Aisha: (.>︿<)_θ "That was a counterattack on the Ultimate Earthbound Immortal! You're incredible, Mokey Mokey!"
Inside the Millennium Puzzle's Soul Room, Aisha screamed with excitement as if the punch Mokey Mokey had just thrown to send the Ultimate Earthbound Immortal flying had been her own.
-_-?: "Another boring god. Destroyed."
The tofu punch shattered the vulture gale; the raging current of destruction was forcibly halted, yet Miles's D-Wheel, suspended beneath the crimson Turbo Duel track in the dark sky, still hung on with a single Life Point.
You can take away the first 3999 easily, but this one point—you'll have to trade your life for it!
"Mokey Mokey defeated the Ultimate Earthbound Immortal?"
"We still have a chance!"
In the hopeless situation of 1 versus 8000, the people of Axet seemed to find new hope from Mokey Mokey's punch.
Demolish scowled deeply. "To think such a monster could shake the Ultimate God..."
A counterattack low in damage but high in insult—it was using something so small and insignificant to shatter the will of both god and earth itself.
Just like Miles now, still standing against god.
"If even Mokey Mokey can break a god head-on, how could humanity ever lose to you? You're weaker than tofu, Kami-sama!"
"You insolent wretch!"
Right then, the god of destruction—Demolish—had veins bulging across his massive body.
Miles had done it—he had angered the god who had until now remained expressionless, emotionless, and indifferent to all ruin.
Though Miles could no longer recall which book he had read it from, he remembered the words clearly:
When a god gains human emotion, it ceases to be an untouchable being.
Simply put, it means pulling a god down to the same level as humans… and then using the rich, cunning experience of humanity to completely defeat him.
By any means necessary, and with maximum efficiency, to seize victory within the time-pressed arena of the Turbo Duel.
Demolish said, "You don't actually believe you can survive this turn, do you?"
The very same words, spoken before and after Mokey Mokey's destruction of the Ultimate Earthbound Immortal, carried a vastly different tone now.
Proof enough that even a god had been shaken by Mokey Mokey.
However, in terms of field position, after the Ultimate Earthbound Immortal capable of direct attacks was defeated, Demolish had only the Earthbound Immortal whale left in Defense Position, unable to inflict further damage.
Nevertheless, from the start of this turn, Demolish had already declared he had more than one way to finish off Miles's last Life Point.
Such as the floating altar in the sky, making the dark heavens even more ominous.
"Continuous Trap Card [Altar of the Bound Deity], activate!"
The altar holding four Earthbound Counters began to quake violently after its effect triggered, even shaking Miles as he rode through the sky.
[You can send this card with four Earthbound Counters to the Graveyard; Special Summon 1 monster whose name includes 'Earthbound Immortal' from your Deck.]
The altar, surrounded by four pillars of soul flame, collapsed in an instant. From within, a third Earthbound Immortal roared forth.
"I Special Summon [Earthbound Immortal Uru] in Attack Position!"
[Earthbound Immortal Uru, ATK: 3000]
The massive spider-shaped Earthbound Immortal Uru, floating in the sky—this should have been the same Earthbound Immortal that Miles and Krista once defeated together with Majestic Star Dragon.
And yet, here it was again in Demolish's Deck.
Being the embodiment of all Earthbound Immortals, it made sense that it could wield every Earthbound card—it wasn't a lie after all.
"Since it was summoned by a Trap effect during the Battle Phase, Earthbound Immortal Uru can still attack! Crush that monster!"
Demolish once again declared an attack, directly targeting Mokey Mokey in Attack Position.
Between a direct attack or striking at a monster, he chose without hesitation to destroy Mokey Mokey instead.
That alone showed how deeply that single Mokey Mokey punch had scarred his mind.
"Can you block this attack?"
"This attack...!"
Aisha raised her slender arm high above her head—and along with it, Miles flipped open his final face-down card.
"Not only will I block this attack—I'll flip the whole table! Trap Card, activate: [Synchro Call]!"
[Target 1 Tuner monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon that target, but its effects are negated. Immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 Synchro Monster using only that monster and other monsters you control.]
At the edge of life and death, Miles called forth the light of a sleeping Tuner from the Graveyard.
The Level 1 Tuner Monster [Effect Veiler], sent to the Graveyard earlier by its hand effect.
"That feeling...!"
Resonating from the soul itself, Krista's violet-blue eyes widened as she looked up at the blazing Synchro.
"This feeling—this Synchro Summon! Not just Father... even Mother acknowledges Miles now!"
From destruction and protection both, the Synchro Summon blooming on Miles's field became the most beautiful flower Krista had ever witnessed in her life.
Miles shouted, "Not only will I block this attack—I'll flip the entire duel upside down!"
"Wah?!"
"Level 1 Tuner Monster [Effect Veiler], Level 1 [Mokey Mokey], and Level 5 [Jack's Knight]—total Level 7, Synchro Summon!"
Facing the two Earthbound Immortals on Demolish's field, Miles's comeback Synchro Summon burst forth—seven shining Synchro stars rose from his monsters, blazing like fire.
"The frozen flame shall engulf the world. Let the pitch-black flower bloom! Synchro Summon! Appear—[Black Rose Dragon]!"
[Black Rose Dragon] Level 7│FIRE│Dragon│2400 ATK
[Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters]
"Rooaaar!"
The D-Wheel raced through the Turbo Duel track as the burning Synchro flames gave form to the Black Rose Dragon.
Countless petals scattered as its wings unfurled, sweeping across the entire sky.
"When [Black Rose Dragon] is successfully Special Summoned, destroy all cards on the field! With the power of destruction, protect what's precious—burn everything away! Black Rose Gale!"
Not only did he block the Earthbound Immortal's attack, but he also dragged every Earthbound Immortal on the field into an all-consuming storm of annihilation.
Through the Synchro in perfect harmony with Krista's will, in the time-pressed heat of the Turbo Duel, Miles had carved a blazing path of counterattack through the storm of fire.
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