Chapter 144

There was a reason for Silver Meteor to say that.

As a freshman, Silver Meteor was able to become the second-in-command of the Society of Light in the school, all relying on personal strength.

But besides this, the most important point was—he was not someone brainwashed by Saiou personally, but a Blue Academy student who joined the Society of Light after it began to rise.

"In this world, everyone has things they are good or bad at, but the future, fate, is something everyone has to face." Silver Meteor spoke some of his inner thoughts, some inner thoughts that were retained even after brainwashing, "Although everyone can integrate what they like into dueling, this doesn't mean anything.

I am Silver Meteor, I am the world champion of shooting games! But in dueling, I am just a newcomer, and the identity of a champion can't bring me anything at all."

He talked about his own affairs.

The original purpose of his joining the Society of Light was only one, and that was that at that time, Head Instructor Napoleon had told the students of the Blue Academy that Saiou Takuma, as the manager of the world-class professional duelist Edo Phoenix, wanted to discover other excellent students in the academy to become professional duelists.

At that time, Silver Meteor had an impulse; he wanted to find this opportunity and wanted to become a professional duelist.

Clearly already a world-class "player," but no one recognized him; this was very painful.

This is like playing cards in the world of spinning tops, playing RPGs in the world of dueling, or talking about law in a world where cultivation is supreme. No matter how high your talent is or how excellent your ability is, without the support of the mainstream theory of this world, it is difficult to get recognition and praise.

Precisely to get the recognition of the world, and to let the monsters he likes appear in front of the world, he wanted to become a professional duelist.

So...

He envied Serena very much.

Although he didn't like this form of using the back door, her background and "master's school" already made Serena stand in front of others naturally.

"You've said a lot of nonsense." After listening, Serena understood roughly, but understanding didn't mean she understood clearly, "But what does this have to do with what you are doing now?"

Serena's question stunned Silver Meteor.

Ye... yeah, wasn't he the one who wanted to become a professional duelist?

Up to now, what was he doing?

"And, fate... this is really the word I hate the most." Serena looked at her hand, "I grew up in an alley in the slums, was found by my father, and then locked in a laboratory to learn Fusion and use spirits..."

Huh?

Now, even the members of the Society of Light who were being brainwashed, including Silver Meteor, had unclear brains.

How did it turn from "found by father" to "learning in the laboratory"??

What about the process?

Serena had always thought that the reason she didn't see a smile on Akaba Leo's face was because she wasn't working hard enough and she didn't meet her father's expectations.

But after the Fusion Army attacked the Xyz Dimension, she completely woke up.

She had actually always been a "lonely" beast under the moon.

Until she met Tenjou Hikari.

"For me, dueling doesn't have any other impurities, and shouldn't, can't have other impurities—Duel continues!" Serena was not good with words and was better at taking action.

She now believed that a duel should be a duel. As a duelist, she didn't need to think so much, just enjoy the duel.

This was also what she learned from Tenjou Hikari. To Tenjou Hikari, a duel is "Fusion." And to her, a duel is the purest thing she got from her father and master, so she didn't want to mix in anything else!

"Activate the effect of Lunalight Yellow Marten in the Graveyard. This card is in the hand/Graveyard, target 1 [Lunalight] card on your field other than [Lunalight Yellow Marten] to activate. Return that card to the hand, and Special Summon this card in Defense Position.

I return Lunalight Blue Cat to the hand, Special Summon, Lunalight Yellow Marten!"

The yellow marten wearing a peculiar pink skirt danced and jumped onto the field.

"Banished if it leaves the field because of this effect—then, I activate the Spell card, Lunalight Fusion."

"Send Lunalight Yellow Marten on the field and Lunalight Red Fox in the hand to the Graveyard, perform Fusion!"

She leaned back gently, reached out to the sky, and danced lightly:

"Form a vortex under the moon's gravity, be reborn wearing new power!

Fusion Summon!

Appear, the beautiful beast dancing under the moonlight.

Lunalight Cat Dancer!!"

Swish~

Swish swish~

Along with the rustling sound of bells, an exotic woman wearing a mask and with red hair reaching her waist danced lightly and appeared on Serena's field.

Lunalight Cat Dancer, Level 7, Dark Attribute, Beast-Warrior Type, ATK 2400.

Serena looked at the Graveyard.

It was a pity that because of the effect of the Field Spell Great Fortress Zeroth, she couldn't select Great Fortress Gazer as a target, so the effect of Lunalight Red Fox couldn't be activated. Otherwise, she only needed to activate the effect of Lunalight Red Fox, target a monster on the opponent's field, and make that monster's ATK 0 until the end of the turn.

But there was Plan B.

"Send Lunalight Purple Butterfly in the hand to the Graveyard, activate its effect, target 1 [Lunalight] monster on your field to activate. That monster gains 1000 ATK until the end of the turn."

Lunalight Cat Dancer, ATK: 2400→3400.

"Oh? Exceeded the ATK of Gazer?" Although Silver Meteor was touched, he quickly focused his attention on the duel.

His brainwashed state had been maintained for too long, and even if he could react, his body would still obey Saiou's orders.

"Not over yet. Activate the effect of Lunalight Purple Butterfly, banish this card from the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 [Lunalight] monster from the hand. Special Summon, Lunalight Blue Cat—"

"Activate the monster effect of Lunalight Cat Dancer, once per turn, tribute 1 Lunalight monster on your field other than this card to activate! This turn, opponent's monsters cannot be destroyed by battle once, and this card can attack all opponent's monsters twice each!"

"Uh..." After hearing this effect, Silver Meteor couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

It just happened to miss the effect on his side!

The Great Fortress series possesses the overall resistance of "cannot be destroyed by battle."

But besides this, its biggest feature is that after the battle damage step ends, a counter must be removed. If it battles in a state where no counters are placed, it will be destroyed after the battle ends.

This was also one of the reasons why he was afraid of Tenjou Hikari.

Because his deck relied on this tactic, but facing Tenjou Hikari, it was very likely to be swallowed and fused directly by Cyber Dragon, failing to exert its advantage and losing the duel directly.

Likewise, battling this Lunalight Cat Dancer, its features couldn't be exerted at all!

"Battle, Lunalight Cat Dancer attacks Great Fortress Gazer! When Lunalight Cat Dancer declares an attack, inflict 100 damage to the opponent."

The cat-girl dancer waved the dagger in her hand, flew over, and flew toward the core of the warship, obviously intending to perform a dagger-cutting-warship show.

The dagger poked at the warship's shield, making a sizzling sound, and even if the dagger's edge rolled, it didn't break through.

However—

The damage still had to be taken!

Silver Meteor, LP: 4000→3500.

"At this moment, Gazer's effect activates!"

"When battling, at the end of the damage step, toss a coin and guess heads or tails. If you guess wrong, remove 1 counter from the card."

What a meaningless effect.

Serena frowned in confusion.

In front of Silver Meteor, the card of Great Fortress appeared suddenly, and the card slowly began to rotate, seemingly confirming the position: "I choose tails."

Gazer rotated for a long time, slowly stopped, and maintained its normal appearance, not upside down.

"Guessed wrong?"

"Ha—how is it possible, this is exactly the fate I need!" Silver Meteor laughed loudly.

"Remove one counter from Gazer!"

Great Fortress Gazer, counters: 1→0.

Serena didn't understand, frowned and opened her mouth: "Continue attacking!"

Lunalight Cat Dancer saw the protective shield in front of her disappear, flew forward for a while, arrived in front of the silver-white core, and slashed at the core with one knife.

Silver Meteor, LP: 3600→3000.

However... Gazer actually still stayed on the field.

"Great Fortress cannot be destroyed by battle." Silver Meteor explained a bit helplessly, "Only in the end phase of the damage step when there are no counters on the body will it be destroyed."

As his voice fell, the huge mechanical warship slowly exploded in space.

However, Silver Meteor didn't care about the explosion of the warship at all, but instead raised the corners of his mouth.

"End turn." Serena frowned, and after waiting for Lunalight Cat Dancer to return to her field, she ended her turn.

Lunalight Cat Dancer, ATK: 3400→2400.

"At this time, the effect of Boss Rush activates! When a [Great Fortress] monster face-up on your field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, in the end phase of that turn, Special Summon 1 [Great Fortress] from the deck!"

"Special Summon, Great Fortress Big Core MK-3!"

Rumble, above Gazer, a star-level warship filled with laser cannons slowly flew out.

Great Fortress Big Core MK-3, Level 8, Light Attribute, Machine-Type, ATK 2700.

Because of the Field Spell, the ATK will become 3200!

"When MK-3 is successfully Special Summoned, place 3 counters, plus the effect of the environment Great Fortress, place 1 more counter, which is 4!"

Big Core MK-3, counters: 0→4.

"My turn, draw card, effect of Great Fortress Zeroth, once per turn, Special Summon 1 Great Fortress monster!"

"I want to Special Summon, Great Fortress Blast Core!"

Great Fortress Blast Core, Level 9, Earth Attribute, Machine-Type, ATK 2500→3000.

"Blast Core is the same as MK-3, gain 3 counters when Special Summoned! Plus the effect of Zeroth, it's also 4 counters!"

Blast Core, counters: 0→4.

"Hmm..." Serena finally understood the use of that Continuous Spell card that sealed her Normal Summon at this time.

So that's how it is!

Combined with the Field Spell and Continuous Spell card, he can permanently keep high-level Machine-Type monsters on his field, which can not only cause damage with high ATK but also act as a city wall, blocking in front and reducing losses!

And because he can Special Summon every turn, if he can't be solved quickly, he will soon be beaten back by countless mechanical bosses.

"That's the end! Bow down to the fate of Saiou-sama!"

"MK-3 attacks Lunalight Cat Dancer!"

Countless cannon barrels aimed at Lunalight Cat Dancer, and amidst the anticipation of the members of the Society of Light, the cannon barrels erupted with terrifying light.

Smoke filled the entire scene.

Serena, LP: 4000→3200

Silver Meteor was full of confidence and was about to attack directly with Blast Core, but was surprised to find...

Lunalight Cat Dancer was still on the field!

"Sorry... Lunalight Cat Dancer has an effect similar to Great Fortress, it cannot be destroyed by battle!"

"...Tsk." Silver Meteor couldn't help but say in a low voice, "Actually still hiding this kind of effect."

"Although I don't understand games." Serena said calmly, "However, Master told me that as a duelist, as someone who pursues Fusion, one must have an understanding of everything in a duel.

And you drew a conclusion without even experimenting."

Experiment?

Of course he knew this kind of thing, prioritizing trying an attack at the beginning, then inferring the weakness and attack path, moves, of course he understood—

It's just that, when thinking this way, Silver Meteor felt a headache.

"Battle continues, use Blast Core to attack Lunalight Cat Dancer!"

Another huge warship's cannon barrels accumulated energy, erupting with a red torrent like magma, hitting the cat-girl dancer.

Only this time, he no longer expected anything.

Serena, LP: 3200→2500.

"They both lost one counter after the battle."

The counters of the two Great Fortresses both became 3.

"End turn."

"End?" Serena heard, like a beast that found prey, took half a step back suddenly, arched her waist, struck a fighting posture, and learned to say it like her master:

"Then—"

"The last turn!"