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

　Dark felt a slight chill run down his spine the moment he saw "Alchemy Beast." The appearance of "Alchemy Beast" meant that Professor Kazel was using a deck based on the "Alchemy" archetype.

　Putting aside the deck's mechanics for now, Professor Kazel is able to maximize his alchemy abilities when using this deck.

　Fortunately, he didn't use the "Golden Kingdom" deck, otherwise he could have conceded right now.

　However, although the "Alchemy Beast" is a twelve-star magical spirit, its offensive power is extremely low, making it a relatively easy type to deal with.

　While he was pondering, he had already completed the summoning, materialized "Gabumon", and then Mega Evolved it.

　This time, he still chose "arrogance".

　While Astaromon, evolved from Gabumon using the power of Elysium, is indeed powerful, its core special attack, Hellfire, does not possess the ability to penetrate Alchemon's defenses.

　In contrast, WereGarurumon, which evolves from Pride, can utilize the full moon to enhance itself. Combined with its short-cooldown special attack's power boost and the armor-piercing properties of Kaiser Claws, it should be able to break through Alchemymon's defenses.

　Although matching nine stars against twelve stars is actually very difficult, it's the only option we can use now.

　Fortunately, RiseGreymon's "Rapid Fire Bullet" also has penetrating power, capable of piercing through the defensive barrier of the "Mirror Pyramid".

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　Additionally, the "Mirror Pyramid" should also possess the property of casting spells, which is something that must be taken into special consideration.

　Without this feature, "RiseGreymon" could have easily destroyed it by firing another "Rise Destroyer Cannon".

　But just as this thought crossed his mind, Dark saw Professor Kazel stuff the "Mirror Pyramid" into the body of the "Alchemy Beast".

　A flash of golden light appeared on the body of the "Alchemy Beast," and the defensive barrier of the "Mirror Pyramid," which had disappeared after being absorbed into its body, re-emerged in an instant.

　Moreover, the re-deployed "Mirror Pyramid" barrier not only has a significantly increased coverage area, but even the originally damaged mirror surface has been restored to its original state, instantly giving people a sense of impeccability.

　Dark's brow twitched involuntarily, and his summoning motion involuntarily halted.

　The "Alchemy Beast" stood still, with the "Mirror Pyramid" barrier unfolding around it, while Professor Kazel had retreated to the rear of the "Alchemy Beast".

　Faced with this positioning, even if RiseGreymon's "Rapid Fire" could penetrate the barrier defense, it would be impossible for it to bypass Alchemymon and hit Professor Kazel.

　Moreover, the combination of the "alchemy beast" and the "mirror pyramid" gives a very obvious feeling that it can move.

　The original "Mirror Pyramid" was a fixed, immovable defensive barrier. While its defense was extremely strong, it also limited the movement range of those it protected.

　However, the current "Mirror Pyramid" can move with the "Alchemy Beast," making it more than twice as aggressive.

　Furthermore, with the "Mirror Pyramid" barrier, "Werewolf Garurumon" couldn't even touch "Alchemymon's" body, let alone fight it.

　But evolution has already taken place.

　Dark had no choice but to switch from offense to defense, ordering "RiseGreymon" and "WereGarurumon" to switch to defense.

　After deciding to switch from offense to defense, Dark stopped summoning and instead observed Professor Kazel's actions with extreme caution.

　Professor Kazel's current deck is most likely an "Alchemy" deck. However, he hasn't possessed an "Alchemy Beast" on himself—which is quite unusual for him.

　This shows that even within the "alchemy" series, he might come up with a completely different system than before.

　Moreover, the possibility is very high.

　After all, Dark has an extremely strong ability to counter the "Golden Alchemy Array." It's unlikely that Kazel would use that tactic on him.

　However, there is still a high probability that he will continue to use the "Golden Cube Man".

　After all, the "Golden Cube Man" is a magical spirit that can be used with various mysterious items.

　It must be said that Dark did have a certain understanding of Professor Cazell. His guesses were 80% correct and only 20% wrong.

　Professor Kazel did not include "Golden Cube Man" in this deck!

　Even "Alchemy Beast" is not the core of his deck. Don't assume that Professor Kazel's summoning of "Alchemy Beast" makes it the core of the deck.

　The core of this deck is "items." It's an alchemy system centered around "alchemy items"!

　A system centered around "item cards" is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, in the history of duels.

　Just like in this World Cup, apart from some people using that type of deck during the qualifiers, no one used a system centered around "item cards" at all by the time the qualifiers started.

　—Although "Armed Cards" belong to the category of "Item Cards," they are ultimately part of the "Armed" system, which is completely different from the concept of the "Item" system.

　What is truly similar to the "item card" system is actually the "magic card" system, which seems completely unrelated on the surface!

　Professor Cazell did not slow down.

　After securing his defenses, he drew his next magic card from his hand and immediately summoned it.

　The magic card he summoned this time was still an "item card", named "Magic Cannon Launcher A"!

　As the name suggests, "Magic Cannon Launcher A" is a magical device that can fire magic cannons.

　As a magic card, it can only fire a limited number of magic cannons, and their power is lackluster; they cannot even penetrate the defense of a nine-star magic spirit.

　But if there is A, there is B, and if there is B, there is C.

　The "Magic Cannon Launcher" is actually a set of three. After collecting all three "Magic Cannon Launchers A, B, and C", these three launchers can be combined into one, which is called the "Magic Cannon Launcher Set".

　The "Magic Cannon Launcher" can fire three magic cannons at once, which is somewhat similar to the "Trident Revolver" of "RiseGreymon".

　However, the difference is that the "Trident Revolver" can only fire its three-round burst once, while the "Magic Cannon Launcher" can fire three times!

　However, the magic cannon power of the "Magic Cannon Launcher" is still much inferior to that of the "Trident Revolver".

　Therefore, it's hard not to wonder what the point of adding this set of magic cards to the deck is.

　However, as the "Alchemy Beast" absorbed the "Magic Cannon Launcher A" into its body and "re-alchemized" it, this magic card underwent a qualitative change.

　Its power, with just one "Magic Cannon Launcher A", has been increased to the level of a single shot from a "Magic Cannon Launching Group".

　In other words, the attack power of a regular nine-star magical spirit.

　After the "Alchemy Beast" fused with the "Magic Cannon Launcher A", a cannon barrel emerged from the right side of its "head", transforming it from a fixed turret into a mobile turret.

　At this point, the "Alchemy Beast" possesses both the defensive barrier formed by the "Mirror Pyramid" and the magical cannon attack equipped with "Magic Cannon Launcher A," making it a perfect combination of offense and defense, lacking only cleverness.

　—Although this attack is slightly weaker compared to the twelve-star magic spirit.

　However, none of these are unenhancing.

　Professor Kazel controlled the "Alchemy Beast" to fire the magic cannon, and immediately a dark red beam shot out from the cannon's muzzle.

　The beam of light has a range long enough to cover the entire field.

　But "RisingGreymon" suddenly raised "Trident Revolver" and used it as a shield, completely blocking the attack of "Magic Cannon Launcher A".

　Seeing this, Professor Kazel simply nodded slightly and continued with his next magical summoning. His summoning in the first round of this duel was also extremely urgent.

　The fourth summoning was completed in the blink of an eye.

　And this time, it's another prop card!

　A burst of summoning light appeared, from which a brand new item materialized—a summoning interference device!

　The chanting of summoning incantations has a specific frequency, and by using a specific device to interfere with this frequency, the summoning process, which has been compressed to its limit, can be negatively affected, thereby interrupting or delaying the summoning.

　The more complex the summoning spell, the more negative the impact will be when it is interfered with by the "Summoning Disruptor".

　This is interference with the spellcasting of the Archmage himself. If there is no corresponding means to eliminate it, one can only rely on the Archmage's own abilities to counter it.

　With Dark's summoning skills, there's no need to worry about being interrupted. However, there will be a delay of a few seconds when casting a "normal summoning spell." If it's a more advanced "sacrifice summoning spell," the delay will be even longer.

　Silent casting or casting while moving will also be subject to more interference. However, the interference effect of "Summoning Disruptors" is wide-area and indiscriminate, and Professor Kazel himself will also be affected.

　Therefore, this is a contest of summoning techniques.

　However, Professor Kazel's purpose in summoning the "Summoning Disruptor" goes beyond this. The number "three" often plays a very important role in magical duels.

　For example, only three copies of the same magical card can be placed in the deck, and the fusion of three magical spirits often results in the strongest card.

　After summoning a total of three "alchemy items", Kazel can activate a special ritual to Special Summon certain Magic Cards from the deck or hand.

　This is the ultimate reason why he quickly summoned three "alchemical tools." And the magical spirit he wanted to use to specially summon them was [Alchemist Master Sinzer]!

　【Alchemist Master Xin Zhe De】is a master of tool use among alchemists, and is very famous in the history of alchemists, barely deserving the title of "legend".

　Professor Kazel's [Alchemist Master Sinzer] is undoubtedly a twelve-star magical spirit.

　It possesses a passive ultimate skill that increases the power of items by 50%, and also has a core ultimate skill called "Reload," which refreshes the number of times an item can be used.

　He also possesses a "tool bag" from which he can randomly take out three "alchemy tools".

　Finally, there's the ultimate move, "Human Item".

　That's a finishing move that can transform oneself into an alchemical tool, allowing the originally magic-oriented [Alchemist Master Xin Zhe De] to become an armored warrior capable of both offense and defense.

　Without a doubt, [Alchemist Sinzer] is the main attack point in Professor Kazel's deck.

　Moreover, he has three of the same magic cards!

　【Alchemist Sin Chewed】also has a very high-ranking characteristic: after being specially summoned, he can take the three items that serve as "ritual catalysts" back into himself.

　This feature will also be forced to take effect after the item has been taken and used by someone else.

　This means it can extract the three items that have already been "re-forged" and enhanced from the "alchemy beast's" body. Then, it can increase their power or effect by fifty percent on top of their original state!

　Even separately, these two enhancement effects are already quite overpowered. This double enhancement combined is completely beyond imagination.

　Standing opposite, Dak only saw [Alchemist Master Sin Zhede] open his chest and insert the main body of the "Mirror Pyramid" into it. Then, a triangular defensive barrier expanded from his body to his outside, and the defensive range increased dramatically, and the defensive strength was further enhanced.

　Dark doubted whether the "Trident Revolver" could still break through the defense... In addition, he installed the "Magic Cannon Launcher A" on his left arm and twisted the "Summoning Interference Device" into a ring on his head. The effects and power of these two alchemical items were further enhanced by fifty percent.

　At this point, "Magic Cannon Launcher A" can now fire attacks approaching the level of twelve stars on its own.

　The "Summoning Disruptor" has also become more disruptive to summoning than before. It has become more difficult for Dark to summon successfully.

　However, the round has already switched.

　Dark focused intently as he drew a card, and the projections of the two newly acquired magic cards instantly appeared before his eyes.

　"Advanced Transfiguration Charm!"

　He read out the name of one of the magic cards.

　Unlike other mages, he uses the "Higher Transformation Charm" to transform himself into "Black Tailmon".

　While "BlackGatomon" is far inferior to [Divine Armament Luna], it is still a means of enhancing one's own combat power.

　Furthermore, after experiencing an unprecedented surge in his mental power, he is confident that he can use Blaziken's Aura to achieve Mega Evolution.

　If the light component of the "Power of Pride" is added to it and adjusted, it might be able to evolve into a different path than "LadyDevimon".

　Unfortunately, although he had generated the "waveguide wheel", he had not had time to activate it and had not mastered the "waveguide power".

　Otherwise, you can try using "Bonded Double Evolution" to evolve "Blizzard" into "Mega Blaziken"!

　Of course, his inclusion of both "Advanced Transformation Charm" and "Blazing Chicken" in his deck suggests he was trying to break through in battle.

　However, Professor Kazel's steps were too steady, and the magical spirits he summoned were simply unable to penetrate Professor Kazel's defenses, so there was no possibility of a "fierce battle" at all.

　Naturally, there's no way to talk about a "breakthrough." "We can't rush it..."

　"Dark said to himself."

　The pressure Professor Kazel put on him was still too great.

　What he should do now is to "delay" time, accumulate cards in his hand, and look for opportunities to turn the tide.

　He's had his share of comebacks like this before, and he knows very well that staying calm and understanding the situation are key to turning the tide.

　"Don't be impatient..."

　Dark gripped the magic card in his hand tightly, then took a deep breath, waiting for Professor Kazel to make the first move!

　Under the spotlight, the alchemist Xin Zhede finally took action.

　But what they called an action was actually just raising and straightening his left arm to aim the "Magic Cannon Launcher A" and fire.

　The "Magic Cannon Launcher" has three cannonballs. It was fired once before, so there are two left.

　[Alchemist Sin Zhede] did not aim the cannon at "Rising Tyrannomon" or "WereGarurumon", but instead aimed it directly at Darkdemon.

　This is likely because both magical spirits are extremely fast and have the potential to dodge the magic cannon.

　While Dark's speed is considered fast among normal humans, it is relatively slow compared to the two magical spirits.

　Fire at Dark himself, and the two magical spirits will naturally come to his aid. "Bang!"

　This time, the beam fired by "Magic Cannon Launcher A" was noticeably brighter and thicker than before, almost turning from a "beam" into a "beam of light".

　"RiseGreymon" stepped forward, blocking the way once again. Its left arm's "Trident Revolver" transformed into a sturdy shield, increasing its defense by one-third, raising it from 4500 points to 6000, similar to "WereGarurumon" after "Full Moon Transformation".