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

"Use the two Black Magicians on the field as material."

Fusion Summon!

"Descend!"

"【Super Archmage - Dark Magician and Apprentice】!"

Super Magus - Black Magician and Apprentice

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A big thank you to [一世樱名] for the inspiration capsule! The second-ranked member is so generous!

Chapter 399 presents a significantly increased challenge.

"The battle continues!" The stone pharaoh waved his hand, "[Grand Magister], attack directly!"

"boom--"

A powerful, explosive grenade erupted.

Nanyang Yi let out a ferocious wail, as if his internal organs were shattered.

Blue side LP: 3000 → 200

"【Dark Magician】Direct Attack!"

As the final, decisive attack was declared, countless hearts tightened.

"This is the moment we've been waiting for!"

With his last ounce of strength, Nanyang Yi shouted, "Activate the effect of [Bottle Ant], Special Summon this card!"

"Release [Dark Magician] to activate the [Magician's Synergy] effect!" the Stone Pharaoh declared mercilessly. "Special Summon [Dark Magician Girl] from the Graveyard, negating [Bottle Ant]!"

“But—” Nanyang Yi let out a final roar, “The effect of [Bottle Grass Ant] has no limit of once per turn.”

"The Black Magician Girl's attack can still be blocked!"

"Ha ha ha ha--"

He curled his weak lips into a smile, his expression turning excited and ferocious.

"I made it through the third round..."

Although they are unlikely to win, they are proud enough to have survived the third round.

"Cow batch!"

"Great, better than the previous eighteen."

Just when everyone thought so and cheered him on.

The stone pharaoh slowly spoke: "[Super Magus - Dark Magician Master and Apprentice] Effect: Once per turn, can only be activated when a Spell or Trap Card effect is activated. Draw one card."

"Wow—"

A white light flashed across the void, and countless eyes focused on his fingertip.

"The card I drew is—"

The stone pharaoh gently turned over the card he had drawn and said.

"【Guardian Priest Mahad】."

Guardian Priest Mahad

"When you draw this card, you can activate this effect by showing it to your opponent. Special Summon this card from your hand!"

With a resounding boom, a light-attribute summoning circle slowly appeared.

The ancient guardian priest stood prominently on the red team's battlefield.

“This…” Nan Yangyi’s eyes widened in disbelief, her whole body enveloped in fear.

"What a coincidence to draw that..."

He lost all will to fight, his eyes glazed over, and he completely gave up resisting.

"【Guardian Priest Mahad】Direct attack!" the stone statue king declared resolutely.

Seth, inside the pseudo-canon, watched this scene from afar, letting out a deep, lion-like roar, his eyes gleaming with intensity.

"Snapped--"

【Mahat】summons dazzling golden light, which transforms into sharp blades that fly towards the enemy, stirring up a storm on the blue side's field.

"Ah!!!" Nanyang Yi stood in the center of the storm and let out a shrill scream.

After a long while, the smoke cleared.

He could no longer hold on; his eyes rolled back, his pupils dilated, and he slowly collapsed to the ground.

Blue side LP: 200 → 0

The winner takes all.

[Red Team]

This time.

Many viewers swallowed hard and took a half step back, their fear gradually outweighing their excitement.

At first, many people were eager to try their luck, hoping to make a name for themselves in one battle. However, after numerous failures and casualties, they began to regain their composure.

"Even two traps can't stop it..."

"this..."

"Forget about winning, they won't even survive the third round..."

"The last card is still unknown..."

Panic gradually spread through the crowd.

"Tsk tsk tsk—" Luo Bai was also quite amazed; this kill was quite impressive.

There were no banned or overused cards used.

It all comes down to the family's Kangbo and a divine draw.

"Unfortunately, the final card still couldn't be forced out."

Thinking of this, he struck up a conversation with Yi Lan again: "In the previous dozen or so games, has anyone thrown a hand trap?"

"Anything like [Effect Masker] or [DD Raven]?"

Yi Lan seemed to have just realized the problem, her brow furrowing as she pondered, "In these eighteen matches... um... it seems no one has actually thrown a hand trap?"

Her eyes widened, as if she was quite surprised by the discovery.

"Huh?!" Luo Bai was also quite shocked by this reply.

It's really strange that no one threw a hand trap in all 18 games.

The build can be modified and then rebuilt.

Knowing that the king would definitely attack first, many people would surely lay many traps.

But no one has ever won it?

"No..." Yi Lan fell into deeper memories, a chill running through her body. "Let alone a hand trap, hardly anyone has ever used a general-purpose card!"

"【Whirlwind】, various 【Jars】, 【Lava Demon】—I've never seen any of these before!"

This discovery sent a chill down their spines.

"Hiss—" Luo Bai took a deep breath.

The challenge is several levels higher.

“Hmm, that’s not right.” Yi Lan thought for a moment, and then corrected herself out of a sense of rigor, “Someone has used the general-purpose card before, and one challenger used it with a back-attack five.”

"All five backcourt cards are general-purpose and have no fields."

"Oh?" Luo Bai became slightly interested. "What happened next?"

How did the Dharma King break through the opponent's five defenses?

Yilan tried hard to recall the details: "In the third round, one [Cooperation] was ineffective, one [Array] was excluded, one [Guide Array] in the graveyard was ineffective, and the remaining two attack traps were cleared by [Black Magician].

That's roughly how it happened.

"Oh—" Luo Bai nodded, silently took out his notebook, and wrote down the new information.

[2. During the duel with the King, the mysterious power of general-purpose Cain intervenes, significantly reducing the success rate, but not to zero.]

[3. If the King's first attack is not interrupted, the sequence is always 2 in front and 3 behind.]

"One tri-color counter, one strange-effect counter, one trigger/exclusion, one spell/trap/cure, and one unknown face-down card..."

"These are all cards related to our family..."

Luo Bai suddenly stopped what he was doing, looked up at Yi Lan and asked, "Is the Pharaoh's card draw in the third round fixed?"

“It’s not fixed.” Yi Lan shook her head and said, “There are currently three possibilities for T3 card draws: [Magician’s Staff], [Servant of Souls], and [Chronicle Witch].

"They all involve scheduling [servants] to draw cards."

"I haven't found a pattern in the cards I drew later, but they are all related to the Dark Magician."

“Hmm—” Luo Bai seemed to be deep in thought.

"You today..."

He nodded and looked at Yi Lan's profile.

"They were quite friendly."

The two of them would often bicker during their conversations.

Yi Lan glanced at him with a look of disdain, and Luo Bai immediately felt a surge of satisfaction: "That's it, that's it, that's the look in your eyes!"

After a long while.

"You..." Yi Lan began slowly, then her voice became complicated as she recalled that scene, "Can't you feel pain?"