"Nineteen cards from my deck—to the graveyard!"
With Zane’s shout, nineteen cards became a shield. Card Trooper’s triple attack all slammed into that barrier, unable to break through Zane’s last 600 Life Points.
"He blocked it?"
Kira calmly drew another card from his hand.
"Then I set one card. Turn end."
Zane: "My turn. Draw!"
He swept away his earlier dejection; his fighting spirit seemed rekindled.
But something was different now.
If before he fought for the love of dueling, for the thrill of facing a strong opponent, now it was pure, burning desire to win this duel.
On the field, there is always only one winner. There are no participation prizes. The winner is remembered; the loser is forgotten.
If you play, you play to win.
"I activate the Spell Card ’Card of Reversal’!" Zane declared. "If the opponent has Special Summoned monsters and I have none, I draw two cards!" (Anime card.)
He drew two cards, his eyes flaming with darkness.
"I activate the Spell Card—’Overload Fusion’!
I banish monsters from my field and graveyard as Fusion Materials to Fusion Summon a DARK Machine-type monster!"
The watching students were shocked.
DARK Machine-type?
"Isn’t that the opposite Attribute of Cyber Dragon and Cyber End Dragon?" a Blue Dorm student muttered.
All of Zane’s Cyber Dragon, Twin Dragon, and End Dragon were LIGHT. It was well known he was a LIGHT Machine user, his duels as bright and upright as his signature End Dragon.
No one had ever seen him use DARK Fusion before—it almost felt at odds with his dueling style.
"I fuse three ’Cyber Dragons’ from the graveyard, one ’Proto-Cyber Dragon’, one ’Cyber Barrier Dragon’, two ’Machina Peacekeepers’, and eleven more Machine-type monsters sent by ’Power Wall’—all together!"
Metallic beasts emerged one after another, drawn into the swirling vortex of dark fusion. The audience was stunned.
Fuse with eighteen monsters!?
What could that possibly Summon?
"Eighteenfold Fusion—arise!
—Chimeratech Overdragon!"
A cold, steel body exploded with immense energy. Countless dragon heads studded its fortress-like frame; black lightning danced along its armored surface.
Kira nodded slightly. "Oh, there it is. You’re going all out, huh?"
It seemed Zane had realized the limits of clinging to Cyber End Dragon.
For victory, he could even abandon an old friend.
"Chimeratech Overdragon’s ATK is the number of Fusion Materials x 800," Zane declared gravely. "I used eighteen materials, so its ATK is—"
[Chimeratech Overdragon, ATK ? → ATK 14400]
"Fourteen thousand four hundred ATK!?"
The Blue Dorm students were shocked.
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