"According to the effect of 'Life-Reducing Treasure Scroll', draw a card from the deck!"
Genichiro drew a card and immediately revealed one from his hand.
"I sacrifice the two Derivatives summoned by 'Flame of the End' on the field for an Upper-level Summon!"
The storm of sacrifices swirled up, and a giant figure loomed in the storm. Genichiro paused briefly, then smiled triumphantly.
"Heh, that guy Ryuzaki used to have this card, but that idiot lost it in Duel City! However, I'll never let it leave my deck.
Watch this, the dragon born from the interplay of light and shadow, residing in the heart of the Evil Knight—
—— Level seven, Evil Knight Dragon, Summon!"
[Evil Knight Dragon, Attack Power 2350]
Yugen thought to himself, don't worry, it won't leave your deck. Because I'm going to take them all…
However, he still gave the opponent some face by acting surprised.
"It's actually 'Evil Knight Dragon'! Ryuzaki's former trump card, only second to the rare card 'True Red-Eyed Black Dragon'!"
The attack power is just 50 points less than the True Red Eye, so it's indeed just second to it.
Genichiro became even more proud, standing with his hands on his hips: "Being amazed now is just the beginning, fear it, tremble before it, then submit to its power…"
"So strong, incredibly strong. So, I activate my cover card."
Yugen flipped a card in his backfield.
"Trap Card 'Bottomless Trap Hole'. When a monster with attack power above 1500 is summoned, destroy it and remove it from the game."
A vortex opened on the opponent's field, and even before Evil Knight Dragon's entrance effect finished, the entire dragon was suddenly pulled into a bottomless abyss, banished to another dimension.
Genichiro: "..."
He was still maintaining that hands-on-hips pose, yet under the scenario of being foiled, he seemed a bit like a clown.
To put it nicely, the guy's already considering going to Gotham to play the antagonist against Batman…
What he really thought was, seriously, you had this in your backfield and you still acted like it's truly strong?
Messing with me is fun, huh?
The sunny boy Genichiro, who had been sinisterly smiling since the start of the match, finally couldn't smile anymore. Even someone as mentally prepared as him started feeling a bit irritated after having two big monsters trapped consecutively in one turn.
But it's still okay.
"Hmph, you've got some skill. But don't get cocky; up next, you'll witness the true despair of darkness!"
Though he was still saying this, Genichiro might not have realized that his smile had vanished at some point.
"Open the cover card, Magic Card 'Stupid Burial'!" Genichiro said, "This card lets me send a monster from the deck to the graveyard.
I send 'Balloon Lizard' from my deck to the graveyard."
He extracted a card from his deck and sent it to the graveyard.
"Then activate the cover card, Continuous Trap 'Restricted Revival'!" Genichiro said, "It allows me to Special Summon an attack position monster with attack power of 1000 or less from my graveyard.
I revive the 'Balloon Lizard' I just sent to the graveyard!"
[Balloon Lizard, Attack Power 500]
"Then, from my hand, I activate the Magic Card 'Super Evolution Potion'!" Genichiro continued with his moves, "I use a reptile-type monster on the field as a sacrifice to Special Summon a dinosaur-type monster from my hand!
I sacrifice the 'Balloon Lizard' on the field!"
Golden light emanated from the Magic Card, enveloping the lizard on the field. The small lizard began to rapidly evolve under the influence of the magic, growing visibly in stature, reaching a height of several meters in just a moment.
"From the depths of time, breaking free from the shackles of endless years, now descend upon us! Evolution Summon, Level Eight—
—— Super Ancient Terror Beast!!!"
[Super Ancient Terror Beast, Attack Power 2700]
In the face of several traps, he managed to summon another trump monster within a turn! Can anyone else do such a thing? Could that Ryuzaki have done it?
Genichiro suddenly felt a surge of pride, unable to resist bursting into laughter.
Can you pull another Bottomless Trap Hole on me?
"Open the cover card, Trap Card - Trap in the Darkness." Yugen calmly snapped his fingers again, "It can only be activated when my life points are below 3000.
Pay 1000 life points, and the effect of this card becomes the same as that of a normal trap in the graveyard."
[Yugen, LP 3000→LP 2000]
"Of course, I choose this one…"
The trap card in his backfield quickly transformed into another form amid a torrent of data.
"Trap Card - Bottomless Trap Hole! When a monster with attack power above 1500 is summoned, destroy it and remove it from the game!"
Genichiro: "!!!"
He gaped, desperately reaching out for the hard-won big monster he just summoned, as if trying to hold onto it. However, what cannot be retained will ultimately not stay. The Super Ancient Terror Beast seemed to cast him a helpless glance before staggering and falling into the pit, following the Evil Knight Dragon into another dimension.
Genichiro: "......"
Another pit, another freaking pit, did you wholesale pits or something?
Genichiro began to wear the mask of agony.
It seemed there was no more sunshine left in him.
It's rather eerie, honestly. Clearly, among the two present, he was the Dark Duelist, the one supposed to bring darkness and pain to the other.
Yet, with half the duel played, he suddenly realized the mask of agony was unexpectedly on his own face.
It was the first time since becoming a Dark Duelist that he found the opponent darker than himself!
In comparison, he suddenly felt his own darkness had always been surface-level, relying merely on mental and physical tortures to push the opponent to the brink of collapse.