Yu-Gi-Oh!: Starting with a Hellish Deck, Depressing the World
"But that kind of adjustment would also mean the original deck would lose its chance at a one-turn kill with Exodia the Forbidden One! So I still have the advantage!"
Hearing Alexis say that, the two close friends following behind her.
Even Jaden Yuki and the others, as well as Professor Crowler, who was secretly watching from a distance, nodded with expressions of agreement.
"..." Jiang He was speechless.
All he could say was that habitual thinking could be deadly!
But for him, that actually seemed like a good thing!
"The battle continues! My turn isn't over yet!"
Alexis took one of the only two cards left in her hand and placed it on her Duel Disk!
"I activate the Quick-Play Spell [De-Fusion], separating a Fusion Monster on my field and then special summoning its Fusion Materials to my field!"
An orange-yellow light appeared on the figure of the red-clad, black-haired mature woman monster in front of her.
It soon split back into two lights, taking the form of the orange-red-haired [Cyber Prima], who had been used as Fusion Material earlier,
and the bald female skater dressed in purple and white, [Blade Skater], appearing on the lake surface in front of Alexis!
[Blade Skater]
[Level: 4]
[Attribute: earth]
[Attack: 1400]
[Defense: 1500]
"It's still the battle phase, so [Cyber Prima] and [Blade Skater], whom Alexis special summoned with De-Fusion, can still attack."
"That's the dueling strategy of an Obelisk Blue elite, all right! It really gets my blood pumping!"
Jaden Yuki couldn't help praising her, excited by what he saw.
"Big bro... whose side are you on, anyway? If Jiang He loses, I'll be turned over to the academy and expelled," Syrus Truesdale said with a miserable expression.
"Ahaha, sorry, sorry..." Jaden Yuki scratched his head awkwardly and laughed it off.
Jiang He paid no attention to the hot-blooded idiot and the others. Seizing the chance, he raised the hand holding his cards and gestured toward one of the two face-down cards in front of him.
"Reveal my face-down card, the Continuous Trap [Torture Wheel]!"
"[Torture Wheel] targets one monster on my opponent's field. As long as this card remains on the field, the chosen monster can't attack or change its battle position!"
As the face-down Trap Card flipped over, a skeletal torture machine with gears appeared in a flash of light.
It materialized out of thin air behind Blade Skater, who stood in front of Alexis, and, as the bald woman panicked, bound her body inside the machine!
"T-Torture Wheel?!"
The faint smile that had just appeared on Alexis's face at the praise instantly turned to shock.
Then she seemed to think of something.
She looked at Jiang He with a hint of anger and surprise. "You... is this really an Exodia the Forbidden One deck?!"
After seeing those two cards played, Alexis Rhodes finally realized something was completely wrong!
What kind of Exodia the Forbidden One deck would use those two cards and duel like this?!
It didn't match any of the possibilities she had considered for an Exodia the Forbidden One deck!
"I don't think I ever said the deck I'm using now was last night's Exodia the Forbidden One deck, did I...?"
Jiang He shrugged without the slightest change in expression.
His words left Alexis speechless.
Thinking back, the wretch really didn't seem to have said that he was using last night's Exodia the Forbidden One deck now.
But...
Then what on earth had she been guessing at all this time?!
The secret to dealing with counters to his Exodia the Forbidden One deck was simply switching to another deck?!
Alexis Rhodes felt both her blood pressure and the temperature of her face rising!
[Ding! Alexis Rhodes's emotion points +400!]
Even the two close friends following Alexis felt it!
"I-It isn't an Exodia the Forbidden One deck?" Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and the others were stunned as well.
Back in the dorm, hadn't Jiang He always used an Exodia the Forbidden One deck when he dueled?
Crowler was completely bewildered.
He felt as though his brain couldn't keep up.
He simply sank beneath the lake, dumbfounded, to clear his head, and stopped watching the duel.
"I set one card and end my turn!" Alexis gritted her teeth unwillingly and stared at Jiang He.
But all she could do was consider her options, set the last card in her hand, and end her turn!
After all, once she used De-Fusion, she only had two monsters on her field.
[Cyber Prima] with 1200 attack and [Blade Skater] with 1400 attack.
Now, because of her mistaken information, [Blade Skater], with 1400 attack, had been completely locked down by Jiang He's Continuous Trap [Torture Wheel].
She couldn't attack and destroy [Celtic Guardian of Noble Arms] in Defense Position on Jiang He's field.
And [Cyber Prima]'s 1200 attack was exactly equal to [Celtic Guardian of Noble Arms]'s 1200 defense.
All Alexis could do was set a third face-down card and end her turn.
The situation had clearly shifted in Jiang He's favor!
The other spectators watched with even greater concentration!
"My turn, draw!"
It was Jiang He's turn to draw from the deck on his Duel Disk.
"Before that, I activate the second effect of the Trap Card [Torture Wheel]. After it restricts a target on my opponent's field, it deals my opponent 500 LP of damage during the standby phase at the start of each of my turns!"
"Nani?!" Alexis was startled.
"Ah!!"
As Jiang He finished speaking, an arc of light like electricity flashed from the skeletal Torture Wheel.
As Blade Skater, who was being tortured on it, cried out.
Alexis was also quickly caught by the thin arc and let out a faint cry of pain.
Her life points, originally at [4000 LP], beeped down to [3500 LP].
Chapter 29: W-what a hellish effect!
"Damn it!"
Alexis suddenly had a feeling about the deck this wretch was using now.
It didn't seem to be a good deck...!
It was the same kind of inhuman deck as the one-turn-kill Exodia the Forbidden One deck that had enraged Chazz Princeton so badly last night!
Sure enough,
she soon noticed the corner of Jiang He's mouth curl slightly after he glanced at the card he had just drawn.
It was the same expression he had worn last night after drawing an Exodia the Forbidden One piece, when he had maliciously pronounced Chazz's death sentence one step at a time!
"Alexis, let me give you a powerful eight-star monster."
"I tribute the two monsters on my opponent's field to special summon [Lava Golem] to my opponent's field in attack position!"
Jiang He revealed the card he had just drawn!
"[Lava Golem]... that monster is...?!"
Alexis and the two close friends following behind her looked shocked and utterly unwilling!
They clearly didn't want the thing at all!
But light shone from Cyber Prima and the captive Blade Skater on the lake surface in front of Alexis.
After they were tributed and vanished with bewildered expressions.
The shadow of a gigantic humanoid lava monster soon rose from beneath the lake behind their boat!
"Ah!!"
The two close friends watching behind Alexis were so frightened that they hurriedly clung to each other.
The next second, a large cage attached to a chain dropped in front of the house-sized lava body, instantly covering the boat carrying Alexis and the other two and trapping it inside!
The boat was still on the lake, but now a cage surrounded it.
And behind them was the house-sized Lava Golem!
A black chain growing from the lava body in front of it connected it to the top of the cage!
[Lava Golem]
[Level: 8]
[Attribute: fire]
[Attack: 3000]
[Defense: 2500]
"Huh?! Why did Jiang He give Alexis a powerful monster with 3000 attack? And Alexis looks like she doesn't want it at all?!"
Syrus Truesdale asked in surprise.
He also voiced the question on the mind of Jaden Yuki, who was just as bad at theoretical knowledge.
Neither knew why the powerful monster card with 3000 attack in Jiang He's hand could use the monsters on Alexis Rhodes's field as tributes and be special summoned to her field!
And one of them had given away a powerful monster, while the other looked grim, as though she didn't want it at all?
"Because [Lava Golem] has an effect that lets you tribute two monsters on your opponent's field to special summon it to your opponent's field."
"And it's a monster with a side effect that deals 1000 LP of damage to whoever has it on their field during the standby phase at the start of each turn."
Chumley, who had been silent until then, explained to the two of them.
"A-A monster with an effect like that?" Jaden Yuki and Syrus Truesdale both broke into a cold sweat.
Didn't that mean Alexis would immediately take 1000 LP of damage when her turn began?
W-what a hellish effect.
Jaden Yuki and Syrus suddenly remembered the word Jiang He had mentioned during the day.