Chapter 342: The potential of Cyber Dragon

"Add the Union monster 'Armored Cybern' to my hand from the deck." Marufuji Ryo showed the card and added it to his hand. "Then turn end."

"Beautifully using Union monsters to avoid the risk of Limiter Removal's self-destruction, and then searching from the deck..." Fujiki You Xuan praised. "Truly impressive."

"But it's also approaching my limit."

Marufuji Ryo closed his eyes and shook his head.

"I have done everything I could to perfection, and perfection is also the limit. But even so, you resolved everything easily, didn't you? Even if it seems like my advantage on the field now, it's just a facade."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled, not committing himself.

"Don't be so quick to define yourself. You have never tried to change, so how do you know this is your limit?"

Marufuji Ryo: "..."

This time he didn't speak, nor did he refute.

Maybe he didn't even notice it himself; fighting to this step, the seeds of hesitation had already sprouted in his heart.

He had never thought this way before, because he always won. He was the Kaiser, the strongest in the academy, and as long as he insisted on being himself, no one could beat him.

But the feeling today was different.

Facing Fujiki You Xuan, he truly felt his bottleneck. He vaguely realized that if he still refused to change, he might not be able to beat the opponent.

He still told himself in his heart as usual that as long as he insisted on carrying out his dueling, victory didn't matter.

But no matter how he told himself that, as a duelist, it was impossible to really suppress the longing for victory that was sprouting.

Especially when facing such an opponent, this was even more so.

If it were an opponent like Jaden Yuki, both sides attacking each other heartily, doing their best and showing all their trump cards, perhaps even if he lost, he could feel no regrets.

But facing such an opponent, this kind of avoiding head-on confrontation throughout, bouncing, exploding, and banishing, digging pits one after another...

I have to admit, no matter how I tell myself to value the process in my heart, I still want to win.

Losing to such an opponent instinctively makes one feel particularly unwilling, and there is a feeling of being stifled and unable to unleash one's strength.

"My turn, draw." Fujiki You Xuan said. "I Normal Summon 'Card Trooper'. Card Trooper's effect, once per turn, send up to three cards from the top of the deck to the Graveyard. This card's ATK increases by 500 for each card sent to the Graveyard until the end of the turn."

Fujiki You Xuan drew three cards from the top of his deck and sent them to the Graveyard one by one.

"Because three cards were sent to the Graveyard, Card Trooper's ATK increases by 1500."

【Card Trooper, ATK 400 -> ATK 1900】

"But it's still not as good as my 'Cyber Dragon'." Marufuji Ryo said in a deep voice.

"I know."

Fujiki You Xuan chuckled, then looked at the two remaining Cyber Dragons on the opponent's field, and chuckled.

"I seem to be able to feel the bond between Marufuji-kun and Cyber Dragon." Fujiki You Xuan said.

Marufuji Ryo also said: "Before coming to the Duel Academy, I had been fighting side by side with it for a long time. Facing any deck, any enemy, I have been fighting all the way."

He paused and looked at the two Cyber Dragons beside him.

"I will continue to fight like this from now on."

"I see." Fujiki You Xuan was solemn, showing respect.

"Then as the highest respect for you and Cyber Dragon giving your all, I will also take out my trump card."

Marufuji Ryo didn't say anything, but secretly increased his vigilance in his heart.

Going for real?

What's going to appear this time? A new Monarch? Or Black Luster Soldier...

"Watch carefully, Kaiser. This is the latest achievement of our experimental development, and no one in the world has seen it yet." Fujiki You Xuan raised his hand. "Representing the forefront of duel monster scientific research, a new power with epoch-making significance!"

This string of titles only made Marufuji Ryo's heart more nervous, but he couldn't help but look forward to it. Of course, he also knew how many amazing achievements Fujiki You Xuan's laboratory in the academy had made, not only in the academy, but even the response in the dueling world was not small.

Could it be that they really secretly developed some new trump card...

"Interesting, then bring it on." Kaiser's duelist soul also began to burn. "No matter what kind of enemy it is, I and my Cyber Dragon will face it head-on!"

"Hahaha, good."

Fujiki You Xuan waved his hand.

"Then I will send the two Cyber Dragons on your field to the Graveyard as materials for Fusion! Fusion Summon, appear—

—Chimeratech Fortress Dragon!"

Marufuji Ryo: "???"

What are you fusing?

At first, he suspected he had misheard. But when he looked at his field in astonishment, he saw his old friends, the two Cyber Dragons, suddenly jumping to the opposite field and starting to assemble and transform.

A huge and heavy steel body, solid and stable. Mechanical parts were combined in a complex way, like a twisting and rolling steel fortress.

Chimeratech Fortress Dragon, summon!

Well, of course, summoned on Fujiki You Xuan's field.

Marufuji Ryo: "???????"

Honestly, he couldn't quite understand what this situation was.

Because he was very sure that Fujiki You Xuan hadn't activated any cards. No Magic or Trap, no monster effect, no cards that looked like they could NTR the opponent's monster.

It looked like he just waved his hand like this and said, come over.

Then his two old friends jumped to the opposite side without hesitation.

Are you kidding me?

"Chimeratech Fortress Dragon's Fusion condition is 'Cyber Dragon' plus one or more arbitrary Machine-Types." Fujiki You Xuan chuckled. "But its special feature is that this card's Fusion doesn't need a Fusion Magic Card, it only needs to send monsters from the field to the Graveyard to perform a Fusion Summon."

Pausing, he emphasized.

"That's right, just send them from the 'field' to the Graveyard, it doesn't have to be my field."

Marufuji Ryo: "!!?"

No, I have Chimeratech Fortress Dragon too, is it this effect? Don't lie to me.

Chimeratech Fortress Dragon in the anime didn't say it could be fused directly without a Fusion Magic. It still needed to use Fusion Magic. After becoming a physical card, although it looked exactly the same and was the same card, the effect had basically been completely rewritten.

In fact, when this card was first released as a physical card, it also caused a huge reaction.

"Can perform a Fusion Summon by sending Fusion Materials from the field to the Graveyard," this sentence was already plain in the modern Yu-Gi-Oh! where NTR was rampant. A player who was slightly familiar with K-language could probably read out the fact that "it didn't emphasize that only materials on one's own field could be used" at a glance.

In fact, when the physical cards were first released, this card also caused a very large reaction.

Of course, the official later adjusted and specifically explained that it wasn't printed wrong, it was this effect. They even later modified the effect text and specifically added the sentence "can use monsters on one's own and the opponent's field as materials," so there was no more controversy now.

"So I said, latest achievement." Fujiki You Xuan laughed. "Perhaps Cyber Dragon contains more potential than you imagine. Look, I didn't activate any effect, didn't use a single card, and your Cyber Dragon became mine. Isn't it magical?"

Marufuji Ryo: "..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 343 =====

"Look, I didn't activate any effects, didn't use a single card, and your Cyber Dragon became mine. Isn't it magical?"

Marufuji Ryo: "..."

(End of chapter)