Chapter 124. Called by the Grave Banishes Holactie—Kurikara Divincarnate Appears? The Ten-Thousand-ATK Winged Dragon of Ra Falls to Lava Golem's Resolution!
Looking across the entire tag duel in the short video, the board state is clear.
Right now, both LP and field advantage basically belong to the BD Blue Team.
With the second cycle of four turns finished, both sides have pushed their resources to the limit.
That means the next opening turn will, with very high probability, decide the winner.
In the video, the turn returns to Player A.
Player A: "My turn! Draw!"
Player A: "If that's how it is, then I have no choice. I have to pull out a trump card!"
D Blue Player: "Activate the monster card, Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood!"
D Blue Player: "I can discard this card from my hand to activate it. This turn, each time you Special Summon an Effect Monster during the Main Phase or Battle Phase, I gain LP equal to that monster's ATK."
Player A: "Activate Called by the Grave!"
Player A: "The card I choose to banish is… Holactie the Creator of Light!!"
B: "???"
C: "???"
D: "???"
Everyone is stunned.
Was that a misclick?
No, that's unlikely.
The Break Sword line just now shows this player knows what they're doing.
So the target really is Holactie the Creator of Light.
That's brutal.
Combining this with basic logic, both teams' Duelists are baffled by this one play.
Duelists across the worlds watching are just as confused.
Huh? Banish Holactie? Not Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood?
What kind of outrageous decision is that?
Are they afraid the opponent might somehow produce Holactie and win by Special Victory?
Given the Lightsworn mills we've seen, that possibility isn't actually that small.
The group chat immediately dives into discussion.
Yugi Muto: "A-hem. Maybe that's correct. If Holactie appears, it means instant victory. You didn't forget Little Blue earlier, right?"
Jaden Yuki: "But Mr. Muto, that's a stretch. Banish Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood and the current advantage gets even better!"
Yusei Fudo: "Either way, with Holactie gone, at least that concern is removed. This play might actually be stratosphere-level big brain."
Playmaker: "That said… let's keep watching. I really don't know what else Duelist A has up their sleeve."
Voices vary in the chat. Some call it precautionary. Others call it making a fuss over nothing.
What it really is, only Duelist A knows.
And Holactie the Creator of Light says: what did I do to deserve being the target?
Player A: "Is banishing Holactie so strange?"
Player A: "It's just a Link-6 Firewall Dragon Singularity, that's all."
Player A: "I activate the effect of the Trap I milled earlier, Phantom Knights' Wing."
Player A: "I banish Phantom Knights' Wing to Special Summon The Phantom Knights of Torn Scales."
Player A: "I Normal Summon The Phantom Knights of Stained Greaves."
Player A: "Overlay the two Level 3 monsters to Xyz Summon The Phantom Knights of Break Sword!"
D Blue Player: "Useless. Just a dying struggle."
D Blue Player: "Activate Firewall Dragon Singularity's effect. Bounce your Break Sword."
Player A: "Oh? That's perfect."
Player A: "I activate the effect of Kurikara Divincarnate in my hand."
Player A: "Since a monster on your field activated its effect this turn, I Tribute all applicable face-up monsters and Special Summon this card."
Player A: "I Tribute your Firewall Dragon Singularity to Special Summon my Kurikara Divincarnate."
Player A: "And this card gains 1500 ATK for each Tributed monster."
Player A: "So my Kurikara's ATK is 3000!"
Kurikara? Divincarnate?
What card is that?
Is this another absurdly strong hand trap?
That Link-6 Firewall Dragon Singularity just became Tribute fodder for Kurikara Divincarnate.
Across the worlds, the old guard nearly spits blood.
So Break Sword was only to force out Singularity's effect.
That satisfies Kurikara's condition to Special Summon by Tributing.
That troublesome Singularity just got answered with ease.
In the DM world, Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba are numb.
There have been too many reversals.
A moment ago, it looked like Blue Team had it in the bag.
The next second, a single Kurikara flips the game twice.
The advantage swings entirely to Red Team.
But thanks to Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood, Blue Team's LP climbs to 15,600.
That LP lead is massive.
D Blue Player: "I'm entering the Battle Phase."
D Blue Player: "Kurikara Divincarnate, direct attack! Take 3000!"
D Blue Player: "In the End Phase, activate Kurikara's effect. Target one monster in the opponent's GY and Special Summon it to my field."
D Blue Player: "I choose your Firewall Dragon Singularity."
D Blue Player: "This is my attack route. You're finished! Hahaha!"
B Blue Player: "Don't be so sure."
B Blue Player: "My turn. Draw."
B Blue Player: "I Normal Summon Raiden, Hand of the Lightsworn."
B Blue Player: "I activate Raiden to send the top two cards of my Deck to the GY."
B Blue Player: "Chain 1, Felice, Lightsworn Archer. If this card is sent from the Deck to the GY by a monster effect, it must be Special Summoned."
B Blue Player: "Chain 2, Wulf, Lightsworn Beast. If this card is sent from the Deck to the GY, it must be Special Summoned."
B Blue Player: "Now I've got three monsters. Guess what I'm doing?"
B Blue Player: "That's right. I'm Tributing all three."
B Blue Player: "Tribute Summon. Let's go."
B Blue Player: "Bring the radiance and honor of the Sun God. Descend!"
B Blue Player: "Kami!"
B Blue Player: "The Winged Dragon of Ra!"
With three Tributes offered, The Winged Dragon of Ra appears before everyone's eyes.
At the sight of this card, Duelists in every world tremble.
Suddenly, the earlier Called by the Grave banish on Holactie feels absolutely correct.
Yes, you banish Holactie.
Otherwise, the opponent could leverage the GY to bring down an Egyptian God Card and then reach Holactie.
But the crowd quickly calms.
Using three Tributes, Ra's starting ATK—based on those Tributes—is only 4900.
With only that ATK, it can't finish off Red Team in one blow.
Unless…
In an instant, the old guard from the DM and GX worlds remembers one of Ra's effects.
Even a "weakened" God can still ramp ATK that way.
Sure enough, in the video, B Blue Player announces it.
B Blue Player: "I activate The Winged Dragon of Ra's effect. On Summon, I can pay LP until I have only 100 LP left, and this card's ATK and DEF increase by the amount paid."
B Blue Player: "Begin the offering!"
B Blue Player: "Ra's ATK becomes… 17,400!"
Seventeen thousand four hundred?
It's over! Shimatta!
That attack ends the Duel on the spot!
Player A: "Oh? Sore wa dō kana?"
Player A: "It's true that when a God is Summoned, you cannot activate monster effects."
Player A: "But now you can."
Player A: "I activate Firewall Dragon Singularity. The Winged Dragon of Ra—back to the hand. Bye-bye."
Player A: "Safe travels!"
B: "???"
C: "…"
D: "…"
Silence falls across the DM world.
Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, Maximillion Pegasus, and the others stare blankly as the Winged Dragon of Ra—whose ATK had ramped past ten thousand, nearly twenty thousand—gets bounced.
This rollercoaster flips the God-card faithful upside-down.
God? The Winged Dragon of Ra? It just got bounced?
Right. Almost forgot. Cards in the higher world don't have those anime resistances.
Over in GX, chaos breaks out.
Jaden Yuki: "Huh? The Winged Dragon of Ra got bounced? That God just… vanished?"
Aster Phoenix: "Not only that, their LP dropped to 100. Blue Team is doomed."
Jesse Anderson: "Whoa! Kurikara Divincarnate is cracked. It has no self-restriction? This thing's that busted?"
Professor Chronos: "Mamma mia! Stop! This isn't a Duel! This isn't divine!"
In the VRAINS world, Playmaker, Akira Zaizen, and Spectre burst out laughing.
What God?
Didn't it just get yeeted by Firewall Dragon in one go?
Firewall Dragon Singularity > The Winged Dragon of Ra.
Kurikara Divincarnate > Firewall Dragon Singularity.
Therefore, Kurikara Divincarnate > The Winged Dragon of Ra.
Thinking about that inequality is too funny.
"This is killing me!"
"Firewall Dragon really is the best!"
Playmaker can't hold it in, and the other Link Duelists are over the moon.
Firewall Dragon Singularity represents VRAINS.
The Winged Dragon of Ra represents DM.
Of course, if this were the anime-effect Gods, the outcome would be different.
B Blue Player: "I—dammit. I forgot these aren't anime Gods."
B Blue Player: "Ugh… my turn."
B Blue Player: "I end."
Helplessly, Player B ends the turn.
The danger from that single misplay is this: Blue Team's LP is down to 100.
C Red Player: "Yo! My turn. Draw."
C Red Player: "I don't need to do anything."
C Red Player: "I end. Kurikara, kick them to death."
B Blue Player: "Activate Battle Fader."
B Blue Player: "Special Summon it from my hand, then end the Battle Phase."
C Red Player: "I end my turn."
C Red Player: "At the same time, activate Kurikara's effect. Your GY Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon—mine now."
Kurikara Divincarnate's value keeps skyrocketing.
Every End Phase, it's like a GY "steal" effect.
Who wouldn't love that?
And Kurikara's artwork looks great.
This sequence immediately grabs the attention of many Duelists.
Sho Marufuji and Weevil Underwood both eye Kurikara.
All of Blue Team's hopes rest on D Blue Player.
The last two counterattacks were basically carried by D Blue Player.
That means if D Blue Player can't clear Red's three monsters this time, the Duel is over.
D Blue Player: "My turn! Draw!"
D Blue Player: "Heh… hahaha! Time to end this farce!"
D Blue Player: "I drew Lava Golem!"
Nani? Lava Golem? Shimatta!
D Blue Player: "I Tribute your Firewall Dragon Singularity and your Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon."
D Blue Player: "Enjoy this big boy—Lava Golem."
D Blue Player: "I activate the Spell, Mathmech Equation."
D Blue Player: "I revive Mathmech Circular from the GY."
D Blue Player: "Sigma jumps out from the GY."
D Blue Player: "Circular adds Mathmech Nabla from the Deck."
D Blue Player: "Two monsters make a Link-2—another Splash Mage."
D Blue Player: "Activate Splash Mage. Revive Circular."
D Blue Player: "Activate the hand effect of Mathmech Addition to Special Summon itself, and Circular gains 1000 ATK until the end of the turn."
D Blue Player: "Use Addition and Circular to Link-2 into I:P Masquerena."
D Blue Player: "Splash plus I:P."
D Blue Player: "Arrows align. Link-4 Summon—Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax!"
D Blue Player: "Direct attack on your Kurikara Divincarnate!"
D Blue Player: "Effect on! Pump to swing over by 3000. Take 3000 LP."
The game swings back again.
With Mathmech power, the advantage is forcibly dragged back.
Everyone sighs. D Blue Player is a monster.
Player A: "My turn. Draw."
D Blue Player: "Lava Golem's effect—burn you for 1000."
D Blue Player: "You're down to 600. Next turn, it ends."
Player A: "Heh? We do have 600 left, true."
Player A: "But you're at 100, aren't you?"
D Blue Player: "What do you mean?"
Player A: "I activate Creature Swap from my hand."
Player A: "Each player selects one monster they control, then we switch control of those two monsters."
Wait.
Red controls Lava Golem.
Blue controls Avramax and… Battle Fader.
Right, Battle Fader stayed on the field and wasn't sent to the GY.
That means once this resolves, Lava Golem goes to Blue, and Battle Fader comes to Red.
The next turn is B Blue Player's turn.
Lava Golem's burn is mandatory.
Player A: "I end my turn."
Player A: "Turn passes to Player B."
Player A: "Activate Lava Golem's effect. You pay 1000 LP."
Player A: "The Duel ends."
What?
It's over?
Just like that?
Amid the bewilderment and shock of Duelists in every world, the Duel ends.
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