Vampire Camilla gradually began to realize something was wrong.
But she wasn't about to lose her composure just yet.
Calm down, after all, it's just a measly monster with 800 attack points. Even if it hits me once every turn, it's just 800 damage, she can still take it.
"Field Magic 'Megaroid City' activate!"
Marufuji Shou slapped down a Field card, and the landscape transformed instantly. A modern city rose up, bridges and roads crisscrossing it.
"I summon 'Mixeroid' in attack position!"
Mixeroid, as the name implies, is an anthropomorphic concrete mixer truck, carrying an elliptical mixing drum on its back. It looks like a giant snail to some players, somewhat reminiscent of a steamroller...
[Mixeroid, Defense 2000]
Camilla sneered, "Hmph, as expected, a weak man with nothing but insignificant monsters."
"The effect of 'Megaroid City', destroy one card on the field, add a 'roid' card from the Card Deck to the hand." Marufuji Shou declared, "I'll destroy 'Mixeroid' and add 'Kiteroid' from the deck to my hand!"
Camilla: "What other insignificant monster is this..."
"Change 'Submarineroid' to attack position, then enter battle! Direct attack from Submarineroid!"
This time, Camilla was mentally prepared, adopting a fearless stance saying "bring it on."
Ha, mere 800 points of damage, not even a scratch...
"The follow-up effect of 'Megaroid City', sends a 'roid' monster from the Card Deck to the Graveyard, allowing one battling 'roid' on the field to swap its original attack and defense during damage calculation!"
"What!!?" Camilla's defense was instantly broken.
[Submarineroid, ATK 800/DEF 1800 → ATK 1800/DEF 800]
Yet another fish slap—the Submarine Bro with swapped stats under the effect of "Megaroid City" had a terrifying attack power of 1800.
[Camilla, LP 3200 → LP 1400]
A face slap from an 1800-pointer was still quite painful, leaving the vampire momentarily dumbfounded. While clutching her high chest and coughing violently in the black smoke, she glared angrily at the shorty opposite her, questioning reality.
What kind of crazy strategy is this!?
Just a submarine slapping a duelist directly is bad enough, but how can there be such a bizarre field effect of attack-defense swapping?
Finally realizing the dreadful nature of this strategy, the vampire began to lose her composure.
She had also realized that the kid's Card Deck didn't have a single monster prepared for a direct confrontation with her!
He planned to rely on this scrappy submarine giving her a slap every turn, and then use a ton of Traps and various defensive means to obstruct her from launching a normal offensive.
Such an insidious and cunning strategy!
"Set... set one card, turn ends."
Marufuji Shou was still so intimidated, he was too scared to even make eye contact with the vampire big sister. However, with his nasty strategy, the more he cowered, the more it infuriated Camilla.
"My turn." Camilla drew a card, her expression icy cold.
Her Life Points were left at 1400, while his were still untouched at 4000. If next turn she was again beaten by the invincible submarine with its attack-defense swap, she would be wiped out!
This is just too damn humiliating!
"Magic Card 'Card of Sanctity', both sides draw cards from their deck until their hand fills up to six cards."
Clearly, while Camilla might not be the top echelon, she's at least not an amateur Black Duelist, absolute come-from-behind knack for drawing the best recovery Divine Artifact is just basic skill.
Indeed, she managed a magical top draw that made her throw her head back in sharp laughter. Her mouth twisted into a bizarre grin, with her tongue sticking out, looking less like a vampire and more like a venomous snake.
Her facial performance instantly elevated her charm from "captivating" to "bizarre."
Don't be surprised if some weirdos actually like that!
"This mouth, I approve!"
"Bro, while humans have freedom in preferences, I still suggest you see a doctor..."
Marufuji Shou already scared stiff, grew even more anxious at the sight of such an inhuman face, his resolve wavering...
"Field Magic 'Undead Kingdom - Hrubania' activate!" (Original card)
A dark castle rose abruptly, collapsing Marufuji Shou's 'Megaroid City' right where it stood.
Some students gasped in shock: "That's the legendary Forbidden Card!"
But the card players looked at each other, utterly clueless.
What the heck is that? Do the Game King series even have that card?
It's normal players don't recognize it, after all, this was Camilla's animation-exclusive Field Magic, referred to as a "Forbidden Card" by others in the animation, probably akin to a Forbidden Card in the animated universe.
Clearly, since Dark Duels are life-and-death, some unscrupulous duelists naturally disregard talk of Forbidden or non-Forbidden cards. Like Camilla, she belongs to such a category—
—as long as it wins the duel, what's the harm in using a Forbidden Card or two?
Some folks even play with Fake Cards!
Regarding why this Field is a Forbidden Card...
"Effect of 'Undead Kingdom - Hrubania' activate! Once per turn, discarding an Undead-Type monster from the hand, destroy all monsters on both sides of the field!"
A card player heard his jaw hit the floor.
What... What kind of move is that!?
Some players quickly analyzed this.
After all, in the animated universe, Forbidden Cards are prevalent—one has to know, even Forbidden Cards in the actual card environment are numerous in the animation, some of the animation cards even remain Forbidden when nerfed and released in the actual card environment.
Considering such high intensity differences, it seems reasonable for animated Forbidden Cards to be overpowered...
...You big fool!
Why the hell not make it a once per turn and win the game!?
Truth is, Camilla was being somewhat merciful here.
In the original work, she had an even more perverted Forbidden Card called "Illusion Gate". Its effect is to destroy all monsters on the opponent's field, then Special Summon any one monster from the opponent's Graveyard on her field regardless of summoning conditions...
However, her Card Deck didn't contain that card at this moment.
Firstly, because she felt her opponent was just a rookie not worth the effort, secondly, because "Illusion Gate" not only is a Forbidden Card, but also a sinister card. If you lose, the soul of the user must become the sacrifice for the Phantasm.
In the original work, Camilla was prof
oundly insipid, using "Illusion Gate" yet unwilling to bear the risk of her soul becoming a sacrifice, so she resorted to trickery, bullying the protagonist group's students' ignorance of the Darkness Game tricks to substitute kinfolk or friends as her proxies for the sacrifice.
However here, Camilla wasn't just intent on winning a duel, she wanted to impress Duel King Youyu.
If her means of victory were too underhanded, scoring too low in his mind, and he wouldn't listen to her tragic tale but rather take her down with a blow, she'd be in serious trouble.
Thus, activating the Undead Kingdom effect here, all monsters on both fields were wiped out...
...But not really!
"The 'Undead Werewolf' is undead!" Camilla shouted, "My 'Undead Werewolf' can be Special Summoned by placing a card with the same name from the Card Deck if destroyed, with attack power increased by 500 points!"
The new 'Undead Werewolf' appeared soon, even mightier than before!
[Undead Werewolf, ATK 1700]
"Quick-Play Magic 'Double Cyclone'!" Camilla continued, "Destroy one Magic Trap card on each side of the field simultaneously!"
Red and golden storms simultaneously whipped up on Camilla's back field and Marufuji Shou's back field, grinding the Set Cards into pieces!
Everyone clearly saw that the Set card on Marufuji Shou's back field, was indeed a 'Magic Cylinder'...