Yu-Gi-Oh! Your Friends Are Fighting Out of the Underworld

Chapter 8 Virus
Ritual summons.

When many card players mention this summoning method, they will feel that it is difficult to explain in words. The summoning principle itself is destined to make it something more difficult to balance than synchronization, fusion, overdrive and even connection.

If the effect is too strong, it will be outrageous; if it is too weak, it will be too salty. For a long time, it has been fluctuating up and down - either it goes on the road of disgusting and never returns, or it is so salty that it relies on its card pictures and settings to win over a small number of die-hard fans, and it has never been in the middle in a real sense.

In an anime that uses summoning to distinguish dimensions, it can't even be considered a separate dimension.

But no matter how much you complain about it, in the early days, it was one of the ways for duelists to use the resources in their hands and quickly call out high-star monsters!

"But a ritual summon requires a card in your hand or a monster on the field as a sacrifice to meet the summoning conditions."

Gazing at the flickering light, Keith shouted.

"You only have one Ritual Monster left in your hand, and there's only one four-star monster on the field. You can't summon any powerful monsters!"

Generally speaking, this is correct.

Just like the early fusion required specific materials, the conditions for the ritual summoning itself were also very harsh.

Ritual magic, ritual monsters, and sacrifices all require all of these conditions to be present in your hand to be fulfilled.

but……

"My ritual magic is beyond this era."

Of course, I'm referring to the ritual magic card in my hand.

"[Advanced Ritual] performs a Ritual Summon by sending Normal Monsters from your Deck to the Graveyard until their combined Levels equal that of the Ritual Monster you are summoning, without requiring any cards from your hand or a Tribute on the field."

"Searching for sacrifices directly from the deck?! And isn't there a dedicated ritual for that?!"

In this situation, even Keith, who was knowledgeable and experienced, couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Although in the era before the time travel, this effect was nothing, the advanced ritual technique did not even have any useful search methods, and was stuck by ordinary monsters.

However, here, the card left by Xia Di is obviously the most useful ritual magic, no doubt about it!

Thank you, Shadi, I will personally bring your mother down from outer space.

"Start searching now."

He pulled out his deck and began searching.

"Bones, Beast Tamer from Another Dimension, Goblin the Fallen, Attic Monster, Angel Witch."

Gradually, the shadows of monsters appeared around Guanghui.

There are dwarves riding beasts from another dimension, dwarves studying characters, little monsters that look like chestnut balls, witches, and bones.

"I send these five monsters, totaling eight stars, to the Graveyard to draw out the monsters in my hand."

The light of the ceremony engulfed them, and the silhouette of a magic sword vaguely emerged in the light.

But then, the magic sword began to expand, stretching out limbs, flesh and blood, and became a ferocious blue beast.

"Ritual summons—"

You Ming took a picture of the blue monster card.

"Level 8 - Jera."

"It's actually a ferocious demon that surpasses the "Devil Summoning" ability... You really have a very exaggerated card."

I remember that in the setting of the animation, Jera is a rare card with only three copies in the world, even the Blue-Eyes White Dragon has one more than it.

But, it’s not that great in itself.

"Jera (lv8)"

Attribute/Dark

"Race/Demon"

"atk/2800 def/2300"

As a ritual bone, the only thing it can boast of is its attack and defense power, which is slightly inferior to that of the white dragon.

but……

"You still haven't been able to break my "Light Sealing Sword"."

Keith spoke up.

"If it's just this level, even if there are two monsters with extremely high attack power standing in the front field, it will be of no use."

"It doesn't matter, they have met my requirements."

With no more cards in his hand, You Ming simply took a deep breath. And then...

"That's the end of my round."

"Is this the extent of the result?"

Keith spoke up.

But then he laughed again.

"But kid, you can be proud of yourself. Your level is enough to win a championship outside...it's just that you met a stronger opponent."

To be honest, You Ming was tired of hearing this kind of talk. Basically, this kind of plot appeared in all the novels, animations or TV dramas he had read before.

You're so strong, but unfortunately I'm stronger than you...

"That sounds like something a primary school kid with a Chuunibyou syndrome would say. Hasn't Mr. Thief Keith graduated from reading comics yet?"

"Hmph, you're still as sharp-tongued as ever... But don't forget, you're the one at a disadvantage right now. I can clear your Life Points without even summoning stronger monsters or using any cards in my hand."

"So you do have a higher level monster in your hand, right?"

"Tsk..."

Keith didn't respond, he just placed his hand on his card.

"Anyway, don't cry out in pain afterwards."

Of course, in fact, Thief Keith still has something to be proud of.

At least under the 4000LP mechanism of the animation, his opening blood-reducing routine is very deterrent.

From this perspective, Keith did not disappoint his statistics, which were far stronger than those of the dinosaur dragon riders, insect feather moths, and the like.

but!

"My turn."

"My duel is one step faster than yours."

"Draw a card!"

"Open the cover card."

"Varied……"

Before Keith could check the card he drew, he suddenly felt a strange stickiness.

When he came to his senses, he found that the surroundings had been covered with sticky dark matter since he didn't know when.

'tick'

'Gulp'

Amidst the strange bubbling and dripping sounds, Keith looked straight ahead.

Following the source of the sticky liquid, he saw the same slime dripping from the ferocious demon's body.

"The moment you draw a card, I will sacrifice the monster on my field with a defense of over 2,000—"Jera"...

"You actually took the initiative to release the higher-level monster?"

"Use this to activate this Trap Card."

"Guoo ...

Watching the gradually collapsing demon, a word that could describe the current situation gradually emerged in Keith's mind.

"poisoned?"

Wait, poisoned?
Before Keith could recall anything further, the ferocious demon had completely dissolved and disappeared.

Amidst a devilish grin, Keith finally saw the red card wrapped in liquid.

"[Shadow Deck Destruction Virus] - Check all monsters on your opponent's field, cards in your opponent's hand, and cards drawn by your opponent within 3 turns of your opponent's turn, and destroy all monsters with a DEF of 1500 or less within that time."

"It's actually a virus card?"

As the spreading dark wave transformed into a swarm of liquid bats, Keith finally remembered.

"Is this Kaiba Seto's deck-breaking tactic?!"

(End of this chapter)