Placido: "."
This Taiyi Emperor was at a loss for words, on the verge of going berserk.
Of course, it was not as though he had truly suffered much damage in the duel. After all, he had not gone out himself. He had merely operated a robot called Ghost from behind the scenes, without personally taking the field.
Though this sort of stand-in substitute would affect his Destiny Power Level and prevent him from displaying his full strength, no matter how badly the substitute was beaten, it normally would not affect the real body.
So he had not actually been hurt. He was simply furious.
Fireballs. Fireballs. Endlessly spawning fireballs.
Especially during that final turn, he had loudly declared that one of the Three Emperors of Iliaster could never be burned to death by something like fireballs. Yet before that turn had even ended, he had been burned to death.
All his earlier boasts had become boomerangs, slapping him right across the face.
No, this was no longer merely a defeat. This was humiliation!
In truth, Placido had not come this time with the absolute intention of taking his opponent down. Just as Placido had used a Ghost robot as a stand-in when he first encountered Yusei and the others in the Original Anime, he had sent this robot here under remote control with the intention of testing the waters.
After all, Iliaster truly lacked intelligence on the man who had replaced Godwin. If the opponent proved ordinary, dealing with him on the spot would be most convenient, sparing them the trouble of investigating his origins and background. But if he proved difficult, then so be it if they lost. At the very least, they could gather information and gauge his true strength.
But things were different now. After suffering