Chapter 616

"Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch's direct attack!"

Electric light gathered in Thestalos's palm, turning into a thunder light ball and rushing toward Jim.

But Jim didn't intend to take this damage: "Activate set card!

Trap card 'Opponent Appears!'

Select one face-up monster on the opponent's field, and special summon one monster with the same level as the selected monster from your hand!"

The trap in Jim's back row flipped open.

"The effect of Opponent Appears, select 'Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch' on your field!"

Jim clenched his fist.

"Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch is level five, so I can also special summon a level-five monster from my hand to the field."

He pulled out a monster from his hand.

"The monster I want to summon from my hand is this one, appear—

—Labyrinth Wall!"

The ground rumbled and trembled, clearly a monster summon, but with the movement of a field magic activation. With a tremor of the ground, the crisscrossing labyrinth walls rose from the ground, as if layers of ramparts were blocking in front of Jim.

【Labyrinth Wall, DEF 3000】

"Labyrinth Wall, huh, an absolute defense of the Millennium Shield level." Fujiki You Xuan said, "Then battle rewind, I won't attack."

Labyrinth Wall, a level-five normal monster, zero attack but with 3000 defense, was a combat power of the same level as the Millennium Shield. This card first appeared in the Labyrinth Brothers' deck and evolved into a labyrinth-themed deck in the future physical card environment.

Of course, the labyrinth at this period had not become a special column. This was just a high-defense normal monster of the Rock clan.

Fujiki You Xuan: "Set two cards, turn ends."

"My turn, draw!"

Jim said.

"Activate magic card 'Pot of Greed', draw two cards from the deck."

Jim drew two cards, then his mouth raised.

Very good, it's here.

Jim looked up and smiled triumphantly.

"Does Fujiki You Xuan know? There are many incredible things hidden in this world." He said, "Even ancient fossils that existed in this world before the beginning of human history, those buried under the mantle.

The wonderful power from prehistoric times that can only be excavated by the science and wisdom of modern people!"

"Fossils, huh." Fujiki You Xuan said, "Jim Cook, you are a deep archaeology enthusiast."

"Ahahaha, yeah. My dueling is the same, the best moment of dueling is to wake up those sleeping powers from the graveyard and return to the field to show a brand-new posture after being washed by endless time and years!"

Jim shouted.

"And this romance in my duel can be best reflected through this card—

—Magic card 'Fossil Fusion'!"

Fujiki You Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his mouth raised.

Sure enough, it's here.

"Fossil Fusion, can banish 'Fossil' fusion monster determined fusion materials from your or the opponent's graveyard, and perform a fusion summon of the corresponding Fossil fusion monster!"

Jim said this was the romance of archaeology, and it was indeed so. The effect of this card was just as it appeared, to put it bluntly, it was digging graves.

Digging his own grave, and digging the opponent's grave, stealing the opponent's grave as his own fusion material, this was the biggest feature of Fossil Fusion. The physical card retained this feature and further strengthened the fusion monsters summoned by this effect.

For example, monsters summoned by Fossil Fusion would not be targets of monster effects, for example, when a Fossil fusion monster was destroyed, it could also recycle the "Fossil Fusion" in the graveyard to retain sustainability.

But these were all new abilities added after physical card enhancement, and the original version in Jim's hand didn't have them.

And at this moment, there was an even more awkward problem in front of Jim...

"It really is a fusion method suitable for archaeology fanatics."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled and said lightly.

"But it's a pity. For an archaeologist, the place you are in now should be the worst excavation site, right?"

As the words fell, Jim had already seen that the Fossil Fusion magic card he had just inserted into the duel disk and appeared on the field had begun to dim. A burst of transparent lightning jumped and crackled, and then the magic card simply extinguished completely, becoming transparent until it disappeared.

Jim: "!"

What is the situation?

"My Fossil...?"

Then he looked up sharply.

Looking at this continuous mountain valley he was in, that gloomy sunlight, as if locked in this closed cage.

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"Is it because of this field?" Jim suddenly realized.

"Noticed, huh." Fujiki You Xuan said, "Necrovalley is a field guarded by the guardians of the King's family, a forbidden cemetery that absolutely does not allow anyone to violate.

Here, all attempts to dig graves, cheat corpses, or destroy the graveyard are prohibited."

He paused for a moment, then smiled at the cold sunlight, explaining in K-language.

"In Necrovalley, effects that affect cards in the graveyard are negated, and neither side can banish cards in the graveyard from the game."

Jim: "!"

Nani? Cannot banish cards in the graveyard from the game, doesn't that mean his Fossil deck...

Jim, who immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, couldn't help but grit his teeth.

"Fossil Fusion... has been sealed?"

Fujiki You Xuan said this was the most unfavorable field for this archaeology fanatic, which was indeed the case. The biggest feature of Fossil Fusion was digging both sides' graves to fuse into various Fossil big monsters, and the restriction of prohibiting grave digging was almost equivalent to sealing most of the main combat power of his deck.

Even if Fossil Fusion wasn't used, Jim's trump card "Fossil Warrior Skull King" used when fighting the Supreme King also needed to banish two Rock-type monsters from his own graveyard to special summon.

A 2800-attack big monster that could be summoned with such simple conditions, and also had the powerful ability to halve the opponent's monster's attack power when attacking. Normally, it was a quite high-quality powerful hitter, but in this Necrovalley, even if drawn, it could only rot in his hand until he died.

And it didn't just target graveyard banishing, this valley also prohibited graveyard recycling, resurrection, etc., which was also a huge interference.

It was no exaggeration to say that just this one card almost blocked most of his way out.

Jim suddenly felt a bit of a toothache.

As expected of the King of Games, he pulled out a divine artifact that instantly made people's anger bar full so lightly. No wonder the opponent used various effects to search for the field one after another, this field was really half won once it was in hand...

"Fossil Fusion failed." Fujiki You Xuan narrowed his eyes, "So now, what should we do?"

Jim pondered for a moment.

"I turn 'Labyrinth Wall' to attack position."

【Labyrinth Wall, DEF 3000 → ATK 0】

"Then activate this card—"

Jim waved his hand, and another card was inserted into the back row of the duel disk.

"Magic card 'Shield & Sword'!

Let all monsters face-up on the field exchange their original attack and defense!"

(End of chapter)