The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　"attack!"

　Despite his vigilance, Witt Gold still sounded the horn for attack.

　The "Bull-Headed Axeman" couldn't wait any longer. It leaned its upper body forward, shifted its center of gravity forward, and suddenly swung its two hooves backward. Its entire body burst out like a giant crossbow bolt being fired!

　Its sprint speed is a high speed that is hard to tell from its appearance.

　By the time the audience realized what was happening, the "Bull-Headed Axeman" had already rushed towards the center line.

　"The first wave of attacks is about to begin."

　An anonymous commentator let out a sigh.

　Both players had already drawn their second magic card from their hands.

　As "Minotaur Axeman" charged across the center line, both players began their second round of normal summons.

　"In the name of Dark Deemon, a magical summoning—'Ditto!'!"

　"In the name of Vito God, I summon the Crypt Lord!"

　As the call to arms resounded through the stadium, "Bull-Headed Axeman" charged forward, unleashing its full power as it approached the blue team's summoning zone. Its already incredible speed exploded once more, making its body almost a black shadow. Black light emanated from the "Black Iron Giant Axe" in its right hand, and it used all its strength to slash at "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit," which was crawling down the tree stump.

　at that time.

　The chubby pink rabbit was perched on a tree stump, cautiously extending one of its short legs toward the ground.

　If you look closely, you can even see its calves trembling slightly.

　The tree stump wasn't very tall, but climbing from top to bottom was still a big challenge for "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit".

　With its toes finally touching the ground, "Fairy Tale Animal? Little Rabbit" immediately followed with its second foot and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

　However, the shadow has already fallen.

　The "Black Iron Giant Axe," carrying immense kinetic energy, slammed down on the head of the "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit" with a whistling sound—the latter's reaction speed was simply too slow to catch up.

　The dark, sharp axe blade struck the seemingly defenseless rabbit's head.

　"Pfft!"

　"Broken!"

　The commentator suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

　The "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit's" unreasonable 2100 points of defense still couldn't stop the "Bull-Headed Axeman's" powerful mountain-splitting attack.

　The passive ultimate skill called "Black Iron Giant Axe" increases its attack by 300 points. The kinetic energy from its high-speed run is converted, further enhancing its attack.

　It exerted all its strength, with an overall attack exceeding 2100 points, and finally split open the pink fluffy rabbit's scalp.

　—Although this was vastly different from the scene Witt Gold had imagined, it still broke through his defenses.

　Once the defense is breached, thanks to the innate abilities of a Fighting-type Magical Spirit, "Minotaur Axeman" only needs to focus on that wound and attack again to inflict fatal damage on "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit".

　……

　Two new magical spirits simultaneously materialized in the summoning zones of both players.

　The "Ditto" summoned by Dark Dimon stood guard in front of the blue team's Magic Ball.

　Meanwhile, the "Crypt Lord" summoned by Witt Gold immediately burrowed into the ground.

　The "Crypt Grass" is a dungeon-exclusive monster that belongs to both the Plant and Ground/Grass types.

　Its dimensions may not be high, but it can burrow into the ground and transform itself into a "cave trap" that is difficult to detect from the surface.

　Once a creature steps on it, it suddenly opens its mouth and swallows the creature whole.

　Its mouth has an even stronger defense than its skin, and the dissolving liquid that seeps out from its surface can dissolve gold and iron into water.

　It is an extremely dangerous monster.

　The "Crypt Lord" created by Witt Gold is a special case among them—it's a gold card!

　However, after the "Crypt Lord" burrowed into the ground beneath the Red Team's Magic Sphere, three deep crypts appeared one after another near the Red Team's summoning zone, and then closed up again in the blink of an eye.

　Then the red Magic Ball was swallowed into the first burrow of this "Crypt Grass".

　Witt Gold's "Crypteryx" can split into two new plants underground, creating three burrows.

　Moreover, it can move!

　Therefore, once it swallows the magic ball, it can provide relatively good protection against it, making it both offensive and defensive.

　Of course, it's not as troublesome as Angus Jeffrey's "Crypt Worm." It doesn't completely burrow underground, and if you find its location, you can directly attack its main body.

　……

　But at this moment, no one noticed this actually very powerful gold card.

　All eyes were drawn to the fierce battle taking place in the blue team's summoning area!

　Upon discovering that his all-out axe blow had only cleaved the pink fluffy rabbit's scalp, the "Bull-Headed Axeman" roared and swung his axe a second time.

　Although the axe had lost its kinetic energy, its hands remained extremely steady, and it was indeed aimed at the already cleaved wound.

　However, in a flash, the "bloody" wound vanished into thin air.

　Then, the "fairytale animal? little rabbit" that was hit and fell to the ground let out a "meow" and forcefully lifted the heavy-looking tree stump, using it as a shield to block its head.

　"puff!"

　When the axe blades meet, it's like tattered cotton being crushed.

　"Ouch!"

　The "Bull-Headed Axe-Wielder" did not hold back at all despite the sudden disappearance of the wound; he still unleashed his full power in this axe blow.

　But the "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit" has a 360° defense with no blind spots.

　The "Black Iron Giant Axe" couldn't even leave a mark on the tree stump.

　However, after suffering two heavy blows in succession, the "fairytale animal? little rabbit" was unable to successfully "call its friends".

　"Inviting friends and companions" is actually a necessary condition for initiating the activity.

　If the "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit" is not summoned immediately after falling from the tree stump, the summoning will be lost - after all, time waits for no one.

　If it wants to try again, it needs to climb up the tree stump and then come down, and so on.

　This isn't really a big problem for "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit".

　However, it can only crouch and defend itself by hugging the tree now, but it is unable to perform any other actions.

　Seeing this, Dark frowned slightly, his finger hovering over "Paradise III? Moon" for a long time.

　He didn't let "Ditto" transform into "Minotaur" because "transformation" has a cooldown, and although "Minotaur" is very strong, it's not a good choice.

　Instead, using "Elysium III: Moon" to upgrade "Ditto" to six stars would resolve the current predicament.

　However, this would consume another "Paradise III? Moon" card.

　His "Elysium" deck only has five "Elysium" cards, and each one he uses reduces the number available.

　Moreover, the current "Ditto" has no intelligence.

　The thoughts involved are very complex.

　However, in the high-stakes magical duels where every second counts, quick decisions are required.

　After only a few seconds of thought, Dark raised the "Elysium III? Moon" card in his hand high and summoned it with a loud voice.

　"In the name of Dark Demon, a magical summoning—'Elysium III: Moon'!"

　A burst of pink light!

　……

　"Whirlwind!"

　Witt God's roar rang out before Dark began his third summoning.

　After that roar, the "Bull-Headed Axeman" took a step back, then raised his left hand to grasp the end of the long handle of the "Black Iron Giant Axe," switching from a one-handed to a two-handed grip. With a stomp of his bull hoof and a twist of his waist, he spun around violently!

　With just one rotation, a storm erupts.

　A violent airflow rose from below, swirling and converging on the "Black Iron Giant Axe," making its blade even sharper and propelling the axe's swing speed to increase dramatically.

　"Ahhh!"

　The furious roar of the "Bull-Headed Axeman" soared into the sky.

　All the spectators watching realized that this axe blow would surely pierce the plump rabbit's...scalp!

　While the "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit" has high defense, it only has 1000 magic points. When its scalp was split open by the first axe blow, it must have suffered some damage.

　If this even more powerful "Whirlwind Slash" hits again, the two combined will kill him on the spot!

　Although the scene of going to such lengths to kill a pink fluffy rabbit is somewhat comical.

　But the victor is king and the loser is villain; as long as you successfully kill someone, there's nothing shameful about it.

　At this moment, whether it's the spectators outside the stadium, Witt Gold, or even the "Bull-Headed Axeman" with an intelligence level of 2.0, they all think roughly the same way.

　This terrifying "Whirlwind Slash" did indeed break through the defense of "Fairy Tale Animal - Little Rabbit".

　The surface of that "tree stump" had been split open with an extremely long gash!

　The "tree stump" and the "fairytale animal - little rabbit" are almost one and the same.

　The breaking of the "tree stump" is equivalent to the breaking of the defense of the "fairytale animal - little rabbit".

　From Dark's perspective, he could even clearly determine that this "Whirlwind Slash" attack was close to 2500 points, almost instantly killing "Fairy Tale Animal? Little Rabbit".

　Then one second later.

　Under the watchful eyes of countless people, the gap on the surface of the "tree stump" healed in the blink of an eye, as if it had never existed.

　This scene left everyone instantly stunned.

　Even those highly skilled mages couldn't understand this pink fluffy rabbit that was only two stars!

　"Bull-Headed Axeman, Deadly Throw!"

　Witt Gold's voice rang out again, his tone tinged with anxiety.

　Dark could clearly sense that he was getting anxious!

　In the very first round of the duel, Witt Gold encountered an unexpected event that he could never have imagined before the match began.

　He came with the momentum of winning the championship and walked a path of unstoppable progress.

　Now, the road was blocked by a harmless pink fluffy rabbit. He no longer even had the idea of ​​having the "Bull-Headed Axeman" attack the magic ball from a distance. At this moment, all he could think about was the impulse to order the rabbit to be chopped in half.

　A black tide then surged forth endlessly from the depths of his eyes.

　……

　"Aaaaaah!"

　The roar of the "Bull-Headed Axeman" had already revealed hysteria.

　The pink and fluffy rabbit was trembling under its crotch, yet a tremendous sense of powerlessness suddenly arose within it.

　But the ultimate move—"Deadly Throw"—was still executed in its entirety.

　Its massive body leaped high into the air in that instant, as if it had sprouted wings, soaring to an extremely high place. The "Black Iron Giant Axe" wielded in both hands, accompanied by a deadly attack, caused its body to spin rapidly before crashing down with extreme ferocity towards the little rabbit crouching in a tree below.

　This axe strike has already surpassed the limits that a first-tier magical spirit can achieve.

　Even some second-tier magical spirits couldn't withstand this terrifying attack.

　The sheer power of the giant axe descending from the sky was astonishing.

　The audience outside the stadium experienced several rollercoaster-like emotional swings in that short period of time. Seeing the power of this "deadly throw," they couldn't help but think, "This time, he's going to die, isn't he?"

　……

　"call--"

　A storm was raging.

　The giant axe cleaved the "tree stump".

　The axe blade, still carrying the force of the blow, grazed the scalp of the "fairytale animal? little rabbit".

　The "fairytale animal? Little rabbit" looked up in astonishment with its chubby little face. After its beloved "tree stump" was cut in two, the night sky above came into view.