst a dazzling light, Construct's blue and purple skirt armor turned pure white: "When Construct battles a Special Summoned monster, it does not engage in battle and directly destroys the opponent's monster!"
"Boom!"
Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon didn't even have time to react before it was ensnared by numerous puppet strings and then shattered with a "boom" sound.
"Ah?"
"It actually has such a powerful effect?!"
"Does that mean even Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon can't be its match?"
"Hiss…" Mitsuzawa Daichi inhaled sharply, "Although I thought about what kind of effects other El Shaddoll monsters might have, this effect is too exaggerated."
In this world, duelists mainly rely on high-level, high-attack monsters. Among them, the most common method is to use various card assists for Special Summons to bring out their ace monster.
This Construct can destroy any Special Summoned monster, making it an unstoppable threat to most duelists.
Moreover, it's tough for even Tribute Summoned monsters to defeat Construct with 2800 ATK.
It's almost an "invincible" monster.
However, in Tenjo Hikari's eyes, this is actually Construct's weakest effect.
Construct's two other effects: the first allows sending any "Shaddoll" from the Deck to the Graveyard when successfully Special Summoned. The third effect allows adding any Shaddoll Spell·Trap card from the Graveyard to the hand when sent to the Graveyard.
There's a song that goes well, Shaddoll Fusion for Construct, Link Summon Gravity Controller, recycle Shaddoll Schism...
If you understand this song, you'd basically know how to play Shaddoll.jpg
However, in this world, since others lack the other Shaddoll cards, the second effect is indeed the strongest for them.
"Continue the battle, Dimensional Alchemist attacks your Set Monster—you can revive a Shaddoll Monster in the Graveyard with Shaddoll Falco's flip effect, right? I've already seen that card's effect, so I won't let you activate it! After all, Shaddoll's Low-Level Monster can only choose one effect per turn, it seems."