Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1345 Ernest
"Field spell 'Sky Sanctuary' activated!"

The Field Spell Card activated on the Duel Disk, instantly engulfing the entire arena in a dazzling white light. When the light faded, the arena had completely transformed. Flowing clouds appeared beneath both players' feet, with soft mist swirling and billowing around them. A majestic, pure white palace complex floated in the clouds, its various spires connected by crystal bridges. Sunlight streamed through the clouds, gilding the entire sanctuary with a sacred golden hue.

Jaden, hands on hips, said, "Oh, so today you're playing Yugen the Angel? It feels pretty good."

"Battle!" You Xuan said. "'Sky Saint Mortius', attack 'Variable Beast Gunner Dragon'!"

"Nani?"

Kenichi Yamada was startled.

An angel with an attack power of only 1600, is this a suicide attack?

His expression shifted, and after a moment he snorted, "If you want to die, I'll play along."

"Go, Transformable Beast Gunner Dragon, crush that angel!"

The Gunner Dragon locked onto its target with all its cannons locked in, its tracks spun, and its mechanical joints emitted a piercing metallic screeching sound. Suddenly, its armor plates peeled off layer by layer like scales, revealing a dense array of cannons beneath. All the muzzles simultaneously lit up with a dangerous red charging light, and the high-frequency hum emitted as the energy gathered made the air tremble.

A deafening roar of machinery erupted as dozens of crimson beams burst from cannons at different angles. The high-temperature energy beams left scorching trails in the air, weaving together a deadly web of fire. The ground was scorched by the ejected energy, creating honeycomb-like lava craters, and the shockwaves from the explosions pulverized all the surrounding debris.

The battle has begun, and the damage calculation process has started. Just as the artillery fire is about to engulf the angel...

"At this moment, discard 'Ernest' from your hand, and its effect activates!" Yu Xuan revealed the monster card in his hand.

Judai: "Oh, Yugen also has an Ernest!"

A must-have for Light-attribute characters, and Yuugen possesses the best card resources in this dimension, so he naturally got one for himself. It's just that unlike Jaden's current card, it doesn't have Spirit Possession.

Ernest's phantom appeared on the field, its wings flapping gently. Its spirit body transformed into countless specks of light, merging into Mortius's body like stardust. The wings of light behind the angel suddenly expanded, transforming into a translucent second pair of wings. All the incoming artillery fire was transformed into flowing golden energy the instant it touched the wings of light, absorbed completely like rivers flowing into the sea.

"Ernest's effect: During the Battle Step, discard this card from your hand, and increase the ATK of your LIGHT monsters in battle by the opponent's ATK!"

But then Mortius’s aura suddenly surged, and his body began to emit blinding white light. The energy that erupted caused the surrounding space to distort.

[Sky Saint Mortius, Attack Power 1600 → Attack Power 5400]

Ken Yamada's expression changed slightly: "His attack power is actually 5,400?"

With a clear, melodious phoenix cry, the angel transformed into a comet-like streak of white light, tearing the air in its path and creating a vacuum trail. The gunner dragon's armor was as thin as paper before this divine impact; the pierced mechanical core unleashed a chain reaction of explosions, and metal fragments vaporized in the intense heat, leaving only sparks scattered across the sky.

Ken Yamada: "Ugh!"

[Ken Yamada, LP4000 → LP2400]

"hateful."

Ken Yamada staggered back two steps and said coldly.

"Then activate the face-down card at this moment, the Trap Card 'Time Machine'!"
This card allows monsters destroyed by battle to return to the field in the same battle position!

The pervasive smoke was suddenly eroded by an eerie purple mist. This mist twisted and tangled like living things, gradually outlining the boundary of a gigantic mechanical shape. The clocks on the machine reversed, as if time had flowed backward. The triple gear door on the front of the machine slowly opened, and a stream of azure light that distorted spacetime surged from within.

The previously destroyed and disintegrated remains of the Gunner Dragon reassembled within the time vortex, as if replaying the scene of its destruction in reverse. The charred marks on the cannon barrel disappeared without a trace, like a video being played in reverse. When the fully restored mechanical beast finally emerged from the time machine, its eyes blazed with red light, and the cracks in the ground it shattered miraculously healed themselves completely.

【Variable Beast - Gunner Dragon, Attack Power 2800】 "Battle over, Mortius's attack power has returned to normal."

You Xuan was not surprised.

The opponent's backcourt card was set up to protect the Gunner Dragon. Sure enough, the combination of Dull Axe and Gunner Dragon was just a decoy, a foreshadowing to bring out the real ace.

You Xuan squinted and examined the resurrected gunner dragon.

Well, he still has a plan.

"Set one card face down, and the turn ends," You Xuan said.

Having saved the gunner Ryu, Ken Yamada revealed a smug smirk, as if everything was going according to his script.

With that preparation complete, he can summon his strongest trump card this round.

"Don't blink, watch closely as this number appears!" Yamada Ken shouted. "My turn, draw a card!"

I want to get from my hand.

"Don't rush." ​​You Xuan interrupted the other party's chanting, "Activate the face-down card the instant you draw a card!"
Counter-trap 'Strong Smash'!

Yu Xuan flipped over his face-down card, and a beam of golden light shot out from the trap, striking the card Yamada had just drawn. The card immediately exploded into countless golden fragments with a crack, vanishing into thin air.

Kenichi Yamada exclaimed in surprise, "What is that?"

"When a powerful knockdown occurs and the opponent adds a card from their deck to their hand, this effect can be activated, causing that added card to be discarded immediately," Yu Xuan said.

Ken Yamada scoffed, "Tch, a trap targeting my hand? Whatever. Even if you do that, it won't change what's going to happen."

"That's not necessarily true."

You Xuan interrupted the chanting again and laughed.

"The effect of Sky Saint Mortius: While this card is on the field, whenever a Counter Trap is activated, he/she recovers 1000 Life Points."

[Yu Xuan, LP4000 → LP5000]

"Furthermore, when 'Sky Sanctuary' is on the field," You Xuan continued, "you can also choose to destroy one of the opponent's cards."

I'll destroy your 'Transformable Beast Gunner Dragon'!

Ken Yamada's pupils contracted.

Was this the place that was waiting for me?
Holy energy floated around the Sky Sanctuary, and countless pure white light spots converged on Sky Saint Mortius, transforming into pure white javelins that pierced the chest of the mutable beast.

The poor mutable machine beast, which had just been resurrected, didn't even last a full turn before it was blown to pieces in an explosion once again.

"What a pity. You were planning to keep that monster as Xyz material, weren't you?" Yu Xuan laughed. "The Variable Mechamon is a 7-star, so a .7 Xyz?"

(End of this chapter)