Yu-Gi-Oh! The Pitfall Hero

Without monsters, what can you use to fight me?

"If you knew my next move, you wouldn't say that..." A mysterious smile, its meaning unclear, appeared on his face. Wan Zhangmu's eyes, which were fixed on King, were filled with deep mockery...and pity.

"Hahahaha... That's hilarious! On my field, there are two demons with attack power of 2600 and 3000 respectively! If you can't defeat them, then you've lost! Manjoume!"

"Heh...then you'd better open your eyes wide and watch carefully!" With that, Manjoume stretched out his finger and forcefully pulled a card from the top of the deck.

This hopeful pull violently stirred up the surrounding dust.

"During my main phase, I activate this card from my hand—[Pot of Greed and Greed]!"

Inserting the poison pot into the Duel Disk, Manjoume began to explain its effect: "You can only activate 1 [Pot of Greed and Avarice] per turn. You can activate it by banishing the top 10 cards of your Deck face down. Draw 2 cards from your Deck."

"Idiot! You already have [Pot of Greed], and you still put this kind of useless card in your deck!" King's face flashed with deep sarcasm as he looked at the spell card activated by Manjoume.

[The Pot of Greed and Desire]... That was a card he couldn't even be bothered to look at.

Because of the effect of the spell card "Hellstorm" activated in the previous turn, all the monsters in Manjoume's deck and graveyard have been banished. And at this moment, he still chooses to activate a card like "Poison Jar" that has no apparent purpose...

In exchange for 10 cards from your own deck, you gain the card-drawing effect of Pot of Greed...

How stupid!

What if you banish a key card from your deck?

I just put three copies of Pot of Greed in my deck without any cost, isn't that great?

Isn't it a million times better than this drug-absorbing pot?

"I have 10 cards left in my deck... just enough for banishment!"

Looking at his duel disk, Manjou's lips curled up slightly.

Banishing 10 cards is the cost to activate "Pot of Greed and Greed". If you don't have 10 cards, this spell card cannot be activated.

As for the subsequent card-drawing effect, it naturally cannot be activated now that there are no cards left in the deck.

Originally, drawing cards wasn't the ultimate goal.

"That concludes the preparations..."

Seeing his deck reduced to zero, Manjoume's face showed not a trace of panic; instead, he displayed an extremely calm expression.

It was as if the current situation was exactly what he wanted.

"Manjoume...Are you crazy?!" King's face showed deep bewilderment as he looked at Manjoume's baffling actions.

Banishing his entire deck, what is this guy planning to do?

Could it be, as he said before, that there is a tactic he hasn't used yet and has deliberately saved it for himself?

How could this happen...?

"King! You'll regret being my enemy!"

Unable to contain his laughter any longer, Manjou, mouth agape and chuckling wildly, slammed a card onto the top of the Duel Disk: "This is the trump card I've found at the very top of this far northern ice plain! I summon—[Crimson Demon Tower - Isha] (Fire/Demon/Level 3/ATK: ?/DEF: ?)"

From the void of chaos, a ray of crimson light was born.

The world-destroying monster named Ta-Isha slowly opened its crimson eyes and looked down upon this unfamiliar world with a gaze that looked down upon all things.

Space trembled, and time was torn apart.

Even the whole world seemed to be terrified of the resurgence of this anomaly.

It was just standing there, without making the slightest movement, but the aura emanating from it was undeniably a majestic light from a higher dimension.

"...Attack power unknown?" King, feeling his soul tremble as he looked at the red monster that appeared before him, managed to utter his question with difficulty.

"Let me answer you!" Pointing his finger at King, a mocking glint appeared in Manjou's eyes: "The attack power of [Crimson Demon Tower - Isha]... is equal to the number of cards I banished * 400..."

"...What?!"

King's eyes widened again, as if they were about to burst out of their sockets.

King, whose jaw suddenly slammed to the ground, finally understood Wan Zhangmu's plan.

Banish monsters from the deck... Use the effect of the Poison Jar to banish Spell & Trap Cards from the deck again...

Everything, everything, was for the purpose of granting this red monster the power to destroy the world...

...Ughh ...

I always thought that Manjoume, this outsider, was just a crazy clown...

But now it seems, the Joker... was actually myself?

……

"The cards I excluded totaled... 34, which means the Crimson Beast's attack power will be 34 * 400... reaching 13600 points!!!"

Wan Zhangmu waved his hand in front of King's location, then stretched out his arm and pointed towards the sky.

At this moment, the sky was covered by endless darkness.

A faint red light flickered within the dark clouds.

Then, accompanied by countless red lights, the phantoms of the monsters that had previously been excluded by Manjoume appeared one by one above Manjoume's head, and were all absorbed into the body of the Crimson Lotus Beast.

"--roar!!!!!"

Having gained the full power of the monsters in the deck, the Crimson Beast's size increased dramatically in an instant, barely reaching the top of the castle!

And his attack power, which was originally unknown, has now reached a record-breaking 13600 points!

"Hahahaha!!! Watch closely, King! I'll only throw one punch!"

Facing the stunned and bewildered King, Manjoume raised his head and announced the start of the final battle: "Take this! This is the final blow that gathers all the monsters in my deck!"

"Take this! Attack together! Manjoume's Lightning Special Attack!"

As Manjoume shouted out a long list of attack names, the gigantic Crimson Lotus Beast slowly raised its right fist.

Then, a terrifying wave of energy spread out across the land, sweeping irresistibly towards the location of the [Demon Bull] from its center.

Let alone King's mere 4000 health points, even if it doubled to 8000, it still couldn't withstand the overwhelming, soul-severing, god-killing blow from the Crimson Lotus Beast!

"Ughhhh... How could this be... Impossible!!! As the student council president of Northern Academy, known as the invincible wall, how could I possibly lose to an outsider like you!!!"

Faced with the enormous iron fist hurtling towards him, King felt despair and helplessness, so he clutched his head and let out a roar of resentment.

However, the devastating fist wind, imbued with the will of the monsters, mercilessly swallowed him and his monsters whole...

315 The Dragon King Returns

(King LP: 4000→0)

The fist wind from the Crimson Lotus Beast, whose attack power had surged to over ten thousand points, transformed into a beam of light that illuminated the night, taking away all of King's health.

As the duel ended, the light also dispelled the darkness above their heads.

With the hem of his trench coat fluttering in the wind, Wan Zhangmu, still raising his arms high towards the sky, defeated all the challengers from the Northern Academy and won the final victory in the duel!

A 1 vs. 50 deathmatch, passed!

The battle of the Four Heavenly Kings was a complete victory!

The towering wall, King, has collapsed!

The new king of Northern Academy—the Lightning of Ten Thousand Eyes—is born!

"...It seems a new king has been born!"

Just as Manjoume secured victory, a slightly frivolous, teasing voice, accompanied by rhythmic footsteps, suddenly echoed in his ears.

"……who?!"

Wan Zhangmu abruptly turned his head toward the direction from which the sound came, his gaze fixed intently on that direction.

No way? There can't be any more, right?

After beating the young ones, the old ones come next... When will this ever end?

What kind of lousy place is this Northern College?!

It's true what they say, as long as life goes on, the struggle will never end!

"Hehehe... Don't panic, I'm not here to cause trouble~"

With a soft laugh, a man wearing an iron mask slowly emerged from the shadows of the building and stood before Wan Zhangmu.

"You are... that seaweed bastard inside the whale's belly?"

Upon seeing the man standing before him, Wan Zhangmu's eyes widened suddenly.

It's all because of him that I'm facing this situation of being besieged...

Although I managed to pull through thanks to my strong abilities...

However, even the slightest mistake in the process could lead to utter ruin!

And it all started because of this seaweed man wearing an iron mask!

Even after all this, they still dare to show up in front of me?

Do you really think I, Mr. Wan Zhangmu, have no temper?

"Feeling confused?... Hehe, let me first introduce myself!"

Seeing the slightly unfriendly and sinister look in Manjoume's eyes, the man who finished speaking reached out and removed the mask from his face, revealing a face that was extremely familiar to Manjoume, which was covered by an iron mask: "My name is Iqiangsen... and I am the principal of this Northern Academy."

"What? Uncle... what... what's going on?!"

The figure of the man before him gradually overlapped with the figure of the bald man that Wan Zhangmu had met at the entrance of the Northern Academy.

Upon hearing the words spoken by him, a look of shock appeared on Wan Zhangmu's face.

That middle-aged man, whose face was etched with disappointment and who looked utterly dejected, was actually the principal of this Northern Academy...

How could Wan Zhangmu possibly believe such an outrageous thing?

"Don't rush, let me explain to you first..." Calmly extending his arm, gesturing for Wan Zhangmu to listen quietly, I Qiangsen then said, "First of all, what swallowed you was not a whale, but this Northern Academy's submarine... which also serves as a mobile fortress."

"...It's a submarine?"

Upon hearing this, Manjoume's expression changed: "So, the others... are also part of the test?"