"Sword Fighting Beast - Augustus, Summon!"
The bird-beast sword fighter with a dark body, bearing the name of ancient royalty, descended accompanied by a storm of darkness. Its pitch-black armor seemed to have been tempered in ancient battlefields, and the wide black wings bore the talons of a bird-beast.
[Sword Fighting Beast - Augustus, Attack Power 2600]
Yubel's face darkened.
Special summoning from the deck after battle... was that the true purpose of the recent battle?
But knowing that her Yubel cannot be destroyed by battle and would rebound battle damage, they still insist on summoning such an upper-level monster...
There must be something wrong.
"Effect of Sword Fighting Beast - Augustus. When this card is successfully special summoned by the effect of 'Sword Fighting Beast,' special summon one 'Sword Fighting Beast' in defense position from the hand."
Yugen plays another card from his hand.
"Special summon 'Sword Fighting Beast - Fish Fighting' from my hand!"
The water-race sword fighting warrior, also one of the most appeared among the lower-level Sword Fighting Beasts. A whirlpool of blue water surged like a fountain, and the blue sword fighting warrior with a fish-like body flew out, with two turbines behind spinning at full speed.
[Sword Fighting Beast - Fish Fighting, Attack Power 800]
"Effect of Fish Fighting. When this card is successfully summoned by the effect of Sword Fighting Beast, destroy one face-up monster on the field." Yugen snaps his fingers, "Destroy 'Yubel'!"
The two turbines behind Fish Fighting spun, releasing a water jet like a high-pressure water gun straight at Yubel!
Seeing this, Yubel realized immediately, then smiled.
"I see. Indeed, I cannot be destroyed by battle, and battle damage will rebound. But if you destroy me with an effect, you can solve it smoothly... is that what you think?"
Yubel laughed softly, with an even broader smile.
"Then, can it truly be that smooth?"
Boom!
The water column blasted Yubel's face. The latter exploded on the spot, shattered amidst the waterfall-like torrent.
But Yubel did not retreat.
As the smoke and water dispersed, what replaced the explosion was a larger silhouette.
At this moment, Yubel had completely lost her human form and transformed into some kind of demon dragon. She had two dragon heads, long necks, an eye opened in the center of her chest glowing dark red, with hands and feet like sharp blades.
Yubel the Despised Knight, Summon!
With the descent of the Despised Knight, the aura and pressure from Yubel herself also skyrocketed!
"Yubel the Despised Knight can only be summoned when 'Yubel' on your field is destroyed by a card effect!"
Even Yubel's explaining tone changed. If she previously sounded feminine, it now seemed mixed-gender, heavy and strange.
[Yubel the Despised Knight, Attack Power 0]
"Ten years, a full ten years, the torment and suffering I've gone through is beyond what you can imagine!" Yubel roared with that eerie mix, "But do you think this is all? Those pains are insignificant in comparison!
The real torment is the pain of not being needed, being abandoned, and being despised! And what this darkness has morphed into is precisely this ultimate demon form!"
Yugen stroked his chin: "Hmm, it certainly seems pretty tough."
"Activate Speed Attack Magic 'Burial from Another Dimension'." Yubel said coldly, "Return up to three monsters removed from the game by both sides into the graveyard.
I return the 'Sacrificial Lotus' you excluded from the game to the graveyard."
Yugen acknowledged, "The target is still the combination of Sacrificial Lotus and Yubel, huh."
However, Yugen remembered that only Yubel's original form required sacrificing monsters to sustain its existence, the second stage should no longer need that. This was consistent in both the animation and the physical card.
So her aim is...
"Activate Continuous Magic 'Nightmare Mirage Tube'." Yubel stated, "In the preparation phase of the opponent's turn, you can draw cards from the deck until you have four cards in your hand."
"Then set three cards face down in the back row."
"At the end phase, special summon 'Sacrificial Lotus' back to the field from the graveyard." Yubel declared.
The animation effect of Sacrificial Lotus did not affect its activation even if there was a Magic Trap in the back row, as long as it existed in the graveyard during the end phase, it could return to the field without cost.
Of course, a monster summoned using this effect must be in attack position. Therefore, if not for special purposes, it would just leave a target with 0 attack power in one's own field.
[Sacrificial Lotus, Attack Power 0]
"And at the same end phase, the effect of 'Yubel the Despised Knight' also activates!" Yubel declared, "Yubel the Despised Knight must destroy all other monsters on the field during the end phase!
Then select an equal number of monsters on the opponent's field to destroy based on the number of monsters destroyed!" (from the original work effect)
There are differences from the physical card. The physical card isn't as complex or flashy; the physical card effect of the Despised Knight is concise and straightforward: "Destroy all other monsters on the field."
"Knights who are unneeded and despised, taste this pain together!"
The first hit is on Sacrificial Lotus. The Sacrificial Lotus that just returned to the field was immediately engulfed by the chaotic vortex that erupted from Yubel, crushed to pieces by the violent energy.
"Accordingly, I can destroy one monster on the opponent's field as well."
Yubel squinted, stretching out a claw pointing at Augustus.
"Sword Fighting Beast - Augustus, vanish!"
The same chaotic vortex as the one that destroyed Sacrificial Lotus appeared under Augustus's feet, with violent energy erupting from beneath the bird-beast sword fighter's feet!
"Activate Cover Card." Yugen stated, "Continuous Trap 'Dimension Guardian.'
Select one attack position monster on your field, this trap protects that monster from being destroyed by battle or card effects."
Yubel's furious strike hit Augustus, but was entirely blocked by the dimensional barrier of the trap, without leaving even the slightest crack on it.
"Damn it!" Yubel seethed with rage, "Why? Why won't you just obediently die!?"
"I'm sorry, indeed others often say I'm quite persistent."
Yugen acted helplessly.
"Also, at the end of this turn, 'Sword Fighting Beast - Fish Fighting,' which was special summoned using 'Sword Fighting Beast - Augustus' effect, must return to the deck."
The pair of water turbines behind Fish Fighting activated again, enveloping it in a body of water and transforming into a stream that flew back into Yugen's card deck.
Yubel's face turned dark, glaring at Augustus for a moment before speaking heavily.
"The turn ends."