A duelist never gives up!

"Tsk." Alice smacked her lips unhappily. "I'll chain activate the effects of Half-Dragon Maid: Radiant Dragon Maiden!"

"You can only activate this card when your opponent activates a Spell, Trap, or Monster effect. Negate that activation and destroy it. Return this card to its owner's Extra Deck, and Special Summon 1 "Half-Dragon Maid - Dragon Butler" from the Extra Deck!"

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, a dazzling light spurted out from the mouth of the Radiant Maid and hit the Abyss Dragon White World Reincarnated Dragon in the original Seven Cemeteries. After that, the Radiant Maid turned into a ball of light and returned to Alice's deck. In her place, a black-haired maid wearing glasses appeared on Alice's field with a smile on her face.

"Attack power... 3000." Yuan Qi muttered, "Higher than Rhinohorn."

If you don’t get a usable card in the next draw, you will be in trouble.

"Well, it's my turn, draw a card!" Yuan Qi suddenly drew a card from the deck.

"This card... is fine too." Yuan Qi quickly inserted the card he drew into the duel disk and said, "I'll cover a card..."

"Is this the end of the round?" Alice's eyes lit up and she asked excitedly.

"No, I'll activate the effect of Rhynohorn." Hara Nana shook his head. "Target the Half-Dragon Maid, Dragon Butler on your field. Place a Predation Counter. The Level of the placed Level 2 or higher monster becomes Level 1. This effect can also be activated during your opponent's turn."

After saying that, Yuan Qi continued, "I'll end this round like this."

"Then it's my turn, draw a card!" Alice said, and suddenly drew a card. After taking a look at the card, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and a light smile appeared on her pretty face.

"I'm entering the battle phase," Alice said with a wave of her hand. "Use the half-dragon maid, Dragon Housekeeper, to attack the plant-eating Rhinoceros!"

"Chain!" Yuan Qi suddenly opened the face-down card in his hand and said, "I activate the Trap Card - Claws of a Lifetime of Evil. I change the Dragon Housekeeper on your field to face-down Defense Position, and then send the Siren Mermaid from your deck to the Graveyard!"

With the activation of Claw Sound of a Bad Friction, the Dragon Housekeeper on the field became a face-down card, and the Siren Mermaid, who was sent to the graveyard, also began to activate her own effect.

"I activate the effect of Siren Mermaid!" Yuan Qi stretched out his hand and shouted, "I return Siren Mermaid and Little Mermaid to the deck!"

"Fusion Summon!"

"Pearl Tear Lament Tribe - Narcissus Mermaid!!!"

As transparent bubbles slowly emerged in the air, the Narcissus mermaid once again appeared in front of everyone. The blue armor on the girl made her delicate skin look even whiter, sparkling like pearls in a shell under the light.

Chapter 41: Xiaolan, are you healthy too?

"I activate the effect of Narcissus Mermaid from the Pearl Tear Lament Clan. This can only be activated if this card is successfully Special Summoned. Select 1 "Pearl Tear Lament Clan" card from your deck and add it to your hand or send it to the Graveyard!" Hara Nana stretched out his hand and directed the Narcissus Mermaid on his field.

"There are no more basic traps in the deck. Do you want to summon a second predatory plant?" Ai asked with his head tilted.

"Summoning a second one will cut off our endurance," Yuan Qi shook his head and said, "I'm adding the Pearl Tear Singer Mermaid from my deck!"

Yuan Qi chose Xiaolan, the ancestor of Zhu Lei, and also stacked three, but the success rate of Zhu Lei stacking three was higher than that of Dragon Maid.

"Tsk." Alice couldn't help but exclaim.

It's clearly a trap card, and it has the "Impedance" effect, so why does it also have the expansion effect? ​​Isn't that outrageous?

Alice looked at the card she had just drawn, sighed helplessly, and murmured, "Is this the only way?"

"I'm entering main phase two."

"Normal Summon - Half-Dragon Maid, Washermaid." Alice gently placed the Washermaid in her hand on her duel disk with hope on her face.

As Alice finished her words, a little girl wearing a purple lining and a pure white apron appeared on the duel field. Like other half-dragon maids, the laundry dragon lady also had a pair of soft dragon horns and a big furry tail, looking like a cute big plush doll.

In the world before Yuan Qi, the Dragon Washer Lady became the favorite of many duelists because of her cute appearance and silly effects (crossed out). Everyone even gave her a cute nickname - Xiaolan.

Its fur is obviously purple (probably because of its water attribute).

The cute little blue gently shook his big tail. After seeing the two powerful monsters on the original seven fields, and then looking at the dragon housekeeper who had turned into a card beside him, he immediately understood the current situation.

This situation...isn't this the perfect opportunity I've been pursuing, to help my master turn the tide and achieve victory? ! ! !

Xiaolan's amber eyes lit up slightly, and he quickly stretched and stretched his muscles to show that he was ready.

"Then I'll activate Washermaid's effect!" Alice pursed her lips, a little nervous. "This can only be activated if this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Special Summoned. Send three cards from the top of your deck to the Graveyard!"

"Wait!" Yuan Qi hurriedly stopped him. "I'm activating the effect of the Rhinohorn Dragon, targeting the Washerwoman on your field and placing a Predation Counter there, negating her effect!"

"You want to win even with a blind pile of three?" Alice felt a little stomachache.

"What if it piles up on you?" Yuan Qi said as a matter of course.

"Never mind. I wasn't expecting it anyway." Alice shook her head and reached her slender hand into the graveyard. "I'll activate the changing function of the half-dragon maid in the graveyard."

"Choose the Laundry Dragon on my field as the target, add this card to your hand, and return the Laundry Dragon to my hand." Alice said lightly.

"Then, I activate the magic card—Half-Dragon Maid's Clothes!" Alice quickly inserted the Half-Dragon Maid's Clothes that had just returned to her hand into the Duel Board. "I send the Washing Dragon Maid in my hand and the Dragon Housekeeper on the field to the graveyard!"

"Fusion Summon!"

"Resurrect once more! Half-dragon maid, Radiant Dragon Maiden!!!"

Accompanied by a dazzling light, Alice's trump card - the Radiant Dragon Girl gently landed on the field.

"Then, I'll end this turn!" Alice, who lost the combat phase, had no other means of clearing the field, so she had to end this turn.

"Well, it's my turn, draw a card!" Yuan Qi suddenly drew a card and said.

At this point, it doesn’t really matter what card you draw.

because……

"The formula for victory is set!" Yuan Qi shouted. "I'm activating the effect of the Rhinohorn! This negates the effect of the Radiant Dragonette on your side of the field!"

"Don't even think about it!" Alice shouted hurriedly. "I chain-activate the effect of Radiant Dragon Lady, negating and destroying Rhynohorn's activation! Then, I return this card to its owner's Extra Deck and Special Summon 1 Half-Dragon Maid, Dragon Lady Butler!"

A fierce laser shot out from the mouth of the Yaoguang Dragon Girl and pierced through the body of the Rhinohorn Dragon at lightning speed. The Rhinohorn Dragon didn't even have time to scream before it turned into starlight and dissipated into the air.

After emitting this ray of light, the Radiant Dragon Lady returned to the extra deck again and pulled out the second half-dragon maid, Dragon Lady Butler.

"In this way, there will be no resistance." Yuan Qi smiled lightly. Although the Dragon Housekeeper has an attack power of up to 3000, without Kang, she is just a blank slate.

"I activate the effect of the Narcissus Mermaid on the field!" Yuan Qi said calmly, "Send the Little Mermaid on the field to the Graveyard, and Special Summon the Mermaid from my hand!"

The Narcissus mermaid swung the sword in her hand without hesitation and stabbed the little mermaid beside her. However, the little mermaid didn't care about it at all, because she knew that entering the cemetery was the time for her to truly contribute her strength to Yuan Qi.

"Clap!"

The Merlot Mermaid, who appeared with the Little Mermaid as a sacrifice, brandished the hammer in her hand and was eager to activate its effect.

"Well then, I'll first activate the effect of Graveyard Mermaid, then the effect of Pearly Tearful Lamentation Clan - Merlot Mermaid! c1c2!"

"I'm sending the top three cards from my deck to the graveyard!"

"They are the Cosmic Cyclone, the Siren Mermaid, and the One Life Bad-Pearl World!"

"I'm lucky, I got it." Ai saw this scene, clapped his hands lightly, and celebrated happily.

"Next, I return the Little Mermaid and Rhynohorn from the graveyard to the deck!"

"Fusion Summon!"

"Plant-eating Rhinohorn!!!"

Along with Yuan Qi's shout, the second Rhinoceros appeared on Yuan Qi's field, with a pair of red eyes looking fiercely at Alice opposite.

"Then, I'll activate the effect of Tearful Lament Tribe: Siren Mermaid! I'll return the Siren Mermaid and Merlot Mermaid in the Graveyard, as well as the Renoheart on the field, to the Deck!"

"Fusion Summon!"

"Karedohart of the Pearl Tear Singing Tribe!!!"

“Swish, swish, swish!!!”

As soon as Kaldorhat of the Pearl Tear Singer tribe appeared on the scene, he exuded a terrifying aura, like the monarch of the ocean, making people unable to help but feel fear.

"I activate the effect of Tearful Lament Tribe, Caredo Heart!" Hara Nana shouted. "If this card is Special Summoned successfully, or if a Water-Type monster is sent to your Graveyard by a card effect while this card is on the field, you can activate this effect by targeting 1 card your opponent controls. Return that card to its owner's Deck!"

"I choose the Dragon Housekeeper on your field!" Yuan Qi pointed at the only monster on Alice's field.

Chapter 42: Do you know the card deck called Zhan Ji?

"Snapped!"

Kaleduhart of the Pearl Tear Lament tribe swung a long whip and hit the butler hard, making a crisp sound, and did not stop until the butler disappeared.

After losing her butler, Alice's field became empty, without a single monster. Like a lamb to be slaughtered, her pretty face, pale as a blood, made one feel pity.

But Yuan Qi will not show mercy to his opponent.

"I'm entering the battle phase!" Yuan Qi said without hesitation, waving his hand. "Use the Rhinohorn, Narcissus Mermaid, and Kaledohart to directly attack you!"

"3000+2700+2300, exactly 8000 LP damage." Ai couldn't help but clap his hands and chuckle at the sight, "We won."

"Peng!"

As Ai finished speaking, Alice was blown away by the huge impact and fell to the ground from mid-air.

Alice LP: 8000 → 0

Win: Yuan Qi!!!

"Great!" Nafeli couldn't help but applaud when he saw this scene. "What a wonderful duel!"

Another spectator, Gu Liangxun, simply murmured, "Sure enough, compared to Pearl Tears, the Dragon Maid is still much weaker."

Through this duel, Gu Liangxun has realized the power of the Zhulei deck.

"The power of Pearl Tears isn't its ability to prey on plants, ice sword dragons, and Xiaomi, but something more fundamental—its ability to quickly mobilize resources." Gu Liangxun muttered to herself as she sat in her chair. "In that case, instead of trying to disable the terminal, why not... find a way to cut off the root cause?"

"Are you starting to think about it now?" Nafeli chuckled as he passed by Gu Liangxun.

"Don't you think it's rude to eavesdrop on other people's monologues?" Gu Liangxun raised his eyebrows, stood up from the chair, and walked downstairs in a bad mood.

"Then just keep it in your heart and don't say it out loud." Nafeli scratched his hair and said.

On the duel field, Alice got up from the ground, brushed off the non-existent dust on her body, straightened her clothes, and walked towards Yuan Qi with a smile on her face: "Although I am a little unwilling, congratulations."

"So, there are 10 left, right?"

"Yeah." Yuan Qi nodded.

Then, Alice looked at Hara Nana with interest and said, "Why don't you take out your Death Note and draw a line on it?"

"Ahem, just a record." When Yuan Qi heard Alice say this, he took out the list and pen and lightly circled Alice's name.

At this moment, he seemed to have thought of something. He scanned the list from the very beginning and found a familiar name: "Gu Liangxun..."

"What? Are you already impatient to attack me?" Gu Liangxun suddenly appeared in front of Yuan Qi and said.

Yuan Qi was slightly frightened when he saw the figure that suddenly appeared, and the list in his hand fell to the ground.

Gu Liangxun didn't wait for Yuan Qi's reply and continued to talk to himself, "But even if you want to duel with me now, I won't agree."

"Why?" Yuan Qi asked subconsciously.

"Because I'm not ready yet." Gu Liangxun bent down, picked up the list, pointed at one of the names and said, "Before you duel with me again, you can try to find this guy first."

"Akro Olsen?" Yuan Qi looked at the name that Gu Liangxun pointed at and read it out softly.

"I heard that he recently obtained a card deck called Zhan Ji. Aren't you interested in trying to duel with him?" Gu Liangxun said softly.

"You want him to duel with a deck like Akro's, whose deck information hasn't been released yet?!" Nafeli said to Yuan Qi, "Let's wait a little longer and duel with other teachers first."

"No, the next target is Akro!" Ai puffed up her cheeks beside Yuan Qi and pointed at Gu Liangxun, saying, "This woman is just provoking us! If we retreat here, we'll lose!"

Yuan Qi thought for a moment. He didn't care about this kind of thing, but since Ai did care, then...

"It's okay. I haven't decided on my next target anyway, so let's go with Teacher Akro." Yuan Qi shook his head.

"Wow, you are quite confident." Gu Liangxun said with her eyes lowered.

"There's no need to listen to Xun. If you don't have a goal, I recommend Aunt Makoto Takeshita." Alice advised.

"No, let's just have Teacher Akro." Yuan Qi said stubbornly.

Maybe in the eyes of others, Zhan Ji is an unfamiliar card deck, but in my own eyes, well, although I am not very familiar with it, but... Ai knows!

As the God of Duel, Ai knows the effects of all cards, and Zhan Ji is just a drop in the ocean of knowledge.

"In that case, keep going." Nafeli was silent for a moment, then lightly punched Yuan Qi's chest with his fist. "Although I don't know what the Zanji deck is, but Mr. Akro likes to spread out his deck, so I guess Zanji is also of that type."