Chapter 247: Draw!
Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca is unaffected by the opponent's Spell/Trap Card effects while a Field Spell Card is active on the field.
And the Armed Dragon, whose ATK was boosted to a full 8000 points, also could not be destroyed by battle.
But the problem was that neither of them had protection against monster effects. The only thing that could help Armed Dragon Thunder resist destruction, Ojama Pajama Party, couldn't activate its effect because Marik had already banished the Ojama monsters from his graveyard beforehand.
Transforming into a phoenix burning with fierce flames, The Winged Dragon of Ra crashed into Hayato's field. Under its suicidal attack, both Earthbound Immortal and Armed Dragon Thunder were instantly incinerated into ashes by the sacred solar flame.
Collecting the two cards from his field, Hayato sighed and said to them, "You've done well enough. Rest for a while."
Marik: 8600 → 7600 LP
Watching Hayato send the two monsters to the graveyard, Marik smiled smugly. "What a touching bond. It's truly rare for a Duelist and their Duel Monsters to be so in sync."
"It must be quite painful to be separated from your monsters, right? I'm a kind person, I can't stand to see others suffer. So, let me send you down to reunite with your monsters." Saying this, Marik set all the cards in his hand on the field. "I set two cards from my hand. My turn ends."
"Now then, Kobayashi Hayato, King of Games who is about to meet his demise by my hand, hurry up and begin the struggle of your final turn!"
Marik: 7600 LP, Hand 0
Set Card X2
Watching Ra, which had transformed into a phoenix, return to the graveyard because the turn ended and the Spell Card's effect only lasted for one turn, Hayato took a deep breath and calmly drew a card from his deck.
"This card is..." Hayato looked at the Sage's Stone in his hand, a confident smile appearing on his face. "The winning equation is complete."
"What?" Marik didn't hear Hayato's muttering clearly.
"My turn begins. I declare here and now," Hayato looked at Marik, "this turn, I will end this duel!"
"Normal Summon Death Stalker in Attack Position! Come forth, my glory, my Tamashii!"
The scorpion warrior appeared on Hayato's field with a nostalgic expression. Seeing its appearance, Marik's expression froze slightly.
Death Stalker 900/800
"You actually summoned such a weak monster? Hmph, hmph, you've really run out of tricks, Kobayashi Hayato."
"No, no, don't underestimate this monster, Marik. This Death Stalker is one of the first Duel Monsters I used. The power it contains is beyond your imagination!"
Saying this, Hayato activated a card: "Spell Card, Dark World Dealings! Draw one card from my deck, then discard one card."
Marik had to draw a card from his deck along with Hayato. However, unlike Hayato, who could choose which card to discard, Marik only had the card he just drew in his hand, so he could only discard that one.
"Using the effect of Executioner Makyura, which was just sent to the graveyard, this turn, I can activate a trap card directly without setting it." Hayato watched the Sage's Stone transform from Dark World Dealings into Executioner Makyura, showing it to Marik.
"I activate DNA Transplant, and then the set card on my field joins the chain."
Hayato flipped up his last set card on the field: "Continuous Trap Card, DNA Surgery activate! Declare one Type, and all face-up monsters on the field become the Type I declare."
"Plus DNA Transplant, declare one Attribute, and all face-up monsters on the field become the Attribute I declare!"
Marik looked at the two cards Hayato activated with disdain. "Are you trying to declare a specific Type and Attribute to strengthen that weak monster on your field? Useless, useless, useless! No matter how much you strengthen it, can it become a god?"
Marik didn't believe that just any monster could possess power comparable to a god, like Earthbound Immortal or Armed Dragon Thunder.
Hayato surprisingly nodded at Marik's words. "Of course, Death Stalker will become a god. Because what I'm declaring is, Divine-Beast Type and Divine Attribute!"
"Nani?!"
An invisible wave descended upon Death Stalker. Starting from its deepest genes, it began to transform from its original form, leaving behind an empty shell on the field. Standing up from the shell was a woman with a scorpion on her head and dressed in Egyptian attire?
"Perhaps it's not quite appropriate to keep calling her Death Stalker. Now, she should be called Serket the Stinger?" Hayato thought of the scorpion goddess from Egyptian mythology, whose appearance wasn't too different from Death Stalker after undergoing DNA Surgery and DNA Transplant. Hayato casually gave her the name.
However, the effects of these two cards are actually that good? They turned the originally ugly Death Stalker into such a beautiful goddess? I'm willing to call this the Fifth Great Asian Black Magic.
"You dare to mock me with such methods!" Marik showed an angry expression. "Do you think merely changing the Type and Attribute to god will give it the power of a god? Let me show you what a true god is!"
"Activate Trap Card, Call of the Haunted! I Special Summon Ra from my graveyard—"
"Chain Call of the Haunted, Quick-Play Spell Card activate!" Hayato decisively interrupted Marik, playing the Sage's Stone from his hand. When placed on the Duel Disk, the Sage's Stone had already changed its appearance. "Quick-Play Spell Card, Substitute Actor!"
"I Tribute the Serket the Stinger on my field, and Special Summon one monster from your graveyard with the same Type and Attribute to my field!"
"Come forth, The Winged Dragon of Ra!"
The light of the sun shone upon the Duel Arena once again, but unlike before, this time, The Winged Dragon of Ra stood on Hayato's side.
Hayato looked at the Sage's Stone, whose long-stored energy was completely depleted from activating Substitute Actor, and sent it to the graveyard.
The card Substitute Actor was originally only supposed to be used to Special Summon a monster with the "original Type and Attribute" the same, but just now, from Marik's graveyard, The Winged Dragon of Ra actually actively responded to Sage's Stone, providing assistance to forcibly change the card's effect.
It seems like this guy Marik, even the God in his hands is eager to leave him.
Because the target was lost, Marik's Call of the Haunted revived nothing and was sent to the graveyard, but he had no time to worry about that. He just stared wide-eyed at The Winged Dragon of Ra on Hayato's field. "H-how is this possible?!"
"Ra should only obey me! I am the Pharaoh, I am god!"
Glancing at The Winged Dragon of Ra above him, Hayato paid a large amount of his Life Points with great boldness, and looked coldly at the disbelieving Marik. "Foolish! Nothing is impossible for the Pharaoh on earth! All things are within my grasp!"
"Right, the Hieratic Text, there's also the Hieratic Text!" Marik suddenly remembered something and shouted loudly. "Only someone who can read the Hieratic Text on Ra's card can use Ra's power!"
"Hieratic Text? Hmph, that kind of thing is just a bluff." Hayato glanced contemptuously at the text appearing on The Winged Dragon of Ra's card. Although for some reason, Hayato completely understood what it meant, that didn't mean he would listen to Marik. "Are you telling me how to do things?"
"Winged Dragon, give him a show!"
Hayato: 1900 → 1 LP
The Winged Dragon of Ra 0/0 → 1899/1899
Under Marik's astonished gaze, Hayato so casually ordered The Winged Dragon of Ra, and it actually obeyed the command and attacked towards Marik without Hayato chanting the Hieratic Text!
"Damn it! How dare you steal my God Card!" Marik opened his final set card in a frenzy. "Open Trap Card, Mirror Wall! As long as this card exists on my field, the ATK of your monsters on the field will be halved!"
"Trap Cards are ineffective against Gods!"
Hearing Hayato's words, Marik replied, "Mirror Wall isn't affecting the God itself, it's merely reducing its attack strength!"
Just like how Original Yugi would use Trap Cards to restrict Obelisk the Tormentor in the future, Marik's activated Mirror Wall blocked the attack spewed by The Winged Dragon of Ra.
The Winged Dragon of Ra ATK 1899 → 949
With an ATK of only 1899 points to begin with, after being halved, The Winged Dragon of Ra's ATK was only 949 points. Compared to Marik's current 7600 Life Points, it was merely a drop in the bucket.
Marik: 7600 → 6651 LP
"It's completely... painless!" Forcing himself to endure the pain of the solar flame's burning, Marik finally experienced the feeling of the subordinates he had punished before. But he still put on a brave face. "So what if the God is temporarily used by you? A Spell Card's effect on a God only lasts for one turn!"
"Next turn, Ra will return to me, and then you will be defeated!"
But the response he received was the cold smile on Hayato's lips. "I was originally planning to use my own cards to actively lower the Winged Dragon's ATK, but since you're so proactive, I won't be polite."
"Discard all cards in my hand! Activate Quick-Play Spell Card, Berserker Soul!"
"Draw 1 card from my deck. If the drawn card is a Monster Card, send that card to the graveyard, then choose one monster on my field with 1500 or less ATK, and that monster can attack once."
Saying this, Hayato drew the top card of his deck: "Fall!"
It was Gaia the Fierce Knight.
"Monster Card!"
After declaring the type of card drawn, The Winged Dragon of Ra immediately launched a second attack impatiently, as if venting the humiliation it suffered repeatedly when Marik used it before.
"Cough!"
Marik: 6651 → 5702 LP
"Ah, there's one thing I forgot to explain." Hayato sent the Gaia the Fierce Knight card to the graveyard and smiled at Marik, who was immersed in pain. "This effect can be activated continuously until I draw a card other than a Monster Card."
"H-how is this possible!" Marik struggled to open his eyes. As he said before, even a single point of the Winged Dragon's attack could cause unbearable pain, and he had already taken two hits directly!
"Fall!" Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight! "Monster Card!"
"Ugh!"
Marik: 5702 → 4753 LP
"Fall!" Malice Doll of Demise! "Monster Card!"
"Hmph!"
Marik: 4753 → 3804 LP
Intense pain descended upon Marik again and again. At first, he could still wail, but by the end, he didn't even have the strength to make a sound.
He was close to losing the ability to think, his consciousness completely sinking, only able to feel the spiritual pain wash over him again and again.
Marik: 3804 → 2855 → 1906 → 957 → 8 → 0
The moment his Life Points reached zero, Marik regained consciousness for just a brief moment. Regarding his defeat, he actually felt happy—'It can finally end...'
"It can finally end? That's what you're thinking, right, Marik." Hayato's finger was still resting on the deck. "Didn't I just say, the effect of Berserker Soul only ends until I draw a card other than a Monster Card!"
"Fall! Monster Card!"
Hearing Hayato's words, Marik, who had almost associated pain with them, looked terrified. The spiritual pain combined with the mental blow caused him to completely fall unconscious.
Glancing at the Ojama Trio Trap Card in his hand, Hayato shrugged indifferently. "This guy is surprisingly easily scared..."
"Master Marik!"
Almost the second the duel ended, Rishid, who had been unable to approach the two duelists due to the divine power of The Winged Dragon of Ra on the field, immediately rushed into the arena. He picked up the unconscious Marik from the ground and anxiously called his name.
"Master Marik!"
"Hayato-kun!" Ishizu Ishtar, who had been with Rishid earlier, also came before Hayato, who was sitting on the ground, looking at him with concern. She remembered clearly that while Hayato's Berserker Soul draw was spirited at the end, his Life Points were only 1.
"Don't worry too much about me. Most of my Life Points were paid by me voluntarily. The real damage was only 100 points. Although I'm not entirely sure if that counts as damage." Hayato said, noticing Ishizu's eyes occasionally glancing towards Marik.
"Don't worry too much. I'm not like Marik, who likes to disregard human life. I told the Winged Dragon to hold back at the end, so he won't die. But the pain is the punishment he deserves."
As he spoke, Hayato felt a little dizzy.
"Hayato-kun!"
"It's nothing, I just suddenly feel... sleepy..." Before he could finish his sentence, Hayato couldn't sit up anymore. With a thud, he fell backward onto the ground and fell into a deep sleep.
Today I was reviewing the draft, and suddenly found a small flaw in the previous duel structure, wanted to modify it, but found that the modification period has passed and it is locked,
Specifically, Marik used Vampire Baby to attack Armed Dragon Thunder LV10. In fact, at that time, there was no need to use the effect of Ojama Pajama Party to banish Ojama Red, because Armed Dragon Thunder already had the effect of not being destroyed by battle at that time.
However, it doesn't have much impact on the subsequent plot, so let's just assume that Ojama Red was banished by Soul Release like the other Ojama.
Today's update is 3K+5K+4K, the saved drafts are completely gone, and 12K a day is enough for once.
I have been busy for two days, and they are both only 4K.
(End of this chapter)