"In this duel, I am adapting the following effects.
1. I cannot activate monster effects from my hand. 2. I draw 2 cards during my normal draw phase. 3. I can perform two normal summons per turn."
"Hiss—what a powerful card..."
"The cost doesn't seem particularly severe?"
Since such a card is being used, there probably aren't many cards in the deck that can activate monster effects from the hand.
Dark Abyss glanced at his hand, then spoke: "Enter the battle phase."
?
"End the battle phase."
With this posture, Tenjo Hikari thought he was going to play a card like "Starve or Beg"—even though it might be useless at this point, it still startled Tenjo Hikari.
Then, Dark Abyss played that crucial card: "Normal Spell Card, Gordian Slicer."
What?
Everyone was a bit confused.
In the sky, a gigantic mechanical sword slowly descended, targeting everything on the field.
"At the start of your Main Phase 1 or Main Phase 2, target any number of face-up cards on the field. For each targeted card, banish 1 card from your hand or 6 cards from your Extra Deck. After that, the targeted cards are returned to the hand."
!!
"A spell card with a bounce effect, it can deal with the First of the Dragons, but the cost is too high, isn't it? Banish face-down and you basically can't recover them... In terms of value, cards in hand are definitely more important. So to resolve one card, you have to sacrifice 6 from the Extra Deck? That's too much—" Shou quickly calculated, feeling it was quite a loss.
"No, no, that's wrong—" Manjome also sensed something was off, just that he hadn't realized it before like Tenjo Hikari had. Now he understood, "This bastard... said the Extra Deck was unrestricted from the start, so this was what it was meant for!"
"Hehe, I choose, Fusion Recycling Plant and First of the Dragons." He raised his hand, countless extra cards were already prepared to become his "ammunition"!
"Bastard—" Tenjo Hikari clenched his fists, his anger rising, "Using the extra monsters as sacrifices..."
This was a path contrary to his fusion philosophy!
"Quick-Play Spell Card—" Tenjo Hikari no longer hesitated, "El Shaddoll Fusion!"
"Fusion the First of the Dragons on the field and the Shaddoll Beast in my hand!"
Tierra nodded slightly, raising his right hand, manipulating countless purple puppet strings.
A more exquisite and brilliant mechanical puppet than before slowly appeared on the field.
"Fusion Summon!"
"Tierra's Messenger!"
"LV 5, El Shaddoll Winda!"
Swish—
With elegance, the puppet stood in this dark world!
El Shaddoll Winda, LV 5, Dark Attribute, Spellcaster-Type, ATK 2200.
"Then continue resolving my card effect, banish 6 cards face-down from the Extra Deck, and return your Fusion Recycling Plant to your hand."
In the fusion factory, countless small robots lit up red lights, raised "Relocation" signs, and then the card flew back into Tenjo Hikari's hand.
After that, Tenjo Hikari activated the effect of the Shaddoll Beast, drawing 1 card from the deck.
Unfortunately, Judai couldn't use the effect of the Fusion Recycling Plant to search for Fusion or recover fusion materials because of this.
"...Ah, the hard-won Fusion Monster, just left like that."
"But think positively, at least this way, Dark Abyss can't proceed to the battle phase, nor can he deal with Winda."
"No...he originally wouldn't attack, right?" John's face looked grim, "On Judai's side, there's still a set Mirror Force after all. He wouldn't attack to begin with!"
"Plus, having used that Demon Eye card, what he wants to do more is probably a normal summon!"
"That damned bastard." Manjome, even though he had cursed once already, had to mention again, "After all, those pre-duel conditions that seemed to benefit Judai, in reality, were all part of his strategy!"
"Minister—calm down!" Ed straightforwardly cheered on Tenjo Hikari.
Tenjo Hikari slightly calmed his anger, looked at his friends, smiled and shook his head.
Though he was angry, it wouldn't affect his mindset.
After all, as long as it's part of the duel, any strategy is reasonable and feasible, his fusion wouldn't reject such behavior.
He just loathed this manipulative feeling, so when he saw those Fusion Monsters being banished face-down, he was completely ignited, but during the duel, he wouldn't lose rationality or calmness.
However, he still needed to keep his friends calm, so he thought, and said: "It's okay.
The more manipulative one gets, the more they'll be affected by their own schemes, pondering these gains and losses.
The unrestricted usage of extras may indeed cause some cards to have spectacular effects, but—I will prove...
Schemes...have absolutely no meaning against my [Fusion]!
Because—
Fusion is the noblest form of summoning!"