Chapter 1151: The Immortal Heart-eart

Fujiki You Xuan: "My turn, draw."

Fujiki You Xuan paused for a moment, glanced at that tough and foul-smelling lump of Heart-eart, and said, "You seem to think that as long as you use Heart-eart as an absolute defensive shield, I won't have any way to deal with it for a while, right?"

Fika: "."

"If that's the case, I can only say that the world of Dueling is vast, and you still have a lot to learn, old man."

Fujiki You Xuan slowly drew the card in his hand and smiled lightly.

"I have to borrow your power again, old friend."

"I Tribute the 'No. 53 Heart-eart' and 'Hard-Arm Dragon' on your field, and gift this powerful monster to you!"

Awakening from the lava of the abyss, the power of destruction and rebirth—

——Level 8, Lava Golem!"

Fika: "?"

What did he just say?

This person, what was he just saying? It seemed to be something about... Tributing?

Tributing what, exactly?

Probably his Magician Girls or his three-colored gadgets; using one's own low-level monsters for a Tribute Summon is nothing strange.

How ridiculous, for a split second I actually thought I heard him say he was going to Tribute my Heart-eart, talking about a Tribute Summon on my field—just thinking about it makes me laugh out loud; how could that be possible?

Either the opponent slipped up, or my ears are malfunctioning; no matter what, it's impossible.

Boom!

The earth cracked into spiderweb-like crimson fissures, and the armor of No. 53 Heart-eart and the metallic scales of Hard-Arm Dragon simultaneously let out dying wails. Boiling magma wrapped around their bodies like a living thing, melting both machinery and bone into boiling molten iron. Just as the two wrecks sank into the magma abyss, the entire battlefield suddenly erupted with a low-frequency roar before a volcanic eruption. A palm made of flowing lava burst out from the ground, and as the five fingers gripped, they stirred up fire waves dozens of meters high. The crust emitted an unbearable cracking sound as the giant rose, and every piece of collapsing rock layer transformed into the flowing flame coat on its body.

The burning giant stood up, and the iron cage flowing with red-hot molten iron completely covered Fika, hissing with white smoke.

【Lava Golem, ATK 3000】

Fika stared with his round eyes, watching this scene quietly unfolding on the field.

After a long while, he squeezed a single word from the depths of his throat.

"Huh?"

What is this? What's the situation? Where is my monster?

Where is my Heart-eart? My invincible Heart-eart with full resistance and battle destruction immunity?

The only answer was the burning iron block on the field, clutching its stomach, opening its mouth, and letting out a scorching, satisfied burp: "Burp~"

After letting out a long, hot burp, the iron block rubbed its stomach, squinting its eyes with an "I'm comfortable" expression.

Because today's ration quality was exceptionally high—a No. monster, full resistance, seven effects... it was as if it were eating such fine food for the first time in its life; how could it not be comfortable?

Fika: "Ahhh—"

He was stunned, truly stunned.

Looking at the entire ZEXAL anime, from beginning to end, there really never appeared anything with the style of Lava Golem. After all, in a dimension where ninety percent of players are passionately hacking and slashing at each other, this kind of "eating the opponent's monster and defecating it on the opponent's field" stuff is truly rare.

What? Unaffected by effects? And cannot be destroyed?

It doesn't matter, Lava Golem will take action.

Anyway, it didn't say it couldn't be Tributed.

A cheerful atmosphere immediately appeared among the onlookers from the Kaiba team; everyone's face was filled with smiles, pointing and gesturing at Fika, as if the joy of Dueling was nothing more than this. But the more they were like this, the more Fika felt that the feelings between people could not be communicated at all.

Brothers, my Heart-eart was eaten, this is not funny.

The Gold Sarcophagus was resolved, and Fujiki You Xuan's Gold Sarcophagus system was temporarily stalled, but it didn't matter. The iron block had already solved the main problem; as long as the remaining total attacks went through, it would be over.

"Silent Magician Zero." Fujiki You Xuan said, "Attack 'Lava Golem'!"

Silent Magician's long silver hair moved without wind, and the crystal embedded at the tip of her staff suddenly burst into a star-like, scorching light. Countless light particles were extracted from every corner of the battlefield, spiraling and gathering like iron filings attracted by a magnet, compressing into a constantly pulsing ball of light at the tip of the staff, with transparent air cyclones swirling around the light ball.

Boom!

The moment the magic light ball touched Lava Golem's chest, that body, which seemed to be made of core-of-the-earth material, suddenly solidified into a dark red glassy state. Countless glowing cracks spread radially from the point of impact, and pure white sparks erupted from the cracks. The entire shell collapsed with a bang like a charcoal block crushed by an invisible giant hand, and the remaining lava turned into gray-white smoke with a sulfurous smell before it even hit the ground, leaving only a boiling magma pool.

【Fika, LP 1850 -> LP 1350】

"Cough, cough..."

Fika was choked into a violent cough and couldn't help but wave his hand to disperse the white smoke filling the air. But the cage that bound him had at least disintegrated, although the impact of the explosion was accompanied by a lot of pain.

In this way, his field became empty.

"Battle continues; if there are no follow-up moves, this might be the final blow." Fujiki You Xuan said, "Next, use 'Black Magician Girl, Disciple of Black Magic'..."

"It's not over yet!"

Fujiki You Xuan had already been interrupted by Fika before he could finish his sentence.

Fika shouted at the top of his lungs, his whole body erupting with Barian energy like flames.

"Of course it's not just to this extent! The moment the battle just happened, the Trap has already been activated!

Trap Card 'Damage Gate'!"

Fujiki You Xuan raised an eyebrow: "Using Damage Gate at this timing?"

"Damage Gate is a Trap that can be activated when you take battle damage; with this card, you can Special Summon a monster from the Graveyard with an ATK lower than the damage you took!"

Fujiki You Xuan immediately understood: "Heart-eart's ATK is only 100..."

"Exactly!"

Fika laughed loudly.

"Lava Golem was just defeated, and the battle damage I took was 500! Therefore, revive from the Graveyard once again—

——No. 53 Heart-eart!!!"

Purple-black mist suddenly steamed up from the Graveyard, and those bone fragments that had been scorched by lava actually began to spin in reverse. Viscous dark red liquid seeped out from the mud, weaving into a bizarre resurrection formation on the surface like countless blood vessels. With a vibration frequency like a heartbeat coming from underground, all the scattered mechanical wrecks suddenly floated into mid-air, reassembling like marionettes controlled by invisible threads, turning back into the phantom of Heart-eart once again.

【No. 53 Heart-eart, ATK 100】

"Hahaha, how about that? It's a pity, it's hard for you to have come up with a Tribute-breaking method to eat Heart-eart, but Heart-eart is immortal!" Fika laughed loudly.

This is also another terrifying aspect of his Heart-eart besides its high resistance and invincible effects: it has no summoning restrictions, and as long as it has appeared on the field properly, it can be revived easily. And because its ATK is only 100, its revival methods are relatively diverse.

Fika smiled brightly, his expression clearly saying—

——Could it be that you can eat my Heart-eart again? ===== CHAPTER 1152 =====