163 Torrential Tribute!!

"My turn! Because of the effect of the Trap card 'Fortune's Inheritance' activated last turn, during the Standby Phase this turn, I can special summon up to two 'Fortune Lady' monsters from my hand!"

Saying this, Carly slammed the first lady onto her duel disk.

"In Attack Position, I special summon the Level 1 tuner monster, 'Fortune Lady Pastry'!"

A black crescent moon appeared in mid-air, and a streak of blackness emerged from the boundless, hollow dimensional rift. Immediately following that, a petite mage dressed in a black robe with orange trim drifted out from the dimensional rift.

"Pastry's power gains 200 attack for each level she possesses."

"Next is the WATER attribute 'Fortune Lady Watery'!"

Aside from the tuner monster Pastry, the remaining six mage ladies of the "Fortune Lady" main deck monster series have levels evenly distributed from Level 1 to Level 6, and their attributes correspond to the six major elements: LIGHT, DARK, EARTH, WIND, WATER, and FIRE.

Water surged as if kneaded by a pair of skillful hands, and after a short moment, it gradually took the form of a petite mage dressed in ocean-blue robes.

"Watery's power increases by 300 for each of her levels."

"Furthermore, before Watery is successfully special summoned, if there is another 'Fortune Lady' monster other than Watery on my field, I can draw two cards from my deck."

This was the exact reason Carly special summoned Pastry first—to trigger Watery's card-drawing effect. By doing so, the hand resources spent on special summoning the two ladies were replenished right back to three cards.

Glancing at the two cards she had just drawn, the corners of Carly's mouth couldn't help but curl upward. These two cards had arrived at precisely the right moment!

"With my once-per-turn normal summon, rise upon the gentle breeze! Fortune Lady Windy!"

A visible green breeze swept through the air, and a green-haired mage enveloped in holy light appeared. A spiraling whirlwind swept the young lady into its center, gradually condensing a set of green mage robes over her form.

Opening her eyes, she reached out toward the nearby whirlwind, grasping a staff inlaid with a green gemstone, surrounded by a hissing wind.

"When Windy is successfully summoned, I can choose and destroy up to a number of Spell and Trap cards on the opponent's field equal to the number of 'Fortune Lady' monsters on my field!"

Pastry, Watery, and Windy—a total of three Fortune Ladies. On the masked man's side, there were an equal number of face-down cards.

Watching as Windy swept her staff to unleash a hurricane intended to tear apart the three face-down cards in the backrow, the masked man immediately waved his right hand and activated the middle card of his three face-down cards:

"Trap card, 'Torrential Tribute', activate! Destroy all monsters on the field!"

Since you want to clear my backrow, I will destroy all three of your monsters in the frontrow!

Even though it would sacrifice his own "Sin Cyber End Dragon", monsters like that still had several copies left in his deck! Furthermore, all of them could be brought out directly with virtually zero cost using just a single card!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

With three explosive sounds, the combination Carly had painstakingly gathered to perform a Synchro Summon for her ace monster was swept away in a single wave by the masked man's classic trap card!

"I set one card, and end my turn!"

Grit-toothed, Carly set a card, bringing her turn to a hasty close. After all, everything that could be done had already been done during the Standby and Main Phases. And who could have anticipated that this unknown masked man would place such legacy cards in his deck? He was willing to sacrifice even a monster-clearing powerhouse like "Sin Cyber End Dragon" just to wipe out her three weak monsters.

"My turn, draw!"

*Click!*

Glancing at the card she had just drawn, and then checking her Speed Counters, she noted with satisfaction that the number of counters met the activation conditions for a Speed Spell card.

"Speed Spell - Angel Wand, activate! When you have two or more Speed Counters, you can use this card's effect to draw two cards from your deck..."

She drew two cards from the top of her deck, both of which were monster cards.

"Then, I discard one card from my hand."

She kept the "Sin" monster and sent the monster with graveyard-dumping utility into the graveyard.

"Next, I send the Effect Monster 'Ultimate Crystal God - Rainbow Dragon' from my deck to the graveyard, to special summon the rainbow dragon born from a world of sin from my hand—Sin Rainbow Dragon!"

The moment Ultimate Crystal God - Rainbow Dragon was sent from the main deck to the graveyard, time seemed to freeze across the entire space.

The next second, vast expanses of aurora suddenly appeared, instantly enveloping the sky of the entire area. A gigantic rainbow-colored dragon, wreathed in pitch-black mist and energy, descended from the aurora-filled firmament and landed behind the masked man.

"Another—another monster with 4000 attack points?!"

Looking at the effortless entry of "Sin Rainbow Dragon", Carly hardly knew what to say.

High-level, high-attack monsters that others had to exhaust every effort to summon could be special summoned by you just by discarding a card!

The height that other people's deck ace monsters could only reach when combined with a pile of Spell and Trap cards designed to boost attack points had become as common as cabbages in your hands!

What on earth is wrong with this world? How is a deck this ridiculously overpowered even allowed to exist? And how is it permitted to function without obstacle in a duel?

Oh heavens! Where is justice in this world?!

Although he couldn't hear her inner thoughts, the shock on Carly's face was unmistakable. The masked man's lips curved upward slightly, and after setting the remaining card in his hand, he entered the Battle Phase.

"Sin Rainbow Dragon! Launch a direct attack on Carly Nagisa! Sin Rainbow Breath!"

Its chest swelled outward, and then a blast of rainbow dragon breath mixed with black lightning was unleashed.

The current situation was identical to the earlier "Sin Cyber End Dragon"—Carly had not a single monster in her monster zone to act as a wall! Once the attack went through, it would be a direct wipeout securing an OTK victory!

"Trap card, 'King's Consonance', activate!"

Just as the rainbow breath was about to strike and end Carly's "Life", a trap card flipped open, intercepting the direct attack of "Sin Rainbow Dragon" and scattering its force into the surroundings.

"The primary effect of King's Consonance is to negate a direct attack."

Having completely negated the direct attack of "Sin Rainbow Dragon", "King's Consonance" did not go straight to the graveyard after activation, but remained on Carly's field.

"After negating the direct attack, there is an additional effect that can be activated depending on the state of my graveyard."

"Oh?"

Amidst the masked man's soft expression of intrigue, Carly reached out and pulled three cards from her graveyard zone.

"If there are both tuner and non-tuner monsters in my graveyard, I can choose a certain number of tuner and non-tuner monsters from among them to banish, and perform a Synchro Summon right out of the graveyard zone! However, the Synchro Monster summoned by this effect cannot exceed Level 8!"

Carly possessed only one Synchro Monster, and its level happened to not exceed Level 8.