Chapter 106. Three Gods Cut Down! The Tag Duel of the Future Dragon Emperor, Laundry Dragonmaid!
The other old-guard worlds naturally had no idea about the existence of the Egyptian God Cards.
But the DM world and GX world knew them all too well.
Messages in the group chat were exploding.
Sei Yuki watched the notifications pop up one after another, almost without stopping.
That actually startled Sei Yuki.
Huh?
Are the God Cards really this important to the DM world?
Just mentioning them casually in the title…
And these guys are clucking away like they've been injected with rocket fuel.
Sei Yuki: "Ahem! It's clear our friends in the DM and GX worlds have overflowing passion for the God Cards."
Sei Yuki: "So I'll first give everyone a quick explanation of how K-snake nerfed the God Cards in the higher world."
Sei Yuki: "Duelists, please settle down for a moment."
"We'll look at the effects of the three Gods in our world first."
"Then it'll be easier to understand the video."
"Of course, don't get worked up."
"What we have here is ours, and what you have over there is yours."
"They're not the same."
After laying down that disclaimer, short info videos for the three God Cards appeared in every duel world.
Sei Yuki: "There are two effects that all three God Cards share."
Sei Yuki: "Effect 1: The Summon of this card cannot be negated."
"Effect 2: When this card is successfully Summoned, neither player can activate card effects."
"Besides those two effects, each God has different other effects."
"Let's look at the first card."
First card: Obelisk the Tormentor.
"Level 10 / 4000 ATK / 4000 DEF."
"DIVINE Attribute, Divine-Beast."
"Effect 3: Neither player can target this card with card effects."
"Effect 4: You can Tribute 2 monsters you control to activate (this card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is activated); destroy all monsters your opponent controls."
"Effect 5: If this card was Special Summoned and is on the field, send it to the Graveyard during the End Phase."
Second card: Slifer the Sky Dragon.
"Level 10 / ? ATK / ? DEF."
"DIVINE Attribute, Divine-Beast."
"Effect 3: This card gains ATK/DEF equal to the number of cards in your hand × 1000."
"Effect 4: Each time a monster is Normal or Special Summoned to your opponent's field in Attack Position, this effect must activate: those monsters lose 2000 ATK; if their ATK becomes 0, they are destroyed."
"Effect 5: If this card was Special Summoned and is on the field, it must activate during the End Phase: send this card to the Graveyard."
Third card: The Winged Dragon of Ra.
"Level 10 / ? ATK / ? DEF."
"DIVINE Attribute, Divine-Beast."
"Effect 3: When this card is Summoned, you can pay LP until you have exactly 100 LP; this card gains ATK/DEF equal to the amount paid."
"Effect 4: You can pay 1000 LP, then target 1 monster on the field; destroy that target."
As the info for the three God Cards appeared, every duelist in the DM world and GX world fell silent.
It was as if none of them dared believe what they were seeing.
Yugi Muto's eyes went hollow.
Even the Pharaoh within forgot everything for a moment.
Seto Kaiba stood like a statue, unmoving, his gaze locked on Obelisk's video image without budging an inch.
Marik Ishtar, Ishizu Ishtar, and the Tomb Keepers all stared in utter shock at the God Cards' effects.
As Tomb Keepers, how could they not know what the real God Cards' effects are?
The three Sacred Gods before them—Obelisk, Ra, and Slifer—with just these effects?
Are you sure there's no mistake?
You call these three God Cards?
The very next second, two worlds completely exploded.
The God Cards were nerfed—heavily, all of them.
It's over.
The Gods have fallen.
The Gods really fell.
Seto Kaiba: "Impossible! These aren't Gods! Obelisk isn't like this! Obelisk can be infinite! What is this supposed to be?!"
Yugi Muto: "What about the Gods' resistances? Why does only Obelisk still have it? Where's the resistance on the other two?"
Jaden Yuki: "Huh? The God Cards aren't what I imagined. I feel like, like this, they're worse than any of the earlier archetypes."
Professor Crowler: "Mamma mia! Don't say it! These aren't the God Cards! Yami-ro! Don't shatter my fantasies about the Gods!"
Yuma Tsukumo: "??? You're all so agitated! So what are the God Cards' real effects?"
Yuya Sakaki: "Uh, I don't fully get it, but I get it. Looks like K-snake ruined things again and even took a knife to the God Cards."
Yusaku Fujiki: "Perhaps there were no gods in the world to begin with—belief made them gods."
The group chat exploded again.
Every old-guard duelist refused to believe that the three God Cards had been turned into this state in the higher world.
In their eyes, the God Cards were almost invincible.
And these effects—the face value is too trash.
Meanwhile, after chatting with the first-gen old guard, duelists from other worlds like Yuma Tsukumo finally realized that in the DM world the God Cards are terrifyingly strong.
Precisely because of that, Yuma and the others looked at each other in disbelief.
They didn't expect the God Cards to fare so poorly in the higher world.
Main world.
Sei Yuki quickly moved on to explain, trying to calm them down.
Sei Yuki: "Everyone, don't get excited."
Sei Yuki: "I said it already: these are the God Cards of our higher world."
Sei Yuki: "In your worlds, each card has its complete power."
"So after watching, feel free to curse out K-snake all you want."
"Right—remember one truth."
"Everything is K-snake's fault."
With that wave of steering public opinion, sure enough, the two old-guard worlds immediately erupted with condemnations and scolding directed at K-snake.
"Dog K, give me back my God Cards! Dog K, give me back my faith in the Gods!"
"Unforgivable! K-snake does evil without end! Why touch the God Cards?"
"Whew, at least our world's God Cards aren't affected! Otherwise we'd drag out the culprit who changed them!"
"I'm different! K-snake, give me back Tearlaments! K-snake, unlimit Tearlaments now!"
As the noise grew louder and louder, even Sei Yuki couldn't help twitching at the corner of his mouth.
These guys are still thinking about Tearlaments?
Even if Tearlaments really were absurdly strong, getting K-snake to release them again is pure fantasy.
Of course, if the effects were changed, maybe.
For example, if Tearlaments' mermaid's two effects were "you can only use one of them per turn."
If they were changed like that, how would duelists in the higher world feel?
Though it still seems pretty strong.
The Gods' downfall was noisy as always, but the short video had to go on.
Only after the God Cards' preface could the rest of the video bring them in better.
At the same time, duel info had already appeared in the video.
This time: a Tag Duel.
Tag Duel rules are simple.
Both players on a side share one field.
The sides are Red Team and Blue Team.
The team's LP are combined for 16,000 LP.
Turn order:
1st — A (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist).
2nd — B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist).
3rd — C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist).
4th — D (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist).
When all the info appeared, the DM world that had been making a fuss and the GX world that had been chattering nonstop both calmed down upon hearing their God Cards weren't affected.
Plus, with a brand-new "mess-around" duel video coming, they gradually settled.
Playback continued.
A (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Here we go, here we go! Today we bring you a Tag Duo mess-around duel!"
A (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "I'll start. My turn."
A (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "I Set 1 monster and end my turn."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "My turn. Draw."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "I Normal Summon Ariane the Labrynth Servant, and activate its effect."
"I send 1 Trap from my hand to the GY and Special Summon Arianna the Labrynth Servant from the Deck."
"I activate the effect of Genta, Gateman of Dark World in my hand."
"I discard this card to the GY and add The Gates of Dark World from my Deck to my hand."
"I activate the Field Spell The Gates of Dark World. Effect, go."
"I banish Genta from my GY, discard 1 Fiend from my hand, then draw 1 card."
"Genta's effect—when banished, it Special Summons itself."
"The Fiend I discarded is Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World."
"Beiige's effect—Beiige Special Summons itself."
"Right now, we've got four Level 4s on the field."
"Construct the Xyz Network."
"Overlay Beiige and Genta to Xyz Summon D/D/D Wave King Caesar."
"Overlay the two Labrynth Servants to Xyz Summon D/D/D Wave King Caesar."
"Overlay on top of the two Wave King Caesar."
"Overlay: D/D/D Marksman King Tell."
"I continue—overlay on top of Marksman King Tell with a rank-up Xyz."
"D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex."
"Card-stuck, so I just set 1? Nah."
"I'm going straight to the Battle Phase."
"Bullying the weak—I'm good at that."
"Marksman King Tell attacks your Set monster—destroyed and sent to the GY."
"Deus Machinex (3300 ATK) attacks directly."
That burst of Xyz expansion and the sheer intimidation of D/D/D quickly caught the attention of all the old-guard duelists.
The main engine, though, was Labrynth plus Dark World, which confused quite a few duelists.
As expected, duelists in the higher world never play a pure single archetype.
If they say it's a pure XXX deck, there's an eighty-percent chance it isn't pure.
After that swing, Red Team's LP dropped to 12,700 LP.
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Main Phase 2."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "The Marksman King Tell that attacked—Rank-Up Xyz Summon."
"Who else? Overlay."
"Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder."
"I Set 1 card."
"My turn ends."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "My turn. Draw."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "I Normal Summon Live☆Twin Ki-sikil."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Effect activates: Special Summon Live☆Twin Lil-la from the Deck."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Hold up! Chain 2—my Deus Machinex."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Detach 2 materials—your Ki-sikil… hand it over."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Live☆Twin Lil-la—continue to activate its effect."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Still daring to activate? Chain with Deus Machinex again."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Your Lil-la… hand it over."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Resolve Lil-la's effect—I Special Summon Ki-sikil from the Deck."
"Use Lil-la and Ki-sikil to Link Summon."
"Evil★Twin Lil-la."
"Lil-la's effect—go."
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Not so fast—activate Deus Machinex again, detach the last two materials."
"Lil-la? Hand it over."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Resolve Lil-la's effect—I Special Summon Ki-sikil from the GY."
Red Team's two players were already going numb watching this.
This guy is an ox-head man or what?
He's spamming that stealing effect.
Come up with an activation—get stolen.
He forcibly burned through all his resources just to minotaur-steal their Live☆Twins.
But now Deus Machinex had only one material left.
It couldn't activate anymore.
Meanwhile, in the ARC-V world, after watching that D/D/D "crazy ox-head" play, Declan Akaba nearly coughed blood.
Since when did the powerful, explosive D/D/D deck get turned into this underworld "minotaur-stealing" build?
Key point: it actually seems pretty good.
The opponent's Live☆Twin expansion was severely disrupted.
They basically couldn't explode any further.
But playing D/D/D like this, Declan Akaba was not amused.
If you're on D/D/D, why not just explode out all the Xyz, Synchros, Pendulums, and Fusion bosses in one go?
Isn't that satisfying?
While everyone wondered what other tricks would appear next, B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist) immediately made the next move.
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "I chain and flip my Set Trap."
"Big Welcome Labrynth."
"I Special Summon Arianna the Labrynth Servant from the Deck."
"Then I return my Deus Machinex to the hand."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Savage! Turning it into a blank and then bouncing it."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Then I place Performapal Five-Rainbow Magician in my left Pendulum Zone."
"Activ—"
B (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Hold it. I chain AA-ZEUS."
"Detach 2 materials—send every other card on the field to the GY, except AA-ZEUS."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Yaro! I end my turn."
D (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Finally my turn. Draw one."
D (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "I'm going to Normal Summon this monster."
"Come out—Laundry Dragonmaid."
"Activate its effect. I send the top three cards of my Deck to the GY."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Hold it! I chain Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring."
C (Red Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Your Laundry Dragonmaid's effect is negated."
D (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "What the—? You even 'Ash' Laundry?"
D (Blue Team, Mysterious Duelist): "Denied?"
"Then I'll just go to the Battle Phase."
"AA-ZEUS and Laundry Dragonmaid, charge."
"Direct attack."
"Total damage dealt—3500 LP."
Not only was Player D barely holding it together—duelists across every world were barely holding it together.
Ash Blossom was used to negate Laundry's mill three?
That's some genuine respect for Laundry.
But what made them break even more—what on earth was Player D thinking?
If Laundry gets negated, can't you do anything?
Just ram in like that?
If you don't expand at all, aren't you afraid the opponent will explode and OTK you next turn?
And Laundry's 500 ATK damage—sure, it's not high.
But the insult is massive.
At the very least, Seto Kaiba, Kite Tenjo, and Declan Akaba felt it was hard to accept.
You can just kill me in one breath.
But using 500 ATK to kick my face—that's rough to swallow.
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