Demon's Light, summon!
One look at its appearance was enough to tell that it was another old monster in a new skin. This was just a new version of the monster that had been especially popular in the early days of the game, "Summoned Skull." But like Dark Magician Girl, calling it a new skin was a bit of a stretch. It looked ninety percent identical to the classic version, as if it had merely been plated in gold, with its lightning effects upgraded to a special golden edition.
Faker did not recognize the new skin, but he knew "Summoned Skull." It was another classic old monster, though he remembered it as just a vanilla monster with 2500 ATK, nothing to fear.
Although this one looked a little different, it could not possibly have gotten that much stronger.
"Heh, I thought you were going to summon something amazing." Faker sneered. "So this is all it is."
"Demon's Light, Effect Activation." Kira snapped his fingers. "When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, I can choose one monster on my opponent's Field and take control of it!"
"What?!"
Faker's eyes widened into perfect circles once more.
Holy shit, he had a theft effect!
The lightning released by Demon's Light coiled around its target like living creatures. The instant the thunderbolts touched Heart of the Earth Dragon, blinding blue-white electric arcs erupted at once, and the dragon's body began to tremble at high frequency. But it did not shatter in the lightning. Instead, it warped and blurred like a holographic image with a bad signal. Three seconds later, the entire dragon was compressed by the lightning into a slender stream of light, rolling upward against the rain clouds as though swallowed by a rift in the sky.
A muffled boom came from