Chapter 36. The United Dragon and Mahad's Radiance! Bringing the Dawn of Fusion that Shatters Darkness!
All the duelists across every world were thinking about the same question.
If you want to bring out the power of Master of Chaos, you unquestionably still need a LIGHT monster.
But!
In a Dark Magician build…
Most monsters are DARK.
Where would the LIGHT Attribute even come from?
No.
We must be missing something.
What is it?
...
Duel Monsters world.
Yugi Muto held his head, replaying the earlier Dark Magician deck construction in his mind.
And after that wave of recollection…
He still hadn't found any information about a LIGHT monster!
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring? No.
Maxx "C"? No.
Magicians' Souls? No.
Could it be…?
"Other me, do you remember your most loyal servant?"
"Yugi, do you remember when we dealt with those Orichalcos counterfeits back then?"
Yugi Muto and the Pharaoh Atem volleyed the questions at each other.
With that prompt…
Both of them arrived at their answers.
Yes.
Dark Magician itself indeed isn't LIGHT.
But many cards related to it are LIGHT!
"Yugi-boy seems to have figured it out."
"Unbelievable!"
"How delightful!"
"The Dueling of this world is simply delightful!"
Maximillion Pegasus shot Yugi Muto a quirky smile and then looked back up at the KC giant screen.
As expected.
The two lone LIGHT monsters in there made a shining entrance!
30-year-old Dark Magician: "I'm sure everyone's already thinking it through: if you're including Master of Chaos, then you necessarily need to include LIGHT Attribute monsters!"
30-year-old Dark Magician: "Here are two recommendations. The first one! Timaeus the United Dragon!!!"
Card Name: Timaeus the United Dragon (Level 8)
Attribute: LIGHT
Type: Dragon
ATK/DEF: 2800/1800
The United Dragon!
It's this card—Timaeus!
At that time…
Those cards were tied to the Orichalcos battle!
Right now!
Not just Yugi Muto—Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, and the other duelists connected to that incident all caught on!
Indeed!
This card actually is LIGHT!
But here's the difference!
What they had printed in their hands back then seemed to be a Spell Card.
And this one… is a monster?
While they were puzzled…
Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, and Seto Kaiba all locked their eyes on the effect text!
Effect 1!
While in your hand, you can send 1 Spellcaster monster, or 1 Spell/Trap that mentions "Dark Magician," from your hand or face-up field to the Graveyard; Special Summon this card.
A built-in Special Summon!
Effect 2!
During your Main Phase: You can Fusion Summon, using monsters from your hand or field that include a Spellcaster monster.
Fusion? Hm?
The instant he noticed the second effect…
Yugi Muto reacted first!
This card can Special Summon itself, and it can function as your Fusion enabler, and it's a Dragon to boot!
In that case—
Dark Magician the Dragon Knight becomes possible, doesn't it?!
And the one who caught on wasn't just Yugi Muto!
...…
GX world.
A fusion expert, Jaden Yuki, also caught on!
Connecting this with the three simple first-turn Dark Magician board plans from earlier—
"I get it! I completely get it!"
"So this is how it is!"
"Everything connects!"
"Everyone's realized it by now, right?"
"Dark Magician the Dragon Knight only needs a Dragon and Dark Magician to Fusion Summon!"
"And this United Dragon Special Summons itself, so you can pair it with Dark Magician to fuse!"
"In other words! As long as you have Dark Magician on the field plus this card, that equals Dark Magician the Dragon Knight!"
Jaden Yuki blurted out one line after another in excitement.
Hearing him, Alexis Rhodes, Syrus Truesdale, and the others—who had still been hazy a moment before—suddenly saw the light!
Wait, what?
You can play it like that?
If that's true, then they had underestimated those prior first-turn boards by a lot!
...
30-year-old Dark Magician: "Run 1–2 copies of the United Dragon; at critical moments it brings the dawn of Fusion."
30-year-old Dark Magician: "Likewise, we can include one more LIGHT monster, and of course it's this one!"
"One punch to shatter the darkness!"
"Breaking through the shackles of a clogged endgame!"
"Palladium Oracle Mahad!!!"
Card Name: Palladium Oracle Mahad (Level 7)
Attribute: LIGHT
Type: Spellcaster
ATK/DEF: 2500/2100
The second recommended LIGHT monster!
It immediately seized the attention of most duelists!
But after reading the effect…
It left them dazed all over again!
Huh?
"When you draw this card: You can reveal it; Special Summon it from your hand"?
Huh?
"If this card battles a DARK monster, its ATK is doubled during the Damage Step"—that's 5000 ATK???
And it even has a last word?
"If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon 1 'Dark Magician' from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard"?
This card's power level… is totally solid!
The key point!
Is that it Special Summons itself when drawn!
DARK-Attribute players nearly coughed up blood on the spot!
Duel Monsters world.
Ryo Bakura grit his teeth—his entire deck is DARK.
If he runs into this card, doesn't he just get shut down?
What does he even fight back with?
Five thousand ATK means one punch and you're in critical!
And when it gets destroyed…
It can even help Special Summon Dark Magician.
Triggering Dark Magical Circle!
...
5D's world.
Crow Hogan almost lost his composure!
His Blackwing Deck!
Is basically all DARK!
This card is a massive threat to him too!
What's more!
Blackwings honestly don't have that many high-ATK monsters!
At least…
Ones bigger than 5000 are really scarce!
If he takes just one punch, he's not going to feel great!
Of course.
If it were the Blackwing Deck in Sei Yuki's world…
Maybe it'd be different?
...
ZEXAL world!
Yuma Tsukumo secretly breathed a sigh of relief—good thing his Utopia is LIGHT.
What's more.
Number 39: Utopia can even block attacks.
So he really isn't afraid of this "Mahad."
On the contrary.
With Double or Nothing! in hand, Utopia could take down Mahad without much trouble.
But.
Yuma Tsukumo realized one more key point.
The Dark Magician engine… really does have a lot of strong cards.
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