Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

As Ryuzaki designated the [Ultimate Transmission Terrormon] to destroy him, the giant dinosaur first slightly raised its head, then suddenly lowered it, exhaling a destructive breath towards the ground beneath its feet!

Starting with the landing of the breath of the [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast], the duel arena suddenly cracked open, as if the earth was shattering and disintegrating at the end of the world. From the cracks, a large amount of scorching lava erupted and surged into the sky in an instant. Both the powerful [Meteor Black Dragon] and the [Captain of Proper Cooking], who hadn't even had time to serve the food in the pot, were all swallowed by the lava.

As for the [Ultimate Transductive Terror Beast], it was the first to be engulfed after actively detonating the magma underground.

After the high temperature subsided slightly, everyone was finally able to see the field clearly and found that everything was covered by the cooled lava. Apart from the [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast], which was completely swallowed by the lava, destroyed and sent to the graveyard, the [Meteor Black Dragon] and the [Captain of Proper Cooking] on the field in the castle were all transformed into lifelike stone sculptures.

【Meteor Black Dragon】→【Face-down Defense Position Monster】【ATK 3500→DEF 2000】

[Captain who handles things well] → [Face-down Defense Position Monster] [ATK 1200 → DEF 400]

Having witnessed his two monsters being turned into stone statues and sealed back into his back deck in defense position, Jonouchi remained in shock: "All the monsters were sealed away in an instant, what powerful force!"

Ryuzaki also somewhat recovered from the joy of "setting off firecrackers" and said seriously, "In the face of the power of the [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast], let alone your [Meteor Black Dragon], even the gods have to be covered up. Although its power requires sacrifice to be released, it has the ability to guide fate in a favorable direction."

This is not something Ryuzaki is bragging about.

The resistances of God Cards to monsters are: negation of destruction effects other than God Cards, effects other than destruction effects lasting only one turn, and negation of monster effects of Level 10 or lower. However, the effect of [Ultimate Conduction Terror] is not within the scope of the above resistances.

Its level is also 10☆, and its effect is not destruction but change of form, so it is indeed as he said, even gods have to be covered up.

“Because both [Meteor Black Dragon] and [Captain of Proper Cooking] are monsters I summoned this turn, I can’t change their battle positions even in my Main Phase 2,” Jonouchi said, frowning, his tone full of helplessness. “In that case, I’ll have to end my turn.”

"But Ryuzaki, you also lost your most powerful [Ultimate Transducer Beast] because of this, so I still believe that victory belongs to me."

[Within the city: 2700LP, 0 cards in hand]

[(The Captain Who Cooked Well)] [DEF400]

【(Meteor Black Dragon)】【DEF2000】

Ryuzaki remained silent, his fingers resting on the deck. He couldn't refute Jonouchi's words, because he had indeed lost his strongest card, [Ultimate Teleporting Terror Beast].

The experience of losing [Red-Eyes Black Dragon] and losing a large amount of money, causing his deck strength to plummet and ultimately failing to even make it into the top eight of Duel Kingdom, resurfaced in Ryuzaki's mind.

Chapter 387 Yu, Living in Memories

Back in the Duel Kingdom era, Ryuzaki was the runner-up in the all-Japan Duel Monster Tournament, a rising star. Although he lost to Haga in the finals because he was not careful enough against the newly released trap cards, he was very confident after using his runner-up prize money to buy "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". He believed that his strength was among the best of all duelists.

Then he encountered Jonouchi in Duel Kingdom. Because of his greed for Jonouchi's Time Magician, he gambled on Red-Eyes Black Dragon, but was defeated by Jonouchi and lost a lot of Star Chips and Red-Eyes Black Dragon.

After the Duel Kingdom's top eight were determined, Ryuzaki, feeling intensely ashamed, watched the match between the champion Hayato and Yugi against Pegasus.

During this match, Ryuzaki witnessed Hayato's incredibly high level of synergy with his "Entertainment Partners," the endless stream of magic from the game, and Pegasus's despair-inducing "Fantasy Monsters."

He suddenly realized that he had only been arrogant in a very small circle, and thought he was the best in the world just because he won second place.

Little did he know that, not only Pegasus, the father of Duel Monsters, but even Hayato Kobayashi and Yugi Muto, who were also in Japan, were much stronger than him.

For the first time, Ryuzaki truly understood himself, but he had to face the reality that his strength was nothing compared to most duelists. In fact, in the later Duel City, he even suffered defeats against some unknown and obscure duelists.

After the Duel Kingdom ended and before Duel City began, Ryuzaki did encounter Haga again. At the time, Ryuzaki was quite surprised that Haga, who had staked the future of Duel Monsters in his duel with Hayato and was sentenced to never touch Duel Monsters again, had somehow obtained the Duel Disk.

Yuga specifically sought out Ryuzaki, partly to show off the immense power he had obtained from someone, and partly to recruit Ryuzaki into his organization. The person in question seemed to be named, Gurus.

The bargaining chips that Haga used to lure Ryuzaki were many powerful cards, from [Dark Magician], [Exodia], to even the [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] which should have only been four copies, and even the [Red-Eyes Black Dragon] that Ryuzaki had lost.

At that time, Ryuzaki was almost ready to accept Haga's invitation to join, but whether it was a sudden realization or a revelation, Ryuzaki rejected Haga's invitation.

"Compared to powerful cards, although it sounds a bit ridiculous, I actually want to believe in the power of the heart that Jonouchi and Yugi Muto talk about."

"A card that only has power but no spiritual home is just an empty shell. Don't get addicted to it, Hamogi."

After being rejected by Ryuzaki, Haga left. Based on what he considered to be their past relationship, Ryuzaki did not report Haga to the department of Kaiba Corporation responsible for overseeing Duel City.

Later, Ryuzaki heard that Haga seemed to have died. After that, he heard that the organization called Gurus had also been disbanded.

【Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast】was a card that Ryuzaki obtained unexpectedly before participating in the KC Cup. It was because of this card that Ryuzaki, who was hesitant about whether to participate in the KC Cup, decided to participate.

He convinced himself that he needed to attract enough popularity at the KC Cup to gain investor attention and become a professional duelist, but deep down he knew his true answer.

'As expected, I still can't forget it, I can't forget losing the [Red-Eyes Black Dragon], Jonouchi.'

Ryuzaki looked towards the castle.

'If you want to defeat Seto Kaiba, then my obsession is actually to defeat you!'

'It's not about power or honor; I just want to see how you truly embody the spirit of the cards.'

As Ryuzaki spoke, he suddenly drew a card from his deck: "Respond to me, my deck! Let's decide everything with this card draw!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

As Ryuzaki drew the card, even though Ryuzaki hadn't done anything, Jonouchi once again felt the imposing aura that had left the field with the disappearance of [Ultimate Conduction Terror Beast].

The card that Ryuzaki drew was indeed—

"I activate the Spell Card [Monster Resurrection]!"

Having received a response from his deck in his desperate situation, Ryuzaki excitedly raised the card in his hand: "I heard your cry! So, revive from the grave of your resentment, [Ultimate Conduction Terror]!"

The light of a supernova shines once again on Ryuzaki's field!

"Roar!!!"

【Ultimate Conductive Terror Beast】【ATK3500】

Ryuzaki turned his head to look at the giant, resurrected Terror Beast. The [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast] met Ryuzaki's gaze and slowly nodded, as if acknowledging something.

"Is that so? Well then, I can't let you down." Ryuzaki smiled at Jonouchi, a confident smile on his face. "Then, I'm about to enter my battle phase, Jonouchi!"

"The second effect of [Ultimate Terrorbeast] is that it can only be activated at the start of the Damage Step when attacking a Defense Position monster."

"Inflict 1000 damage to the opponent's duelist and send the targeted monster directly to the Graveyard!" Ryuzaki suddenly waved his hand, "Supernova Breath!"

A crimson breath erupted from the mouth of the [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast], instantly shattering one of the two back-side defense monsters within the castle as if it were about to obliterate everything.

The card that was hit was [Meteor Black Dragon]. Unwilling to accept defeat, it wanted to retaliate to show that it was not powerless, but the destructive power contained in the Supernova Breath destroyed it in the blink of an eye, leaving it no chance to fight back.

"Cough!"

[Within the city: 2700LP → 1700LP]

Raising his hand to block the airflow from the attack of the [Ultimate Conductor Terror Beast], Jonouchi felt the combat damage being inflicted on him and said defiantly, "It's only 1000 points of damage, I can still handle it."

“Hey, Jonouchi, when did I say my battle phase was over?” Ryuzaki spoke up, holding up three fingers as he spoke. “Next is the third effect of [Ultimate Conduction Terror Beast],”

"During a battle phase, [Ultimate Conduction Terrorbeast] can launch one attack on each of the opponent's monsters!"

"What?!" Jonouchi exclaimed in surprise. "How can it still be effective? That's way too powerful!"

Ryuzaki smiled smugly: "That's why I told you long ago, don't underestimate me, Jonouchi."

"Then, [Ultimate Transductive Terror Beast]! The second one, Supernova Breath!"

Chapter 388 Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Meteor Dragon, Fusion Up!

"【Ultimate Transductive Terror Beast】, the second Supernova Breath!"

The crimson light of destruction reappeared. Following the [Meteor Black Dragon], another [Captain of Proper Disposal] on the field, positioned on the back side, also followed in the footsteps of the former. It was instantly pierced by the breath and sent to the graveyard, without even a chance to struggle or howl.

Jōnei's base score also suffered another 1000 points of damage.

[Within the city: 1700→700LP]

"Wow, so powerful!" In the audience, Honda was shocked by the power displayed by Ryuzaki's [Ultimate Transmission Beast]. "It's simply overwhelming power!"

Even though the person facing the Ultimate Transducer Beast at this moment was his friend Jonouchi, that didn't stop him from praising the Ultimate Transducer Beast's power.

"It can destroy one of your own monsters to indiscriminately and without targeting any of your opponent's monsters. Then there's its ability to send monsters directly to the Graveyard without destroying them when attacking a Defense Position monster, and the ability to attack all of your opponent's monsters." Malik listed the abilities of [Ultimate Conduction Terrorbeast]. "It's really strong. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it's comparable to a god."

As the person who once possessed the most Egyptian God cards besides Hayato, Malik has the right to make such an assessment.

Malik glanced at Jonouchi on the field and narrowed his eyes with interest: "It seems that the KC Cup journey of that guy who only relies on luck is about to come to an end."

Hayato, however, disagreed: "Don't jinx it. Kaiba said the same thing last time, and Jonouchi still managed to get fourth place in Duel City."

"The power of the [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast] is indeed very strong, even comparable to that of a god, but you probably didn't notice." Hayato pointed at Jonouchi, "That guy has the will and ability to defeat even a god. The more adversity he faces, the more Jonouchi's talents can be brought into play."

"Talent?"

Malik looked at Hayato with a puzzled expression: "What kind of talent could that guy possibly have?"

"Of course there is, the talent within the castle is certainly..."

Ryuzaki glanced at Jonouchi, his excitement subsiding slightly. As if relieved, he said easily, "Then, my turn ends here, Jonouchi."

[Ryuzaki: 1100LP, 0 cards in hand]

【Ultimate Conductive Terror Beast】【ATK3500】

Ryuzaki's face was full of relief. In the end, whether he could defeat Jonouchi or attract enough popularity was no longer important to him, because he had already obtained something more precious than that.

"Try to defeat me, and my [Ultimate Transmission Terror Beast], Jonouchi!"

For the first time, Ryuzaki no longer cared about winning or losing in the duel. He was more interested in seeing if Jonouchi could demonstrate a stronger bond between himself and the cards, becoming a role model for him to emulate.

Raising his head, Jonouchi stubbornly said, "Shut up! I could do that even if you didn't tell me!"

"I am the master of the city! You think you can defeat a mere dinosaur? Watch me show you!"

"My turn, draw a card!"

Suddenly pulling out a card, Jonouchi glanced down and triumphantly activated it: "Yosh, I'm going to activate the card I just drew! Magic Card [Treasure Card of Destiny]!"

"I roll a die, and based on the number rolled, I draw the number of cards from the top of my deck equal to the number rolled, and then banish the number of cards from the top of my deck equal to the number rolled."

As he spoke, a large die appeared on the ground inside the castle, propelled by an invisible force and thrown to the ground, spinning as it landed.

Upon seeing this, Ryuzaki couldn't help but retort, "You bastard, in the end you're still using those gambling cards, aren't you?"

"Hehe, it's mainly because pure Dragon decks are just too expensive." Jonouchi scratched his head a little embarrassedly. The initial reason he built his current Red-Eyes deck was because he thought pure Dragon decks like Kaiba's were very strong, so he built one for himself.

However, Dragon decks are just too expensive. The prices of even slightly powerful Dragon monsters are ridiculously high, and Dragon support cards are also extremely expensive.

Centered around Red-Eyes Black Dragon, this deck combines Summoning of the Demon, Meteor Dragon, and other Warrior-Type monsters to fill the gaps, along with some gambling cards salvaged from a previous gambling deck. This is the "pure Red-Eyes" deck that Jonouchi is currently using.

The rolling dice slowly came to a stop, and under everyone's gaze, the final number displayed was—6!

"Yada Thief! In that case, I can draw six cards and then banish six cards from my deck!"

Jonouchi's hand was instantly replenished to six cards thanks to the card "Treasure of Destiny," and he then banished the top six cards of his deck one by one. While banishing the cards, he noticed one of them and paused for a moment, but still put it into his pocket.

Looking at his hand, Jonouchi drew one of the cards: "This card is just in time."