The smile on the Maze Brothers' faces suddenly froze.
They seemed to be stuck for several seconds before realizing the seriousness of the issue.
Then their expressions changed in a second from dazed to shocked, followed by exaggerated facial contortions.
"Na-na-na-nani!!??"
Cosmic Contraction!?
What does this mean?
The opponent placed five disgusting derivatives on their field and then told them that the maximum number of cards on both sides couldn't exceed five?
Doesn't that mean they can't play any cards at all?
This not only means they can't summon monsters, but Magic Traps also count as "playing cards."
Whether it's a Magic Card like "Black Hole" for clearing the field, or Magic Cards like "Tornado" and "Great Storm" for clearing the back row, they must be placed on the field to be activated.
And not being able to play more than five cards means they can't summon monsters, activate Magic cards, or set Traps. They can only helplessly watch these five annoying ugly monsters snore, snack, and read newspapers on their field...
Moreover, these five derivatives also have a "cannot be used as a tribute" restriction, meaning they can't reduce the number of monsters through Upper-level Summon.
Impossible to resolve.
The onlookers couldn't help but gasp, including the students who should have been familiar with Yugen's style.
Even by the standards of a jerk, the disgusting level of this lock formation reached a new height!
The Maze Brothers recognized the brutal reality and their expressions turned vacant.
They even wanted to say to Yugen, your way of dueling is just wrong...
Then the Ojama Derivatives even had animation effects.
The yellow derivative leisurely took a sip of tea, let out a breath, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, staying here is comfortable~"
Ojama Green Derivative: "Oh dear, I'm sorry for taking up your space."
Ojama Yellow Derivative: "Haha, this place has good feng shui, it's comfortable here..."
Ojama Black Derivative: "Hululu~ Hululu~"
Maze Brothers: "......"
Thanks for the invite, here at Duel Academy, already having high blood pressure.
"Alright, now it's my turn!"
Judai, having discovered a new continent in dueling, was particularly enjoying the duel's joy.
"First, I activate a Magic Card 'Horse Bone's Price', sacrificing the Normal Monster 'Ojama Green' left by Yugen to draw two cards from the card deck!"
Ojama Green disappears as a sacrifice, and Judai draws two cards from the card deck.
"Next, I activate the Magic Card 'Fusion'!
Fusion 'Elemental Hero Blazing Lady' and 'Elemental Hero Clayman' from my hand!
Fusion Summon the defender of the barricade—
—Elemental Hero Iron Wall Gunner!"
The female gunner with heavy armor crouched down on Judai's field, holding a shield in her left hand and a rocket launcher propped up behind the shield.
[Elemental Hero Iron Wall Gunner, Defense Power 2500]
"The effect of 'Elemental Hero Iron Wall Gunner'! When this card is in Defense Position, it can halve its own Attack Power to attack the opposing player directly in Defense Position!"
Maze Brothers: "Nani!?"
"Therefore, halve 'Iron Wall Gunner's' Attack Power for a direct attack!"
[Elemental Hero Iron Wall Gunner, Attack Power 2000→Attack Power 1000]
Rockets whoosh through the air, erupting with a series of explosions on the Maze Brothers' field.
Maze Brothers: "Waaah!"
[Maze Brothers, LP 6000→LP 5000]
The legendary brothers were starting to tremble.
Iron Wall Gunner was indeed a rare Elemental Hero, able to attack directly while in defense mode, a rarity in the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! card pool at the time.
But it's not just rarity; this effect itself isn't particularly strong. Under normal circumstances, the Maze Brothers wouldn't have cared about such power.
But in this situation, it's particularly alarming!
Under the limitation of Cosmic Contraction, they can't play or summon cards. Their only chance is to wait for the opponent to summon a monster and then use their derivatives to attack and destroy it.
Although derivatives have 0 Attack Power, suiciding on it would cause massive damage to themselves, it's the only chance to break the deadlock.
As long as they can destroy one derivative, reducing their total number on the field to four, they could at least play one card. By then, using a wind card to blow away the opponent's "Cosmic Contraction" or a Black Hole to destroy all derivatives would break through the situation.
However, who would have thought the opponent would bring out such a bizarre Elemental Hero capable of attacking directly in Defense Position!
Using derivatives to attack a Defense Position monster would be futile, unable to self-destruct.
Their expressions grew more twisted and pained, making the Elemental Hero on Judai's field appear like an Underworld warrior to them.
No, aren't you hero players supposed to engage in fierce attacks and honorable duels?
Why is that even a single Elemental Hero of yours is so disgusting?
The utterly unable to play Maze Brothers could only watch helplessly in silence. Thus, it became Yugen's turn again.
Yugen: "I normally summon 'Inaba's White Rabbit'."
[Inaba's White Rabbit, Attack Power 700]
"The effect of 'Inaba's White Rabbit', it can attack directly even when an opponent has a monster on the field." Yugen smiled, "I'll borrow Judai's 'Elemental Hero Iron Wall Gunner', along with my 'Inaba's White Rabbit', for a direct attack together."
"Ugh!"
Another round of face-riding output.
[Maze Brothers, LP 5000→LP 4300→LP 3300]
"Damn brat..." Brother Maze gritted his teeth.
But at least the opponent summoned a new monster.
Although "Inaba's White Rabbit" only has 700 Attack Power, it's enough, as Ojama Derivatives have 0 Attack Power. As long as one of the Ojama Derivatives hits the White Rabbit and suicides next turn...
"'Inaba's White Rabbit' is a Soul Monster. Its effect is to return to the owner's hand at the end of the turn it was summoned or flipped." Yugen calmly retrieved the White Rabbit just summoned back to his hand.
"Therefore, I recycle the White Rabbit to my hand and end the turn."
Maze Brother: "......"
Maze Brother: "......"
With nothing they could do next, they could only watch with wide eyes as it passed to Yugen and Judai's turns, and were repeatedly face-ridden by Iron Wall Gunner and the White Rabbit...
Such a bizarre duel, it was the first of its kind the Academy's students, professors, leaders, and experts had ever seen.
No, this really can't be called a duel anymore.
Because the victory was actually decided the moment "Cosmic Contraction" activated successfully.
The rest of this was just a slow, torturous death.
The Maze Brothers felt for the first time in their lives the painful realization, why is there an 8000 LP limit for tag duels?
This is too excruciating...
"..."
Finally.
[Maze Brothers, LP 0]
In the last face-riding explosion, the Maze Brothers collapsed to the ground, their eyes vacant but with an expression of relief.
It was finally over...