Clack! Clack-clack!!
A teeth-grating screech of metal chains suddenly erupted beneath Chazz Princeton's feet!
Before Chazz could react and jump back, eight black iron pillars as thick as bowls, glowing red-hot, burst out of the ground amid scorching sparks. They slammed together overhead, instantly forming a tightly sealed, gigantic iron cage that locked both Chazz and Ojama Yellow beside him deep inside!
"Waaaaah! Hot, hot, hot! My damn feet are burning off! Boss, help! Why are we in prison?!"
Ojama Yellow bounced frantically inside the cage as though he had stepped on a live wire, clutching his backside and squealing like a pig being slaughtered.
"Shut up! Get away!!"
Chazz gripped the scorching bars before him with both hands, his face flushed crimson by the glow of magma surging from underground. Before he could shake the bars, an enormous, suffocating shadow suddenly fell over him!
"ROOOAR!!!"
With a savage roar that seemed to come from the deepest pits of hell, the sea of molten fire exploded!
A colossal fiend over ten meters tall, its entire body cast from boiling dark-red magma and pitch-black volcanic rock, forced half its body out of the fissure in the ground!
It had two hideously twisted demonic heads, and broken obsidian spikes covered its back. Every crack across its body spewed dazzling crimson-gold flames!
Most horrifying of all, the instant this Lava Fiend emerged, it thrust out two towering claws streaming with scorching magma. One to the left and one to the right, they seized the necks of [Armed Dragon LV3] and [Armed Dragon LV5] on Chazz's field with unerring precision, like an eagle snatching chicks!
"Roooar!!"
Just a second earlier, the 4,000-ATK [Armed Dragon LV5] had stood magnificent and arrogant in the heavy golden armor of [United We Stand]. Yet before this molten claw,