Chapter 168. Galaxy-Eyes' Hot-Blooded "Coach" Draw Falls Short! Number XX: Utopic Dark Infinity and Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon!
At the same time.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the Galaxy-Eyes player in front of them!
They were all curious and waiting for the pure Galaxy-Eyes Duelist to finish drawing and explode through the board!
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I activate a Rank-Up-Magic! Rank-Up-Magic Quick Chaos!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I Chaos Xyz Summon by Ranking Up my Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Piercing the galaxy to the limit!"
"Awaken before time itself was born!"
"The transcendent, eternal star of dragons!"
"Come forth! Number C107: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon!!!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Then I flip my Trap! Mathmech Superfactorial!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I choose Mathmech Circular, Mathmech Nabla, and Mathmech Diameter in the Graveyard to perform an accelerated Xyz!"
"Three Level 4 monsters!"
"Overlay Xyz Summon! Primathmech Laplacian!"
"I then activate Laplacian, detaching 3 materials!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Chain Link 2, I activate the effect of the Continuous Trap Photon Change!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I send the Photon Jumper on my field to the Graveyard to transform!"
"At the same time, Chain Link 3, I activate the Counter Trap in my hand!"
"Tachyon Transmigration!"
"You want to activate Laplacian's effect? Useless!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Interesting! A Trap from hand?"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Then I'll do it too!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I chain a Counter Trap from my hand at Chain Link 4 to lock your Counter Trap!"
"I activate Red Reboot!"
"I pay half my Life Points to activate it!"
"I negate your Tachyon Transmigration and Set it face-down!"
"Then you choose 1 Trap to Set."
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Fine, fine! You're good!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I Set Eternal Bond from my Deck!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Due to the 'transform' effect, my Jumper became Photon Emperor!"
"Photon Emperor grants an additional Normal Summon!"
"In other words, I now have two Normal Summons."
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Then it's time to resolve my Chain Link 1!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "First effect: randomly send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard."
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Second effect: choose your Number C107: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon on the field and send it to the Graveyard."
"Third effect: the Set Tachyon Transmigration you just placed is also sent to the Graveyard."
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Photon Jumper in my Graveyard triggers."
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I add the Spell Galaxy Expedition from my Deck!"
A brief exchange of back-and-forth!
Duelists across the worlds felt their scalps tingle watching it!
They could only feel how brutal high-tier-world Dueling was!
Just one Rank-Up Xyz evolution—
A terrifying chain erupted at once!
And Counter Trap negating Counter Trap!
Many old-school duelists could only twitch at the corners of their mouths watching it!
In the DM world.
Seto Kaiba already wore a grave expression.
At the same time, he finally understood.
So this is what "mainstream Duels" are!
This is the mainstream!
Neither side wants to give the other any chance! Both are going all-out to execute their lines and combos!
They even pay half their Life Points again just to negate!
You have to know!
Ex-Saint Utopia was at only 2000 LP!
Extremely risky!
Is this the Duelist's will?
Dock Life Points without a second thought!
Treating Life Points like nothing!
Is it a contest of who can stay at low LP better?
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I activate Galaxy Expedition!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "It won't work. When Mathmech Diameter is used as material, it grants the Xyz Monster one omni-negate."
Ex-Saint Utopia: "So I activate Laplacian to negate your Galaxy Expedition."
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Then I activate Photon Orbital in my hand and equip it to Photon Emperor!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I send Orbital to the Graveyard to add Galaxy Wizard from my Deck!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I Normal Summon Galaxy Wizard and use its effect to pull back Number C62: Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon from my Graveyard!"
"My Rank-Up-Magic Quick Chaos in the Graveyard activates, returning to my hand!"
"I perform a Rank-Up Xyz on Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!"
"Come forth! Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I flip my Set Trap! Crackdown!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Using Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon to scout the way? Hand it over!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Doesn't matter! That wasn't my goal anyway!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "You control a Kaiju, so I Special Summon Jizukiel, the Star Destroying Kaiju from my hand!"
"I'm going to build an Xyz network!"
"There are three monsters with different Levels on the field!"
"I activate Galaxy Queen's Light!"
"I choose the Star Destroying Kaiju! Then Galaxy Wizard and Photon Emperor become Level 10!"
"Overlay Xyz with three monsters!"
"Rank 10 Xyz Monster! Superdimensional Robot Galaxy Destroyer!!!"
What the heck?
Galaxy—Destroyer?
Wait a second!
Aren't Galaxy-Eyes decks all Dragon-Type Xyz?
Someone actually runs this card?
And its Summoning condition is extremely demanding!
You need three Level 10s!
The cost outweighs the benefit!
Why would anyone run it?
Even if this card has 5000 ATK!
And its effect looks decent!
It still doesn't seem worth it!
For a pure Galaxy-Eyes core to make it? Way too hard!
So when they saw this card,
Duelists from every world were stunned!
Then what is this card for?
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "I activate Galaxy Destroyer's effect! Detach 1 material!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Destroy all your back-row!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Without Crackdown, my Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon comes back!"
"Then Photon Emperor in my Graveyard triggers, Special Summoning itself!"
"I activate Cipher Blade Dragon, detach 1 material to destroy your Number 99: Utopia Dragonar!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I activate ZS – Utopic Sage!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Banish on resolution to avoid destruction!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Then I Link Summon using Superdimensional Robot Galaxy Destroyer and Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Blade Dragon!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Confirm Link-2! Galaxy-Eyes Solflare Dragon!"
"Solflare activates! I retrieve the Galaxy Knight you dumped to the Graveyard earlier!"
"I Normal Summon Galaxy Knight and use its effect to revive Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!"
"Once again, the field has three Level 8 monsters!"
"Build the Xyz network!"
"Overlay! Coach King Giantrainer!"
"I activate its effect! By detaching 1 Xyz Material, I draw 1 card from my Deck!"
"With 3 materials, I can use it up to 3 times!"
"If it's a monster card, you take 800 damage!"
"And you only have 2000 LP left!"
Duelists who had originally wanted to curse the Galaxy-Eyes player for using two ace monsters just to Link Summon into "such a trash card" fell silent.
Hold on!
Wait!
This 2000 LP—so if Coach King draws even one monster,
Wouldn't that be lethal?
Whoa?!
No way!
Will it really work?
The group chat erupted in discussion!
Joey Wheeler: "That's too risky! Wasting so many resources just to bet on the three top cards being monsters! If not, it's a huge loss!"
Crow Hogan: "Joey, you can't say it like that! Look carefully—he actually went plus three in cards during the line, didn't he?"
Playmaker: "Agreed. I think it's a clever line; even if it doesn't finish the game, drawing three replenishes the hand. Definitely not a loss!"
Yusei Fudo: "Now it depends on whether his Deck will answer him."
After a round of discussion, many duelists felt that although the play looked like a desperate gamble,
In reality it had the highest expected value!
Maybe… it really will work?
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Come on! Deck, answer my call!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Draw #1! Monster—Photon Jumper! You take 800 LP!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Draw #2! Monster—Nebula Dragon! You take 800 LP!"
"Draw #3! Monst… huh? Spell—Shuffle Reborn."
"Are you kidding me!"
"Where's the promised answer, Deck? This isn't in the script!"
"Short by 400! Damn!"
"I Set 1 card and end my turn."
It failed.
Seeing this, all duelists showed regret, while also wearing an "as expected" expression.
Three cards all being monsters—
The odds were still too low.
Yugi Muto even waved helplessly.
This Galaxy-Eyes player's bond with his Deck just isn't deep enough.
If it were him,
He'd have closed it out there, right?
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Heh, you scared me."
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Then I can activate Number 99: Utopia Dragonar!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "At your End Phase."
"I detach 2 materials and treat it as an Xyz Summon from the Extra Deck: Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon!"
"Then the Rank-Up-Magic in my Graveyard, Hyper Rank-Up-Magic Utopiforce, triggers to attach itself to Heart-eartH Dragon as material."
"I activate Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon, detach 1 material!"
"All cards your opponent Summoned, Special Summoned, or Set this turn are banished."
The card Pure Galaxy-Eyes just Set,
Along with Galaxy-Eyes Solflare Dragon and Coach King Giantrainer, were all banished!
And the turn passed back to Utopia.
The advantage—now massively one-sided!
Seeing this, everyone almost believed the Duel was about to end.
Next turn for Utopia—just explode and take the game!
Should be no problem, right?
Ex-Saint Utopia: "My turn! Draw!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I activate Memories of Hope!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I draw 2 cards!"
"Activate Pot of Avarice, return 5 monsters from the Graveyard to the Deck and draw 2!"
"Activate the Field Spell ZEXAL Field!"
"If there's an Xyz Monster on the field, I can Special Summon Astraltopia from my hand!"
"Astraltopia's effect: I send the Thunder King, the Lightningstrike Kaiju you gave me to the Graveyard and add Zexal Construction!"
"I then Normal Summon ZS – Ascended Sage."
"Astraltopia and Ascended Sage build the Xyz network!"
"Overlay to make Primathmech Alembertian!"
"Alembertian's effect—add Mathmech Circular from the Deck!"
"Circular sends Mathmech Sigma to the Graveyard to Special Summon itself."
"Alembertian continues—by releasing Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon, I revive Mathmech Nabla from the Graveyard!"
"Circular adds Mathmech Equation!"
"I Xyz Summon with Primathmech Alembertian and Primathmech Laplacian!"
"Here it comes! Number F0: Utopic Future!"
"Rank it up further!"
"Number F0: Utopic Draco Future!"
"I activate ZEXAL Field to attach Kashtira Arise-Heart from the Graveyard to Draco Future as material!"
"Nabla and Circular build the Xyz network!"
"Overlay into Number 39: Utopia!"
"I activate Zexal Construction to return Double or Nothing! to the Deck!"
"I search a second Rank-Up-Magic: Rank-Up-Magic ZEXAL Force!"
"Rank-Up on Number 39: Utopia!"
"Xyz Summon! Number XX: Utopic Dark Infinity!!!"
"I activate Utopic Dark Infinity, choose Draco Future, and I recover 3000 LP!"
As expected!
As expected!
Another round of Mathmech play into the Utopia axis!
They'd seen it before!
But seeing it again,
Duelists of the ZEXAL world still shivered all over!
And the final Number XX: Utopic Dark Infinity made every Xyz Duelist's spine go cold!
Wait, what?
What even is this Utopia Xyz monster?!
At the same time,
Kotori Mizuki, Tetsuo Takeda, Kite Tenjo, and Reginald Kastle all turned their eyes to Yuma Tsukumo in unison!
And Yuma was dumbfounded!
After rubbing his eyes and confirming he wasn't mistaken,
This Utopia Xyz—
It really was Number XX!
What the heck does "XX" even mean?!
"Uh, would you believe me if I said even I didn't know Utopia had this 'XX'?"
"Yeah, I really didn't!"
"Sigh..."
Yuma gave a bitter smile as he stared at Number XX: Utopic Dark Infinity!
He really wanted to say,
This kind of Utopia isn't pure enough!
You're two-timing—your monster is crying, you know!
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I activate Mathmech Equation to revive Mathmech Diameter!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I use Raider's Wing—by sending 1 material from Utopic Dark Infinity to the Graveyard, I Special Summon it!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "I Xyz Summon with Mathmech Diameter and Raider's Wing!"
"Overlay into Number 39: Utopia Double!"
"Utopia Double activates, detaching 1 to add Double or Nothing!!"
"Rank up to Number S39: Utopia the Lightning!"
"I switch Number 99: Utopia Dragonar to Attack Position!"
"I think! This is the end!"
"I attack with Number XX: Utopic Dark Infinity!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Trying to scare me? After you did that, until the end of the turn you can only attack with 1 monster."
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "So I just need to activate Photon Jumper in my hand!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Does that help? I activate Number F0: Utopic Draco Future!"
"Detach 1 to negate your Jumper!"
Pure Galaxy-Eyes: "Oh? Sore wa dō kana?"
"I activate Galaxy Kuriboh in my hand!"
"You think only you have a Kuriboh?"
"I discard Galaxy Kuriboh to Special Summon Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from my Deck!"
"Then your Utopic Dark Infinity must attack my Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!"
"I activate Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon—banish both itself and your Utopic Dark Infinity!"
Ex-Saint Utopia: "My Battle Phase ends."
Ex-Saint Utopia: "Utopic Dark Infinity and your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon return to the field."
"I Set 1 card."
"My turn ends."
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