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Chapter 1654 Duel Monsters: It's enough if there is only one person who can play

[John Anderson; 4000 LP, hand 10→2]

The continuous appearance of Trap Monsters before made others think that [Temple of the Royal Palace] was just a Trap Monster version of [Blood Compensation] that did not require the payment of basic points, but the activation of [Major Fall] made people realize how terrifying it is when all Trap Cards can be activated instantly like Magic Cards.

In fact, based on the characteristics of the trap cards themselves, these trap cards are all two-speed or even three-speed!

However, the activation of [Big Fall] also means that Lishid's development seems to have ended here and there are no more monsters to summon, otherwise there is no need for him to play this card at this time.

"Once per turn, I activate the effect of [Apib, the Holy Snake], targeting up to three [Apib] Trap Cards with different card names in my Graveyard, and place them face down on my backfield."

Although he didn't plan to summon monsters, Lishid didn't ignore the backfield. Although he could select up to three cards for the effect, he only took out two cards from the graveyard and said, "I will cover [Dark Snake - Apib] and [Yodo God - Apib] from my graveyard."

"Then I'll place two more cards from my hand, and that's the end of the turn."

"Protecting the Wang Family's Absolute Defense Circle - Phase 2, Completed!"

[Richd Ishdar: 4000 LP, hand 4→3→1]

[Sacred Snake Apib] [DEF2600]

[Holy Scorpion Beast - Celerket] [ATK3250]

[Mark Holder] [DEF1000]

Backcourt: [Wang's Temple] [Cover] x4
Venue: [Wang Family’s Divine Treasure]

In the first round, Lishid played a pretty good game. Not only did he effectively deal with John's [Proliferating G], but he also used John's increased hand to complete a hand-cut. The quality of the monsters on the field was also quite high, and there was even a so-called "absolute defense circle" formed by the combination of [Mark Holder] and [Royal Temple].

However, John did not quite understand what Lishid had said about the "Phase Two" when Guy put down his card and declared the end of the round.

"Well, I'm in, Judai." After exchanging a glance with Judai, John took a step forward, "It's my turn, draw a card!"

Because of the [Big Fall] in the last round, John only had three cards in his hand even after he drew a card. But he smiled when he saw the card he drew: "If there was no [Big Fall], this card might not be useful, but now - it comes at the right time."

"I put two cards on the ground, and then activate the magic card [Treasure Card from Heaven]!"

Start with a move from the sky to show friendship!
With the help of this [Treasure Card from Heaven], John can not only replenish the cards lost in the previous round in one go, but also replenish Judai's hand. Although Lishid and Malik can also use this effect to draw cards, they are generally at an advantage!
Just when John and Judai were about to put their hands on top of the deck, waiting for the [Treasure Card Falling from the Sky] to take effect and draw the cards together, Malik did not make any preparations, but looked at Lishid as if he was already prepared.

Lishide pressed two buttons to activate the cover card in succession and said, "Then I will activate the opponent's magic card and I will activate the cover card, the continuous trap card [Yodo God - Apib]!"

"Activate during both players' Main Phases to Special Summon this monster to my Monster Zone as a Normal Monster!"

"And the second continuous trap card [Earth Statue with Bitter Pattern]!"

"Finally, once per turn when a Trap Card is activated, I activate the second effect of [Holy Snake Apib] on my field targeting a card on the opponent's field! I choose one of the face-up cards on the opponent's backfield!"

"C1 [Treasure Card from Heaven] C2 [Apib of Yodo God] C3 [Clay Statue with Bitter Pattern] C4 [Apib of Holy Snake]!"

John only played one card, but Lishid was breathing like crazy as if Hakimi had activated the Ridgeback mode, and he activated three effects in succession. The one that was dealt with was the effect of [Apib, the Holy Snake] on his field.

Behind [Apib the Holy Snake], two snake heads were raised high, and they suddenly spit out a large amount of venom at John's backcourt. The target was one of the cards in John's hand that he had just put down.

"Under the effect of [Holy Serpent Apib], the target card will be destroyed." Looking at John's face card shattered, Lishid said calmly, "Then, [Earth Statue with Bitter Pattern] will be Special Summoned to my field."

[Bitter pattern earth statue] [7☆/ground]

[Rock Tribe/Effect/Trap]

[0/2500]

This time, because it was John's turn, the effect of [Proliferating G] had already ended, and Lishid's special summon would no longer trigger the effect of John drawing a card. Although [Earth Statue with Bitter Pattern] appeared on the field, nothing special happened, as if nothing had happened.

But then, when the [Yodo God-Apib] that Lishid had activated in the last round turned into a monster and appeared in the last monster area on his field again, the situation suddenly changed again.

When the snake-like guard holding a sword and shield appeared on the field, a large black tide suddenly surged from under him and rushed towards John's field. The first to bear the brunt was the face-up [Treasure Card from Heaven], which was submerged and swallowed by the black tide in an instant! ?
[Yodokami-Apibu] [6☆/land]

[Reptiles/Normal/Trap]

[2000/2200]

"If there are other Continuous Trap Cards on my field, the additional effect of [Yodojin - Apib] is triggered. You can select up to that number of face-up cards on your opponent's field, and negate that effect until the end of the turn!"

"I chose the [Treasure Card from Heaven]!"

Generally speaking, unless you have a lot of cards in your hand, most people will not counter the [Treasure Card from Heaven] that can benefit them as well. Moreover, Lishid only has one card in his hand, which means he only draws one less card than John who has 0 cards in his hand. But he chose to give up this easy benefit, even if he didn't draw a card, he wanted to prevent John from getting a card replenishment, thus invalidating his [Treasure Card from Heaven] that was about to take effect!
John, who had three cards in his hand just now, now had one card countered and one card bombed, leaving only the last face-up card on the backfield, but this is not the end yet. Lishid said again: "It's not over yet! When [Earth Statue with Bitter Pattern] Special Summoned by its own effect is on the field, if a card in my Spell or Trap Zone is Special Summoned to the Monster Zone, activate its effect!"

"Take a card on the field as the target and destroy it!" Lishid pointed at the last card on John's backfield, "I want to destroy the card on the opponent's backfield!"

"Eh!? Are you really going to kill me all?!" John was also frightened by the cruelty shown by Lishid, "You won't even leave me a card?"

"This is the cruelty of a duel, kid. When dueling monsters, it's enough if only one person can handle it." Malik said with a smile, "This is Lishid's duel style. It's like cutting meat with a blunt knife, constantly reducing the opponent's strength, and finally defeating the opponent with the accumulated overwhelming military force in one go."

"Another way to put it is to use the red pit to trade in the opponent's cards, making it impossible for the opponent to play Duel Monsters, so that only you can have fun."

"I see. However, it's not good to blindly destroy the opponent's card." John raised the Duel Disk, pulled out the remaining card on the Duel Disk and showed it, "The one that was destroyed was this Trap Card, [Rebound]!"

"This card itself is a counter trap that can only be activated when the opponent's effect of returning a card on the field to the hand occurs. However, when this set card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, another effect can be triggered!" A card popped out of John's duel disk, "I draw a card from the deck!"

John would have originally covered this card and put it in the backcourt, and also arranged defense for Judai to prevent the starting point from being bounced back to his hand by cards like [Forced Escape Device]. However, he did not expect that Lishid would have a card like [Earth Statue with Bitter Pattern], nor did he expect that the second effect of [Rebound] would actually be used.

"Oh! I drew a good card!" John looked at the card he drew and played it. "Activate the magic card [Pot of Greed], and I will draw two more cards from the deck!"

[John Anderson: 4000LP, hand 0→1→2]

"It's not over yet! The card that was destroyed by the Holy Snake Apib was this one, the Bridge of Salvation!" John took out a card from the graveyard, "Exclude this card from the graveyard and activate its effect!"

"New card?" Judai was a little surprised when he saw the card John played, which was a card he had not seen last school year.

"Hehe, this is a card given by the school after it was confirmed that I would participate in the exchange competition. They said that we could also experience the treatment that the main students have when they enter the school." John took out a field magic card [Duel Academy] from his arms and showed it. "It's a semi-souvenir card pack. I didn't expect much from it, but I still got some pretty good cards."

"But what's strange is that the right half of the card of [Bridge of Salvation] is [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon], which I can recognize, but the left half seems to have been specially processed, and I can't tell what it is."

"Idiot, do you really think you are so lucky? You get useful cards only because those cards were tampered by my brother-in-law and his friends." Standing next to Lishid, Malik heard the conversation between Judai and John and complained in a low voice, "When you open the card pack, you open it blindly, but when people put the cards in, they don't do it blindly."

"Anyway, under the effect of [Bridge of Salvation], I added a [Gemmon] monster and a Field Spell Card from my deck to my hand." John took out two cards and showed them, "The cards I retrieved are [Gemmon - Jade Pegasus] and the Field Spell Card [Ancient City of Rainbow - Rainbow Ruins]."

[John Anderson: 4000LP, hand 2→4]

"Next, I Normal Summon [Jade Beast - Jade Pegasus], come meet my family - Sapphire!"

"I'm ready, Johnny!"

As John played the card, a cyan whirlwind rose behind him, and a round-cut cyan gem appeared and shattered, from which flew out a unicorn white Pegasus with yellow wings. And the words that responded to John came out of his mouth.

[Gem Beast-Sapphire Pegasus] [4☆/Wind]

[Orc/Effect]

[1800/1200]

"The appearance effect of [Jewel Beast - Jade Pegasus] can only be activated when this card is successfully Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned. Select one [Jewel Beast] from my hand, deck, or graveyard and place it face-up in my Magic or Trap Zone as a Continuous Magic Card." In the whirlwind, John took out a card from his deck, "I place [Jewel Beast - Jade Turtle]!"

However, the whirlwind brought not only John's [Gemmon], but also Lishid's cover card. As soon as John's [Gemmon - Jade Pegasus] came out, Lishid immediately activated one of the two remaining cover cards in his backfield: "Then chain [Gemmon - Jade Pegasus]'s Normal Summon, I activate my cover card - [Drop]!"

"When your opponent successfully Summons or Flips a monster with 1000 ATK or more, I activate this Trap Card [Pitfall] targeting it, and destroy that monster with 1000 ATK or more!"

Although the originator of the [Hole] series, [Holefall] is one of the earliest Duel Monster cards, its practicality is not low and it can easily destroy the opponent's powerful monsters that are Normally Summoned.

Even though the [Jade Beast - Jade Pegasus] could actually fly, it was still inexplicably elbowed and fell into a large hole that suddenly appeared on the ground.

But John laughed when he saw this. "I see, Mr. Lishide doesn't recognize my [Gemmon] deck, right? Humph, this level of skill won't be able to destroy my family."

In John's backfield, the destroyed [Gem Beast - Jade Pegasus] reappeared as an uncut piece of Jade Ore, and John explained: "If a face-up [Gem Beast] is destroyed in the Monster Zone, it can be placed face-up in my Magic Trap Zone as a Continuous Magic Card instead of being sent to the Graveyard."

"And just because it's destroyed doesn't stop the Sapphire's effects from continuing to take effect! Come on! Emerald!"

On the other side of John's backcourt, a piece of green jade ore representing the [Jade Beast - Jade Turtle] also appeared.

"I will activate this continuous magic card [Bridge of Hearts] next. This card allows me to summon [Gem Beast] only once in my main phase in addition to the normal summon." After a pause, John pointed to his field, "But now I want to activate the second effect of this card."

"I can only activate this during my Main Phase. I choose a [Gem Beast] card in my hand or on the field, destroy it, and add a [Gem Beast] Spell/Trap Card from my deck to my hand. I choose to destroy the [Gem Beast - Jade Pegasus] on my field as a Continuous Spell Card, and add [Golden Jade Strip] from my deck to my hand!"

【约翰·安德森：4000LP，手牌4→3→2→3】

Backstage: [Bridge of Heart] [Jade Beast - Jade Turtle]

Lishid's new card can actually activate Anubis with one card and create a two-wipe and two-explosion scene, but the premise is that the monster area must be in place (the episode that needs the most connection)