A duelist never gives up!

"Ding!!!"

Accompanied by a crisp ringing of a bell, the big screen behind the stage showed the result of the duel:

Julie, Sierra lp: 8000→0

Win: Yuan Qi, Akro!

"They've appeared! The champions of this Qixi Festival couples doubles competition are—Akro and Yui!" The host, who had been prepared long ago, immediately came on stage and stood beside Yuan Qi, shouting excitedly, "Let's give them a warm round of applause!"

"Pah, pah, pah, pah!!!!"

Heated applause erupted from the audience. Sera, knocked to the ground by the huge impact, curled her lips in dissatisfaction: "Really... We two losers are still lying on the ground and that supporter can't wait to come on stage to celebrate."

"Because the time is almost up." Julie helped Sera up.

"What?" Sera asked in confusion.

"Boom!!!"

A huge and dull sound came from the tall bell tower.

The silver hands pointed to twelve o'clock, announcing the end of Valentine's Day.

At the same time, in the royal capital.

"I will use the Red Lotus Beast to attack you directly!" Honglian commanded the Red Lotus Beast on his field and gave the opponent the final blow.

"Really? Why did you choose Valentine's Day to escape?" Honglian, dressed in black, looked down at a member of the Anti-Duelers' League lying on the ground and said, "Don't you know that today is a day that many people are looking forward to?"

The Anti-Duelers' Alliance member lying on the ground gasped, beads of sweat dripping from his forehead onto the cold ground. Even so, he looked at Honglian fiercely and cursed, "Bah! Running dog of the Duelists' Alliance! Do you think you deserve to celebrate the festival?"

"You seem to have misunderstood something. I was just expressing my feelings out of boredom. This festival has nothing to do with me." Honglian shrugged, took out handcuffs from his waist, bent down and handcuffed the Anti-Duel Alliance member on the ground.

"Get ready for prison food. I heard the food in prison is pretty good. They serve meat once a week."

Just as Honglian was holding the guy, the communicator in Honglian's chest pocket rang.

"Beep beep! This is Team Seagull. We've encountered the remnants of the Anti-Duelers' League and their leader, Zephyr, on Kroll Street! Requesting support from other teams! Requesting support from other teams!"

"Seagull Squad?" Honglian thought for a moment. She remembered that the area the Seagull Squad was responsible for seemed to be very close to her.

Honglian looked at the other teammates who were still dueling not far away, thought for a moment, and immediately took a step forward.

"Team Honglian, Xifeng is a very dangerous duelist, be careful." Shi Yu, who was dueling with two duelists at the same time, suddenly spoke.

"Captain, would you like to lend me some rare cards?" Honglian asked half-jokingly.

Shi Yu was slightly stunned, then immediately threw out a card and said, "Take this."

"Really?" Honglian took the card subconsciously and said with some surprise.

"I'm just lending it to you." Shi Yu said calmly, "This is new stuff I got from internal channels, so don't lose it."

"New stuff?" Honglian glanced at the card in her hand, her pupils suddenly shrinking, and her lazy and playful face suddenly became serious. She bent down and said to Shi Yu, "Thank you."

"Hey...that's great. I want to try out some new stuff too." The team member who was dueling on the side watched his opponent's performance boredly, and looked at Honglian who was walking away with jealousy.

"Who told you to be so slow?" Shi Yu said unhappily.

"My deck isn't suited for beheading, so can you blame me?"

"That's right, what's new? Captain, let's reveal it to you."

"It will be announced in a few months, and then everyone can exchange it with points." Shi Yu said as he directed the monsters on his field to attack.

"What type of card? Magic? Trap monster?"

Shi Yu was a little annoyed by their questions, so he could only say, "It's a newbie pit."

Chapter 65: It’s noon!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

In the dark alley, accompanied by a miserable scream, the last member of the Duelist Alliance fell to the ground.

"Great, now everything is resolved!" A member of the Anti-Duelers' Alliance said excitedly, "Lord Xifeng, let's go!"

"You take the injured with you and leave first." Xifeng shook his head and said, "I'll follow right away."

"Lord Xifeng..."

"Hurry up," Xifeng said in a deep voice, "The reinforcements from the Duelist Alliance will be arriving soon. I'll hold them off for you for a while."

"But……"

"This is an order!"

"……Yes!"

Xifeng watched the members of the Anti-Duel Alliance sneak into the secret passage one by one and sighed slightly.

The plan failed.

Not only that, Hongzhong's death and Dongfeng's arrest have left the entire Anti-Duel Alliance leaderless. Even if they escape this time, will this organization still have the power to continue resisting the Duelist Alliance?

Xifeng couldn't help but ponder, and at this moment, a crisp sound of footsteps gradually sounded:

"Pap, tap, tap..."

Xifeng looked at the figure appearing in the distance, his expression stiffening. He raised the duel disk in his hand and murmured softly, "He's here so soon?"

"Zefeng, one of the leaders of the Anti-Duelers League, is estimated to be a young male between 27 and 30 years old. He uses the Salamangreat deck. His true identity is... the former Duelists League investigator - Seventeen. Am I right?" The red-haired girl approached Zefeng with steady steps.

"Honglian... I didn't expect that you joined the Duelist Alliance?" Xifeng's eyelids drooped slightly, and a complex expression flashed in his black pupils.

"Aren't you surprised at all that I found out your identity?" Honglian said expressionlessly.

"It's easy to find out if you're serious about it," Xifeng said self-deprecatingly. "After all, my face seems to be displayed in the lobby of the Duelist League, right?"

"Why?" Honglian raised her head and looked at Xifeng and asked, "What was that 'sacrifice' back then? What's wrong with the Duelist Alliance? Why haven't you come back to see us all these years? Why did you join the Anti-Duelists Alliance?"

Xifeng looked at the girl in front of him, shook his head, raised the duel disk in his hand and said: "If you want to know, then duel with me."

"Other reinforcements will arrive soon. If you explain everything to me now, I can let you go." Honglian rejected Xifeng's request for a duel and said so.

"I have no intention of leaving the capital. From the moment my plan failed, I decided to go to prison to atone for my sins." Xifeng's face darkened. He repeated to Honglian, "Duel with me. If you win, I'll tell you everything."

Honglian hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and raised the duel disk in his hand: "Okay, you said it!"

"duel!"

"duel!"

"drop!"

As the duel began, Xifeng's duel disk rang slightly.

"It seems you won't know the answer." Xifeng's hoarse voice echoed in the alley, "I choose to take the initiative."

Xifeng said, using his slender fingers to quickly draw five cards, then took out a card and slapped it on the duel disk, saying: "I enter the main stage."

"Normal Summon Ladybug."

"brush!"

The electronic girl who looked like a giant ladybug appeared in the dark night and smiled brightly at Honglian.

"Is it going to unfold like this again?" Honglian looked at the ladybug girl in front of her and seemed to remember something.

Then, Honglian gently raised a green finger and said, "One."

"One?" Xifeng gave Honglian a strange look. "What one?"

Honglian did not answer Xifeng's question, but said calmly: "You continue."

Guren's inexplicable actions made Xifeng slightly wary. He stretched out his hand and said, "I activate Ladybug's effect and add Salamangreat Gazelle from the deck to my hand."

"Next, I place the Ladybug on the field onto the Link Marker and Link Summon!"

"The Salamander, the Flame Beast, the Beacon Lynx!"

An elegant Egyptian cat wearing silver armor appeared in Zephyr's ex area, with a ball of blazing flames burning on the device at the base of its tail.

Honglian looked at Fenghuo Lynx on the field and said quietly, "Two."

"Two? Are you referring to my summoning times?" Xifeng seemed to have grasped something. Why was he counting my summoning times? What would happen if I summoned more times?

Well, no matter what, Xifeng had no intention of changing the direction of development.

"I activate the effect of Salamangreat Beacon Lynx and add Salamangreat's Sanctuary from my deck to my hand." Xifeng directly inserted the retrieved card into the Duel Board. "Then, I activate Salamangreat's Sanctuary."

"Then I placed the Beacon Lynx on the connection mark and connected and summoned it again!"

"The second Salamander, the Flame Lynx!"

"Three." Honglian's voice sounded again at the right time.

"Sure enough, it's counting my summons." Xifeng began to think in his mind whether there was any card related to the number of summons, but even an experienced duelist like him could not find any related cards for a while.

His right hand, however, instinctively moved. "Because a Salamangreat monster other than Salamangreat Gazelle was sent to my Graveyard, I Special Summoned Salamangreat Gazelle from my hand."

"Four." Honglian's rosy lips opened and closed again in the darkness.

"I activate Antelope's effect and send Salamangreat's Roar from the Deck to the Graveyard," Zephyr said as he inserted another card from his hand onto the Duel Board. "I activate Salamangreat's Flame Array's effect and add Salamangreat's Armadillo from the Deck to my hand."

"After that, I activate Armadillo Lizard's effect, discard this card from my hand, target the Antelope on my field, increase its ATK by 500, and then activate Armadillo Lizard's effect to Special Summon this card from the Graveyard!"

As Xifeng slammed the armadillo lizard in the graveyard onto the duel disk, Honglian uttered the last number:

"five!"

Honglian said, and suddenly slapped a card in his hand on the duel disk and said: "I activate the original life form Nibiru in my hand!"

"You can only activate this effect during the Main Phase of the turn your opponent Normal Summoned or Special Summoned 5 or more monsters. Tribute as many face-up monsters as you and your opponent control, and Special Summon this card from your hand. Afterwards, Special Summon 1 "Primitive Lifeform Token" (Rock-Type, Light, Level 11, Attack/Defense?) on your opponent's side of the field. The ATK and DEF of this token become the sum of the original ATK and DEF of the monsters Tributed by this effect!"

A huge fiery red meteorite fell from the sky!

Chapter 66: Codename: Whiteboard

"Boom!!!"

In just a moment, the three monsters in the West Wind Field were smashed into ashes by the huge meteorite!

There was only one defensive giant primitive life form derivative standing alone on Xifeng's field, which was the evidence that the monsters had once existed.

"I see. Is this why you count the number of summons?" Xifeng calmly inserted three hand cards into the duel disk and said, "If that's the case, why don't you count it silently in your mind? What if I become alert and reduce the number of summons?"

"I'm just giving myself a psychological hint." Honglian bent over and gently rubbed her temple with her slender right hand, panting, "Otherwise I wouldn't be able to use such a powerful monster card."

Xifeng looked at Honglian who was standing opposite him. He was obviously in a powerful trap and was at a great disadvantage, but Honglian's condition was much worse than his.

"Why did you become a duelist?" Xifeng asked in confusion, looking at Honglian, who was already panting after just using a hand trap. "What's so good about being a duelist?"

"Don't you think it's strange that everything is decided by duels?"

"Don't you think it's ridiculous to arrest a criminal by dueling?"

"Is this why you joined the Anti-Duelers League?" Honglian seemed to have recovered and straightened his back again. "Want to change the world? I didn't expect that you, who are almost 30 years old, still have the heart of a young man."

"This has nothing to do with the young man." Xifeng frowned and turned his face away slightly.

"The reason I became a duelist is simple." Honglian chuckled, "Because I have a stubborn temper."

"Everyone says I'm Forsaken by God, that I can't duel, that I'll never be able to become a duelist... Haha, why?" Honglian said with a cold face, "Why can't I duel? Why can't I become a duelist? Who arranged this? Who decided this? Fate? Talent? God?"

"Don't be ridiculous," Honglian suppressed his rage, gritting his teeth and forcing a voice from his throat, "I absolutely must duel! I absolutely must become a duelist! That's not enough, I want to become the Duel King! I want to personally see the so-called God! I want to see what the so-called God of Duel, the source of everything that everyone admires and respects, really looks like!"

"Come on, since you have covered all the cards in your hand, let's end the round. It's my turn!" Honglian said in a deep voice.

"Okay, I'll end this round like this." Xifeng nodded.

"Then it's my turn, draw a card!" Honglian suddenly pulled a card from the deck, then inserted it into the duel disk without hesitation, "I activate the magic card - Pot of Greed!"

"Exclude 10 cards from your deck, then draw two!" Honglian said, drawing two cards from her deck. "Next, I activate the effect of the Mechanical Snake - Kurogane Ryuji!"

"If this card is in your hand or graveyard, you can banish 8 cards from the top of your deck face-down to Special Summon this card!"

A three-headed mechanical snake twisted its mechanical body, making a crackling sound and appeared on Honglian's field.

"Ouch!!!" Honglian's brain, which had finally recovered, began to hurt again. The huge shadow of the mechanical snake appeared behind Honglian, trying to control Honglian's body.

"Just...behave yourself!" Honglian looked coldly at the mechanical snake on her field. In an instant, it seemed as if a scorching pressure burst out from her petite body and began to violently erode in all directions.

And in her pupils, the reflection of the Red Lotus Monster appeared.