Chapter 864: The more he thought, the angrier he got

Instantly reflected 3300 damage, his life points suddenly hanging by a thread.

Placido felt stifled. Clearly, he was the one occupying the absolute advantage on the field, yet he had slashed himself down to seven hundred life points.

And he even had to personally blow up the Stardust Dragon he had worked so hard to absorb just to trade for a chance to linger on.

He, Placido, one of the dignified Three Emperors of Iliaster, had almost never tasted defeat while walking through the long river of history across countless timelines—when had he fallen to such a miserable state?

"Life points are only seven hundred now; you'll have to be more cautious from here on out." Fujiki You Xuan was still laughing over there. "With this little life, if you're not careful, I might accidentally kill you in seconds."

That smug face only made people even angrier.

Placido snorted and said: "Activate Spell card 'Aurora Draw'!" (Original card)

Placido inserted the spell into his Duel Disk, and a rippling seven-colored aurora suddenly appeared in the night sky above the Ghost he was controlling; the light and shadow were quite magnificent.

"'Aurora Draw' can only be activated when this is the only card in hand. Draw two cards from the deck!"

Placido drew two cards, glanced at them, narrowed his eyes slightly, then picked one out and waved to set it.

"Set one more card in the back row, and then the next card is also the Spell card 'Aurora Draw'!"

"Draw two more cards from the deck!"

Placido fired off two Auroras in a row, drawing four cards in one go.

"Next is the Spell card 'Treasure of the Buried Spell', banish three Spell cards from the Graveyard from the game, and draw two cards."

"Set two more cards, turn end."

Fujiki You Xuan clicked his tongue and said: "Oh? Seems like you have a lot of confidence in your set cards. Then I'll have to properly test what you've set. My turn, draw!"

Fujiki You Xuan raised his arm.

"Chaos Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, effect activate!"

"Once per turn, target one monster on the field, and banish that monster from the game!"

Fujiki You Xuan paused and pointed at the huge energy core of the Machine Emperor on the opponent's field.

"The Machine Emperor looks like it combined into one monster, but in essence, it's still five parts, each being a card, occupying five monster zones. Chaos Soldier's effect can only banish one of them at a time."

"Then the one I want to banish is, of course, this one that serves as the Machine Emperor's core! The torso of the Machine Emperor, Machine Emperor Wisel ∞!"

The torso part of the Machine Emperor is where its energy core is located, and it is also the Machine Emperor's weakness. If a monster with '∞' in its name is not on the field, all other Machine Emperor parts will self-destruct.

Therefore, as long as the torso is taken out, it's equivalent to taking out the entire Machine Emperor.

"The banishing ability of the Envoy of the Beginning is indeed powerful, but do you think I wouldn't have calculated for something like this?"

Placido shouted.

"Activate set card! Continuous Trap 'Fiendish Chain'!"

"Use this card to bind the Envoy of the Beginning, making Chaos Soldier unable to attack, and its effects are also negated!"

Green demon chains shot out, binding Chaos Soldier's body like tentacles. The sword that was halfway through a slash stopped abruptly in mid-air, unable to continue slashing down even by half a bit.

"Ho, as expected of a Machine Emperor controlled by one of the Three Emperors of Iliaster; such a move indeed couldn't take effect." Fujiki You Xuan chuckled.

By now, he was no longer the newcomer transmigrator he once was; he had long since figured out some of the basic principles of playing cards in this world.

The Great Beginning was a monster he had already summoned last turn, and its banishing ability was already clearly displayed there. So as long as the opponent's fate power wasn't too far off, they would likely have a way to resolve such an obvious move this turn.

Only the weak would completely fail to draw a card to respond. Placido was, after all, one of the Three Emperors of Iliaster, and also an expert capable of handling the ultimate brick-heavy deck that was the anime Machine Emperor; his fate power naturally wouldn't be too bad.

That he couldn't simply and directly banish Wisel with the Great Beginning's effect this turn was basically within expectations.

"Then next, activate Spell card 'Hand Destruction'." Fujiki You Xuan revealed a card in his hand. "Both players discard their entire hands, then draw the same number of cards."

Placido operated the Ghost to discard his hand and draw again.

"Next is this card..."

Fujiki You Xuan snapped his fingers.

"Continuous Trap 'Macro Cosmos'!"

The field background changed abruptly; the already night-time background instantly turned into a starry sky, and even the highway they were standing on turned into complete darkness, with stars dotted between the pitch-black background.

"While Macro Cosmos is on the field, all cards sent to the Graveyard by both of us are not sent to the Graveyard, but are banished directly from the game."

Placido: "!"

Directly banishing the Graveyard effects of both sides is indeed a quite aggressive self-closing effect; once it goes through, it's still a bit tricky.

Placido hesitated for a brief moment.

Although it was a quite underworld effect, his Machine Emperor was already summoned to the field. Unless the opponent cleared his Machine Emperor and then coordinated with Macro Cosmos's effect to banish it directly to another dimension...

The moment he thought of this, a bad premonition suddenly rose in Placido's heart, as if his instincts were telling him something quite terrible was about to happen.

He shouted and waved his hand to activate his back row: "Activate set card, Counter Trap 'Malfunction'!"

"Pay 500 life points to negate the activation of a Trap card on the field and set it back on the field!"

【Ghost, LP 700 → LP 200】

Macro Cosmos's activation was negated, the starry sky background vanished abruptly, and it was set back on the field as a trap.

In this way, Macro Cosmos became a card that had just been set this turn and could not be activated again this turn.

"Oh? Did you see through my intention?"

Fujiki You Xuan looked at Placido with interest.

"Or was it completely based on instinct? If that's the case, your intuition for avoiding crises is not bad."

Indeed, if Placido had let Macro Cosmos go through just now, he might have been beyond saving.

"Then I will release your 'Machine Emperor Wisel ∞' and 'Wisdom Attack Unit 5', and then gift this powerful monster to you!"

Fujiki You Xuan said with a grin.

"Awaken from the lava of the abyss, the power of destruction and rebirth—"

"—Level eight, Lava Golem!"

Placido: "???"

The next moment, churning magma had already welled up from beneath his feet. The hot liquid hissed with white smoke, swallowing the main trunk of Wisel whole.

The burning lava instantly melted the Machine Emperor's alloy, and the remaining Machine Emperor parts that had lost their main trunk immediately fell apart with a clatter.

A huge burning palm slapped onto the ground, leaving a burning pitch-black palm crater. The abstract-looking giant slowly crawled up from the lava pit, its eyes pitch-black voids. A pitch-black cage locked Placido inside, and magma drops fell continuously, constantly burning pitch-black melt holes in front of Placido.

【Lava Golem, ATK 3000】

Simultaneously, after losing the main trunk, the remaining three Machine Emperor parts also emitted popping sounds one after another, exploding into balls of fire and burning out.

"Machine Emperor parts seem to self-destruct after losing their main trunk." Fujiki You Xuan chuckled. "Therefore, all the Machine Emperor parts on your field are destroyed."

Placido: "..."

Now he understood what the Macro Cosmos from just a moment ago was for.

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