CH.461 Fusion Gate Tournament – part 4
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. Now that the short break is over, are both of you ready for the final duel?” I asked the twopetitors.
<span style="font-weight:400">I did insist on a break between the first two duels and what would be thest one, just to build up more anticipation. I also think the two needed a quick break.
<span style="font-weight:400">And you know, the audience was able to pick up some snacks. I even swapped my race to Dhampir and had some dragon blood to rejuvenate myself.
<span style="font-weight:400">I should try mixing some caffeine into blood. I think that would be the ultimate energy drink for a dhampir.
<span style="font-weight:400">… yeah. Maybe not. It might not be good for them.
<span style="font-weight:400">My caffeine addiction aside, let’s get back to it. After confirmation from bothpetitors, the third duel was ready to begin.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Elias. You lost the second duel, so you may choose who will go first.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nevelle will go first.” Elias said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. Bothpetitors, draw your opening hands and let the duel begin!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Nevelle went first and after looking over her opening hand, she made a simple y.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll set a monster and two spell or trap cards. That is all.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn then.” Elias said. “I’ll start off with a Pot of Greed. Then I’ll y Upstart Goblin.” Elias then looked at the card he drew with his Upstart Goblin and smiled. But his smile looked more evil than happy. “I think this duel will end quickly. I fuse together the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand to fusion summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!”
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<span style="font-weight:400">I was quite impressed by the luck needed to call forth the three headed dragon on the first turn, but it is what it is. Let’s see how Nevelle handles this surprise. But I have a feeling she will do fine.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nice dragon. Would be a shame if I had a trap for it.” Nevelle taunted.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh I know you do. That is why it needspanions. And I have just the card for it. Dimension Fusion! With it, I’m summoning back my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons!”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Battle. Blue-Eyes White Dragon, attack her face down.” And so it did, and Nevelle’s face down Sangan was destroyed. Like many times before, Nevelle used it to search out Des Kangaroo.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. Blue-Eyes White Dragon, direct attack.” Elias dered, and after the first direct attack went through, he dered a second direct attack with hisst Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
<span style="font-weight:400">“With that, I’ll end my turn.” Elias said.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... really?” Nevelle asked. “Not attacking with your Ultimate Dragon?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know one of your face downs is Sakuretsu Armor. You were saving it for my Ultimate Dragon. You likely have a Monster Reborn in your hand, ready to summon my greatest monster to your side of the field after you destroy it, so I won’t attack with it until I can destroy your face down cards.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You better hope you are correct, or you’ll look like quite the fool.” Nevelle said. “My turn. I draw. I’ll start off with my Pot of Greed, and draw two more. Then I’ll y Graceful Charity, I draw three and then I’ll discard Poison of the Old Man and Mystic Horseman.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll then fuse together my Big Ko and Des Kangaroo to fusion summon Master of Oz! Then I’ll equip my Master of Oz with Big Bang Shot, making it stronger than your Ultimate Dragon.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“And now, my Master of Oz will destroy your Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Elias had no set spells or traps, so the attack went through, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon was destroyed and Elias took 100 damage.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Main phase 2. I’ll give you this. You were at least half correct.” Nevelle said. “I’ll y Monster Reborn. I’m bringing back your Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I knew it!” Is all Elias could say, as he watched his Ultimate Dragon rising from the grave to serve his opponent.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, hopefully you can do something about it.” Nevelle said. “Or this will end up a very short duel.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Already longer than thest one. Are you done with your turn?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, go ahead.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I draw.” Elias began his turn. “And I’ll start off with my Graceful Charity. I’ll draw three and discard Queen''s Double and Hibikime.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Discarding a fusion, huh?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Have to do what you have to do.” Elias replied. “I’ll then y Upstart Goblin to draw one more card.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“And I’ll get 1000 more life points.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You will need them. I y Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy one of your face down card.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The whirling wind struck Nevelle’s set card, revealing and destroying Sakuretsu Armor.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Let’s hope that was the only one.” Elias muttered quietly. “I’ll fuse together my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nice dragon. Wonder where I could get one of my own. Oh wait. I already have one.” Nevelle trash talked a bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You won’t for long. I’ll equip my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Big Bang Shot, so it gains 400 attack. With that, it is strong enough to … Well, destroy the one you stole from me. Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack her Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Nevelle’s set card must not have been a second Sakuretsu Armor, because she let the attacknd. Her stolen Ultimate Dragon was destroyed and she took 400 damage.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll set two cards face down, and end my turn.” Elias said.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... we may still have a duel on our hands.” Nevelle said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A duel? No. This will be my Ultimate Dragon beating down your beasts.” Elias replied.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... we’ll see. I draw.” Looking over the card she drew, Nevelle didn’t seem too happy. “... I’ll end my turn.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Can’t do anything, huh? Too bad, because I can. I can draw.” Elias began his turn. “Pot of Greed, I''ll draw two cards. And I think I’ll discard one of them, Thunder Dragon, so that I can add two more from my deck to my hand. I’ll then fuse the two Thunder Dragons to fusion summon Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“But because this party doesn’t have enough dragons, I’ll call out one more. With Re-Fusion, I’m summoning back a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Elias now had two Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragons on his field, and he looked like he was ready to end this duel.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Battle. My stronger Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon will destroy your Master of Oz.” Elias dered. The attack went through, Nevelle’s monster was destroyed, the equip spell went with it, and Nevelle took 300 damage.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, attack her directly.” Elias dered. I was a bit surprised he didn’t attack with his other Ultimate Dragon, but maybe he just wanted to show off or something.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A mistake.” Nevelle said. “I activate my Call of the Haunted. With it, I’m bringing back my Master of Oz.”<sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="1"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="1">I''ll talk a bit about this misy in my author''s notes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Doesn’t matter. I’ll call of my Thunder Dragon. Shouldn’t have relied on lesser monsters. Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, destroy her Master of Oz.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Again, the dragon won over the beast, and Nevelle took another 300 points of damage.
<span style="font-weight:400">Admittedly, had Elias attacked in the ‘correct’ order, he still wouldn’t have had the damage to end the duel. … unless one of his set cards is Rush Recklessly, which I have a strong feeling one of them is.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Go ahead and take yourst turn. Next turn, I’ll win.” Elias said, as he passed the turn.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We’ll see.” Nevelle responded. “I’ll draw.”
<span style="font-weight:400">She looked happy with her draw, and as soon as she activated the card, I realized why.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll y Pot of Greed to draw two more cards. I’ll then y a second Pot of Greed to draw two more. I’ll then use Graceful Charity to draw three, and discard two. I’ll discard two Battle Ox.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll then fuse together Witch of the ck Forest and Sangan to fusion summon Sanwitch.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Nice witch. Where did you find him? The forest?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Actually yes. But want to know what. Those who live in forests are good with weapons. Like this one. Fusion Weapon. I’ll equip it to my Sanwitch.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Nice. Now it can stand up to my Thunder Dragon. But not the Ultimate Dragons it is facing.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Didn’t you listen? I said weapons, not weapon. I’ll equip two more Fusion Weapons two Sanwitch. It gains another 3000 attack and defense, bringing its attack up to 6600.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...” Elias didn’t verbally respond, as his mouth fell open.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sanwitch, attack Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon.” Nevelle dered her attack and Elias didn’t respond to it. Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon was destroyed and Elias took 3800 damage. He was left with just 1300 life points.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Your turn. If you think my witch is so weak, go ahead and take it down.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I draw.” Elias began his turn, but it seemed clear to me how this duel will end. “I’ll y Upstart Goblin to draw one more card.” Elias announced, but the card he drew must not have been useful, because he just changed his dragons to defense mode and ended his turn.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“My turn. I draw.” Nevelle began her turn. “And I’ll y Graceful Charity to draw three.” Nevelle looked over the cards she drew. “Perfect. I’ll toss our a Monster Reborn and Big Ko.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You discarded a Monster Reborn!?” Elias yelled out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. I don’t need it. All I need is this. Big Bang Shot. And I’ll equip it to my Sanwitch. Now its attack is 7000, and when it attacks one of your covering dragons, it will inflict piercing damage. Both this duel and this match are over. Sanwitch, attack his Big Bang Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and end this.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The attack went through, Elias’ Ultimate Dragon was destroyed and he took 3200 damage. More than enough to take his life points down to 0.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Duel situation. Duel 3, turn 9, end of the duel
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<td style="width:20%;height:20px">Cards in hand: 1</td>
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<td style="width:20%;height:20px">Life points: <span style="font-weight:400">0</td>
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">“And with that, we have our winner!” I announced. “Nevelle has won the Fusion Gate Tournament!”
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