"Go, Judai! Go, Hikari!"
Everyone called out in unison.
With the encouragement of his friends and companions, Judai gradually controlled his breathing.
Nonetheless, those sounds in his ears were too terrifying...
"Such reassuring sounds... haha, my turn, draw." Dark Mist drew two cards from his deck.
"At this moment!" Judai raised his hand and said, "The effect of Mirage of Nightmare, during the opponent's Standby Phase, draw cards until you have 4 cards."
Judai quickly drew four cards from his deck and then prepared for his next move.
Just then...
"Judai!"
He suddenly froze, looking at Tenjo Hikari.
"Don't deal with it just yet."
Judai widened his eyes but then nodded.
Perhaps it was this shout that allowed Judai to gradually calm down.
Dark Mist drew two cards from his deck.
He glanced at them, and upon seeing one card, the flames in his eyes burst with excitement.
"It seems you've drawn a pretty powerful card, huh?" Yubel noticed Judai's anxiety and hurriedly helped him analyze the situation.
Judai nodded.
"Spell Card, Upstart Goblin, draw 1 card from your deck. Then, your opponent gains 1000 Life Points."
Dark Mist did not rush to use his ace card but activated a draw spell.
Humans, LP: 7800→8800.
Dark Mist drew a card, glanced at it, somewhat speechless: "The second card."
Humans, LP: 8800→9800.
"Spell Card, Pot of Greed."
"Spell Card, Pot of Desires, banish the top 10 cards of your deck face-down to activate. Draw two cards."
Judai took several deep breaths.
Although Dark Mist was rapidly replacing his hand cards, which was disadvantageous for the duel, for Judai, this opportunity to catch his breath was instead very important. He slowly adjusted to the screams and wails surrounding him and then cautiously watched Dark Mist's actions.
After a series of replacements, Dark Mist's current hand reached 4 cards.
Moreover, it seemed his drawing replacements had no sign of stopping.
But before that, he had to deal with the effect of the New Universe Overlord: "Spell Card, Herald of the Abyss."
"If there is a face-up monster on the opponent's field, pay 1500 Life Points to declare one Type and one Attribute to activate. The opponent must send one monster with the declared Type·Attribute to the Graveyard. This turn, the opponent cannot activate effects of those monsters or monsters of the same name."
Dark Mist raised his hand, and in his hollow skeletal eyes, the blue flames became more pronounced: "Fiend-Type·Dark Attribute."
"Declare—humans will be annihilated!"
Judai frowned, wanting to refute, but with the effect processing, he had no strength to argue.
The New Universe Overlord is easier to summon than the Shining Neos Wingman, but the overlord isn't a "Warrior-Type" monster, it's a Fiend-Type monster, which leads this attribute distinction and type judgment to be much easier to resolve.
However—
At least Dark Mist reduced his own Life Points again.
Dark Mist, LP: 5200→3700.
"Spell Card, Cost Down, send Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End from your hand to the Graveyard, draw two cards."
"Graceful Charity, draw three cards from your deck, discard two, discarding Armageddon Knight and Doomsday Horror."
"Normal Summon, Breaker the Magical Warrior, equip it with the Equip Spell Card, Wonder Wand, then use the wand's effect to send the monster and it to the Graveyard to activate. Draw two cards."
After a large-scale replacement of his hand, Dark Mist looked at his cards and nodded slightly.
"Hehehehe... Witness the strongest in the world, no... the strongest monster of all time!"
"Normal Spell Card, Numbered Awakening!"
Numbered... Awakening?
Judai hesitated for a moment.
Beside him, Tenjo Hikari saw the card and his pupils contracted, mouth opened wide.
Wait.
Wait, wait—
"Can only activate if there are only monsters Special Summoned from the Extra Deck on the opponent's field. Special Summon one Xyz Monster whose Number value equals the sum of the Number values of 4 selected Xyz Monsters from your Extra Deck, only one of the same Rank can exist. All selected monsters become Xyz Materials for the Special Summoned monster. As long as the monster Special Summoned by this effect remains face-up on your field, you cannot Special Summon non-Number Xyz Monsters."
Tenjo Hikari noticed strange numbers slowly floating in the air beside Dark Mist, forming a peculiar scene.
28, 40, 9, 9...
86!!!!!!
The genuine... strongest monster!!!
Moreover—
Dark Mist can no longer activate the effects of [Dark] Attribute monsters!!
The strongest, invincible, ultimate, absolute victory situation!!
"Judai!!!" Now, Tenjo Hikari shouted so loudly it was as if he was tearing his throat, and everyone was startled by his scream.
It was the first time they saw Tenjo Hikari so nervous, the first time they saw him in such a panic!
Judai understood that this was definitely something they could not handle.
So at this time, there must be no hesitation!
"Activate Trap Card!"
"Counter Trap—Solemn Warning!"
"Pay 2000 Life Points. Can only activate when a Magic, Trap, or Monster's effect that includes a monster Special Summon effect is activated. Negate that activation and destroy!"