hotmtlnovel Chapter 18 Eruption within the Castle
Chapter 18 Eruption within the Castle
Jonouchi looked at the card he had drawn and chuckled.
"I activate the card I just drew, the Fate's Treasure! (Original Card)"
"Roll the dice once! Draw cards according to the dice roll, then banish the corresponding number of cards from the top of the deck!"
Kagura Kiryu immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.
What kind of incredible, ultimate fake card is this?
Cough cough, never mind, he's someone who used a divinely bestowed treasure and doesn't deserve to criticize others for playing dice.
The dice were thrown from the cards, and under Jonouchi's tense gaze, the dice rolled a 4.
"Okay, I'll draw four cards, then banish four!"
Jonouchi draws four cards from his deck and then puts them into his pocket. (Except in the anime, he always puts them in his pocket.)
"Then I will summon, Iron Knight Kiafrid!"
A steel knight clad in armor appeared on the dueling ground, his entire body encased in steel without a single gap.
[Iron Knight. Giafrid, Level 4, Earth Attribute, Warrior Type, ATK 1800, Effect Monster.]
Iron Knight Giafred, a classic monster used by Jonouchi in the original work, has an effect of unclear meaning: when an Equip Card is equipped to this card, that Equip Card is destroyed.
However, when combined with certain equipment cards that require destruction to activate, it can have a surprisingly effective result.
Kagura Kirito had a bad feeling and raised his hand to press the button on the Duel Disk:
"Open the cover! Drop the hole!"
"When your opponent Summons or Flip Summons a monster with 1000 or more ATK, destroy that card!"
Pitfall can only be used in normal summons. Although exchanging it for an Iron Knight isn't a huge gain, it's not very useful to use it now, so it's better to just let the opponent get hurt.
Before the Iron Knight could even stand firm, a deep pit suddenly appeared beneath his feet, and the poor Iron Knight fell in, smashing into a metal can and disappearing from the dueling arena.
"Heh heh, you saw right through me! But don't worry, I'll activate this card! Monster Reborn!"
Jonouchi is currently holding nine cards in his hand, completely unfazed, indicating that losing just a few cards is nothing to worry about.
"Rise, Iron Knight, Kiafrid!"
The Iron Knight burst forth from the earth, as if he had risen from the dead; he died in the ground, yet he emerged from it, a complete cycle.
After the Iron Knight was resurrected, Jonouchi looked at Kagura Kiryu seriously with a somewhat solemn expression.
"Kagura, do you know? Legend has it that there was a sword saint who, in order to gain great power, forged himself and sealed himself inside a suit of steel armor."
"Once the armor is broken and the restraints are lifted, this swordsman will reveal his true strength, enough to split mountains and shatter rocks!"
Jonouchi drew a card from his hand and inserted it into the Duel Disk: "Now is the perfect opportunity for this Sword Saint to break free of his constraints and reveal his true self!"
"Spell Card: Restraint Release activated!"
He pointed to Iron Knight Giafrid on his field: "Release Iron Knight Giafrid on the field! Summon the legendary Swordsman from your deck and hand!"
"Come forth! Sword Saint - Kiafrid, freed from his restraints! Summon!"
"Bang!" "Bang bang!"
The steel plates on the Iron Knight's body popped up one by one, spewing out steaming hot air, and then suddenly exploded, creating smoke that enveloped the area within the city.
A shirtless, muscular man leaped out of the smoke, his hair disheveled, his arms wrapped in bandages, his body covered in defined muscles, and he held a sword-shaped, glowing white substance in his hand.
[Kiafrid the Sword Saint - Released from Restraint, Level 7, Light Attribute, Warrior Type, ATK 2600, Effect Monster.]
Jonouchi rubbed his nose and said smugly, "The Sword Saint can't be normally summoned; he can only be Special Summoned through the effect of [Release from Restraint]!"
"Then I activated the equipment spell! Divine Sword - Phoenix Sword! Equip it on Sword Saint - Unbound Kiafrid!"
"This card can only be equipped to Warrior-Type monsters! Increases their ATK by 300!"
The Sword Saint held the gleaming Phoenix Sword in his hand, waving it with great satisfaction.
[Sword Saint - Kiafrid after his restraints are lifted, Attack Power 2600 → Attack Power 2900]
Honda exclaimed in delight, "Excellent! Jonouchi summoned a monster with 2900 attack power in just one turn, only 100 points less than that bastard Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Kagura Kiryu was also somewhat surprised, not because the Blue-Eyes White Dragon had once again become a unit of measurement, but because he was surprised by the equipment card that Jonouchi had pulled out.
The Divine Sword - Phoenix Sword? That thing is also a banned item.
The reason is simple: besides increasing attack power by 300, this card also has a second effect. During the Main Phase, you can banish two Warrior-Type cards from your Graveyard and add this card from your Graveyard to your hand.
And this effect... doesn't happen once per round!
Yes, many older cards were brought out of the meta by new decks because they didn't have the one-time-per-turn restriction, resulting in them becoming overpowered and quickly rising to the top of the table.
In 2019, this card was banned because of a certain Warrior deck that could accurately stack Phoenix Sword in the graveyard. It repeatedly self-recycled, resulting in a large card advantage.
I never expected to see this card here.
But clearly, this isn't the time for this card to shine yet; in the city, it's just an ordinary equipment card.
However, Kagura Kiryu remembered that the effect of the Sword Saint seemed to be that it could only be activated when the card was equipped.
"However, the Sword Saint's attack power is still not as high as Kagura's Dark Magician Girl's!"
Kyoko Masaki reminded her.
[Dark Magician Girl, Attack Power 3000]
"Hehe, don't worry! The Sword Saint's special effect activates! When this card is equipped with an Equip Card, target and destroy one monster card on your opponent's field!"
Jonouchi points at the Dark Magician Girl: "I'll destroy your Dark Magician Girl on the field!"
The swordsman was poised to strike, aiming his sword at the dark magician girl.
"Open the cover card! Counter-trap, divine punishment!"
"When your opponent's monster activates its effect, discard one card! Negate that card and destroy it!"
Kagura Kiryu sends one of his only two cards to the graveyard: "Neglect and destroy the effect of the Sword Saint!"
Just as the swordsman charged forward to strike, the black magician girl, unable to dodge in time, closed her eyes in fear and was about to be killed by the sword, when a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky.
The Sword Saint was blasted to a crisp and vanished from the field. It seems that even a Sword Saint who has trained hard for many years cannot withstand the tribulation of a cultivator.
"Wow, Kagura's amazing!"
Undeterred, Jonouchi declared, "I'm not going to put on an act anymore. Let me show you the incredible luck of Lady Luck's favorite son: 'I activate my Spell Card, Fusion!'"
"Summon and fuse the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and the demon in my hands!"
"Come forth, Dark Dragon!"
The demon and the black dragon twisted and merged in the air, and a dragon covered in skeletal armor roared majestically, descending onto the field with legendary pressure.
[Dark Dragon, Level 9, Dark Attribute, Dragon Race, Attack Power 3200, Fusion Monster.]
"200 points higher than blue-eyed rashes!"
The group of friends got excited again, and Jonouchi declared that this wasn't over yet: "I activate the Spell Card! Silent Dead! Revive one Normal Monster in my Graveyard in Defense Position!"
"I have resurrected the Red-Eyes Black Dragon!"
The powerful dragon that is said to bring possibilities has been resurrected and is now guarding the area within the city.
Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Level 7, Dark Attribute, Dragon Type, Normal Monster.
"Then, I unleash the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, summoning its next evolutionary form! Red-Eyes Dark Dragon!"