Chapter 896

【Fleur Synchron, ATK 400】

The little Synchron, the whole design looked like a flower bud that had not yet bloomed, with short arms and short legs, and a pair of big eyes staring wide in the center of the flower bud, with a somewhat sinister smirk on its face.

"Synchron, is it coming." Fujiki You Xuan said.

Sherry: "Level 2, Tuner monster 'Fleur Synchron'!

Level 6, 'Centaur Mina'!

Tuning!"

【2+6=8】

A wind with a fragrant scent blew across the scorched battlefield, and the silver-white starlight suddenly pierced the sky. The Synchro card emitted a soft radiance, and the slender and elegant figure of the knight leaped lightly in the halo, turning into bright starlight.

"Noble white lily, the time for revolution has come! Send victory into my hands! Synchro Summon—

—Level 8, Baronne de Fleur!"

Countless pink petals emerged from thin air, swirling and condensing like a blizzard. Under the embrace of the petals, a knight clad in silver-white armor appeared, and even in the gaps of the armor, fresh flower vines were faintly entwined. When the rose-entwined long sword was swung, it stirred the space and exploded with pure impact.

【Baronne de Fleur, ATK 2700】

"Is this Sherry's trump card monster?"

Akiza Izinski said.

"But, this attack power is still not as good as Iron Chain Dragon..."

Before she finished speaking, Sherry interrupted with a clear shout: "Of course I know that!

The effect of 'Centaur Mina', used as Synchro material for Baronne de Fleur, activates!

When this card is sent to the Graveyard as Synchro material for a Warrior-Type, WIND Synchro monster, you can destroy one face-up monster on the field!"

The phantom of the Centaur, which had already disappeared as Synchro material, appeared again, as if it had turned into energy and filled the long sword in the knight's hand. The long sword struck, and the phantom of the Centaur rode the wind and waves with the sword energy, piercing the Iron Chain Dragon head-on.

"Beautiful counterattack."

Fujiki You Xuan blocked the blast of the Iron Chain Dragon with one hand and said with a smile.

"However, at this moment, the effect of Iron Chain Dragon also activates.

When Iron Chain Dragon is destroyed by the opponent and sent to the Graveyard, select any 'Iron Chain' monster other than a Synchro monster in my Graveyard, and Special Summon the selected monster to the field."

The parts remaining after the Iron Chain Dragon was destroyed did not disappear, but were reassembled as if pulled by an invisible magnetic force, turning into a new Iron Chain monster form again.

Iron Chain Beast, revive!

【Iron Chain Beast, DEF 1300】

Sherry clicked her tongue: "Even though it's a pile of scrap metal, it's so endless... but I still have the attack of the monster!"

"Go, Baronne de Fleur, attack 'Iron Chain Beast'!"

Baronne de Fleur stepped forward, drew her sword, and slashed at the newly revived Iron Chain Beast with a sky full of flying petals. The little Iron Chain Beast could not resist at all and was immediately slashed in two by a single sword.

"Then 'Apprentice Knight' attacks directly!"

Sherry swept her arm.

The young and delicate little knight flew forward, the blade slashed straight, and the sword energy broke through the space and slashed straight to where Fujiki You Xuan was.

Seeing that Fujiki You Xuan was about to be injured, Akiza instinctively held her breath: "There is still the 'Dimension Wall' trap in the backfield as defense, and Sherry's 'Centaur Mina', which could originally invalidate trap effects, has already gone to the Graveyard as Synchro material. Attacking rashly is easy to be reflected and injured.

But Sherry should also understand this..."

She would not be naive enough to think that Sherry had forgotten the existence of Dimension Wall.

"Oh? Knowing there is a trap, you didn't stay away, but approached me, Godwin?"

Fujiki You Xuan smiled and waved his big hand.

"Interesting, then I will accept this provocation.

Activate set card, Trap Card 'Dimension Wall'!

Activate when the opponent's monster declares an attack, let the opponent take the battle damage caused by that battle instead of me!"

The trap that failed to activate in the previous turn flipped again, and the cracks in the dimension broke again, forming a shield barrier in front of Fujiki You Xuan.

And Sherry really had a countermeasure: "At this moment, the effect of Baronne de Fleur activates!

Once per turn, when the opponent activates a Magic or Trap card effect, invalidate that activation and destroy it!"

The long sword in the knight's hand was swirled by countless petals, and a sword was slashed out under the embrace of the petals. The activating trap suddenly dimmed, the dimensional cracks disappeared as if filled by thousands of petals, and the trap card also shattered into golden powder.

"So amazing..." Akiza praised in her heart, "Sure enough, there is a countermeasure for Dimension Wall, this duelist named Sherry is also very amazing..."

Sherry's trump card, Baronne de Fleur, has the ability to invalidate Magic and Traps, which is a quite powerful obstruction effect in the current environment.

Although it is generally recognized in the modern Yu-Gi-Oh environment that invalidating monster effects is much more valuable than invalidating Magic and Traps, both early version players and players who have played Duel Links should understand that in the earlier Yu-Gi-Oh environment, it was just the opposite, and Magic and Trap obstruction was more valuable than monster effect obstruction.

The reason why monster effect obstruction is valuable now is that with the expansion of environment speed, new monster effects are becoming more and more perverted, possessing various functions such as deployment, field clearing, and opponent obstruction, largely replacing most of the functions of Magic and Traps in the old environment.

But in the earlier Yu-Gi-Oh environment, monster effects were far from expanding to today's level, and Magic and Traps still occupied an important position, so cards that could invalidate Magic and Trap effects were still quite valued at that time.

But having said that, perhaps it is precisely because of considering that Magic and Trap obstruction is relatively precious in the Synchro era environment, so Konami also weakened the effect of Baronne de Fleur when making it into a real card.

After being made into a real card, Baronne de Fleur added the restriction of "can only invalidate Magic and Trap activation once during your own turn", while the original anime version did not have it, and had one chance to invalidate during both your own and the opponent's turn. This is precisely the key to the psychological warfare between Yusei and Sherry in the anime surrounding this once-per-turn obstruction. If it were based on the weakened real card effect, Yusei would have beaten Sherry out of water in minutes.

"The activation of Dimension Wall is invalidated, Apprentice Knight's attack continues!"

Sherry shouted.

"Take this!"

"Don't be in a hurry."

Fujiki You Xuan opened the second backfield card unhurriedly.

"Activate set card again, Trap Card 'Wall of Force'!

When the opponent's monster's attack would cause me to take battle damage, send one card from the top of the Deck to the Graveyard for every 100 points of damage, and make that battle damage 0!" (Original effect)

Fujiki You Xuan threw a large handful of cards from his Deck at once, and the flying cards scattered messily in front of him, forming a solid barrier.

"Send ten cards from the top of the Deck to the Graveyard, and invalidate the battle damage!"

(End of chapter)