Hey gang. First off, I'm so sorry for not posting in the last 4 or so weeks. It's kind of my fault I suppose. I should have posted last week, but I didn't find time unfortunately. I truly apologize for this inconvenience to all of you. I will try to not allow this to happen again. I've always prided myself on keeping the updates consistent, but this last inconsistency was just by chance I think. At any rate, my apologies on it.
So, not much new in my life. Things are about the same as always here. I'm currently engaged in research at work, and that's about it. It's all good though, for I get to learn interesting things about our system. Other than that, not too much has been happening. I went and saw my mom in Richmond, VA, a few weeks ago for her birthday. My mate and I celebrated our 8th year of being together (dating wise, not marriage) back on the 2nd. Other than that, nothing new.
Writing wise, ardee and I are working on trying to wrap this story up, but it's just a touch slow at the moment. We'll finish up hopefully before the end of March or April. I'm saying the latest is April. That's my goal, and I plan on sticking with it.
Moving along, time for reviews!
Genma no Ou: True, Yubel is quite insane and obsessive, but one tends to be when loneliness overtakes your life. Yep, quite a bit of foreshadowing in this previous chapter. The words Yubel said are quite open to interpretation, but we'll see what she meant by it before the end I'm sure. Glad you liked all of my revelations and relevant. I tried to make it at the least relevant. I had thought originally about returning the Egyptian Gods, but I dawned on me that they've been over used in my stories, and there was no reason to resurrect them again. So go figure, I decided on the Legendary Knights, hehe. But yes, this series of events will soon come into light. Thanks for the review!
Supreme-Chaos-Angel: Yep, the duel between Yubel and Lucifer approaches, leaving many questions to be answered. LOL! No way would I reuse Dartz old deck. It was hard enough to understand at times in the show, lol. You never know about Yubel. She's a survivor. It's possible she may pull off an upset victory, but not likely since Lucifer appears much stronger. Heh, yeah, Lucifer is a cool customer, but how cool he'll remain is to be seen. Eh, I think Yugi did have larger decks. Just look at the numerous cards he used in one season, and you'll see that he had to have a deck larger than 40 cards. I don't think he could have had only 40 cards, but I could be wrong. The inverse of that is Jaden though. I'm curious how his deck even worked, seeing how he only had the E-Heros and Neo-Spacians for the most part, with only a few other cards. But then again, I haven't really counted out his cards to see if he even had close to 40 cards. At any rate, I think the decks of Yugi were bigger than he led people to believe, but again, I could be wrong. Thanks for the review!
Well, that's it for the reviews. Thank you, both of you, for your reviews. Again, I apologize for being very inconsistent in posting. I shall try to keep posting every week or two from here on, but we'll see how it goes. At any rate, I hope you all like this chapter.
Enjoy!
Chapter 47
"I shall make the first move, as I am the only worthy presence in this place." Lucifer smugly remarked while drawing his sixth card.
Glancing at his hand, he darkly chuckled and selected two cards from his hand, saying "I set these two cards. That shall do for now." (Lucifer = 8000, Yubel = 8000)
"Pathetic." Yubel darkly muttered while drawing her own sixth card. Taking a look at it for a moment, she slapped it onto her Duel Disk, saying "I summon my Giant Orc (2200/0)!"
Materializing onto the field instantly in a flash with a massive roar was a large gray orc creature with brown cloth pants and wielding a bone club.
"I equip my Giant Orc with the equip spell Big Bang Shot! This card will boost his attack points by 400 (2200 + 400 = 2600/0) and allows him to deal damage to your life points when your monster is in defense mode, or as most say in slang, Trample Damage. It matters not however, as you were foolish enough not to summon a monster."
Turning a condemning claw towards her opponent, the demoness yelled "Giant Orc, teach him the meaning of pain with a direct attack!"
Releasing a loud roar, the large orc raised his club and began charging forward in a spitting rage. Lucifer, however, remained calm and unfazed by the charging beast and even cracked a small smirk. Angered, the orc swung his club at the robed figure, only to have his club stopped suddenly by a single finger of his target. Infuriated, the orc pressed all of his weight into the club, only to find he couldn't move it.
"That's not possible!" the demoness snarled with confusion on her face.
Chuckling lowly, the robed figure coolly said "As a matter of fact, it is possible thanks to my face down card. I activate the spell Emergency Teleport, which allows me to special summon one level three or lower Psychic Type monster from my deck to the field."
With his words said, the robed figure thrust the club of the orc backwards, sending the orc skidding back a few feet. Pulling his deck out, Lucifer selected the card he desired and revealed it to the demoness before placing it onto his Duel Disk.
"My choice is Krebons (1200/400)."
Yellow, transparent cubes flickered about the area all at once, while green holographic one's and zero's appeared also. Some began forming pieces of a blue and yellow armored body, and cylinder-shaped head. Sinister, green computer eyes flashed across the black visor that covered the creature's face, while golden and blue patterns ran up the rest of the creature's helmet. Yellow teeth shot an equally dastardly smirk. The feet of the creature were covered in thin, sock like hoppers, and white and blue gloves with golden fingers were on the creature's arms.
Brow furrowing in confusion, the demoness asked "Psychic Type?"
"Yes, Psychic Type monsters are a unique breed of monsters, just like others such as Toon or Union Types." Lucifer explained. "Now then, since Krebons is on the field, you must choose whether you wish to continue your attack or not."
In a growl, the demoness pointed a defiant finger at the new creature, snarling out "Fine then, since you had the hindsight to place your pathetic creature in attack mode so I wouldn't do so much damage, I'll have Giant Orc crush that thing with Bone Club Smash!"
Releasing a throaty roar, the gray skinned orc charged forward once more and prepared to slam it's club into the strange looking creature. Just as he was about to connect, the creature placed it's hands before it's body, causing a wall of one's and zero's to form before it. The club smashed into the wall, only causing a green light to flicker from the contact. A moment passed till the orc was finally forced to retreat.
Darkly chuckling, Lucifer tauntingly asked "You didn't think I would play Krebons to the field if it didn't have an effect, now did you?"
Receiving a growl of frustration from Yubel, the robed figure smartly said "Whenever Krebons is targeted for an attack, I can give up 800 life points to negate that attack. Since your attack was negated, your little orc's effect doesn't kick in, which would normally force it into defense. So you should actually be thanking me."
"I will destroy you, trust me." Yubel dangerously grit out. "I end my…"
Before the demoness could finish her words, the strange creature before the robed figure let out a pained cry before suddenly shattering into millions of pixels. Seeing the odd look on the face of the demoness, Lucifer coolly said "During the End Phase of the turn that Emergency Teleport is activated, the monster I summoned is removed from play."
Shrugging, the demoness coolly said "Very well, I still end my turn." (Lucifer = 7200, Yubel = 8000)
Drawing his new card, the robed figure smirked, saying "Before I begin your destruction, I'll activate my face down trap, Escape from the Dark Dimension. This trap now allows me to return to my field from the removed from play pile one of my Dark Attribute monsters and equip it with this card. I call back my Krebons (1200/400)."
Rematerializing onto the field instantly was the strange looking orange, blue, and white creature with it's dastardly smirk.
"I next activate the spell Painful Choice. With this card, I am allowed to select five cards from my deck and then I must show them to you. You will get to choose one that is added to my hand, while the rest go off to the Graveyard."
Pulling his deck out, the robed figure sifted through it for a few moments before deciding upon five cards. Placing all five onto his Duel Disk, he smirked while the demoness looked at them with a bewildered expression. The selection of cards consisted of a single monster card and four spell cards.
"The five cards that I have chosen are Envoy of the Void, Sanguine Sanctum, Azure Corona - The First Rift, Face of the Void, and Power Zone. Choose wisely, Yubel." Lucifer smartly remarked.
Looking from card to card, the demoness's expression hardly changed. "How can I choose a card for him to keep when I've never even heard of any of them!? I have studied every card known in existence, only to find these cards are foreign to me, much like his monster that he has on the field."
"Still, there is one thing I can do in this situation, which is to reason out which card I would prefer him to keep." Yubel wryly thought.
Watching the confused demoness eye each of his five chosen cards, Lucifer darkly chuckled within his mind, mumbling "Stare at them all you like, Yubel, but you will never figure out what any of them do. I know you will choose my monster, thinking it is the least dangerous for me to keep and that it may have a weakling effect. How wrong you shall be."
At long last, the demoness pointed at the monster card out of the five cards, saying "I will allow you to keep your Envoy of the Void."
Nodding, Lucifer picked up the five cards and tossed the four spell cards into his Graveyard Slot. Each of the four was slowly sucked in, burying them deep within his Card Graveyard. Placing the remaining card within his hand, giving him a hand size of five, the robed figure lightly chuckled.
"You will regret the choice you have made, Yubel." Lucifer confidently stated. "I summon Envoy of the Void (1200/1000) to my field."
Materializing onto the field in a swirl of light particles was a warrior dressed in full body diamond, if not glass, armor, with only his head uncovered. His skin looked much like an elf's skin, with a pair of pointy ears to match, had blonde hair that reached his shoulders in length. He carried no weapons, appearing to be completely empty handed.
"When Envoy of the Void is Normal Summoned, I can add one spell card with the word 'Corona' in its name to my hand from my Graveyard. I choose Azure Corona- The First Rift."
Glowing to life, the Graveyard Slot of the robed figure slowly slid out the single spell card that he had said. Picking it up, he added it to his hand and pointed at the two monsters before himself.
"I now activate a Synchro Summon between Krebons and Envoy of the Void, in order to call out Void Templar (2400/2400)!"
Horror and confusion appeared onto the face of Yubel while she screamed out "Hold on a moment! What in the nine hells is a Synchro Summon!? I've never even heard of it!"
"Indeed, you probably haven't." Lucifer remarked. Pointing at his blue and orange creature, he smartly said "Krebons is not only a Psychic Type monster, but also is a new type called a Tuner Type monster. These Types of monsters are new and rather powerful, for they give birth to even greater creatures through Synchro Summoning. By sending a Tuner Type and another Non-Tuner Type with the correct levels to my Graveyard, I'm allowed to Synchro Summon a new type of monster, which will have the type of Synchro."
Without warning, the blue, orange, and white creature began breaking apart and transforming into two bright, spherical stars that began rapidly spinning around the glass armored creature. The glass armored warrior closed it's eyes and suddenly transformed itself into a white sphere of light. The three spheres began forming a triangle that suddenly began expanding and filling the battleground full of brilliant blinding blue light. Slowly, the light died down, revealing a tall, strange creature wearing diamond armor, with splashes of color added by ruby, emerald, and black mixed within the armors coloring. Sparks of energy traveled along the armor, which seemed to change and modify some of the armor's pieces. The creature wore a long black flowing cape on it's back, which floated somewhat due to the wind from when it was summoned. In it's right hand, it held a long, dull white blade, while it's head was covered by a helmet that seemed to change colors like it's armor.
In a clear, calm voice, Lucifer coolly said "Void Templar is a level five Synchro Type monster, which is summoned from my Fusion Deck, or better known as an Extra Deck, by sending a Tuner Type monster and Non-Tuner Type monster from my field to the Graveyard, whose levels added up to five. Since Krebons was level two, and Envoy of the Void was level three, the two were a perfect match to summon Void Templar."
Glaring at the creature, the demoness growled out "It matters little for how you summoned that creature, all that matters is that it's far too weak to battle with my Giant Orc!"
"How naïve you are." Lucifer murmured. "Do you honestly think that attack points are everything in winning a battle? If it is, no wonder you are truly pathetic. You will soon come to understand my power, and what it truly is."
Selecting a card from his hand, the robed figure slid it into one of his empty Spell/Trap Slots and said "I activate the spell Azure Corona – The First Rift."
Appearing onto the field after a moment passed were dark blue stars that formed behind the strange armored creature. The stars began lighting up onto the field, seemingly absorbing all of the light energy present, while darkening the playing field at the same time.
The demoness paid close attention to each of the stars and noted that each had a sphere within them made of energy, seemingly powering them up.
"The First Rift is a continuous spell card, which gains one Spell Counter during my End Phase for each monster I have destroyed during my turn." Lucifer explained. "However, at the moment, I activate Void Templar's effect, which allows me to send one card from my hand to the removed from play pile to add a field spell from my Graveyard to my hand. The choice is simple, since I only have one field spell in my Grave, which is Power Zone, which I immediately activate!"
Placing his card into the removed from play slot, the robed figure patiently awaited the single card that slid out of his Graveyard Slot to land into his hand. Holding his Duel Disk horizontal, he tapped the end of it, causing a slot to shoot out. He immediately slapped the single card he held in his right hand into it, causing the slot to shut immediately. The sky suddenly began morphing into the color of a dark violet color, with raging storm clouds filling sky while lightning began raining down from the clouds. Parts of mountains and the ruins of the area were swept away like nothing. The demoness herself had to duck to miss a horizontal cyclone that had swept across the field.
Pointing at the large gray orc, Lucifer called out "Void Templar, destroy her pathetic orc."
Obeying it's master's request, the armored warrior raced forward towards the club wielding orc, who stood it's ground. Watching this, the warrior let out a roar that sounded more like an echo of anger before the armor the warrior wore began glowing with multiple colors.
"How pathetic that you're destroying your creature." Yubel smugly remarked.
Not receiving an answer, the demoness only watched as her orc struck out at the armored warrior, only to be surprised when the warrior evaded the attack and drove it's sword into the orc's gut. Pulling it out, the warrior leapt into the air and cleaved the gray skinned creature completely in half, causing a massive explosion to follow, leaving the demoness covering her face from the debris.
Seeing the confusion in the eyes of the demoness, Lucifer coolly spoke up, saying "I neglected to mention the effect of Void Templar. You see, he gains 500 attack points for every card removed from play by his effect. Since I had activated it to return Power Zone to my hand, he gained an advantage over your weakling orc (2400 + 500 = 2900/2400)."
"And now for the fun part, my dearest Yubel. You see, when a monster is destroyed in battle while Power Zone is active, the player who lost a monster loses life points equal to their monster's attack points. That means you lose 2600 more life points, Yubel."
Blazing out of the sky and towards the female demon, a bolt of lightning struck the demoness, causing her to howl out loud in pain. She quickly fell to one knee once the lightning subsided, with smoke wisps pouring off of her form.
Darkly chuckling at the state his opponent was in, Lucifer smugly asked "I take it that you felt the pain from that, now didn't you? It matters not though. For now, I set one card and move to my End Phase. At this point, The First Rift gains a Spell Counter."
Glowing to life, one of the dark stars behind the armored warrior came to life with dark energy flowing through it.
"I end my turn." (Lucifer = 7200, Yubel = 5100)
Rising up with a deep throaty growl, the demoness drew a card, only to watch as the dark star behind the warrior glowed to life and released a blast of blue energy. The blast of energy hit her hard, making her cry out in pain once more while she gripped her chest from the new flash of pain.
Darkly chuckling, Lucifer smartly said "During either of our Draw Phases, The First Rift's effect activates. For every Spell Counter it holds, you lose 100 life points. True, it's not much damage this time, but in time, you will come to lose more and more life points. But the punishment isn't over yet, for I activate my trap, Blitz Renewal! Every time you lose life points, I gain an equal amount of life points. It is not too unfair for you though, for it can only be activated when I have a field spell in play, and should that field spell vanish, Blitz Renewal goes with it and I lose 1000 life points."
Watching as Lucifer's life points rose by 100, the demoness let out a small growl before selecting a card within her hand. "Your cheap parlor tricks won't stop me from destroying you, Lucifer! I will crush you in due time, and it begins now by me activating a continuous spell known as Triangle Force! By activating this card, I'm allowed to take two more copies of it from my deck and put them into play."
Pulling her deck out, the demoness searched through it till she found the two desired cards. Placing both within her Spell/Trap Slots, she shuffled her deck back up and slid it into it's slot.
"What use are those cards?" Lucifer questioned.
"They have no other effect." Yubel remarked in a clipped tone. "But they don't need any other, for their purpose is about to be served. I send all three to the Graveyard, allowing me to special summon this, Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder (4000/4000)!"
Bolts of lightning suddenly rained onto the ground, causing dust and debris to go flying throughout the air. At long last, a single large bolt struck, followed by the sound of a massive roar. Rising out of the dust and debris with another mighty roar was a large dull yellow creature with massive thin skinned wings, thin arms with large clawed tips on it's hands, red glowing eyes, two large horns and a chin like horn on it's head, a long powerful tail, and sharp claws and fangs. The creature roared loudly, sending out several shockwaves.
Staring at the creature with an unimpressive look, Lucifer asked "So, you have summoned a Legendary Demon?"
Remaining calm, the former leader of the Fallen Angels coolly added "Here I was thinking you wanted to actually relax for a little while. Very well, if it is a true duel you want, then I will give it to you. I think now that you have stopped pulling punches, I will do the same myself."
"The only one punching something will be me." Yubel fiercely remarked. "You see, once I attack, the damage Hamon delivers, coupled with it's effect and your own field spell, shall leave your life points severely crippled. So go forth, Hamon, and crush his pathetic warrior now with Cerulean Sky Fire!"
Releasing a mighty roar once more, the large yellow creature raised it's head up towards the air while yellow lightning began licking the edges of it's lips. Bringing it's head back downwards to cast it's glare upon the glass armored warrior, the dull yellow creature released a stream of yellow energy towards it's intended target.
Smirking at the oncoming attack, Lucifer coolly spoke up, saying "Come now Yubel, did you honestly think I wasn't prepared for such a predictable move? I knew you would summon a Legendary Demon eventually, and I was more than ready to take on such an attack. I activate the effect of the card that I removed from play last turn with the help of Void Templar known as Flash of the Abyss. It's effect can only be activated during the Battle Phase and while it is removed from play. By removing one monster from my Graveyard, it ends the Battle Phase and allows me to move a spell card from my deck to my hand that has the word 'Corona' in it."
Instantly, the armored warrior raced forward and slammed his sword into the yellow beam of lightning coming at himself. The stream was suddenly sent plowing into the ground, causing a small explosion from the impact.
Pulling his deck out, the robed figure thumbed through it till he found the desired card and placed it into his left hand. Shuffling his deck, he returned it to it's slot and smirked evilly at the demoness.
In a mocking tone, the figure asked "Anything else?"
Angered by the figure's tone, the demoness grit out "I end my turn." (Lucifer = 7300, Yubel = 5000)
Drawing his new card, the robed figure smirked when one of the dark stars on his field glowed with a dark blue energy, which was suddenly launched across the field and slammed into the demoness, who let out a strangled cry of pain.
"I begin by activating the continuous spell Twilight Corona – The Second Rift."
Forming on the field next to the dark stars was a gash of darkness. The entire area around it suddenly turned gray for a moment, but it soon was restricted to the space on the field of the robed figure. The gash seemed to have a patch of gray cloth covering it, allowing fluttering wind to blow out from it. It gave off a sinister atmosphere, seemingly making the demoness more wary of it.
"When activated, this card first does damage to my opponent in the form of 600 life points, but thanks to Blitz Renewal, I gain 600 life points. I shall explain it's next effect soon enough. In the meantime, Void Templar, attack Hamon!"
"What foolishness." Yubel muttered while watching her monster prepare to counter attack the charging armored warrior.
Racing towards the yellow creature, the glass armored warrior leapt into the air, only to be caught in a stream of brilliant yellow lightning energy. The stream slowly subsided, only to reveal the armored creature was back on the ground without a scratch on his body.
Before the demoness could protest, Lucifer spoke up, saying "Before you being another one of your irritating interruptions, I shall explain. Right when I attacked, I activated my face down trap card, Heart of the Earthbound! By doubling the damage done to me during battle, I can prevent my monster from being destroyed."
"But all you did was lose life points by attacking when there was no way to succeed against Hamon!" snapped the demoness. "What in the nine hells was the point of that?!"
"The point was so I could activate The Second Rift's effect." Lucifer smoothly declared with a smug smirk on his face. "Twilight Corona gains a number of Spell Counters for each 100 points of Battle Damage I took for when the damage was increased."
Without warning, the strange energy hidden by the shred of cloth began to vibrate with energy, seemingly revealing it was increasing it's power. Suddenly, sparks of light began entering it from all directions.
"Next, I can use the second effect of The First Rift, which can only be utilized if The Second Rift is in play. Whenever monsters on the field lose attack points, the owner of that monster is dealt an equal amount of damage to their life points. So, I use the third effect of The Second Rift, which allows me to remove the twenty-two Spell Counters it has to reduce the attack points of your Lord of Striking Thunder by that same amount times 100, meaning it loses 2200 attack points, while you lose 2200 life points (4000 – 2200 = 1800/4000)!"
The flap on the rift suddenly opened, allowing a bolt of gray energy to be released and strike the large dull gray creature. It howled out in agony while it's strength was seemingly sapped from it's body. The creature wasn't alone in it's pain, for the dark stars released a blast of dark blue energy and struck it's mistress, who released her own scream of pain before falling to one knee and panting heavily.
Smirking at the destruction on the field, Lucifer smartly said "I'm not done yet, for you see, Void Templar has one last effect. It can attack your field so long as you have at least one monster on it. Since all of those effects were activated during the Battle Phase, Void Templar can continue his assault. Now go Templar, destroy Hamon!"
Charging forward on the order from his master, the diamond armored warrior leapt high into the air. Raising it's head to view the oncoming attacker, the dull yellow dragon attempted to growl, only to fail miserably. A moment passed while the warrior came downwards and slashed it's sword through the neck of the yellow creature. The cut was clean and easily cleaved off the head of the massive dragon creature, which exploded instantly and releasing a mighty wind from the explosion.
With a dark smirk on his face, the robed figure quickly said "Thanks to Power Zone, you now receive damage equal to your monster's attack points. That is 1800, in case you forgot."
A streak of lightning suddenly struck the demoness, who released an inhuman scream of pain that was louder than the maniacal laughter of her tormentor. The lightning soon faded away, allowing the smoking demoness to crash face first onto the ground while her body trembled from the bolts of electricity still flowing through her.
"Do you still believe you have a chance of winning, Yubel?" Lucifer cruelly asked while laughing still. "You are nothing compared to me! The sample of power that I have shown you thus far is nothing compared to my true power. You should have remained blind and loyal, for then at least you'd have not suffered so much as you are now. How do you intend on defeating me when I just put down one of your more powerful monsters with mere ease!? I have nothing to fear from you, for you are powerless!"
Slowly moving to her hands and feet, the demoness grit out "Just make your move."
Sneering at the weakened demon, the robed figure shrugged his shoulders, asking "Still thinking you can win with that false hope? It won't do you any good. I set a face down and end my turn." (Lucifer = 9800, Yubel = 300)
Weakly, the demoness stood back up and stretched out her wings, but not before releasing a ragged cough. Drawing her card, she glanced up and felt a pair of dark blue blasts strike her, making her nearly fall back to the ground. Running on pure willpower, the demoness managed to keep from falling to the ground and released a light growl.
"You are almost finished, Yubel. On my next turn, I shall win since you will lose your last 100 life points." Lucifer smugly pointed out.
Releasing a light growl, the demoness fiercely replied "Not likely! I've come too far to lose to a simple human like you! I will destroy you, no matter the cost!"
"Try as you may, it will not happen. Destiny is not on your side, Yubel." Lucifer coolly remarked.
About to shoot back a venomous retort, the demoness stopped. Smirking, Yubel smartly said "I will prove to you that I am superior, and that it is you who shall fall. I set two face down cards and a monster. That ends my move." (Lucifer = 10000, Yubel = 100)
Fingering the top card on his deck, Lucifer snickered, saying "This is the end for you, Yubel. What a shame you didn't last longer."
"I wouldn't count on it!" Yubel fiercely growled back.
Shrugging, the robed figure drew his card and smartly said "The duel is over for you as of right now. My Azure Corona takes the last of your life points."
Glowing to life, the dark star unleashed a blast of dark blue energy at the demoness, who stood her ground. With only a few feet of distance between herself and the incoming blast, the demoness coolly smirked.
"I have come too far to surrender to the likes of you. I activate my trap, The Paths of Destiny!"
Immediately, the blast of dark blue energy was stopped with only a foot of distance between itself and the demoness, who seemed unconcerned. A moment passed before two holographic coins formed on the field before each of the players.
"The Paths of Destiny card is an interesting little trap. We each first flip a coin. The results will determine what happens to each of us. So go ahead, flip away, Lucifer."
Pointing at the stationary coin, the robed figure snapped his fingers, causing the coin to flip up into the air. The demoness did the same, sending both coins flipping. The two coins soon hit the ground, with the demoness's showing heads up, while the robed figure's was tails.
Smirking, the demoness coolly said "Whenever there is a heads up, that player gains 2000 life points. That means my own life points increase, while the inverse happens to you. You see, when you receive a tails, you lose 2000 life points. Too bad, Lucifer."
Both duelists life point counters immediately rose and fell to their new scores, leaving the robed figure with a glare on his face. The glare soon faded as the dark blue energy lurched forward and slammed into the demoness, making her cry out in pain while her life points dropped slightly and the robed figures rose once more.
"No hurt feelings, Yubel." Lucifer smartly commented. "Now then, I activate The Second Rift's final ability. This allows me to send the top three cards on my deck to the removed from play pile, and then add one spell from my Graveyard to my hand, so long as the card doesn't have the word 'Corona' in it's name. I choose Sanguine Sanctum to add to my hand."
Placing the top three cards from his deck into the removed from play slot, the robed figure slowly watched a spell card slide out of his Graveyard Slot. Picking it up, he turned it towards the demoness, saying "I immediately activate it, which allows me to add one spell card with 'Corona' in it's name from my deck to my hand."
"His entire deck is about finding and recycling cards." the demoness growled within her mind. "All these Corona cards seem to do is continuously deal me damage, but there must be a higher purpose to them. It's unlikely that Lucifer would think these cheap parlor tricks would defeat the likes of myself or even Illidan Stormrage."
Broken out of her thoughts, the demoness heard Lucifer smartly say "I select the spell from my deck known as Abyss Corona – The Third Rift and activate it immediately."
Immediately, the air and limited light on the field suddenly began to warp as a color of crimson and deep blue flashed onto the field, with the coloring slowly fading into the latter of the two. Slowly, the warp contracted and formed into a simple blinking star of red light, seemingly joining the blue and gray ones.
"This card can only be activated when I have The First and Second Rifts in play. During each one of my End Phases, it gains one Rift Counter. When it has three Rift Counters, I can add one specific spell card from my deck to my hand. Luckily for you, The Third Rift has no other effects. But it matters not, for when this one effect comes to about, your chances of victory will be completely gone. Of course, that's assuming you survive much longer."
Pointing a finger at the horizontal monster card, the robed figure sharply said "Void Templar, crush her pathetic monster."
Charging forward with his diamond armor glowing multiple colors, the warrior drew his sword above his head and slammed it hard into the horizontal card image. The image shattered after a moment, revealing a strange green plant looking monster that appeared mostly human with pink petals for hair that stuck up and was sitting on a lily pad. A moment passed and the creature shattered and vanished from the field.
"Congratulations in destroying my Samsara Lotus (0/0)." Yubel smugly remarked. "It had zero attack points, so I lose no life points for the effect of your Power Zone."
Releasing a small chuckle, the robed figure shrugged, saying "A small sign of confidence, but it is all that you have, Yubel. Now then, the effect of The First Rift activates, which gains another Spell Counter. And at that, I end my turn." (Lucifer = 8200, Yubel = 1900)
Drawing a card, the demoness could hardly suppress herself from crying out when a blast of dark blue energy struck her. Forcing herself to move on, she turned the card she had drawn to her opponent, saying "I begin by activating the spell Pot of Greed. Thanks to this, I draw two more cards."
Snapping off two new cards, the demoness smirked evilly. "I activate the spell Fiend's Sanctuary, which allows me to special summon one Metal Fiend Token (0/0) to my field."
Materializing onto the field before the demoness was a small silver creature made up of several round metal sections. It had pointed hands and a pointed tail, and a simple round head.
Pointing at her face down card, Yubel smartly said "I activate my trap card, Call of the Haunted, which allows me to bring back Samsara Lotus (0/0) to my field."
Immediately, the small human like flower creature reappeared onto the field. It gave a quick glance at the silver creature beside itself before returning it's full attention back ahead of itself.
"What a pointless move." Lucifer grunted out. "Why bother summoning those two weaklings?"
"You would dare not say such things to me if you had any idea on what I was about to unleash upon you!" Yubel snapped angrily, with her eyes flashing dangerously. "I sacrifice both my Metal Fiend Token and Samsara Lotus in order to summon my ultimate creature! This monster goes beyond the power of Armitael itself! I summon forth my avatar, Yubel (0/0)!"
Rolling his eyes while the two creatures before the demoness vanished, Lucifer smartly said "How overly theatrical, but ineffective."
Glowing lightly, the demoness's body suddenly split into two, with a fully identical version of the demoness appearing while moving forward onto the playing field. The new demoness smirked evilly while releasing a small dark chuckle.
"And now for a little more fun, for I activate the equip spell Complete Defeat, and equip it to Yubel. This spell only works on a monster with zero attack points, in which Yubel obviously has that qualification. When she battles with another monster, the other monster will be destroyed at the end of the Damage Step."
Releasing a dark chuckle, the original demoness smugly said "You are very unfortunate to have to face the wrath of one of the most powerful monsters in the game."
"The supposed power of your creature doesn't appear to transition into attack points." the robed figure studiously remarked.
Smirking darkly, the demoness smugly replied "It's effect more than makes up for it's lack of attack points. Now then, it's time we battled. Come Void Templar, try and destroy my avatar."
Frowning at the words of the demoness, the robed figure suddenly noted that the demoness's double's eye on her forehead was glowing bright orange. At that moment, the eyes of the armored warrior glowed to life also. Trembling slightly, the diamond armored warrior charged forward with his sword ready to strike. He was only a few feet away from the demoness when a spiraling barrier of thick thorn covered vines appeared. The warrior's sword struck the barrier, only to have the top of the vine race towards the robed figure and encircle him and strike him with it's numerous thorns, causing him to scream out in pain.
"As you may have noticed, Yubel was not destroyed in that battle." the demoness commented. "Also, any Battle Damage that would be incurred to me is reduced to zero. As well, when she attacks or is attacked, your monster's attack points are inflicted to your life points as direct damage."
Sneering, the demoness added "By the way, the effect of Complete Defeat is about to activate. Your monster will be destroyed like it would normally in battle. Due to that, your field spell, Power Zone, will now take away another 2900 of your life points."
Without warning, the diamond armored warrior shattered, causing a bolt of lightning to flash out of the sky and strike the robed figure, making him cry out in pain for the second time in the duel and causing him to fall to one knee.
"Where is your arrogance and confidence now, fool?!" Yubel smugly questioned. "Did you think you could put me down so easily? You are the one that has no hope here!"
Standing, Lucifer spoke in a deathly cold voice, seemingly void of the playfulness that had been in it earlier in the duel. "Believe what you want, but this duel was over the moment you accepted. Dark World belongs to me, Yubel, and you will be crushed by the wrath of this powerful deck!"