Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1381 The Devil's String
"The effect of Blood Doll is that I will reveal the Xyz Monster from my Extra Deck: 'NO.40 Mechanical Golem - Heaven's String'!"

IV revealed yet another overload card.

Ed's heart tightened.

This guy actually has a second number.

Two NO. cards, a card called "Rank Up" that wasn't mentioned in previous intelligence, and a "CNO." whose effect after Rank Up is abnormally strong. Edward quickly realized that the person he was facing was probably a top-tier elite duelist even in the Xyz Dimension.

"Heaven's String is an Rank 8 Xyz Summon, so I can Special Summon Rank 8 'Genius' from my Deck."

A golden light flew out from IV's deck.

"I Special Summon Level 8 'Goblin Nightmare' from my Deck!"

Nightmare, as its name suggests, truly is a terrifying thing that can haunt a person's dreams. It has two horrifying heads that resemble cursed dolls, with what appears to be a patchwork of dilapidated and twisted bodies of cursed crawling dolls between them. Its body and limbs are twisted and sinister, a grotesque creature unlike anything even in typical horror movies.

【Mechanical Puppet - Nightmare, Attack Power 1000】

"And Special Summon 'Mechanical Golem - Bloody Doll' from your hand!"

【Mechanical Puppet - Bloodstained Doll, Attack Power 400】

Edward: "Two more eight-star monsters now."

"Exactly!"

IV raised his arm high: "Level 8 'Mechanical Puppet Nightmare' and 'Mechanical Puppet Bloody Doll' stacked on top of each other!"
Construct a superimposed network using two monsters, then Xyz Summon—

—NO.40 Mechanical Puppet: Heaven's String!!!

A crimson rift suddenly opened in the void, and the burning number "NO.40" appeared in the air like a branding iron. A two-meter-tall, pitch-black figure slowly descended, as if suspended by a thread by its neck. A single steel wing mechanically opened and closed, the wing blades scraping out a piercing sound, like a fallen angel of steel. When it fully landed, the pale, puppet-like face could be seen opening its mechanically structured mouth, revealing the meshing gears within.

It hovered half a meter off the ground, the suspended silk threads vibrating and emitting a low, organ-like sound. Suddenly, the right hand, manipulated by the threads, rose, its five fingers twitching unnaturally like a marionette, each movement accompanied by a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound.

【NO.40 Mechanical Puppet - Heaven's String, Attack Power 3000】

Edward: "Your monsters are getting more and more sinister with each passing year."

However, he also noticed that even though the monsters on the other side had such a gloomy art style, the battles were actually quite normal. They all had offensive effects such as "destroy the opponent's monster and inflict damage," and the basic idea was to stack up increasingly stronger monsters and have powerful monsters with increasingly strong effects clash with each other.

Based on Edward's experience, if the monsters in this dimension have such a gloomy art style, the fighting tactics will also have to be somewhat gloomy.

It seems that the duelists in this Xyz Dimension are quite upright and honorable.

"The effect of NO.40 Mechanical Puppet - Heaven's String! Once per turn, remove 1 Xyz Material from this card, and place 1 'String Counter' on every monster other than this card!" (Original effect)

The mechanical puppet swung its sword, and suddenly thousands of threads seemed to shoot down from the sky. The threads bound "Dragon Knight D-End" on the field, as if turning it into a puppet on strings.

"Any monster with a String Counter placed on it will be destroyed during your opponent's End Phase," IV sneered. "And at that time, the controllers of the destroyed monsters must all take damage equal to the ATK of their respective monsters!"

"Is it the same effect again?" Edward said. "It seems that all your monsters have an offensive pattern that focuses on destroying effects and inflicting damage."

He paused, then chuckled. "Unfortunately, this type of effect doesn't work on 'Dragon Knight-D Finisher'."

IV frowned: "What?"

"Dragon Knight D's End cannot be destroyed by magic, traps, or monster effects." (Original effect)

Eddo.

"So no matter what kind of Giant Slayer or Heaven's String you have, they are all ineffective against Dragon Knight D!"

Unfortunately, this was an anime-exclusive resistance to Dragon Knight D's End, and the physical card removed this only resistance. However, the physical card retained the resurrection effect of D's End from the anime, namely, "D's End can be resurrected from the Graveyard by banishing Destiny HERO from the Graveyard during the Standby Phase," which can be considered a form of resistance.

With its ability to be destroyed by card effects and its active resurrection capability, it is already considered a powerful monster with considerable board presence in this era.

"There's such a troublesome resistance." IV snorted. "Oh well, whatever, I wasn't expecting to destroy it with effects anyway."

This time it was Edward's turn to be surprised: "What?"

"I'm going to activate this card from my hand next."

IV shouted.

"Activate the Spell Card 'Black Core'!"
Discarding a card from your hand banishes a face-up monster from the field. And the one I want to banish, of course, is 'Dragon Knight - D. End'!

Edward was startled: "Exclude them directly?"

A dark purple spatial rift suddenly opened in the air, and a fist-sized, jet-black sphere was born from it. The sphere expanded at a speed defying the laws of physics, its diameter instantly exceeding ten meters. Inside the sphere, liquid darkness churned, and countless eerie blue lightning bolts danced across its surface like chains. When the armor of the Dragon Knight-D Terminator touched the edge of the sphere, spacetime suddenly warped like a mirror. The knight's dragon-head helmet was stretched into a bizarre, fluid state first, and his entire body, like a twisted rope by an invisible hand, disintegrated into billions of particles of light within the spatial folds.

Ed gritted his teeth.

D-rank Ender cannot be destroyed by effects. Even if it is knocked down or sent directly to the graveyard, it can be revived the next turn by banishing a Fate/Hero from the graveyard. However, banishing is indeed a weakness of D-rank Ender, and it was surprisingly countered by the opponent in just one turn.

"It's not over yet!" IV laughed loudly, "At the moment D-End is banished, activate the quick-play spell 'Vein Reactor' from your hand!"
This card can only be activated when a card is banished from play. It returns one Spell Card from the Graveyard to your hand! (Original Card)
Chaotic fluctuations suddenly erupted from IV's graveyard, and a spell card, surrounded by violent energy, swirled into the air and flew back to his hand amidst an energy storm.

"What I'm returning from the graveyard, of course, is the upgrade magic 'Varian Power'!"

Ed's pupils contracted: "Are we going to... again?"

"Excellent! I'm activating it once again from my hand: Upgraded Magic 'Varian Power'!!!"

IV shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Use the Xyz Monster on the field as Xyz Material to 'Chaosize' it and transform it into a higher-ranking Chaos Xyz Monster!"

I used 'NO.40 Mechanical Puppet - Heaven's String' as Xyz Material to Xyz Summon!
Show yourself! CNO.40! Embrace the chaotic power of the Barian and evolve, demon, resurrect!

—Mechanical Puppet: Devil's String!!!

(End of this chapter)