"Everything in a Magitech Duel follows the principle of [fairness]. Since victory allows one to obtain a [God Card] from a [Magitech Angel], defeat may likewise require paying an equivalent price."
"It's just that, depending on the standards used to measure it, there are many interpretations of what 'equivalent' actually means."
"So what we can be certain of now is that the defeated party absolutely cannot come away unscathed."
After recounting his experience, Dark gave a brief summary and waited for Claire and Alvitr to speak.
Claire and Alvitr exchanged a glance before Claire spoke first. "As for me, through a special search, I only confirmed that it was possible to directly draw the Magitech Cards I wanted from the [Golden Book]... So that kind of mechanism really existed."
After that remark, Claire began recounting what had happened after she was pulled into the duel.
Slightly differently from Dark, the moment she was pulled into that dark space, she sensed the presence of another "life" within the darkness.
She possessed an exceptionally special perception of "life." It was not an actual detection of some aura, but rather a transcendent spiritual sense, something akin to a "sixth sense" or "seventh sense."
Then, in the pitch-black darkness, she attacked the [Magitech Angel] standing on the tray opposite her—by using a [Magic Card]. The entire arena suddenly lit up with that attack.
Claire did not let this distract her. Her attention remained entirely fixed on the shadow that had appeared in her vision as the arena lit up. Before the duel had even begun, she launched an attack on it with such ferocity that she nearly blasted the unprepared [Magitech Angel] off its tray.
—If she had truly knocked it off, that duel might have ended right there. But the [Magitech Angel] was,