A duelist never gives up!

Bone King: Attack power: 2000→4000!

"What a pity! If your monster was in attack position, this duel would be over." The man sighed.

That's right, the monster Electric Track Champion is similar to the Bone King in a sense. The Bone King relies on the number of "bones" in the graveyard to increase its attack power, while the Electric Track Champion relies on star rating to increase its attack power. Because of the effect just now, the original seven-star Electric Track Champion has become five stars, and its attack power has also become 1500.

The man said this and started doing what he loved most - watching the expression on his opponent's face.

That's right, his favorite thing is to admire the despair on his opponent's face after summoning his ace, the Bone Queen.

However, something unexpected happened. The young duelist in front of him not only did not show any fear or despair, but on the contrary was very... calm?

No, no, no, he must have been so scared that his face was frozen and he couldn't make any expression. This is a monster with an attack power of 4,000, which is higher than the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!

Thinking of this, the man sighed with regret. It was a pity that he didn't see what he wanted. He waved his hand and said with a lack of interest, "I enter the battle phase. The Bone King attacks the famous general of the Lightning Track!"

Yuan Qi looked at the Skeleton King rushing towards his field and couldn't help but curl his lips.

I had assumed that since the opponent was willing to risk his soul to start a dark duel, he must have someone to rely on. I thought he must be a highly skilled duelist, but I didn't expect...

"That's it?"

Yuan Qi opened his own face-up card expressionlessly: "I chain activate the Quick-Play Magic Card - Book of the Moon."

"Target the Skeleton King on your field and change him to face-down Defense Position."

Chapter 70: Substitute Soul

"what?!"

The man froze, and before he could react, the Skeleton King on the field had turned into a covered card.

"Book of the Moon... Tsk, what good luck." The man frowned, but quickly regained his composure from his panic.

Although Skeleton King has 0 DEF, it has a resurrection effect: "When this card is sent to the Graveyard by battle, you can remove 1 "Bones" or "Bones King" in your Graveyard from play and Special Summon this card." The opponent's Lightning Track star has only 1500 ATK. Even though the resurrected Skeleton King is missing a "Bones", it still has 3000 ATK!

"I end the Battle Phase and enter Main Phase Two. I then cover a card. The Duel ends."

"Well, it's my turn, draw a card." Yuan Qi drew a card, looked at the cards in his hand, and made a decision in a flash.

"Let's finish this quickly. I'm a little worried about the others." Yuan Qi said to Ai.

"Well, let's end the duel in this round," Ai nodded.

"Then, I enter the main phase." Yuan Qi said, slapping a hand card on the duel board, "I Normal Summon Magical Dessert: Mille-Feuille Cat!"

The pink ragdoll cat appeared on the field after a long absence. It tilted its head and meowed, calling down the owl in the original seven-hand card.

"Activate the effect of Mille-Feu Cat and Special Summon Owl from your hand."

"Don't even think about it! I will chain activate Naraku's Falling Hole to destroy and banish your owl." The man opened the face-up card on his field. The owl, which had not yet stood firm, suddenly jumped, and an unfathomable cave appeared under its feet.

"Have you forgotten something?" Yuan Qi said calmly, "I'll chain activate the effects of the Lightning Track Master, lowering his level by two stars, negating and destroying Naraku's landing point."

"Tsk, this is really troublesome." The man then realized the trouble with this Synchro Monster. Although its attack and defense capabilities were not excellent, this simple and crude interference and escort capability forced people to take it seriously.

"Next, I activate Owl's effect to banish the Graveyard Jelly Angel, Special Summon the Gelatin Postman from the Deck, and activate the Postman's effect to add the Golem Dessert Ticket to my hand." Hara Nana just took the Golem Dessert Ticket from the Deck and inserted it directly into the Duel Disk. "I activate the Golem Dessert Ticket."

"Then, I stacked the Thousand Layer Cat and the Hot Sample Owl on the field, and the two monsters formed a Xyz Network, and Xyz Summoned - Void Sea Dragon Leviel!"

"Super...Super Summon?!" The man subconsciously took a step back, his eyes fixed on the Void Sea Dragon that appeared on the field, and suddenly felt cold sweat breaking out. "Who are you?! Why are you using Super Summon?!"

"Hmm? Just an ordinary duelist." Yuan Qi glanced at Ai beside him and silently added in his heart - although he used cheats.

Damn damn damn!

I must have encountered monsters bred by those dueling families!

"I say... let's negotiate peace." The man who had looked arrogant just now quickly changed his expression.

"Peace talks? Isn't it true that the Dark Duel can never be ended once it begins?" Yuan Qi asked curiously.

"But, but as a descendant of a big family like you, you must carry something like a 'substitute soul' with you, right?" the man said with a forced smile.

"What is that? I haven't heard of it." Yuan Qi frowned.

"Don't play dumb!" the man roared, "Sealing human souls alive in 'sacred artifacts' as insurance against dark duels, isn't this kind of thing commonplace in your family?!"

"I'm sorry, I think you may have misunderstood something." Yuan Qi looked at the man in front of him indifferently. "I'm not from a dueling family. I'm just an ordinary duelist."

Hara Nana said, removing one of Void Sea Dragon's materials without hesitation. "I activate Void Sea Dragon's effect, removing one Xyz Material. This can only be activated by targeting one of your or your opponent's Level 1 or lower monsters that was banished. Special Summon that monster to your side of the field, and I Special Summon Jelly Angel."

"Immediately afterwards, I activated Jelly Angel's effect and Special Summoned Postman from my Deck."

Because there were no Owls on the field, the Postman couldn't continue searching, so Yuan Qi continued directly: "I will stack the two Postmen on the field and Oxygen Summon - Crown Tiramisu!"

"The second Gyro monster..." The man began to tremble, but he still consoled himself, "It's okay, the Skeleton King has 3,000 attack points..."

However, Yuan Qi soon shattered his hopes.

"I activate the effect of Queen's Crown Tiramisu, removing one Xyz Material, returning the Jelly Angel and Postman from my Graveyard to the Deck, then selecting the Minotaur and Bone King on your field and returning them to the Deck."

"Return to the deck?!" Even though the man had been a hunter for so many years, he had never seen the effect of returning monsters to the deck many times.

Hara Nana didn't stop at the other party's scream. After all, he had almost grown accustomed to hearing this sound of surprise. "Because the effect of Queen's Crown Tiramisu caused the Golem Dessert monster to return to the deck, I triggered the effect of Golem Dessert Roll and Special Summoned the Postman from the deck again."

Looking at the man's empty front field, Hara Nana switched the Lightning Track Master on the Duel Disk to attack mode and said, "I enter the battle phase."

"Wait!" The man finally panicked and said quickly, "What do you want?! Gold coins? I have two thousand gold coins in stock! I can give you all of them! I can also give you my deck! And... and I can help you with something! Don't look at me like this, I'm quite famous in the hunter circle! I know a lot of people! Oh right... don't you want those humanoid duel elves?! I know where they sell them! There are a lot of them!"

Yuan Qi looked at him silently without saying anything.

"How about it? Let's negotiate peace? My worthless life is not worth you dirtying your hands, right?!" The man showed a flattering expression like a begging dog.

Yuan Qi still didn't say anything.

"Tell me!" the man roared unwillingly, "What do you want me to pay for you to let me go? Just speak up!"

"In that case." Yuan Qi showed a sympathetic look, "Give me your soul."

"Lightning Track Champion, Crown Tiramisu, Void Sea Dragon, Postman... attack directly!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Following a scream, the dark fog enveloped and swallowed the man until its soul was completely devoured before slowly dispersing.

"Sorry, I really don't have a 'substitute soul'," Yuan Qi muttered. "If you're so afraid of death, why did you start the Dark Duel?"

“Because of the huge profits.”

A cold voice sounded from the side. Yuan Qi turned his head and found that Julie had appeared behind him without him knowing when.

Chapter 71: Silent Magician

"You won." Yuan Qi looked at the purple-haired girl in front of him and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

"Isn't it natural for an opponent of this level?" Julie said lightly.

Yuan Qi cast his gaze on Julie's slightly trembling arm.

"Don't get me wrong." Julie seemed to be aware of Yuan Qi's gaze and hid her hands behind her back. "I'm just a little uncomfortable with my first time killing someone."

No, it was actually more of a feeling of relief for surviving the disaster. Thinking back to the game just now, Julie was still a little scared.

Time goes back to twenty minutes ago...

"Hehehe... I have the first move," the gloomy woman said, slapping a monster on the Duel Board. "I enter Main Phase 4 and Normal Summon Silent Magician LV."

"I then release Silent Magician Level 4 from the field and Special Summon it from my hand—Silent Magician! Then, due to Silent Magician's effect, this card's ATK increases by 500 times the number of cards in my hand. I have three cards in my hand, so it increases by 1500!"

Silent Magician: Attack 1000→2500!

"I'll end this round like this." The gloomy woman said with a smile.

"Is it the Silent Magician?" Julie frowned slightly as she looked at the silver-haired woman in a blue robe on the other side of the field.

As someone who often spent time in the library, she was certainly familiar with this famous monster and its strengths: its simple and crude appearance conditions and high attack, coupled with a rather daunting effect: once per turn, it could only be activated when a Spell Card activated. That activation was negated.

As long as the opponent invalidates the fusion in his hand, his ace Dragon Death will not be able to appear on the field.

So...it must be solved!

"It's my turn, draw a card!" Julie said with forced composure, "I Normal Summon Minotaur."

"Activate Minotaur's effect and send an Undead-Type monster from your deck to the Graveyard. I send Banshee from Corpse World to the Graveyard and activate Banshee's effect to activate Undead World from your deck!"

With the activation of the Undead World, the duel arena, which was already shrouded in black fog, took on a colder atmosphere, as if it were in hell.

"This ugly venue suits you perfectly." The gloomy woman sneered as she looked at the skeletons and rotten wood all over the ground.

Not a good card? Julie's lips curled up slightly. That's right, who would want to use a Field Magic Card whose effect they didn't know?

In that case, forget about activating the Silent Magician's effect!

"I activate the effect of Boron Death Jack Pumpkin, discarding Growing Flower from my hand and Special Summoning it to the field."

"Next, activate the effect of Growing Flower and add 1 Level 5 or higher Undead-Type monster from your deck to your hand. If there's an Undead World in the Field Zone, you can Special Summon it without adding it to your hand. I Special Summon Giant Ghoul Magera!"

The demon with a broken horn appeared on the scene holding a machete full of gaps. Although it looked tattered, the terrifying aura it exuded could not be underestimated.

"Majella's attack power is 2800. Add in the attack power of Jack Pumpkin and Minotaur... that's still short." Julie's long eyelashes trembled slightly. "Calm down. Don't be impatient. We already have the advantage. Just take it slow."

"call--"

"I enter the battle phase, Magella attacks the Silent Magician!" Julie shouted.

"Puchi." The gloomy woman opposite laughed. She held her belly, as if she had seen some huge joke, and even couldn't help arching her waist and twitching.

"What are you laughing at?" Julie looked at the gloomy woman warily. She had known the effect of the Silent Magician for a long time. There was neither a last word nor any other effects. There was no covered card on the opponent's field, so it was impossible to activate Mirror Reflection at this time.

"Hasn't anyone told you not to attack Light monsters carelessly?" the gloomy woman said jokingly, then sent a card to the Graveyard. "Before the damage calculation, I'll send Ernest to the Graveyard, and Silent Magician's attack power will increase to that of Magella!"

Silent Magician's attack power: 2500→2000→4800!

"What?!" Julie screamed, and then the powerful impact slammed the girl's delicate body onto the cold soil.

"Impossible... Why would you have hand pits?!" Julie struggled to get up from the ground. Among the people she knew, besides professional duelists, only two "freaks," Yuan Qi and Nero, had hand pits. This guy in front of her was clearly just a "hunter," so why did he have hand pits too?!

"Don't you know? Hand traps like Ernest's have been eliminated by professional duelists." The gloomy woman spread her hands and said, "After all, they can only be used on Light monsters, and they use the old-fashioned dueling tactic of increasing attack. The popular hand traps now have the effect of obscuration!"

"That's why a large number of Ernests and War Eliminators have flooded the black market, and I just happened to pick up some of them. Hahaha, those monsters that professional duelists discard as useless are like treasures to me!"

"So that's how it is." Julie dusted herself off, thinking that her opponent was at the level of a professional duelist. Unexpectedly, it was just because of the upgrading of the professional environment that the opponent got a powerful card from the previous version.

"Then I'll end this round." Julie looked at the fusion in her hand and said helplessly.

But it doesn't matter, she can't have a second card of this level in her hand, and Jack Pumpkin can revive undead monsters in the cemetery. At the same time, as an undead monster, Magellar has inherited the fine tradition of the undead and can revive itself.

"It's my turn, draw a card." The gloomy woman nonchalantly drew a card and then slapped a monster onto the field. "I Normal Summon Soul Destroyer Kaisora."

"I activate the effect of Jack Pumpkin and Special Summon the Silent Magician level 4 in Defense Position from your Graveyard to my field, and then my Jack Pumpkin enters the Banished Zone." Julie said lightly.

"Escaped?" the gloomy woman murmured, "I enter the combat phase, attack the Minotaur with sea and air!"

"I activate the effect of Graveyard Magella. If an Undead-Type monster on your field is destroyed by battle or card effect, you can banish this card in your hand or Graveyard instead," Julie said without hesitation.

"The effect of Soul Annihilator Kaiso is that as long as this card exists in the Monster Zone, the opponent cannot banish cards from both players' Graveyards." The gloomy woman sneered.

"Tsk." Julie clicked her tongue. She knew that her reading was too little. If she knew the other party's effect, she would have used Jack Pumpkin's effect to revive Magella.

"It's not over yet. I'm activating the effect of Soul Destroyer Kaisora. When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent, you can only activate this effect by targeting up to 2 monsters in your opponent's graveyard. Banish those monsters. I'm also banishing the Magellan and Minotaur in your graveyard!" said the gloomy woman, pointing at the monsters in Julie's graveyard.

"Hmph, it seems you don't know my monster effects either." Julie's lips curled slightly. "To activate Majora's effect, you can only do this by banishing this card from your hand or graveyard. Special Summon this card in Defense Position. Afterwards, you can lower the Level of this card by 1 point!"

The gloomy woman clearly intended to reduce Julie's cemetery resources, but she ended up making things worse and allowed Magella to appear on the scene again.

Chapter 72: The dragon is dead! My dragon is dead!

"I'll end this turn." The gloomy woman only had two cards in her hand, so the Silent Magician's attack power was only two thousand, unable to break through Magera's 2300 defense line.

"Activate Jack Pumpkin's effect, and Jack Pumpkin returns to the field," Julie said calmly. "Then it's my turn, draw a card!"

Julie switched Magella on the Duel Disk to attack mode and said, "Next, I enter the attack phase. Magella attacks the Silent Magician!"

Gloomy female lp: 4000→3200.

"That's just what I want. I activate the effect of Silent Magician. This can only be activated when this card is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect. From your hand or deck, Special Summon 1 "Silent Magician" monster other than "Silent Magician" ignoring the summoning conditions. I Special Summon Silent Magician lv8!" The gloomy woman grinned.