"What?"
The Evil God looked at the Iron Knight that had been called back to the field, furrowing his brow slightly, and then feeling a stir in his heart.
Precise Defense can resurrect a Four-Star Monster from the graveyard to serve as an invincible shield for one turn, which was the reason for reviving the Iron Knight back to the field. His first thought was indeed this...
...but what if there's more to it?
The Iron Knight combined with that Butterfly Short Sword has infinite possibilities. If these two cards come together again...
"My turn, draw."
Yugen said.
"First, cover a card on the field.
Then activate the Magic Card 'Life-Reducing Treasure Scroll.' Until the hand reaches five cards, draw cards from the deck."
Yugen drew five cards at once, his expression turning solemn.
"But counted by the number of own turns, during the preparation phase five turns later, you must discard all five cards from the hand."
Yes, the key to using Life-Reducing Treasure Scroll lies in demonstrating the "immense risk," otherwise it lacks soul.
"Then activate the Covering Card on the field." Yugen said, "Trap Card 'Weapon Call'!
You can add an Equipment Card from the deck to your hand, and afterward, if there's a monster on the field meeting the equipment requirements, you can directly equip that card to a monster on the field."
Evil God: "!"
Indeed, anticipated trouble!
He had sensed there was a problem!
"The Equipment Magic I'm going to search from the deck is, of course, this..."
Yugen smiled slightly, drawing a card that popped out from the deck.
"I'll add the Equipment Magic 'Butterfly Short Sword - Echo' to my hand."
Judai: "Oh oh oh, Echo Number Two! The infinite loop components are complete now!"
Kaiba said nothing, but felt secretly astonished. After breaking the previous turn's loop, it was so effortlessly possible to meet the loop conditions again.
There really wasn't any exaggeration or boast, but this guy's infinite loop gives the illusion of casually pressing A.
The Evil God gritted his teeth, snorted: "So what if you complete the loop again? With only the Iron Knight and Butterfly Short Sword, it's just a meaningless cycle."
He narrowed his eyes, speaking in a deep tone.
"In a duel, those who adopt meaningless cycles to infinitely delay time will be directly disqualified from the game."
"Meaningless?"
Yugen chuckled lightly.
"Nothing I do is meaningless, you'll understand soon enough...
I proceed to normal summon 'Blast Flame Maiden.'
The ground erupted with flames, and the fire transformed into human form. Long silver hair, looking as if it were burning, a red robe ablaze, and a golden magic staff also aflame.
[Blast Flame Maiden, Defense Power 1300]
"Blast Flame Maiden, huh." The one who knows Yugen best seemed to have already guessed what was about to happen next, with a grin and a watchful expression, "Looks like things are about to get interesting again."
"Next is Continuous Magic 'Magic Absorption'!" Yugen said, "As long as Magic Absorption exists on the field, every time a Magic Card is activated, I can recover 500 Life Points!"
The Evil God frowned for two seconds, then his expression changed dramatically again.
"Blast Flame Maiden... right, her effect is..."
He seemed to remember.
Blast Flame Maiden's effect is to deal 500 damage to the opponent every time the owner's side recovers Life Points.
Magic Absorption can restore 500 Life Points each time a Magic Card is activated.
Then Butterfly Short Sword - Echo activates, equips to the Iron Knight, self-destructs, auto-reclaims...
After infinite looping, Yugen would return to infinitely high Life Points and simultaneously deal infinite effect damage to the opponent!
The Evil God's mouth twitched.
This bastard... actually turned this meaningless cycle meaningful within just one turn.
Wait...
Is the infinite loop really so easy to pull off?
Why can you effortlessly have so many looping forms?
"Impressive, Yugen, one loop was resolved, yet immediately there's a new loop..." Judai admired sincerely.
Yubel frowned: "Plenty of tricks..."
"Haha, of course." Judai laughed, "Yugen, he's... the strongest!"
Kaiba also narrowed his eyes.
This time, the opponent no longer has any Cover Cards on the field. The opponent's field has only two Evil Gods, but regardless of the effects of Root of Fear or Divine Incarnation, though their frontal combat is invincible, they do not possess a way to handle such malicious tactics.
The Evil God must come to an end here...
And at this moment, Yugen's loop has already begun.
"Activate Equipment Magic 'Butterfly Short Sword - Echo'." Yugen said, "Equip it to 'Iron Knight - Jia Fried'.
Because Magic Card was activated, 'Magic Absorption' effects, I recover 500 Life Points. And then after I recover, Blast Flame Maiden's effect, deal 500 damage."
The Evil God's eyes had already turned fierce.
"No..."
With a sinister voice, he said.
"We are gods, bringing unbounded darkness to all worlds... Evil Gods won't be defeated by such a method..."
He shouted angrily, throwing out a card forcefully.
"Trap Card 'Typhoon'!"
Judai, surprised, "Activating a Trap Card from the hand?"
Kaiba frowned, "So, that's the trick."
"When the field does not possess any Magic, Trap Cards while the opposing field has two or more Magic, Trap Cards present, Typhoon can be directly activated from the hand.
This card can immediately destroy a face-up Magic, Trap Card on the field!"
Yugen nodded, "At the moment Butterfly Short Sword - Echo was activated, there were Butterfly Short and Magic Absorption, two Magic Cards on the field at that moment."
Only during Butterfly Short's activation moment did it satisfy Typhoon's conditions to trigger from the hand.
The Evil God looked into Yugen's back field, narrowing his eyes.
Although the core card of the infinite loop was Butterfly Short Sword, destroying Butterfly Short would be meaningless. Even if the Butterfly Short equipped to the Iron Knight is destroyed, it will self-retrieve back to Yugen's hand.
So there is only one choice...
"Destroy the Continuous Magic 'Magic Absorption'!"
A typhoon swept in, rolling with unstoppable force toward Yugen's field. Magic Absorption was sucked into the vortex's center, as the unparalleled pressure pulverized this card completely.
"Since Magic Absorption was destroyed before the effect processed, because it was a Continuous Magic, its effect won't proceed." The Evil God said icily, "You did not recover Life Points therefore, Blast Flame Maiden's effect will not trigger, and I will not suffer effect damage either."
Yugen nodded, stating: "However the Butterfly Short Sword still activated, and when equipped to Iron Knight instantaneously, it automatically destroyed.
Then Butterfly Short Sword's effect, when destroyed, it returns to its owner's hand."
Yugen retrieved Butterfly Short from the grave back to the hand.
The Evil God let out a heavy grunt: "Suit yourself."
Without Magic Absorption, the Blast Flame Maiden's recovery and burn combination fell apart too. Even if Butterfly Short infinitely recycles, it's merely a meaningless cycle now with the major threat gone.
"To have resolved the loop again, impressive."
Yugen chuckled.
"Well then... how about this next move?"