"So….do you have any predictions on this match?" Chloe asked Chelsea as the four duelists drew their opening hands; Chelsea looked up from her laptop briefly and shook her head.
"Nah, it could go either way." Chelsea said with a shrug as she closed her laptop lid. "Especially since what Evan said seems to have lit a fire under Nicky."
"Indeed." Tyler chimed in and the two girls turned to him. "It's clear that Evan not only wants a win but wants a win that he's earned, this should be an interesting match."
"Okay, I'm guessing we're using the same order as the last three duels?" Lance asked and the other duelists nodded. "Good, so Nicky's going first, then me, then Evan then Jason and back to Nicky?"
"That sounds good to me!" Nicky said with a nod as she drew her first card. "I set two cards facedown and a monster in defense mode." Nicky announced as the three cards appeared on the field. "And I end my turn at that." Nicky announced and Lance drew his card.
"I activate a Spell Card, Assault of the Fire Kings!" Lance played the card and picked up his deck. "This requires that my opponent has a monster and I don't, with it I can Special Summon one Fire Type Beast, Beast-Warrior or Winged monster from my deck as long as it's effects are negated and I don't mind it being destroyed during the end phase, my card of choice is Great Angus!" Lance played the card and the blood red tusked beast appeared on the field (4/1800/600).
"You're still using that old thing?" Jason asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, but why shouldn't I? It's got a fairly decent attack and it combos well with my Spell Card since he doesn't have an effect to begin with." Lance shrugged his shoulders before playing another card. "As for my Normal Summon I'm bringing out the Tuner Monster Neo Flamvell Origin!" Lance played the card and a small red and blue flame with a smiley face on it appeared on the field (2/500/200).
"Don't tell me, you're bringing out Uriquizes?" Nicky asked and Lance nodded as his two monsters leapt into the air, Neo Flamvell Origin dissolved into two green Synchro Rings that quickly surrounded Great Angus.
"That's right, and I'm tuning my two monsters to do it!" Lance announced and once the bright flash faded the warrior with the flames around his fist appeared on the field (6/2100/400). "Next I remove Great Angus from play to Special Summon Inferno in defense mode!" Lance played the card once he pocketed the monster and the small flame with the evil smile appeared on the field (4/1100/1900).
"Like defending will help you against my deck!" Jason scoffed and Lance frowned. "Is that everything?" Jason asked and Lance nodded.
"Yeah, I end my turn with two facedown cards!" Lance announced as he set the two cards and Jason drew his card.
"I set two cards facedown and a monster in defense mode!" Jason set the three cards…
"And I activate my trap cards Backfire and Kickfire!" Lance announced as the two trap cards flipped up, Jason blinked in confusion as he stared at the second card.
"Okay, I've heard of Backfire but Kickfire?" Jason asked and Lance grinned.
"We'll get to that in a minute." Lance told him before nodding towards Evan. "I'm guessing that's all you're doing for this turn?"
"Yeah, that's everything." Jason nodded and Evan quickly drew his card.
"And I summon Spellbook Magician of Prophecy!" Evan played the card and a young boy in white and blue magician's robes appeared on the field (2/500/400). "And when he's normal summoned I can add one Spellbook Spell card from my deck to my hand!" Evan explained before picking up his deck and searching through it, once he found the card that he was looking for he added it to his hand and shuffled his deck.
"Wait, Spellbook? Prophecy? I thought your deck was more of a straight up Spellcaster deck?" Jason asked and Evan shook his head.
"It was but considering how popular those decks are in this school I felt the need to change things up a bit." Evan responded before playing another card. "I set one card facedown and end my turn." Evan announced and Nicky drew her card.
"Chloe, you ever hear of these Spellbook cards?" Chelsea asked and Chloe shook her head. "Well regardless I think we can expect Tyler to tell us about them any moment now….."
"Am I that predictable?" Tyler asked them before shaking his head. "But it's not surprising that you two haven't heard of the Prophecy archetype, it was released a couple of weeks ago."
"Is it any good?" Chloe asked and Tyler shrugged.
"I wouldn't know, this is my first time seeing it in action." Tyler confessed and the two girls sweat-dropped when they heard that.
"Okay, it seems the only one putting up a decent offense so far is Lance though given Jason's deck type that's no big surprise." Nicky thought before looking at her drawn card. "Rare Metal Dragon, if I had any methods of summoning it I'd do it in a heartbeat, still doesn't mean I can't use my facedown cards though." Nicky thought before activating her trap. "I activate Reckless Greed which lets me draw two cards as long as I don't mind skipping my next two draw phases."
"You realize that applies to Jason as well, right?" Lance asked as Nicky drew her two cards, Jason shook his head as Nicky added the two cards to her hand.
"It doesn't bother me." Jason shrugged his shoulders as Nicky picked up another card in her hand.
"Next I play a Spell Card called Draconnection, all I have to do to activate this is reveal one Dragon type monster in my hand and I get to add another Dragon type monster with the same level to my hand from my deck." Nicky said before revealing the card and picking up her deck, once she found the card she was looking for she added it to her hand and shuffled the card she revealed into her deck. "The drawback is that the monster I revealed gets shuffled into my deck." Nicky explained and Lance frowned.
"I recognize the monster she shuffled, that's Rare Metal Dragon and my guess is that she couldn't summon it." Lance thought as he waited for Nicky to continue her move.
"Next I summon Dragonic Guard in attack mode!" Nicky played the card and a monster that looked more like a fiend than a dragon appeared on the field, it was a blood red beast with wild flowing white hair and was wearing a purple outfit whilst carrying a small green dragon over his shoulder and a sword (4/1500/1800). "Dragonic Guard, attack Evan's Spellcaster!" Nicky commanded and the warrior charged towards the weaker monster…..
"Sorry but I anticipated my monster being an easy target so I activate my Negate Attack trap card!" Evan activated the trap and the sword bounced off of an invisible force field.
"Fine, I'll end my turn with a facedown card!" Nicky set the card down and Lance nodded before drawing his card.
"Sweet, I was hoping to get a chance to use this card." Lance commented with a grin before sending Inferno to the graveyard. "I sacrifice Inferno so that I can summon Hazy Flame Hyppogrif!" Lance played the card and the small flame extinguished, in its place stood a large majestic bird like creature that was seemingly made out of flames (6/2100/200).
"Seriously, are you ever satisfied with just one build of your deck?" Nicky asked before shaking her head. "Anyway by Normal Summoning a monster you've activated Draconic Guard's effect, each time you normal summon or set a monster he gets a Draconic Counter!" Nicky explained as her monster's sword started to glow.
"Yeah, pity we'll never find out what exactly those counters do, Uriquizas, attack Dragonic Guard!" Lance commanded and the warrior charged towards the demon like creature…..
"Sorry Lance but Waboku will protect my life-points and my monster!" Nicky announced as the three priestesses appeared in the warrior's path blocking it.
"I'll end my turn at that." Lance grumbled as his Synchro Monster returned to his side of the field and once it did Jason drew his card.
"And I'll start by flipping my monster into attack mode!" Jason flipped the monster up and Morphing Jar appeared on the field (2/700/600) and the other duelists frowned as they discarded their hands and drew five new cards. "Now I activate my facedown card, the Quick Play Spell Card Book of Eclipse, with this Spell Card I can flip all face-up monsters into facedown defense mode….."
"Jason, you've cost me my counters!" Nicky protested and Jason winced as the five monsters on the field were flipped facedown.
"Hey you'll get them back, besides as soon as I end my turn Book of Eclipse's second effect will kick in flipping all monsters face-up and they will draw one card for each effect monster." Jason said before turning to Lance and Evan. "And that's about…..now." Jason announced as the five monsters flipped back up and Evan and Lance drew five cards before the four duelists discarded their hands again and drew five more, Evan drew another card and looked at it.
"Ugh, a deckout strategy, this will take forever!" Chelsea moaned as she rested her chin on her hand. "I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd rather be enduring one of Martin's lectures right about now."
"The deckout strategy may not be a popular one but it's certainly an effective one." Tyler commented with a frown. "And as you just saw it's not exactly a duel suited for tag duels."
"Yeah, makes me glad that we're competing tomorrow." Chloe agreed before checking her watch. "Chelsea, didn't you say that you had class at 2:00pm?" Chloe asked her roommate and Chelsea nodded in response. "Well, you've got five minutes to get out of here if you want to get there on time." Chloe added and Chelsea's eyes widened.
"If that's a joke it's not funny!" Chelsea said with a nervous laugh before checking the time on her laptop clock. "Oh fuck! Good thing it's an IT class and that Tracy lets me bring me Laptop in!" Chelsea gulped before closing her laptop lid and standing up, she made her way through the crowd before turning to Chloe. "I have no idea how long the class will be in relation to the duel so how about we meet back at the dorm room?"
"That sounds good to me." Chloe nodded in agreement and Chelsea grinned before leaving alongside several other students.
"Believe it or not Jason your move just now was off great help to me." Evan commented earning himself a confused look from Jason. "I have a monster in my hand right now that can help me take advantage of the number of Spellbook cards in my graveyard, which also happens to be a Level Seven monster!" Evan explained earning some confused looks.
"Unless you have something like Monster Reborn in your hand I don't we'll be seeing that monster anytime soon!" Nicky responded with a smirk and Evan smirked.
"Normally that would be true but this monster also has an effect!" Evan announced before picking up three cards in his hand. "You see I can Special Summon this card by revealing three Spellbook spell cards in my hand and it just so happens that….." Evan trailed off as he turned the three cards around revealing them to be Divine Judgment of the Spellbooks, Spell Book Library of the Crescent and Spellbook Library of the Helliosphere. "Thanks to Jason's monster I have all the cards I need right here!"
"I told you to use your other deck!" Nicky grumbled under her breath and Jason rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"Well it's not like I knew Evan was going to be using this deck!" Jason answered as Evan shuffled the three cards into his hand. "All right, where's the monster?"
"She's coming out now! Please welcome to the field High Priestess of Prophecy!" Evan played the card and a tall beautiful red-haired woman with long wavy hair appeared on the field, she was wearing a skintight white outfit and green gloves (7/2500/2100). "I know, I know, as far as stats go she's just a female Dark Magician right?"
"I thought that was Dark Magician Girl." Nicky pointed out and Evan blushed furiously.
"Yes, well, this magician has a lot more class than her and a much better effect if I do say so myself!" Evan commented before retrieving a Spell Card from his graveyard and pocketing it. "By banishing one Spellbook Spell Card from my graveyard I can destroy one Monster on the field and as helpful as it's been to me so far, inadvertently mind you, that Morphing Jar's gotta go!"
"Oh crap!" Jason gulped as the priestess cast a spell at the monster shattering it into a million pieces.
"But why stop there? I activate Spellbook of Eternity!" Evan played the card and retrieved the Spell Card. "With this I can target one banished Spellbook Spell Card and add it to my hand, I can only activate it once per turn and the targeted card can't be another Spellbook of Eternity but I'll make do!" Evan said before adding the card to his hand. "In fact I think I'll activate it now! Go Spellbook of Power!"
"Okay, this card I've actually heard off." Nicky commented as High Priestess of Power's attack increased to 3500. "It gives your monster a power boost of one thousand attack points."
"Good, but can you remember its other effect?" Evan asked and Nicky blinked in confusion before shaking her head. "Don't worry about it, it won't come into effect until after I've destroyed a monster in battle, speaking of which, High Priestess, attack Dragonic Guard!" Evan commanded and the priestess prepared to cast a spell.
"I don't think so; I activate my trap card Shift which forces you to target my facedown monster instead!" Nicky activated the trap and the spell that the priestess cast changed its course towards Nicky's facedown monster, revealed to be Masked Dragon (3/1400/1100) which was quickly destroyed. "Thanks for that Evan; I can now use my Masked Dragon's effect to Special Summon another one in defense mode!" Nicky played the card and another Masked Dragon appeared on the field.
"Maybe but now that I've destroyed a monster in battle Spellbook of Power's second effect activates!" Evan explained before he picked up his deck. "With it I can add one Spellbook Spell Card from my deck to my hand." Evan added before finding the card he was looking for and adding it. "Now I move to my second Main Phase and I activate the Spell Card I just retrieved, the Field Spell Card Grand Spellbook Tower!"
"Wait, do you say field spell?!" Jason yelled out as the scenery changed to a magnificent looking tower that almost touched the ceiling.
"Yes but its effect is pretty complicated so I'll explain it as I go along." Evan said before looking over his hand. "I end my turn by shifting my weaker Spellcaster to defense mode." Evan announced and once the monster crouched down Nicky nodded before drawing her card.
"Okay, he has the weird field spell in play and a monster that can match Dark Magician point for point, no pressure in other words." Nicky thought as she glanced at her drawn card. "I set this monster in defense mode and switch my guard to defense mode." Nicky announced as the facedown monster appeared in front of her and Dragonic Guard crouched down. "And I end my turn at that."
"Like that'll help her." Lance thought as he drew his card. "If you're hoping that playing it safe will save you then you're in for a big surprise, Flamvell Uriquizas can inflict piercing damage!" Lance told her and Nicky's eyes widened. "Why don't you show her Uriquizas? Attack her facedown monster!" Lance commanded and the flaming warrior charged towards the facedown monster…
"So glad I set this, I activate my Quick Play Spell Card Forbidden Chalice! Your monster may gain four hundred attack points but its effects will be negated in the process!" Nicky announced as the card flipped up and Uriquizas's attack increased to 2500, the facedown monster was revealed to be another Troop Dragon (2/700/800) which was quickly destroyed. "And I think I'll use its effect!" Nicky added before picking up her deck.
"She's doing a lot of deck thinning, not smart when you're teamed with an Empty Jar deck." Lance thought as the Osiris Red student searched through her deck, she found the card that she was looking for and quickly played it revealing it to be another Troop Dragon. "You know what? I won't target your second Troop Dragon just yet, Haze Beast Hippogriff, attack Masked Dragon!" Lance commanded and the large bird swooped down at the monster incinerating it with its wings. "And now Masked Dragon's effect activates…."
"And now Masked…yeah what you said." Nicky said before picking up and searching through her deck.
"If she brings out a Tuner then she can use it with her other two monsters in a Synchro Summon." Lance thought before Nicky played the card. "Wait, isn't that?"
"Yeah, it's Armed Dragon Level 3!" Nicky said as the tiny dragon appeared in front of her (3/1200/900). "What's the matter? Not what you expected?"
"You could say that." Lance grunted before looking over his hand. "I'll set a card facedown and end my turn." Lance announced and once Uriquizas's attack returned to normal Jason drew his card.
"Better play it a bit safer, if I accidentally get her to mill either of her stronger Armed Dragons than Armed Dragon Level 3 will be a sitting duck." Jason thought before looking at his drawn card. "This on the other hand can help her protect the monster." Jason thought before setting the card. "I set one card facedown and end my turn."
"That's it huh?" Evan asked before drawing his card. "Good because now I activate my Grand Spellbook Tower's effect, during my standby phase I can return one Spellbook Spell Card from my graveyard to my deck….." Evan explained as she retrieved a card and returned it to his deck. "And in return I get to draw one card." Evan added before drawing another card.
"That'll be handy against Jason's Empty Jar strategy." Lance thought as he watched Evan make his move.
"And since I have no interest in dealing with the stronger forms of Armed Dragon….." Evan trailed off before pointing to High Priestess. "High Priestess, attack Armed Dragon Level 3!" Evan commanded and the priestess started to cast her spell…
"Nice try but I activate Needle Barrier!" Jason activated the trap which depicted a small number of Needle Worms protecting a nest. "Nicky will still take damage but with this trap her monster will be safe from attacks and card effects." Jason added as the small dragon was protected by a barrier whilst Nicky's life-points down to 6700. "But here's the best part, now you both have to mill cards up to the monster's level." Jason added and Lance and Evan frowned before milling three cards.
"I'll end my turn by activating Spellbook Star Hall!" Evan announced as the spell card appeared on the field. "We'll get to its effect shortly, for now I'll end my turn." Evan added and Nicky drew her card.
"Since it's my standby phase my Armed Dragon levels up!" Nicky announced as the small dragon started glowing and growing until it was in its adult form (5/2400/1700). "Now I activate its effect, by discarding one monster from my hand I can target one monster on my opponent's side of the field and destroy it as long as its attack is equal to or less than the sent monster's attack, so I send Hyronzaro to the grave to destroy Flamvell Uriquizas!"
"I don't think so! I discard Effect Veiler from my hand to negate the effect!" Evan announced as he discarded the card and Nicky frowned.
"I guess I'll have to destroy it the old fashioned way." Nicky grunted before pointing to her dragon. "Armed Dragon, attack Flamvell Uriquizas!" Nicky commanded and the dragon breathed fire at the monster destroying it and bringing Lance's life-points down to 7700 whilst Nick's life-points dropped down to 5200 thanks to Backfire. "I end my turn which means my Armed Dragon levels up again!" Nicky announced as the dragon grew and glowed until it reached its Level 7 form (7/2800/1000).
"Does she have Level 10 in her deck? If she does we're in trouble." Lance thought as he drew his card. "Spellbook Inside the Pot, normally I'd activate it without a second thought but Jason's deck strategy has done a number on my deck." Lance thought with a frown before shifting Hippogriff to defense mode. "That's all I can do."
"Too bad because my move's just beginning!" Jason said cockily as he drew his card, he looked at it and smirked before setting it. "I set a monster in defense mode and end my turn." Jason announced and Evan drew his card.
"Knowing his deck that monster's likely to Needle Worm or another Morphing Jar." Evan thought as he drew his card. "Well for starters I'll use Grand Spellbook Tower's effect again!" Evan announced as he moved a Spellbook Spell Card from his graveyard to his deck, shuffled it and drew again.
"You won't be able to rely on that forever Evan." Jason pointed out and Evan frowned before looking at his new cards.
"We'll see about that." Evan responded before looking at his cards. "Just what I needed, I play the Spell Card Spellbook of Secrets, with this Spell Card I can add one other Spellbook Card from my deck to my hand and I think I'll use it on the card I just returned to my deck." Evan announced before picking up and searching through his deck, once he found the card that he was looking for he added it to his hand and shuffled the deck.
"Well, that was pointless." Nicky grunted before noticing that High Prietesses's attack power had increased to 2600. "You never said anything about that Spell increasing a monster's attack!"
"Oh yes, and since I activated a Spellbook Spell card Spellbook Star Hall gains a Spell Counter and each Spellcaster monster I control gains a hundred attack points for each one." Evan explained before grinning. "And you'll remember the fact that I just added another, go Spellbook Organization!" Evan played the card and Nicky and Jason did double takes when they recognized the card's artwork.
"Did you say Spellbook Organization? You need your eyes tested, that's Pigeonholing Book of Spells!" Jason pointed out and Evan grinned.
"I'm well aware of that…the card's former name, not that fact that I need my eyes tested, you see this and another card where renamed to fit in with this new archetype, and I happen to have both in my deck because they fit in quite nicely." Evan added before picking up the top three cards in his deck. "With this Spell Card I can rearrange the top three cards in my deck in any order I wish." Evan added as he rearranged the cards. "And most importantly Star Hall gains a counter…."
"And your monster gains more attack points." Nicky finished for him as High Priestess's attack points increased to 2700.
"Next I set the card I drew first facedown!" Evan announced as the facedown card appeared on the field. "And I'll activate High Priestesses' effect and I use it to destroy Armed Dragon!" Evan announced as the Priestess cast a spell at the dragon destroying it. "And would you look at that? You left your Troop Dragon in attack mode!"
"Shit! I knew I forgot to do something!" Nicky thought with a frown.
"High Priestess, would you do the honors?" Evan asked and the magician casted another spell which quickly destroyed the small dragon and brought Nicky's life-points down to 4700.
"I use Troop Dragon's effect again!" Nicky announced before searching through her deck, once she found her third and final Troop Dragon she played it and reshuffled her deck.
"I shall end my turn at that." Evan announced and Nicky quickly drew her card.
"Okay, I have no intention of taking 2000 points of damage again so I tribute my Troop Dragon….." Nicky trailed off as the small dragon vanished, she gulped before summoning her next monster. "So that I can summon one of my best monsters, namely Strong Wind Dragon and I'm summoning him in attack mode!"
"Shit, not that card!" Lance gulped as the massive green dragon appeared on the field (6/2400/1000). "Ugh, I had a hard enough time going up against that thing during Battle City!"
"Then you're familiar with the fact that if the monster used to Tribute Summon it gains half of that monster's attack points?" Nicky asked as her dragon's attack increased to 2750. "Granted it's not as strong as it could be but this will do nicely, Strong Wind Dragon, blow that High Priestess away!" Nicky commanded and the dragon took flight before sending the priestess flying into the rafters with a gust of wind bringing Evan's life-points down to 7950.
"You should've attack my monster, you would've caused more damage!" Lance pointed out and Nicky grinned as she held up another card. "Wait; don't tell me, Mischief of the Time Goddess?"
"You got it! And before you ask Jason gave it to me." Nicky responded before playing the card.
"Honestly I'm surprised that card hasn't made its way onto the Forbidden List." Lance muttered under his breath as Strong Wind Dragon prepared for another attack.
"Well it hasn't so deal with it! Strong Wind Dragon, attack his Haze Flame!" Nicky commanded as the dragon blew its wings at the winged beast sending it flying and bringing Lance's life-points down to 5450 and Nicky's life-points down to 4200.
"I activate my trap, go Damage Condenser!" Lance announced as his trap flipped up. "Since I just took damage I can Special Summon a monster with an attack equal to or less than the amount of damage I took as long as I have a card that I can discard from my hand, so….." Lance trailed off as he discarded Spellbook inside the Pot." I'm bringing out one of my favorite cards, Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch!" Lance announced as he played the card and the fiery monarch appeared on the field (6/2400/1000).
"You realize that you won't be able to use its effect due to the fact that it wasn't tribute summoned right?" Jason pointed out and Lance shook his head.
"Yeah well, I did it this way for two reasons, number one, this card was at the bottom of my deck so Nicky's dragon probably would've finished me off before you milled my deck enough that I could draw him." Lance explained as he shuffled his deck. "As for the second reason, I'll reveal that once Nicky ends her turn."
"Okay, I know he uses Synchro Monsters so he's probably setting up a Level 8 Synchro." Nicky thought as she looked over her hand. "Problem is I have nothing that can stop him from doing that." Nicky thought before turning her attention to Lance. "I end my turn." Nicky announced and Lance quickly drew his card.
"Just what I needed, I summon Royal Firestorm Guard in attack mode!" Lance played the card and the weird fire demon appeared on the field (4/1700/1200). "Now I activate its effect, by returning four Pyro Type monsters to my deck this card will let me draw two cards!" Lance announced as he retrieved Uriquizas, Hippogrif, Neo Flamvell Origin and Inferno from his graveyard, shuffled three of them into his deck whilst returning the fourth one to his extra deck and drawing twice.
"Well if he was going for a Synchro then he just blew his chance." Nicky thought with a confident smirk as Lance added the two new cards to his hand.
"Now I activate Double Summon, this lets me Normal Summon another monster and I'm choosing the other card I just drew, the tuner monster Neo Flamvell Origin!" Lance announced as the small flame returned to the field. "Neo Flamvell, it's time to give Royal Firestorm Guards a tune up!" Lance commanded as the two monsters leapt into the air.
"So you went through all that just to Synchro Summon Uriquizas again?" Nicky asked as she folded her arms and Lance shook his head.
"Let's just say that Hippogrif wasn't the only new toy I picked up! I tune Neo Flamvell Origin with Royal Firestorm Guard to Synchro Summon Beast God Vulcan!" Lance announced as the Synchro Rings surrounded Royal Firestorm Guards and once the bright flash faded a new monster appeared on the field, it was a humanoid tiger that was carrying a massive hammer and was wearing black shorts (6/2000/1600).
"That's it? Not much of a god." Nicky said with a smirk but Jason shook his head. "Something wrong Jason? Wait; don't tell me, it has an effect?"
"I'll answer that for him, you see when Beast God Vulcan is Synchro Summoned its effect activates, with it I target one card on either side of the field and return it to our respective hands, my target is my Kickfire Trap Card that I never got to use and Strong Wind Dragon!" Lance announced and Nicky's eyes widened as the tiger slammed its hammer into the ground sending both cards flying. "Only downside is I can only use its effect once per turn but since I can still conduct my Battle Phase….." Lance trailed off as he pointed to Draconic Guard. "Beast God Vulcan, attack Draconic Guard!" Lance commanded and the tiger charged towards the monster before slamming its hammer into its head destroying it.
"Good thing I left that thing in defense mode." Nicky grunted as she braced herself for the attack from Thestalos.
"Thestalos, attack Nicky's life-points directly!" Lance commanded and the monarch launched a fireball at the Osiris Red Student bringing her life-points down to 1800. "As soon as Evan's turn begins you'll be out of the match….."
"If you're asking if I want to surrender or not then the answers no, I've given you a good fight, the least I can do is go down fighting!" Nicky said determinedly and Lance nodded.
"I end my turn." Lance announced and Jason drew his card.
"Soon as Nicky's eliminated they'll focus on me! I'd better make my move now!" Jason thought before flipping his facedown monster up revealing it to be Needle Worm. "Judging from the looks on your faces you know what this card does!"
"Unfortunately yes, we do." Evan said with a grunt as he and Lance milled the top five cards from their decks.
"I set a card facedown and end my turn!" Jason announced as he set the card and Evan drew his card. "Soon as Evan starts his move I'll trigger Blasting the Ruins, it may hurt me in the long run but it'll hurt them as well."
"For starters I will return one Spellbook Spell Card to my deck so that I can draw another card." Evan announced as he retrieved the card and shuffled it into his deck before drawing another card. "Now I activate my trap card Hidden Spellbook, with this I can shuffle two Spell Cards into my deck from the graveyard." Evan added as he retrieved the two cards and shuffled them into his deck. "And before anyone points it out, yes this was once Hidden Book of Spell."
"That's not my concern though." Jason thought with a frown as he glanced at his trap. "I tried activating Blasting the Ruins but Evan and Lance's two moves must've reduced the cards in their graveyards to fewer than 30."
"Now I activate Spellbook of Life, with this I banish one Spellcaster in my graveyard and reveal one Spellbook Spell Card in my hand….." Evan announced as he pocketed the monster and revealed Divine Judgment of the Spellbooks. "And in return an old friend returns!" Evan added as High Priestess of Prophecy returned to the field.
"Just when I thought we had seen the last of her." Jason grunted in annoyance as he folded his arms. "There's gotta be a point to going that far for a glorified Monster Reborn!"
"Your right, you see her Level will now increase by the level of the banished monster; I banished a Level 2 monster so her level increases by two." Evan explained as the Priestess's level increased to nine. "And last but not least I banish one Spellbook Spell Card in my graveyard to destroy Needle Worm!" Evan announced as the Priestess cast a spell at the monster destroying it. "Lance, can I borrow your monsters?"
"Go ahead." Lance nodded as his two monsters walked over to Evan's side of the field.
"Beast God Vulcan, attack Nicky's life-points directly!" Evan commanded and the tiger charged towards her before slamming its hammer into her side bringing her life-points down to zero, "Thestalos, High Priestess, attack Jason's life-points directly!" Evan commanded as the two monsters launched their attacks at him bringing his life-points down to 2100.
"Don't bother ending your turn." Jason told him as he surrendered. "I know when I'm beat!" Jason added as the holograms disappeared.
"Here are the winners of the match, Lance Alvers and Evan Grant!" Martin announced as the crowd cheered. "That's all for today but come back tomorrow where we'll see Osiris Red's Chloe Richardson and Chelsea Cunningham take on Drake Derringer and Donny Cramer followed by Marcus Reynolds and Tyler Kaiba taking on Obelisk Blue's Alexander Bender and Anton Kramer."
"Finally, I get to be in a duel that won't put my life on the line." Chloe thought as she left the stadium alongside the other duelists. "Here's hoping that me and Chelsea can work well together despite the differences in our decks." Chloe thought as she left the building, up in the rafters Sarah and the two Orichalcos Duelists where leaving as well.
"We all saw who won that duel." Sarah told them as she turned to them. "You know who your targets are."
"Don't worry; the boss will get their souls!" The American agent answered as they left the area.
"For your sake, I hope your right." Sarah thought as she watched them leave.