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Arata yawned while he rested his head on the desk before him. His hair was uncombed and the sclera of his left eye was slightly red from lack of sleep while a white medical eyepatch cover the right one. That along with the purple scar that ran down his cheek gave birth to many new 'rumors' about him which spreaded like wildfire and caused even the teacher to quiver when they entered the classroom just to see this kind of face staring at them. All of this would have been really amusing if it wasn't for how drained out and drowsy he felt right now.
Arata couldn't believe that one night of lost sleep could drain so much of his energy when he had just came back from two days of being death, but who knows – maybe kicking the bouquet wasn't the same as hitting the sack. Last night he hastened to say that the purple scar on his face was the worst thing that had happened, but not long after fate came knocking on his door and kicked him between the legs in the worst way possible.
It was a complete disaster that started somewhere around one o'clock in the morning with a scream loud enough to wake up the death. Arata was rolling in his bed while holding his hair tightly with both hands. A fissure of pain was tearing across his skull while his face felt like it was ripped open and someone was trying to pull out his insides from the scar on his cheek. Arata didn't know how long he was screaming mindlessly, but because of the suffering he hadn't noticed when Eve kicked the door of his bedroom open and ran inside. The only thing he remembered from this hellish experience was that the girl put his head on her lap, then touched his eye with one hand; that caused the pain to subdue and disappear as fast and suddenly as it came.
After that Eve gave him the medical eyepatch, saying that it would be better to hide his eye for a bit – which worried Arata but he still agreed – and went back to her room. Left on his own account Arata had to spend the rest of the night wandering around the house, checking his email and watching TV because his mind could no longer relax enough to let him fall asleep.
But now that was in the past and he wasn't the type of person – or corpse - to chew on old things. Arata heard the sound of footsteps approaching him and then his desk shook a bit as new weight was added to it. He raised an eye to see Eve sitting next to where his head was resting with crossed legs while she stared at him with her trademark poker face. For a moment Arata's eyes widened and could swear that behind this façade of a harmless angel that doesn't understand the concept of such 'bad' things lied a succubus that was trying to seduce him.
"Is there a problem?" Arata asked raising his head from the desk.
"Why are we still here when everyone else has already left?" Eve asked with her best monotone voice. Arata didn't need to look around to confirm what she had just said as right now the two of them were the only occupiers of this classroom and probably most of the fourth floor. By the power of an old unwritten agreement all other of his classmates left the building as soon as the second class had ended. And although staying in this room for five more hours didn't bother Arata, who was used to it, he could imagine how bored out of her brain Eve was right now.
"I like to think myself as an exemplary student." Arata replied half-hearty. "What's the point of me skipping classes like those other shitheads when there is nothing to do outside this building anyway? I may as well just root here until the janitor come to throw me out."
"The class has already started." Eve said. "Why is the teacher taking so long?"
Arata suppressed his laugh. It was cute how clueless Eve was when it came to how the world really worked. "He left the building after the first class ended."
"Shouldn't you report that the teacher isn't doing his work?"
"That need to be discussed." Arata nodded and turned toward the empty desks. "Hey, Eve thinks that we should report the teacher for skipping his classes. Rise a hand if you agree! What's that? Sorry Eve it seems that they don't think so like you."
Arata knew that this was a bit rude and expected Eve to glare at him or roll his eyes, but instead she stood up from his desk and sat on the front one with her body turned toward him. Although he was used to seeing her lifeless eyes, this time around there was something different in them that sent shivers down his spine.
"Stare."
"Please, don't use anime characters as role models." Arata groaned.
"Stare!"
"Ok, I get it!"
"Where are we going? This isn't the way to our house." said Eve.
"We will go visit someone before going back home." Arata replied and continued on his path.
While Eve followed after Arata she took the change to look around her surroundings. There were various kinds of shops and restaurants each of which looked amazing and different from the rest in color or shape, though all of them had large signs to attract customers. But what she focused her attention on the most was how sloped were almost all of the streets. You needed to be very careful when you descend and climbing just one of these already made her legs hurt. Now she understood why there were so much taxis, trams and buses in this city.
Arata noticed her interest so he slowed a bit to let her get closed and began to explain: "You know, this city is actually situated on three hills which is why there are so much steep streets around those parts."
"That's really amazing." Eve continued looking at the buildings.
"You think?" Arata looked up toward the higher parts of the city. "There is a medieval castle on one of the hills right next to the city, a wax museum and so much more. One day I will show you around the city."
"Really?" Eve looked at the boy in wonder.
"Well, there is nothing better for me to do, so why not? But please, no crazy murderers this time around."
"I can't promise anything." This made Arata laugh.
"I guess you don't." Then Arata's expression became serious. There was something important that he needed to know from Eve but was unable to ask her before because they were at school. But now they were outside and the streets were almost empty so that could be his chance.
"Hey, what trick did you use to make the pain go away last night? I mean, you just put your hand on my eye and it all just ended… How are you doing this?"
"That's my ability as a Guardian." Eve looked down at her hands and frowned. "As the Guardian of Light I have the power to purify. My abilities allow me to reduce the pain someone feels as well as slightly heal injuries – like slowing down bleeding - for a temporal period of time."
"That's actually a very useful ability." Arata noted.
Slowly Eve's eyes widened as she heard his response. "You think so? It's completely useless in a war."
"What do you mean?" Arata raised an eyebrow. "This kind of ability is most useful in a war. It's a power that lets you help those who got hurt during the battle and even save their life. And during war, every single live matters."
Eve was taken aback by his words. She had never tried to look at her own powers in such a way. She always thought that if she didn't have the power to hurt or kill her enemies she would be useless as a warrior. But now Arata told her that saving your comrades' lives is more important. Could that actually be true? In the Grand Order she was put under such strict training because her abilities weren't what they needed. She always thought that the reason why Mr. Godbell sent her away was because she was useless for them. Did she misunderstood his reasons?
"Hey Eve!" Arata put a hand on her shoulder interrupting the girl's thoughts. She looked up at him and he gave her a big smile before gesturing with his other hand toward a Card Shop. "We are there."
Eve's eyes narrowed while she inspected the building before them. It wasn't much different from the card shop at the Mall. It was white in color with many structure decks and various booster packs put on display behind the showcase.
Arata turned the knob and they walked. Eve momently noticed that while the external side was the same as any other Card Shop, the inner side was far different from the one in the Mall. It was well-arranged, the shelves were put next to the walls opening a huge open area in the center with five of those dueling tables that the two dueled on before.
"Long time not seen, Arata." A voice called and the teens turned to look at where it came from. Standing at the Cashbox was a middle aged man with shaved hair and brown eyes. His clothes consisted of a red shirt, dark blue jeans and black sneakers.
The man's name was Amelin Dobrev - the best friend of Arata's father - a kind person that always helped Arata since he began to live in this city. In fact it was the Card Shop that he owned what encouraged the boy to start playing Yu-Gi-Oh and has always been his main source of cards for new decks and strategies.
"I have been somewhat busy in the last few weeks." Arata replied half jokily then sighed. "You know, the first thing that I expected you would do when I come here was to scold me for skipping classes."
"Katerina told me that most of your classes today were canceled." Amelin replied crossing his hands. "It starts to happen very often."
A sly smile formed on Arata's features, but he knew better than to expose a girl's lie to her father. Not that the man didn't know that she was deceiving him in the first place. It hurt Arata to think that the daughter of such a nice and caring person could lie him in the eyes times and times again without any kind of remorse. Whoever the girl was, she definitely didn't deserve to have such good parents.
"And, oh God, what happed to your eye!?" Amelin panicked.
"Oh that?" Arata ran a hand through his eyepatch. "I fell and hurt myself. The doctor said that it wasn't anything serious thought."
"And the purple scar?" Amelin obviously wasn't buying this excuse.
"Well it happened last Friday when I stayed after classes to help the Chemistry teacher and tripped while I held a chemical whose name I can't currently remember. Don't worry it just had temporally sticked to my skin but it should fall of after a few days or… weeks."
Amelin just gave him a look as if he was saying 'I know that you are lying' and Arata was sure that he did. The two knew each other for so long, there was no doubt that the old man knew when Arata wasn't honest.
"So do you have any sneak peeks for me today?" Arata asked trying to move the conversation in another direction.
"Isn't that why you came in the first place?" Amelin shook his head, then he took a box of cards from the shelf behind him and put it on the cash desk.
Arata moved forward and took it in his hands. The box wasn't much bigger than his hand and it was dark purple in color with some kind of cybernetic feel to it. On the front was the image of some humanoid creature whose head was made of black flames with two purple eyes and a huge twisted grin. It wore a demonic black armor with purple lines running through it and two blade like structures resting on its back. The box had the words 'ESPer's Wrath' written in bold golden letters in front of the monster with 'Structure Deck' written in a similar style but using smaller letters right below.
"The best of best, huh?" Arata asked with a smirk.
"The hottest Structure Deck this season. It's composed of Psychic-type monsters and incorporates the Transcendent Summon." Amelin replied then turned his attention toward Eve. "What about the young lady?"
"Do you have any kind of generic Thunder support?" Eve asked looking around the shop.
"I don't think we do." Amelin replied as he turned toward the door next to him and opened it. "Sweety, are there cards that support Thunder-type?"
"Around none." A feminine voice answered and the door opened as girl stepped inside the room. She was the same age as Arata but a few centimeters shorter than him with long copper hair held by a black hair clip in the front and tied into a bump on the back while her eyes were the same brown color as Amelin's. She was dressed in a simple white shirt, black baggy pants and flats of the same color.
Her brown orbs met with Arata's purple one and after just a moment she looked away feeling uneasy while he recognized her. She was in the same class as him and sat in the front seat of the middle column. Her school marks were average and she was one of the more popular faces in the school. Though, Arata didn't know much about her personally as the two had never talked with each other, though that wasn't a surprise given that she was of the stronger believers in the bad rumors about him that were spreaded at school. He never suspected that she could be Amelin's daughter.
"Kate, I believe you already know Arata." Amelin said. "You are in the same class after all."
"I have seen him around." She answered while refusing to make eye contact with the boy. Instead she turned toward Eve. "Ah, you are the transfer student, Eve, right? What are you doing here?"
"I came to look around with my friend." Eve answered taking Arata's hand in her own. "Are you this man's daughter?"
"His name is Amelin." Arata said a bit offended of the girl's lack of manners. "And if you don't know his name call him Mister, not 'this man'."
Eve nodded and lowered her head. "I'm sorry."
"There is no need to act that way toward her." Amelin stated.
"What do you expect of a psycho?" Kate whispered which caused her father to glare at her.
"I'm not trying to act bad toward her." Arata laughed it off and ran a hand through Eve's hair. "She is just new to this country and our culture so I'm trying to teach her as fast as possible so she couldn't embarrass herself when speaking with other people."
Both Amelin and Kate turned their eyes toward Eve to see if she was going to confirm this. The girl glanced at Arata as she began to understand what he was trying to do. He wanted to redirect Mister Amelin's attention away from the comment that his daughter's made while at the same time explaining Eve's situation to them without endangering their lives by telling the complete truth. She choose to play along with this plan and nodded eagerly.
"I understand." Amelin put his hand on the desk and leaned on it. "Hey, Arata are you going to sign up for the Trinity Cup tournament?"
"What is that?" Arata asked interested.
"Tournament for teams that consist of three members." Amelin said and gestured toward Kate. "My princess wanted to sign up for it, but she was unable to form a team yet and the time is running out."
"Well too bad." Arata sighed and looked at the Structure Deck in his hand. "I'm not much of a team player and I don't like going to tournaments."
"What a shame." Amelin shook his head. "I can't help but wonder what all of the cards that you brought are being used for." For a moment Arata felt like there was something more to the old man's words, but he dismissed that thought. There was no way that Amelin could be referring to the underground duels that he was taking part in.
After that the four stood in awkward silence until Eve turned her eyes to Kate, who was playing with a lock of her hair, and spoke: "So are you a duelist?"
"Hm? Yes I am." Kate confirmed and put both hands on her hips proudly. "I was actually a regional champion once."
"That sounds good." Eve said monotonously which caused the other girl to tremble a bit before she continued. "Would you like to duel me? I didn't have many chances to test out my deck and I wanted to duel against someone with more… experience."
"You could have asked me to help you with that." Arata said.
Eve glared back at him ominously causing the boy to shrink in fear. It also made him to question how high the chances that the duel would end with an accident were.
"I'm always up for a duel." Kate nodded and grabbed the knob of the door behind her, opening it. "Just let me get my deck and we could start."
Both Arata and Amelin watched carefully as the girl retreated into the backroom after which the former put the Structure Deck that he was holding on the desk and took out his wallet. "Anyway, I'm buying it." Amelin nodded and took the little box to mark it while Arata turned toward Eve again. "But really, why don't you duel me instead?"
"Because I just can't bring myself to duel all out against you." Eve confessed.
Arata's eyes widened when he heard those words: "Wait! You are telling me that when we dueled at the Mall you held back the whole time?"
"Let's do it!" Kate shouted as she passed behind Eve. The white haired girl nodded and followed leaving Arata to slowly crumble backward on the cash desk, trying to gather the pieces of his broken pride while Amelin patted him on the shoulder with a knowing look on his face.
Kate and Eve positioned themselves on the opposite sides of a Dueling Table and began to shuffle their decks while Arata and Amelin stood at the sides and watched the two girls. Eve glanced at her cards; she hadn't expected that she would need to carry them with herself everywhere, at least not so soon. But since she couldn't just stay room all the time, in the likely situation that the Grand Order sent assassins after her in public, the girl would need a way to protect both herself and the people around her. She originally thought that carrying just a single powerful monster that she could merge with would be enough, however because with Utopia she was barely able to hold her own against Saivar who wasn't known for his great dueling skills she figured out that it would be better to be prepared for any possible scenario.
Kate and Eve put their decks on the table and the black screen lighted up and seventeen circles of different colors appeared on each duelist's side of the field. Five of those were blue to indicate 'Monster Zone' while the other five below them were the 'Spell &Trap Zone' which were colored green. The 'Field Zone' was brown; both the 'Extra Deck' and 'Main Deck' were white; the 'Graveyard' was light grey; the 'Pendulum Zones' red and 'Banished Zone' was purple.
Finally, both girls drew their first five cards from their decks and shouted. "DUEL!"
『Kate LP: 8000, Hand: 5 (VS) Eve LP: 8000, Hand: 5』
"Since I challenged you, you can take the first turn." Eve said.
"Don't mind if I do." Kate replied politely and took a card from her hand. "First I will start by summoning Terrally Agate Scorpion!"
Suddenly the hologram of a scorpion like creature made of some kind of green crystal-like matter with the string on the end of its tail looking like a sword made of a white crystal.
Terrally Agate Scorpion [LV: 3/Earth/Rock/Effect/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1400]
Effect: Once per turn: You can send 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard; Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Terrally" monster from your Deck.
"That's interesting." Eve commented while she starred at the small hologram.
"That's nothing." Kate replied before continuing her turn. "Next, I activate Agate Scorpion's effect to discard a monster card and special summon a level four or lower 'Terrally' monster from my deck! And the one I choose is Terrally Gallium Lacooda!"
The new monster was a three hump camel made of dark rock, whose humps were made of a light grey metal which extended to cover the beasts neck and formed spikes on it. The poor creature had sticked out its tongue and looked like it was about to past out from heat.
Terrally Gallium Lacooda [LV: 3/Earth/Rock/Effect/ATK: 300/DEF: 1700]
Effect: If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can add 1 Field Spell Card from your Deck to your hand.
"Then I activate the Field Spell, Terrally Barricade!" The black background underneath Kate's field changed to show a picture of a mountain passage with various creatures made of rock standing in an outlined circle.
Terrally Barricade (Spell) Field
All Rock-Type monsters on the field gain 500 DEF. Once per turn: You can change the battle position of 1 face-up Rock-Type monster that was Normal Summoned this turn. If this face-up card in the Field Zone is sent to the Graveyard: You can add 1 "Terrally" card from your Deck to the hand.
"I use Terrally Barricade's effect to change Agate Scorpion to defense position." Kate explained. "Furthermore, due to Barricade's effect all monster I control gain five hundred more defense points."
"Finally I set a card and end my turn." Kate finished.
"I have never seen this kind of deck before." Eve put a finger under her chin, then a very small smile lighted up her face. "This is going to be interesting. Draw."
『Turn 2 [Eve] LP: 8000, Hand: 6』
"I will start off by summoning Thundecture Drone – Centrious!" Eve exclaimed putting the card on the field. Immediately appeared the hologram that showed a robot with four black legs and a flat white body and a single blue orb on the front serving as an eye.
Thundecture Drone – Centrious [LV: 3/Light/Thunder/Effect/ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000]
Effect: If this card is Special Summoned by the effect of a "Thundecture" card: You can destroy 1 face-up card on the field. During your Main Phase, you can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 "Thundecture" monster from your hand or Graveyard in face-up Attack Position.
"What the heck?!" Kate shouted and leaned her body forward to get a better look at the card that her opponent had just played. "I haven't seen this card before. Its text is also written in Japanese!"
"Well, Eve came from Japan!" Arata shouted from the sidelines.
"If you can't read the text don't worry to use the Dueling Table's card recognizer!" Amelin reminded his daughter.
"That's right!" Kate nodded and clicked a button near the smaller screen that was below the playing field. It lighted up and the table began to scan the current game field after which a small image of Eve's monster appeared on Kate's lower screen along with the text of the card translated to English.
"Interesting." Eve said causing the others to look at her curious. "I wasn't sure if the machine would recognize the cards of my deck since it isn't following the OCG format."
"Don't worry." Kate smiled back. "Those tables have the information about all cards, both TCG and OCG. It's just that depending on the region in which they are stationed they 'lock' the cards that aren't yet released in this region. But that doesn't stop you from using Japanese cards as when you do, the table temporally unlocks the data of the card you used until the duel ends."
"That's some very helpful information." Eve replied. "But back to the duel, I activate Thundecture Code – Faenar."
Thundecture Code – Faenar (Spell) Continuous
Once per turn: You can target 1 card on the field, then reduce by 800 the ATK of 1 monster you control with 800 or more ATK; destroy that target. If this face-up card is sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 "Thundecture Code" Spell Card or Trap Card in your Graveyard; add it to your hand.
"I activate Faenar's effect to reduce the attack of Centrious by eight hundred and destroy a card on the field! Of course, I choose your set card!" The spell card unleashed an electric current into the drone causing its eye to begin glowing and then it shoot a laser toward the card.
"Not bad." Kate commented as she put the trap card into her graveyard.
"I'm just getting warmed." Eve replied and moved his monster card into the graveyard. "I activate Thundecture Code – Queen's Blessing!" She said putting the card on the field. "With its effect, once per turn I can add a 'Thundecture' monster from my deck to the hand. I add Thundecture Drone – Knight." Eve showed the card then added it to her hand.
Thundecture Code – Queen's Blessing (Spell) Continuous
During your Main Phase: You can add 1 "Thundecture" monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Thundecture Code – Queen's Blessing" once per turn. Your opponent cannot target monsters on your side of the field with Spell/Trap effects.
"You aren't done yet, right?" Kate asked while she played with a lock of her hair.
"You said it." Eve nodded, then she moved Centrious to the graveyard. "I use Centrious' effect to tribute it and special summon Thundecture Drone – Knight from my hand!"
As Eve put the card on her field a hologram bursted from it, taking the form of a humanoid creature wearing heavy white armor with black hands and chest. The knight had a helmet that covered his eyes and it held a large broadsword on its back with electricity jolting from the tip of his blade.
Thundecture Drone – Knight [LV: 5/Light/Thunder/Effect/ATK: 2300/DEF: 1500]
Effect: When this card destroy an opponent's monster by battle: Inflict 1000 damage to your opponent, also banish that monster.
"Now battle!" Eve cried out. "My Knight will destroy your Agate Scorpion!"
The warrior took its large blade and charged toward, cutting the monster in two and putting and end of its existence in the world of living.
"Due to Knight's effect the monster it destroyed will be banished from play and you will take one thousand points of damage." Eve explained and Kate nodded, moving her card into the zone next to her Graveyard.
『Kate LP: 8000 - 7000, Hand: 1』
"Eve's deck is actually really interesting." Arata said putting a hand under his chin in deep thought. "It's able to utilize high level monsters while keeping the consistency of her deck and hand."
"My sweet heart's deck is nothing to underestimate either." Amelin told him while he looked at his daughter. "This duel is going to get really interesting during the next turn."
"I set a card and finish my turn." Eve said and glanced toward the trap card she had destroyed with Faenar's effect, knowing how much of an advantage she had given her opponent now that it was in the graveyard.
"Then it's my move again." Kate said as she drew a card from her deck and glanced toward Eve's field.
『Turn 2 [Kate] LP: 7000, Hand: 2』
"I think my girl just got the card that she needed." Amelin exclaimed as he patted Arata's back, but the boy was too focused on the duel to pay any attention of the man.
"Very nice." Kate said before playing a spell card. "I play Terrally Fusion to Fusion Summon a 'Terrally' monster by banishing the needed materials from my field and graveyard. But since there is a face-up field spell I'm also allowed to use monsters from your graveyard!" Kate cried out as she took the monster that lied in her graveyard.
Terrally Fusion (Spell) Normal
Fusion Summon 1 Rock-Type Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, by banishing monsters from your field and/or Graveyard as Fusion Materials. If there is a face-up Field Spell, you can also banish monsters from your opponent's Graveyard as Fusion Materials. If this card is in your Graveyard while there is a face-up Field Spell: You can shuffle it into the Deck, then sent the top card of your deck to the Graveyard.
"I fuse Terrally Mawsit Chuckwalla from my graveyard along with your Thundecture Drone – Centrious!" Kate explained.
Both girls moved their respective monsters to the banished zones and Kate smiled: "You would be surprised if you knew how often I have used that guy in a duel despite its low stats. But it can't be helped I guess! I Fusion Summon, Terrally Ammolite Moloch!"
On the field appeared the hologram of a four-legged dragon without wings and an intimidating array of spikes covering its whole body which were smoothly changing their colors.
Terrally Ammolite Moloch [LV: 4/Earth/Rock/Fusion/Effect/ATK: 1800/DEF: 1600]
1 Rock-Type + 1 Level 4 or lower monster
Effect: If a Field Spell is activated while this card is face-up on the field; this card gains 500 ATK until the end of this turn. Once per turn: You can target 1 Rock-Type monster you control and 1 other card on the field; destroy them.
"I activate Ammolite Moloch's effect!" Kate cried and pointed at Eve's monster. "I destroy my Terrally Gallium Lacooda and your Thundecture Drone – Knight!" The lizard fired all of the spikes on its back, piercing through both monsters and destroying them. "Then Gallium Lacooda's effect lets me add a field spell from the deck to my hand!"
"She destroyed my monster and got a search out of it." Eve commented. "The situation is going to get dangerous."
"You said it." Kate replied. "Now I sent Terrally Barricade to the graveyard in order to activate Terrally Sanctuary!" The field image changed to a temple made of gems hidden inside a dark cave.
Terrally Sanctuary (Spell) Field
Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to the Normal or Special Summon of a Rock-Type monster. During the turn they were Normal or Special Summoned, your opponent cannot target "Terrally" monsters you control with card effects, and they cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects. If this face-up card in the Field Zone is sent to the Graveyard: You can shuffle 1 "Terrally" card from your Graveyard into the Deck.
"Now, Ammolite Moloch's effect raises its own attack by five hundred as a field spell was activated and Barricade lets me add another 'Terrally' card from my deck to the hand!" Kate took a card from her deck and showed it to Eve: "I add a second Terrally Fusion. Then I activate it!" Kate cried out and pointed at her opponent's Graveyard once again.
Eve frowned and she moved her other monster to the banished zone as Kate summoned another monster: "I fuse my Terrally Gallium Lacooda and your Thundecture Drone – Knight! Come forth, Terrally Almandine Rhinoceros!"
The new monster that came was a large rhino made of dark rock with glowing red eyes and a large horn made of crimson crystal that also existed on the back of the creature in the form of three spikes.
Terrally Almandine Rhinoceros [LV: 6/Earth/Rock/Fusion/Effect/ATK: 2100/DEF: 2300]
1 Rock-Type + 1 Level 5 or 6 monster
Effect: If a "Terrally" monster you control battles, your opponent's cards and effects cannot be activated until the end of the Damage Step. If a Rock-Type monster you control attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. .
"It's not over yet!" Kate continued. "Next I will replace Sanctuary with Terrally Terrablast!" the old field picture disappeared and got replace by a new one that showed multiple rock monsters raising from beneath the ground, seemingly pissed off.
Terrally Terrablast (Spell) Field
All Rock-Type monsters on the field gain 500 ATK. Once per turn: You can discard 1 Rock-Type monster from your hand, then target 1 monster on the field; destroy it. If this face-up card in the Field Zone is sent to the Graveyard: You can add 1 "Terrally" card from your Graveyard to the hand.
"Holy macaroni!" Arata shouted in awe and turned toward Eve. "You better have a defensive plan ready!"
"Now, Terrablast raises the attack of all rock monsters by five hundred and so does Ammolite Moloch's effect for itself!" Kate smirked. "Finally, Sanctuary's effect shuffles a 'Terrally' card in my graveyard back into the deck and I choose Terrally Barrier."
"I'm starting to see how you became a regional champion." Eve commented quietly while she checked the field and her hand for any possible solution.
"Thanks." Kate replied. "But now I attack you directly with Terrally Ammolite Moloch!"
"I play Mirror Force!" Eve countered.
"Not so fast! At this moment I use the effect of the trap that you destroyed early! I banish Terrally Brilliant Excavation to negate the effect of your card!"
Terrally Brilliant Excavation (Trap) Normal
Return up to 2 of your Rock-Type monster(s) to the hand. If there is a face-up Field Spell on the field, you can Special Summon them instead. If you control a Rock-Type monster, except the turn this card was sent to the Graveyard: You can banish this card from your Graveyard, then target 1 face-up Spell/Trap Card your opponent controls; it has its effects negated until the end of this turn.
Eve lowered her head as she had to move her card into the graveyard zone, while her life points dropped drastically.
『Eve LP: 8000 - 4700, Hand: 2』
"Next, a direct attack from Terrally Almandine Rhinoceros!" Kate cried out.
『Eve LP: 4700 - 2100, Hand: 2』
Kate glanced at the card in her hand and took a deep breath before turning toward Eve with a big smile on her face. "Seems like I needed a bit more fire power for this one. Now, at the end of my turn Ammolite Moloch's attack returns to two thousand and three hundred. Your move girl!"
But nobody expected the next thing that happened. Eve who was at the losing side of this duel raised her head and titled it to the side in a cute manner as a very small smile lighted up her features and she put two fingers on the top of her deck. All live long she was trained to duel in order to survive and kill, so to be able to enjoy the game like this was a completely new experience for her. Kate was also on a different league than any of the training instructors that she went against in the past; this girl was stronger, Eve could feel the strength of a bullet in Kate's dueling and that excited her to no end.
She wanted to win this duel.
No!
She needed to win this duel!
『Turn 4 [Eve] LP: 2100, Hand: 3』
"You really should have used the chance I gave you last turn to defeat me." Eve spoke softly, also whispering. "Because now I know your style of dueling and how to counter it. No hard feelings, but I'm going to win the duel during this turn!"
I planned for Eve to use her original summoning method in this chapter, but because I prefer to limit my chapters to just 9-12 pages and this already reached the limit AFTER I cut out five pages, guess that it will have to wait until next time T-T
Who am I kidding? Althought they won't make their official appearance until next chapter I'm presenting you Aberrant Summon and Transcendent Summon by using monsters that haven't yet appeared in the story.
Anyway, first I will start with the Aberrant Monster and Summoning or as I like to call them: "The reason why Link Summon won't be used in this story"!
Thundecture Queen – Mitsuko-6E [Light/Thunder/Aberrant/Effect/ATK: 2700/DEF: 2200]
2 monsters + "Thundecture Code – Queen's Blessing" + 1 "Thundecture Code" Spell Card
Effect: Once while this card is face-up on the field: You can target cards in any Graveyard(s), up to the number of face-up cards in your Spell & Trap Card Zone; return them to the hand. If a face-up card you control is sent to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon 1 monster from your Graveyard, but it cannot attack your opponent directly. If this card leaves the field, activate 1 "Thundecture" Continuous Spell or Trap Card directly from your Deck.
So as you may have noticed by the example Aberrant Summoning is the act of Summoning an Aberrant Monster from the Extra Deck sending the requisite Aberrant Materials on your side of the Field to the Graveyard, as listed on the Aberrant Monster itself.
All Aberrant Monsters require Monster Cards + Spell/Trap Cards as they are a special Extra Deck monsters that are treated as both Monster Cards and Spell Cards and can only exist in the Spell/Trap Zone!
Because Aberrant Monsters are partially Spells they don't have Level/Rank.
Aberrant Monsters are treated as complete Monsters only while in the Extra Deck. While on the field and Graveyard they are treated as Spell Cards.
Aberrant Monsters can attack and be attacked, however because they are partially Spells Aberrant Monsters cannot be destroyed by monster destroying cards like Trap Hole and Raigeki, however they can be destroyed by Spell/Trap destroying cards like Mystical Space Typhoon.
Finally, Aberrant Monsters can still be summoned if cards like Spell Canceller and Anti-Spell Fragrance are on the field, however, if a card that negates the effects of Spell Cards is in play (like the aforementioned Spell Canceller) the Aberrant Monsters will have their effects negated.
Next up is my personal favorite, Transcendent Summon which got used in the original version of this story under the name Awakening Summon.
CodESPer-Ally Lunatic Accel [GG: 6/Dark/Psychic/Transcendent/Effect/ATK: 2500/DEF: 1800]
"CodESPer-Player Accel Driver" + 1 monster
Effect: This card can be treated as a Level 6 monster when used for a Transcendent Summoned.
· Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can use 2 of this card's Grade Gauges to target 1 monster in any Graveyard(s); return it to the hand.
· You can use 3 of this card's Grade Gauges; Special Summon 1 Level 2 or lower Psychic-Type monster from your Deck or Banished Zone.
· Once per turn, during either player's turn, when your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card that targets a monster that you control: You can use 4 of this card's Grade Gauges and banish 1 face-up Psychic-Type monster on your field; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card, then you can Set it to your field.
· You can use 6 of this card's Grade Gauges: Banish all face-up cards on the field with an ESP Counter, expect this card, then this card gains 200 ATK for each, until the end of this turn.
So, for the ruling, to Transcendent Summon you need to use the requisite number of Transcendent Materials listed on the Transcendent Monster, provided the total number of Transcendent Material monsters and the Level, Rank and/or Grade Gauge of those monsters matches exactly the Grade Gauge of that Transcendent Monster. So in Lunatic Accel's case, as it requires only two monsters you cannot use more or less. Since we don't know Accel Driver's Level if its a Level/Rank/Grade 1 monster then the other one will need to be Level/Rank/Grade 5; if its Level/Rank/Grade 2 then the others is going to be Level/Rank/Grade 4, 3 + 3 equals 6 and so on!
Next, Transcendent monsters have Grade Gauge instead of Level/Rank. Also, Transcendent monsters can be used as materials for a Transcendent Summoning as they don't require the materials used to have Level.
Transcendent monsters have effects that require the use of their Grade Gauge. And since the most for most of them is different you need to be very careful about using their effects as you may end up not having enough Grades for using the effect than you need, when you need it. But don't worry as Transcendent Monsters regain 1 Grade Gauge during the Standby Phase of their controller's turn and when they destroy a monster by battle.
If Transcendent Monsters are summoned by a different way from a Transcendent Summon their Grade Gauge will be empty. In other words if you revive a Transcendent Monster with Monster Reborn it would have a Grade Gauge of 0.
Transcendent monsters can't have more Grade Gauge than given on their cards, in other words The Grade Gauge 6 Lunatic Accel can't have more than 6 Grade Gauge expect with the effect of another card.
And finally, we got to the end of this! Yay! Writing this chapter took me nearly a week, mostly because my driving course so happens to directly overlay with my writting hours and when I get back from it the only thing I can think of was how the instructor screamed: "Slow down! Slow down!"
Like, dude chill out a bit. I may be driving fulls speed toward a truck, but that doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm doing -_-
Anyway, here is the A/N for this chapter!
So, first there isn't that much to cover here expect the third protagonist of the story aka Kate appeared. Then there are two great reviews to respond to. But before going to them, I want to say something about Arata's deck. Like, you may be wondering why did I use Psychic-Type monsters of all things. Well, the truth is that the very first idea that I got when making his deck was for it to be Zombie or Fiend-Type, but then there were a few reason that stopped me from doing so.
First and most important reason was that a Fiend or Zombie deck would ruin the consistency with my Card Game Waifu T-T
Oh, there is also the fact that Psychic-Type monsters seem... closer to Arata's character and personality... but c'mon, dude, stop that, you are forcing it.
Now, jumping to the reviews, I will start with Master Of Anime224's.
I'm not going to copy-paste your review like a complete d*ck and instead I will just move to commenting on it. First, I'm happy that you actually like Arata's character. I probably had put more effor on his personality that I did on the rest of this story, really xD
As for the world-building, I'm still working on that, but I don't want to just put it all at once. I prefer doing it smoothly and slowly. As for beta readers, I used to have silvernet to beta another of my stories and that helped me alot in figuring out how to write stories in English. As for Saivar, well, the first 5 pages that I had to delete to make space for the duel were literally about him, so... Yes, there is more to his character than being angry at people.
Thanks alot for the helpful critism and I will try my best to improve my world-building and scene-setting as much as I can. Also, for the story being set in Bulgaria, but mentioning the UK... Well... I will be honest. When I started this story I gave like, zero shit about the location so when I had to later name the country and such... Everything f*cked up O_o
Now to ThatLoneAvenger's
I'm not sure if you have seen the original version, but I would like to say that I had changed my username a few months ago xD
Anyway, will skip the introduction and go directly to Zayne and the reason behind the lack of duels in this story. The biggest problem that I got with Zayne was that my readers are thinking that he is the rival in this story, but he isn't. Zayne is an average duelist (at best). If anything he is the Sawatari of this story. As for the duels, well, the reason for the lack of dueling was because I wanted to focus more on building the plot and characters of the story before moving to the fun part.
And yes, the: "power of boners is stronger" actually sums up what Arata's "feelings" toward Eve really are. Hormones. But only if we talk about the time before he gets killed.
Btw, the duel between Eve and Arata ws Fluffal vs Raidraptor, so just... Go watch Arc-V. No, really, I really don't want to make that duel because of how long it would end as 0_0
So, thanks for the advices you gave me and I hope that in the future I will be able to improve my work :)
That's it! I have nothing else to say. Well, maybe I do.
I want to ask you, the readers; what are your thoughts about Eve and Kate's Decks? Do you like my original summoning methods and do you think that there is a way for me to improve them? Do you think that I should make a new cards section or should I keep them in the chapter for easy access?
I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter and 'till then!
Diabolic Tracer out!