"By banishing Ah Lai in the Graveyard and Spencer in the Graveyard, I conduct a Light Attribute Invoked Summon—"
"Come forth, Invoked Mechaba!"
Large amounts of mechanical scrap began to converge, then those machines piled together and transformed into a gigantic robot and chariot towering to the heavens.
Invoked Mechaba, LV 9, Light Attribute, Machine-Type, Attack Power 2500.
"Oh! Mechaba!" Manjome saw this card and a hint of excitement appeared on his face.
Mechaba has a powerful effect that, once per turn, when a Monster Effect, Spell Card, or Trap Card is activated, lets you discard a card of the same type, negate that effect and banish it.
Because it's not "negate and destroy," even some powerful last-will effects can't trigger properly in front of this card.
Bringing out a 2800 DEF, 2500 ATK body with negation right away really is extremely stable and extremely strong.
"Invocation's effect: this card returns to the Deck, and I add the banished Ah Lai to my Hand Card."
Tenjo Hikari conveniently retrieved Ah Lai again, so next turn he could search Invocation once more.
"I set two cards and end my turn."
"A perfect first turn." Amon relaxed quite a bit.
Even though they weren't actually Dueling this masked man themselves, their own Duel knowledge told them that Tenjo Hikari's current board was already pretty good.
After all, the opponent only had 4 Hand Cards left. Even if he Draws 1, that's just 5. Even if he used Pot of Greed here, it would be negated by Mechaba's effect, so it was really reassuring.
Besides, since that Great Sage's Fusion Monster was made by Polymerization of two Ah Lais, it definitely wasn't some mediocre thing—who knows what kind of powerful effect it might have.
Manjome also felt very reassured. No matter how he looked at it, Tenjo Hikari's field was rock solid.
However, he heard Fubuki's weak sounds of struggle, and hurried over to support the coughing, struggling Fubuki up.
Fubuki muttered his thanks twice, then sat up, looked at the field, and his expression turned somewhat ashen.
Although he hadn't opened his eyes just now, he actually heard the content of the Duel, so unlike the other two, his expression looked very worried; he even spoke bluntly: "Be careful, Little Hikari, that guy—"
"Hehehehe,"
"Huhuhuhu."
The other two Mr. T standing in the infirmary also heard Tenjouin Fubuki's words at this moment and sneered: "That's right."
"Tenjo Hikari."
They both looked toward Manjome and Amon: "The most ordinary turn."
"Everything was within our expectations."
Tenjo Hikari raised an eyebrow and looked at his opponent, saying nothing.
Amon frowned, not really understanding what these two Mr. T meant.
In his view, unless the other guy opened with 5 pieces of Exodia, even he himself would have a hard time casually breaking through Tenjo Hikari's board. After all, even Fog King needs a Field Spell Card, and Tenjo Hikari has a card like Mechaba on his field...
How could this be "an ordinary turn"?
"My turn, Draw—"
The man in black drew a card from his Deck, then said lazily: "Spell Card, Dark Ruler No More."
!!!!
Holy shit——————
Tenjo Hikari's eyes widened.
A gigantic skeletal hand appeared in the void, then that skeletal hand fired a blue-white energy wave that swept across everything on Tenjo Hikari's field.
"W-what is that?"
"What's happening—"
Manjome and Amon cried out in shock at the same time.
They didn't know why this suddenly happened; they only saw Tenjo Hikari's side offer not the slightest resistance, letting that shockwave sweep over his entire field.
"All that talk of friendship and bonds—those things are nothing more than shackles that hinder the evolution of creatures called humans." The man in black spoke in a good mood. "Tenjo Hikari, you possess powerful Fusion Cards, and even the strongest Fusion, Super Polymerization.
But your friendship dragged you down and forced you to Duel the dead souls of the past.
I've seen all of this with my own eyes.
Just like Super Polymerization, which cannot respond to the activation of Dark Ruler No More, preventing Monster Effects from activating. So your Mechaba's effect cannot activate."
"Ah, so that's how it is..." Manjome's face instantly turned ugly.
"Not only that, the effect of this card is… all Monster Effects your opponent controls that are currently face-up on the field are negated until the end of this turn.
Of course, powerful cards always come with risks. After this card is activated, until the end of the turn, all damage the opponent takes becomes 0."
A misfortune with a silver lining.
At least this turn, Tenjo Hikari might still be able to get through it.
Unfortunately, all of his disruption tools had been dealt with.
"Let's clean up that eyesore of a field as well." The man in black raised his right hand and flipped a card: "Activate Field Spell Card, Clear World."
Clink clink clink clink clink—
Six gigantic crystals appeared in the sky.
With this huge room as the center, a ring spread outward, and everything around them began to be slowly replaced by an endless, pure white wasteland. In the end, the entire room, even the entire world, turned into a spotlessly clean space.
Clear World.
So it really is Fujiwara Yusuke?
Tenjo Hikari glanced around at the scene and remained silent.
"Clear World is the purest, cleanest world, a world that has never been polluted by trash like humans. And as long as this card is on the field, I can activate Clear Wall's effect.
Continuous Spell Card Clear Wall: once per turn, it can only be activated while you have 'Clear World' on your field. Add 1 Monster with 'Clear' World in its card name from your Deck to your Hand Card.
I add Clear Vicious Knight to my Hand Card. Then I Normal Summon, Clear Cube."
A pure white cube floated onto the field, with a little red robot hidden inside it: "This card's Attribute can be treated as not Dark. As long as it's on the field, I gain one additional Summon of a Monster whose card name lists Clear World beyond my Normal Summon.
And Clear Vicious Knight allows me to Tribute 1 Monster whose card name lists 'Clear World' to conduct a Tribute Summon."
"I Tribute Clear Cube and Tribute Summon!"
"Clear Vicious Knight!"
A gigantic transparent cube appeared on the man in black's field, and then a Black Knight wielding Arm Blades flicked his cloak and appeared within the giant crystal.
Clear Vicious Knight, LV 7, Dark Attribute, Warrior-Type, ATK 2300→4800.
"4800?"
"Why—"
"Clear Vicious Knight's ATK increases by the original ATK of the highest-ATK Monster on the opponent's field."
The highest-ATK Monster on Tenjo Hikari's field was Mechaba, so its ATK could be increased by a full 2500 points!
The expressions of the spectators immediately grew solemn.
Didn't that basically imply he was assuming his ATK would definitely be higher than his opponent's?!
"And not just that." The man in black's lips curled up into a smile, even making his mask rise and fall. "As long as a Tribute Summoned Clear Vicious Knight is on the field, your opponent cannot activate the effects of any Monsters Special Summoned to the field whose ATK is lower than this card's."
!!
Manjome and Amon's faces changed drastically.
Doesn't that basically mean all Monsters that were Special Summoned can't activate their effects at all!?
"And not only that..."
The man in black slowly raised his hand and said: "Clear World inflicts different costs on players based on Attributes—for example, players with Dark Attribute Monsters on the field cannot attack.
Of course, Vicious Knight can be treated as not Dark but attribute-less, so I don't need to shoulder that risk—but as long as Clear Wall is on the field, and I control a LV 7 or higher Monster whose card name lists 'Clear World', then all the effects of Clear World, regardless of Attribute, apply only to my opponent!"
He raised his right hand toward Tenjo Hikari and said: "Light Attribute: reveal your entire Hand Card."
"Dark Attribute: you cannot declare attacks."
"Earth Attribute: during your Standby Phase, destroy 1 of your own Monsters."
"Water Attribute: during the End Phase, discard 1 Hand Card."
"Fire Attribute: during the End Phase, take 1000 damage."
"And… Wind Attribute: you cannot activate Spell Cards!"
As he recited them, and as each effect manifested before the three spectators, their faces grew worse and worse.
Especially when Manjome heard "Wind Attribute," he directly cursed out loud.
"Super Polymerization is indeed a powerful card, but even Super Polymerization is still… a Spell."
"This is the flaw of the human race's individual colors!"