Chapter 96: International Illusion Society’s Card Selling Routine
"Ritual Summoning, [Devil Arrives]!"
Thunder fell from the sky, landed on Yugi's field, and turned into a monster that both Atum and Yugi were very familiar with.
【Demon Advent】【6☆/Dark】
[Devil/Ritual/Effect]
【2500/1200】
"That monster is [Demon's Summon]? No, it's the ritual monster version of [Devil's Summon]." Jonouchi raised an eyebrow. This was the first time he saw this monster appear in the hands of a game. "Speaking of attack power, Isn’t the defense and even level at the same level as the original version? Even the appearance has not changed much. Is there anything different other than turning into a ritual monster?"
"Oh, it's just a card-selling mission for the International Illusion Society. It's not your first day playing Duel Monsters Jonouchi. You just add some descriptions to the already designed normal monsters and change the card image to pretend it's a new card. But this is an important part of the International Illusion Society's card-selling routine. It’s a part that must be tasted.”
Malik said with some disdain, "[The Elf Swordsman who torments the enemy] and [The Dark Knight of the Gale - Gaia] are just words from the original descriptions of ordinary monsters added to their names."
"After all, it's Becas, so it won't be surprising if he comes up with any tricks to sell cards."
Hayato was silent on the side, he would not say that those tricks for selling cards were actually told to Becas by him, and Becas still had many tricks that he had not come up with, such as limited editions of brand names and magazine bundles. Cards, different art versions, etc. After all, he is now the largest shareholder of International Illusion Society in terms of the shares on hand. If International Illusion Society sells more cards, he can get more dividends.
"That's right what you said. Not only that, but there are also a lot of cards that were made up." After hearing what Malik said, Jonouchi also remembered one thing, "I have a [Baby Dragon] card, which matches the [Time] Magician] can evolve into [Thousand-Year Dragon], but when I opened the card pack, I discovered that International Illusion Society actually released a new [Hundred-Year Dragon]."
"Blind guess at the transitional form that is larger than [Baby Dragon] and smaller than [Thousand-Year Dragon]?"
"you do not say."
Looking at each other, Jonouchi and Malik said in unison: "Despicable!"
"However, I can still see [Devil's Summons], no, [Devil's Arrival] now. I really miss him. After all, I haven't seen him for a long time. The last time I saw him, I think it was the last time."
Hearing Honda's nonsense, Jonouchi rolled his eyes: "How about leaving it here? But it's true that we haven't seen him for a while, but the deepest impression on him is indeed the only time Hayato was defeated in front of us. Bar."
"Huh? Has my brother-in-law actually lost a duel before, or was it by that monster?" Malik said in surprise when he heard this, "It's unimaginable. My brother-in-law would actually lose?"
The first duel that Hayato appeared in the public eye was the final between Duel Kingdom and Yugi. But even that duel was only watched by some big shots invited by Bekas. The final result was just Hayato and Yugi. It was a tie, and in the subsequent duel Hayato showed only victory and no more defeat.
Therefore, in Malik's perception, Hayato's record so far is a 1000% winning rate. He had no idea that Hayato had lost before.
"I really don't want to admit it. This was a mistake I made because I was too young..." Hayato said casually, without going into detail about the process of losing. When he caught a glimpse of Malik's surprised eyes, he frowned strangely, "What are you doing? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"...Brother-in-law, didn't you use some methods at that time? For example, struggle, sacrifice, etc., and also told Muto Yugi that if you win, you will jump off the cliff, or take advantage of Jonouchi Honda and others When there’s a hostage threat—ouch!”
Without hesitation, Hayato gave Malik a slap on the forehead. Hayato said disdainfully: "What kind of impression do you have of me, Malik? You make it seem like I'm someone you can't afford to play with."
Kaiba behind him: "?"
I don't know why, but Kaiba always has the feeling that this guy Kobayashi Hayato is talking about his illusion, but he shouldn't have done anything like jumping off a building to commit suicide after losing a duel, right?
On the duel field, after summoning [Devil's Advent], the game that still had five cards in hand no longer continued, but waved and said: "Entering the combat stage, I want to use [Devil's Advent] to attack the other person. [Magic of Chaos] on your field."
"Magic Summons Thunder!"
Atum, who had already prepared that the game would attack [Dark Magician Girl] or [Magician's Staff], was a little puzzled when he heard who the game was going to attack: 'It actually attacks something with the same attack power as [Demon Advent]. [Magic Guide of Chaos]? Does that monster have any special abilities against ritual monsters? ’
"In short, we can't lose in terms of momentum, [Magic Guide of Chaos], we will also attack back, Magic Guide of Chaos!"
The magician who mastered the power of chaos and the demon who called for thunder and lightning attacked each other at the same time. The magic bullets and lightning bombarded each other. After a moment of stalemate, they passed each other again. [Magic Guide of Chaos] and [Demon Arrival] Both were hit.
Although the attacks launched by the two monsters were powerful, the actual destructive power contained in them was just that. They were essentially tickling-level attacks for both monsters, but they had already reached an unspoken consensus after just looking at each other. The two monsters showed painful expressions in tacit understanding.
[Magic of Chaos]: "Ah! What a powerful thunder and lightning!"
[Devil Arrives]: "Ah! Such sharp magic!"
Then, in the speechless eyes of Atum and Yugi, the two monsters hid directly in the cemetery.
Just kidding, despite the fact that Yugi and Atum are dueling, with these cards in their hands, whoever takes this duel seriously and beats the opponent's monster to death would be extremely stupid. . After all, a duel is not about who is better at fighting, it is also about human nature.
"Other me, are you thinking about the effect of [Demon's Advent]?" Seeing Atum looking at his [Devil's Advent] and [Magic of Chaos] dying together in confusion, Yugi explained, "[Devil's Advent] It does have an effect that can be adapted in battle, that is, it will not be destroyed by battles other than ritual monsters, nor will it be destroyed by the effects of monsters other than ritual monsters."
"However, [Magic of Chaos] is a ritual monster, which can defeat [Demon Arrival] in a battle." As he spoke, Yugi showed an expression of unwillingness and annoyance on his face, "Damn it, I actually caught him I found the flaw in [Demon Arrival] and destroyed my monster!"
"..." Atum looked at the game speechlessly, then glanced at Hayato outside the court, held his forehead and said, "Don't learn from Hayato in this aspect, Aibo."
When Yugi heard what Atum said, he put away his acting skills which were not as natural as Hayato's and stuck out his tongue.
"However, since you have imitated Hayato's habit of letting his monsters explode and then blame others, does [Devil's Advent] have an effect that can be applied after it is destroyed?"
"Well, when the [Devil's Advent] summoned by the ritual is sent to the graveyard by the opponent, its second effect can be activated, and there are still three monsters on your field, because the effect of [Demon Clock Cave] is The effect of unconditionally special summoning the [Chaos] Ritual Monster in your hand when [Magic of Chaos] is destroyed cannot be activated.”
Yugi explained why he made [Devil's Advent] and Atum's [Magic of Chaos] die together. He raised the duel plate and drew out the deck and said, "According to the effect of [Devil's Advent], I started from the hand of cards. Special summon one [Devil's Summon] from the deck and graveyard."
"Then, because it is a special summons during the battle phase, [Devil's Summons] can still attack!"
Seeing [Devil's Advent] destroyed and dispersed by the lightning, [Devil's Summon] replaced him. Yugi waved his hand and pointed at the monsters on Atum's field, "Attack [Black Magician], [Devil's Summon], Demon Summons Thunder!”
It used to be a battle between two monsters in the ritual monster version, but now it's back to the original two monsters fighting. However, although the ritual monster has been changed back to a normal monster with no effect, [Black Magician] and [Devil's Summoning] 】The result of the battle was exactly the same as before. They just fired a round of fireworks at each other and then pretended to be seriously injured and left.
And because the monsters on both sides died together again, Atum finally realized Yugi's intention to do this: "I still have more monsters on the field. Even while destroying my monsters, I am still controlling [Magic Clock Cave]. 】The effect?"
Although he had never experienced the duel environment of Hayato's previous life, it only took one round for Atum to see how disgusting the effect of the [Magic Clock Cave] card was.
【Dark Magician Girl】【ATK2000→2300→2600】
As his two monsters were destroyed, [Dark Magician Girl]'s attack power has risen to 2600 points due to its own effect, which is higher than [Dark Magician], but because Atum has another one on the field Due to the existence of [Magician's Staff], if there are more monsters than in a game with only one face-down defense position monster, he will not be able to activate monster effects or attack.
It's like being in jail!
But it doesn’t matter, everything will be fine in the next turn. Just use [Eternal Soul] to revive [Magic of Chaos] and cooperate with [Black Magic Array] to exclude [Magic Clock Cave]. The advantage is— ——
Just as Atum was thinking this, he heard the game declare: "My combat phase is over."
"Then, in my main phase two, I stamp four cards into the backfield and the turn ends."
Atum: "?!"
[Game: 4000, 1 card in hand]
[Defending monster on the inside]
【Gate Card】X4
Venue: [Magic Bell Cave]
The sight of four cover cards appearing at the back of the game at the same time made Atum confused. To be honest, although Atum had told Yugi before that he hoped that he would use all his strength in this duel, he never said that he would let Yugi fully use his strength in heavy pits.
But it’s still the same sentence, but it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s my turn, I’ll use the top card of the deck [Black·Explosion·Crack·Break·Magic·Guidance] to break through the mere cover card!
"My turn, draw a card!" Pulling a card from the top of the deck, Atum confirmed that the card he drew was indeed [Black·Explosion·Broken·Destruction·Magic·Guidance], but this card could not To use it immediately, in addition to [Dark Magician Girl], there also needs to be a monster whose original card is [Dark Magician].
"During my main phase, activate the effect of [Eternal Soul] and special summon [Black Magician] from my graveyard."
Although [Chaos Magician] was originally a better choice, [Chaos Magician], which cannot activate its own effect when [Magic Bell Cave] exists, is not as good as [Black Magician], at least the latter supports [Black Magician] The activation of ·Explosion·Crack·Destruction·Magic·Guidance.
However, just when Atum declared to activate the effect of [Eternal Soul] to specially summon [Black Magician], Yugi suddenly interrupted: "At this moment, I chained [Eternal Soul] The activation of the effect opens up the cover cards in my backcourt.”
The first card was revealed as the game pressed the button to activate the card collection, and a card picture of iridescent mist existing in the night appeared in front of Atum.
"The Trap Card [Gap to Another Dimension] declares an attribute, and activates it against a total of two monsters with the declared attribute that exist in the graveyards of both sides. The selected monster will be removed from the game." The game stretched out its hand and Atum. , "Another flaw of [Eternal Soul] is that it can only grant resistance to the [Dark Magician] on the field, but cannot protect the [Dark Magician] in the graveyard."
"The attribute I declare is 'Dark', and I activate the effect on the two monsters [Dark Magician] and [Chaos Magician] in my other graveyard, and banish them!"
The pattern on the [Eternal Soul] slate with [Dark Magician] just lit up, and a mist was seen pouring out of the [Gap to Another Dimension] card that was opened in the game, following the [Eternal Soul] ]'s power captured the two monsters [Black Magician] and [Chaos Magician] who were hiding in the graveyard, and eliminated them all.
Also because the target of the effect disappeared, the lighted lines of [Eternal Soul] dimmed again.
At the same time, Keihei noticed that Kaiba, who was wearing the earphone-type terminal next to him, took a few photos of the card [Gap to Another Dimension], and marked it with the description "How to crack [Eternal Soul]" .
And because the [Eternal Soul] failed to specially summon the [Black Magician] in the cemetery, Atum's original plan to use the [Black Magician Array] to remove the [Magic Clock Cave] failed. At the same time, he also had There are no cards that can break the game.
A magic card that was previously recycled into the hand with the effect of [Black Magician of Chaos], a [Chaos Illusionist] that was unable to activate its effect due to the effect of [Magic Clock Cave], and a card that was just drawn due to the lack of [Black Magic]. Magic Guide] cannot be activated [Black·Explosion·Break·Broken·Magic·Guide], and a monster card with an unknown meaning. These are the four cards in Atum's current hand.
However, although the current cards in his hand cannot create victory, Atum still has a cover card in the backcourt.
The way to victory lies within!
"There is no card in my hand that can defeat your arrangement, Aibo, but it will be different soon. After I activate this card," I took out a card from my hand and covered it, leaving only two monster cards and With a [Black·Explosion·Broken·Destruction·Magic·Guidance] to reduce the number of cards in his hand as much as possible, Atum pressed the button to activate the cover card. Sky God]!”
"The activation and effect of this card will not be negated, and the first effect of [Sky God of Resurrection] is to special summon one [Sky Dragon of Osiris] from my graveyard, and cause both parties to draw cards to their hands. The cards become six!”
"Come back from the underworld, Cammy!"