That's right!
It's here!
Flame Swordsman!
And seemingly because of its appearance, the surrounding resentments and pain gradually dissipated, no longer oppressing Tenjo Hikari, but instead began to swirl around.
"Use the effect of Flame Swordsdance to set you down—"
The little Lion Witch gently wrapped his robe around himself, turned over, and fell asleep, turning into a face-down card.
"Since you don't have any face-up monsters, you can't Special Summon monsters with the same name—likewise, since mine is a Fusion Monster, Inferno Reckless Summon can't Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck, so I also have no way to Special Summon monsters."
The strategy was disrupted, but the Lion Witch was not too surprised.
It's not unusual for the opponent to figure out one's strategy.
If one strategy isn't suitable, then naturally there are other methods that can be used.
"Activate Spell Card, Card Destruction."
"Both players discard all cards in their hands, then draw the same number of cards."
Tenjo Hikari raised an eyebrow, placing all the cards in his hand into the Graveyard, then drawing three cards from his deck.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Lion Witch discarded a large number of hand cards and then replaced them.
"Activate Spell Card, Enchanting Fitting Room." He took out the Spell Card in his hand and placed it on the field.
"Enchanting Fitting Room, also a card to support Low Level Normal Monsters." Amon frowned.
"Because the deck is filled with Low Level, Normal Monsters, such cards were included to hope for the best effect?"
Lion Witch, LP: 2650→1850.
"Pay 800 Life Points. Flip the top 4 cards of your deck. Special Summon the Low Level Normal Monsters among them to your field, return the rest of the cards to the deck."
"First card — LV 1, Bat." The Lion Witch flipped over a card, and the crowd focused their eyes on it, curiously watching how many cards it could draw.
"Second card…" The card on top of the deck slowly flipped over, revealing its face, "LV 2, Dig Beak."
The third card simultaneously began to turn over, and seeing the third card, Aiko exclaimed, "Third card. LV 2, Basic Insect."
As if expecting something, or perhaps in amazement, everyone fixed their eyes on the top card of the Lion Witch's deck.
"Fourth card…"
The card slowly turned over.
"LV 1, Goblin Calligrapher!"
"Really!?"
"All four!?"
Even though they anticipated it, seeing the Lion Witch flip over 4 cards all resulting in Low Level Normal Monsters still caused the spectators to exclaim.
Obviously, this is not "normal."
"Release me on the field as a Sacrifice, Tribute Summon, Morinphen."
I super, Sky God.
Tenjo Hikari mentally snarked.
"Next, activate Spell Card, Sword of the Soul-Eater!"
"This card can only be equipped to a LV 3 or lower Normal Monster on your field. When this card is activated, release all Normal Monsters on your field except for the equipped monster. For each one released, the equipped monster gains 1000 ATK!"
"I equip this card to Basic Insect, and release all other monsters on the field, raising its ATK by 4000!"
In front of a standard green-skinned Basic Insect, a Greatsword suddenly landed. Basic Insect raised the Greatsword, although the Greatsword was filled with magic, looking extremely evil, but to become stronger, to defeat their enemies, the four Normal Monsters willingly surged toward the Demon Sword to provide power!
Basic Insect, LV 2, Earth Attribute, Insect-Type, ATK 500→4500!
"4500 ATK!?" Aiko couldn't help but lightly cover her lips, "This ATK is already comparable to Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
Ed also felt a slight pressure.
His Destiny Hero's ATK is generally lower, and if he were to change his deck to a load of unfamiliar monsters, he'd have even less confidence in reliably defeating this monster.
"Battle, Basic Insect! Use the cursed blade, with your resentment, defeat the enemies!"
Basic Insect swung the sword at the dragon, although the dragon possessed the power of its companions, ultimately this power also had limits, how could it compare to the power contributed by four monsters willing to sacrifice themselves?
"Defeat those new and novel monsters that have taken your place!"
Lion Witch roared.
The sword slashed through the dragon, a massive surge of black aura spread out, passing over the dragon, reaching Tenjo Hikari, Flame Swordsman immediately rose up to protect in front of Tenjo Hikari, flames surged high.
This is the Flame Swordsman.
The Warrior who forever guards in front of Tenjo Hikari!
"No need to help me, Flame Sword!" Tenjo Hikari shouted directly, "Let me face it and see what kind of pain these spirits have endured!"
"...Alright—my lord!"
It stepped aside, allowing Tenjo Hikari to directly face the darkness and resentment.
It was an ancient card, a bug-catching net, a child capturing insects carefree in the night, and for his birthday, his parents gave him a "Duel Monsters" card that had recently become popular.
The card was very novel, the material quite unique, plus it was the child's favorite "Insect," so he was very fond of it.
However—
As Duel Kingdoms and Duel City tournaments took place, month after month went by, and the child gradually grew up, started school, developed interests, and became increasingly sensitive to numbers.
Basic Insect, this old, weak, and frail card, was gradually forgotten by the student, becoming a forgotten piece of paper at the bottom of a box, finally…