Your Trap Cards are no better than scrap paper. / Hey, want big sis to share a little with you?

Nero tremblingly reached for her deck. Then she took a deep breath, and a sorrowful look welled up in her black eyes.

She had finished making her choice.

A low voice emerged from her throat, carrying the weight of firm resolve:

"My turn, draw."

It was here.

Nero looked at the card in her hand, hesitated slightly, then inserted it into her Duel Disk. "I activate the Spell Card—Preparation of Rites."

"Add 1 Level 7 or lower Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand. Then, you can add 1 Ritual Spell Card from your Graveyard to your hand."

"I add Advanced Ritual Art from my Graveyard to my hand, then add Chaos Magician Illusion from my Deck to my hand."

"A very profitable one-for-two."

Zhuxiu, who had taken Nafili's place, explained to the students in his magnetic voice, "Nero used one Spell Card to add both a Ritual Spell and a Ritual Monster to her hand."

"Furthermore, Advanced Ritual Art lets her send Normal Monsters from her Deck to the Graveyard whose total Levels equal the Level of the monster being Ritual Summoned, then Ritual Summon 1 Ritual Monster from her hand."

"In other words, with just one card, she has already assembled the Ritual Monster, the Ritual Spell, and the tribute. She can now perform another Ritual Summon."

However, the moment Zhuxiu finished speaking, Nero made a move no one had expected.

"I activate the effect of Magician's Souls. I send Advanced Ritual Art from my hand to the Graveyard and draw one card from my Deck." Without hesitation, Nero sent the Spell Card she had just retrieved from the Graveyard right back into it.

"What?!"

"What is she doing? Is she throwing away the opportunity she worked so hard to assemble?!"

"Hey, don't tell me she wants