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Chapter 1808 Baoyu's Protection

"Gana Malden" also realized how disgusting John's [G-Creation] was, and without hesitation played a card from his hand, "In that case, I'll chain this Quick-Play Spell Card [Called by the Graveyard] to banish one monster from my opponent's Graveyard and negate its effects and those of the same-named card until the end of the next turn!"

As the average skill level of duelists has increased, the activation of monster effects is no longer limited to the field, but can be activated in the hand, graveyard, and even when banished. As a result, "Called by the Graveyard," which specifically targets monsters that take effect in the graveyard, is gradually becoming a versatile card like "Great Storm."

In particular, Hayato, the Duel King, has a particular fondness for using monsters that activate in the Graveyard, which has set a trend in the current meta. And one of today's Duel Monster trivia points is that the world's first "Called by the Grave" card to be used was not even used by Hayato Kobayashi himself, but was obtained by Seto Kaiba, who frequently challenged him to duels, and was a card specifically designed to counter Hayato's dueling style.

Therefore, after dueling with Hayato, "Gana Malden" dutifully added this card to his deck and used it in his duel with John at this moment.

But John was waiting for this move from "Gana Malden." He immediately picked up a card from the Duel Disk and said, "I won't let you banish my cards, so—if I have three or more [Crystal Beast] cards in my Spell & Trap Zone, or when a Spell/Trap Card is activated, I can use one of the effects of my Field Spell Card [Rainbow Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins]!"

“Send one of my face-up [Crystal Beast] monsters to the Graveyard to activate this monster, negate its activation, and destroy it!” Pointing to the [Called by the Graveyard] monster on his opponent's back field, John said, “I’m sending [Crystal Beast - Cobalt Spinel Eagle] to the Graveyard—I’m counting on you, Cobalt!”

"Hehe! Rely on me, Johnny!" [Jade Beast - Cobalt Spinel Eagle] couldn't wait to take off, its body disintegrating into countless blue streams of light in mid-air. Like a meteor shower, several blue jade fragments flew out from the light, smashing to pieces a green hand that had just emerged from the graveyard and was pointing at John's grave in the back field of "Gana Malden".

"I still have two [Crystal Beast] monsters on the field, which means I can negate the activation of two more Spell/Trap Cards." Looking at the remaining cards in "Gana Malden's" hand, John asked with a smile, "Do you have enough cards in your hand?"

"Don't be so arrogant!" Ghana Malden glared at John, then reluctantly accepted that she hadn't been able to negate her opponent's [Called by the Grave], and [Called by the Grave] had been wasted. She glanced at the rest of her hand except for [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer] and said, "Then let's chain together. My [Called by the Grave] will be negated and destroyed by your Field Spell Card, [Called by the Grave] will take effect, and then my [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer]'s effect will be dealt with."

"Discard this [Magical Beast - Kassie] from my hand to the Graveyard, and Special Summon [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer] from my hand."

【Demon Beast - Wild Hammer】【2☆/Light】

[Demon Race/Effect]

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The ugly-looking "Wild Hammer Serpent" - [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer] appeared on "Gana Malden's" field. Because of the special summon of its monster, John also said: "Since the effect of [G-Proliferation] started to take effect before [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer] appeared, I was able to gain a boost from this special summon to draw cards."

John Anderson: 4000LP, Hand: 1→0→1

"Hmph, go ahead and draw if you want, but can you hold out until you can actually use the cards in your hand?" With a sneer, "Gana Malden" continued, "And at the very moment that [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer] is summoned, I have a monster effect in my graveyard that needs to be activated, and at the same time, [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer] on the field also has its own effect."

"【Magical Beast - Kashi】If discarded from hand to Graveyard, you can target a face-up card on the field and destroy that face-up card; while 【Magical Beast - Wild Hammer】can be activated when Special Summoned by its own effect, Special Summoning 1 Level 2 or lower 【Magical Beast】monster from my hand!"

"Self-Chain C1 [Magical Beast - Kassie], targets [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] and activates its effect; C2 [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer], Special Summoning one of my cards—"

John felt a little headache watching "Gana Malden" confidently start his chain attack. Was it just because he used "G of Multiplication" to try to draw a card and allowed the opponent to make a special summon, that he ended up with this self-chain attack?

In this way, even if you want to follow up with a chain to nullify the opponent's effect, you can only nullify the effect of [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer], and you can't control [Magical Beast - Kassie] in C1 at all!
(Binding Dragon: Not entirely beyond our control)

But if John just watched helplessly as his opponent unfolded his cards, his face-down cards in the back row would be meaningless. So he pressed the button to activate a face-down card, revealing a card and saying, "Although I dodged it with a self-destructing chain, I'm still going to activate this face-down card! Chain to [Magic Beast - Wild Hammer] and activate this counter trap card - [Gem Miracle]!"

"This card can only be activated when a monster's effect, spell, or trap card is activated. I prepared it to fill the gap in the effect of [Rainbow Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins]. By destroying one [Crystal Beast] card on my field, or negating and destroying that activation with [Crystal Miracle]!"

Picking up the card [Sapphire Beast - Ruby Beast] from the Duel Disk, John pleaded, "Sorry, there are no empty slots in the Spell & Trap Zone!"

"Chirp!" [Jade Beast - Ruby Beast] shook its head, then moved closer to John, affectionately cupped his hand, and then resolutely transformed into a crimson meteor, crashing into "Gana Malden" on the field!

"Crimson Jade Exploding Fist!"

Under the power of the noble three-speed counter trap, unless "Gana Malden" can draw a three-speed card that can be activated from the hand, she cannot stop the attack of "Crimson Reboot". Her only monster on the field, "Magical Beast Wild Hammer", not only failed to take effect, but was also destroyed and sent to the graveyard.

However, under the cover of [Magical Beast - Wild Hammer], the effect of [Magical Beast - Kassie] successfully took effect, destroying John's [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon]. John was disheartened to see his ace monster destroyed, and also regretted that although [Ultimate Jewel God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] had evolved, it still hadn't gained any resistance.

He didn't have a card to protect [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] from being destroyed. However, he could activate [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon]'s effect at Speed ​​2, which returns everything to its original state and sends all cards on both players' fields back to their respective decks. But you have to know that "Gana Malden" only has one monster card on his field. Trading so many cards for that one card is really a bad deal.

"However, why did 'Malden' choose to destroy [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon], which is unlikely to activate its effect at present, instead of destroying the Field Spell Card?" Jaden asked with some doubt. "Isn't it afraid that [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] has corresponding resistance? It is, after all, the evolved [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon].

(point downward)
“Basic reasoning, dear Jaden~” said gently to Jaden in a sweet tone. “Gana Malden” made a pointing gesture. “Although there have been many changes, I think the effect of [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Bridge Dragon] will definitely not be too different from [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon]. It is unlikely that one effect will be a surge in attack power and the other effect will be a tri-color Kang.”

"Have you heard of 'sunk cost'? Although it's slightly different, the person next to you is worried about his cards and won't be willing to use that effect, which should be similar to [Ultimate Gem God - Rainbow Dragon]. If I don't destroy it now while he's reluctant to use it, do you expect me to wait until his cards are almost depleted and he can use the effect recklessly before targeting it?"

"As for the effect of [Rainbow Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins], although it is not used much normally, I do remember that as long as there is one or more [Crystal Beasts] on your back row, [Rainbow Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins] will not be destroyed by the effect. This resistance is a bit troublesome."

After a pause, "Ghana Malden" said mysteriously, "However, it's not that there's no way to solve it, it's just that the card needed isn't in my possession yet."

"I have no monsters on my field, and I've used up three cards in my hand, but I still have cards to use." Showing a card in his hand, "Gana Malden" said proudly, "【Magical Beast - Jiwa】, its effect is the same as 【Magical Beast - Wild Hammer】, both of which can be activated from my hand, selecting one 【Magical Beast】 monster to discard from my hand and Special Summon it to the field!"

Although if [Magical Beast - Jiva] were to appear upon activation of its effect, and John could draw cards from the deck using the effect of [G-Spell], given the precedent of [Magical Beast - Kashi], he wouldn't give "Gana Malden" another chance to discard a monster card. Who knows what effect the next discarded [Magical Beast] might activate?

He activated his back row face-down card again, saying, "Then let's chain the effect of [Magic Beast - Jiva], I'll activate my back row face-down card - the second counter trap card [Gem Miracle]!"

Surprisingly, John didn't set any strange cards in his back row. Instead, he honestly prepared a second Tricolor Counter. Its effect was simple but effective. After all, if there are enough Tricolor Counters, you can completely shut down your opponent. And his [Jade Beast] can take advantage of the opponent's inability to play a role.

This is the tactic John devised because he was limited by the lack of a powerful finisher for the [Crystal Beast] deck. Like Jaden, they both played the game of "limiting the opponent's development to the same extent as themselves, and then using their rich experience to defeat the opponent." No wonder they became soulmates.

"Do I need to explain the effects of [Baoyu's Miracle] again?"

Upon hearing John's words, "Gana Malden" looked displeased, but she snorted coldly and said, "Although the second counter trap was unexpected, don't forget that activating that card requires destroying the [Crystal Beast] on your field."

"One [Sapphire Beast - Ruby Beast], one [Sapphire Beast - Cobalt Spinel Eagle], and one [Sapphire Beast - Jade Pegasus]. That's all the [Sapphire Beast] monsters you have. But you've already used two of your monster cards in the previous rounds, so now you only have [Sapphire Beast - Jade Pegasus] left."

"After it's destroyed, the effect of your [Rainbow Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins] which restricts the activation of Spell & Trap Cards will also be unusable because there will be no [Crystal Beast] monster to send to the Graveyard!"

"You dared to ask me just now if I had enough cards in my hand? Now it's your monster card reserves that are running low!"

Just as "Gana Malden" said, the Miracle of the Jewel was activated again. After destroying the only "Jewel Beast - Blue Pegasus" on John's field, the blue jewel turned into a meteor and crashed down, completely shattering the monster card that "Gana Malden" had just shown but hadn't even had a chance to play yet!
However, just as the [Jade Beast - Jade Pegasus] shattered, a gem reformed on John's back row, and John said in a mysterious tone, "I can't use the effects of Field Spell Cards, so what?"

"Unlike when I activated [Rainbow Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins], [Jade Beast - Jade Pegasus] was destroyed instead of sent to the Graveyard. Also, because my Spell & Trap Zone had an empty slot after I removed the first [Jade Miracle], [Jade Beast - Jade Pegasus] can be placed in my Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell Card using its own effect."

John said, but then took a card from the graveyard, "And at this very moment, I will use the power of this card from the graveyard! Spell Card: [Gem of Protection]!"

Gana Malden still vaguely remembered the card John had taken out, after all, the effect of that card was really strange. It was called "Blessing", but it actually destroyed the [Crystal Beast] on his field. It was really ironic.

"What does it mean to pull out that card again now?"

"Hmph, although the first effect is to destroy the [Crystal Beast] monster on my field to create clones of [Crystal Beast Tokens], the power of [Crystal Blessing] is actually the power that sends the present power to the distant future. It is an action that makes a sacrifice for the sake of 'blessing'. And now, it is time to take back the power that was sent to the future last turn!"

John said, banishing the card "Crystal Blessing," "If 'Crystal Blessing' is in my Graveyard or if a 'Crystal Beast' card is placed in my Spell & Trap Zone, I can activate this effect by banishing this card—this effect can even be activated during the Damage Step."

"Special Summon one [Crystal Beast] monster card from my Spell & Trap Zone! And the card I choose is, of course—Sapphire, Soar Anew!"

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