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"My turn, draw!"
Yexing slammed down the card he drew.
"I summon 'Spear Scales Dragon'!"
Though its name was Spear Scales Dragon, the monster summoned was actually a Dragon-Type. With green wings and a spiral spear in its hand, it glared menacingly at You Xuan's Set Monster on the field.
[Spear Scales Dragon, ATK 1800]
"Spear Scales Dragon is a monster that inflicts piercing damage when attacking a Defense Position monster," Yexing said. "Attack with 'Spear Scales Dragon'!"
Spear Scales Dragon flapped its wings, and its spear thrust forward.
"However, the Continuous Trap 'Spirit Barrier' is on the field. As long as I control a monster, I take no battle damage, even from piercing effects."
You Xuan stated.
"And the monster you're attacking is this."
The Set Monster flipped up, revealing a winking, leering giant pot with a single eye.
"Morphing Jar!" You Xuan said. "If this card is Flip Summoned, both players discard all cards from their hands, then each draw 5 cards from their Deck."
Although it was now too slow to keep up with the meta due to its slow Flip Effect activation, in its early years, Morphing Jar was also a powerful Forbidden card, a game-changing artifact on the competitive scene.
This card, like Phoenix God of Nephthys, was also from the gift pack given by the Neo Domina Swordsman, Scheller, as a farewell gift. Though Scheller passed away, his will remained. Even though he was gone, his will would be inherited along with his deck, and he could surely rest in peace.
"Therefore, due to Morphing Jar's effect." You Xuan drew a handful of cards from his Deck in one go. "Draw 5 cards from the Deck!"
Yexing also replenished his hand, narrowing his eyes as he assessed them.
"I Set two cards. My turn ends."
"Then it's my turn."
You Xuan drew a card, paused for a moment, then smiled faintly.
"As expected of Mr. Pegasus, truly remarkable. It seems I can't hold back anymore."
The card professors couldn't help but be surprised to hear this.
Did he mean that up until now, he hadn't even shown his true power?
"Oh?"
Yexing also showed an interested expression.
"So you were still holding back even now?"
"Not exactly."
You Xuan smiled, slowly drawing a card from his hand.
"Then, here I go."
You Xuan raised his right arm. A pitch-black vortex, as if leading to the underworld, opened out of thin air on the field before him. Two energies, one light and one dark, soared into the sky, swirling and intertwining at one point.
"By banishing 'Magical Scientist' (LIGHT) and 'Apprentice Magician' (DARK) from my Graveyard!
The souls of light and darkness sacrifice themselves to the chaotic field, calling forth the legendary strongest warrior! Creation of Heaven and Earthâ
âChaos Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, summon!"
From a surging chaos, endless darkness and void intertwined. At the extreme of chaos, a powerful force surged, and dazzling light erupted, like the rising sun.
Darkness was instantly dispelled. Blades of light and darkness sliced open the chaos. The warrior's armor gleamed with mysterious radiance, appearing as if it had stepped forth from a storm.
[Chaos Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, ATK 3000]
"Envoy of the Beginning?"
Many bystanders couldn't hide the surprise in their eyes.
That legendary warrior, in the hands of a student like this?
Kaiba Mokuba nodded with some relief: "Oh, oh, it seems he can skillfully wield the power of Chaos now."
His brother will surely be happy to know this, right?
"Envoy of the Beginning, attack 'Spear Scales Dragon'!" You Xuan commanded. "Chaos Dual Slash!"
Chaos Soldier swung the sword in its hand. The sword qi of light and darkness seemed to cleave heaven and earth!
This single slash would inflict 1200 points of battle damage. Pegasus Yexing's Life Points remaining were 1000. Chaos Soldier's single slash would directly decide the outcome!
"Then I activate the effect of the Continuous Trap 'Cost Down' (Blood Price/Cost of Blood - Translator's Note: Original card is 'Call of the Haunted' but context implies a direct cost effect, 'Blood Price' in Yu-Gi-Oh is 'Cost Down', but that's a Spell Card. Let's go with literal meaning, which is 'Blood Price' but I'll use 'Cost of Blood' to avoid direct card name clash for now. Or better yet, 'Blood Compensation' if staying literal with literal characters). I pay 500 Life Points to perform a Normal Summon!
I pay 500 Life Points and Tributing 'Spear Scales Dragon' on the field to Special Summon 'Curse of Dragon' in Defense Position!"
[Yexing, LP 1000 â LP 500]
[Curse of Dragon, DEF 1500]
"So that's how it is, using this method to defend and avoid battle damage." You Xuan understood.
The effect of Blood Compensation is restricted to being activated only during one's own Main Phase or the opponent's Battle Phase. That's why Yexing couldn't immediately activate Blood Compensation's effect after drawing cards with Morphing Jar's effect in the previous turn's Battle Phase. Otherwise, he would have definitely performed an additional summon of a new monster and continued attacking in the Battle Phase then.
However, conversely, if Blood Compensation had no restriction on being activated during one's own Battle Phase, and Yexing had chosen to conduct an additional attack last turn, then his Life Points would have been reduced to only 500, and he would no longer meet the activation condition for "Blood Compensation" this turn.
In that case, he wouldn't be able to defend using such a method now.
The sword light descended. Curse of Dragon was instantly cleaved in half by Chaos Soldier's great slash, exploding and disappearing from the field.
"The effect of 'Chaos Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning'," You Xuan said. "When it destroys an opponent's monster by battle, it can gain an additional attack."
The card professors' nerves remained tightly wound.
Although Yexing's defense was extremely close, it wasn't over yet. Chaos Soldier possessed terrifying continuous attack power, and the next strike would still spell his defeat.
And this time, Yexing's remaining 500 Life Points were not enough to support another activation of Blood Compensation to summon a wall to block the attack.
But Yexing immediately revealed another card from his hand.
"If a monster on my field is destroyed by battle or card effect and sent to the Graveyard, I can Special Summon this card from my handâ
âDimensional Wanderer - Thorn Purple Dragon, Special Summon in Defense Position!"
[Dimensional Wanderer - Thorn Purple Dragon, DEF 1100]
The second slash of Chaos Soldier descended, and the consecutive strikes of the Dimensional Blade materialized into countless sword shadows. Thousands of sword lights riddled Thorn Purple Dragon into a sieve. It fell, full of holes, and exploded with a boom.
But Yexing then flipped another card from his backrow: "Activate Set Card, Trap Card - Time Machine!
When a monster is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, that monster is revived in the same battle position it was in!
I revive 'Dimensional Wanderer - Thorn Purple Dragon'!"
A thick, black machine emerged from the mists of time. Time on the field flowed backward. The smoke from the monster's explosion hadn't even dissipated before it immediately flowed backward, obeying the invisible force of time, until it completely vanished. The shattered fragments also reassembled, reforming into the shape of a purple-black giant dragon, returning to the field.
[Dimensional Wanderer - Thorn Purple Dragon, DEF 1100]
"He defended against Chaos Soldier's two attacks and even managed to keep a monster on the field." Mokuba nodded slightly. "As expected of Pegasus's favorite student, Pegasus Yexing truly has some tricks up his sleeve."
You Xuan was not surprised that his attack was defended.
"Then I Set two more cards. My turn ends."
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