Chapter 421

"As long as it stands on the field, it can seal the monster effects of an entire race..."

Marufuji Ryo's expression was horrified.

Such a targeted effect, isn't it a death sentence for duelists with pure Dragon-Type decks?

Mokuba, who had always had full confidence in his brother, couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva when he saw this, and started to break into a cold sweat for Kaiba.

"But even so, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon's ATK is still higher," Judai said.

"No," Mokuba said in a deep voice. "That warrior has other terrifying effects..."

As expected, Fujiki You Xuan had already continued: "Dark Paladin's other effect. This card's ATK increases by 1000 points for every Dragon-Type monster on the opponent's field and Graveyard!"

"Nani!?"

The onlookers were shocked again.

One Dragon-Type increases by 1000 points?

Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon's ATK also increases by accumulating Dragon-Types in the Graveyard, but one card only increases by 300 points. And Dark Paladin can not only absorb the power of Dragon-Types on the field and Graveyard, but one card is 1000 points.

In other words, no matter how hard it tries, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon's ATK will always have a huge gap with Dark Paladin. The more Dragon-Types accumulated in the Graveyard, the wider the gap between the two sides, a barrier it can never cross no matter what.

"There are six Dragon-Types in the President's Graveyard, and Bai Bai Linglong and Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon on the field," Fujiki You Xuan said. "A total of eight Dragon-Types."

"Therefore, the ATK of 'Dark Paladin' increases by 8000 points!"

【Dark Paladin, ATK 2800 -> ATK 10800】

Mokuba's face was already pale: "ATK 10800..."

"At the same time, when Dark Paladin is on the field, all the opponent's Dragon-Types must change to Defense Position," Fujiki You Xuan said. "And when attacking a Defense Position monster, if the ATK exceeds the DEF, give piercing damage for the excess value."

Kaiba frowned: "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, choose not to accept this effect, so there is no need to change to Defense Position. Only 'Bai Bai Linglong' changes to defense."

【Bai Bai Linglong, ATK 2500 -> DEF 2000】

"What terrifying suppression power," Marufuji Ryo said, looking at the swordsman. "Limited to Dragon-Type users as opponents, this swordsman's oppression simply surpasses the legendary gods..."

Dragon-Types have always been a highly sought-after race in the duel world for so many years, attracting a large number of duelists to flock to them for both strength and appearance. It is conceivable that the birth of such a card will undoubtedly cause an earthquake-level impact on the world's duel world.

Duelists using Dragon-Types have already lost more than half their chances of winning when facing this monster.

Can't attack, can't activate effects, the opponent's attack is over 10,000, what are you playing?

"Next, I activate the Spell Card 'Pot of Greed'," Fujiki You Xuan said. "Draw two cards from the Deck."

Fujiki You Xuan drew two cards, glanced at them, pondered for a moment, and then stepped forward directly.

"Battle!

Dark Paladin, attack 'Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon'!"

The warrior raised his dragon-slaying greatsword, the sword light was cold, and the white light slashed down from the sword like a galaxy!

"Heh, I had already calculated that you would use the ultimate Dark Paladin," Kaiba shouted. "If it's not an opponent who has exhausted all their trump cards and gone all out, then it's meaningless!"

"Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon still hides its final ability, Shining Nova!!!"

"It's useless, President!" Fujiki You Xuan shouted. "Shining Nova is an effect that needs to be actively activated! As long as Dark Paladin is on the field, you cannot activate any Dragon-Type monster effects!"

Mokuba was greatly surprised: "But Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon can choose whether to accept monster effects by itself..."

"Limited to 'effects that affect monsters' only," Judai explained to him. "But 'the opponent cannot activate any Dragon-Type effects' is clearly an effect that restricts the player."

Marufuji Ryo also nodded and said: "It doesn't affect the monster at all, but restricts the player from issuing the command to 'use effect'. No matter how powerful the monster or how perfect the resistance, if it cannot accept the duelist's command, there is no difference."

Only then did they realize that this Dark Paladin was simply the natural enemy of Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon.

At first glance, it seems that Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon already has near-invincible abilities, but all its abilities seem to be perfectly countered by this Dark Paladin.

It truly deserves the name of Dragon-Destroying Swordsman, it is indeed a must-kill weapon against the Dragon-Type.

Kaiba was also a bit surprised.

Of course, what was surprising was not that the opponent didn't let him 'mouth-play', but that the opponent actually seemed to know the content of Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon's hidden ability...

But there was no time to think about it in the heat of the battle.

"I naturally calculated this level! Activate face-down card!" Kaiba shouted. "Continuous Trap 'DNA Surgery'!

Declare a race, and all monsters on the field become the declared race!"

Fujiki You Xuan frowned: "Declare a race... so that's it."

"Not bad, I declare 'Divine-Beast-Type'!" Kaiba shouted. "Change all monsters on the field to Divine-Beast-Type!!!"

The three monsters on the field, two dragons and the Dark Paladin, were instantly covered in a layer of dreamlike halo, and the already majestic super big monsters only looked even more sacred and solemn under this layer of halo.

Of course, the race was obviously declared randomly by the President, just that declaring Divine-Beast-Type is cooler and more flashy on the field.

His real purpose was to change his monsters into a race other than Dragon-Type.

"Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon can freely choose whether to accept effect influence, I choose to accept the influence of 'DNA Surgery'," Kaiba said. "Therefore, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and Bai Bai Linglong all became Divine-Beast-Type."

"The number of Dragon-Type monsters on the field decreased by two, and Dark Paladin's ATK decreases by 2000 points!"

【Dark Paladin, ATK 10800 -> ATK 8800】

Mokuba worried: "But even so, there's still over 8000... Ah right, if it's not Dragon-Type..."

"Not bad, 'Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon', which is no longer a Dragon-Type, is not restricted by Dark Paladin's effect activation!" Kaiba shouted. "Therefore, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon's final ability, Shining Nova, activates!"

"Tribute itself to destroy any card on the field!"

Kaiba said in a deep voice.

"And this effect... can also be activated during the opponent's turn!"

Although the anime subtitle group translated it as 'destroy any one card on the field' when Kaiba explained the effect back then, one can hear from the original text of Kaiba's speech that he said 'any card' without saying there was only one.

It's just that because this effect was only used twice in the anime, but whether it was Yugi or Kaiba who used it, they only chose to blow up one card, so there has been a dispute about how many cards the anime effect can blow up.

In the Japanese version of the anime, the drawing was lazy and directly used the card art after the actual card was made to make up the numbers, and all effects didn't match the anime effects at all. However, in the card art of the US version, from the English effect, it can be seen that the effect description on the anime Shining Dragon card also says to destroy 'any card', and it doesn't seem to say how many can be blown up.

Then according to K-language understanding, it should be that the quantity can also be chosen at will.

Judai was shocked: "Destroy any card, and it can be activated during the opponent's turn!?"

Although everyone knows that two-speed field-clearing is no longer a very rare thing in the future Yu-Gi-Oh, such an effect is still unreasonable in the current era.

Being able to blow up any number of cards on the field during the opponent's turn, and overturning the table at any time to reset all the opponent's operations, how can the opponent play?

(End of chapter)