Chapter 219. The Final Judgment of Holactie's Light Crushes Hope! Royal Oppression, the Forbidden Card, Exposed!
DM World.
The "God-tier" memories of the past—
And the "God-tier" power of the past—
Flashed through every Duelist's mind like a montage.
Because of that, when they all looked up at this Dragon of All Creation, they couldn't help crying out, "Kami!"
What is a god?
Even the three Egyptian God Cards from their anime world—
Would probably struggle to even touch this card!
10,000 ATK!
If it were Obelisk the Tormentor and The Winged Dragon of Ra, fine!
But Slifer the Sky Dragon—
You could say it can't even compare to this Dragon of All Creation, which currently has absolute "God-tier" resistance!
"Daaang! Have-It-All Dragon!"
"I finally get it!"
"This is terrifying!"
"That suppression!"
"Ten thousand, and with resistances!"
"How's Grass Dark Magician supposed to punch through that?!"
Joey Wheeler gulped. At this point, he was ready to believe the opponent, Have-It-All Dragon, had already locked the Duel down.
What's the point of playing on?
There's no way to break this, right?!
GX World.
This God-tier Dragon of All Creation, brought out by a two-card combo, left the entire Duel Academy in shock.
"Mamma mia!"
"What kind of Duelist is this?!"
"This is basically a man-made 'God'!"
"Who even came up with something this ultimate?!"
Professor Chronos was completely numb.
He never imagined it—what started as a back-and-forth Duel—
Had been ground down to this level of suppression!
And, even now—
It seemed the opponent's field wasn't finished!
Have-It-All Dragon: "Hahaha! Enjoy my Salamangreat All-Creation combo!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Savor it!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "If you can deal with my Dragon of All Creation—"
"Then sure, I'll have no complaints about losing!"
"But if you can't, then on my next turn, do us both a favor and surrender."
"My turn continues. Since there are 25 or more cards in your Graveyard—"
"I can Special Summon Dragon of Pride and Soul!"
"And I also have 25+ in my own Graveyard!"
"This card's ATK becomes 5000!"
"Hahahaha! Time to end it!"
"Battle Phase!"
"A mere 4500 ATK?"
"Multi-swing! Dragon of All Creation destroys your Quintet Magician! You take 5500 LP!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "I activate Magikuriboh in the Graveyard!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "After I take damage, this card returns to my hand!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Second swing! Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon destroys your Defense Position Timaeus the United Dragon!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Third swing! Dragon of Pride and Soul attacks directly!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "I send Magikuriboh from my hand to the Graveyard!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Revive Dark Magician from the Graveyard in Defense Position!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Also, the Field Spell Magician's Salvation triggers, reviving Dark Magician Girl from the Graveyard!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Hmph! Death throes!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Dragon of Pride and Soul destroys Dark Magician."
"Turn end."
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "In your End Step!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "I flip up the Spell Card Monster Reborn!"
"Revive Apprentice Illusion Magician from the Graveyard!"
"My turn. Draw."
"...…"
After drawing, Grass Dark Magician fell silent, thinking.
Faced with the current state of the Duel—
He had to take a moment to write the equation for victory.
Everyone looked on with pity for Grass Dark Magician.
Even Jaden Yuki,
Watching that Grass Dark Magician Duelist,
Couldn't help thinking he'd hit a dead end.
Dragon of All Creation.
How do you out that?
You tell me—how?
With full resistance and 10,000 ATK!
What can a Grass Dark Magician deck possibly use to break that?!
There's just no chance, right?!
"Looks like this Duel is decided."
"For sure—can you really crack Dragon of All Creation?"
"Although… he milled so many cards to the Graveyard; maybe he has a chance?"
"A chance? What chance? You mean Holactie the Creator of Light?"
Someone in chat casually dropped the name Holactie.
The Duelists who were halfway to popping champagne all jolted.
No way, right?
You think Holactie is that easy to drop?
Is this a joke?
How could that be possible?
Possible?
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "My turn continues."
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "I admit, your Blue-Eyes cards gave me plenty of surprises!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "But my equation for victory—"
"Was already written the moment you failed to finish me off!"
"Or rather, when you chose the wrong attack targets!"
"Behold—the final Judgment of Light!"
"I build the Xyz Network with Dark Magician Girl and Apprentice Illusion Magician on my field!"
"Two Level 6 monsters!"
"Overlay! Constellar Ptolemy M7!"
"I then activate Monster Reborn to revive Slifer the Sky Dragon from the Graveyard!"
"There are 10 cards left in my Deck!"
"I activate the Spell Card—The True Name!"
"I can declare a card name; if it's correct—"
"I can Summon a God, ignoring its conditions!"
"In my Deck, there is still one God."
"That card that even That Grass Looks Greener didn't mill—the 'Kami'!"
"I declare—Obelisk the Tormentor!!!"
No way—?!
Again?!
Do so many Duelists really have this kind of luck—
Bound this tightly to the Gods?!
Seeing this play,
Everyone instinctively assumed Grass Dark Magician would call it right again!
But then they thought twice—
Even with only 10 cards left in the Deck…
The God hadn't shown up yet.
A one-in-ten chance!
Even so—
There's no way you actually hit it, right?!
But in the next second—
The flipped-top card from the Deck! Level 10! DIVINE Attribute!
Divine-Beast!
It was that very card—
Obelisk the Tormentor!!
Face, meet palm—every Old-Guard Duelist completely broke.
Seriously?
In that higher world—
Does everyone have a bond with the Gods like this?!
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Yadda yadda! Sole of darkness!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Shatter the floor!!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Mada mada!"
"I activate the third The Revived Sky God in my Graveyard!"
"I banish it to place Monster Reborn back into the Deck, then add it to my hand!"
"I activate Dark Magic Veil in the Graveyard, banishing it and sending Monster Reborn to the GY!"
"Now—come forth!!!"
"Descend with no conditions—The Winged Dragon of Ra!"
"At this moment—my field has assembled all three Gods!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "All three Gods! Don't tell me—!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Hold it—Holactie, the final God of Light, you milled that at the start!"
Have-It-All Dragon: "Heh, you're bluffing!"
Right then,
Have-It-All Dragon started to panic!
But the flicker of his memory—
Reminded him that Holactie had been sent to the Graveyard!
And no Duelist would run a second Holactie the Creator of Light!
Even in a God-specialized build.
So—
He still had a chance!
Three "dead-paper" Gods! Even if you Summon them, so what?
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Sol invicta vocat!"
Grass Dark Magician (God build): "Constellar Ptolemy M7 has another effect besides bouncing cards!"
"I detach 1 material and return Holactie the Creator of Light from my Graveyard to my hand!"
"At this very moment—Holactie descends!"
"Erase everything!"
"With the proclamation of God—I claim victory!!!"
As the curtain fell,
Duelists across every world stood stunned.
Have-It-All Dragon's face went blank.
On the field—
The three Gods
Became the Tribute.
And in the very next instant—
Radiance flooded the Duel arena!
Upon descending, Holactie intoned an incomprehensible, light-born divine language.
The Duel—
Was already over.
Complexity, awe, shock, bewilderment, helplessness—these emotions filled every Duelist's face.
DM World.
They had lost count of how many times they'd now seen Holactie the Creator of Light.
All they knew—
Holactie
Wasn't as impossible to Summon as they'd imagined!
Even this Grass Dark Magician in front of them—
As long as the time, place, and people aligned—
Could bring out Holactie with ease!
Yugi Muto's complicated gaze only deepened.
"Looks like this era is no longer the era I knew."
"Holactie… just like that, appears?"
"Truly… unbelievable!"
Beside him, Maximillion Pegasus clutched his head.
For a moment he could hardly believe it!
But facts are facts!
And facts—
Cannot be changed!
5D's World.
Sei Yuki and the others let out helpless sighs.
In a single Duel,
They'd witnessed all kinds of bizarre plays—
Even operations they simply couldn't parse!
Especially that Dragon of All Creation—
It completely defied their expectations!
Or rather—
They had never even heard of a Dragon monster like that!
"Phew! Absurd!"
"Way too absurd!"
"Just change that 'declaration' into 'Summon a God directly from the Deck' already!"
"Is all this ritual really necessary?!"
Crow Hogan couldn't hold back the torrent of complaints.
He thought about his own Duel luck—
Then looked at these Duelists' "luck"—
Without a gap,
There's no pain…
VRAINS World.
Even in the Link world,
Aoi Zaizen was still "broken."
"Whoa—just like that, the declaration hits."
"Is there some mechanic I don't know about?"
"Playmaker—if it were you, would you hit it?"
Aoi turned her gaze to Yusaku Fujiki.
"Maybe." Yusaku took a deep breath and exhaled.
To him,
What he'd seen in this Duel
Was calculation and best-effort from both sides.
And that final declaration—a one-in-ten chance isn't high, but it isn't low, either.
Survivorship bias—
Perhaps that's the point?
Out of ten, one will succeed.
Main World.
After Sei Yuki finished the short,
He couldn't help but sigh with feeling.
Truly the entertainer Duelists—
These stunts are nothing like normal Duels!
That Dragon of All Creation sequence in particular—
Even Sei Yuki was left dumbfounded!
Who'd have thought you could really cobble together a "full-resist preview card" level God?!
"Phew… with that done—"
"Time to think."
"What short should I pick next?"
With his musings complete,
Sei Yuki immediately started browsing for the next clip.
After a bit of searching,
Sei Yuki once again set his sights on the Forbidden-Card Commentator of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Gotta admit—
That Duelist really knows their stuff!
After watching,
He actually felt he'd gained a lot.
Worth following—and checking out more!
For example, the next short:
"Royal Oppression, the Forbidden Card! How Meta Shifts Turned It into a Powerhouse!"
At the same time,
This title quickly appeared across the various Duel Worlds!
Seeing it was yet another Forbidden card,
Plenty of people immediately perked up!
Very soon—
The short's content picked up right where the last one left off.
Forbidden-Card Commentator: "Welcome, fellow Duelists, and thanks for clicking today's Forbidden-card video!"
Forbidden-Card Commentator: "After helping everyone revisit a bunch of Forbidden cards—"
Forbidden-Card Commentator: "Today we've got one that's a bit controversial!"
"This Continuous Trap is Royal Oppression!"
"This card released in November 2001!"
"At the time, the booster it came in was packed with heavy hitters!"
"Stuff like Yata-Garasu, Fiber Jar, Last Turn, Confiscation, and so on!"
"And compared to those—"
"Players thought Royal Oppression was pretty mid."
"Not just because of the comparison damage!"
"More importantly, let's look at how its effect was worded back then."
"The effect was: as long as this card is face-up, either player can pay 800 LP to negate the Special Summon of a monster and destroy it."
"At first glance, it seems like a decent counter to Special Summons."
"But the problem is—look at it this way—"
"The range you can actually hit is limited. By modern logic—"
"It only negated Special Summons that didn't start a Chain—the so-called 'inherent' ones."
"Monster Reborn and such? It didn't cover any of that."
"But here's the interesting part—April 2003, Royal Oppression received updated text!"
"That's the current version."
"You can pay 800 LP to negate a Special Summon as well as an effect that Special Summons, and destroy those cards. Your opponent can use this effect too."
"Okay—now it hits a lot more!"
"Yet still, almost nobody ran it."
"Maybe because—"
"At that time, almost no one imagined—"
"That future Duels would revolve around Special Summons."
"In their minds, Normal Summon was king!"
"That's why this card—"
"Back then, hardly anyone rated it."
"The consensus was—"
"How strong could this card be?"
"Besides, your opponent can use it too."
"You run it—"
"You activate it; that means your opponent 'has it' too."
"Schrödinger's tech choice, right?"
"Did you tech it, or not?"
"Anyway, with few Special Summons to hit—plus both sides could use it—people preferred traps like Bottomless Trap Hole, etc."
Those words—
Made the old-guard Duelists of the original series blush.
Yeah.
Their mindset now was the same as the veterans' back then!
If not for these shorts—
Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, and the rest—
How could they have imagined—
That Yu-Gi-Oh! would one day—
Turn into this?
What, Tearlaments? Shaddoll? Blue-Eyes White Dragon? Dark Magician?
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes—
They never would've believed
That in a higher-evolved world,
Duels would become "Special Summons everywhere"!
No wonder players back then thought Royal Oppression wasn't strong at all… .
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