Chapter 93. Firewall Dragon Darkfluid Escorts the Great Lord into Battle with Avramax! The Code Talkers' Last Hope!
Code Talker Saikou looked at his Deck.
It was as if the system itself were urging him to draw that card now.
But when Code Talker Saikou set his hand on the Deck, he still didn't draw.
Draw?
Stack?
Godly topdeck?
Then…
What single card could completely solve the current board?
Right now,
after a string of searches and setups on Turn 1,
his Deck resources had already been shaved down by more than half.
And since he hadn't opened any generic hand traps going first,
that could only mean—
the hand traps were still in the Deck.
This draw was less likely to be a Code Talker piece,
but the odds of a generic hand trap were higher!
Time to gamble!
"I Will Create You": "Hey, hey, hey! Hurry up and draw already!"
"I Will Create You": "Wasn't your U-lock feeling great just now?"
"I Will Create You": "I already cracked your board, so don't tell me you can't crack mine!"
Crack this board?
Code Talker Saikou sneered inwardly.
With Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess on the field, even starting a line was a problem!
So he had to deal with Apollousa first!
"Yah!"
Code Talker Saikou: "My turn! Draw!"
Code Talker Saikou: "The card I drew is—"
"Heh, heh!"
"Trap Card: Infinite Impermanence!"
Those four words thundered like a bolt from the blue.
The Machina player's smile froze instantly.
Duelists across the six worlds were baffled.
Infinite… Impermanence?
A Trap Card?
Is that… strong?
Before the old guard could process it, the moment that stunned them arrived.
Code Talker Saikou: "I activate Infinite Impermanence!"
Code Talker Saikou: "Since I control no cards, I can activate it from my hand."
"After it resolves—!"
"I target your Apollousa!"
"Its effects are negated until the end of the turn!"
From hand?!
A Trap from hand!
And its effect
was a monster-effect negate!
No—there was more!
If it had been Set, it could also blank the Spells/Traps in that column for the turn!
Whoa!
First, Forbidden Droplet cracked the U-lock.
Now, Infinite Impermanence shut off Apollousa's negates!
With Apollousa gone offline,
there was nothing left on the opponent's field that could impede monster effects!
Code Talker Saikou: "Since Apollousa has no effect now—"
Code Talker Saikou: "Just watch my combo!"
Code Talker Saikou: "I activate Scrypton in my hand!"
"I banish Dotscaper from my GY to Special Summon it!"
"Banish trigger on Dotscaper—Special Summon it back!"
"Link 2!"
"Link Summon—Splash Mage!"
"Scrypton's effect—shuffle the banished Transcode Talker back into the Deck!"
"Splash Mage effect—revive Mathmech Addition from the GY!"
"I Normal Summon a second Lady Debug, and add Micro Coder to my hand!"
"Use Splash Mage + Micro Coder—Link 3 Transcode Talker!"
"Micro Coder effect—add the Field Spell Cynet Storm from my Deck!"
"I activate Cynet Storm! All linked monsters gain 500 ATK/DEF!"
"Transcode Talker effect—revive Excode Talker from the GY!"
"I overlay Lady Debug and Mathmech Addition!"
"Two Level 4s!"
"Xyz Summon—Primathmech Alembertian!"
The old-guard duelists in all six worlds stared, wide-eyed, at the terrifying resource weaving and explosion from Code Talker Saikou.
Setting aside the lethal topdeck of Infinite Impermanence—
the remaining two cards in his hand
were clearly Lady Debug and Scrypton.
Yet with only two cards,
he leveraged graveyard resources
to reconstruct his entire board plan and advantage from scratch!
That was terrifying!
If you handed them this position, they'd have no idea how to squeeze value out of the GY
or how to maximize gains when multiple lines were live!
For example—at the Splash Mage step,
some would think to revive a different Link-2.
In reality, he revived a monster to convert into an Xyz line for Primathmech Alembertian.
That single decision left many VRAINS duelists dazed,
and the other five worlds were simply shocked by the Code Talker explosion and resource combos.
So this is… the power of new-era Cyberse Link decks?
Back to the short video—
obviously, Code Talker Saikou couldn't break and win with just this.
He
still needed to keep going!
Code Talker Saikou: "I activate Primathmech Alembertian!"
"Detach to search Mathmech Subtraction!"
"Mathmech Subtraction—target Primathmech Alembertian to Special Summon itself and reduce Alembertian's ATK by 1000 until the end of this turn!"
"Here we go!"
"I use Transcode Talker, Primathmech Alembertian, and Mathmech Subtraction to Link!"
"Arrows, confirmed!"
"—!"
"Link 5—Firewall Dragon Darkfluid!"
"I activate its effect—on Link Summon, place counters equal to the number of different types among my Cyberse monsters in the GY (Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz)!"
"Each counter is worth 2500 ATK during the Battle Phase!"
"I get 2 counters!"
"Battle Phase!"
"Darkfluid's ATK surges to 9000!"
How much?!
Nine thousand ATK?!
Whoa!
A master at work!
As the ultimate Link-5 hit the field
and Firewall Dragon Darkfluid shot up to a ridiculous 9000 ATK in battle,
every duelist across the worlds was stunned.
With this,
wasn't it just over?
The group chat exploded.
Even Yusaku Fujiki hesitated when he saw Darkfluid.
Yusaku Fujiki: "Firewall Dragon? Darkfluid? Do I… already have access to this power?"
Left Leader: "No need to watch further. He definitely doesn't. I just didn't think this line could be pushed to such an extreme."
Yugi Muto: "But the Duel isn't over. Do you remember Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax?"
Joey Wheeler: "Hold up—I see it! It's got an effect: 'When this card battles a Special Summoned monster, during damage calculation, it can activate once to gain ATK equal to that monster's ATK for that damage calculation only.'"
Yuma Tsukumo: "Sheesh! What a busted Link! It's a wall in battle! But Darkfluid isn't just for show either—he's got monster-effect negates."
After a round of calm analysis,
everyone realized Code Talker Saikou had already written the equation for victory.
Darkfluid looked like the finisher—
but the opponent, the Machina pilot, still didn't seem to think he would lose.
Just when everyone thought Code Talker Saikou would close the Duel with Darkfluid,
he did something that left them all bewildered.
Code Talker Saikou: "You think I'm going to beat you with this card?"
Code Talker Saikou: "Wrong."
Code Talker Saikou: "I attack your Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax with my Excode Talker!"
What?!
Excode Talker could barely reach 2800 ATK with the Field Spell's +500,
attacking the 3500 ATK dueling king, Avramax?!
Is he crazy?
Did he misclick?
Shouldn't he be swinging with Darkfluid into Avramax?!
Unless…
there's a backstop?
Code Talker Saikou: "At the same time—!"
Code Talker Saikou: "I activate Cross Debug in the GY!"
"Banish it; target 1 Link Monster in my GY."
"My battling monster gains ATK equal to that target's ATK until the end of this turn,
and it won't be destroyed by that battle!"
"I Will Create You": "I don't get what you're doing."
"I Will Create You": "But I'll activate Avramax."
"I Will Create You": "Come on then—during damage calculation it gains your monster's ATK—6300 ATK total!"
Code Talker Saikou: "Meanwhile—!"
Code Talker Saikou: "My Code Talker surges to 4100 ATK!"
A backstop?
No—wrong call!
With this sequence,
Darkfluid didn't even fire a negate,
nor did it bail out Excode Talker.
Even with the ATK boost,
it still couldn't beat Avramax's damage-calculation pump.
The old guard's hearts sank like a roller coaster plunging from the peak.
Every duelist
was completely thrown by Code Talker Saikou here.
What was the point of ramming into Avramax?
Other than dealing 2200 damage,
they couldn't see the purpose!
Was it just to humiliate the opponent?
After all, Excode Talker would survive due to Cross Debug,
and Darkfluid still had two negates up.
In the VRAINS world,
Yusaku Fujiki suddenly made the connection.
His expression changed at once.
"No—that's not it!"
"This guy… his planning is meticulous!"
"Look at the Field Spell!"
"This Field Spell was perfectly triggered by that damage!"
As Yusaku shouted,
everyone's eyes snapped to the Field Spell:
Cynet Storm.
This card…?
Wait!
Its effect is—
When you take 2000 or more battle or effect damage: Shuffle your face-down Extra Deck, then excavate the top card; if it's a Cyberse Link Monster, Special Summon it; otherwise, return it to the Extra Deck.
In other words,
that 2000+ damage just now
perfectly triggered the Field!
Realizing this,
every gaze shifted to Code Talker Saikou's Extra Deck.
Two cards.
There were only two left.
No way!
You're on Code Talkers—
wouldn't both of those be Links?
Which meant—
those last two cards
were the true trump cards.
The clinchers that would decide the Duel!
"Shimatta! Those two have to be the win-cons!"
"This guy—ya—!"
"He even planned this step!"
Specter's eyes went wide,
his voice growing excited.
And sure enough,
Code Talker Saikou went to the Field Spell.
Code Talker Saikou: "All right, in that case—"
Code Talker Saikou: "I finally get to activate my Field Spell's effect."
Code Talker Saikou: "After all this time—"
"My Extra Deck has only two monsters left."
"My final pick is—!"
"I ride the gale—Link Summon!!!"
"Crusadia Equimax!!!"
"By Equimax's effect—"
"Its ATK becomes the combined original ATK of all monsters it points to!"
"The monsters it's pointing at are—!"
"Firewall Dragon Darkfluid!"
"And Machina Ruinforce!"
"With the Field Spell's boost—"
"My Equimax's final ATK is—"
"'2000'? No! It's 10,600!!!"
H—how much?!
10,600?!
Higher than Darkfluid!
So this was his final trump!
And that earlier "self-ram" was
pure showmanship to set this up!
And the pick off Cynet Storm
perfectly pushed the ceiling!
All the protagonists across the worlds shuddered.
Yugi Muto: "Th—this was his true key to victory?!"
Jaden Yuki: "Wow! That's so cool! I thought Firewall Dragon Darkfluid already maxed out the style points, but Equimax just raised the bar!"
Yusei Fudo: "So from the very start, he didn't plan to finish with Darkfluid."
Yuma Tsukumo: "Yusei-senpai's right. Darkfluid's role was to hold negates!"
Almost everyone understood now.
Darkfluid existed for its two negates.
And then—
as expected!
Code Talker Saikou: "Come on! Equimax attacks your Avramax!"
"I Will Create You": "Avramax effect, on battle—!"
Code Talker Saikou: "Effect? Did you ask me?"
Code Talker Saikou: "Darkfluid—negate Avramax!"
"I Will Create You": "Don't forget—during the Battle Phase, I can pay half my LP to negate!"
"I Will Create You": "I activate Machina Ruinforce!"
Code Talker Saikou: "It's useless! I chain Darkfluid again!"
Code Talker Saikou: "I negate your negate of my negate!"
The chain resolved in a flurry—
what happened in the middle no longer mattered.
What mattered was the final blow.
Equimax smashed through the now-negated Avramax!
7100 damage, combined with the half-LP payment that left the opponent at 2000, pushed them below zero!
Duel—over!
The entire sequence unfolded
exactly as the duelists had computed in their heads.
And that gamble
looked like it hinged on the draw… or so it seemed.
But when the short video showed
the other Link card that Cynet Storm didn't pick,
every old guard felt a chill—
their clothes soaked with sweat.
The two remaining cards were:
Crusadia Equimax,
and Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax.
Which meant—
no matter which card Cynet Storm excavated,
Code Talker Saikou would still win.
From the very start,
victory was already decided by the "random."
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