Chapter 294

A white giant slowly stood up from the ground, blue-purple machinery formed its huge skirt, and countless purple puppet strings shrouded the entire sky above the station.

No, it wasn't just this station.

The entire volcanic area was shrouded in the shadow of this huge giant at this moment.

Countless purple puppet strings shrouded the sky above this area, and several puppet strings fell beside the students, emitting an incomprehensible brilliance.

El Shaddoll Construct, Level 8, LIGHT, Fairy-type, ATK 2800.

Tenjou Hikari raised his head.

He really hadn't thought of this scene.

He didn't expect that one day, he would see Shaddoll on the opposite side.

To this day, Tenjou Hikari, who had encountered Gem-Knights, Jurracs, and Infinitracks, had never seen a second person other than himself use Shaddoll.

"It... it's actually Shaddoll?!" Misawa Daichi also looked at the sky, looking at the giant.

"I didn't expect to see other El Shaddoll monsters appear..."

"Th-this, is Master okay?" Serena was a little worried about Tenjou Hikari.

Having an opponent use your own monsters to fuse into a more powerful monster should logically be easy to affect one's mentality.

"The effect of Shaddoll Falcon: if it is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, Special Summon this card in face-down Defense Position." Tenjou Hikari really didn't expect to encounter this kind of scene, but he still had to perform the operation.

"Heh... it doesn't matter! Tenjou Hikari, let me show you my duel under the power of the Grim Reaper and the power of Construct!

I activate the Trap Card, Return from the Different Dimension!"

Haruki LP: 2800 → 1400.

Wow...

Exaggerated.

So that's the tactic he was using.

However...

If that's the case, the logic seems a bit problematic, right?

"Pay half your Life Points and Special Summon as many of your banished monsters as possible. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect are banished during the End Phase!"

"I Special Summon, Dimension Synthesizer, Barrier Statue of the Light!"

Two monsters appeared on his field again.

"It's not over yet!" Haruki had a cold smile on his face, his confidence overflowing. "Your Colossus has the effect of replacing destruction with a Thunder-type monster in the Graveyard. If I don't take it out, there's no way to continue the duel—so I'll use this.

Continuous Spell Card, Interdimensional Matter Transporter!"

He grinned: "Select 1 monster on your field and 1 monster on your opponent's field to banish from the game. I choose the Barrier Statue of the Light and your Colossus!"

The figures of the two monsters gradually became illusory. Colossus really wanted to help Tenjou Hikari, but it disappeared from the field almost instantly.

"Activate the effect of Dimension Synthesizer, banish the top card of the deck, and gain 500 ATK!"

Dimension Synthesizer, ATK: 1300 → 1800.

"Battle! El Shaddoll Construct attacks Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon!"

Controlling the giant that reached the sky, Haruki's consciousness didn't seem very clear. He slowly raised his hand and commanded the giant to attack.

"What? Attacking Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon?"

"The ATK is the same, isn't that just mutual destruction?"

"The Tribute monster that was summoned with such difficulty, is it going to collide and be destroyed just like that?"

Quite a few students were surprised.

"Hehehe, Hahaha—no Special Summoned monster is a match for Construct!"

Accompanied by a dazzling light, the blue-purple skirt armor on Construct turned pure white: "When Construct battles a Special Summoned monster, it destroys the opponent's monster directly without performing battle!"

"Boom!"

Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon didn't even react before it was bound by countless puppet strings and then shattered with a bang.

"Ah?"

"Does it actually have such a powerful effect?!"

"Doesn't that mean that even Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon couldn't possibly be its match?"

"Hiss..." Misawa Daichi gasped. "Although I had thought about what kind of effects other El Shaddoll monsters would have, this effect is just too exaggerated."

In this world, the vast majority of duelists rely on Tribute monsters with high ATK, and among them, using various card assists to Special Summon their trump cards is the most common method.

This Construct can destroy any Special Summoned monster, which for the vast majority of duelists, is an unstoppable monster.

Moreover, even Tribute Summoned monsters would find it hard to defeat Construct, which has 2800 ATK.

It can almost be called an "invincible" monster.

However, in Tenjou Hikari's view, this was actually Construct's weakest effect.

Construct's other two effects: the first effect is that if it is Special Summoned, you can send any 【Shaddoll】 from the deck to the Graveyard. The third effect is that if it is sent to the Graveyard, you can add any Shaddoll Spell/Trap card from the Graveyard to your hand.

There's a song that goes well: Shaddoll Fusion Construct, Link Summon Gravity Controller, recover Shaddoll Schism...

Understanding this song basically means you know how to play Shaddoll. jpg

However, in this world, because others lack other Shaddoll cards, for them, the second effect is indeed stronger.

"Battle continues, Dimension Synthesizer attacks your face-down monster—Shaddoll Falcon can revive a Shaddoll monster in the Graveyard when flipped, right? I already saw the effect of that card just now, so I won't let you activate it! After all, Shaddoll's lower-level monsters seem to only be able to choose one effect per turn."

Falcon was sucked into the Synthesizer's magic orb, and then there was no sound.

"Turn end, at this time, the Synthesizer is banished from the game—"

Haruki laughed loudly. "Did you see that? Tenjou Hikari, this is the power Lord Saiou gave me. This is the power of destiny!"

Tenjou Hikari lowered his raised head and rubbed his neck slightly.

He felt an inexplicable urge.

There was an urge to kneel down and worship the giant—and while he was thinking this, a few students nearby whose mental resistance wasn't very good subconsciously knelt down and worshipped Construct.

"Hmm... it seems that even if you get that card, you'll have to clean it up again," Tiera said, looking at the scene around them.

Construct was originally a central control device, and on top of it, Saiou seemed to have added other powers, and even Tenjou Hikari, who was dueling, was somewhat affected.

However, after Tiera's reminder, she snapped her fingers, and this mental influence disappeared.

A bit outrageous.

Tenjou Hikari clenched his fists.

The Shaddoll series is indeed a special monster. The Winda card itself is a bit special, and now this Construct, even without Tiera's power, can do this kind of thing.

If he lost the duel, he might end up like Manjoume in the original work, becoming a lackey for Saiou.

"My turn, draw."

Tenjou Hikari finished drawing the card and glanced at it.

"Speaking of which, your Grim Reaper power can make people draw any card they want, right?"

"Yes, that's right?" Hearing Tenjou Hikari's question, Haruki was slightly surprised.

"Then, since that's the case, why use 【Fusion】?"

"What kind of question is that?" Haruki was even more confused than Tenjou Hikari. "You, this absolute Fusion user, are actually asking others why they use Fusion?"

"That's not what I meant. I mean, there are clearly more suitable cards, right?" Tenjou Hikari rubbed his chin, raised a finger, and said, "Why not use Fusion Gate?"

Haruki was stunned.

Tenjou Hikari continued to think: "Your own deck should be a Dimension deck with banishing as the theme. Besides that, you put other cards Saiou gave you into it, which makes your deck stronger, and relying on the Grim Reaper card, you can also complete things you couldn't complete before.

Since that's the case, why not replace Fusion with three Fusion Gates?

Fusion Sage can search for Fusion, and you can also use Terraforming to search for Fusion Gate.

And as long as Fusion Gate is on the field, you can directly use its effect to banish Joan and Falcon. In this way, not only can you use Return from the Different Dimension to Special Summon Joan, but you can also banish my Falcon, making it unable to Special Summon to block the attack, right?"

Of course, Tenjou Hikari also had set cards, so one-turn-killing Tenjou Hikari was impossible.

"Eh... uh?" Haruki was stumped.

No.

Or rather, Haruki's own "consciousness" began to think.

Not only him, but the students nearby couldn't help but nod continuously.

"That's right, if you want to use this kind of banishing tactic, Fusion Gate is clearly much better than Fusion."

"As expected of Tenjou Hikari, as long as it's something related to Fusion, he can immediately have new ideas."

"Not to mention the luck of drawing cards, in terms of construction, that guy's construction is obviously flawed!"

"Tch, that guy Tenjou, even though the opponent is a guy who blocks the station to collect badges, he actually kindly points out the problems with the opponent's deck..."

A group of students were chattering—still the same, the students in this area were, more or less, honor students, and at least in dueling, they all had their own insights.

After listening to Tenjou Hikari's words, they almost immediately realized that he was definitely correct.

If he had succeeded, he could even have won in one turn, defeating Tenjou Hikari in that very turn.

However, he didn't do that.

"No, impossible, shut up—my construction is fine, you bastard, I don't use Fusion, how could I think so much—" This discussion seriously affected Haruki.

The reason he was chosen to be the user of the "Grim Reaper card" had two most important points.

His luck was good.

Second, he hated others discussing his deck construction very much. He had always believed that his deck had never had any problems, just like Tenjou Hikari could duel with a full Fusion deck, his deck had no problems.

And besides that, adding Construct made his already good spirit power even stronger.

Under the blessing of both, coupled with Saiou's brainwashing, his duel carried large-scale mental power, plus the influence of the power of light. If Tenjou Hikari was hit, he would even suffer mental damage—in fact, although he didn't suffer a direct hit, Tenjou Hikari also had a short period of dizziness. Normally, through mental offensive, even if he couldn't beat Tenjou Hikari, he could leave a trace of "light" or "destiny" in Tenjou Hikari's heart.

The problem is, he doesn't use Fusion, so putting these cards into his deck is of course strange and unreasonable, isn't that obvious!!!

As a result, this became the point where Tenjou Hikari mentally attacked him instead.

"Ugh... eh..." Haruki covered his head, somewhat painfully.

I don't know if it was because he was somewhat confused, but the puppet strings around him began to crack, and the light emitted by the giant that reached the sky also dimmed a lot.

Tenjou Hikari looked up.

He looked at his hand.

"It's about time to end this."

"?" Although he was a bit confused about the situation, Haruki could still react. "End? You've lost everything now, how can you defeat Construct, which can destroy any monster?"

"No matter how strong a monster is, it has weaknesses, not to mention that Construct is only 【invincible】 in battle."

Tenjou Hikari grinned: "Student Haruki, it seems that you are the type who is often nagged by classmates and teachers in daily life, saying that your deck is very problematic, but you firmly don't want to change it, and only want to duel with your own deck, right?"

"So what?"

"Nothing, I just feel it's quite good." Tenjou Hikari said with a smile. "The only problem is, perhaps you should replace some components and use more suitable cards to replace them—other than that, I, who only use Fusion, have no reason to persuade you."

Haruki nodded instinctively.

He had seen Tenjou Hikari being criticized by Teacher Huashan of the Yellow Academy, saying that his deck construction was very unreasonable, and therefore points were deducted.

So he knew that Tenjou Hikari was someone who understood him, so he also knew that Tenjou Hikari's statement was not wrong.

Under the gaze of the students of the Society of Light, they saw that it was as if the light was absorbed, all absorbed into Tenjou Hikari's body, making him, who originally only looked like an ordinary student, appear so bright.

"Since you are dueling me with such a duel, then, I must also respond with the same thing—"

"Use my Fusion, use my Shaddoll!"

"I activate the Spell Card, Brilliant Fusion! When this card is activated, I can use monsters in my deck as Fusion Materials to Fusion Summon a Gem-Knight Fusion monster with 0 ATK and DEF!"

"I fuse Gem-Knight Lazuli in my deck and Thunder Dragon in my deck!"

"Come, the brilliant, light-refracting knight—

Gem-Knight Seraphinite!"

Swish—

Captain Lazuli made a brilliant entrance!

After appearing, he looked at the giant in front, and was immediately stunned.

Gem-Knight Seraphinite, Level 7, EARTH, Thunder-type, ATK 2450.

Seraphinite, ATK: 2450 → 0.

"Next, activate the effect of Thunder Dragon Fusion in the Graveyard, banishing this card that was not sent to the Graveyard this turn, and I can add a Thunder-type monster from my deck to my hand.

I add Gem-Knight Obsidian to my hand."

In this way, Seraphinite's "ammunition" was also there.

Your good partner for clearing the field, Seraphinite!

"But, even so, Seraphinite's ATK is still 0!" Although he knew, Tenjou Hikari already had the means to destroy Construct.

However, Seraphinite has no ATK, it's still useless!

He can rely on the power of the Grim Reaper to draw the card he wants to draw, so he can win instantly!

Because Tenjou Hikari no longer has any cards that can block it.

Tenjou Hikari shook his finger gently.

On the other side, Tiera even reached out directly, took a card from Tenjou Hikari's hand, and put it into the duel disk.

"There's no such thing, because this card is enough to win—

Activate the Spell Card, Shaddoll Fusion!"

Eh!

"The opponent has a monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck on the field—this card can use monster cards in the deck as Fusion Materials!"

Tenjou Hikari grinned, opened his deck, and took out two cards: "I send Shaddoll Hedgehog in my deck and Vampire Lady in my deck to the Graveyard, Fusion Summon—"

He widened his eyes fiercely: "Heaven and Earth!"

"All things—"

"My classmates!"

"You should have all heard that name!"

"Listen!

The voice of God, the word of God, understand and analyze,

This command of God!"

"Fusion Summon!"

"Level 5—"

"El Shaddoll Winda!!"

Swish—

The puppet strings that filled the sky suddenly rose abruptly.

A magic staff fell from the sky, and immediately after, a beautiful figure with a dark green long ponytail slowly fell from the sky and landed in front of Tenjou Hikari.

It opened its hands, manipulating the staff, and those endless puppet strings were actually all pulled onto her magic staff!

Compared to Tiera beside Tenjou Hikari, it lacked spirituality, but this mechanical texture was actually the real "Winda."

El Shaddoll Winda, Level 5, DARK, Spellcaster-type, ATK 2200.

Haruki widened his eyes and looked at this scene: "How is this possible? A low-level El Shaddoll, dominating a high-level El Shaddoll?"

"Level?

Naive—there is only one leader of Shaddoll, and that is, Winda!"

"Discard Gem-Knight Obsidian in my hand, destroy your Construct!"

"Those who dare to reach out to the commander shall be punished!"

Seraphinite's spear aimed at Construct, while Winda, under Tiera's snap of the fingers, pulled the staff gently, and it collapsed with a bang.

Smoke and light shone on the entire sky.

It's just that this scene was completely different from before!

In Haruki's eyes, the small and cute magician didn't seem like a young girl, but a monarch commanding thousands of troops.

"Light, actually lost to darkness?"

"Dueling doesn't distinguish between light and dark, student—" Tenjou Hikari pointed forward gently:

"And then... of course."

"Winda attacks directly!"

Countless purple puppet strings instantly passed through Haruki, tearing the white on his body to pieces, and when the Grim Reaper swung his scythe, trying to harvest his life, the Grim Reaper was also caught by the strings and turned into another puppet!

Haruki LP: 1400 → 0.

(End of chapter)