Chapter 465: 8-Star Monsters Don't Need Tributes, Trap Cards Used as Spells... Is This Still Yu-Gi-Oh!?
"My turn! Draw!"
Seto Kaiba, maintaining a certain distance from Devil Kazuya, had already drawn a card from his Duel Disk and revealed it directly to everyone.
Without a doubt, it was the 8-star Normal Monster with silver dragon scales and azure eyes: Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
In this MUGEN world, the President's template was the fighting template from "JUMP Force." In terms of summoning rules, it was extremely simplified: no tributes, no need for anything flashy. All the President needed to do was slam the Blue-Eyes White Dragon card into the center of the monster summoning zone on his Duel Disk.
"If endless darkness lies ahead... then let us, with the Dragon of Light, dye the darkness!"
"My pride, and my soul!"
"Come forth!"
"Blue-Eyes! White! Dragon!!!"
The President's unique, throat-shredding, and exhilarating summoning chant made the entire summoning process highly ritualistic, while also greatly stirring the audience's emotions.
Moreover, the President wasn't deliberately performing; he was genuinely expressing his true self from the heart. It could be said that anyone who resonated with his emotions had a very high chance of becoming his fan.
After the passionate summoning chant, accompanied by a soaring dragon roar that was no less powerful than Kazuya's, a Blue-Eyes White Dragon emerged from the card, hovering steadily behind President Kaiba.
At this moment, many eyes in the arena fell on Cheng Tian.
If he hadn't already demonstrated it earlier, and if Cheng Tian hadn't also used a "similar" ability, the atmosphere in the arena would probably have surged even higher at this point.
But this dragon roar was a huge provocation to Kazuya.
"A mere pseudo-dragon! I've already killed one... your dragon will be next!"
Kazuya, with an evil smile on his face, declared this with a built-in voice mixer, then his devil wings flapped rapidly, and he charged directly at Seto Kaiba.
"Hmph! Naive!"
The President's expression didn't change in the slightest. With a wave of his arm, Blue-Eyes White Dragon met the charge head-on, as if an extension of his will.
The fist of Mishima-style Karate and the headbutt of Blue-Eyes White Dragon collided fiercely.
Biting, clawing, tail-sweeping, wing-flapping—a very standard dragon beast combat stance. Kazuya, on his part, indeed had experience fighting dragon beasts, performing defense and counterattacks quite effectively.
And the more the President revealed, the more Cheng Tian felt that his fighting style was highly similar to that of a Stand user.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon, like The World, could be summoned and re-released at any time, and could also gain temporary flight and hovering abilities by resonating with its summoner.
Additionally, as long as Blue-Eyes White Dragon was at his side, a shield-like aura would envelop the President's body, blocking attacks from Devil Kazuya, or rather, transferring the damage to Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
And the President's main body was not without combat capability.
Resonating with the power of Blue-Eyes White Dragon allowed him to gain short, explosive burst movement, manifesting as his entire body being enveloped in a blue-white glow, which was effective for both advancing to pursue and retreating to create distance.
Besides Monster Cards, the President could also use Trap Cards!
"Trap Card activate! Deck Destruction Virus!"
As a card in the Trap/Spell Zone flipped open, it revealed a card named "Deck Destruction Virus."
The effect of this card in the original world had actually been updated and iterated many times. Its general effect was to destroy all monsters with 1500 or more ATK in the opponent's monster zone and hand, by Tributing one DARK monster with 1000 or less ATK on your field, along with some additional effects.
But here, it transformed into... a DARK attribute magic missile!
Several basketball-sized black virus missiles condensed around the President and all shot towards Devil Kazuya, who was gripping Blue-Eyes White Dragon's tail and wildly swinging it around.
Seeing this, Devil Kazuya decisively let go, flapping his wings to try and evade the missiles by ascending.
But Seto Kaiba immediately flipped open a second Trap Card.
"It's not over yet!"
"Trap Card activate! Dark Curse!"
In an instant, two magic circles, clearly designed to be a combination, appeared simultaneously above and below Devil Kazuya.
Like a descending thunderstorm, a large number of dark elemental chains instantly intertwined between the two combined magic circles, simultaneously locking down Devil Kazuya's flight path.
This was another dramatic change in effect after the template alteration. The original Dark Curse was a Continuous Trap Card that affected both players indiscriminately, dealing true damage to the user if anyone activated a Spell Card while it was active.
But here, it became its literal effect: using dark magic circles to lock down and control the enemy.
Devil Kazuya had indeed undergone demonization, but he still hadn't shed his essence as a fighter. In other words, his fight against the President was essentially a warrior fighting a mage-plus-summoner combination.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon's strength could easily clash with Devil Kazuya, and the President, as the spellcaster, only needed to launch sneak attacks from behind.
These card players wouldn't feel the slightest guilt about using "traps." Rather, it was already part of their way of life, and it seemed the more benevolent-looking the person, the more ruthless they were with traps.
Kazuya, hard-controlled by Dark Curse, not only experienced the binding of dark chains wrapping around his entire body, but also had to face the virus missiles that were steadily flying towards him.
However, just as the President thought his two-hit Trap Card combo was about to take effect, a red laser with a Z-shaped trajectory directly swept and exploded all the Death Virus Missiles in mid-air.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the light from the red crystal embedded in Devil Kazuya's forehead, like a third eye, was slowly dimming.
His Devil Kazuya's ranged attack manifested as a devil beam from his brow.
If it weren't for the fact that the Sun God's Jewel Shard was already confirmed to be with Kyo Kusanagi, Cheng Tian would most likely have thought that the object embedded in Devil Kazuya's forehead was what he was looking for.
The devil bloodline granted Kazuya additional dark attribute resistance, reducing the intensity of the binds, but it also meant that when he was subjected to light attribute attacks, he would inevitably experience a more intense energy conflict.
And the President chose, the moment Kazuya used his beam to sweep away the virus missiles, to synchronize his mind with Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Visibly high-concentrated light energy began to converge into Blue-Eyes White Dragon's raised, azure-silver head.
"Burst Stream of Destruction!!!"
Accompanied by the President's own roared declaration of destruction, a torrent of blue-white energy with destructive power poured forth from the widely opened dragon's maw.
And Devil Kazuya, in a hurry, could only forcefully re-activate his devil power, and a black-red devil beam shot out.
One blue-white, one red-black, the two streams of energy collided fiercely in the center of the arena!