Chapter 18 Being Scammed

After activating the continuous magic card [Fiery Duelists], amid the sound of BGM, Hayato explained the effect of this card to John:

"As long as [Fiery Duelists] this card exists in the magic trap area, both sides can only overwrite one magic/trap card from their hand once per turn, and the monster specially summoned from the fusion deck is in that You cannot attack during this turn."

"The latter effect is actually a rule that Sett tried to implement before the duel city was held. He thought that [Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon] was too strong and needed to be weakened. But in the end he tried to implement it after my persuasion (referring to Niu Zuo). [Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon] changed his mind, and this non-existent rule can only be used through this card."

Hearing Hayato's words, John nodded because he heard the story behind Duel City that he didn't understand at that time, but asked strangely: "But isn't this effect just a simple negative effect? You even have a much greater influence on Mr. Hayato than on me."

"After all, that [Summoned Beast-Merkaba] was specially summoned from the fusion deck this turn, but now it has become unable to attack due to the effect of [Fiery Duelists]."

Hayato smiled when he heard this: "After all, powerful cards often come with huge risks, but it's enough. The puzzle of defeating the [Power of the Guardian] has been completed at this moment."

"Enter the battle stage, use [Primitive Life Form - Nibiru] to attack [Earth Spider]!" Just as he raised his hand, Hayato said, "But, I want to use the effect of [Fiery Duelists] , Invalidate the attack of [Primitive Life Form - Nibiru]."

On the huge meteorite at Hayato Field, a humanoid arm actually stretched out, and then a humanoid creature emerged from the meteorite. But this is normal. After all, the real name of the meteorite is not really a meteorite but [Primitive Life Form - Nibiru]. Although it is a rock tribe, it is indeed alive, and this human form is what it differentiates for attack. part.

However, although it is a primitive life, the human form that emerged from the meteorite has long wavy purple hair, is almost naked, only wearing cloth strips wrapped around its armpits and shoulders, and a crotch cloth, and poses a demonic posture. , it always feels like it would be more appropriate to find two characters with a similar style of painting to stand under the moon and then pose.

After receiving Hayato's attack command, although Hayato said that the attack had been invalidated, John saw the demonic humanoid wave his hand, and a pair of slender blades on the left and right grew out of his elbow like a plant. Come, it reflects an almost metallic luster in the sunlight.

And, it suddenly rushed towards John's field, shouting: "The flow of light method - the colorful sliding knife flow method!"

"Be careful, [Earth Spider]!"

Because of the aura of the humanoid, John subconsciously shouted to the [Earth Spider] on his field. It was obviously protected by the [Guardian Power], and neither combat nor effects could protect it.

At the same time, he was also a little annoyed that he was shocked by Hayato's combo of wormholes, meteorites, and continuous magic cards, and that he missed the timing and was unable to activate the effect of [Earth Spider]. .

The effect of [Earth Spider] is that when it is in defense position and the opponent's monsters are successfully summoned or special summoned, it has the ability to change those monsters into defense position. If John had a calm mind just now, he could completely [Original life form - Nibiru] uses its effect when it comes on the field to turn it into a fragile defense position with only 600 defense points.

Instead of having to face attacks that don't know what the consequences will be like now.

[Power of the Guardian] (Magic Counter: 1→2)

【Earth Spider】【def2000→2500】

Although, as Hayato said, the attack of [Primitive Life Form - Nibiru] was negated by one of the unknown effects of [Fiery Duelists], Hayato's declaration of attack on [Earth Spider] is true. , [Power of the Guardian] also increases [Magic Counters] due to its own effect, and improves the defense of [Earth Spider].

But John became increasingly uneasy, and the attack of [Primitive Life Form - Nibiru] had also arrived on his field.

But what John didn't expect was that when he and [Earth Spider] were both ready to fight, the human figure directly bypassed [Earth Spider] and struck the remaining area behind him with a knife. On top of the cover card! ?

It's obviously a monster, but it can still attack Gaika? !

"Dueling monsters, it's strange," Hayato said as if he had the ability to read minds, answering John's doubts, "The effect of [Fiery Duelists], when my monster declares an attack, is based on the opponent's field. It can only be activated if it is targeted by a magic or trap card."

Pointing at John's mysterious Gaika, Hayato said, "The monster's attack is invalid, and the target card is destroyed. Take this blow! Your Gaika will be shattered into pieces!"

As Hayato's words fell, John also saw that there seemed to be countless tiny sawtooths on the blade of [Primitive Life Form-Nibiru] rotating like a chainsaw. He pressed down casually, turning the blade behind him The cover card was suddenly cut off!

Before the card was broken, Hayato also saw clearly that John's cover card was actually the magic card [Magic Mastery]! ?

"[Magic Mastery], which can place magic counters on [Guardian Power], has the effect of retrieving another [Magic Mastery] in the deck. The teacher said that this is a good card that can maintain the card gap. But its flaw is that you can only use one [Magic Mastery] in one turn."

John looked at Hayato's expression as if he had heard "never-gonna-give-you-up" and was deceived. He said shyly but somewhat proudly, "You have to wait until the next turn to use it if you keep it in your hand. It's better to cover it in the backcourt, maybe you can deceive those who are more cautious. This is what the teacher taught me, and it actually works."

"What [Fusion] is cheating? What have you taught this kid, Rafiru?" Hearing this, Hayato couldn't help but look at Rafiru outside the court and complained to him.

But Rafilu was not moved at all, and asked: "Otherwise, are we going to let the next generation of duelists learn from you those irritating dueling techniques that are almost like coming from the underworld, Hayato Kobayashi? It's very difficult. I have been very unhappy for a long time, but as the duel king, you always use those strange moves, which has an immeasurable impact on young people."

"It's because of that that I decided to become an educator in the future. At least I want to correct some of the children from the influence of you!"

Hearing Rafilu's words full of resentment towards him, Hayato shrugged helplessly: "Compared with the result of the duel, you still care more about the process as before, but it's a pity that I care about the result. , no matter how beautiful the process is but the result is a tragedy, I will be very unhappy."

"As long as you can win, the means are not important." Play a card from your hand and insert it

"Although I was deceived by the wind once, it doesn't matter. This card [Fiery Duelists] still has final use value. I activate the quick attack magic card [Double Tornado] during the battle phase!"

"You can only activate it by targeting a magic or trap card on your field and a magic or trap card on your opponent's field to destroy those cards. And the card I want to destroy is naturally the restricted [Summoned Beast - Merkaba] The [Fiery Duelists] that attack this turn, and the [Guardian] that protects your [Earth Spider]

"Although it can provide the equipped monster with strong damage resistance and continuously increasing attack power and defense power bonus, in the end, that card is just an ordinary card with a low rarity. It It doesn’t have any damage resistance on its own!”

Two hurricanes suddenly rose up in the field and collided with each other, and swept towards the last remaining cards in the backfield of Hayato and John respectively, [Fiery Duelists] and [Power of the Guardian] 】 were destroyed together and sent to the cemetery.

【Earth Spider】【def2500→1500】

While [Earth Spider] lost the attack power and defense bonus of [Guardian Power], as well as its strong resistance, [Summoned Beast-Merkaba], the bull-headed monster whose lower body was integrated with the chariot, moved its body. , it broke free and couldn't wait to launch an attack.

Naturally, Hayato didn't let him wait any longer. He waved his hand and said: "Then, it's time to fight. Come on, [Summoned Beast-Merkaba], the undead chariot of the wind and roar! Stole an Ilia!"

The pronunciation of the word "tragoi" in Hayato's mouth was outrageous, and the name of the attack move was somewhat unclear, but when the silver-white tank began to charge, everything else was completely unimportant, and its momentum had overwhelmingly attracted everyone. field of vision.

Seeing this, John shouted anxiously to the poor-looking [Earth Spider] on his field: "Hang on, [Earth Spider]!"

However, [Earth Spider], which has no awakened elf and is just an ordinary duel monster card, cannot respond to John. Moreover, this is not a Baomo studio but a duel field with detailed numerical values ​​and strict rules. [Earth Spider] has only 1500 defense points. ] He was no match against the [Summoned Beast - Merkaba] with an attack power of 2500 points, and was instantly crushed by a wheel and sent to the graveyard.

When [Summoned Beast-Merkaba] returned to Hayato's field, John looked at the destroyed location of [Earth Spider] with a sad expression on his face.

Because [Earth Spider] was in defensive position, John was not harmed by it. Moreover, his duel disk was specially adjusted to reduce the damage of the virtual impact simulation system to the minimum value to ensure that younger children would not be affected. However, compared to the actual physical impact, John's state was obviously mainly mental.

With his arms folded in front of his chest, Rafilu looked at the field and suddenly said: "Speaking of which, this is actually the first time Johnny has dueled with someone."

"First time? Is this the first time that kid has dueled with someone?" Atum said with some surprise when he heard this, and glanced at John, "That's really a great talent."

"Yeah, yeah, this isn't awesome anymore, is it a genius? When I first dueled with Yugi, I couldn't even remember the effects of my own cards, and as far as I know, most people It's almost the same." Jonouchi said in disbelief, "And he also used a lot of dueling skills. Is this really the first duel?"

"In that case, it's just like what you said, Rafilu, he is a genius in the field of dueling monsters." Honda folded his arms behind his head, looked at John, and felt a little strange, "But what's wrong with him now? "

Rafilu sighed: "I have said before, Johnny has the rare ability to see the existence of elves. This ability is not available to everyone even among powerful duelists, but Johnny has the rare ability to see the existence of elves. Children are born with this ability.”

"In many cases, when duelists see the existence of elves, they usually awaken later than the elves in their cards. However, because Johnny was born with such an ability, he reversed the normal order, causing him to feel The elf is sleeping in the card, but the card cannot respond to him."

"The child looks optimistic on the surface, but in fact he has always been lonely in his heart. He has no friends who are the same as him, and no card elf companions."

"But even so, he regards every monster as his important friend, even if it is only a one-sided friend."

After Rafilu finished speaking, Atum next to him looked at John, who was obviously in a sad state: "But, I feel that John is not only sad, but there seems to be something else."

"Because Monster never responded to me, and because of Hayato Boy's blow, John Boy seemed to be doubting himself, and even started to wonder if he should continue to trust the card?"

"Did you use the power of the [Millennium Eye] to see this, Becas?" Hearing Becas's words, Malik glanced at him, and provoked Becas with Rafilu's unkind look. body.

"Nonono, I still have a certain ability to judge people." Becas quickly clarified when he saw this, waving his hands and looking at John with a little disappointment, "Sure enough, he is still an immature child, with such a mentality , I still can’t entrust the card to me.”

In the field, Hayato also saw John's state, but he didn't say anything to him. He just declared: "My round is over."

The important purpose of this duel is to show Becas John's ability. The destruction of the duel monster will happen countless times in John's duels in the future. He has to step forward, and Hayato can't help him. .

When John was hesitant to draw the card, Rafilu, after thinking for a moment, said to him: "Johnny, this is the third lesson, lesson 3."

“Trust the card, just trust it.”