"That's right, Syrus. Look at those two Royal Magical Library monsters on Jiang He's field," Jaden Yuki noted, suddenly realizing the situation as he called out to Syrus Truesdale.
Hearing this, not only Syrus but even Chazz's two lackeys turned their gaze toward the field, where two brownish Library monsters stood upon the cards. Before anyone had noticed, another green gem representing stored magical power had lit up! There were already two Spell Counters!
They immediately recalled what Alexis Rhodes had said earlier regarding the effect of Royal Magical Library. If it held three Spell Counters, they could be cleared to draw one card from the deck!
Thus, while it seemed like Jiang He was just trading one-for-one by using two Upstart Goblin spells, and had even given his opponent 2000 extra Life Points, his hand remained at three cards seemingly a futile effort. In reality, however, each of his two Royal Magical Library monsters had gained two Spell Counters!
At that moment, Syrus and Chazz's lackeys finally remembered the victory condition of an Exodia Deck. The only win condition for the Exodia the Forbidden One deck was to gather all five Forbidden One pieces in your hand! It wasn't about chipping away at the opponent's Life Points or knocking them down. As long as he could keep drawing cards to meet that condition, it was enough.
As for how many Life Points the opponent had? It didn't matter at all! Even an infinite amount of Life Points was useless before a completed Exodia! They were nothing more than targets for an instant kill!
Across the field, Chazz's face turned grim as he stared at the two green gems on each Royal Magical Library. He had clearly realized it too!
"Finally noticed? It's a bit late for that," Jiang He said with a faint smile.
His Exodia deck, obtained from the System's Newbie Gift Pack, was a toxic, cancerous version of a One Turn Kill strategy. It was an existence built on extremes. He only needed one stream of continuous draws to empty his deck and settle the duel with an OTK.
"So what if you can draw a few more cards? As soon as your spell chain breaks the moment you draw a defensive monster or a trap card the scales of victory will tilt right back toward the great Chazz!" Chazz gritted his teeth, trying to psych himself up.
[Ding! Chazz Princeton Emotion Points +200!]
"Then you'd better pray someone storms this stage and shoves a bunch of defensive monsters and traps I didn't even pack into my deck!" Jiang He quipped, enjoying the System's notification.
In his forty-card deck, excluding the five pieces of Exodia the Forbidden One and a few monsters like Royal Magical Library, the remaining thirty-some cards were all spells! If Chazz had gone first and specifically added counters to his deck, summoned them, or set them on the first turn, he might have stood a chance.
But now, it was Jiang He's turn. He had started with a Royal Magical Library and even used his Clear Mind ability to draw a second one, ensuring a 100% chance for his OTK to unfold. As far as Jiang He was concerned, the opponent just needed to sit there quietly and watch his "ghost story" of a play session until they were annihilated!
Because at this moment, his win rate was Sen-pa-sen-to! One thousand percent!
"From my hand, I activate the spell card Pot of Avarice! I draw two cards from my deck!"
Before Chazz could even process the mockery, Jiang He had already played another card from his hand. A large, green pot with a demonic face materialized before him. After Jiang He drew two cards, the pot shattered instantly.
"With the activation of Pot of Avarice, the Spell Counters on my two Royal Magical Libraries have reached three!"
"I activate my monsters' effects!"
"I remove three Spell Counters from each of my two Royal Magical Libraries to draw two more cards!"
With a flick of his wrist, Jiang He pulled two more cards from his duel disk. His hand, which had been hovering around three cards, suddenly bloated to six!
"His hand size just exploded! That's incredible, Jiang He!" Jaden couldn't help but cheer from below. He had officially become Jiang He's cheerleader.
"This guy... his dueling logic is frightening!" Alexis murmured to herself, watching Jiang He from the sidelines in shock.
If she understood his mockery correctly, his deck might not contain any traps at all. It likely didn't even have many monsters! It was a deck entirely composed of spells designed to trigger the draw effects of his two Royal Magical Library monsters! Combined with spells that offered one-for-one or even one-for-two card filtering...
Could it be that Chazz, the top-ranked student in the Obelisk Blue first-year division, was actually going to be defeated by a One Turn Kill? A look of wonder filled Alexis's eyes.
"Dammit...! Am I, the great Chazz, really going to suffer the disgrace of an OTK?" Chazz gritted his teeth, a bead of sweat forming on his brow. He stared intently at Jiang He's hand and every subsequent move.
Jiang He had only cycled through six cards, leaving twenty-eight in his deck. Yet, the signs were already looking extremely ominous!
"Finally, the Left Leg of the Forbidden One has arrived."
Jiang He went so far as to deliberately reveal that one of his new cards was a piece of Exodia. He was fishing for more aggro from Chazz!
[Ding! Chazz Princeton Emotion Points +800!]
Hearing the pleasant chime of the notification, Jiang He's lips curled into a smirk. In this era, there were almost no cards that could be activated from the hand to disrupt his plays especially not in the hand of a currently narrow-minded Chazz.
Thus, Jiang He was utterly fearless in his taunting! He was testing the System's judgment while farming as many Emotion Points as possible from his opponent during the duel.
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