Chapter 862

"'Fabled Kushano' effect, Wisdom Core destroyed!"

A phantom of the Fabled monster, like a black cat, flashed by. After a series of destruction and protection exchanges, Placido finally managed to blow up his own Wisdom Core under the opponent's layers of protection.

The white core exploded with a bang from its center, burning metal fragments splattered everywhere, and debris with sparks flew to the surroundings of the highway, bouncing on the road and walls.

"When Wisdom Core is destroyed, effect activates!" Placido shouted, "Destroy all other monsters on my field!

Afterward, special summon the five Wisel parts from my hand, deck, and Graveyard!

Appear!"

Placido drew the five cards that popped out of his deck in one breath.

"'Machine Emperor Wisel ∞'!

'Wisel Top'!

'Wisel Attack'!

'Wisel Guard'!

'Wisel Carrier'!"

Each time he shouted, a card was slapped onto the Duel Disk. Following that, appearing from the starlight vortex were the torso of white mecha, a steel skull with red facial markings, robot hands with arm lines like swords, and robot legs that kept the entire body suspended in mid-air.

【Machine Emperor Wisel ∞, ATK 0】

【Wisel Top, ATK 500】

【Wisel Attack, ATK 1200】

【Wisel Guard, ATK 0】

【Wisel Carrier, ATK 800】

"Combine and transform!"

At Placido's command, the five major parts arrived at their respective positions, assembling and combining with each other, transforming into a huge white mecha, with an energy-constructed infinity ring rotating in the endless darkness within the core on its chest.

The five monsters combined into one, transforming into a huge mecha; that was one of the three major Machine Emperors known as the Synchro Killer, Machine Emperor Wisel!

"'Machine Emperor Wisel ∞' combined from five parts is treated as one monster, and its ATK becomes the sum of the ATK of the five parts!"

【Machine Emperor Wisel ∞, ATK 0 -> ATK 2500】

"To think you still managed to blow up the core and successfully summon Wisel despite being guarded against like this." Fujiki You Xuan smiled lightly, "You've got some skills."

Such an attitude only made Placido feel more uneasy.

This guy's tone felt completely expected. He really knew about the existence of the Machine Emperor from the beginning; despite seeing Wisel for the first time, he wasn't surprised at all by the mechanism of the five parts transforming and combining, or the unique pressure of the Machine Emperor.

Placido suddenly began to think whether it was too rash for him to rush out and face this person directly. He still knew nothing about this person's background, but this person seemed to know him and the Machine Emperor Wisel very well.

"Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning cannot attack the turn its 'Beginning Dimension Slash' effect is activated."

Fujiki You Xuan waved his hand again.

"Then I set four cards in the back row, turn ends."

Swish, swish, swish, swish, another four cards set in the back row.

"And in the End Phase, the effect of 'Stardust Dragon', which was tributed by its own effect, activates." Fujiki You Xuan said, "Special summon Stardust Dragon from the Graveyard!"

In fact, under the modern Yu-Gi-Oh physical card rules, such an operation is not valid. Stardust Dragon summoned through the effect of "Starlight Road" belongs to "non-regular summoning" and has not gone through a regular Synchro Summon.

Under modern rules, monsters that cannot be normal summoned have a "summoning restriction" if they are sent to the Graveyard without being summoned in a regular way. In other words, if it has not gone through the regular Synchro process, Stardust Dragon cannot be revived from the Graveyard.

But in the anime, in Yusei's battle against the Dark Signer leader Rudger, it was clearly shown that the Stardust Dragon Yusei special summoned using "Starlight Road" could be revived from the Graveyard.

Either the 5D's dimension does not have the concept of summoning restrictions, or the Konami rulings on Synchro monster summoning restrictions in that era were different from now.

In any case, if it weren't for this, Yusei would have already died in the battle against Rudger, and the world of 5D's would have been destroyed. The reason for the world's destruction is four words: summoning restriction.

【Stardust Dragon, ATK 2500】

However, Placido, who saw the opponent revive Stardust Dragon, had his eyes light up at this moment and snorted heavily.

"Stupid!"

Placido sneered.

He was worried before that this person seemed to know the bottom line of his Machine Emperor, and felt a little uneasy, but this bit of uneasiness vanished at this moment.

Because if he knew the Machine Emperor's ability, how could he be stupid enough to summon Stardust Dragon, a Synchro monster, back to the field? Just standing there openly in front of the Machine Emperor?

After all, after Stardust Dragon is tributed by its own effect, the effect to return to the field at the end of the turn is not mandatory; the controller can choose not to let Stardust Dragon return.

This turn will let the opponent understand the reason why the Machine Emperor is called the Synchro Killer!

"My turn, draw!" Placido laughed, "Stupid humans who use Synchro monsters, be destroyed by Synchro monsters too!

Machine Emperor Wisel ∞, effect activate! Once per turn, absorb one Synchro monster on the opponent's field as an Equip Card!"

The core on the Machine Emperor's chest opened, and the energy shot out like tentacles, wrapping around Stardust Dragon's limbs and neck respectively!

Stardust Dragon let out a cry of struggle, but it was unable to resist and had to be forcibly dragged into the Machine Emperor's chest cavity by the energy tentacles.

The transparent dragon soul appeared in energy form on the Wisel Attack part that served as an arm, like a dragon soul sword attached to it, the whole thing burning fiercely.

"Wisel gains ATK equal to the ATK of the absorbed Synchro monster, increasing its own ATK!"

【Machine Emperor Wisel ∞, ATK 2500 -> ATK 5000】

Fujiki You Xuan appeared surprised: "ATK 5000!"

Placido immediately felt a sense of accomplishment: "Hahaha, see that? The power of stupid Synchro monsters only brings destruction; humans who use Synchro power unscrupulously will eventually be bitten back by things they cannot control!"

Then he played a monster card from his hand.

"Tribute the 'Wisel Attack' on the field, summon the Level 5 'Wisel Attack 5' from my hand!"

The Attack part that served as an arm was dismantled into light points, but the thousands of light points quickly re-condensed, transforming into a brand-new, stronger, and thicker arm.

The parts summoned through "Wisdom Core" are all Level 1, which are the basic parts of the Machine Emperor. On this basis, the Machine Emperor's Top, Attack, Guard, and Carrier parts all have higher-level upgrade parts.

The Machine Emperor is not just capable of absorbing Synchro monsters. All its body parts can be replaced and upgraded, and after upgrading, each will gain new effects, which is also its strength.

Um, of course, this means that the Machine Emperor deck in the anime at least needs to carry the core, spell/traps to destroy the core in the deck, and then fill it with various Machine Emperor parts and upgrade parts...

Oh right, and then you have to ensure that you must draw the core and the spell/trap to destroy the core in your opening hand. And that pile of Machine Emperor parts is best not drawn into your hand; if drawn, they are pure brick pieces...

Thinking about it this way, being able to fight with such a deck is enough to make people respect it.

(End of Chapter)