Chapter 49: Neither Yielding an Inch
A face-down monster?
Such a useless tactic. Kaiba Seto drew a card and set a Quick-Play Spell Card on his field.
"Go, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, obliterate those pesky weakling monsters!"
Triple Burst Stream...
BOOM!!
The face-down monster was immediately flipped, revealing the Effect Monster version of "Obnoxious Celtic Guardian."
After the aftershocks dissipated, Obnoxious Celtic Guardian remained unharmed.
"This card cannot be destroyed by battle with monsters that have 1900 or more ATK," Yu Miao explained.
"1900 or more..." Kaiba's face twisted in displeasure. He hadn't expected his opponent to cling on like this using such a weakling.
Kaiba still adhered to his belief: In duel monsters, Attack Points reign supreme.
"My turn, draw." Yu Miao drew a card and activated the anime god-card "Graceful Charity."
A golden warmth appeared in the sky, the clinking of coins sounding so pleasant it could make ears pregnant.
Kaiba and Yu Miao drew cards until their hands held 6 cards each.
"Facing the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, you, with no options left, can only pin your hopes on cards for beginners." Kaiba maintained his usual punchable expression.
"I'm sorry, but the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon must be destroyed this turn." The new cards brought Yu Miao fresh hope.
Obnoxious Celtic Guardian's mission was complete. Yu Miao offered it as Tribute.
"Appear, Dark Magician Girl!"
Ding~
A pink-purple magic circle lit up, and a charmingly cute, rebellious-looking girl appeared.
[Dark Magician Girl, 2000 ATK, Spellcaster]
"Yugi?" Kaiba's expression paled, but he quickly suppressed these unwarranted emotions, reminding himself that the person before him was not Yugi Muto.
But...
Why does he have Dark Magician Girl?
If Kaiba remembered correctly, there seemed to be only one copy of this card worldwide.
A fake card?
If so, then it made sense, given this was the Rare hunters' stronghold.
The bubblegum inflated from the breath blown into it, finally unable to withstand the pressure, popping.
Dark Magician Girl licked her lips, popped the remains in her mouth, chewed, and continued repeating the process.
"The projection is very realistic. This isn't a fake card," Kaiba stated decisively.
KaibaCorp's Duel Disk projection technology was constantly upgraded. Fake cards absolutely could not project this clearly; only genuine cards possessed this level of expressiveness.
"Stop getting distracted. Your dragon is about to be gone." Yu Miao revealed a Spell Card: "Activate Spell Card, Dark Burning Attack."
When Dark Magician Girl is on the field, Dark Burning Attack can destroy all face-up monsters on your opponent's field!!
Dark Magician Girl raised her staff. A black "energy sphere" with a radius of nearly 5 meters coalesced above.
"Vanish!"
"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
As the "energy sphere" descended, with a BOOM~
The Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon was instantly blown to smithereens.
Kaiba's expression turned extremely unpleasant.
Yu Miao issued the attack command: "Dark Magician Girl, attack the opponent directly."
Kaiba's eyes turned sharp. Without hesitation, he activated his face-down Quick-Play Spell Card to preserve his Life Points as much as possible: "I activate this card, Shrink!!"
[Shrink: Target 1 face-up monster on the field; its original ATK becomes half until the end of this turn.]
Zzzz...
Under Shrink's power, Dark Magician Girl's ATK dropped from 2000 to 1000.
The attack landed on Kaiba, and his Life Points rapidly decreased.
[Kaiba: 3500 LP → 2500 LP]
Yu Miao sensed something amiss here. He glanced at his hand and chose to set 1 card on the field.
End turn!
Draw card.
Kaiba raised a card to cover one eye, saying gravely:
"This duel ends here."
"Activate, Dimension Fusion!!"
[Dimension Fusion: Pay 2000 Life Points. Both players Special Summon as many of their banished monsters as possible.]
Seeing Dimension Fusion, Yu Miao's first thought was: "Forbidden Card..."
No wonder Kaiba used "Shrink" to preserve his Life Points.
It seemed Graceful Charity allowed Kaiba to draw "Dimension Fusion" into his hand.
[Kaiba: 2500 LP → 500 LP]
"Return, my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons!" With Kaiba's shout, three distorted vortexes appeared behind him.
Three silver-white dragons appeared~
[Blue-Eyes White Dragon, 3000 ATK, Dragon] *3
Dark Magician Girl looked defiant. She put her hands on her hips and looked down her nose at the three white dragons, as if saying, "I dare you to hit me."
"Face-down cards..." Kaiba looked at the 2 face-down cards on Yu Miao's field. One of them was the one set from the very beginning, its purpose still unclear.
But precisely because of this, Kaiba grew more wary, as such cards could trip you up at any unknown moment.
If that's the case.
Then use absolute power to crush everything this turn.
"Spell Card, Harpie's Feather Duster!" Kaiba chose this moment to unleash the field-clearing, indiscriminate storm!
[Harpie's Feather Duster: Destroy all Spell and Trap Cards on the field.]
"Whoosh"
With a loud roar, after the gale passed,
the two cards on Yu Miao's back row were instantly cleared. Kaiba, looking at the now-empty back row, felt much more comfortable.
However.
At this very moment.
Yu Miao began to laugh, imitating Light Yagami:
"Hmph, hehehe, BWAHAHAHAHAHA"
"You still destroyed my back row cards."
Kaiba's expression changed. Why was his opponent laughing so happily after his cards were destroyed?
Until...
An unusual power erupted from Yousei's entire body. A terrifying pillar of black flames rose from behind him...
A black sun, its outer rim blazing with red flames, hung high above, emitting dazzling radiance!
The black flames illuminated the entire space!
The surrounding walls were torn with unusual cracks.
The mercenaries watching from the back were stunned. They felt they had been dragged into something very strange.
"What kind of power is this?" Kaiba's expression remained calm.
Yu Miao slowly opened his eyes, a crimson light bursting from within.
"Of the two Trap Cards destroyed by Harpie's Feather Duster, one was Threatening Roar."
"Destruction does not equal negation. After Threatening Roar resolves, you cannot declare attacks this turn."
"The second card is..."
As he spoke, a Trap Card rose from the ground, displaying itself before Yu Miao.
The Trap Card, Ojama Trio? Wait, no... It's Evenly Matched? No, that's not right...
Aha!
It's the Trap Card, "Waking the Dragon"!!
"When my face-down Waking the Dragon is removed from the field by my opponent's card effect, I can Special Summon 1 monster from my Deck or Extra Deck."
This card was the so-called powerful trap rewarded for defeating the Masked Fiends...
Yu Miao had drawn this trap from the very beginning. He hadn't expected it to come in handy now.
Kaiba's tone was complex as he spoke: "My Spell Card... actually helped you..."
BOOM... ROAR!!
The black sun descended onto Yu Miao's field, its energy gradually dispersing.
The form of "Dark Paladin"? Wait, no...
"Black Skull Dragon"? Not that either...
The figure of "Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon" fell into Kaiba's vision.
[Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, 3000 ATK, Spellcaster]
Yes, Waking the Dragon's effect allowed Yu Miao to pull out Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon in a roundabout way.
"This monster... it's not right." Kaiba felt this monster resembled Dark Magician.
Intuition told Kaiba there must be some connection between the two.
However, the "Red-Eyes" part deeply irritated Kaiba.
Because Kaiba always looked down on a certain blond guy and his black dragon.
Due to Threatening Roar's effect, Kaiba couldn't attack this turn. He couldn't trade one of his White Dragons for Yu Miao's Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon in a one-for-one.
In that case, there was only one course of action left.
(End of Chapter)
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