Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1440 Attribute Advantage

Fujiwara Yusuke: "Next, I will summon the 'Purifying Stone Giant'!"

A vortex of icy blue energy solidified in the center of the arena, and the outline of a giant gradually emerged from the translucent, ice-crystal-like cube. It was a body as if it were built from piled-up ore, every joint shimmering with a cold light like the facets of a diamond. The giant's arms were as thick as temple pillars, and when it clenched its fists, tiny ice shards seeped from between its fingers. However, it had no legs below the waist, as if it were a mountain spirit forcibly pulled from the earth.

[Pure Stone Giant, Attack Power 1600]

"Of course, the stone giant has no attributes and won't be affected by the side effects of 'Pure World'," Fujiwara Yusuke sneered. "Next, I'm going to equip the stone giant with this card, the magic 'Attribute Advantage'!"

As they spoke, the magic card was activated, and colorful spheres floated around the Pure Stone Man, spinning like a turntable.

"When this card is activated, you can designate an attribute, giving the equipped monster an absolute advantage when battling monsters of that attribute," Fujiwara said. "When the equipped monster battles a monster of the designated attribute, it destroys the opponent's monster without inflicting battle damage."

You Xuan understood: "Is it the same type of card as my 'Beast Charge'?"

"Charge" only lasts for one turn, but as a quick-attack spell, it can be activated during the battle phase and can also be used to ambush opponents during their turn. This equipment can only be activated during your main phase, but it's a continuous effect, so each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

"What I want to specify is, of course, the dark attribute!"

The attribute wheel stopped on the dark attribute, and the Clean Stone Giant seemed to be enveloped in a wave of chaotic energy.

"Battle! Use the Cleansing Stone Giant to attack the 'Dark Dive Bomber'!"

Although its attack power is far from sufficient, the Stone Giant has now gained an absolute attribute advantage against DARK monsters, and can be eliminated directly without damage calculation.

Of course, that's assuming they can actually win the fight.

"Activate the card." You Xuan snapped his fingers. "Perpetual Trap 'DNA Transplantation Surgery'!"

Fujiwara Yusuke exclaimed in surprise, "It's a transplant surgery?"

He was surprised because the other party was also using attribute-related cards.

Since none of the monsters in the Cleanse Deck have any attributes, they are unaffected by the various side effects of "Cleanse World." Therefore, the main strategy of the Cleanse Deck is to exploit the opponent's monster attributes to maximize the impact of "Cleanse World" on the opponent.

"The effect of DNA transplant surgery is to declare an attribute. As long as this card is on the field, all monsters on the field can be changed to the attribute I declared."

You Xuan said calmly.

"I declare that I am a Dark attribute!"

In an instant, a thick, ink-like darkness surged forth from the bodies of the Pure Stone Giant and the Pure Illusion, turning the two originally pure and untainted monsters into a dark mass.

Fujiwara Yusuke was shocked: "They've given an attribute to a previously attribute-less Pure Monster?!"

“Yes, no matter how much you try to hide it, no matter how much you pretend to be pure, the darkness is just buried deep in your heart.” You Xuan smiled. “But I’ve dug out this darkness hidden deep inside you for you. You’re welcome.”

By the way, you already know that DARK monsters cannot attack in the 'Pure World' area, right?

Fujiwara Yusuke: "."

In fact, this operation doesn't work for physical Clear World decks. When releasing the physical cards, Konami considered that "having no attribute" is, to some extent, a supernatural existence and very illogical, so they made some changes, making it so that all Clear World monsters share the effect of "unaffected by Clear World effects".

This ruling is simple and straightforward, avoids any issues of exceeding the rules, and effectively restores the original effect once and for all. Therefore, even if other attributes are forcibly assigned to Cleanse monsters in the physical card decks, it won't change anything. This is because the physical Cleanse monsters are "unaffected by the Cleanse World effect."

But it's different in the anime. Darkness in the anime, in order to highlight his coolness, has to do something different from others. The reason why his Cleanse Monster is not affected by his own field is simply because monsters don't have attributes. Since that's the case, as long as you give it an attribute, it will naturally be affected.

Therefore, both of Fujiwara Yusuke's monsters are now Dark-attribute, and are restricted from attacking due to their own field.

“Tch, what a trick.” Fujiwara Yusuke said, “Then I’ll set one card face down, and the turn is over.”

Fujiwara Yusuke ended the round in a sullen mood.

"To actually grant the 'Pure Monster' attribute, do you think such blasphemous behavior can be forgiven?"

"Forgive me, I'm just hoping you'll come after me." You Xuan revealed a smug smile. "Then it's my turn, draw a card."

"Activate the Spell Card 'Angel's Charity'. Draw three cards from your Deck, then discard two cards from your hand."

You Xuan picked out two cards from his hand and sent them to the graveyard.

"Then I will usually summon 'Variable Beast Gunner Dragon'!"

A pair of armored tracks landed heavily first, leaving lava-like burn marks in their wake. Immediately afterward, the two main guns slowly rose from a position parallel to the ground. Like a complex dragon head composed of countless movable armor plates, it emerged from the tank's base, its open jaws revealing the electromagnetic cannon's barrel, and the sensors in its dragon eyes relentlessly locked onto the opponent.

"A seven-star monster of the Variable Beast Gunner Dragon, but it can be summoned directly without release by halving its own attack power."

You Xuan said casually.

"I halved the attack power of the Gunner Dragon and summoned it normally."

【Variable Beast - Gunner Dragon, Attack Power 2800 → Attack Power 1400】

"So what?" Fujiwara Yusuke said. "As long as you have a DARK monster on your field, you can't attack even if you summon a monster of another attribute. Not to mention that your own monsters will also be changed to DARK attribute due to the 'DNA transplant surgery'."

"Who said anything about attacking?"

You Xuan smiled.

"Activate the effect of 'Dark Dive Bomber'!"

By Tributing monsters on your field, inflict damage to your opponent equal to 200 times the Tributed monster's Level!

Fujiwara Yusuke's pupils contracted: "!"

Was this the real purpose?

Even if the Gunner Dragon summoned through compromise has its attack power halved, its level remains the same. If a level 7 high-ranking monster is used as a cannonball...
"Release 'Variable Beast Gunner Dragon'." You Xuan waved his hand, signaling to a general who had ordered the cannons to fire. "1400 points of damage!"

The gunner dragon's body disintegrated, transforming into golden light that filled the dark dive bomber's body. Missiles, trailing fiery exhaust, roared out from the bomber robot's body and exploded violently on Fujiwara Yusuke's field.

[Yusuke Fujiwara, LP4000 → LP2600]

(End of this chapter)