A duelist never gives up!

"Warning! Warning! Serious damage to the instrument has been detected, and a large amount of high energy has begun to spread! Warning! Warning!! Serious damage to the instrument has been detected, and a large amount of high energy has begun to spread!!"

"Huh! What happened?! Why did it suddenly explode?" Yuan Qi closed his eyes and asked Ai in his heart.

"I don't know, it's like someone suddenly lit a fire among the wood... It's so strange..."

"...Is there a fire in the wood?"

At this moment, Yuan Qi felt the figure in his arms begin to move.

Nero seemed to break free from his arms.

"Nero? Where are you going?"

Yuan Qi stared at the bright light and opened his eyes, only to find that Nero's petite figure was like a robot, walking slowly towards the broken device with stiff steps, making a faint murmur as he walked.

"Destruction...must be...destroyed."

"What are you talking about?" Yuan Qi gritted his teeth, stood up from the ground and wanted to follow Nero. At this moment, the white light gradually dissipated and everything in the room became clearer.

Yuan Qi then discovered that Nero had once again returned to the device, holding up her dark duel disk with an expressionless face. Opposite her was Avis, who was standing in the broken device and slowly opened her eyes!

"...Intruder?" Avis muttered subconsciously as he looked at Nero in front of him, but soon he recognized the figure in front of him.

"You're... Nero?" Although a month had passed, Avis hadn't forgotten the Duel King's niece. "You actually invaded here. Now, even your aunt can't protect you."

Nero, no, Nona didn't say anything, she just raised the duel disk coldly, signaling Avis to duel with her.

"Duel? I don't intend to bully the weak. Since you're here, it means..." Avis glanced elsewhere in the room, then fixed his eyes on Yuan Qi. His pupils shrank sharply and he said, "Sure enough, you're here too, Yuan Qi!"

"Ah, here I come." Yuan Qi looked at Avis solemnly and said, "Let me ask you, Avis, did you volunteer for this experiment?"

"Of course." Avis answered without hesitation, "I'm honored to participate in this experiment."

"Even if you might die?" Yuan Qi frowned.

"If you want something, you have to pay for it." Avis calmly walked out of the broken jar, opened his arms and said, "I want power, so I paid with the awareness of death! Is there any deal more valuable than this?!"

"Power? What power?" Yuan Qi looked at Avis expressionlessly.

"Of course it's the dueling power!" Avis looked at Yuan Qi and said, "The difference between the God of Duel and humans is just that one possesses a powerful dueling power. In other words... as long as I also have a dueling power as strong as yours, I can also become stronger!"

Yuan Qi shook his head slightly and sighed sadly: "What you said..."

"That's bullshit."

Chapter 21: Brand Fusion!

Facing Yuan Qi's insults, Avis's face did not show anger. Instead, he looked at Yuan Qi in surprise and said, "Were you swearing just now?"

Yuan Qi raised an eyebrow: "So what?"

"No, I just..." Avis paused and shook his head slightly, "I just didn't expect that the God of Duel would actually swear."

"That's because your perception is too narrow." Yuan Qi looked at Avis calmly and said, "Do you think this experiment is correct? Do you think I shouldn't insult you?"

"I volunteered to participate in the experiment, you have no right to blame me." Avis replied calmly. He volunteered to participate in this experiment, and it did not harm other people. Why did Yuan Qi blame him?

"Do we need more reason to criticize this kind of experiment using human bodies without any supporting data?" Yuan Qi slowly pulled out his deck and said solemnly, "Do you think... you can so carelessly trample on your own life without any regard?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I just think you're meddling in other people's business." Avis said expressionlessly, "But if it's a duel, that's exactly what I want."

"Well... come on." Yuan Qi said as he was about to insert the deck into the duel disk, but at this time, the third person in the room spoke.

"let me."

Nero, no, or rather Nona suddenly spoke.

Yuan Qi then remembered that Nero took out the deck and stood in front of Avis from the beginning. She was ready to duel with Avis from the beginning.

"No, Ah Qi, we can't let Nero and Avis duel!" Ai quickly shook her head. Although she was very angry about Nero's sneaky behavior, she still knew the importance of things. "Avis is in a very bad state now. We must go in person now..."

"Okay." Yuan Qi nodded seriously at Nero and said, "Then I'll let you come."

"Huh?" Ai shook Yuan Qi's head with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "What were you thinking about letting Nero take over at this time?"

Yuan Qi didn't answer, but looked at Avis and said, "If you want to duel with me, how about defeating my friend first?"

"Duel with this little girl first?" Avis turned his gaze to Nero, a hint of impatience flashing in his eyes, but he nodded slightly and said, "Okay, this is a good opportunity for me to try out my newfound power."

Nona didn't say much, just took a few steps back, inserted the deck into the duel disk and said, "Duel!"

"Wait." Avis raised his hand slightly and said, "Before the duel, let me do one thing first."

"What do you want to do?" Nona looked at Avis coldly.

Avis didn't answer, but slowly closed his eyes. The next second, his skin was like dry soil, with cracks appearing one after another. Dazzling white light emerged from the cracks, making a "crackling, crackling" sound. At this moment, it seemed as if...

"Like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and becoming a butterfly," Yuan Qi couldn't help but murmur slowly.

“Crack!!”

Accompanied by a crisp sound, Avis's skin completely exploded, and then a dazzling light emerged from his body, forming a human-shaped ball of light!

"Ayi...what is this?!" Yuan Qi looked at the figure with white light in front of him and couldn't help but ask Ai.

"There's no mistake." Ai gritted his teeth and said coldly, "This guy... in a sense, has become the same as me."

"You mean... he really became a god?" Yuan Qi said solemnly.

"No." Ai looked at Avis with pity and said, "His duel power is not pure enough, and his soul is not stable enough. Rather than being a god, he is more like a wandering ghost attached to the duel power. If we are not careful... his soul will be annihilated by the duel power, or he will be cruelly exiled by this world!"

Avis didn't know he was near death. He looked at his body made up of the power of dueling and excitedly said to Yuan Qi, "How is it?! God of Duel! Are you surprised by my appearance?! Finally... I'm finally standing at the same level as you! This way... there's no way I can lose!"

After saying that, Avis waved his hand, and the cards in the deck on his waist suddenly floated out of the card box one by one and appeared in front of him.

"Ah, I can feel it!" Avis said excitedly, looking at the cards displayed in front of him. "I can feel my deck calling for something... So that's why I need these cards? I see!"

Avis waved his hand, and several cards emitting white light appeared in front of him.

"This...this...and then this..."

"Is this... a temporary change to the structure?" Yuan Qi was slightly stunned when he saw Avis's actions.

"That's right." Ai nodded. "He probably sensed the needs of the deck and printed the cards it needed."

"Okay, that's it... it's done!"

Avis waved his hand, gathered all the cards in front of him together, and once again combined them into a deck and placed it in the palm of his hand.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting." Avis looked down at Nero and said, "I will... duel with you!"

"drop!"

With a clear sound, the signal light on Avis's duel disk lit up.

"I choose to take the initiative." Avis said lightly.

"Whatever you want." Nona said as she drew five cards from the deck.

Saint Ecclesia of Teaching, Apostle of the Underworld, Preparations for the Ritual, Underworld of the Ominous Leader, Holy Announcement of the Ominous Leader.

It's a pretty good hand card. It would be even better if it had hand traps like Proliferating G and Gray Flowing Beauty.

But it should be enough to deal with the guy in front of me.

Nuo had seen the duel between Avis and Yuan Qi before, so he knew the strength of Avis's deck - Brand of the Abyss. Although it was slightly stronger than the Fierce Guide, it was not invincible. It was a pity that Yuan Qi was here now, otherwise he would have used Dragon Fist.

Just as Nona was lost in thought, Avis moved.

"I enter the main phase." Avis slowly pulled out a card from his hand and slapped it on his Duel Board, saying, "I Normal Summon Albur of the Dead Prison!"

Wearing a black and gold mask and with red hair, Alub slowly appeared on Avis's field. In his right hand, a blazing flame was burning fiercely - as if it was about to ignite something.

"I activate the effect of Albur, the Channeled Arubel of the Dead Prison!" Avis shouted. "This can only be activated if this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Special Summoned. Add 1 'Brand' Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand!"

"I'll add Brand Fusion from the deck to my hand, and then..." Avis raised the card in his hand high and said, "I'll activate the magic card - Brand Fusion!!!"

Chapter 22: Choice.

"I sent Albus's Fallen Yin and Super Demon God I from the deck to the graveyard!"

"Fusion Summon—Divine Flame Dragon Hejielong!!"

The blazing flames seemed to be welcoming their king, erupting from the ground like fireworks, and blooming brilliant flowers of fire in the air. Under these flowers of fire, the divine flame dragon Hejielong wearing silver armor appeared in front of Avis, letting out a deafening roar!

"I activate the effect of Hekai Dragon, the Flame God Dragon!" Avis waved his hand, sending a card in his hand to the Graveyard. "To activate this, discard 1 card from your hand. From monsters on your field, in your Graveyard, and from your banished monsters, return a Fusion Material Monster determined by a Level 8 or lower Fusion Monster Card other than Hekai Dragon, excluding Hekai Dragon, to the owner's Deck, and Fusion Summon that Fusion Monster from the Extra Deck!"

"Use your sharp ice sword to crush the enemy! Fusion Summon!! Ice Sword Dragon Phantom Ice Dragon!!!"

"Crack!"

As the Ice Sword Dragon, covered in ice crystals, appeared on the scene, the entire room suddenly became filled with a biting cold, as if it was exposed to the wilderness in winter.

"Is it out? The ace monster." Nona sneered disdainfully at the Ice Sword Dragon in front of her. Just an exclusion and a departure could not stop her at all.

"Then, I activate the effect of Ice Sword Dragon, Phantom Ice Dragon!" Avis continued. "Once per your or your opponent's turn, you can activate this effect by sending a Fusion Monster with "Albus's Fallen" as Fusion Material from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard. Banish 1 monster on the field!"

"I will send the additional Branded Dragon, White Dragon, to the Graveyard, and banish the Channeled Albur of the Death Prison on the field!"

"Mark of the White Dragon Gaihe and then I can perform the Fusion Summon on my turn?" Nona murmured subconsciously as she watched Avis's operation, but soon she noticed something incongruous.

"No... If he wants to do this combo, then the brand fusion should be..."

"He should be building the Death Prison!" Yuan Qi couldn't help but frown and said, "Ayi, help me check the effects of the Super Demon God's Self!"

"Ohhh! Wait!"

Ai gently tapped her head with her finger, and then the effect of the Super Demon God's Self emerged in her mind:

If this card is destroyed by a card effect and sent to the Graveyard, during the Standby Phase of the next turn, Special Summon this card from the Graveyard and destroy all monsters you control except this card. As long as this card is face-up on the field, you cannot Normal Summon, Flip Summon, or Special Summon monsters. You can only have 1 face-up "Choco Demon God" on the field.

"As long as this card is face-up on your field, you cannot Normal Summon, Flip Summon, or Special Summon a monster?"

Yuan Qi's pupils shrank sharply, and he quickly shouted to Nero, "Be careful! I don't know what he's going to do, but there's no doubt that he's going to Special Summon the Super Demon God to your field. If he does that... you won't be able to Summon, Flip Summon, or Special Summon!"

However, facing Yuan Qi's reminder, Nona just nodded slightly and replied, "I understand."

After all, she had already discovered this matter before Yuan Qi spoke, so when Yuan Qi reminded her, there was not much surprise on her face.

Blocking summons... is a bit tricky, but there is a solution.

"Haha, you're worthy of being the God of Duels." Avis chuckled twice. "You've noticed my new combo so quickly. But even if you know, it doesn't matter... Anyway, I'll show it off soon!"

After saying that, Avis waved his hand and said, "I cover two cards, and this is the end of the round!"

"Next, in the ED phase, I activate the effect of the branded dragon, White World Dragon, in the graveyard!"

"You can only activate this effect during the End Phase of the turn this card is sent to the Graveyard. Select 1 "Brand" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck, add it to your hand, or Set it on your side of the field!"

"I put the Trap Card - Separation Brand from my deck onto the field!"

"Separation Mark?" Nona was slightly stunned, then immediately realized, "I see... Is this your combo? For a human, it's not bad."

"Huh? What are you saying?" Avis looked at Nona in confusion. The other party seemed to have said something just now, but the voice was too soft and he didn't hear it clearly.

"I say..." Nona placed her small hand on top of the deck and said, "It's my turn, draw a card!"

"brush!"

Accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, Nona suddenly added a card from the deck to her hand.

However, because Yuan Qi was right next to her, she did not use her power too much, which led to a very serious problem - she did not draw the card she wanted.

"Proliferating G..." Nona looked at the card she drew and couldn't help but smack her lips, "Why didn't you come earlier?"

Just as Nona was complaining about the card she had drawn, Avis suddenly opened the face-down card on his field: "During your draw phase, I activate the Trap Card - Separation Mark!"

"You can activate this card by Tributing 1 Fusion Monster you control, then targeting 2 monsters from both players' Graveyards or banished monsters, other than Fusion Monsters. Special Summon 1 of those monsters to each player's field. If you activate this card by Tributing a Fusion Monster that requires "Albus's Fallen" as Fusion Material, you can instead Special Summon the 2 targeted monsters to your field in Defense Position!"

"It's coming!" Yuan Qi clenched his fists as he watched the blazing flames erupt from the arena. He sincerely hoped that Nero would win the duel, but he also didn't want this to happen, because...

"chain!"

Nona suddenly sent the G she had just drawn to the graveyard and said, "I will chain activate the G that has multiplied in my hand. Every time the opponent successfully Special Summon a monster, I will draw 1 card from my deck!"

"A last-ditch effort?" Avis chuckled and opened his palm. "I Special Summon Albur of the Death Prison from the Banished Zone to my field, and then Special Summon Super Demon God I in Defense Position to your field!"

The beast-like Super Demon God ego swung its tail and appeared in front of Nona with a ferocious face, exuding a cold aura.

"Then, according to the effect of Proliferation G, I'll draw a card from my deck!" Nona said, once again placing her hands on her deck. Without a doubt, this was her last chance. As long as she used her power in this draw, she could easily win this duel. However...

Nona secretly glanced at Yuan Qi who was standing not far away, and sure enough - he was staring at her with his black eyes motionlessly.

What should I do? If I use my power here, I will definitely be exposed in Yuan Qi's eyes, but if I don't use it... I am not 100% sure of winning this duel!