Chapter 18: Gate of Gluttony
Returning to the central area of the corridors, we saw on the monitors that the top section of the cross connecting to the yellow square had been colored green. The last Gatekeeper was through the red-colored corridor, branching off to the right of the way when we went in there originally, so it was pretty obvious where we needed to go next.
As I came to expect, the red corridor led into a red Duel Arena, with a man in red robes and a red Duel Disk.
"Ah, I think I remember you," Carnivore stated. "You're the Glutton, right?"
"Interesting, somebody knows my name. Just call me Red, though," the Gatekeeper replied. "So, you've taken out Blue and Yellow, eh?"
As she dealt the finishing blow last time, Carnivore went first. She Special Summoned a Gilasaurus (1400/400) and Summoned a Miracle Jurassic Egg (0/2000), ending with a face-down card. I drew, and this hand was definitely something I could work with. I placed two cards face-down. When the Gatekeeper took his turn, he placed four cards face-down and activated his Graceful Charity, allowing him to draw three cards but discard two from his Hand. As he drew the three, he grinned. I could just tell that his Sacred Beast was coming. He sent two cards to the Graveyard, and from there, he sacrificed his three Trap Cards to summon Uria, Lord of Searing Flames (0/0). Before ending his turn, he announced that his monster gained 1000 ATK for each Trap Card in his Graveyard. Since he had five, that meant his monster had 5000 ATK. Finally, Uria's ability activated, allowing the Gatekeeper to destroy a face-down card, destroying Carnivore's set card.
Carnivore drew, and activated Card of Sanctity, allowing everyone to draw until holding six cards. From there, it was a Pot of Greed for two free cards, and Card Destruction, forcing everyone to discard their hand and draw the same number of cards discarded. This, in turn, led to twelve counters being placed on her Miracle Jurassic Egg, since she got rid of six monsters. However, Uria's Attack power also increased to 8000. For her third move, she used Polymerization to fuse her Gilasaurus with the Kaitoptera in her hand and form Horned Saurus (2000/1000). She attacked directly due to its ability, but was stopped by the one card that wasn't Tributed for Uria: Negate Attack, ending the Battle Phase and increasing the monster's power to 9000. Lastly, she Tributed her Miracle Jurassic Egg to summon Super Conductor Tyranno from her Deck and activated its ability; by destroying a monster, she could deal the Gatekeeper 1000 points of damage. She destroyed Horned Saurus to get him down to 3000 Life Points, set a card face-down and ended her turn.
As I began my turn, I knew we weren't in a situation to make careless mistakes. One attack penetrating meant that we were goners. Carnivore revealed her face-down at that point; Skull Lair, allowing her to remove monsters in her Graveyard from the game to destroy a monster with a Level equal to the number of cards removed this way. She removed ten cards from play via this effect to destroy Uria. I breathed a sigh of relief seeing as this guy's ace monster was gone, but I couldn't relax just yet, so I set one more card face-down and ended my turn.
The Gatekeeper began his turn, and I was glad I didn't let up. He sent a Trap Card from his Hand to his Graveyard to revive Uria, this time with 10000 ATK. First, he activated its effect to destroy a face-down, targeting one of mine, happening to pick my face-down Nightmare Mirror. He then attacked Carnivore's monster, but I revealed my Draining Shield, negating its ATK and gaining 10000 Life Points in the process to come to 14000.
Carnivore drew, and summoned Babycerasaurus (500/500). That was when she activated the ability of Super Conductor Tyranno, destroying a monster to deal 1000 damage to the opponent. The monster chosen was Babycerasaurus, and since it was destroyed by a card effect, its own ability activated, allowing for the Special Summon of a Level 4 or lower Dinosaur from her Deck, with her choosing Tyranno Infinity (?/0). The Gatekeeper was now on 2000 Life Points, and Carnivore's new monster's ATK was 10000, the same as Uria. I had to assume she didn't have a way to power up her card, as she chose to attack Uria on the spot, destroying both cards. She placed one card face-down and ended her turn.
I couldn't think why she did that. Was she trying to find the weakness of the monster? In that case, why would she settle for a draw? I drew, and got Rainbow Life. I couldn't let up, however, so I Set the card and ended my turn.
As predicted, the Gatekeeper revived Uria by discarding a Trap Card. Now, his monster was at 11000 points. That thing just kept getting more and more powerful. Sure, he was only using one monster, but he could practically bring that back ad infinitum. Wait… one monster? Could that be it? Could that have been Uria's weakness? Uria attacked me directly this time, using its ability to destroy my set Rainbow Life, but that was when Carnivore revealed her Mirror Force, destroying the beast again.
When Carnivore took her turn, the only thing she did was use Monster Reborn to revive her Tyranno Infinity, with its 10000 ATK. That was still much less than Uria's though, unless, if I could just get the card I needed with my next draw. She ended her turn there.
My turn came, and I drew a Pot of Greed. Lovely. Playing it, however, I got the card I needed: Nibelung's Treasure. Playing that, I drew five cards and activated one of my spells on the Gatekeeper's field, choosing Scapegoat and giving him four Tokens. I set two more cards to end my turn, discarding my excess cards until I was holding six.
He once again sent a Trap to the Graveyard to revive Uria, now with 12000 ATK. However, as he controlled monsters when using this effect, he couldn't attack. My plan had worked, so all he could do was end his turn!
Carnivore drew, and it looked like she got what she needed as well. She played Soul Release, allowing her to remove from play up to five cards in any player's Graveyard, choosing to remove 5 Traps and subsequently weaken Uria by 5000 points. With that finished, she used her Tyranno Infinity to destroy Uria and remove the Gatekeeper's 2000 Life Points.
"From what I heard, you never could resist gorging your monsters," Carnivore spoke. "Now, hand over the Key."
"Fine, fine, fine," the Gatekeeper sighed. "I hate it when my mealtime's cut off though."
We walked back into the corridor with our prize, the final Key, the red Key. Now at last, with all seven Keys, we could declare victory.