"Summon 'Time Wizard'!"
Golden ripples spread across Joey Wheeler's Field. To the clattering of turning gears, Time Wizard leisurely stepped onto a pendulum. Its round clock-face body reflected rainbow light, its hour and minute hands curled into a playful mustache. The clock sprite in a top hat waved its tiny staff inset with a clock face, and the entire arena seemed to fall into temporal stasis amid the sound of a wound spring.
[Time Wizard, DEF 400]
"Time Wizard?" V's expression shifted slightly.
It looked utterly frail, a weakling with only four hundred DEF—not even enough to count as a wall. Yet for some reason, the sight of it instinctively gave V a bad feeling.
"Time Wizard's effect activates!" Joey said. "Once Per Turn, I can toss a coin and call heads or tails.
"If I call it correctly, all Monsters on your Field are destroyed. If I call it wrong, all Monsters on my Field are destroyed.
"But if the Monsters on my Field are destroyed, I take damage equal to half the combined ATK of all destroyed Monsters."
"I see," V said flatly. "What a high-risk gamble."
If he guessed right, Time Wizard could naturally get rid of Dyson Sphere. But if he guessed wrong, all of Joey's own Monsters would be wiped out, and he would take damage equal to half the combined ATK of Red-Eyes and Time Wizard. Joey had only 800 Life Points left; there was no doubt he could not withstand it.
V was somewhat puzzled. Did Duelists in this dimension all play this recklessly? Or was Joey simply that confident in his luck?
"Then I'll use Time Wizard's roulette wheel in place of a coin. The odds of the pointer landing on either of our sides are one-half." Joey shouted, "Spin