Chapter 196. Kuriboh Works Wonders into Five-Headed Link Dragon! The "1000%" Win Condition of Musical Sumo Dice Games!
It wasn't just the old-guard veterans from every world who were dumbfounded.
Even the pure-hearted Zoodiac player was looking deathly pale as he watched his Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder get beaten in battle right before his eyes.
Yes!
The ultimate endpoint of Xyz—Sky Thunder—got beaten in battle by a single Winged Kuriboh!!!
It all happened too fast.
So fast that the Zoodiac player couldn't react at all!
And even if he had reacted, so what?
He chose not to activate Sky Thunder's effect—
only then did the Kuriboh player chain a Quick-Play Spell.
In other words, it was already too late!
Had he known, he would've used Sky Thunder's effect even on a 300 ATK Winged Kuriboh!
It's over! The advantage is gone again!
The protagonists among the veterans looked sympathetically at the Zoodiac player.
They didn't think failing to activate Sky Thunder was a scrub play.
Because when a 300 ATK Winged Kuriboh swings at a 3000 ATK Sky Thunder,
nobody wants to waste resources and Sky Thunder's last chance on that!
Zoodiac player: "Yagooo! You got me again!"
Zoodiac player: "My turn! Draw."
Kuriboh femboy: "I flip the Trap, The Revived Sky God."
Kuriboh femboy: "We both draw until we have 6 cards, and I revive the deity in my Graveyard once more!"
"Come forth! Slifer the Sky Dragon!"
Zoodiac player: "I activate the Field Spell, Therion Discolosseum!"
Zoodiac player: "I add my third 'Therion 'King' Regulus' from the Deck!"
"I Special Summon Regulus with 2800 ATK and equip Therion 'Bull' Ain from the Graveyard!"
"At the same time, Regulus gains Bull's second effect!"
"In other words—pop a card!"
"I use Regulus's effect, send Bull to the Graveyard, and destroy your Slifer on the field!"
"I told you! A god without protection—"
"—is just a paper tiger! Fine against out-of-towners, sure!"
"But to me, it's worthless!"
"Next I keep building my board!"
"I activate the Continuous Spell, Fire Formation – Tenki!"
"I add Zoodiac Whiptail from my Deck!"
"I Normal Summon Zoodiac Thoroughblade and overlay to Xyz Summon Zoodiac Chakanine!"
"Overlay again into Zoodiac Tigermortar, and use Tigermortar's effect!"
"I detach Chakanine, then attach Zoodiac Ramram from the Graveyard as material!"
"Next I overlay into Zoodiac Boarbow!"
"I use the Whiptail in my hand to become material for Boarbow!"
"At this moment, my Boarbow's ATK has climbed to 3700!"
"This direct attack will win me the Duel!"
"This ends now!"
"Battle Phase! Boarbow—direct attack!"
Kuriboh femboy: "I activate Linkuriboh's effect in the Graveyard!"
Kuriboh femboy: "I Tribute the Winged Kuriboh on my field to Special Summon Linkuriboh!"
Zoodiac player: "Pointless! I use Regulus—Tribute itself to negate your Linkuriboh!"
Zoodiac player: "Boarbow—continue the attack!"
Kuriboh femboy: "I activate Kuribohrn in my Graveyard!"
Kuriboh femboy: "I banish it to revive as many 'Kuriboh' monsters from my Graveyard as possible!"
"Kuriboh, Kuribee—"
"Kuribeh, Kuribah, and Kuriboo!"
"And then, I activate the Rainbow Kuriboh in my hand!"
"I equip it to your Boarbow!"
"Hee-hee-hee! No attacking for you!"
Zoodiac player: "You've gotta be kidding me! You've got every hand trap under the sun!"
Zoodiac player: "Main Phase 2!"
"I banish Zoodiac Combo in my Graveyard!"
"I target 5 'Zoodiac' cards in my Graveyard (max 1 of each name), return them to the Deck, then draw 1."
"I overlay Boarbow to Xyz Summon Zoodiac Drident!"
"I use Drident—detach Tigermortar to destroy your Kuriboh on the field!"
"I activate the Spell—Monster Reborn!"
"I Special Summon Zoodiac Tigermortar in Defense Position!"
"My turn ends!"
After this exchange,
the Kuriboh femboy once again pulled ahead!
Many veterans from other worlds twitched at the corners of their mouths as they watched.
Indeed!
A Kuriboh Deck that doesn't run every kind of Kuriboh would be the real surprise, right?
Even the sudden appearance of Rainbow Kuriboh is nothing to bat an eye at!
But what impressed everyone more—
was that even without Zoodiac Ratpier,
the Zoodiac player could still juggle and leverage resources like this!
No wonder it was once a top-tier meta deck!
It's still got power!
Kuriboh femboy: "My turn! Draw!"
Kuriboh femboy: "I banish The Revived Sky God from my Graveyard to add Monster Reborn to my hand!"
"Then I Link Summon using Kuribee and Kuribeh!"
"Link-2: Knightmare Cerberus!"
"I activate Knightmare Cerberus—discard 1 to destroy your Zoodiac Drident!"
Zoodiac player: "I chain Drident—detach to destroy your Knightmare Cerberus!"
A clean trade—
both cards destroyed!
Kuriboh femboy: "I Link Summon the last two Kuriboh into Lyna the Light Charmer, Lustrous!"
Kuriboh femboy: "I play One for One—discard 1 to Special Summon Kuriboh from the Deck!"
Kuriboh femboy: "Then I Normal Summon Maxx 'C'!"
"I Link Kuriboh and Maxx 'C' into I:P Masquerena!"
"I: P Masquerena and Lyna—Link Summon!"
"Arrows confirmed!"
"Link-4: Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax!"
"I then activate Monster Reborn! Revive Kuribabylon from the Graveyard!"
"My Kuribabylon's ATK has now stacked up to 5100!"
"I think…I've already secured this Duel!"
"I use Avramax to destroy your Defense Position Zoodiac Tigermortar!"
Zoodiac player: "Oh? Too bad for you—Therion Discolosseum's effect!"
Zoodiac player: "I send a 'Therion' card from my Deck to the Graveyard instead, to prevent its destruction by battle!"
Kuriboh femboy: "Then I'll use Kuribabylon to destroy your Tigermortar!"
Kuriboh femboy: "After that, I activate Kuribabylon—return it to my hand!"
"It splits into five Kuriboh in Attack Position!"
"Hit #1! Kuribee for 300! Hit #2! Kuribeh for 300!"
"Hit #3! Hit #4! Hit #5!"
"That's a total of 1500 damage!"
"But I'm not done yet!"
"I use Linkuriboh in my Graveyard—Tribute the Kuriboh on my field to Special Summon it!"
"Linkuriboh—sixth hit! 300 damage!"
"Main Phase 2!"
"I Link the five Kuriboh on my field!"
"Arrows confirmed!"
"—!"
"Link-5! Five-Headed Link Dragon!!!"
"I continue with the Spell—Dark World Dealings!"
"We both draw 1 and discard 1!"
"My turn ends!"
What in the world!
This Kuriboh engine even recycles during the Battle Phase and keeps rolling out bodies?!
When the old-guard veterans across the worlds saw Kuriboh once again working miracles,
they finally started to grasp the Kuriboh player's lines and gameplan!
Then came Main Phase 2—
confirming a terrifying five Link Arrows!
And with that, a 5000 ATK Five-Headed Link Dragon hit the field!
That's when the veterans finally cracked, utterly stunned!
Wait—
Kuriboh's resource conversion is this ridiculous?!
Five little Kuriboh monsters—
it turns out the real strength isn't just Kuribabylon—
it's the resource routing!
DM World.
Yugi Muto: "Partner! These Kuriboh resources just don't run out—like cockroaches that won't die!"
Pharaoh Atem: "Yugi! This is the true power of Kuriboh! A 5000 ATK 'god'-dragon! The opponent's in trouble!"
As they talked it over, they grew more and more alarmed!
Those five little Kuriboh—
they're basically free materials!
Used them up?
No problem—you can call them from Deck/hand/Graveyard again with Five Star Twilight!
Ran out of Spells?
No problem—banish Kuribohrn to bring them back!
Out of Kuribohrn too?
No problem—Kuribabylon can bring them back again!
Hold on—
these five little Kuriboh really are unkillable cockroaches!
VRAINS World.
Watching this sequence,
even Yusaku Fujiki and the others couldn't help but gasp.
Every Link user stared at the Kuriboh player in horror!
Five cards.
Five materials.
A Link-5.
That's insanely degenerate!
Since when did Link-5 become this easy to make?
And Five-Headed Link Dragon is unaffected by other card effects, and cannot be destroyed by battle with DARK/EARTH/WATER/FIRE/WIND monsters.
The protection is maxed out!
Avramax plus Five-Headed Link Dragon!
Can the Zoodiac opponent even break this?
Zoodiac player: "My turn! Draw!"
Zoodiac player: "Looks like your victory formula missed one step—and that's what will cost you the Duel."
Zoodiac player: "Now, I'll take the win!"
"I Normal Summon Zoodiac Thoroughblade!"
"I activate its effect to draw 1, then discard 1!"
"Time to start climbing again!"
"I Xyz Summon Zoodiac Chakanine!"
"Xyz Summon again!"
"Zoodiac Hammerkong!"
"Xyz Summon again!"
"Zoodiac Drident!"
"And the final Xyz!"
"Overlay! Zoodiac Boarbow!"
"I equip the Whiptail in my hand to it!"
"Boarbow at 2900—direct attack!"
Kuriboh femboy: "That's your 'victory formula'?"
Kuriboh femboy: "I activate Sphere Kuriboh from my hand!"
"You want a direct attack with Boarbow? Switch to Defense!"
"And then!"
"I activate Kuribohrn in my Graveyard!"
"I banish it and revive four Kuriboh from my Graveyard!"
"My board is topped up again!"
"Hahaha! Come on!"
"Let's see what else you've got!"
Zoodiac player: "Another line? Heh…heh heh…"
Zoodiac player: "You really are a greedy Duelist."
"Whether it was that split 1500 damage—"
"—or the 300 from your Linkuriboh—"
"—it all proves just how greedy you are."
"As predicted, that greed has already sealed my true formula for victory!"
"I banish Destiny HERO – Malicious from my Graveyard to Special Summon another Malicious from the Deck!"
"I Special Summon Therion 'Bull' Ain and equip the Regulus in my Graveyard!"
"I Special Summon Destiny HERO – Denier from the Graveyard and return the banished Malicious to the Deck."
"I Link Bull and Malicious!"
"Link-2: Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights!"
"Isolde's effect—add a Warrior from my Deck to hand."
"Then I use her other effect—send Cursed Bamboo Sword from Deck to Graveyard to Special Summon Infernoble Knight – Renaud!"
"Renaud's effect—add Cursed Bamboo Sword back to my hand from the Graveyard."
"I Link Renaud and Isolde into Reprodocus!"
"Reprodocus sets my Boarbow's Attribute to FIRE!"
"I activate the Continuous Spell, Clockwork Night, to turn Boarbow into a Machine!"
"Next! I play Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force!"
"I rank Boarbow up by 2!"
"Guess what Rank 6 Xyz I'm making that's FIRE and a Machine?"
Could it be—
Musical Sumo Dice Games!
Yes!
Among all Xyz in Yu-Gi-Oh!,
the card that fits those conditions—
is that one!
Masaka!
No way!
Everyone was still confused,
but the Kuriboh femboy had already realized and looked grim.
Zoodiac player: "Congratulations! Correct answer!"
Zoodiac player: "It is indeed the Xyz Monster—Musical Sumo Dice Games!"
"During the Battle Phase, it rolls a die and moves clockwise around the zones!"
"If there's a monster at the landing zone, it attaches it as material."
"Once it has more than 6 materials, I win by special victory!"
"And I bet your next line will be: 'I'll just avoid entering the Battle Phase, then.'"
Kuriboh femboy: "I'll just avoid entering the Battle Phase, then."
Hearing that, the Zoodiac player gave a meaningful smile.
With that smile, fate could go either way.
Zoodiac player: "Then, try it."
Zoodiac player: "I activate the Continuous Spell, Burning Bamboo Sword!"
"And I equip Cursed Bamboo Sword to my Dice Games!"
"Burning Bamboo Sword triggers!"
"Then I banish Malicious from my Graveyard to Special Summon another Malicious from the Deck!"
"My turn ends."
"Your move."
Kuriboh femboy: "My turn! Draw!"
Kuriboh femboy: "My Main Phas—…wait. No. This isn't right!"
"Why! Why is it the Battle Phase?!"
"What is going on?!"
Before anyone—from either side—could react,
the Kuriboh player's turn had already jumped to the Battle Phase!
Next, we saw—
Dice Games rolled a 2!
It moved and absorbed Malicious as material!
The Duel was already over!
Yes!
The Duel—was already over!
Yugi Muto: "???"
Sei Yuki: "???"
Jaden Yuki: "???"
All question marks! Every veteran from every world stared at the short-video Duel in a daze!
Wait—
what just happened, exactly?!
Why did the opponent not even get a Main Phase?!
How did that instantly become a victory?!
What even goes with what here?!
Stunned.
Everyone was completely stunned.
None of the veterans understood what happened at the end!
So—what on earth was that all about?
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