A duelist never gives up!

"Looks like it's my turn next." Akro placed his hand on his deck and said, "My turn, draw a card!"

"brush!"

Akro suddenly drew a card and then entered the preparation stage.

"Because of the effect of the Lava Demon, you will suffer 1000lp damage when you enter the preparation phase!" Ryan said to Akro.

"It doesn't matter." Akro smiled.

Hara Shichi & Akro LP: 16000 → 15000.

Chapter 49: Even if it is printed on paper, I still can’t afford it.

"I'm entering the main phase." Akro stretched out his hand and said solemnly, "Place the Lava Golem and Owl on the field to the connection mark!"

The blue connection circuit appeared again in the night sky, shining with blue light.

"Another link summon?" Ryan frowned. He had originally planned to leave the Lava Demon to the opponent and deduct as much of the opponent's LP as possible to make it easier for Mary to kill him in the next round. He didn't expect that it would become the opponent's link material?

"The requirement is two monsters with different card names!"

"Connect Summon!"

"Dream Collapse Phoenix!"

The fire phoenix with a mechanical skeleton flapped its wings and emitted a clear and melodious chirping sound in the air.

“Talented people will continue to climb higher, while those without talent will stay where they are and be left far behind.”

Mary, standing nearby, looked at the fiery red phoenix before her. She gently parted her lips and said abruptly, "This sentence is the evaluation of Link Summoning made by the Duelist Academy Dean after its appearance."

"That's quite true." Ryan showed a bitter smile on his face.

It would have been fine if only one person had mastered Link Summoning, but unexpectedly, two people had mastered Link Summoning. This situation reminded Ryan of a sentence his teacher had said to him when he was a child:

“Some people get full marks because that’s all they can do, while others get full marks because that’s all the test paper can offer.”

The emergence of connection summons has allowed true geniuses to emerge and false geniuses to fall from grace.

"I'm afraid the gap between duelists will become even wider in the future," Ryan couldn't help but think.

"Don't worry, there won't be that future." Ai heard Ryan muttering to himself, crossed his arms over his chest, and smiled slightly. "By next year, you won't have to bother learning any new summoning techniques."

"Everyone will duel on the table then, and the cards will be printed on paper, so we won't have to worry about not being able to buy rare cards."

Yuan Qi opened his mouth, thinking back to his past life, which had yet to be replicated: the Bookworm, the Visit, the Sky Thunder… He said faintly, “Actually, I still can’t afford it.”

"That's just because you don't want to spend money." Ai muttered softly.

While the two were talking, Akro had already activated the effect of the Phoenix.

"I will discard Sigma the Slayer from my hand and choose the face-down card on the right side of your field to destroy it!" Akro pointed at a face-down card of Ryan.

"Don't even think about it!" Ryan flipped open another of his face-down cards and said, "I'm chain-activating Infinite Bubbles to negate the Phoenix on your field!"

Dream Collapse: The Phoenix flapped its wings and was about to spit out blazing flames from its mouth when a bolt of thunder fell from the sky and struck the Phoenix!

"Crack!"

The electric current passed through the phoenix's entire body, turning its originally fiery red body black.

"Don't you need to take a walk?" Yuan Qi asked from the side. If he used the cover cards on his field to take a walk, he could get rid of the opponent's two backfield cards in one go.

"That's not necessary." Akro chuckled. "Just leave it for me to use as resistance if I fail to kill you."

Although... he won't fail in the kill.

Akro's eyes flashed, and he showed a card from his hand and said, "I activate the effect of my Slasher, sending Slasher from the deck to the graveyard, and Special Summon this card from my hand!"

"Cut the machine?" Ryan's face turned even uglier. He stroked the last card on his field and hesitated, "I've never heard of this deck before..."

"Send it. If there is a second connection, there must be a third connection. We can't let them continue to climb the connection value." At this time, Mary was much calmer.

Ryan glanced at Mary, nodded, opened his cover card and said, "I will chain activate the God's Notice!"

"Deduct 1500lp, invalidate, and destroy your Yuanwu activation!"

Ryan & Mary lp16000→14500.

"Although Enmusubi was destroyed, the effect of Disarmament sent to the Graveyard is still effective." Akro said calmly, "I activate the effect of Disarmament from the Graveyard. Since this card was sent to the Graveyard, I will activate it targeting the Beast King on your field, and the Beast King's attack power will be halved!"

Beastmaster ATK: 3000 → 1500.

"Then, I normally summon the Machine-Slashing Blade." Akro said as he slapped a monster in his hand onto the duel disk.

Then, a warrior made of silver metal appeared in front of Akro, brandishing his weapon.

"I activate the effect of Slasher!" Akro continued. "When this card is successfully Normal Summoned, you can activate this effect by targeting 1 Cyberse-Type Level 4 monster in your Graveyard. Special Summon that monster. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect cannot activate their effects!"

"I Special Summon the Slasher from the Graveyard!"

The golden Chuwu brandished a long sword in his hand and appeared on the duel field with murderous intent, as if he was going to chop the two people standing opposite him into pieces in the next second.

"No wonder I've never heard of the card deck called Machine Slash. Is it the latest Cybertron monster?" Ryan said in a deep voice. Now all the resistances on his field have been used up. Fortunately, the doubles LP is 16000 in total. Unless it is a card deck that excels in killing, it cannot deal such high damage.

"Looks like it's up to you now." Ryan said to Mary.

Mary smiled slightly, held Ryan's hand and said, "It's okay, leave it to me."

Honestly, she has a very good hand.

Lightning Strike, Restriction Release, Cyber ​​Dragon Core, Power Combined, Cyber ​​Dragon.

Even if I can't kill it successfully, I can still create the Cyber ​​Dragon Infinity to provide resistance.

"No, you don't have another turn." Akro pulled out a card from his extra drawer and announced to the two, "I will stack the Zan Ji Jing Wu and Zan Ji Chu Wu on the field!"

"A massive network of two monsters!"

"Super Summon!"

"The tampered calculator!"

"Use electromagnetic waves to wipe out the fools!"

"Block-chopping machine operator d'Alembert!!!"

Crackling electric currents wrapped around the black and gold body of D'Alembert, emitting a blinding light in the darkness, like a giant light bulb.

"I activate D'Alembert's effect, removing two materials and adding Slasher Gamora from my deck to my hand." Akro was quick. Although he had only recently acquired this deck, he had already practiced with it many times privately. "I continue to activate D'Alembert's effect, releasing the Phoenix on the field! Special Summon Slasher Gamora from the graveyard!"

"Then, I activate the effect of my Slasher Reducer to target the Beastmaster on your field and Special Summon this card!"

"And the attack power of Beastmaster Alpha on your field will be reduced by another 1000!"

Beastmaster Alpha's ATK: 1500 → 500

Chapter 50: You don’t have a next round!

As the orange-red Zan Ji Jia Bu appeared, Yuan Wu on the field seemed to sense the arrival of his partner and began to activate his own effect.

"I activate the effect of Yuanwu on the field!" Akro continued. "This card is already in the Monster Zone. If you have another "Cutter" monster Normal Summoned or Special Summoned on your field, you can activate this effect. Add 1 "Cutter" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand!"

"I added the magic card - Machine Blade Nayuta from the deck to my hand." Akro continued.

Of course, under normal circumstances, he would not play this card in his construction.

This is entirely because under the doubles rules and limited time, certain adjustments are made in order to kill quickly, including the cutting machine and eliminating weapons.

Akro didn't rush to activate the magic card in his hand. Instead, he reached out to the graveyard and said, "I will activate the effect of Sigma the Slasher in the graveyard."

"You can only activate this if this card exists in your hand or graveyard and you have no monsters in your Extra Monster Zone. Special Summon this card!"

Sigma's silver body seemed to be covered with flame-like tattoos, and the long swords held in his hands emitted a sharp cold light in the moonlight.

"Then, I will adjust the stars of Zanji Yuanbu, Zanji Jianbu, and Zanji Sigma on the field!"

"Three four-star monsters are being adjusted?!" Ryan's pupils shrank suddenly. Although it doesn't mean that the higher the level, the stronger the monster, but high-star monsters are often very strong.

Especially the 12-star monsters, most of them are very powerful!

Akro also clearly took this summons very seriously. His voice was low and his expression became solemn and serious:

"The ultimate slayer wielding the Crimson Lotus Blade! Destroy your enemies with your flaming blade!"

"Synchronic Summon!"

"Flame Slasher Final Sigma!!!"

Silver and red are intertwined on the metal body, the red windbreaker flutters in the night wind, and Sigmar the Last walks out from the blazing fire, holding a golden long sword.

"Is this... a level 12 Synchro Monster?" Ryan couldn't help but feel alert and began to figure out the monster in front of him.

For example... why should Sigma be placed specifically in the EX zone? Wouldn't it be better to leave it there for the Link Monsters?

Akro had no intention of giving Ryan an answer. He showed a card in his hand and said, "I activate the effect of my Slasher Plus, targeting Sigma on the field, and Special Summon this monster!"

"Then, Sigma's attack power increases by 1000!"

Sigma atk: 3000→4000!

"Then, I will activate the equipment magic card - Machine Blade Nayuta, and equip it on Sigma!" Akro inserted the Nayuta that he had prepared long ago into the duel disk.

So, Sigma on the Akro field had another huge machete in his hand.

"Next, it's the finale!" Akro waved his hand and shouted, "I enter the combat phase and use the Flame Slasher, Sigma Doom, to attack Beast King Alpha on your field!"

"If 4000 hits 500 points, it's only 3500 points of damage, not a big problem." Ryan said this, not knowing whether he was comforting Mary beside him or comforting himself.

"No, he just said this is the last one." Mary shook her head. "A level 12 monster can't be this easy. I'm afraid we're going to lose."

Mary was right, Sigma was sure to win this duel!

"During battle damage calculation, I activate the effect of Zanjitsu Nayuta and send Zanjitsu Nayuta from the deck to the graveyard! Sigma's attack power becomes 4500!"

"Next, I will activate the effect of Chengwu!"

"If this card is sent to the Graveyard, you can target 1 Cyberse-Type monster in your Extra Monster Zone. That monster's ATK is doubled until the end of this turn!"

"Sigma's attack power doubles! Attack power increases to 9000!"

With the blessing of Chengwu's power, the flames on Sigma's body began to become more intense. He waved his long sword and directly cut the beast king, who was weakened to death by various cutting machines, into two halves!

"Ahhhh!!!"

Ryan and Mary were both knocked away by the huge impact and fell heavily to the ground.

"It's not over yet!" Ryan shouted from the ground, "9000-500, that's only 8500 damage..."

"No, it's over." Mary helped Ryan up from the ground and said, "Our LP has returned to zero."

"What?" Ryan raised his head suddenly and found that the duel was over before he even noticed.

He clenched his fist unwillingly and said to Mary with an apologetic look, "I'm sorry, I seem to have made too many mistakes in this duel."

"Anyone would make mistakes when facing an unfamiliar deck, right?" Mary said, pulling out six heart gems from her pocket. "As a bet, these are given to you."

"Thank you." Yuan Qi took the heart gem and said.

This brings their total from 7 to 13.

"Can you tell me about the effect of Sigma?" Ryan asked suddenly, "The reason we lost was because of Sigma, right?"

Akro was taken aback for a moment, then replied, "Sigma's effect is that the battle damage dealt to your opponent by this card in the Extra Monster Zone through battle with your opponent's monsters is doubled."

"In other words, it wasn't 8500 damage, but 17000 damage."

"I see!" Ryan suddenly reacted and looked at Yuan Qidao, "No wonder you used Infinite Bubbles to negate my Beast King. Was it to make it easier for Sigma to kill him?!"

"Yeah." Yuan Qi nodded slightly.

"That's exactly what happened!" Ryan said excitedly, his face flushed. "I originally suspected that you two were just participating in the doubles competition under the guise of homosexuality, but now I have changed my mind."

"Even though there was no communication between the two sides, they were able to put on such a wonderful performance. You must have a very strong bond, right?"

"Come on! Don't care about the world's gaze, just keep going happily!" Ryan and Mary waved to Akro and Yuan Qi and said their blessings.

Yuan Qi looked at the two people who left, covered his face in pain, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go and find the next pair."

Right now, on the other side.

"You actually dare to attack in front of my hero. You're quite brave." Sera raised her eyebrows and looked at the three monsters in attack position on the opponent's field.

"Stop talking nonsense and finish the game quickly to move on to the next one," Julie urged from the side.