A duelist never gives up!

Moreover, Yuan Qi's intuition told him that there must be some connection between Ino and Ai. Why did Ai, the God of Duel, look exactly like an ordinary girl? Why did both of them have the character "Yi" in their names?

There are so many doubts that one has to delve deeper into them.

What's more important is, if the Dark God of Duel wanted to harm him, why didn't he just do it directly? Since he could pull him into the illusion, then he could also torture him to the point of collapse in the illusion, right?

"Ayi." Yuan Qi spoke slowly, his voice calm but firm, "I want to continue participating in the trial."

"Just because of that woman named Ino?!" Ai exclaimed, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and there seemed to be drops of water swirling in her blue eyes.

"Yes, but there's more to it than that." Yuan Qi and Ai looked at each other and said, "I continue to participate in the trial because I want to get to know you better."

"Know me better?" Ai's face flushed, and she felt shy and confused. She hid her fair hands behind her back and twisted them around. "What does this have to do with me?"

"Yes." Yuan Qi nodded and said, "Inuo has some similarities with you in both appearance and personality. What's more, your names both contain the word 'Yi'. Do you really think that girl has nothing to do with you?"

"Even if there's a connection, I don't want to..." Ai muttered softly, "I don't want you to get involved any further."

"It's okay. If the Dark God of Duel wanted to harm me, he would have done it long ago..."

"If we don't act now, maybe he has a bigger plan!"

Yuan Qi was speechless.

Ai's argument is correct, reasonable and logical. Moreover, as the leader of an organization, he really cannot act rashly.

Yuan Qi looked at Sera, looked at Xuefeng, looked at Julie, Honglian, Baiban, Beifeng, and looked at everyone present, with a hint of determination in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Bai Ban raised an eyebrow and asked, "A person is standing there motionless. Shouldn't he continue the trial?"

Yuan Qi shook his head, smiled slightly and said, "I..."

"No, you should continue with the trial, Ah Qi."

Just when Yuan Qi was about to say that he didn't want to continue participating in the trial, Ai spoke.

"Although it's reckless and dangerous, and although I don't want you to continue, if you want to, then go ahead." Ai floated in front of Yuan Qi, cupping his cheek with her slender fingers and looking him in the eye. "As long as it's your wish, no matter how willful or unreasonable, I will help you."

"Ayi..." Yuan Qi called Ai's name in a low voice, seemingly saying nothing, yet as if he had expressed all his emotions.

"Besides... she's just the Dark Duel God. I don't know if she dragged you into this illusion, but if she really wants to harm you, I won't be a pushover!" Ai said, her eyes becoming dangerous. "Don't worry about it. Don't feel any psychological burden!"

Yuan Qi felt warm in his heart, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously: "Thank you, Ayi."

"I'm on it!"

"Snapped!"

With a slight sound, Yuan Qi clapped his hands on the handprint, and the black mist once again floated out from the cracks in the wall, forming a vague human figure.

"Welcome, Duelist. I am the guardian of the third level. Defeat me and you can proceed to the next level."

The familiar opening line echoed once again in the vast air. Yuan Qi extended his hand and greeted the guardian warmly, "Hello, see you again."

"This is the first time we meet, Duelist." The Guardian's cold and ethereal voice sounded, as if what he said was true.

"Still being stubborn, forget it... The rules this time are a bit complicated, let's make it quick." Yuan Qi inserted the deck into the duel disk and said to the guardian, "Let's duel."

"duel!"

"duel!"

"drop!"

With a slight sound, the guardian got the option of going first or second.

"It seems your trial will end here." The guardian said indifferently, "I choose to take the initiative."

"That's not necessarily true." Yuan Qi slowly drew five cards from his deck, looked at his hand, and a confident smile appeared on his face.

Although Yuan Qi looked very confident, Julie and others behind him did not think so.

"Is it really okay? If the front field is banned, then monsters are basically banned, right?" Julie said, holding her chin. "If we only use magic and traps to fight, there is only one way to win, and that is—a special victory."

"The success rate of special victory is already low. If the opponent takes the initiative and creates resistance, it will be even more impossible to pass."

"You mean, Yuan Qi is bluffing?" Honglian said.

"If it were someone else, I might think so, but as for Hara Nana..." Julie began to waver a little at this point. "I always feel like that guy won't lose no matter what the situation is."

"It's not a feeling, it's a fact!" Xuefeng puffed up her cheeks and said, "Since Yuan Qi dared to duel, he must be confident of victory. A mere front-line ban won't stop Yuan Qi!"

"That's what I thought." Sera coughed twice and said, "We can only watch from the sidelines anyway, so why not trust Yuan Qi first!"

Just as everyone was discussing in low voices behind Yuan Qi, the Guardian began his action.

"I enter the Main Phase and Normal Summon the Solitary Exorcist."

As the guardian finished speaking, a handsome giant wolf appeared on the duel field, shining brightly in the dim underground space.

"A lone beast killer?" Yuan Qi looked at the monster that appeared on the Guardian's field and couldn't help but raise his eyelids slightly. "Could it be..."

"I activate the effect of Lonely Exorcist," the guardian continued. "When this card is successfully Normal Summoned, you can activate this effect by banishing 1 monster from your hand. And banishing 1 monster of the same Type as that monster from your deck."

"I banish Thunder Dragon from my hand and Solar Cell Man from my deck!"

"Sure enough, it's a thunder dragon." Yuan Qi couldn't help but sigh as he watched the guardian's operation.

Chapter 46: Let’s continue.

"It's actually a thunder dragon?!"

Honglian couldn't help but speak out.

"What's wrong with Lei Long?" Xuefeng blinked and said in confusion.

Although she defeated a powerful enemy like Avis, she actually didn't know much about professional duelists. She had heard the names of many powerful decks but didn't know their specific effects.

"It's not particularly strong, but it has a troublesome end point." Sera couldn't help but wince at the mention of Thunder Dragon. "Cyclo Thunder Dragon - Thunder Dragon, a must-have in Thunder Dragon decks. It has a powerful blocking effect that prevents the opponent from adding cards from their deck to their hand except by drawing cards as long as this card is in the Monster Zone."

"A front-field ban plus a search ban?" Xuefeng bit her lower lip lightly, a little dissatisfied. "It really doesn't make sense no matter how I think about it. Isn't this duel too unfair?"

"How can a duel be fair? Especially since this is a trial." Bai Ban said helplessly, spreading his hands. "When asking for help from others, you naturally have to be more humble."

What's more, this is the trial of the God of Dark Duel.

He's not a good person.

"So what if it's Thunder Dragon?" Yuan Qi glanced at his hand and said nonchalantly, "Let's see what you can do. You can't just make a Super Thunder Dragon - Thunder Dragon and pass it, right? That's too lame."

"Don't worry, I will meet your expectations." The Guardian said, and continued to unfold, "I activate the effect of the Thunder Dragon, the Thunder Dragon, which is banished from the area."

"When this card is banished or sent from the field to the Graveyard, you can activate this card. Special Summon 1 Thunder Dragon monster from your Deck in Defense Position."

"I Special Summon Thunder Dragon - Thunder Dragon in Defense Position from my Deck!"

"Crack!"

The golden lightning made a crisp sound in the air, and then a black dragon appeared in the lightning, flapping its black bone wings and swooping down from the sky, then slowly stopped in mid-air.

"Then, I set the Thunder Dragon and the Solitary Exorcist on the Field to the Link Markers!" The Guardian's previously ethereal voice, like a reading, suddenly became increasingly high-pitched, as if a machine had been injected with a soul and suddenly possessed human emotions. "The summoning conditions are two monsters with different card names!"

"Connect Summon!"

"Interwoven sheep!"

Following the Guardian's command, the two monsters on the field transformed into two beams of white light and were injected into the blue connection circuit. The next second, a sheep wearing a gray apron and sitting on a wooden chair appeared in front of the Guardian. It was using its black hooves to do a job that was not in line with its physiology - knitting dolls.

Although it was difficult to understand how its sheep's hooves, which could only open and close, could manipulate needles and thread to perform delicate work, Duel Monsters had never needed rationality.

"I activate the effect of Thunder Dragon in my Graveyard!" Before Hara Nana could continue observing the strangely behaving sheep before him, the Guardian quickly called out, "This card can only be activated when it is banished or sent from the field to the Graveyard. Add one Thunder Dragon card other than Thunder Dragon from your Deck to your hand!"

"I add Thunderbird Dragon - Thunder Dragon from my deck to my hand! Then, I activate the effect of Thunderbird Dragon - Thunder Dragon!" The guardian tossed the Thunderbird Dragon he had just retrieved into the Graveyard and said, "To activate this, discard this card from your hand. From the monsters in your Graveyard and your banished monsters, select 1 Thunder Dragon monster other than Thunderbird Dragon - Thunder Dragon to Special Summon!"

"I Special Summon the Thunder Dragon, Thunder Dragon, from the Banished Zone!"

Although the name of the Thunder Dragon contains the word "dragon", it is actually not a member of the dragon clan. That's right, its race is actually the Thunder Clan!

The Thunder Dragon-Brontosaurus embodies this point very well.

It crawls on all fours, has long blue hair and gray soft fur, and its huge mouth is filled with fangs unique to carnivores. Black lightning is wrapped around its body, making crisp sounds. It is more like a dangerous beast than a dragon!

"Wait, something seems off." Ai seemed to have noticed something and couldn't help but ask, "When he used the Solitary Exorcist just now, he exorcised the Thunder Dragon in his hand and the Solar Cell Man in the deck, right?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Yuan Qi said.

"What's the problem? If he banishes the Sun Pond Man from his hand and then banishes Thunder Dragon from the deck, that's fine. But since he already has Thunder Dragon, shouldn't he just banish Thunder Dragon and Special Recruit Thunder Dragon?" Ai said, stroking his smooth chin. "That way, we can maximize the benefits."

"That's not right." Yuan Qi shook his head. "The situation you're talking about is when you only have Solitary Beast Reaper and Thunder Dragon - Thunder Dragon in your hand. If you have other cards in your hand... that might not be maximizing the benefits."

As soon as Hara Shichi finished speaking, the Guardian raised his hand and slapped it on his Duel Board, saying, "This card cannot be Normal Summoned. You can Special Summon it by banishing one Light monster and one Dark monster from your Graveyard!"

"I banish the Lone Exorcist and Thunderbird Dragon - Thunder Dragon from the Graveyard and Special Summon Chaos Creator!"

With light and darkness as sacrifices, the Chaos Creator God, who was crowned with the name of God, landed in front of the guardian with a powerful magnetic field!

"Look." Yuan Qi smiled again. "Now, doesn't this make the point of eliminating the solar cell people?"

"I activate the effect of Chaos Creator!" the guardian shouted. "While this card is Special Summoned from your hand, you can activate this effect by targeting a total of three of your own and your opponent's banished monsters. Special Summon one of them to your side of the field, and return the rest to the bottom of their owner's deck in the order you prefer!"

"I will Special Summon Solar Man from the three cards in my Banished Zone, and then return the remaining two cards to the bottom of the deck!"

A dazzling white light lit up, and a solar man consisting of three solar panels appeared on the duel field.

"I activate the effect of Solar Cell Man!" the guardian continued. "This can only be activated if this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Special Summoned. Send 1 Thunder-Type monster from your deck to the Graveyard, and I send Thunder Dragon, the Thunder Dragon, from my deck to the Graveyard!"

"Then, I will liberate the Chaos Creator God!"

The guardian sent the Chaos Creator God to the cemetery without hesitation.

"Come out! Super Thunder Dragon-Brontosaurus!!!"

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a dull bang, the super thunder dragon - Thunder Dragon fell from the sky!

"Not bad." Yuan Qi looked at the huge Super Thunder Dragon - Thunder Dragon in front of him and whispered softly, "Keep deploying, keep summoning, but... it's meaningless in front of my hand."

Chapter 47: Since you asked sincerely...

At the moment when the Super Thunder Dragon - Thunder Dragon was special summoned, the bodies of Interwoven Mianyang and Solar Cell Man on the Guardian's field lit up at the same time - this meant that their effects were triggered.

"Because Thunder Dragon Colossus was Special Summoned to Interwoven Sheep's Link Zone, I activate Interwoven Sheep's effect and Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from my Graveyard. I Special Summon Thunder Dragon Colossus from my Graveyard to the field."

The Guardian said this, then pointed at the Solar Battery Man on his own field and said, "At the same time, I activate the effect of Solar Battery Man. When this card is already in the Monster Zone, if you Special Summon a Thunder-Type monster, I place 1 Solar Battery Man Token on my field."

Then, a huge glass bead flashing with golden lightning and a derivative that looked exactly like the Solar Man appeared on the Guardian's field.

"First, I'll place Solar Man and the Battery Token on the Link Marker." The Guardian placed a card on the Duel Board and said, "The condition is to connect two monsters other than monsters."

"Connect Summon!"

"I:P Masquerade Lena!"

Lena, with her grey twin ponytails, twisted her graceful body and appeared on the Guardian's field with her tongue sticking out playfully.

"Then, I set the Intertwined Mianyang and Thunder Dragon—Thunder Dragon on the field to the Link Marker!" The Guardian continued, "The summoning conditions are two or more monsters with different card names other than the Tokens!"

"Connect Summon!"

"Topological three-leaf two-headed snake!!!"

At the cost of two monsters, the Topological Three-Leaf Two-Headed Snake appeared on the Guardian's field, making Yuan Qi's eyelids jump.

"This isn't a monster that should be used by the Thunder Dragon deck, right?" Yuan Qi pointed at the Topological Three-Leaf Two-Headed Snake.

"Thunder Dragon certainly can't defeat this monster, but it's very useful against you," the Guardian said dimly. "Since you can't Summon or Special Summon monsters, you can only use Spell/Trap Cards. Either use Rate Draw to achieve a Special Victory, or use Trap Cards to burn my LP. For the former, I can use Colossus Thunder Dragon to impose certain restrictions. As for the latter...as long as you face down the card, I'll use IP to Special Summon it during your turn, then trigger Topological Triple-Headed Serpent to directly destroy all the face-down cards on your field!"

"Destroy everything? Why?"

Xuefeng was still a little confused, but soon, Honglian beside her explained to her, "The effect of Topological Trifoliate Two-Headed Snake is activated when a monster is Special Summoned in the zone this card is linked to. Those monsters and all Magic and Trap Cards on the field are banished, and the opponent is dealt 500 damage equal to the number of cards banished by this effect."

"Wait, isn't this... targeted?" Xuefeng said in a lost voice.

"That's right. We already have the advantage, but they still deliberately play this kind of targeted card. Don't you think it's too much?" Sera also gritted her teeth and said indignantly.

"I don't think so," the Guardian said calmly. He didn't think he was being excessive, but rather felt very comfortable. "I'm the Guardian of this trial. As long as I don't break the rules, I'm free to use any card I want."

"you!"

"fine."

Yuan Qi comforted everyone and said, "Although it is a bit unexpected, the situation is still under my control."