Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1589 Crimson Lockdown
The game raised an arm to block in front of it, and the shockwave spread in all directions from the destroyed Dark Magician.

Although I didn't directly suffer the damage, I still felt it through the shockwave. This was damage that shouldn't occur in a normal duel; it transformed duel damage into a "real" impact.

"A dark duel?" The game frowned.

The game has now gone through the Duel Kingdom and Duel City arcs, and has seen quite a bit. He was already well aware of the existence of Dark Duel.

"Wow, as expected of the first king, you even know something about Dark Duel?" Victor chuckled. "But this isn't Dark Duel, you could say that. In short, it's something similar to Dark Duel."

He paused, then gave a sinister sneer: "Just like a duel in the dark, if you lose, you'll die."

game:"."

The game was something he had more or less anticipated, and it didn't shake his resolve too much. After all, this wasn't the first time he'd encountered a game of life-or-death stakes.

Even without the other me, we must win.

Victor: "Set one card face down, turn over."

The final card was placed on the Duel Disk, and like a stream of data rolling over it, it transformed into a black, gaping card.

The game took a deep breath.

Unexpectedly, the opponent was able to summon such a powerful monster immediately after being attacked by the card bomb, and even the ace Dark Magician was defeated as soon as he landed.

But he won't give up; he'll look for an opportunity to fight back this round!
"My turn, draw a card!"

After getting started with the card draw in the game, you glance at the cards, add the drawn cards to your hand, and then reveal another card from your hand.

"I activate the Spell Card 'Silent Dead'!" Yugi said. "Silent Dead can Special Summon Normal Monsters from my Graveyard to the field in Defense Position!"

The player inserts the magic card into the slot at the back of the Duel Disk. A stream of colored data rolls along the Duel Disk, quickly projecting the image of the magic card into his back row.

A preliminary plan formed in the player's mind. The Silent Dead would resurrect the Dark Magician from the graveyard, thus making the "Thousand Knives" in the player's hand usable.

If you have a Dark Magician on your field, Thousand Blades can directly destroy one of your opponent's monsters. Although I still don't understand what Synchro Monsters are, I should be able to solve that using Thousand Blades' power.
But when Victor saw this, he only smirked and then revealed a sly smile of triumph.

Then, the image of the spell card "Silent Dead" that had just appeared in the back row of the game began to distort, crackling with electricity. Then, the spell card that had been inserted into the Duel Disk slot was ejected from the Duel Disk with a "click" and bounced back into Yugi's hand.

"What?" the game player exclaimed in surprise. "The Silent Dead can't be activated. Why?"

“Let me tell you,” Victor sneered. “The effect of Crimson Swordsman’s monster is that after a monster is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, your opponent cannot Summon or Special Summon any Level 5 or higher monsters for the entire next turn!”

game:"!"

Summon the lockdown!

This monster called Synchro can actually block the opponent from summoning higher-level monsters for the entire next turn. No, that's not all.

If no way to break through this swordsman's defenses remains, the player will be forced to passively summon defense monsters indefinitely. As long as a monster is defeated by the Crimson Swordsman every turn, the game will be trapped in a perpetual cycle of being unable to summon monsters. What a terrifying monster!

The super-fast deployment of numerous high-level high-speed decks, the unprecedented summoning methods of Synchro and Xyz, and now even the powerful effect of Summon Lockdown.
In fact, even in the real-world Dragon Age, Crimson Swordsman was a highly sought-after and powerful Synchro Monster.

As you can imagine, the meta at that time was basically dominated by mirror matches of the super-mainstream "Dragon Conquest" decks. And the main force of the Dragon Conquest decks were all high-level monsters that could be Special Summoned at low cost.

In such a situation, if both sides are in a Dragonfighting civil war, and one side summons "Crimson Swordsman" and successfully defeats one of the opponent's monsters, then the opponent will be locked out of "unable to summon monsters of level 5 or higher" in the next turn.

For Dragon Conquest decks, being unable to summon a Level 5 or higher monster is practically equivalent to "not being able to act next turn." Therefore, even in Dragon Conquest mirror matches, Crimson Swordsman is often the decisive trump card that decides the outcome; whoever gets hit by Crimson Swordsman first is doomed.

"What's wrong? Are you just going to end this without doing anything?" Victor sneered at the hesitant game. "Or are you giving up and surrendering, Lord Duel King?"

The game player looked at the card that had been bounced back into his hand, then gritted his teeth.

If suppressed by Crimson Swordsman, Silent Dead cannot be activated. Without the ability to summon Dark Magician, this card and Thousand Blades become useless in hand.
"Activate the spell card 'Angel's Charity'," Yugi said. "Draw three cards from your deck, then discard two cards from your hand."

The player draws three cards and then sends the two cards that are temporarily unusable to the graveyard.

After glancing at the three new cards in his hand, he felt a little more at ease about the game.

Good, that should allow us to hold out for now.
"The inner side defense indicates that a monster is lying in ambush."

The game involves placing a monster in the front row and then drawing a card from your hand and inserting it into the Duel Disk slot.

"Then add a Faceless Vault card, and the turn ends."

Victor: "The turn ended with the monster on the inside and Gevoka. It seems we're really at a loss, Lord Duel King."

game:"."

“Well, now that your movements are sealed by the Crimson Swordsman, you don’t really have anything to do anyway.” Victor raised his voice. “Then let me speed things up and send you on your way!”
My turn, draw a card! "

Victor drew another card, and the display on the Duel Disk flashed rapidly from the "Preparation Phase" to the "Main Phase".

The game is so intense it takes your breath to react.

It's coming again.

Sure enough, another burst of flames erupted from Victor's graveyard, bringing out two more monster cards. Victor grabbed the two cards, showed them to Victor, and then stuffed them into the banished card box behind him.

“Then activate the effect of ‘Flame Dragon - Blast’ from the graveyard,” Victor said. “Flame Dragon - Blast can revive itself from the graveyard by excluding the two dragons in the graveyard.”

I removed the two Dragon cards, 'Dragon Riders - Winged Lance Dragon' and 'Rock Warrior Dragon - Rock Ravine', from the game from the graveyard. Let them burn brightly once more!

—Flame Dragon - Blast!

(End of this chapter)