Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

Even so, this deck, when used by Yusei, still outperformed the vast majority of duelists. However, in this state, he was almost driven to the brink of defeat by Ria...

In Yusei's mind, Ria's image has changed from a cute little girl to an opponent worth fighting for.

"They've chosen to continue the attack! Vampire Red Reaper attacks Elemental Hero Bubble Fighter! Vampire Slayer launches a direct attack on Big Brother!" Ria gave the same command as before. At this moment, she only had 200 LP left and only one card in her hand.

The effect of [Vampire Heiress] can only be activated once per turn when it is Special Summoned from the hand. Even if it is summoned by other means, Ria no longer has enough life points to activate its effect.

Upon hearing Ria's command, the Red Reaper nodded slightly, and red light began to emanate from her eyes exposed on the outside of her mask. She raised the giant scythe in her hands, then spread her blood-red wings and rushed towards Bubble Man, slashing the scythe in two from top to bottom.

随着水泡侠被破坏，游星也受到了红死神带来的战斗伤害与冲击，生命值从2500降到了1300。（红死神2000 -水泡侠800=1200点伤害）

Ria, on the other hand, recovered 1200 LP due to the effect of the Continuous Magic [Vampire's Domain], which converts the damage she deals to her opponents into her own HP. Now her LP has increased to 1400, which is exactly 100 points higher than Yusei's.

Yusei regained his balance, which had been disrupted by the impact, and activated another face-down card on the field before the Vampire Slayer could attack him directly.

"When I activate the Trap Card 'Hero Mark' on the field, and a monster on my field is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, I can Special Summon 1 monster from my hand or Deck to the field."

Before the attack arrived, Yusei promptly opened his back row face-down card, preparing to Special Summon a Level 4 or lower Elemental HERO monster from his deck.

Seeing this, the vampire killer stopped his direct attack on Yusei and took a few steps back to observe the situation.

"I choose to Special Summon Elemental HERO Forest Warrior (Warrior/EARTH/Level 4/ATK 100/DEF 2000) from my deck in Defense Position!"

Yusei stretched out his right hand forward, and with his movement, a new [Elemental HERO] monster appeared on the field. A burly, green-skinned, bald man, half of whose body was made of thick tree trunks, appeared on the field with his fists clenched. He crossed his muscular hands in front of his chest and then squatted down on the ground. At this moment, he was like an iron wall, not easily shaken.

"It's a new elemental hero..." Jie exclaimed upon seeing Forest Warrior.

The Vampire Slayer's attack power is 1600, while the Elemental Hero Forest Knight's defense power is 2000. His attack could not break through Forest Knight's iron wall defense, so he had no choice but to reluctantly give up his plan to continue attacking.

"【Red Reaper】can Special Summon monsters destroyed by her battle to her field after the Battle Phase ends. Therefore, I Special Summon 【Elemental HERO Bubble Girl】in Defense Position."

The Red Reaper raised his giant scythe, slashing a black rift in the void. From the rift emerged the figure of the elemental hero, Bubble Fighter.

At this moment, he was surrounded by black mist, and his eyes had turned red, clearly indicating that he had become a henchman of the Red Death.

"Damn it! Greed Man, you traitor..." Yusei jokingly complained, while Bubble Man on the other side shrugged, showing a helpless expression.

"As expected of the older brother, he easily resolved several crises. Now Ria is truly at his wit's end." Ria buried the only card in his hand in the back row and announced the end of his turn.

Yusei stared intently at Ria, pondering the words he was about to convey.

"Honestly, Ria, your performance has greatly exceeded my expectations. I see unlimited potential in you, and you will definitely become a powerful duelist beyond everyone's imagination!" Yusei rarely showed a serious expression, sincerely conveying his thoughts to Amamiya Ria.

"..." Ria's expression froze for a moment, as if she hadn't expected Yusei to say these things to her.

She glanced at Yusei, then looked down at her feet and slowly said, "I think the same way about you, big brother. You're so much stronger than I imagined. So many times I thought I was going to win, but you always managed to thwart my attacks..."

Yusei wanted to say that he was a special being and that if his opponent were someone else, he would definitely win easily, but he never said it out loud.

Ria continued, "Before the duel started, he was overconfident about his strength and even told his older brother not to run away. Now, he seems like a fool, just spouting nonsense..."

Ria was, after all, only a fourteen-year-old girl. She was not unaffected by the blow she had just suffered; she was just putting on a brave face.

029 Zero Knight Makes His Second Appearance

"That's not true! Ria, you are the best duelist I've ever seen in this world!" Yusei shouted out his thoughts.

That's true. Ria's strength has surpassed that of the main characters in the anime. Unless they specifically draw a cheat card, they have no chance against Ria.

"I can guarantee Ria's strength. This is just a special case! If your opponent wasn't Yusei, you would have already won." Yui Amamiya knew her younger sister well and conveyed her thoughts to Ria.

"Big brother...and sister..." Hearing their sincere words, Ria felt comforted.

"That's right, that's right. We've all seen the Second Miss's strength. She used to beat those so-called professional duelists to a pulp..." It seemed that there were some fans of Ria among the company employees.

"The main problem is that this kid is too cunning. If it weren't for that red pit..." This is the opinion of the onlookers.

"There are no 'what ifs' anymore. Besides, at the Second Miss's age, could you possibly have half her dueling skills?" Spectator #2 chimed in.

"I don't? You do, don't you!"

"Good grief, are you trying to pick a fight here?"

"Heh heh! You think I can't even criticize your poor dueling skills?"

"You fucking... take this! I'm summoning my fist to launch a direct attack on you!"

"Who's afraid of who! Watch me @＃￥%＆..."

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Leaving aside the farce unfolding among the onlookers, let's switch our focus back to the duel between Yusei and Ria.

"Big brother, please fight Ria with all your might!" Ria looked up at Yusei, her face breaking into a genuine smile.

"That's exactly what I was planning to do!" Yusei was infected by Ria's emotions, and his mindset changed.

"My turn, draw!" It was Yusei's turn. He drew a new card from his deck. He flipped it over and saw that it wasn't the Spell Card Fusion, but a new Hero Monster, Elemental HERO Ocean Warrior.

Like Forest Knight, Ocean Knight's effect requires the preparation phase to activate. Even if it is summoned to the field now, it will have to wait until the next turn to activate its effect. Yusei has already decided to end the duel this turn, so he intends to use this WATER Ocean Knight as a fusion material.

At this point, Ria has 0 cards in her hand and 1400 LP. On the field are [Vampire Red Reaper] with 2000 ATK, [Vampire Slayer] with 1600 ATK, [Elemental HERO Bubble Fighter] Special Summoned by Red Reaper's effect, one face-down card in the back row, and one Continuous Spell [Vampire's Domain]. These are all the cards that are visible.

Yusei has 5 cards in his hand and 1300 LP. At this moment, he only has Elemental HERO Earthman in defense position on his field, and his hand contains Monster Reborn, Flameman, Fusion Recycle, Kuriboh, and Elemental HERO Oceanman.

When Red Reaper attacks Bubble Man, the reason he doesn't use [Kuriboo] to turn Red Reaper into a defense state is because he's used to saving these special hand trap cards for the last moment to save his life.

Ria's attack just now didn't deal any fatal damage to Yusei, so he didn't use Kuriboh from his hand.

Having witnessed Ria's impressive moves, Yusei had no intention of holding back any longer. For true duelists, such acts of mercy would only make their opponent suffer more.

Ria is Yusei's benefactor; the special Duel Disk in Yusei's hand was a gift from her, not to mention that her sister had also shown him kindness and support.

Both emotionally and rationally, Youxing would never betray their true feelings.

In this duel with Ria Amamiya, Yusei will no longer resort to taunting when he has the upper hand, as he did before. Instead, he will choose to face Ria sincerely and treat her as an evenly matched opponent.

Yusei opened his right hand and activated the effect of the monster on the field: "I activate the effect of Elemental HERO Forestman on the field. Once per turn, during my Standby Phase, I can choose one Fusion Spell Card from my Deck or Graveyard and add it to my hand."

Card duels are generally divided into four phases: draw phase, preparation phase, main phase 1, battle phase, main phase 2, and end phase. Different actions can be performed in each phase.

As the name suggests, the draw phase means that each duelist can draw one card from their deck and add it to their hand each turn.

The preparation phase allows you to activate card effects, such as hidden trap cards, quick-play spell cards, and monster effects.

Main Phase 1 is the phase where you use Summon monsters and activate Spell Cards to build your strategy.

The battle phase is the stage where monsters are commanded to attack the opponent.

Phase 2 is generally used to set up trap cards to prepare for the next turn's development and disruption.

The End Phase is the final phase used to announce the end of this turn. Some cards will choose to activate their effects during this phase to avoid various negative effects.

Knowing how to use the appropriate effect at the right stage is a test of each duelist's tactical planning.

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Based on the effect of Forest Knight, Yusei added the Spell Card [Fusion] to his hand from his deck, bringing his hand size to 6 cards.

"I Normal Summon Elemental HERO Flamewaker (Warrior/FIRE/Level 4/ATK 1200/DEF 1800) from my hand! And activate Flamewaker's effect: If this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can add 1 Fusion Spell Card from your Deck to your hand."

The second card, [Fusion], was added to Yusei's hand along with the appearance of Flamebringer.

"Next, I activate the Spell Card [Fusion], fusing the Forest Knight on the field with the Ocean Knight in my hand! Come forth! [Elemental HERO Absolute Zero Knight]!"

Just like during the duel at Muto Sugoroku's card shop, as the fusion was successfully activated, snowflakes began to appear on the field. At first, they were just drifting lightly, but then they fell more and more densely, quickly forming a huge blizzard.

A warrior clad in silver armor and a white cloak emerged from the blizzard, appearing on the field in a gliding motion. He rubbed his left hand on the ground, slowly dissipating the momentum from the impact, and after gliding around Yusei's side of the field a few times, he finally stopped and stood up.

He crossed his arms over his chest, held his head high, striking a pose of arrogance, while his cloak billowed behind him as the blizzard gradually dissipated.

"Holy crap! This monster's got something!" Bystander #1 was blown away by Zero Knight's cool entrance.

"Damn, there's actually such an arrogant monster, I've never seen anything like it before..." Bystander #2 was a little jealous.

"Actually, I admit that this monster is a little bit cool... although it can't compare to me~" The company employee straightened his hair and said with a haughty look.

"Haha! You're so shameless!" protester #1 exclaimed.

"Exactly! Exactly! This is the funniest joke I've heard all day," chimed in bystander #2.

"You two..." the company employee said, indicating that he would remember them.

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(Earth Man: Speaking of the fusion of Forest Man and Ocean Man, isn't that just...)

Absolute Zero Hero: That's right, it's me!

Earthman: ...

030 The Possibility of Fusion Summoning

Many people present are familiar with the Elemental HERO deck, but probably not many are familiar with the Elemental HERO Fusion Monsters.

The materials required for Yusei's Fusion Hero correspond to the six basic attributes of monster cards: Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, Light, and Dark.

Generally speaking, any two monsters are enough to meet the requirements for Fusion Summoning, so as long as Yusei has a Fusion Summoning card in his hand, he can perform a Fusion Summoning and there is basically no chance of having a dead hand.

The six Fusion Monsters—Wind-attribute [Great Tornado], Earth-attribute [Earth-attribute], Fire-attribute [Nova Lord], Water-attribute [Absolute Zero], Light-attribute [Flash], and Dark-attribute [Ghost Lady]—correspond to the six attributes of Fusion Summoning, each with different effects. They are some of the Extra Monsters that Yusei currently uses most frequently.

"Big brother is going to perform a new Fusion Summon, right? I just saw the second [Fusion] Spell Card."

Absolute Zero has an attack power of 2500, which changes depending on the number of other face-up Water-type monsters on the field besides himself, increasing by 500 for each one.

Currently, only Leah's Bubble Fighter on the field is a Water-type with a Defense Position, so Absolute Zero's Attack Power has increased to 3000.

Ria has 1400 HP, and the Vampire Slayer's attack power is 1600. If Absolute Zero attacks, it will just reduce Ria's LP.

However, Yusei was unaware of Vampire Slayer's effect. There was also a face-down card lurking in Ria's back row. Yusei didn't think a duelist of Ria's caliber would choose a useless card to face-down on the field, so he didn't rashly declare an attack, but instead chose to perform a second Fusion Summon.

"I activate the Spell Card [Fusion Recycle]. This card's effect is to add one [Fusion] Spell Card from my Graveyard and the material monsters used in Fusion Summoning to my hand." Yusei added [Fusion] and [Elemental HERO Forestman] from his Graveyard to his hand.

"Hmm... Big brother, are you planning to collect the materials first before performing the second fusion summon?" Ria frowned slightly and began to think.

Just as Yusei was unaware of the effects of the monsters on her field, Ria was also unaware of the effects of Absolute Zero.