Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1604 The Leader of the Three Musketeers

Rafiru, the leader of the Doma Three Musketeers and the top member of the organization after Dartz, had been resting with his arms crossed against the edge of the highway railing with his eyes closed. Suddenly, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the figure walking towards him not far away.

"Yo."

You Xuan walked over slowly and waved to him familiarly. Those who didn't know the situation might have thought that the two were old acquaintances who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

Rafiru frowned slightly: "Who are you?"

Rafiru felt something was amiss. He had sensed someone approaching in this direction long ago, but he had initially assumed it was the nameless Pharaoh. Because with the help of Orichalcos, he had vaguely sensed a faint aura, similar to that of a Millennium Artifact—it should indeed be the Pharaoh.

However, the young man standing in front of him was clearly not the Pharaoh, and he felt that he had never seen this person before in the information that Doma currently had.

"Sorry, Pharaoh has important business to attend to and can't come. I'm here to fill in for him." You Xuan smiled and showed the Duel Disk in his hand. "Rafael, the leader of the Three Musketeers of Doma, I've long admired your name and have wanted to test my skills against you for a while."

Rafael frowned and hesitated for a few seconds before unfolding his Doma-limited edition Duel Disk. The lights came on, illuminating the steel lines surrounding all the monster zones.

"Fine, whoever you are, my task is simply to maintain this barrier," Rafiru said calmly. "Soon, everyone inside this barrier will become a sacrifice in the ultimate ritual."

You Xuan interrupted, "So, it's to revive that scoundrel snake with Orichalcos?"

Rafiru was taken aback, seemingly surprised that this person knew so much.

"Don't be too surprised, I'm just a duelist passing by. But you're right, your task is only to maintain the barrier, while I just want to break through this green shell, nothing more. So let's go."

As someone who could defeat Yugi in the original work, even with special circumstances, this person is at least a King-level duelist and not an opponent to be underestimated.

Out of respect for an opponent of this caliber, Yu Xuan will also try out the newly acquired top-tier deck this time.

He pulled out a deck from one of the several card boxes behind him and waved it in his hand: "This is better for playing against you."

He then inserted the Duel Disk. The Duel Disk activated, and a pale blue data stream rolled across the field, seemingly enveloping the dueling arena in a duel domain.

"Duel!" x2
[Yu Xuan, LP4000]

[Rafiru, LP4000]

Both players start by drawing five cards each.

"I'll go first, draw a card."

Yu Xuan drew a card, glanced at his starting five cards, smiled mysteriously, and then selected one of them to insert into the Duel Disk.

"It's more fun to play with this card against you. Activate the Continuous Spell 'Guardian's Treasure'. You can activate this card by discarding five cards from your hand and drawing two cards from your deck."

He said that he sent all five remaining cards to the graveyard in one go, and then drew two cards.

“In exchange, as long as this card is in the Spell & Trap Zone,” Yu Xuan said, “I can draw two cards from my deck each turn during my draw phase.”

Rafiru's usually stern expression clearly showed surprise.

Because of the "Guardian's Treasure Card," this card is one he usually uses. He never expected his opponent to have the same card choice. This card was an anime-exclusive card for a long time, only becoming a physical card years later. However, even as a physical card, its usefulness is limited. It requires emptying your hand to activate, and although it allows you to draw two cards each turn, it's still a huge loss in the increasingly fast-paced modern Yu-Gi-Oh! game, where victory is often decided in one or two turns. You almost never get a chance to recoup your cost before you're defeated.

Not to mention, if this card is immediately blown away by the opponent with a whirlwind or something similar after it's activated, then it's a complete waste. So although this card seems unique and novel to Rafael in the anime, it's actually not very useful in actual combat.

Of course, Yu-Gi-Oh! has another characteristic: whether most cards are useful or not is relative. It can only be said that "there are fewer situations in which they are applicable", rather than "they are useless under any conditions".

After discarding all five cards in one go, You Xuan placed the remaining two cards face down, one in the front row and one in the back row.

"Set one monster to Defense Position in the front row," Yu Xuan said. "Set one card to the back row, and the turn ends."

The initial six cards were wiped out in an instant, not a single one left.

Rafael: "My turn, draw a card."

After glancing at his starting hand of six cards, Rafael realized he hadn't drawn the Guardian's Card this time, so he immediately performed a monster summon: "Normal Summon 'Support Guardian', Defense Position."

A blue-green demon-like monster was summoned, with white bandages wrapped around its wrists, a cascade of fiery red hair, a bare upper body, crossed arms, and sharp blades protruding from its shoulders, crouching to block in front of it.

[Backup Guardian, Defense 2200]

You Xuandao said, "Oh? Aren't you going to activate the Orichalcos barrier?"

Rafael calmly replied, "I won't use the Orichalcos barrier on just any nobody. If you want me to use it, prove you have the ability."

You Xuanxin said, "You probably didn't draw it at the start."
However, upon further reflection, both Raferu and Baron in the original work said that they "did not intend to use a barrier," and they did indeed have duels in the original work that did not use barriers.

Rafael was even more cunning. Not only did he not use it himself, but he also gave it to the opponent. He forced the barrier along with the "whoever uses it dies" cosmic curse onto Pharaoh, using this curse, which was comparable to "explosive armor," to offset the protagonist's halo and contribute one of the few defeats in the Yugi's TV series.

However, apart from that, the three musketeers of Doma in the anime seem to be able to draw the barrier 100% of the time when they want to use it, which can probably be attributed to the blessing of these three people and the barrier itself.

If they really don't want to use it, they might not get it in their starting hand.

Rafael: "Then activate the equipment spell 'Gravity Axe - Grall' from my hand and equip it to 'Support Guardian'!"

The heavy battle axe spun twice before descending from the sky, embedding itself firmly in the ground. The Blue Ghost Guardian pulled out the heavy axe and gripped it tightly in his hand.

"The Gravity Axe increases the ATK of the equipped monster by 500," Rafael said. "And as long as this axe is on the field, all monsters on the opponent's field will be suppressed by the gravity wave, and the opponent's monsters cannot change their battle position."

Transparent gravitational fluctuations emanated from the heavy battle axe, spreading throughout You Xuan's area and seemingly creating an invisible suppression.

"And Gravity Axe can summon its true master!" Rafael said. "This card can be Special Summoned directly when Gravity Axe is on the field!" (Animation effect)

As he spoke, he slammed the monster card in his hand onto the Duel Disk.

"Special Summon 'Guardian Grall'!"

(End of this chapter)