Chapter 1118

Summon "Time Magician"!

Within the city, golden ripples spread across the field, accompanied by the click-clack of turning gears, as the Time Magician stepped onto the pendulum and appeared leisurely. Its round, plump clock-face body reflected iridescent light, with the hour and minute hands cocked into a playful mustache on the dial. The clock sprite wearing a tiny top hat waved a small staff embedded with clock faces, and the entire scene seemed to fall into a time standstill as the mainspring tightened.

【Time Magician, Defense 400】

"Time Magician?" V's expression shifted slightly.

It looked frail and weak, with a defense of only four hundred—not even enough to count as a wall, mere fodder—but for some unknown reason, upon seeing it, V instinctively felt something was off.

"Time Magician's effect activates!" City said, "Once per turn, you can toss a coin once, guessing heads or tails.

If you guess right, destroy all monsters on the opponent's field. If you guess wrong, destroy all monsters on your own field.

But if your own field's monsters are destroyed, you take damage equal to half the attack power of all destroyed monsters."

V said calmly: "I see, what a high-risk wager."

If guessed correctly, the Time Magician could naturally dispel the Dyson Sphere. But if guessed wrong, City's own monsters would all be wiped out, and he would still have to take damage equal to half the attack power of the Red-Eyes plus the Time Magician. City's life points remained at only 800—undoubtedly unable to withstand it.

V was somewhat puzzled. Do duelists in this dimension really play this big? Or is he simply that confident in his luck?

"Then let's use the Time Magician's roulette instead of a coin, with the pointer stopping at a probability representing both our sides, each at one-half." City shouted, "Spin the roulette!"

The Time Magician's roulette pointer began to spin rapidly, gradually slowing after several rotations, and finally came to a slow stop.

And the result was, as expected, City Knife Junior had never missed on these crucial dice or coins.

"Yoishaa! Hit!" City exclaimed joyfully, "Then the Time Magician's effect—your field's monsters are all destroyed directly!"

At the tip of the Time Magician's staff, the clock face spun wildly, the hands blurring into afterimages, emitting a grating gear-grinding sound. With each rotation, the surrounding air rippled like water, as if the entire space were accelerating into aging.

On the Dyson Sphere's perfect golden shell, rust began to appear, as if an invisible hand had wiped away its luster, the metal surface developing pathological brown spots. The light in the patterns flickered like a candle in the wind, struggling to stay lit. Black oil seeped from the joints, and the precise structure emitted dying groans.

Rust spread like a plague, in an instant covering the entire sphere. The once-shining electronic circuits now resembled dried riverbeds—cracked and peeling—and the shell continuously eroded into iron-rust-colored powder. Internal parts rattled with loose clicks, as if millions of gears were disintegrating. Finally, this colossus collapsed like a sand sculpture in the time torrent, becoming a heap of lifeless scrap iron, and even the remnants weathered into fine dust.

Dyson Sphere, destroyed!

"Hahaha, truly a pity—looks like even the Dyson Sphere is completely powerless before time magic." City laughed, "If a thousand years won't do, then ten thousand; if ten thousand won't do, then a hundred thousand. After the passage of endless ages, your Dyson Sphere will ultimately collapse before the flood of time!"

V: "."

"This way, your field is just an empty wasteland." City said, "Come on! Red-Eyes Black Dragon, attack directly!"

With no obstacles left on the field, a direct attack would mean the Red-Eyes' attack power of 4800 would be enough to finish him in one blow!

Black flames brewed in the Red-Eyes' maw, and as the dragon strengthened, the black flame blast seemed twice as large as usual. The jet-black burning fire condensed into a scorching-hot sphere, blazing forth with the force to kill in one strike! "Really didn't expect that just a single coin could turn things around to this extent."

V gently closed his eyes, likely startled by the favor of the Gambling God and the Goddess of Fate. But he quickly came to himself, waved his hand, and flipped open the back row: "Activate set card, trap card 'Mirror Force'!

This card allows you to pay half your life points to make battle damage zero!" (Original card)

【V, LP4000→LP2000】

Countless rainbow-like beams rose from the ground, intertwining around V into a semi-transparent spherical barrier. The barrier's surface flowed with mercury-like luster, as if assembled from millions of prism shards. At the instant the black flame blast struck the barrier, the entire shield violently trembled, and seven-colored ripples layered outward from the point of impact. The black flames flowed along the curved surface like ink droplets falling on a glass ball, eventually dissipating into wisps of black smoke in the air.

Inside the barrier, V's coat hem remained untouched, the rainbow light on the barrier's surface gradually fading, yet still like an eggshell perfectly enclosing him—the erupting black flame failed to harm him in the slightest.

"Not bad." City said, "Then I'll activate the effect of the 'Legendary Black Stone' in the graveyard.

When the black stone exists in the graveyard, you can return one of your own 'Red-Eyes' monsters of Level 7 or lower from the graveyard to the deck, and add the black stone from the graveyard to your hand."

City displayed the black stone retrieved from the graveyard.

"I returned the Level 7 'Red-Eyes Abyss Black Dragon' from the graveyard to the deck, then added the 'Legendary Black Stone' from the graveyard to my hand!"

V frowned again. The Legendary Black Stone, once summoned and released, can specially summon any Level 7 or lower 'Red-Eyes' monster from the deck, and now it can even retrieve itself from the graveyard—quite troublesome.

"Finally, set three cards, end turn." City said.

V: "Then my turn, draw!"

V drew a card, but immediately afterward flung his hand up and activated the trap.

"Activate set card, trap card 'NO. Crane'!

This card allows you to specially summon a monster from your graveyard whose name contains 'NO.', except that the effect of such specially summoned monster is negated!" (Original card)

City: "Huh, a NO. -specific trap?"

"Exactly!" V said, "I special summon from the graveyard, 'NO. 9 Heavenly Cover Star Dyson Sphere' once again!"

【NO. 9 Heavenly Cover Star Dyson Sphere, ATK 2800】

Having just revived as a corpse one turn ago, it still appears as that sky-covering giant sphere, but now its golden fan blades and originally shining patterns have all dimmed, clearly indicating that whether its powerful effect or the nature of NO. has been nullified—it is merely a blank slate with a massive frame.

City quickly realized, if the opponent had activated this trap in defense position last turn to revive the Dyson Sphere, it could block the Red-Eyes' attack, thus avoiding the loss of those two thousand life points.

But the effect of the monster summoned by this trap is negated—in other words, even the resistance "NO. cannot be destroyed by battle" is nullified. Using the Dyson Sphere to block the blade would work, but it would be destroyed immediately.

In other words, the opponent intentionally sacrificed 2000 life points to preserve this Dyson Sphere.

Therefore, this seemingly blank Dyson Sphere must surely conceal some problem!