Chapter 816: Table-Flipping Dragon

Aki couldn't help but say: "You guy... do you intend to win with this kind of monster?"

"This kind of guy?" Fujiki You Xuan laughed, "How rude. A monster as handsome and fiery as this is one of a kind."

Lava Golem agreed, emitting a deep, resonant roar.

"Tch, this kind of monster..."

Aki looked up at the burning Golem, looking at the black iron cage that bound her, her inner anger growing even more intense.

"Bury it now!"

"I Normal Summon the Tuner monster, 'Night Rose Knight'!"

The blue-haired, black-clad swordsman jumped onto Aki's field, his long sword waving lightly, leaving a silver arc of scattered starlight, his small white cloak fluttering behind him.

【Night Rose Knight, ATK 1000】

"Although when you summon a monster, 'Black Garden' would logically Special Summon a token on my field," Fujiki You Xuan said, "but now all my Monster Zones are filled, so this effect cannot be activated. Therefore, no token is summoned."

Aki frowned slightly.

Sealed attacks, then burn damage with Lava Golem. And if the Monster Zones are filled, she can't use the combination of 'Black Garden' and 'Rose Flame' to burn his Life Points anymore...

Is this what this guy is planning?

However...

"The monster effect of Night Rose Knight: when this card is successfully summoned, Special Summon a Plant-Type monster of Level 4 or lower from the hand."

Aki revealed another card in her hand.

"Special Summon 'Poison Root King'!"

Rather than a Plant-Type, this looked more like an Undead zombie. Its pitch-black body emitted an ominous aura, and just looking at its appearance, it felt like some kind of corrupted creature that had just crawled out of a grave.

Although Poison Root King appeared in 5D's as a monster used by Izayoi, before it was released as a real card, it was originally a monster used by Mr. Ma in Duel City. Although it was a Plant-Type, it also maintained the same style of appearance as Mr. Ma's monsters back then, leaning towards the underworld style.

【Poison Root King, ATK 1500】

"The Level 3 Tuner monster 'Night Rose Knight', plus the Level 4 'Poison Root King', Synchro Tune!"

【3+4=7】

The small knight waved the sharp sword in his hand, drawing three circles in the air, transforming into surrounding starlight that wrapped around Poison Root King. Poison Root King's body decomposed, releasing four shining new stars that connected in a straight line.

"Cold flames wrap around the whole world, pitch-black flower, bloom!"

Izayoi Aki raised her slender arm high.

"Synchro Summon—"

"—Black Rose Dragon!!!"

In the floors of the Arcadia Movement, inside the Black Garden sealed by vines, mixed with the roar of collapsing metal and ancient wood, the storm of roses seemed to ignite everything within the domain. Blood-red petals burned like flames, transforming into a pair of dragon wings constructed of roses. The flower dragon let out a cold roar in the vortex of roses.

Black Rose Dragon, summon!

【Black Rose Dragon, ATK 2400】

"It appeared, Black Rose Dragon."

Fujiki You Xuan muttered to himself, while looking at Izayoi Aki again. The Dragon Mark on the girl's arm was still shining, and the aura that seemed to have reached a bottleneck in his perception seemed to have barely risen another notch with the appearance of this dragon.

"After all, it is the dragon that serves as the symbol of a Signer; it's normal for there to be a bonus for a duelist who summons their trump card spirit."

But it was still not enough.

"Black Rose Dragon's effect!" Izayoi Aki said coldly, "This card can be activated when it is successfully Synchro Summoned."

"Destroy all cards on the field, including this card!"

Aki clenched her fist in the air.

"Destroy! Everything, the whole world... destroy it all!"

As if complying with its master's will, Black Rose Dragon raised its head and let out a high-pitched, angry roar.

Card after card was pierced by the roots erupted by the flower dragon, and the spinning rose scales were like thousands of sharp weapons, piercing Tytannial's body and also striking the Lava Golem on Aki's own field. The remaining Rose Tokens were all ground into fragments in the rose storm.

Black Rose Dragon, in Fujiki You Xuan's impression of the Synchro era, was also a dragon with a very high appearance rate; very many mainstream decks would choose to splash one, and it even had a glorious resume of being listed as a Limited card at one point.

Because its ability to clear the field was really easy to use.

If you can't beat them, flip the table. Even if you are in a comprehensive disadvantage in resources during the early stages of the duel, with the opponent's front and back fields full, and your side empty. Under such an absolute desperate situation, as long as you make Black Rose Dragon, both sides' fields immediately become clean, as if initialized, forcibly flipping the table and letting both sides start from zero.

Total field destruction!

Of course, the light swords of protection that Fujiki You Xuan used to seal her field also shattered in the gale, and the Black Garden full of vines everywhere also burned as if it had been ignited. Pieces of burning roots fell to the ground, and the entire domain collapsed and disintegrated.

Indiscriminate bombing, sweeping the whole field, not even sparing itself. This is Black Rose Dragon; when it goes crazy, it even bombs itself.

It should have been like this.

But at this moment, Aki pressed the button on her Duel Disk, suddenly popping open the last remaining back-row card.

"Activate the set card, Trap Card 'Synchro Backlash'."

"This card allows me to return a Synchro Monster on my field to the Extra Deck to activate. During the Standby Phase of my next turn, Special Summon the Synchro Monster returned for the activation of this card back to the field." (Original card)

Fujiki You Xuan said: "I see, a trap prepared specifically for the combination with Black Rose Dragon?"

Black Rose Dragon's indiscriminate field-bombing upon summoning, but as long as this effect is chained the moment it is activated, Black Rose Dragon itself can fly back to the Extra Deck to dodge its own bombing effect, and return in the next turn.

Black Rose Dragon transformed into a purple light and flew back into Izayoi's deck, and everything remaining on the field was bombed into a white wasteland by the sky full of roses.

"Then set two cards in the back row."

Izayoi Aki continued.

"During my own End Phase, if 'Phoenix Cluster Amaryllis' exists in the Graveyard, banish the Plant-Type 'Poison Root King' from the Graveyard, and Special Summon Amaryllis from the Graveyard in Defense Position."

The pitch-black vortex drilled open on her field again, flames erupted, and the fiery red Amaryllis rose slowly in the flames, like a phoenix nirvana. The fire-colored petals unfolded, and the flames on its body erupted in all directions, as if representing the embodiment of the controller's own anger.

As long as there are enough plants in the Graveyard to be used as consumption, Amaryllis can regenerate no matter how many times.

【Phoenix Cluster Amaryllis, DEF 0】

Aki clenched her fist and said gloomily.

"Only you... only you, no matter what, cannot be forgiven!" Izayoi Aki said, "For Divine, and for all the comrades gathered here with the same goal, I must defeat you here!"

(Chapter end) ===== CHAPTER 817 =====