My anime-style card deck is fine!

"Originally, it also had the effect of sacrificing the Great Wall and destroying all your cards on the field."

"But it doesn't matter, this card isn't the key."

Tieshan Youyou's face lit up with a bright expression. He was excited. In fact, he hadn't expected that the cards excluded from the Great Pyramid of Giza would be exactly what he needed!

This stroke of luck was so good that Tieshan Youyou felt that if he lost, he probably wouldn't be able to sleep for the rest of the month!

No, he won't lose!

If they fail again, they will never have the courage to challenge the three most difficult levels again...

Thinking of this, Tieshan Youyou's spirits lifted!

"Activate the effect of the building card in my hand—[Incredible Miracle City - Floating City]!" Tieshan Youyou almost laughed as he slammed the card onto the Duel Disk!

The entire venue immediately trembled.

It was as if something was about to burst forth from the ground, making the crowd below the stage somewhat unsteady on their feet.

"—Higher-level fusion!"

"This card can only be Fusion Summoned by tributeing at least three [Seven Wonders] building cards. A floating castle built with the Seven Wonders as building materials can use the effects of each of the Seven Wonders building cards used as building materials once per turn!"

"Witness this magnificent moment! This will be the strongest, the greatest, and a more wondrous building than any miracle!"

"—This will be a sky city that transcends the earth and conquers the sky!"

Tieshan Youyou laughed loudly.

Suddenly, his feet rose up, and he slowly suppressed his smile and sat down.

As he moved, a throne appeared beneath him, carrying Tieshan Youyou's figure, and then rapidly ascended.

Along with the cracked earth, and the things that kept rising from the ground, swallowing up all the surrounding buildings.

Christ the Redeemer statue, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall...

All the building cards eventually became building materials for that floating city.

Finally, a huge floating city appeared in the sky. The tiny space couldn't even contain the size of the floating city, so the Myriad Corridors specially expanded the surrounding space.

The enormous city loomed over the land.

The extremely low air pressure made it hard to breathe, and the proud smile on Xiaochun's face, who was standing opposite Tieshan Youyou, froze instantly.

And her only Pokémon on the field was even using Outrage, rampaging across the terrain...

Like a simpleton.

"Oh no... Something must have gone wrong!"

Could it be that Tsubaki will be the first trainer to be defeated?

Don’t do this!

Xiaochun felt like crying, but looking at the huge floating city above her, which seemed to have no end and consisted only of massive rocks and towering walls, she finally couldn't help but be stubborn: "...Okay, I admit that your power is indeed a bit incredible."

Meanwhile, atop the floating city, Tieshan Youyou let out a long sigh of relief.

"--Cool!!"

The feeling of building a city in one go invigorated him, and the pent-up frustration in his heart instantly dissipated.

The attack and defense of the floating city are calculated as the number of building cards used as building materials x 1000.

That's seven thousand points!

"...Okay, it's normal that it can't compare to Pokémon." For a moment, Tieshan Youyou realized that he actually looked down on a stat of 7,000 attack!

This is actually quite remarkable, it's already a silver-level supermodel figure.

Compared to Pokémon's attacks that easily reach tens of thousands, it does indeed seem rather meager...

However, the floating city itself is not known for its self-attack capabilities.

"Activate the effect of the TV tower as a building material, I'll draw a card." Tieshan Youyou thought to himself, "That's ridiculous." But after all, it was still a duel.

The effect is activated immediately, restoring one card to your hand.

Anyway, he's flying in the sky now, and he has the invincible effect of the Great Wall. Although it only targets the outer walls, Tieshan Youyou isn't worried about Xiaochun's attacks at all.

Because the defenses of the floating city are bowl-shaped.

Either fly up into the sky and attack from above, or try to pull the meteorite down and smash it!

"Next, all I need to do is activate Meng Jiangnu's effect to wipe out the entire field." Tieshan Youyou calmly reached for the Duel Disk, his gaze casually sweeping across the arena below. "Although the walls will be destroyed, it doesn't matter. At the start of the next turn, the Statue of the Sun's effect will restore the walls, while Xiaochun will be vulnerable to my direct attack because she doesn't have any Pokémon—"

"—No, what about me, the mighty Meng Jiangnu?!"

Although flying in the air, so high in the clouds that the ground is almost invisible.

But he is still within the scope of the dueling arena.

Therefore, the observation site is more of a mental probe; there are no problems with communication, observation, and interaction—in the previous match, Amon was able to hear Li Guang's provocation from tens of thousands of meters away at Chief Rock.

Even now, Tieshan Youyou is only 800 meters above the ground, even at the top of the tower in the floating city.

There's no problem with observing nature!

Then he saw that Meng Jiangnu, who was supposed to fly into the sky with him, was now being held in the mouth of the Double-Axe Dragon with tears in her eyes.

Then, with a snap, it was bitten in two.

"Oh dear, I'm dead..." Meng Jiangnu rolled her eyes at Tieshan Youyou in the sky, announced her death without any emotion, and then disappeared into the cemetery.

"..." Tieshan Youyou was silent for a moment.

The effect of the Christ statue is to bring back banished cards; cards in the graveyard cannot be brought back.

Tieshan looked around in surprise, then realized with astonishment that among his seven wonders of building materials, he didn't have a single offensive building material!

Although the floating city's attack power is 7,000 points, but...

Excluding skills and traits, Haxorus has a base attack power of exactly 7203.

—Just two hundred more points.

Chapter 173: Dragon Star Cluster

It's impossible not to get through it.

It's only two hundred points, which is easy to surpass. But the key issue is not those two hundred points, but that after the Haxorus goes through [Dragon Dance], the Haxorus does indeed have a base attack value of 9000 points!

But in fact, Tetsuya Yuu was already mentally prepared for just how outrageous Pokémon's physique stats could be.

Although the original plan was to use Meng Jiangnu in conjunction with the Great Wall to launch a massive attack, and then use the floating city to attack directly... does that mean we can't eat pork without Zhang the Butcher?

of course not!

There are countless ways to activate the effect!

"I activate the effect of Floating City Taj Mahal, banishing one card from my deck, and I activate the effect of [Meng Jiangnu Under the Great Wall] in my graveyard again!"

Tieshan Youyou activated the floating city effect again.

Meng Jiangnu, who had supposedly died, reappeared on the field, but it was only a phantom.

At this moment, Meng Jiangnu glanced helplessly at Tieshan Youyou in the sky, and then burst into a very fake wail, just like the sound of students reciting during morning reading at school.

There is only sound, but no emotion.

"Ah, I hate it so much..." Meng Jiangnu cried out dryly.

Then, in the sky, the wall built with the Great Wall as its building material collapsed with a roar, and even the soil supporting the floating city fell off in large quantities.

The sky was filled with rubble and dirt, which crashed to the ground.

Like a mudslide falling from the sky, it swept everything away and took away... the only Double Axe Dragon on the field at that moment.

The Haxorus, still in its reverse scale state, continued to clumsily bump into things until it was finally buried under a huge rock and disappeared without a trace.

As for Xiaochun, she only had one wave of this floor-lifting attack.

Relying on the Twin Axe Dragon Battlefield, they withstood the attack, but now the battlefield was empty.

"...That's an exaggeration."

Xiaochun looked at the scene.

The meticulously arranged duel arena is now just a large crater. Apart from her and a small piece of land behind her, the rest of the land has been taken into the sky.

Everyone else was forced to huddle in a corner, pointing at the sky and shouting something unintelligible.

Amon also mingled among them.

After Meng Jiangnu's weeping, although a large amount of mud and rocks fell, it failed to completely fill the large pit left on the ground. Instead, it made the already damaged site even more chaotic.

“This is the War Flow Card Master, Tieshan Youyou.” Wushan Yu stood beside Amon, smiling as she looked at him: “Tieshan Youyou’s real name is just Youyou—guess why he’s given the title [Tieshan]?”

Without waiting for Amon's reply, he answered on his own:

"Of course, it's because of that floating city, as solid as steel and as magnificent as a mountain!"

"—The steel city stands tall in the sky."

"So this is Tieshan Youyou."

Amon did not speak.

In fact, he was already used to the world's custom of giving people nicknames and then using those nicknames as their real names, but at first, Amon really thought that Tieshan Youyou's surname was Tieshan...

Who would have thought it would turn out like this!

But the action on the field was not over yet!

The long second round continues, and as long as one of the card players denies the end of the round, the round can continue indefinitely!

And now, the denial round has ended...

It's both sides!

"Trying to make me admit defeat isn't that easy! Draw a card!" It wasn't until this point that Xiaochun drew a card for the second round—but in reality, this move was normal and wise!

Because, unlike other deck users.

Pokémon has a very good feature: Pokémon Follower Cards can be transferred to the player's hand by replacing the cards they draw!