Chapter 54: Odion, In Danger
"Are you kidding me? You know the opponent has a Trap Card, yet you still did it. You're such an idiot."
"You've already failed three times. Could you give up your spot, please?"
"I must get the Axe of Despair today!!"
"You? I beg you to have some peanuts with your drinks."
To encourage more people to enthusiastically tackle the challenge, Yu Miao added the "Axe of Despair" equipment card to the reward pool.
The dueling style in the DM era was straightforward. They didn't have a strong grasp of concepts like card advantage or gaining cards, but they absolutely adored Attack Points.
The Axe of Despair, this Equipment Card, is usable by all monster types, comes with a recycling function, and most importantly, increases ATK by 1000 points.
This "axe" is even more popular among duelists than cards like Summoned Skull...
In their words, as long as you summon a monster with 2000 or more ATK and equip this "Axe of Despair,"
You can even surpass the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon, known for its immeasurable destructive power!!
Yu Miao thought about it, realized that was indeed true, and then used this very line as a "tagline" posted outside.
Do you yearn to defeat Blue-Eyes White Dragon?
Do you crave powerful cards?
Come here! Not for 999,999, but just for 9 bucks.
Take the Axe of Despair home!
Since using the Axe of Despair, easily surpassing Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3000 ATK, even Dark Magician gives it a thumbs up.
Because of this Axe of Despair, the number of duelists coming to spend money and tackle the challenge today kept increasing.
"..."
As soon as Marik entered, he was overwhelmed by the overheated popularity, leaving him at a loss.
Is this reasonable?
As a Rare hunter, the most important thing is to stay low-key.
Yu Miao making the place like this seemed a bit excessive.
Moreover, Marik was wearing a hooded black trench coat and holding a "golden artifact."
It truly clashed with the surrounding atmosphere—feeling like a wolf had mixed into a pack of huskies.
Marik couldn't stand it. He quickly found the room where Yu Miao was.
Coincidentally, the Panther Lady was there too.
Lately, it seemed the Panther Lady had settled in here.
The Rare hunters not only lost the underground palace as their main base, but many other hideouts had been raided as well.
Compared to the situation at other hideouts, Yu Miao's arcade turned out to be surprisingly safe.
A wise gleam flashed in Marik's eyes. That night, Yu Miao turned back, and indeed, it was to save the Panther Lady.
Truly the subordinate he trusted; such courage and strength were truly solid.
"Yu Miao, this card is for you." As soon as they met, Marik shoved a card into Yu Miao's hand.
This move left Yu Miao completely baffled about what this was about.
"This is... Temple of the Kings!?" Yu Miao held this Field Spell Card, looking very surprised.
"Ah, there are only two of these cards in the entire world. Rare hunters don't have any copies either."
"Odion was willing to give one of them to you."
Odion felt sorry for misjudging Yu Miao before. He asked Marik what Yu Miao usually liked.
Marik thought about it and gave an answer.
Yu Miao likes powerful, rare cards!
Hence, the current situation.
Yu Miao was full of question marks. He felt there must be something wrong with this Odion.
He had treated Odion like that, and this shady bald guy actually turned around and gave him a card?
Damn, he must be an M, no doubt about it.
As for the history of this "Temple of the Kings," Yu Miao remembered it clearly.
In the OCG version, Temple of the Kings has two effects.
First, Trap Cards Set on the field by this card's controller can be activated that same turn.
Second, by sending this card and "Mystical Beast of Serket" to the Graveyard, choose 1 Monster Card from your hand, Deck, or Fusion Deck and Special Summon it.
Before 2015, this "Temple of the Kings" had been Forbidden and Semi-Limited.
Later, Konami nerfed the card, adding "once per turn" to both effects of Temple of the Kings.
As everyone knows, Yu-Gi-Oh! card effects without "once per turn" are just playing rogue.
So Temple of the Kings getting nerfed was only a matter of time.
OCG cards, anime cards, and manga cards are three different things.
Leaving manga cards aside for now, the anime version of Temple of the Kings and the OCG version's effects are completely different matters.
Yu Miao carefully examined this anime version of "Temple of the Kings." The corners of his mouth slowly curved into a perverted smile.
[Temple of the Kings : You can activate 1 Trap Card the turn it was Set. You can send 1 "Mystical Beast of Serket" in your Monster Zone and this card you control to the GY; Special Summon 1 monster from your hand or Deck, or 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck. You can only use each effect of "Temple of the Kings" once per turn.]
Although the anime version of the Temple doesn't have the effect allowing Trap Cards to be activated the turn they are Set, it has an effect limiting the opponent to setting only 1 card per turn.
This is very advantageous for suppressing backrow.
However, this alone wasn't enough to make Yu Miao break into that perverted smile.
It was mainly the second effect.
It can seal 1 card. It doesn't specify from the Deck, hand, Graveyard, or... the Extra Deck.
This Temple of the Kings can seal Fusion Monster Cards.
What's more important is the following line: Special Summon the sealed card ignoring its Summoning conditions.
What does "ignoring its Summoning conditions" mean?
In Yu-Gi-Oh!, as long as you have this phrase... that's no small matter.
For example.
If Yu Miao had a The Creator God of Light, Holactie, he could have this Temple of the Kings seal it directly, then activate the second effect to Special Summon it ignoring its Summoning conditions.
That... would be too terrifying.
Holactie is too far off. Let's talk about the present.
Yu Miao doesn't have Red-Eyes Black Dragon or Red-Eyes Fusion. To use Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon, he either needs to draw into Polymerization + Dark Magician + King of the Swamp.
Otherwise, he can only rely on the opponent to trigger his Waking the Dragon.
But Temple of the Kings can also seal Dragoon, and then Yu Miao can have Dragoon enter the field this way.
Similarly, Silent Magician LV8, Silent Swordsman LV7, and Dragon Knight Gaia can all enter the field via this card's effect.
Theoretically, the larger Yu Miao's pool of single-card combo enders, the greater the potential of this Temple of the Kings.
There is one prerequisite to note.
Yu Miao doesn't have this "Mystical Beast of Serket" yet, that big scorpion.
You "Gravekeeper's" people are full of treasures!!
Thinking of this, Yu Miao covered his face with his hand, saying movedly:
"Odion, he really is a good person. I must see him immediately, right now."
Marik was very satisfied. His most trusted family member and his most capable subordinate had reconciled.
The glorious Rare hunters organization might be able to advance even further.
"Next time. I've already identified the rat. Odion has secretly gone to investigate their situation." Marik briefly mentioned.
The reason last night's gathering and other hideouts were attacked.
Was probably the doing of these rats hiding in the sewers; they reported the information to KaibaCorp and Industrial Illusions.
Yu Miao felt something was off. Somehow, he felt Odion was about to meet his demise.
Marik said with a smug and proud look:
"Don't worry, Yu Miao. There's no need to worry about Odion."
"Although Odion lost quickly last night, his Deck contains a formidable Monster Card."
Yu Miao felt even more that something was wrong. Is that so-called formidable card a fake Winged Dragon of Ra?
If so.
Then Odion's demise would come even faster.
You chose this, idol!
At this moment.
From a gap outside the door, a sneaky figure hid behind a table. He adjusted his thick-rimmed glasses and snickered:
"That's a rare card!"
"Rather than playing such a difficult challenge mode here to win cards, why don't I devise a little scheme..."
(End of Chapter)
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