Chapter 69: Perfect Coordination

"My turn." Judai drew a card from his deck.

"Judai, your task this turn is heavy!" Yu Yi Ren reminded him from the side, "The field and that N Eyed Jishen both need to be dealt with…"

"Is that so? I don't think so."

He smiled confidently and revealed his hand.

"Spell Card, Greedy Urn, activate."

Tenjo Hikari clicked his tongue.

If he had Greedy Urn every turn, he'd be just as confident.

Unfortunately, his Greedy Urn had become Fusion Armor and Swap Fusion.

Judai drew two cards, and immediately had an idea: "Activate Field Spell, Skyscraper!"

Boom boom boom—

The environment, already crowded with skyscrapers, suddenly sprouted countless more buildings, causing the Fusion Gate on the field to vanish.

Tenjo Hikari nodded.

In this world, the duel rules hadn't changed yet, so the first player could draw, only one field spell could exist on the field at a time, and a new field spell would directly replace the old one.

The Golden Captain glanced at the surroundings but said nothing.

He loved Skyscraper.

Then Judai examined the field, looked at Tenjo Hikari's face-down cards, and considered Tenjo Hikari's hand.

The face-down card was this.

His hand contained Miracle Fusion and Swap Fusion.

Both players' life points: his own was 7000, the opponent's was 8000.

He glanced again at his own hand and already had a plan.

"In that case, I'll cover three cards and end my turn."

"Three?" The Golden Captain stared at the opponent's field and shook his head, "Including that Xikalige's face-down, that's already four. Do you really need that many?"

"Draw." The Golden Captain drew a card, then glanced at the Golden Heresy God, "Look at this—what now?"

"You ask me? How should I know?" The Golden Heresy God's dozens of eyes darted around.

The Thousand-Eyed N Eyed Jishen was an extremely powerful monster: each turn, it could devour the opponent's monsters, and possessed powerful lockdown abilities—so long as it remained on the field, no other monsters could attack or change their battle position.

But, in other words, only it could deal damage!

The problem was, it had just devoured a Wan Rong Alchemist with 0 ATK and 0 DEF!

0 ate 0, still 0!

Now, it remained a monster with 0 ATK, unable to deal any damage!

This was a headache. The Golden Captain never imagined he'd be stuck by his own teammate.

He glanced at Yu Yi Ren.

Oh, not the first time.

He thought.

Should he use N Eyed Jishen as a tribute to summon an upper-level monster to deal damage?

Or should he just wait and see?

He had a faint sense of being imprisoned.

This was tag dueling: whenever something unusual happened, all four players would be forced to wait and hold back.

And now, because they had the Thousand-Eyed N Eyed Jishen on the field, the opponent would likely delay summoning any monster until they had a chance to counterattack!

"Just in case, I'll normally summon myself."

Elemental Hero Golden Captain, Level 4, Light Attribute, ATK 2100.

His face-down card was the Trap Card "Hero Barrier," which negates one attack from an opponent's monster only when he has an "Elemental Hero" monster in face-up attack position.

Judai's face-down cards were probably some Life-Extending cards—he didn't need to worry too much.

"End turn."

"Ha, looks like the outcome will be decided here." Judai smiled.

"?" The Golden Captain blinked slightly.

"During the End Phase, activate Quick-Play Spell, Chestnut Ball's Calling Flute: Special Summon Chestnut Ball from the deck!"

"Krikiri~~" The winged Chestnut Ball flew out from Judai's deck.

Winged Chestnut Ball?

And it's a Spirit—

So close to Judai!

The Golden Captain stared in astonishment at this unfamiliar Spirit.

"My turn. Thanks, Judai. Dragging this out hurts us—let's decide this turn."

"How's that possible? You don't even have any monsters, and our life points are 8000!" The Golden Heresy God immediately retorted.

"Not necessarily!"

"My turn. Draw." Tenjo Hikari drew a card, glanced at it, and said, "Didn't draw it, Judai."

"Haha, then use my card!"

His eyes burned with passion.

"Haha—looks like you've been waiting to say that!"

Ever since their duel in the Warrior's Domain, Judai had been diligently studying. Don't let his constant sleeping in class fool you—his dueling strategy had grown significantly stronger!

"First, flip this face-down card: Trap Card, Hero Explosion!"

"Ah!" The Golden Captain's heart jumped.

"You can activate this only by targeting one 'Elemental Hero' Normal Monster in your graveyard. That monster returns to your hand, and I add Yu Yi Ren to my hand." Tenjo Hikari added Yu Yi Ren from the graveyard to his hand. "Then, by Hero Explosion's effect, I destroy one opponent monster with ATK lower than the monster I added to my hand."

Of course, I'll destroy the Thousand-Eyed N Eyed Jishen.

"You chose to destroy it right now?"

The Golden Captain exclaimed in shock.

"Next, I flip another face-down card: Hand Destruction!"

"Hand Destruction!?" The Golden Heresy God stared blankly, "What did Yu Cheng Judai cover?"

"Both players discard their entire hands. Then, each draws the same number of cards as they discarded."

Tenjo Hikari sent all his cards to the graveyard and drew. The Golden Captain discarded his Sky Hero and couldn't help sighing: should've summoned Sky Hero after all—could've drawn one more.

Looking at his brand-new hand, Tenjo Hikari's eyes brightened slightly.

Here it comes!

"Activate the effect of Swap Fusion in the graveyard: banish it, return Wan Rong Alchemist to the deck, and draw one card. Then, I activate Spell Card, Fusion Soldier, reveal Black Flame Knight from my Extra Deck, and Special Summon Flame Swordsman as fusion material!"

"Oh! My Lord, finally a chance to breathe!" Flame Swordsman cheered.

"Hmm, but it looks like I'm being used as tribute again." He shook his head and laughed, "Still, fine by me."

Tenjo Hikari smiled and revealed the cards in his hand: "I'm counting on you, Flame Swordsman and Winged Chestnut Ball."

"Yes!" "Krikiri!"

The two monsters transformed into Spirits and vanished from the field, then a majestic mechanical giant slowly rose from the ground.

"Ancient Mechanical Giant?" The Golden Captain stared at the card in confusion.

"And finally—Continuous Trap, Ancient Mechanical Duel!"

A purple Trap Card slowly flipped open—the very card Tenjo Hikari had covered last turn, waiting for the right moment, never revealed to his opponent.

"You can activate this if your opponent has any monsters on the field. Banish all monsters on your field and graveyard, including your own 'Ancient Mechanical Giant,' as fusion materials to Fusion Summon one Fusion Monster with 'Ancient Mechanical Giant' in its name. This Special Summoned monster can attack three times during this Battle Phase!"

"What!?"

"Three attacks!?"

"Wait, you didn't have two Fusion cards in hand before—" The Golden Heresy God shouted.

"No, one Ancient Mechanical Knight was sent to the graveyard as fusion material, and he just discarded an Ancient Mechanical Beast!" The Golden Captain instantly realized, "Incredible, Judai—you've become so good at teamwork!"

"Exactly! Thanks, Judai!" Tenjo Hikari cheered.

Everything Judai had prepared after seeing Tenjo Hikari's face-down cards was meant to let Tenjo Hikari unleash his full potential!

Without Judai's cards, he could never have executed this strategy at this stage. Without other supporting cards, this Trap's requirements were too strict—it was far less simple than Ancient Mechanical Fusion.

The majestic giant slowly appeared, its 4400 ATK declaring its power to the two Spirits.

The two Spirits exchanged a glance.

We're done.

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