Chapter 860: Starlight Road

"Then at the moment you summon the monster," Fujiki You Xuan said, "Activate face-down card, Quick-Play Spell 'Quick Summon'."

"Can perform a Normal Summon of a monster in your hand."

Fujiki You Xuan waved his hand and set another monster card from his hand.

"Set another monster face-down on the field."

Placido: "?"

His movements paused slightly, and he stared at the monster Fujiki You Xuan had just set on the field.

Seeing that he summoned another monster to the field immediately after summoning Wisel Core, and it was face-down...

So that's it, a Flip effect?

Placido, who was remote-controlling Ghost from behind the scenes, sneered in his heart, thinking he had seen through the opponent's tactics. Trying to use Flip effects to interfere, it was probably a Flip monster with a powerful effect to remove the opponent's monster.

But this level of tactics was useless against him, Placido, one of the three emperors of Illiaster!

"Activate the Spell card 'Raigeki' from my hand!"

Ghost held the Spell card in his hand high.

"Destroy all monsters on the field!"

The Spell was inserted into the Duel Disk, and then released powerful and unparalleled energy. Space was torn open, and a black hole from the other side of the galaxy appeared above the field, releasing endless gravity to drag everything into that bottomless void.

"Hehe, maybe you wanted to use the Flip monster's effect to interfere with me, but my dueling transcends this tactic!"

Placido shouted very arrogantly.

Directly clearing the field with Raigeki, no matter what ability the monster had, it would be crushed into powder without even a chance to flip!

However, facing the destructive black hole in the sky, Fujiki You Xuan stared at the vortex for a long time, and then actually laughed out loud.

Placido frowned; "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, just think your shallow understanding is interesting," Fujiki You Xuan laughed.

Placido was annoyed: "Nani?"

"You seem to think that I set a second monster on the field just to set up a Flip monster line... not at all. The reason I used 'Quick Summon' here is because I saw you summon 'Wisel Core'."

Fujiki You Xuan said, paused, and smiled sinisterly.

"Wisel Core, the absolute core card for Meklord Emperor Wisel's activation."

"Wisel Core can Special Summon the five parts of 'Meklord Emperor Wisel' from the hand or Deck when destroyed by a card effect, and can combine to transform into your trump card, Meklord Emperor Wisel, right?"

Placido: "!!!"

This time he was shocked, really shocked.

Why would this guy know the effect of his Meklord Emperor?

Meklord Emperor is a card that doesn't belong to this era, coming from the ruined future, and only the three emperors of Illiaster hold it. Their plans for the three emperors in this era haven't even started to unfold, and they have never acted in

"The core can only summon the Machine Emperor when destroyed by a card effect, which is why your deck contains a large number of cards like 'Raigeki' that can destroy the entire field.

Destroying your own core allows you to summon the Machine Emperor while simultaneously clearing the opponent's field—killing two birds with one stone. So, after you summon the core, your subsequent actions become too easy to predict."

Fujiki You Xuan said calmly, slowly waving his hand to flip over his back row.

"And this card is the reason why I specifically set a new monster before you activated 'Raigeki'.

Activate set card—

—Trap Card 'Starlight Road'!"

The trap flipped, a path of starlight leading straight to the galaxy; the shining stardust transformed into a sanctuary of protection, instantly suppressing the destructive celestial body in the sky.

Fujiki You Xuan: "Starlight Road can only be activated when a spell, trap, or monster effect that would destroy two or more cards on my field is activated."

Therefore, the trigger condition for Starlight Road was only met when he had two monsters on his field.

"Negate that destruction effect and destroy it. Afterward, I can special summon this card from my Extra Deck—

—Stardust Dragon!!!"

Behind the scenes, Placido's eyes nearly popped out: "Nani!?"

The starlight curtain was torn open, and countless shining stars swirled in the air, condensing into a slender, white, dragon-like form. Stardust Dragon spread its bone wings, scattering stardust across the sky as it swirled and ascended.

【Stardust Dragon, ATK 2500】

Placido was shocked; this Emperor Taiyi was truly shocked at this moment.

Stardust Dragon? How is that possible?

Isn't this the symbol of the Signer? Isn't this the only card in the entire world, held by Fudou Yusei?

This guy...

"Are you someone from another time?" Placido asked gloomily through the ghost's mouth, "Who exactly are you?"

The Stardust Dragon of this dimension is in Fudou Yusei's hands; that is beyond doubt.

A copy card is not impossible, but with the current technology of this dimension, it is impossible to replicate a card like Stardust Dragon. Their Taiyi could do it, but it would require a significant price. In the original work, Taiyi created a fake robot holding three copies of "Red Dragon Archfiend." Although the replication was successful, the Three Emperors themselves said in the anime that it cost a significant price.

Moreover, there is a difference between a copy card and the original. Placido could feel that the one before him was a genuine Stardust Dragon, not some replica.

Then there is only one answer. This card is a Stardust Dragon from another dimension, another timeline.

It's just that he didn't recognize that this Stardust originally belonged to Paradox; it was stolen from his colleague's hands.

"Alright, the effect of Raigeki didn't go through, and your core wasn't destroyed, so you also can't summon Machine Emperor parts from your deck."

Fujiki You Xuan smiled playfully.

"Well then, what will you do next?"

"..."

Placido pondered for two seconds and gritted his teeth.

The appearance of Stardust completely disrupted his plan.

Indeed, the only way for the Machine Emperor in the anime to be summoned is to destroy the core on his own field using a card effect.

And Stardust Dragon's monster effect is to tribute itself to negate and destroy the effect that would destroy cards...

It can be said to be the monster with the worst compatibility for him.

Although the Machine Emperor is known as the "Synchro Killer," you have to be able to summon it to kill. Now that the opponent has seized the initiative and Stardust Dragon is already on the field, it has become incredibly difficult for the Machine Emperor to appear.

So now the situation has become that Placido wants to self-destruct, but the opponent's Stardust is watching him and won't let him explode; the situation has become somewhat subtle.

"No way? The dignified Machine Emperor, the Synchro Killer, can't even deal with a mere Stardust Dragon? No way, no way?" Fujiki You Xuan continued his taunting output.

"Damn it... don't underestimate me."

Placido snorted heavily and glanced at his hand.

There is still a way!

"Set one card in the back row, turn ends!"

(End of Chapter)