Shifting Fate

Sylonos's ultimate move struck Misuzu head-on, blasting her backward with her arms spread wide. For a moment, she looked utterly disheveled; even the virtual image of her body seemed slightly distorted.

Everyone seemed a little baffled by how abruptly the tone of this duel had shifted.

First came those Air Circle birds that kept jumping back and forth, impossible to finish off like Resilient Monsters. Then appeared the legendary Supreme Sun from the Planet Series, followed by the Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, which was practically the natural nemesis of her Deck.

And finally, what was this?

Orichalcos!?

When she saw Chidara, she had not reacted at first. After all, Chidara was an unremarkable small monster, hardly eye-catching. She vaguely felt that she had seen the monster somewhere before, but could not recall where it had come from.

But when that terrifying green Divine Puppet descended with the dreadful pressure of an army-sweeping force, when she faced that horrifying monster with 12,000 ATK/DEF, like an incarnation of judgment descending from heaven, Misuzu suddenly realized—

—she had indeed seen it before.

Wasn't Orichalcos the Deck of that world-destroying Demon King from ten thousand years ago?

The Great Demon King who was said to have been utterly crushed by the Duel King at Battle City GX.

Well, that was right. Although The Arbiter was said to be incredibly formidable and was indeed very powerful, especially according to the rumors among the Dark Duelists of The Underground, the Battle City battle had supposedly come only a few steps away from destroying the world.

But even so, after hearing the account of that duel, what everyone remembered most was still how he had been toyed with by the Duel King's Lava Golem.

Only now did Misuzu understand. So that unfortunate Orichalcos wielder back then had