manynovel #1563 - The inner cry
#1563 - The inner cry
After the attack of 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】, Jaden's field finally only had 【M·HERO Gust】 left, but John himself only had 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】 and 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】, the monsters with the lowest attack power, that hadn't attacked yet.
“Next is 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】's attack on 【M·HERO Gust】!” John commanded, playing a card, “But Chain to the attack declaration, I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card 【Vanity's Call】 from my hand!”
“When a monster declares an attack, you can target one face-up monster on the field to activate this card, that monster's attack power increases by 1000 points until the end of that Battle Phase, and the target I choose is naturally 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 on my field!” Pointing at 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 on his field, John shouted, “Defeat the last enemy, Sapphire!”
“Reins of the Riding Hero!”
The sapphire 【Crystal Beast】 with the name of Pegasus spread its wings, and after receiving the Quick-Play Spell Card support from John, a huge phantom appeared behind it, charging towards Jaden's field along with it, attacking the remaining 【M·HERO Gust】.
Although 【M·HERO Gust】 used storms to try to intercept the Pegasus's charge, the phantom behind 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 completely ignored the storms as if it didn't exist, crashing into 【M·HERO Gust】 and piercing through it!
【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 【ATK1800→2800】
【Jaden Yuki: 3100→2500 LP, Hand 2】
Watching Jaden's Life Points decrease by another 600 points, John waved his hand, pressing the attack: “Then this is the last attack, Jaden! 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】's direct attack!”
“Ruby! Crash into Jaden!”
Because its attack power was too low, even John couldn't come up with a suitable attack name for 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】, he just told it to directly attack Jaden.
“Chirp!”
After being bumped by 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】, Jaden rubbed his chest and compared: “Ah, although the specific values are the same, the impact seems to be higher with Yubel?”
“Kuri!” Hearing this, 【Winged Kuriboh】 proudly puffed out its chest, not knowing what it was happy about.
【Jaden Yuki: 2500→2200 LP, Hand 2】
After the total attack of everyone, Jaden's field was completely cleared, not even a single card remained. Even his Life Points, which had been increased to a full 6000 points, were reduced to only 2200 points in the blink of an eye, which was like a candle in the wind in front of the 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 with an attack power of 4000 points.
John wisely chose to stop at the right time and didn't play the cards in his hand to pursue, after all, the situation on the field was undoubtedly in his favor. Next, he just needed to try his best to maintain the advantage and rely on the circulation ability of the 【Crystal Beast】 Deck to drag out a win against Jaden—he hadn't forgotten that his 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 could start using two effects as long as it survived until the end of this turn.
“Because I didn't awaken 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 from the beginning, I'm ultimately short of the last 2200 points to defeat you in one fell swoop, Jaden.” After estimating, John felt that if he had another chance, by replacing 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】 with 【Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth】 and 【Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder】 with 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】, the result might have been different.
But it's not bad now. Thanks to the previous 【Maxx "C"】 and Jaden's frequent Special Summons, he still had so many cards in his hand, which gave him enough leeway to set up a defense. As Crowler said, “The Duel Monsters battle is a battle of card advantage”!
John, who didn't realize that his 【Crystal Beast】 was actually a Deck that lost a lot of cards, thought this way and declared: “Let's end my Battle Phase here for now, and then in my Main Phase 2, I activate the Quick-Play Spell Card 【Crystal Bond】.”
The card that was previously searched by the effect of 【Bridge to the Next World】 was activated by John, and he explained the effect of the card: “This card can show one 【Ultimate Crystal God】 monster in my hand to the opponent and activate one of the effects. Or, if I have an 【Ultimate Crystal God】 monster on my field, I can choose to activate one or both of the two effects.”
“The first effect is to add one 【Bridge】 card or 【Over the Rainbow】 from my Deck to my hand or send it to the Graveyard, and the second effect is to Special Summon one 【Crystal Beast】 monster from my hand, Deck, or Graveyard, or one 【Crystal Beast】 in my Spell \u0026 Trap Zone.”
After a pause, John looked at the monster zones filled on his field and spread his hands helplessly: “Although I want to be greedy and choose both, it's obvious that I can't activate the second effect for the time being, so I add this Quick-Play Spell Card—【Over the Rainbow】—from my Deck to my hand.”
“Next, I Set two cards in the back row and end my turn.”
【John Anderson: 4000LP, Hand 5→4→4→2】
【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】【ATK300】
【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】【ATK2800→1800】
【Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger】 (Crystal Release) 【ATK2900→2400】
【Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder】【ATK2000】
One of the two cards he Set was the powerful Counter Trap Card 【Crystal Miracle】, the Tri-and-Guess that he wouldn't mind having more of, which could effectively prevent Jaden, who had an empty field, from playing a 【Lightning Storm】 to clear the field in one fell swoop, just like he did before, or to block his draw.
(Following Impermanence, the strange home cards of Cyber Dragon are still increasing)
On his field, there seemed to be 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】 and 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 with low attack power that could be used as breakthroughs for Jaden, but John played a little trick and didn't tell Jaden that his 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】's first effect—the one that increased attack power—required John to send all 【Crystal Beast】 cards with that name on his field to the Graveyard to activate.
Not only the three 【Crystal Beast】 in the front row, but even the 【Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise】 in the back row, each 【Crystal Beast】 could increase 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】's attack power by a full 1000 points, and this effect could even be activated during the opponent's turn, which meant that during Jaden's turn, the attack power of the 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】, which was already as high as 4000 points, would double to 8000 points!
Increasing attack power could also eliminate other 【Crystal Beast】 on his field that could become weaknesses and prevent them from being destroyed. Truly kingly and awesome. Do you 【HERO】 have such a big brother who can increase attack power so well?
If neither of these two moves could stop Jaden, who only had two cards in his hand now, then his 4000 Life Points wouldn't be able to last even one turn, right? Let's tentatively assume that Jaden attacks 【Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder】. His current attack power is 2000 points. Could it be that Jaden can summon a monster with an attack power as high as 6000 points despite his series of interference cards?
As long as he survived until his turn and let 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 activate the effect of returning all cards on the field to the Deck, everything would be fine!
—All of the above came from the imagination of 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 on John's field. He thought from John's perspective, and when he thought that John was about to usher in such a perfect victory, he couldn't help but hum.
“Hmm?” Noticing that the mood of 【Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus】 on his field seemed to be very good, John said strangely, “What's wrong, Sapphire?”
“It's nothing, I'm just happy for the duel that's about to end.”
“Ah, that's true, the duel seems to be about to end.” John nodded upon hearing this, and said with some regret, “It's a pity. Although it's a bit of a stretch, I can't help but think that if 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 had awakened from the beginning, maybe I could have had a more intense duel with Jaden, right? In that case, there might have been a chance for me to win.”
“Hmm? Johnny, do you mean that you think that kid on the opposite side will win?” 【Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger】 tilted his head and said with some surprise.
“Yes, because I heard it, Jaden's Deck is also making a sound.” John nodded, “Under Jaden's attack, our Deck was awakened, and for the same reason, because of our series of fierce attacks, Jaden's Deck is also responding to his desire for victory and his enjoyment of the duel, and is making an inner cry.”
“Chirp chirp.”
“Look, Yubel also heard it.” John smiled and looked at the top of Jaden's Deck, “Just like we did just now, Jaden's duel is about to officially begin!”
Jaden nodded in response upon hearing this: “That's right, John, because of your duel, I'm so excited right now, I can't wait to let you meet my partners too.”
“But before that, let my partner come back—because you ended your turn, 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 that was banished by the 【Graceful Charity】 I activated earlier returns to my field until the end of the turn!”
“Then my turn, Draw!”
【Jaden Yuki: 2200LP, Hand 2→3】
【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】【ATK800】
【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】, who left the field for one turn, returned to Jaden's field. Unfortunately, he only returned to the field instead of being Special Summoned to the field, so he couldn't trigger the effect of 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 himself to let Jaden draw two more cards.
However, just the fact that 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 returned to Jaden's field was enough, because Jaden had a card in his hand that he had drawn last turn!
“I can activate this card if there is a face-up 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 on my field, Quick-Play Spell Card 【Bubble Blaster】!”
As Jaden played the card, 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 on his field immediately sprayed a large number of bubbles from the bubble gun equipped on his wrist. Although these bubbles were fragile, the quantity was second to none, and they quickly piled up like a mountain and pushed towards the 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 on John's field!
“Under the effect of 【Bubble Blaster】, 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 that exists face-up on my field and one monster that exists face-up in Attack Position on the opponent's field will both be changed to Defense Position, and this effect will be applied to 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】!” Jaden said, “Although its attack power is as high as 4000 points, the defense power of 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 is as illusory as a rainbow, only 0 points!”
Although the bubbles seemed fragile, even if 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 only flapped its wings, it could destroy large areas with the airflow it blew out, but if it didn't do anything, even 【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】 would soon be buried by the mountain of bubbles that were being pushed over!
“How about this trick of blinding you with bubbles, John!”
Hearing Jaden's words, John also smiled: “Good strategy, Jaden, it seems that 【HERO】 is more flexible than I expected. It's not just a Deck that only knows how to act recklessly and doesn't know how to promote strengths and avoid weaknesses. But, the crystallization of the bond between me and the 【Crystal Beast】—【Ultimate Crystal God Rainbow Dragon】—won't just listen to your commands and act!”
“Counter Trap Card 【Crystal Miracle】 activate! I destroy 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】 on my field and negate the activation of your 【Bubble Blaster】 and destroy it!”
The powerful Tri-and-Guess reappeared. As John destroyed 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】 with the lowest attack power on his field, the bubbles created by 【Elemental HERO Bubbleman】 were instantly pierced and destroyed by the shining ruby. However, because John's back row was full of cards, the destroyed 【Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle】 could not be placed on John's back row as a Continuous Spell Card.
Seeing that the first card he used for probing didn't work, Jaden wasn't surprised: “As expected, you prepared a defensive card, as expected of John. But because of this, I can safely play this card—Spell Card 【Pot of Duality】, return five monster cards from my Graveyard to the Deck and shuffle, then draw two cards!”
With a surprisingly consistent build as John, Jaden also brought this 【Pot of Duality】 in his Deck, which can recover a large number of monster cards in one go and draw cards at the same time. He recovered 【Cross Porter】, 【Elemental HERO Shadow Mist】, 【Elemental HERO Solid Soldier】, 【Elemental HERO Flame Wingman】, 【Elemental HERO Sunrise】 all five monster cards, and then drew two cards.
【Jaden Yuki: 2200LP, Hand 3→2→3】
Glancing at the two newly drawn cards, Jaden decided to play one of the cards he had left in his hand first: "Then, the card I'm activating is [Miracle Fusion]. This card allows me to banish monsters from my field or graveyard as fusion material to fusion summon one [E·HERO] monster!"
"The monsters I'm banishing are—[E·HERO Stratos] with the Wind attribute and [E·HERO Liquidman] with the Water attribute from my graveyard, to meet the fusion material requirement of ‘2 [HERO] monsters with different attributes’!"