"Huff... huff..."
Zallug panted heavily, his face bruised and battered. Mina and Cliff beside him were similarly injured. As for Gog and Qik, they had already been locked inside transparent energy capsules and hung upside down.
A man stood before them with a Duel Disk on his arm and an energy whip in his hand, wearing an amused smile.
"Is this all you've got?" the man sneered. "I say, why don't you just stop resisting and submit to me?"
"Bullshit!"
Zallug flew into a rage.
"I haven't even warmed up yet—cough, cough, cough..."
He forced himself to step forward, but after only two steps, his injuries seemed to flare up. He dropped to one knee, clutching his chest.
Zallug stared up at the man in shock.
The whole situation was too strange.
There were those capture capsules, as well as the strange weapons, including the energy whip in the man's hand. They were clearly human technology, yet they could somehow injure spirits like them.
Even dismissing their physical bodies and turning intangible did nothing. Those weapons seemed capable of ignoring intangibility altogether, and even spirits in Ghost form could not escape them.
The injuries Zallug felt now were the same. Spirits often seemed invincible in the real world because their true forms were actually cards.
It was much like what happened in a Duel. When a monster was summoned onto the Field, it could be cut in half or smashed to pieces, yet a single Monster Reborn would have it jumping around again. Even in a Dark Duel, the spirits' true forms generally could not be harmed.
It was the same when they materialized outside a Duel. Even if a materialized monster was killed or destroyed, that did not mean its card became useless forever. As long as the card