Yu-Gi-Oh!: This card wants to go to you.

Wanting to take credit, but not daring to shout too loudly

"【Moye】Effect." Luo Bai's indifferent voice interrupted everyone's reverie, "If this card's Synchro Material is sent to the Graveyard, draw one."

"Chain effect of [Merusin]!" Melusin said with a tense expression, "Reduce the attack power of [Dragon Crystal] to 0! No matter how many monsters there are, they are ultimately weak and powerless!"

Dragons and snakes entwined, their sweet voices echoing.

[Dragon Crystal] ATK: 3000 → 0

"Draw a card!" Luo Bai glanced at the newly drawn card, his pupils shrinking.

"Activate the [Dragon Crystal] effect!"

"Flip over the top 5 cards of your deck. You may return up to the number of Rock-Type monsters on your opponent's field to their hand. The flipped cards are returned to the bottom of the deck."

"Non-destructive field clearing!" Everyone's faces lit up with joy, but they quickly tensed up again.

Strictly speaking, it's a probabilistic solution, requiring you to flip a Rock-type card out of five.

If it were a deck focused on saving the day, the probability would be high, but it's just a deck temporarily assembled by a group of casual players...

"Hehehe..." Melusin chuckled seductively, "Come on, I hope your hands can make your older sister happy~"

"Hahaha..." Luo Bai also burst into laughter, "The first one!"

"Wow—"

The Devil's Sanctuary

"The second one!"

[The Ritual of Divination]

"The third one!"

【Tianweilong - Datong Panlong】

"The fourth one!"

[The Dragon's Appearance Sword]

"Little brother, your hands aren't very good~" Melusin teased with a smile, "Sister is not happy."

The red-haired country girl muttered under her breath, "Oh no, a mining disaster..."

"Hahaha..." Luo Bai's laughter didn't diminish; he could feel the call coming from his fingertips, "The fifth one!"

"Wow—"

A flash of white light.

He smiled slightly and flipped over the card he had revealed: "[Core Guardian], Rock-type."

The unfolding guardian deity!

"Whoa—!" The crowd erupted in a tremendous cheer, "They flipped it over!"

The man in the frontline military uniform paused slightly. [He Cheng] was his card. When the cards were being collected, he was the first to step forward and hand over his card. He had to admit that there was a large element of gambling involved.

He held less than a one percent hope.

Melusin looked incredulous: "[Swordsman] Synchro Summon [Demon Rescue], and flipped a [Core Formation] card?"

"Kill her!" Luo Bai gave the order.

[Dragon Crystal] flapped its wings with a roar, and the crystal released a dazzling light, completely annihilating [Merusin]. The black mist dissipated, and the blue side was left with an empty field.

“But your attack power is 0!” Melusin shouted indignantly.

The arena has been cleared, but the attack power of [Cheng Ying] and [Dragon Crystal] has been reduced to 0.

She still has a full 4,000 points left in her base score; if she draws an attack power exceeding 700 next round...

"Advance to the combat rank!"

Luo Bai roared, and everyone's nerves instantly tensed up.

"[Neon Stone Spirit, 1000/2000] Direct Attack!"

"A mere 1000 points of attack power..." Melusin sneered.

"At this very moment!" Luo Bai shouted coldly, interrupting her laughter, "Activate the [Neon Stone Sea God's Helmet Shrimp] effect from the graveyard and equip it on the [Neon Stone Spirit]!"

"Equipped monsters gain an attack and defense bonus equal to 400 times the number of excluded monsters!"

"The monsters that are excluded are [Ice Water Translucent Stone Spirit], [Ice Water Sun-Rising Stone Spirit], [Sword-Wielding Auspicious Beast - Chun Jun], [Netherworld Divination Princess - Tarot Witch], and [Heavenly Might Dragon - Pure Coiled Dragon]."

The figures of those comrades who once fought alongside me... flashed by one by one.

"There are also [Reptile Witch and Xiuji], and [Gecko Salamander]."

"Seven in total!"

"Tap tap tap—"

[Neon Essence] ATK: 1000 → 3800!

"let's go!"

"Give her a punch!"

(So ​​cute!) [Neon Stone Spirit] floated in the air, made a cute turn, and threw a heavy punch at Melusin's cold face.

"boom!"

"Tap tap tap—"

Blue side LP: 4000 → 200!

"Hehehe..." Melusin was not in pain but rather delighted, her laughter growing even more frenzied, "Hahaha..."

"Every scheme and calculation was meticulously planned..."

"We were just one short!"

If you add another monster outside the zone, the attack of [Neon Stone Spirit] can soar to 4200, killing it with a single punch.

“Ah—” Immy let out a deep sigh.

The others frowned and groaned, "So close..."

“Give up, human,” Melusin screamed. “You no longer have…”

The sound stopped abruptly.

When she saw the smile on Luo Bai's face, she felt a chill run down her spine, as if she were facing death, no, an evil god!

"Quick-attack spell!" Luo Bai sneered, his face contorted with rage, as he slammed down the card [Mo Xie] had drawn, and said in a deep voice, "[Offering to the Dead]!"

"Destroy the Neon Spirit!"

"Destroying his own card..." Melusin's face turned deathly pale as she murmured blankly, "A madman..."

“Self-destruction…” Luo Bai’s expression darkened.

"It's for our return!"

"Activate the [Sunrise Stone Spirit] effect in the graveyard!"

"If a WATER monster on the field is destroyed by battle/card effect, banish this card and Special Summon 1 other WATER monster from your Graveyard/hand."

"Yumigale!" (Wake up!)

"【Ice Water Neon Stone Spirit】!"

"Disappear, loser."

"[Neon Stone Spirit, 1000/2000] Direct Attack!"

"Whoa—" [Neon Stone Spirit] drew a cute arc in the air, swirling ice mist and howling wind, and with a turn and a side kick to Melusin's astonishment.

"boom!"

A light snowflake drifted down from the night sky, bringing the duel to a close.

Blue side LP: 200 → 0

"answer--"

[Duel Ended]

The winner is the red side.

The cold, mechanical voice of the AI ​​referee fell silent.

"We...we won?" The crowd was stunned for a moment, then erupted in deafening cheers.

"We won..."

"We won!"

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(A long chapter of 3700 words! That was really not easy!)

(The original plan was: [Ice Water Yangqi Stone Spirit] cost [Diviner Princess] to revive [Sword of the Diviner], show [Heavenly Might] to synchronize with [Demon Rescue], triple [Core Formation], and a six-field combo attack.)

(But no matter what I do, I'm always one card short of either my hand or my graveyard)

(I wanted to just use a kettle to smoke two bottles without thinking, but then I felt... it was a bit stiff and seemed cheap.)

(The final battle of the gods in this book will probably take the same form; let's try it out first.)

(It needs to utilize everyone's cards, be like a candle flickering in the wind, have back-and-forth exchanges, have amazing draws and explosive attacks, and the finishing cards need to fit the character's persona, have some meaning, and also use up all the cards in hand, on-field effects, and graveyard effects...)

(It was really difficult, with so many bugs, big and small, that we had to fix it so many times...)

(The learning curve for building five/six-field structures is quite steep; you have to start from scratch to find the structures, practice Kondratiev waves, and stay up all night eating snacks...)

(I've overspent a bit and missed a lot of things. I'll be taking a day off tomorrow and won't be updating the main story or the [information] section.)

The ceremony is over.

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