Chapter 113. Gate of Numeron vs. @Ignister! Link-6—The Arrival Cyberse Descends!
Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba just couldn't keep a straight face anymore.
The Orichalcos triple seal had already broken their composure.
And now there was a fourth seal and even a fifth?
Who could stand that?
Still, they felt a small measure of relief.
A fake card is, ultimately, just a fake card.
Fortunately, the higher worlds don't have a figure like Dartz.
Perhaps that's a blessing in disguise?
Back to the short video, once those "seals" were explained, it moved into the finale.
The remaining Orichalcos-style fake monster cards did not appear.
The fake Orichalcos series could be considered shelved for now.
In the main world—
Sei Yuki couldn't help reminiscing and sighing after watching those childhood throwback cards.
Back then, the Orichalcos Deck was also the fake-card deck he played the most.
If he had to say it, at the time the Egyptian God Cards didn't even feel as "flashy" as the Orichalcos.
"Whew, after that one!"
"Let me see now!"
"Which short video should I play next?"
"A deck breakdown?"
"Or the history of Dragon Rulers?"
"Or maybe some Duel Links clips?"
"...."
After aimlessly searching for a while, Sei Yuki finally set his sights on the @Ignister deck.
@Ignister had shown up briefly in Little Blue's Holactie showcase earlier.
Honestly speaking, this @Ignister engine has something going for it.
Never mind the fake Field Spell constantly Special Summoning.
Especially the in-house boss—its terrifying Link-6 ace is nothing to sneeze at!
"This is the deck!"
Decision made!
Next, he played the new short video.
The title appeared!
"@Ignister vs. Numeron! Behold the final power of Links!"
"@Ignister? Numeron?"
When that title popped up, the first to react wasn't actually the VRAINS world—
It was the Barian World from ZEXAL.
Don Thousand suddenly opened his eyes wide!
He stared fixedly at the word "Numeron" on the short-video info!
"So, it's here? My Numeron deck."
"Heh heh heh, I wonder how strong my Numerons are in the higher worlds."
He had kept his eyes closed and felt no interest in other decks before this.
Only now did Don Thousand become intrigued.
All those previous decks—
In Don Thousand's eyes, they were just passing chatter.
But if it's Numeron, that's different.
Inside the short video—
The duel info appeared.
Huoling Guagua (@Ignister) vs. Numeron player!
Both Duelists' Life Points: 8000 LP!
First to play: Huoling Guagua (@Ignister)!
Second: Numeron player!
Huoling Guagua: "All right! Let's duel!"
Huoling Guagua: "I'm running a pure Link deck! The name is @Ignister!"
Huoling Guagua: "And I've got the first turn!"
"I Normal Summon 'Pikari @Ignister'!"
"Pikari's effect adds 'A.I. Meet You' from my Deck!"
"Use Pikari alone to Link Summon 'Dark Infant @Ignister'!"
"Activate Dark Infant to search the Field Spell 'Ignister A.I.Land'!"
"I activate the Field Spell, A.I.Land!"
"Then I play A.I. Meet You! Reveal 'Decode Talker Heatsoul' from my Extra Deck to add 'Achichi @Ignister'!"
"A.I.Land's effect Special Summons Achichi!"
"Achichi's effect adds 'Doyon @Ignister'!"
"Use Achichi and Dark Infant to Link Summon!"
"Arrows confirmed—Link-2!"
"'Cyberse Wicckid'!"
"Then use A.I.Land again and Special Summon Doyon to a zone Wicckid points to!"
"Cyberse Wicckid's effect—because a monster was Special Summoned to its Link Arrow—banish Dark Infant from the GY to add 'Bururu @Ignister'!"
"Doyon's effect adds Pikari back from the GY!"
"I Link Summon again using Wicckid and Doyon!"
"Link-3! 'Transcode Talker'!"
"Doyon's effect, since it was used for a Link Summon, adds 'A.I. Meet You' back from the GY!"
"A.I.Land Special Summons 'Bururu @Ignister'!"
"Bururu's effect sends 'Danmari @Ignister' from the Deck to the GY!"
"Transcode Talker's effect revives 'Cyberse Wicckid'!"
"On board now: Link-3 Transcode Talker, Link-2 Wicckid, plus Bururu!"
"Link Summon—'Dark Templar @Ignister'!"
"...."
In the short video—
Huoling Guagua kept building a board, abusing the Field Spell to loop resources over and over!
Duelists from every world, who had thought this was just a for-fun deck, slowly lost their smiles.
What replaced them was a grave look!
This deck—
Something's off!
Way off!
The explosions were getting a little terrifying!
And the resource routing was anything but weak!
Or rather—this deck's Field Spell, A.I.Land, was absurd!
That Special Summon effect!
It isn't once per turn!
The short had showed this before—
But everyone's attention had been stolen by Holactie and the God Cards being milled!
So they all ignored @Ignister's lines of play!
Seeing the @Ignister lines now, front and center—
Their brains felt like they were about to overload!
All those LIGHT, DARK, FIRE, WIND, and other Attributes being rotated!
And the end result was just a 'Dark Templar @Ignister'?
GX world.
Jaden Yuki and Aster Phoenix frowned slightly.
Neither of them fully understood the furious resource loop they just saw.
And the @Ignister result was a single Link-3 'Dark Templar @Ignister'—what's the point?
At only 2300 ATK, it clearly can't be the end boss!
That leaves only one possibility!
This isn't the final board state yet!
The real end board is still coming!
"It's not over yet! Everyone, keep watching!"
"The real ace is about to descend!"
Once Jaden realized that, he spoke up immediately!
Then his eyes returned to the short.
Inside the video—
Just as Jaden expected!
Huoling Guagua kept going!
Huoling Guagua: "A.I.Land continues—Special Summon Pikari from my hand!"
Huoling Guagua: "Use Pikari to Link-1 again—my second 'Dark Infant @Ignister,' placed to a zone Dark Templar points to."
Huoling Guagua: "I activate Dark Templar, then chain Dark Infant to it!"
"Dark Infant shifts one zone to the left to open a new Link Arrow, and Dark Templar declares WATER!"
"Resolve Chain: C1 Dark Templar!"
"When a monster is Special Summoned to a zone this card points to, I can Special Summon as many Level 4 or lower '@Ignister' monsters as possible from my GY to zones it points to, with their effects negated."
"These are its Link Arrows!"
"I revive my LIGHT 'Pikari @Ignister,' my WIND 'Bururu @Ignister,' and my FIRE 'Achichi @Ignister'!"
"I activate 'Cynet Mining'! I discard a card!"
"I search 'Doshin @Ignister,' then activate it to Special Summon the EARTH Doshin!"
"At this moment!"
"My field has LIGHT, WIND, FIRE, EARTH, WATER, and DARK—six Attributes total!"
"The real show begins now!"
"Six Attributes?"
Duelists across the worlds looked confused when they heard Huoling Guagua say that!
After carefully checking each monster on the field, they were even more puzzled!
On the field—
It really was six different Attributes!
But here's the question—
What's the point of those Attributes?
Duel Monsters world.
Yugi Muto, after seeing this sequence, was just as lost!
Even as the original protagonist, he couldn't figure out what Huoling Guagua was setting up!
But one thing was for sure—
It absolutely wasn't as simple as it looked!
"Six Attributes? Is he gathering the Divine Attribute to Summon a God Dragon?"
"Ahem! Just kidding!"
"My guess is he needs to meet some kind of summoning condition for a monster?"
Joey Wheeler joked to lighten the mood.
But that one little joke—
Made quite a few Duelists around them change expression!
Don't say that!
Because it really could be true!
Could there be a trump card in the Extra Deck that needs Attribute-related tributes?
VRAINS world.
As the world of the most advanced Summoning method—
Yusaku Fujiki, the "Left Leader," Theodore Hamilton, and the others suddenly thought of something, and their faces went pale!
And the chatter around them only confirmed their suspicion!
"No way, right? Wait—could it be? These 6 materials—don't tell me!"
"I think it's very possible! Six materials—for a Link Summon! That's the tribute requirement for a terrifying Link-6!"
"Seriously? A Link-6 monster? What even is that! I've never seen one! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"Although, with six Attributes, and this engine all about Link-1 lines—if you told me it isn't setting up a Link-6, I wouldn't believe you!"
"...."
Just like the chatter around them!
Six Attributes on the board—and a Link-focused deck!
There was no doubt this was setting up for a terrifying Link-6!
But after talking it through, they rejected the thought again.
A Link-6? How could that be?
Even they—
Even the main cast had never seen a Link-6!
But the next scene—
Left them utterly speechless!
Inside the short—
The last steps were ready!
Huoling Guagua: "All right! All the Attribute tributes are ready!"
Huoling Guagua: "I Link Summon using every monster on my field!"
"That's right! I'm bringing out the strongest Link ace!"
"Confirm Link Arrows!"
""
"Link Summon using monsters of all Attributes!"
"Link-6! Descend!"
"'The Arrival Cyberse @Ignister'!!!"
The Link Summon succeeded!
The moment that shocked Duelists across every world arrived!
United under six Attributes—
A ridiculous ace with 6000 ATK appeared before everyone!
And the Link Arrows—
Confirmed it was a terrifying Link-6!
Almost every Duelist stared, stunned, at the scene in front of them!
Beyond the soaring 6000 ATK—
They also noticed its effects and resistances!
This card is unaffected by other cards' effects.
Yes!
A terrifying, god-like, unaffected Link-6!
So this was Huoling Guagua's ultimate ace?!
VRAINS world.
The Duelists who had just been insisting a Link-6 was impossible were dumbstruck on the spot!
"Link-6?"
"It really is a Link-6!"
"Holy—!"
Forget Link-6!
Even Link-5s are rare for them!
And summoning a Link-4 is already hard enough!
But right now!
It was actually a terrifying Link-6!
".Such a strong monster! @Ignister, huh?"
"That ATK and that immunity!"
"Almost unsolvable!"
"It's checkmate! Even without negates to disrupt the opponent!"
"Just this monster alone—your opponent's already tearing their hair out!"
Theodore Hamilton started chattering nonstop!
The other Duelists had already run out of words!
A Link-6 monster—in their eyes—is a god!
Yes.
A god—the god of the Link world!
Inside the short—
With this terrifying Link-6 on the field—
Huoling Guagua was a little full of himself now!
Huoling Guagua: "I suppose taking care of this monster won't be that easy?"
Huoling Guagua: "I Set 1 card!"
"My turn is over!"
"And because of 'A.I. Meet You's' drawback, I lose 2300 LP!"
"Your move."
Numeron player: "My turn—draw!"
Numeron player: "It's just a 6000-ATK monster."
Numeron player: "I activate the Spell Card 'Terraforming'!"
"I add the Field Spell 'Numeron Network' from my Deck!"
"I activate the Field Spell—'Numeron Network'!"
"Per its effect...."
Huoling Guagua: "Chain the effect of 'Danmari @Ignister' in my GY!"
Huoling Guagua: "Banish it to negate your Field Spell's effects until the end of the turn!"
Numeron player: "My turn's over."
Numeron player: "I'll let you have one more turn."
"Let him have a turn?"
Plenty of Duelists couldn't help the twitch at the corner of their mouths!
Seriously—"let him"?
The opponent already has a terrifying Link-6 on the board!
Meanwhile this Numeron player has just a Field Spell—
Which got stuffed and lost its effect!
Obviously, his hand bricked!
And now he's calling bricking "letting" the opponent go?
Duel Monsters world.
"It should be over."
"Next turn, that @Ignister player will just go in for game."
"8000 LP won't hold."
Seto Kaiba coolly analyzed and gave his prediction.
And that was what the Duelists around them thought as well.
The gap in advantage was too big.
No wonder they thought so.
GX world.
Jaden Yuki and Aster Phoenix had the same thought as Seto Kaiba.
A monster that's fully unaffected, plus sky-high ATK.
How do you even out it?
There basically isn't a good answer.
So the Numeron player's chances of defeat were extremely high.
Unless—
He was holding something that could somehow stall for one more turn!
But—
How?
ZEXAL world.
Barian World.
Seeing the Numeron pilot acting this "checked-out,"
The Seven Barian Emperors all wore ugly expressions.
Seriously?
With this level of play?
You dare pilot Numeron?
Aren't you embarrassing Lord Don Thousand?
As for Don Thousand, his expression didn't look great either.
"No matter."
"Let's keep watching."
"It shouldn't be that easy to beat him."
"Even if that Link-6 is terrifying."
"Numeron isn't a deck that eats dust."
Don Thousand steadied his mood.
His gaze returned to the short.
He wanted to see—
Whether this Numeron player
Still had it in him to counter-attack @Ignister...
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