Yu-Gi-Oh!: Phobic Peptide Mad Dragon Executioner Dragon

(I almost forgot I'm also a novelist)

(wipes sweat)

"By banishing the effect of the Graveyard Reddening Elixir, set a second 'Eternal Glorious Golden Country' from your deck."

Huang Jinqing stared intently at Xing Liang with his four eyes glowing with a faint blue light, but his hands did not stop moving.

"Send Undead World to the Graveyard, return the Golden Lord from the Graveyard to your hand, and then Special Summon it from your hand in Defense Position."

Cards like the Sphere-shaped card, which are Special Summoned by releasing an opponent's monster to the opponent's field, are placed in the temporary monster zone on the original owner's Duel Disk, and a virtual card projection is generated on the opponent's Duel Disk.

"Winged Rathalos..."

Huang Jinqing placed his hand on the spherical virtual projection.

"This performance doesn't need any more actors. Stack Winged Dragon Rathalos and Undying Dragon Emperor together, and Xyz Summon Rank 10 again: [Final Command Super Beast - Vuldras]!"

Seemingly aware of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's effect, all the monsters on his field were in Defense Position.

"I declare the round is over."

Without even engaging in combat, he ended the round directly.

Is it genuine precaution or just excessive caution...?

"My turn, draw a card!"

Xing Liang, blinded by the dazzling gold around him, did not see the halo appearing beneath Huang Jinqing's feet.

"Graveyard affairs rollback effect: Pay half of your Life Points. If the effect of banishing yourself to copy the Graveyard's [Bottle of Greed] is activated, return five cards from my Graveyard to the Deck and shuffle them. Draw one card from your Deck."

Xingliang LP250→125

Compared to the initial 4000 base points, this amount of base points paid out is negligible.

Instead of triggering a counter-trap that nullifies the revealed card and causing a rollback, the Golden Lord opened another face-down card.

"Chain activation of the Continuous Trap Card [Great Arrest]: Target your Tyrannosaurus Rex on the field and gain control of it!"

"Pay half of your Life Points to activate the Queen's effect. Banish the Graveyard's Domain to copy its effect and send the Tyrannosaurus Rex on my field and the Scythe Dragon from my Deck to the Graveyard for Fusion!"

Xingliang LP125→63 (rounded up)

If the Tyrannosaurus Rex that is the target is fused, then the effect of the Great Arrest will not be processed.

"Chain activation of the counter-trap [Eternal Glorious Golden Country], freeing my Golden Lord on the field, negating and destroying your Queen's effects!"

The spiraling golden pillar pierced the queen's body, and several chains tightly bound the Tyrannosaurus Rex, dragging it bit by bit onto the golden arena. No matter how much they struggled, it was to no avail.

"Activated if the Queen is destroyed, Special Summon Therizinosaurus from the Graveyard!"

"Super Beast effect, removes one Xyz Material and negates Queen's effect!"

Just as the Therizinosaurus was about to rush out of the graveyard at the Queen's call, it was swept back by the Super Beast's tail.

Xing Liang still has two cards in his hand.

[Psycho-Powered Defender] and [Phantom Creation Hybrid Dinosaur]

While Phantom Creation can provide Dinosaur-type monsters with resistance to "being unaffected by activated effects," Great Arrest is a continuous effect and cannot be avoided.

Although the Defender can declare Great Arrest to negate it until the next turn and regain control of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Tyrannosaurus Rex cannot destroy a Super Beast with 3000 DEF. After the Golden Lord's turn ends, the Great Arrest effect will be restored, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex will return to the opponent's side. At that time, if the Defender activates its effect again, it will be negated by the Super Beast.

Should we wait for the next round?

Xing Liang pondered.

His graveyard also contains several counter-trap cards of the Fear-Energy Trigger, each of which can negate one instance of combat damage, and should be enough to survive the next turn.

However, if the number of monsters on the field exceeds the number of times he can avoid battle damage, then he is doomed.

He couldn't afford to gamble.

"I summon [Psychic Defender] and activate its effect declaration [Great Arrest], which negates until the end of the next turn!"

The defender waved his hand towards the Golden Palace, unleashing a wave of psychic energy. The chains binding the Tyrannosaurus Rex gradually became illusory, and he forcefully broke free of his restraints, returning to the Xing Liang Palace.

Huang Jinqing's eyes did not show surprise. He looked at the defenders on the field with a somewhat... expectant expression.

Xing Liang suspected there was something wrong with his eyes.

Could burning blood damage the retina?

"The effect of 'Hybrid Dinosaur of Phantom Creation', which is discarded from the hand, is activated: During this Main Phase, the Dinosaur-Type monsters on my field are unaffected by the effects activated by my opponent."

Activate its second effect again to Special Summon Therizinosaurus from your Deck by banishing yourself and 3 Dinosaur-Type monsters from your Graveyard. Then, Therizinosaurus is Set again by its effect.

Just as he was thinking this, Huang Jinqing suddenly roared, "How long are you going to sleep! Get serious, Nian Zhong!"

The sound wave, mixed with some unknown force, rushed towards Xing Liang. Before he could react, he was blasted away by the sound wave and his back slammed heavily into the giant spiral pillar. His broken body reached its limit at this moment.

He lost consciousness, his body slowly slid down, and he fell to the ground.

The deck inserted in the Duel Disk fell off due to the impact, and the cards were scattered all over the ground.

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Xing Liang opened his eyes and found himself in a strange space.

To his left were rows of abandoned high-rise buildings, and embers still burned on the dilapidated streets.

To the right is his school on Earth, and one can vaguely see figures through the windows of the school building;

The sky above him was shrouded in dark clouds, with not a ray of sunlight in sight, creating a depressing and gloomy atmosphere.

"What am I doing..."

He got up from the ground, unaware that the pain in his body had disappeared. As if guided by something, he began to walk towards the only source of light in this space not far ahead.

There are three doors there.

On the left is a white iron door painted with green patterns, its smooth surface gleaming with a cold metallic luster; on the right is a decaying wooden door, a jagged crack running across its rickety brown leaves, splitting it in two; and in the middle is a large golden door, its material indiscernible, sealed shut by layers of chains, and it is this door that emits a faint, ethereal light.

The iron gate was ajar, and he could push it open at any time to see what was inside; the wooden door had been repaired with silver thread and was barely kept in shape.

A purple chain had come loose in front of the golden gate. He stepped forward and tried to push the gate, at which point a blue chain also loosened.

He reached out and tugged at the blue chain, easily removing it, while the other chains remained motionless.

Just as the blue chains left the gate, a familiar yet unfamiliar memory flooded into Xing Liang's mind.

"Lack of energy..."

"...What plan?"

"...Are you serious?"

That was him and... the King of Heavenly Prison?

He knew perfectly well what happened in that memory, but he didn't know why that memory happened.

He held the blue chain in his hand, staring blankly at the golden gate.

There are also ten chains.

Xing Liang hesitated for a moment, then pushed open the white iron door without touching the other chains or the wooden door that looked like it might collapse at any moment.

Behind the door lay a Tyrannosaurus Rex, fast asleep.

And the defenders, who sat cross-legged atop the Tyrant's dragon head, seemingly having been waiting for a long time.