A duelist never gives up!

"Ineffective? That's a powerful effect." Miao Yan's lips curled slightly, looking like a fox with evil intentions. "Since you chose to ineffective my Altergeist Hestia, the Sixteenth Sorcerer, without the slightest hesitation, I assume you know its effects, right?"

"Of course." Nero said as a matter of course.

Remembering the effects of decks with a certain level of strength in the dueling world is a must-practice for a duelist. Altergeist has become a popular deck among duelists since the appearance of Link Summon. It is impossible for her not to know the effects of Altergeist, and precisely because she knows it, she must invalidate it.

Because... she has quite a lot of magic cards.

"I activate the Spell Card—Ritual Preparations." Nero inserted a Spell Card into the Duel Board. "Choose 1 Ritual Spell Card from your Deck, and then select 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck or Graveyard that has the name of that Ritual Spell Card. Add those two cards to your hand."

"Hahaha... Ritual Preparation. I don't know what these two Dogmatika monsters are, but since you activated this card, it means you still have a Ritual Deck!" Miao Yan couldn't help but laugh wildly. "And Ritual Preparation is a powerful search card that can add Ritual Spell Cards and Ritual Monsters to your hand at the same time. Am I right? That's why you want to negate my Sixteen Wizards, right?"

"So what?" Nero's cute little face remained expressionless. "Your sixteen witches have been invalidated..."

"I chain-activate the effect of Altergeist: Hestia the Sixteenth!" Miao Yan shouted, extending his hand. "When a Spell or Trap card's effect is activated, you can activate this card by releasing a linked "Altergeist" monster. Negate that activation and destroy it!"

The uncle beside him looked at Miao Yan in confusion and asked, "Why are you activating the effect of a monster that has been negated?"

"Shut up, you outsider!" Miao Yan glared at the old man fiercely, then suddenly opened his last face-up card and said, "I activate the Continuous Trap Card - Altergeist Protocol!"

"As long as this card is in the Spell & Trap Zone, the activation of the effects of "Altergeist" cards on your field and those activated effects cannot be negated!"

Chapter 81: It's time to use the ritual summoning!

"boom!"

With a tremendous roar, blazing flames erupted from the body of the Sixteenth Sorceress Hestia, the Altergeist, like a volcanic eruption. In just a few seconds, the preparations for the ritual were reduced to ashes and disappeared into the night.

"You're so naive! Thinking the Sixteen Wizards are useless, you let your guard down and can't wait to use your Spell Cards... Do you know what a professional Duelist would do?" Miao Yan pointed at the two monsters on Nero's field and shouted, "A professional Duelist would choose to enter the Battle Phase and use their high-attack monsters to attack the Sixteen Wizards and Feathered Elf on my field!"

Nero slowly raised his head, and looked at Miao Yan quietly with a pair of deep black eyes. Although he didn't say anything, Miao Yan felt a chill.

"You're the one who's truly careless." Nero showed a card in his hand and said, "The preparations for the ritual are just bait to lure you in. What I really want to use is this card."

"Humph, don't you want to admit that you're a scumbag?" Miao Yan said, "You can't even admit your own mistakes. That's all you can do."

Nero shook his head and stopped arguing with him. Instead, he inserted the card in his hand into the duel board and said:

"I activate the magic card Nadir's Apostle."

"Send 1 monster from your Extra Deck to the Graveyard. Afterwards, select 1 "Dogmatika" monster or "Albus's Fallen" from your Deck or Graveyard with ATK less than or equal to the ATK of the monster sent to the Graveyard, and add it to your hand."

"I send the Old God Nutz to the graveyard from my deck and add the Great God Officer of Dogmatika to my hand."

"Then I activate the effect of Old God Nutz in the Graveyard." Nero slowly raised his little finger and pointed at Altergeist Pact on Mu Yan's field. "If this card is sent to the Graveyard, I can activate this effect by targeting 1 card on the field. If that card is destroyed, I choose to destroy Altergeist Pact on your field."

The sharp spear flew out from Nero's tomb and shot towards the Phantom Spirit Agreement on Mu Yan's field at lightning speed.

"Does it have the effects of both searching and clearing the board at the same time?" Miao Yan frowned slightly, but still extended his hand. "Then I'll chain activate the effects of Altergeist Protocol!"

"When your opponent activates a monster's effect, you can activate this card by sending 1 face-up "Altergeist" card you control other than this card to the Graveyard. Negate that activation and destroy it!"

"I send my Altergeist Hestia the Sixteenth to the graveyard!"

As soon as Miao Yan finished speaking, Hestia, one of the sixteen wizards on his field, turned into a white light and collided with the flying spear. The two forces engaged in a fierce confrontation in mid-air, and finally perished together with a huge explosion.

"I'm not done yet! I'm activating the effect of Hestia, the Sixteenth Sorcerer, in the graveyard!" Miao Yan continued. "This can only be activated if this card is sent from the field to the graveyard. Add 1 'Altergeist' card from your deck to your hand!"

"I'm adding Altergeist: Inquiry Quintilannak from my deck to my hand!"

Miao Yan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as he looked at the Transfiguration Spirit, Query Kuntilanak, which he had just retrieved. A sense of security welled up in his heart.

Fighting against an unfamiliar deck is a very mentally demanding task, because you have no idea whether your attack has hit the opponent's weak spot, nor do you know what the opponent will do next.

However, no matter what Nero planned to do next, she would not be able to kill him with only the two cards in her hand under the defense of the two cards she had, Yuyi Jing and Query Quintilanak.

As long as you survive this round, you can continue to expand your resources in the next round!

Of course, there is another possibility - that is, Nero is now at the end of his rope, and the remaining two cards in his hand are simply unable to perform decent operations.

After all, teaching a field that is rarely heard of...

"You can use the effects of ① and ② of this card name once each per turn." Nero suddenly said, "I activate effect 1: Banish 1 Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link monster from your Graveyard to Special Summon this card from your hand."

"I banish the Old God Nutz from the graveyard." Nero slapped the Archdeacon of Dogmatika he had just retrieved onto the Duel Board and said, "Special Summon the Archdeacon of Dogmatika in my hand."

The great god official in white robes appeared silently in front of Nero, emitting a sacred and inviolable pale golden light, which attracted everyone's attention but made it impossible to look directly at him.

Boom!

Miao Yan's heart skipped a beat, and the hairs all over his body stood up in an instant.

Humans have an instinctive intuition about danger, which will be reflected directly in the human body to alert ourselves.

And now, Miao Yan felt the warning from his body!

"I activate the effect of Altergeist: Ethereal!" Miao Yan shouted. "Return one 'Altergeist' card on your side of the field, other than this card, to its owner's hand. Then, you can activate this effect by targeting one card on your opponent's field. Return that card to its owner's hand!"

"I return the Altergeist Pact on my field to my hand, and I return the High Priest Officer of Tutoring on your field to your hand!"

"It's useless." Nero grabbed the High Priest Officer who had ejected the card from his hand and looked at Miao Yan with pity. "From the moment you invalidated the preparations for the ritual, you were doomed to fail."

"How about you save this kind of dream talk for when you sleep?" Miao Yan tightly grasped the Transfiguration Spirit, Inquiry Kuntilanak, in his hand. He had already used up all the resistance, and the only thing left to protect him was the monster in his hand.

The drowning ant clung to its only life-saving straw, unaware that the next huge wave was about to come.

"I activate the Continuous Spell Card—Holy Guide's Announcement." Nero gently inserted the last card in her hand into the Duel Board and said, "As the effect of this card when activated, the following effects can be applied.

Add 1 "Dogmatika" Ritual Monster or 1 "Dogmatika" Ritual Spell Card from your Deck to your hand. If your opponent controls a monster, you can also add 1 "Dogmatika" card from your Deck to your hand.

"I added the Gospel of the Fierce Guide and the White Sacred Relic of the Fierce Guide from my deck to my hand."

That's right, although the deck is built with a large number of Teaching monsters, this deck is actually a ritual deck in essence. After gathering ritual magic and ritual monsters, Nero is finally going to start her long-lost summoning method - ritual summoning!

"I activate the ritual magic card - Blessing of the Evil Master!" Nero inserted the card in his hand into the duel disk.

"Release monsters in your hand or on the field until their combined Levels equal the Ritual Summoned Monster, or send 1 monster of the same Level as the Ritual Summoned Monster from your Extra Deck to the Graveyard, and Ritual Summon 1 "Doctor" Ritual Monster from your hand!"

"I'll send the Rainbow Herald to the graveyard from the extra!"

Nero slammed the monster in her hand onto the duel disk and shouted in her crisp voice: "Ritual Summoning—"

"The evil leader's white sacred remains!"

Chapter 82: Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

The sound of crisp footsteps echoed in the silent night, and a girl dressed in silver knight armor and transparent gauze, holding a dazzling torch-like staff, appeared before everyone like a saint in a religious story.

Attack power 500, defense power 2500?

Miao Yan looked at the monster in front of him, feeling a little strange. Since the attack power was so low, shouldn't it be on the defensive under normal circumstances?

But Nero chose to attack, was it carelessness or...

Miao Yan shook his head and forced himself not to think too much. The most important thing now was to pay attention to how the other party would act.

Facing Miao Yan's alert and focused gaze, Nero spoke calmly, "I activate the effect of Rainbow Herald in the Graveyard. This can only be activated if this card is sent to the Graveyard. Add 1 Ritual Monster or 1 Ritual Spell Card from your Deck to your hand."

"Then I chain-activate the effect of White Relic of the Fierce Guide. If this card is Ritual Summoned successfully, I can activate this effect by targeting two face-up monsters on the field. The ATK of one of them increases by the ATK of the other."

Nero said, pointing to Fleurdelis, the Knight of Tutoring, on his field. "I choose to target Fleurdelis and the White Sacred Relics of the Fierce Guide. The attack power of the White Sacred Relics of the Fierce Guide will be increased by Fleurdelis's attack power."

The White Holy Skeleton of the Evil Guide's ATK: 500→3000!

"Then, I added the White Knight of the Fierce Guide from the deck to my hand."

"Why don't you send the Old God to the Graveyard?" Miao Yan asked abruptly. "You don't have any Ritual Spell Cards in your hand now. Wouldn't it be better to use the Old God to destroy the monsters on my field?"

Although the total attack power of the monsters on Nero's field is only 7000, it is still 8000 away from 1000.

Nero glanced at the monsters on his field and nodded, saying, "I did do something unnecessary."

Is it really a scumbag?

Miao Yan secretly shook his hands, wiped the cold sweat on his hands onto the cold floor, and his heart, which had been hanging in the air, slowly calmed down.

I thought her searching for ritual monsters had some deeper meaning, but it turns out it was just scumbag fucking.

"It's not that I'm a jerk." Nero seemed to see what Miao Yan was thinking and shook his head slightly. "It's just... if I don't do the best I can, I'll feel a little uncomfortable."

"The biggest scene?" Miao Yan repeated Nero's words in astonishment, his pupils shrinking sharply as he said, "You shouldn't have expanded on that point!"

"Yes." Nero held out his small white hand seal and said softly, "I activated the effect of the evil guide's holy pronouncement."

"What? This card still has an effect?!" When Miao Yan heard Nero's words, his eyebrows were twisted into a knot.

It's not just one card that retrieves both Ritual Monsters and Ritual Spells, but how come you have a third effect?!

Facing Miu Yan's distorted, somewhat terrifying expression, Nero remained calm and spoke slowly, "Once per turn, you can activate this effect if you have a "Doctor" Ritual Monster on your field. Check your or your opponent's Extra Deck, and select 1 monster from that deck and send it to the Graveyard."

"I checked my own Extra Deck, and then sent the second Prismatic Herald from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard."

Nero said, activating the effect of Rainbow Herald once again. "I activate the effect of Rainbow Herald and add Fierce Guide's Burial from the deck to my hand."

Looking at the ritual magic cards and ritual monsters gathered in his hands again, Nero's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a faint smile.

It is true that dueling brought a lot of pain to her childhood, but at this moment, she is indeed happy to be able to summon monsters.

"I activate the Ritual Spell Card - The Burial Procession of the Evil Master!"

"Until your total level reaches the level of the Ritual Summoned Monster, Tribute a monster from your hand or field, or instead of Tributing one, banish a Fusion or Synchro Monster from your Graveyard, and Ritual Summon 1 "Doctor" Ritual Monster from your hand or Graveyard!"

Nero said, reaching his little hand into the graveyard and said, "I will remove the two Heralds of the Rainbow in the graveyard and ritually summon—"

"The White Knight of the Evil Leader!"

"Boom!"

With a dull sound, a fierce white knight in heavy armor fell from the sky and smashed a huge pit on the flat ground!

"Then I'll activate the effect of Fierce Guide's Burial Parade!" Nero continued. "Since Fierce Guide's White Knight and Fierce Guide's White Sacred Remains are present, I can check my or my opponent's Extra Deck and select one monster from that deck and send it to the Graveyard!"

"I'm checking my extra deck once again!"

Nero grabbed his extra deck in his small hand, pulled out one of the cards and inserted it into the graveyard, saying, "I choose to send the old god Nutz to the graveyard!"

"Then... destroy the Altergeist, Ethereal Feathered Spirit on your field!"

"Whoosh!"

The sharp spear pierced the air, making a crisp and piercing sound, and flew straight towards the phantom spirit, the ubiquitous feathered spirit. Faced with this scene, Miao Yan could do nothing but watch his feathered spirit being pierced through.

Because there's no Phantom field for the personal deception attack, if the Feathered Spirit is destroyed, there's no way for the Transfiguration Phantom, Query Quintilannak, in his hand to jump out. In other words...

You will lose!

Miao Yan's eyes went dark, and his brain felt heavy as if it were filled with lead, but soon, a scene he inadvertently saw from the corner of his eye brought him back to consciousness.

The White Knight of the Evil Guide has an ATK of 500.

"...?"

Miao Yan rubbed his eyes, as if to confirm whether he had seen it wrongly.

A ritual monster that requires a level 8 sacrifice only has 500 attack power?

No matter what happened, the total attack power of all monsters on Nero's field was 7500, which means... he still had 500lp to turn the tables!

"Then I will enter the battle phase." Nero said, waving his slender arms.

"The evil director's White Knight... has no effect?" Miao Yan couldn't help but probe.

Nero glanced at the fierce White Knight on his field and said calmly, "I can't send it."

it is good!

Nero's words instantly became the sound of nature in Miao Yan's ears. He even felt that every pore in his body was relaxing at that moment.

However, the next moment, his pores closed one after another.

"I activate the effect of Dogmatika's Knight Fleurdelis," Nero said. "This effect can only be activated when one of your Dogmatika monsters declares an attack. Increase the ATK of all Dogmatika monsters on your field by 500!"

"What?!" Miao Yan looked at Nero in astonishment, saying in disbelief, "If that's the case..."

Total atk: 7500 → 9500!

Nero slowly raised his hand and issued the final judgment to Miao Yan: "I will use the Knight Fleurdelis of Dogmatika, the White Knight of Fierce Guide, the Saint Ecclesia of Dogmatika, and the White Holy Relic of Fierce Guide to directly attack you!"

Following Nero's order, the four instructors on her field waved their weapons and launched the final attack on Miao Yan!

"Impossible, I actually lost to a little brat like this... Absolutely impossible!" Miao Yan shook his head stiffly, unwilling to admit the scene in front of him, but the next moment, he was enveloped by a dazzling white light!

"brush!"

Miao Yan lp: 8000→0.