Chapter 298

Although Tiera had been pointing fingers when Tenjou Hikari was dueling, there was one thing she was very clear about.

That was that she and Tenjou Hikari were not a completely, intimately cooperating pair. With Tenjou Hikari's personality, if she really revived, he would inevitably choose to stand against her.

He couldn't accept her act of reconstructing the ecosystem, because this would inevitably kill countless creatures—although she didn't know what was left in the DT world now.

However, this didn't matter.

As long as there was life, Tenjou Hikari wouldn't agree.

And besides that, when they first faced each other, the two had already agreed on everything.

If she had to ask for Tenjou Hikari's advice for this first serious duel, then by that time, would she have to ask Tenjou Hikari, who was her opponent, how she should play?

That definitely wouldn't work.

In short...

She pointed her index finger at a card and tapped it gently: "Graceful Charity."

Graceful Charity flew out automatically, flipped over, and let the opponent see what it looked like.

Draw three, discard two.

Tenjou Hikari had collected many cards like Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity, many of which were fused into other cards, and later Tenjou Hikari simply didn't bother to put them into the deck. Anyway, they would change no matter where they were.

Tiera learned dueling from Tenjou Hikari and also knew the strength of these cards, so she would naturally put them in her deck.

Her deck wouldn't be fused away.

The cards flew out of the deck automatically and floated in the air for Tiera to watch. Tiera looked at all the cards in her hand carefully, rubbed her chin, and thought seriously.

Formal duelists usually glance at their cards and play them quickly in a duel. For example, in her impression, Tenjou Hikari often thought about how to duel next immediately after drawing cards. It's just a pity—although this is her deck, she hadn't even finished reading the effects of some cards, so it's a bit difficult to ask her to do this.

"Hmm... Lucifugus and Astaroth go to the cycle." Two cards flipped over, were shown to the opponent, and then discarded into the Graveyard.

Sending her own monsters to the Graveyard right from the start?

Construct was a bit puzzled.

"Banish Lucifugus from the Graveyard. Satan, you go."

Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding, countless metals emerged from the ground, and a silver-white flame demon with angel wings slid its wings and appeared on the field.

Infernoid Satan, Level 1, FIRE, Fiend-type, ATK 0, DEF 0.

Defense Position.

"Infernoid... Satan?" Construct read the name somewhat puzzledly. "A monster I've never heard of."

Hearing this, Tiera was slightly stunned.

Is there not...

She paused for a moment.

That's fine.

She thought again.

If one day she found that her body components had also become spirits and were working against her, that would be too funny.

"In short, when the total level and rank of monsters on my field is not higher than 8, Satan can banish Infernoid monsters from my hand/Graveyard to Special Summon from my hand."

"Let me see... what was Satan's effect again." Tiera clicked on Satan's card, and a larger Satan card art floated in front of her. She looked at the effect on it and nodded continuously.

"Satan once per turn, can return 1 face-down card on the opponent's side to the deck." She swiped her finger across the text. "So, I want to return your El Shaddoll Fusion to the deck.

Should be, right? Anyway, it's your face-down card."

"Then, I'll activate it—" Construct was also a veteran of many battles. Facing this kind of effect, the first thing it thought of was naturally to chain.

However.

It found that it couldn't activate the face-down card!

"Why?" It became suspicious.

Tiera didn't understand its words because she was still looking at the effect.

"When the return effect of Infernoid Satan is activated, the opponent cannot activate the Spell/Trap card that is targeted."

"It actually has such an effect." Construct was a bit surprised.

"Oh, so that's right?"

She looked back at Tenjou Hikari, her eyes seeming to shine with stars.

Tenjou Hikari nodded.

That's definitely right.

As a duelist, Tiera is indeed a novice.

But the effect of the card is right there.

If it were him, he would definitely have activated El Shaddoll Fusion long ago. After all, he knew Satan.

However, someone who didn't know this deck would definitely be confused at first—not to mention Construct, Tenjou Hikari could guarantee that even those people in his world who played cards every day would be confused if they suddenly encountered Infernoid.

What, what, what is all this?

The battle between a niche deck and a mainstream deck relies on information asymmetry!

"Then, let's continue." Tiera glanced to the left. "Astaroth is also ready to restart, Beelzebul, you go too."

Under the blue flames, a demon with traces of a fly form slowly emerged.

Infernoid Beelzebul, Level 2, FIRE, Fiend-type, DEF 2000.

"And..."

Tiera pointed at the card and said: "Beelzebul once per turn, can target 1 face-up card on the opponent's field. Return that card to the owner's hand...

Hmm. Then Construct. Go back."

Construct, which had no means, could only watch helplessly as its card returned to the Extra Deck, and its body also appeared abruptly in the previous position under the influence of the blue flames.

"That's more like it." Tiera noticed the face-down monster left on the opponent's field and nodded with satisfaction.

However—

Saying that, she had no means of attacking.

Since that's the case, that means, she should...

She looked at the cards in front of her left and right, looked for a while, and noticed one of the cards.

"Okay—let's use this."

"Void, activate."

While speaking, she closed her eyes and spread her hands.

Burning blue flames rose behind her.

A strange pattern, like a tree diagram, with 10 "points," appeared behind her, and then, under the influence of her power, four points from bottom to top lit up one after another.

The sky suddenly darkened.

Thick dark clouds filled the sky.

The scorching temperature began to drop.

Although there were blue flames everywhere, the temperature dropped crazily.

Zzz-la—zzz-la.

Not far away, various signal towers built by Kaiba Corp to prevent accidents between spirits and humans dueling started to vibrate crazily, and red alarms resounded all around.

The light curtains that were scurrying around in the entire critical point and existed everywhere pulsed violently.

The righteous companion Kaibaman instinctively took out his deck, looked at Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and was slightly puzzled.

Saiou accidentally messed up the entire deck, causing the cards to scatter on the table, his eyes full of shock.

Jūdai Yuki put down his work, instinctively looked up at the sky, and Neos appeared beside him, looking at each other.

Countless people with talent instinctively looked up at the sky.

They inexplicably felt that something "amazing" was quietly happening.

"Continuous Spell Card, Void Feast."

A moment later, the blue flames around merged into Tiera's "body." She opened her eyes, and for a moment, she seemed like a demon, but soon, this dangerous aura dissipated and was completely hidden by her.

Everything seemed as if it had never happened.

Only Tenjou Hikari, who was watching the battle, and Construct, who was fighting, could thoroughly feel this thrilling power. A kind of instinct derived from its soul and its clan's memory oppressed it, making it almost immediately want to surrender.

"You, what exactly are" before it finished speaking, a burst of metal friction sounded on Construct's mechanical body, and it itself seemed to be shocked to a great extent.

Tiera didn't pay too much attention to Construct's reaction, but was thinking deeply.

She still didn't quite understand.

"Components" could only be manufactured for her by Tenjou Hikari, but her own power had also recovered a lot, and using cards that symbolized power was no longer a problem.

"As long as this card is on the field, Infernoid monsters gain 100 ATK for each banished Infernoid monster." However, because they were all in Defense Position, she didn't struggle with it.

Tiera said while drawing a circle in the air slightly.

"When only Fiend-type monsters exist on your field, you can activate its second effect, recover a banished Infernoid monster, recover Lucifugus."

In the blue flame circle, a card was born from the flames and fell back into her hand.

"Set one more card, end turn."

Tiera looked at the scene and her hand twice carefully, nodded with satisfaction, and ended her turn.

"... I take back what I said before, unknown existence, you are indeed very powerful." Construct realized that the opponent was not an evil spirit relying purely on spirit power, and her cards were also extraordinary. But as a warrior, it wouldn't yield to physical strength.

"However, the ritual of dueling is not that simple. Relying purely on the strength of monsters won't work—"

Construct said solemnly: "My turn, I will show you the Shaddoll way of fighting!"

(End of chapter)