Chapter 358: Duel Zombie

"Duel~"

The zombie said in a dry voice, unfolding its duel disk and drawing five cards.

"Fine, let's give it a try."

Dueling a zombie—or at least something suspected to be a zombie—was a novelty even for Fujiki You Xuan. He didn't mind trying it out with the opponent.

"Then I'll go first, draw."

Fujiki You Xuan drew a card and glanced at it.

"Activate the Magic Card 'Pot of Greed', draw two cards from the deck."

Starting with a forbidden card to draw 2, Zombie-san shouldn't have any objections.

Zombie: "..."

"Set a monster in face-down Defense Position."

Fujiki You Xuan placed a monster card on the duel disk.

"Then activate the Field Spell 'Catapult Zone'."

A rumbling vibration sounded, and the forest suddenly disappeared. A huge castle stood in front of the scene, and two huge catapults made of heavy steel and wood fell on a plain, like two sturdy fortresses.

The Duel Zombie narrowed its eyes and looked at the changing scene, occasionally making vague groans in its nasal cavity, but it didn't know if its brain could still understand the duel situation.

"Set two cards on the field, turn end."

Honestly, Fujiki You Xuan was still looking forward to how the opponent would duel and attack.

It wasn't that he was looking forward to any gorgeous operations and powerful deployment, but simply curious about how much combat power a zombie-fied duel could retain.

After all, traditional zombies are labeled as undead and brainless, and many people who become zombies are basically equivalent to being dead, without the ability to think. But if that were the case, they obviously shouldn't have the ability to play cards.

"My... turn, draw."

The zombie drew slowly, then narrowed its eyes and seemed to look at it for a while, seeming to identify its hand with some difficulty.

"Graceful Charity, activate." It said, "Draw three cards, then... discard two."

It took out three cards with its dirty hands, then slowly picked out two cards from its hand and put them into the Graveyard zone. It felt a bit clumsy looking at it.

"Continuous Magic 'United We Stand'... activate."

The green magic card in the zombie's back field appeared with golden light.

"Then monster summon Blue Thunder T45, summon."

Like lightning tearing through the sky, it rushed into the catapult domain. The fuselage of the Thunder Fighter presented a deep jewel blue, with smooth fuselage lines, and landed while spraying engine jets.

【Blue Thunder T45, ATK 1700】

"Thunder... Thunder Fighter?"

Fujiki You Xuan frowned and carefully identified the zombie in front of him.

"Could it be... Morita from the professional league?"

He didn't know many professional players, and many of them didn't have an impression even if he had seen them occasionally. But he knew this player named Morita because he remembered that there were many special fighter series in his main deck.

For example, this Blue Thunder T45, the prototype is the K-company arcade game "Thunder Fighter", and there is another "Vic Viper", which is the machine from another horizontal scrolling flight shooting game "Gradius" by K-company.

But why would a professional brother also become a zombie in this kind of place?

But Morita didn't pay attention, still continuing on his own: "United We Stand, attack increases..."

United We Stand, when there is only one type of original race in your Graveyard, all monsters of that race on your field gain 800 ATK.

It seemed that his Graveyard was also all Machine-type, so the ATK of the Machine-type Thunder on the field increased by 800.

【Blue Thunder T45, ATK 1700 -> ATK 2500】

"Thunder attack... Set monster."

A command that sounded laborious. The Thunder Fighter sprayed engine jets and took off, two energy beams shot down in parallel, bombarding the set monster on Fujiki You Xuan's field.

【Magician of Faith, DEF 400】

"Field Spell 'Catapult Zone' effect." Fujiki You Xuan said, "When a monster on your field is destroyed by battle, you can send a Rock-type monster from your deck to the Graveyard as a substitute."

The deck automatically searched, and a card popped out. Fujiki You Xuan drew it to his hand and showed it.

"I send the Rock-type 'Intercept Crusader' from my deck to the Graveyard to replace the destruction of 'Magician of Faith'."

Catapult Zone effect processed, like a layer of stone-built ramparts blocking in front of the Magician. The Thunder's light beams impacted on the stone ramparts, exploding in bursts of ripples.

"Then process the effect of 'Magician of Faith' first."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled and clicked on the Magician that had just been flipped on his field.

"Magician of Faith, when this card is flipped, you can recover a Magic Card from your Graveyard."

A golden light burst out from the Graveyard zone of the duel disk, and Fujiki You Xuan drew a card that had exited the Graveyard.

"I recover the Magic Card 'Pot of Greed' from the Graveyard to my hand."

Zombie Morita: "..."

"Then process the effect of 'Intercept Crusader'." Fujiki You Xuan said, "When this card is sent to the Graveyard, you can choose one of two effects to activate."

"Change one face-up monster on the opponent's field to face-down Defense Position."

"Or return one face-up Magic or Trap card on the opponent's field to the hand, and all cards with the same name as the returned card cannot be activated this turn."

Fujiki You Xuan pointed to the opponent's back field.

"Continuous Magic 'United We Stand' returns to the hand, and cannot be activated again this turn."

The phantom of Intercept Crusader briefly appeared on Fujiki You Xuan's field, a golden light enveloped the magic card in the opponent's back field, and then it turned into a beam of light and flew back into his hand.

Morita's empty eyeballs rolled around, thinking for a while, and his slow brain seemed to gradually begin to understand the situation he was facing.

Field Spell "Catapult Zone" is on the field, as long as Fujiki You Xuan's attack is destroyed by battle, Catapult Zone can send a Rock-type monster from the deck to replace it.

Then send "Intercept Crusader" from the deck, and you can choose to cover the opponent's monster to the underworld, or blow the magic/trap back to the hand.

Equivalent exchange, as long as you launch an attack, you will step on a pit, and this pit is still dug from the deck...

The zombie opened his eyes wide and stared at Fujiki You Xuan.

"Oh? Seems like the intelligence is okay, at least can read the situation and know the situation you are facing."

Fujiki You Xuan commented.

It makes sense. Just as he thought before, if it didn't have intelligence, it shouldn't be able to duel.

So zombies in Yu-Gi-Oh are less like losing their minds and being driven by instinct, and more like a different kind of brainwashing. Although they are driven by instinct and become full of card games, and attack others by playing cards, at least they have ideas about dueling.

Sure enough, even being a zombie in this world is a technical job, you even have to use your brain...

Of course, this theory is still a guess and needs further verification.

As for the verification method...

It's also simple.

Play two turns and see if he gets angry, and you'll know.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 359 =====