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Chapter 1830 Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon: Just kidding, I'm super brave!
Kaiba took a deep breath and yanked a card from the top of his deck: "My turn, draw!"

Seto Kaiba: 700 LP, Hand: 1→2

Although Hayato's hand is almost entirely open and contains traps, Kaiba won't be timid or led by the nose; he will continue the duel at his own pace.

"First, there's the effect of [Ancient White Stone] in my Graveyard." Without playing any cards from his hand, Kaiba activated the cards in his Graveyard first. "You can banish this card from your Graveyard and then target a single [Blue-Eyes] monster in my Graveyard to add it to your hand."

"I chose this [Abyssal Blue-Eyes Dragon]."

"I activate the Spell Card [Molten Hammer], adding the two cards in my hand and this [Molten Hammer] to my deck, shuffling them, and drawing the same number of cards—Draw!"

Seeing the cards he drew from his deck, Kaiba paused for a moment, then burst into wild laughter: "Hmph, hahahaha, as expected, these are the most suitable cards to determine the winner between us, Hayato!"

"First, I will use the effect of this Continuous Trap Card [True Light] on my back row. I will choose one of its two effects to activate. Here, I will choose the same one as last turn: Special Summon one [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] from my Graveyard back to the field."

[Blue-Eyes White Dragon] [ATK3000]

"It's not over yet! After that, I'm going to banish this Blue-Eyes Dragon from my graveyard to activate its second effect!"

A bright light shone from the ancient stone slab, awakening the sleeping Blue-Eyes White Dragon in Kaiba's graveyard. However, it wasn't just this monster that was awakened by the light; two other Blue-Eyes monsters from Kaiba's hand also appeared!
"【Blue-Eyes Dragon's Roar】In addition to its first effect of being able to Special Summon a 【Blue-Eyes】card from my Deck, Graveyard, or even a banished 【Blue-Eyes】card in Defense Position, it can also be used to perform a Fusion Summon of a card from my hand and a monster on the field by banishing this card from the Graveyard. This Fusion Summon requires a 【Blue-Eyes】card as Fusion Material."

Kaiba laughed wildly as he displayed two cards from his hand. "Of the three cards I drew from my deck using the effect of [Magic Hammer], two of them are [Blue-Eyes White Dragon]—so it's obvious what monster I'm going to fuse summon!"

"The two Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand, plus the third Blue-Eyes White Dragon already on my field, the ultimate fusion begins! Transcending the constraints of time and space, revealing your absolute power!"

"O supreme and powerful ultimate dragon of all time, manifest yourself!"

"Fusion Summon, Level 12☆"

"Blue-Ace-Arutimeto-Doragon!!!"

Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon [12☆/Light]

[Dragon/Fusion]

[4500/3800]

Once upon a time, Kaiba summoned Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, his strongest ace in his first battle against Hayato. At the time, its 4500 attack power was practically invincible! But times have changed, and now Kaiba's deck contains many more powerful cards, with countless cards boasting even higher attack power.

However, if Kaiba had to choose one card to determine the winner between him and Hayato, it would undoubtedly have to be this one, only this one: Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Because this was the beginning of their intertwined destinies, it had to end with this card!
Because it is a fusion monster, it is not a normal monster, but it also has no effects. The Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, commonly known as a "plain shell," has only its powerful attack power as its outstanding ability in the current environment. In fact, the True Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon or the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon would be better choices, but for Kaiba, this is enough.

Because with just over 3200 attack power, Kaiba's monsters can directly break through Hayato's attack position "Hungry Poison Fusion Dragon" and defeat him, thus proving who is the strongest Dragon user and whose Dragon deck is the strongest Dragon in the world, given that both of them are using "Dragon" decks!

At the end of the last turn, Hayato retrieved a card from his hand using the effect of [Saintess of Guidance - Exeria]. Kaiba bet that the card was [Knight of Guidance - Freudris], whose ability to negate monster effects is useless against [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]. As for [Lightning of Guidance - Freudris]—

Hayato's graveyard at this moment does not contain [The Fallen Child of Albus]. Even if he uses [Teaching Thunder - Friedriss] to set a second [Teaching Encounter], he cannot use [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon] as fusion material for [The Fallen Child of Albus]. Even [The Fallen Child of White Dragon] and [Albus of Ash], which could be considered [The Fallen Child of Albus], are one returned to the deck and one banished.

In other cases, although Kaiba doesn't know what trap cards [Teaching] has, his last card—the quick-play spell card [Forbidden Lance]—is not just for show!

Its effect reduces the ATK of a monster card by 800 points and grants it powerful resistance to Spell/Trap Card effects other than "Forbidden Lance". It can be used to grant resistance to "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon"—after reducing its ATK by 800 points, it still has a whopping 3700 points, more than enough to destroy "Hungry Poison Fusion Dragon"—and can even be used to seal the ATK bonuses that Hayato's cards give to his monsters!
More importantly, in the end of Hayato's first duel with Kaiba, Kaiba used the Forbidden Cloth, which led Hayato to always say to Kaiba, "If you hadn't run away back then, I would have won." This time, he switched to the Forbidden Holy Lance so that Hayato would have no reason to bring it up again!

Without a doubt—the advantage is on my side!
At the same time that Kaiba played Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, under his gaze, which was both apprehensive and confident, Hayato also revealed a card in his hand—this time without any Pokémon obscuring it.

"Even [True Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon] was not chosen, but instead [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon] was Special Summoned? It's really nostalgic to see a vanilla monster like [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon] active in the arena these days."

"Then, on my side—if a monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck is on the field during either player's Main Phase, I can activate this effect to Special Summon [Teaching Thunder - Flederis] from my hand!"

【Teaching Thunder - Flederis】【DEF2500】

Unfortunately, Kaiba guessed wrong. Hayato added [Teaching Knight - Fledelis] to his hand instead of [Teaching Thunder - Fledelis]. Fledelis is the only one among all the [Fledelis] cards that doesn't possess the ability to negate monster effects. However, instead, she has the ability to manipulate other [Teaching] cards, similar to but different from [Teaching Saintess - Exeria]! "If [Teaching Thunder - Fledelis] is Special Summoned from my hand, activate its effect: Set one [Teaching] Trap Card from my Deck to my field. Because your opponent controls a Fusion/Synchro Monster with 2500 or more ATK, the [Teaching] Trap Card set by this effect can activate even during the turn it is set!"

Upon hearing this, Kaiba immediately replied, "No way! It doesn't matter what kind of trap card it is. Although Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon doesn't have the same resistance to trap card effects as Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, the Quick-Play Spell Card in my hand—Forbidden Lance—can give it even stronger resistance. Even if your trap card grants your own monster powerful abilities, I can chain it to negate it."

"Your resistance is utterly useless, Hayato!"

The Forbidden Holy Lance combined with the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon—this is Kaiba's final and strongest combination, determined to utterly defeat Hayato!

But after Hayato set up the Trap Card [Teaching], he immediately activated it, saying, "[Forbidden Lance] Ah, that reminds me of that first duel. You're not using [Forbidden Cloth] this time? But don't worry, the card I set up isn't one to increase the power of our monsters, because the card I set up is this one—[Mortal Spell]!"

"If I had to describe this card, I would say it's a 'Trap Ritual,' a card that requires me to Tribute any 'Teaching' monsters or Fusion/Synchro Monsters on my field until their combined Levels are equal, and then Ritual Summon a 'Teaching' Ritual Monster from my hand or Deck. By the way, 'Guided' belongs to the 'Teaching' category."

Hayato picked up the card "Saintess of Guidance - Acricia" from his Duel Disk and said, "And the card I'm going to release is this Level 4☆ 'Saintess of Guidance - Acricia'!"

"Those who are inscribed in the Glorious Order of the Teachings, may the 666 sacred texts be engraved on their souls and recited daily under the sun. When the Day of the Gospel arrives, your holy mark will shine, and your fallen infant bodies will return to heaven, and you will once again be children of God!"

"Way!?" With a strange cry, the gluttonous saintess, who had only been on the field for a short time, was released by Hayato and sent to the graveyard. However, the holy power extracted from her body remained on the field and was collected into a staff.

The girl holding the staff and the gluttonous saintess are somewhat similar in appearance, but their temperaments are completely different. The former is full of death and indifference, but the latter has a bit more of a sense of life when she looks at Hayato, but that is just a crazy possessiveness.

Hayato retrieved a Ritual Monster card from his deck and held it high, announcing, "Ritual Summon, Level 4!"

"The time for resurrection has come, awaken—[The White Sacred Remains of the Evil Guide]!"

【The White Corpse of the Evil Guide】【4☆/Light】

[Mage Race/Ritual/Effect]

[500/2500]

"If the [White Relic of the Demon] is successfully Ritual Summoned, use its effect!" Hayato pointed to Kaiba's [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon] on the field and his own [Ghostly Fusion Dragon] in Attack Position. "Target two face-up monsters on the field, and one of them gains the ATK of the other monster! I choose [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon] and [Ghostly Fusion Dragon]!"

If they appeared in the same order and fought solely based on their individual strengths, there would be no doubt that Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon would crush Venom Fusion Dragon, even though both are only the "most basic" forms in their respective evolutionary chains.

However—the battles in Duel Monsters are never just a fight between two monsters. Under the power of the White Relic of the Demon Guide, the power of the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon was replicated and added to the body of the Venomous Fusion Dragon, causing the latter's power to increase dramatically!
[Ferocious, Hungry, and Poisonous Fusion Dragon] [ATK 2800 → 7300]

With an attack power of up to 7300 points! Absolutely invincible and extremely powerful!
*Tong Shiye's profanity*, what in the world can withstand the current [Ferocious Hungry Poison Fusion Dragon]? What can possibly withstand it!

“Synchro, Fusion, and now this Ritual, you’re really annoying.” Kaiba recalled that in the first turn, he had also used the power of a Ritual Monster, just like Hayato now—but he used the Ritual Monster [Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon] as Fusion Material.

Although this duel was initially described by both Hayato and Kaiba as a "contest of Synchro Summoning," it has now become a comprehensive contest where each of the three summoning methods—Ritual, Fusion, and Synchro—is used to its fullest potential. Hayato's Ritual Monster, "The White Relic of the Demon," has overwhelmed the offensive of "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon," and seems to be showing off that Hayato has the resources to incorporate a third summoning method, while Kaiba can only use Ritual Monsters for Fusion at most.

"If there's a next time, I'll try to summon Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon as well. If it's her, even if you put some Defense Position monsters on the field that can't be destroyed by battle, it'll be meaningless." Kaiba glanced at the monsters on Hayato's field and waved his hand again. "But for now—even against an invincible enemy, my Blue-Eyes and I will never give up easily!"

"The Quick-Play Spell Card 'Forbidden Lance' reduces the ATK of 'Hungry Poison Fusion Dragon' by 800 and grants it immunity to the effects of other Spell/Trap Cards. Then I enter my Battle Phase—"

Pointing at the [Ghostly Venomous Fusion Dragon], Kaiba launched a valiant attack, "[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon], come at me with me—"

"Ultimate Burst Stream!"

Insisting on adding the Japanese pronunciation "の" to its English special attack name, Kaiba commanded Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon to launch a desperate attack on Ghoul!
Meanwhile, Hayato, after adapting to the sudden surge in power of the [Fierce, Hungry, Poisonous Fusion Dragon] and then having his attack power slightly weakened by the [Forbidden Holy Lance], also shouted, "You've got real presence! Well then, I'll bestow upon you this glorious end!"

"【Ferocious, Hungry, and Poisonous Fusion Dragon】, come with me to return it—"

"Extinction Rain of Highly Toxic Acid!"

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