Duels should be played with a smile.

Having a lot of cards in hand is just too much! It's been so long since I've had such a rich hand!

However, the current situation is indeed a bit tricky. The strange effect triggers a full field of defense, and it is also a full resistance. Without Kaiju, it is not easy to get by.

Simple maneuvers may not be effective. At this point, it may be necessary to use some means other than dueling – of course, all legitimate means.

"I still have resources to continue. The effect of [Heavenly Dragon - True Knowledge Coiled Dragon] in my hand can only be activated if I have no effect monsters on my field. Can I summon it from my hand? Does it have a chain?"

The special move of the Heavenly Dragon needs to be activated and can be chained, but Jack's hand is always face up, so there is no possibility of him having a G.

Leyou kept asking these questions in order to disrupt Jack's judgment.

After repeatedly asking the same question, he might just blurt it out and miss the crucial chain of events.

"There is no chain."

"Then we'll recruit them through special admissions."

[Water · 4★ · Phantom Dragon · Defense 2000]

"Then comes the Link Summon! The summoning condition is 1 [Heavenly Might] monster other than a Link Monster."

"I will use the Water Heaven's Might as material to link and summon the Link 1 [Heavenly Might Fist Monk]!"

Is there a chain?

"no!"

Jack was already getting impatient with his answers, and before Leyou could even finish asking his question, he had already reflexively answered no.

Seeing this situation, Leyou's lips curled up slightly, and he continued with his plan without making a sound.

By concealing one's true purpose within several inconspicuous actions, the success rate of achieving that purpose will be significantly increased.

The outcome of a duel isn't solely determined during the duel itself!

Chapter 77 The true way to play Yu-Gi-Oh! is to prevent your opponent from playing Yu-Gi-Oh!

In a card game, if there is no rotation mechanism, then it is inevitable that new cards will become stronger and stronger as they are released.

The banlist mechanism can effectively control some situations where the strength of cards gets out of control, but the creativity of players is limitless. Often, due to the continuous emergence of new cards, some old cards can be rediscovered by new cards after a long time, forming incredibly powerful combinations. Sometimes, the banlist is even needed to solve some problems.

Many cards, once banned, can no longer cause much trouble, but as long as new cards are still being released, there is a risk that the old cards will be brought out and cause trouble again.

As the game speed increases and becomes stronger with the number and strength of cards, card games, whose ultimate goal is to win, will give rise to many strategies that directly reach the ultimate goal from the very beginning.

Aside from special victories, the ultimate goal of the game is to win by clearing LP (Limit Points). There are many ways to clear LP, and after going through countless cards, the path to this ultimate goal has been greatly shortened.

Given that first-strike FTK is a deeply hated thing, and that there is no battle phase for first-strike, countless shortcuts have been created by cards and players together.

The simplest and most direct way is to prevent the second player from making any resistance when going first, and then take down the opponent in one fell swoop on the third round.

The fewer things your opponent can do, the fewer variables there are, and the easier it is to win.

Within a few dozen seconds, after analyzing Jack's thoughts, the current situation, and the resources at his disposal, Leyou had already formulated many plans.

Which of these plans will succeed depends on his acting skills and Jack's understanding of duels—the best plan, of course, is to go straight to the ultimate goal.

Jack's Ur possesses such an ability, but the way he summoned it this time did not allow him to exert his power correctly.

Therefore, Leyou wanted to try and see if he could show Jack what true power was, given that Jack had the upper hand.

All resistances and high attack power are ultimately illusory strengths. Even a top-tier Tamasi is useless if she can't hit anyone.

True power, however, can proclaim victory the moment it appears!

"The effect of Earth-Heavenly Might in the graveyard is that I have Fist Monk on my field, which is a monster other than an Effect Monster, so I banish Earth-Heavenly Might from the graveyard and recycle the other Earth-Heavenly Might from the banished zone."

"Is there a chain?" Leyou continued to ask patiently.

"no!"

Leyou was tireless, but Jack was getting increasingly annoyed.

"In that case, I'll activate the effect of Earth's Might from my hand. Since I don't have any effect monsters on the field, this card can be card summoned from my hand. Is there a chain?"

"no!"

Seeing Jack's increasingly impatient tone, Leyou secretly began to chuckle to herself.

"Since you don't have a chain store yet, I won't be polite!"

"Reveal! The Circuit of Duel Revue!"

"The summoning condition is 2 monsters, including Tuner monsters!"

"I will set up arrows with Earthly Might and Fist Monk!"

The overwhelming summoning conditions made Jack's eyes widen instantly, and his hand instinctively went to the Duel Disk, ready to respond at any moment.

"With the brilliance of gold and jade, guide us to a higher and farther horizon! Summon miracles in that distant future!"

"Link Summon! Link 2! Descend! [Crystal Mechanism - Inherited Fiberglass]!"

A beam of light, interwoven with azure and bright yellow, stretched straight to the sky. Within that beam of light, a harmonious light descended.

Without the spirit's inhabitant, the inherited fiberglass seemed a bit dull, but that didn't diminish her power.

"The Water Machine's effect can only be activated upon a successful Link Summon. Adjustments apply to Special Summoning of Level 3 or lower cards from your hand or Deck. [Whether or not...]"

"There's a chain!" Jack answered before Leyou could finish asking his question.

In the realm of Synchronous Dimension, everyone knows the name of Inherited Fiberglass.

Even though no one has ever seen the spirit of this incredibly powerful monster, inheriting the power of fiberglass is something duelists dream of.

Generally speaking, to obtain a powerful monster card, one needs the approval of the spirit, but there are a few spirits that no one has ever seen.

While God closes a door, in rare cases He will open a window instead of sealing off all other windows. Fiberglass is one of those windows.

By participating in trials in the Synchro Dimension's Crystal Machine clan's gathering place and gaining the approval of all other Crystal Machine Monsters, you can obtain a card with Inherited Fiber without a Spirit inhabitant.

"So, the people from the Fusion Academy also passed the Crystal Machine Clan's trial? In that case, your previous summoning of the Hundred-Headed Dragon using the effect of NO.42 wasn't because you didn't inherit Fiberglass?"

The information revealed in Jack's words made Leyou pause for a moment. Without thinking much about it, he simply gave a mysterious smile, remained silent, and just stared at Jack, making Jack feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Although I don't know what you're talking about, when you don't know what to do, just smile.

"Hmph, you like to play mysterious, don't you? To be honest, I acknowledge your dueling skills, but your personality isn't really to my liking... But it doesn't matter, you're just a duelist whose strength I've acknowledged. If we don't cross paths again in the future, your personality won't matter to me."

"Since you've summoned the Inherited Fiberglass, I have no choice but to give this monster the respect it deserves."

"Chain effect of Fiberglass, activate the effect of the Trap Card [Great Soul] in the Graveyard!"

A crimson dragon phantom flew out from the graveyard. The dragon phantom, similar to the Crimson Lotus Demon Dragon but exuding a noble aura, was the manifestation of the Savior Demon Dragon.

Jack only has this one strange effect. Although generally speaking, it's better to fight the Hundred-Headed Dragon when facing the Water Machine, Jack chose to respect the Water Machine at this moment.

Having already encountered a hundred-headed dragon and lacking knowledge about the Phantom Dragon card pool, he dared not take too much risk.

Putting aside the strange things the Phantom Dragon Clan might pull out, bringing along a Hundred-Headed Dragon means they must have also brought Orion Lion, Stationery Cyborg, or Jet Synchron. No matter which one of these things is pulled out, it's not something that can be solved with a single Strange Effect.

More importantly, once he uses this strange effect, the only remaining disruption is the Supernova Dragon's board clear. The sense of security brought by a 6000 attack power and all resistance on the field is not a good choice compared to a single banishment board clear.

Furthermore... although Jack usually doesn't want to admit it, the Supernova Dragon's escape is an effect-based reversal, and it only returns during its next End Phase, or through a Special Summon.

Of these points, none of them seem quite as good as Yusei's Cosmic Yoruichiro.

However, thinking about the conditions for Supernova Dragon's appearance, he felt somewhat relieved—powerful cards often come with a price, and Supernova Dragon and Cosmic Transformation Dragon have different levels of power and different costs.

"The effect of Great Soul: If you control a Level 10 or higher Dragon/DARK Synchro Monster, when a monster effect is activated, you can banish this card from your Graveyard to activate this effect, and negate that effect!"

The Great Soul also has an attack buff, but with two all-resistance characters on the field, it doesn't provide any buffs.

"Alright..." Le You was secretly delighted, but put on a helpless expression. "Since you've already put it this way, I'll have to find another way."

"But you only have one chance to interfere now. If you use it at the wrong time, you're out of the game!"

Leyou's tone was full of implications, suggesting that Jack should use this interference with caution, but he was met with Jack's disdain.

"Hmph! A king's duel doesn't need an opponent to remind him! I know best how to use my dragon!"

"Is that really true? Perhaps I know your dragon better than you do~"

Leaving behind a thought-provoking remark, Leyou resumed her actions before Jack could offer any further rebuttal.

"If you have [White Saintess Exeria] in your hand, you can summon her from your hand if your opponent controls more monsters than you do!"

This is a pure Phantom Dragon deck, without Tire Dragon. Albus's Super Polymerization is useless against all resistances, otherwise Leyou wouldn't need to go through all this trouble.

Maybe it can even let Jack experience the joy that Seahorse had back then—Seahorse had Seahorse Man, and Jack has Absolute King.

Unfortunately, Absolute King's attack power is 0. Without items to increase attack power, it's impossible to bring a smile with Berserker's Soul like before.

So if the Dark Mage's attack power is halved, it seems he can still use Berserker's Soul?

No, I can't think about this anymore; these ideas are too outrageous.

"Then there is another effect of the Saintess. During the Main Phase, you can Tribute this card to activate the effect and Special Summon 1 [Swordsman] monster from your hand or Deck."

"I release the Saintess to Special Summon [Swordsman - Tai'a] from my deck. Does this create a chain?"

"no!"

The sword still relies somewhat on general attacks. With the help of the saintess, the general attacks can be saved, and there will be many things that can be done later.

"If I activate Tai'a's effect, banishing the [Sword of the Aspect] from the Graveyard, and Special Summon a Sword of the Aspect token to my field, does it have a chain?"

This time Jack didn't answer immediately, but he didn't think for long either, and after a moment he slowly shook his head.

There's no need to make such a fuss about 8-star synchronization.

He even decided not to activate it until the battle began, and only as a last resort, otherwise winning the next round wouldn't be easy—Leyou still had too many LP.

"No chain... then I'll Special Summon a token, and at the same time, the banished Dark Effect will activate, so I'll Special Summon another token."

Three monsters, totaling 12 stars. Jack immediately thought of a certain "One-Sword Bro" from the electronic world, but after glancing at his two dragons with 4000 and 6000 attack respectively, he just smiled slightly.

Ha, what a noob.

"If you don't move, then I won't be polite!"

"Use a LV4 Xiangjian derivative against a LV4 Tai'a star!"

"Swallowing rivers and spewing rain to pacify the four directions, may peace and prosperity endure forever, the shining star of the dragon!"

"Summon Synchro! Descend! LV8! [Radiant Dragon Star - Centipede Viper]!"