A duelist never gives up!

Machine Knight, because of its "If there are 2 or more cards in the same column, you can Special Summon it to your field in that column" and other powerful effects related to the same column and handsome card appearance, it was popular among many duelists in the world before the original seven, and was also a T2 competitive card deck in the environment.

As for the Magic Dessert in Yuan Qi's hand, strictly speaking, it is also a t2 deck, but because it is now a broken version, it is probably downgraded to the t4 level...

"Calm down! Calm down!" Although Yi said this, Yuan Qi could tell from her panicked little face that the mentality of this so-called God of Duel was not much better than his own.

"Think about it, the Xyz Summoning just appeared. He doesn't even know how to link. A Mecha Knight without a link..."

"It's quite powerful, too." Yuan Qi complained.

The attack power of this deck is basically over 2,000, which is undoubtedly a very powerful deck in this environment where the health is as thin as paper at 4,000.

"Next, I opened the covered card." Zhu Xiu said, revealing the magic card he had just covered. "Usually, it's a magic card, brainwash."

"I'll pay 800lp and choose the gelatin deliveryman on your field as the target. Come here, gelatin deliveryman."

As soon as Zhu Xiu finished speaking, the clear eyes of the gel ice cream postman became dull for a moment, and then he walked towards Zhu Xiu's field step by step.

Zhu Xiu: 4000lp-3200lp.

"My postman!" Yi scratched his silver hair and looked at the lonely Thousand Layer Cat left on the field, and said anxiously, "Yuan Qi, open the cover card quickly!"

"Don't be impatient, it's not the time yet." Yuan Qi stared at the silver-covered Mecha Knight floating in the air on Zhu Xiu's field. Zhu Xiu had just used a Whirlwind and a Cyan Mecha Knight, plus the Brainwash he was using now, which was a total of three cards. The opponent still had three unknown cards in his hand. If he used the cover card now, he would lose the last means of defense.

"Then, I enter the attack phase." Zhu Xiu said, "I use the gelatin ice postman to attack the puff pastry cat."

"Meow?!" The Thousand Layer Cat let out a scream and dissipated into light under the postman's fist.

"Because of the effect of Magic Dessert Mille-Feu Cat, this card can be activated when it is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard by the opponent. This card returns to the Deck, and because of Magic Dessert's Castle, I can add it directly back to my hand..." Yuan Qi said, and was about to take Mille-Feu Cat back to his hand, but a sudden impact hit him.

"Peng!"

The aftermath of the postman's attack hit Yuan Qi. Before Yuan Qi could react and stand firm, Yi shouted in his ear: "Be careful, the next wave is coming!"

"I will attack directly with the Azure Knight of the Machine World."

"Snapped!"

This time, Yuan Qi was directly knocked away by the impact, and his back came into close contact with the cold floor.

"Yuan Qi!" Xuefeng hurried over and helped Yuan Qi up, his big eyes filled with worry. "Why don't we find another way? You're so strong, the principal will definitely agree to your admission."

Yuan Qi stood up with Xuefeng's help: "Don't be silly, this duel is not over yet, just stay in the audience and watch my victory."

With that, Yuan Qi returned to where he had just stood and said to Xiu Zhu, "Go on."

"That's right, I thought you would give up just like that." Xiuzhu's eyes revealed some admiration. He couldn't stand duelists who cried out in pain at the slightest impact. If they couldn't even bear this little pain, how could they climb to a higher mountain top?

"I do want to, but I've already fallen, wouldn't it be a shame to give up now?" Yuan Qi dusted himself off and said, "Speaking of which...it really hurts. It was just a game of cards, but it feels like a fight."

"That's why I told you to open your card," Yi said unhappily. "Duelists in this world have been enduring various attacks since childhood. With your current physical condition, forcibly taking on an attack of this level is not a safe option."

"I'm fine, right? I still have 500lp." Yuan Qi said. As long as the lp is not reduced to zero, there will be no harm.

"Well, I'll put down a card and the turn ends." As Zhu Xiu declared the turn over, the postman with a dull look in his eyes regained his clarity and returned to Yuan Qi's field with a look of shame on his face.

"Then it's my turn, draw a card." Yuan Qi looked at the card he had drawn, slightly startled, then took it in his hand and slapped the Madeline Witch on the Duel Board. "I Normal Summon, Golem Dessert Madeline Witch, and then activate Madeline Witch's effect, from the deck..."

"Wait, I'll chain-activate the cover card." The expected voice sounded. Yuan Qi had already expected that Zhu Xiu's deck would not include any attack traps. If it was a counterattack trap like the Divine Proclamation Magical Ability, he would be in danger.

"I pay 1000 LP and activate this Trap Card..."

Wait, this familiar price...

"As long as this card remains in the Spell & Trap Zone, the effects of all face-up monsters on the field are negated."

"Puff!" Yuan Qi almost vomited blood.

Isn't this skill extraction?

If you were the world's top duelist, with the best deck, you would just pull out this card, but you clearly said this was the deck you used during your school days!

"Teacher, did the dean really use this deck when he was a student?" Xuefeng's voice trembled, and he was stunned by the scene before him.

"Don't be fooled by his age. He looks middle-aged; he's actually not even thirty. Ten years ago, I was his junior and we competed together in the National College Competition," Nafeli said sadly. "Over 30 schools participated, and there were five rounds from the first to the finals."

"He never lost a round."

"The second hand brainwash plus the high attack of the machine world knight OTK. Even if the OTK fails, the opponent will have no chance to fight back by using the skill extraction in the next round."

"Even the Duel King at the time praised him highly, believing that he would become an outstanding duelist in the future."

"Tsk, I thought I was the strongest back then." Nafeli said unhappily.

"Eh?! Then why didn't you tell us before?" Xuefeng's face turned pale with fright.

"Because, I saw it." Nafeli pointed to his eyes.

"See...did you see it?" Xuefeng didn't understand what Nafeli meant.

"I saw the arrogance in Yuan Qi's eyes." Nafeli said lightly.

"Arrogant?" Xuefeng became increasingly confused. "Teacher, you're mistaken. Yuan Qi is the most humble person I've ever met. He defeated Senior Julie, but he never boasted to me once..."

"Because in his eyes, victory is a given." Nefeli narrowed his eyes and said, "I can see that he's the same person as I used to be. No matter how strong the opponent is, no matter how powerful the deck is, he will always say, 'I will win' without hesitation."

"Um, teacher, what you mean is that you actually want to dampen Yuan Qi's enthusiasm?" Xuefeng seemed to understand.

"No!" Nefeli raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "I hope he can maintain his arrogance in this duel!"

"No matter who my opponent is or what deck they use, I'll win? Nonsense! Of course I'll win!" Nefeli suddenly said, "As a duelist, I'm supposed to be arrogant. Someone has to win, so why can't that person be me?!"

"Eh hey hey?" Xuefeng could no longer understand what the teacher was trying to say.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand now. You'll understand later." Nafeli looked at Yuan Qi, who was calm and composed on the duel field with blazing eyes. "Yuan Qi didn't let me down. No matter what the result of this duel is, I will find a way to recruit him into our academy."

On the duel field, Yuan Qi looked at the Skill Draw card on the opponent's field and his mood had calmed down. Although the Skill Draw card was very strong, ridiculously strong, but... the advantage was mine!

Yuan Qi inserted the magic card he had just drawn into the duel disk:

"The magic card I dealt is 'One Hit Kill! Iai Draw Card'!"

Chapter 8: God's Draw?

"You can activate this effect by discarding 1 card from your hand. Send a number of cards your opponent controls from the top of your deck to the Graveyard. Then, draw 1 card from your deck and both players confirm. If it is [One Hit Kill! Iai Draw], send that card to the Graveyard, and all cards on the field are destroyed. Afterwards, inflict 2000 damage to your opponent for the number of cards destroyed by this effect x . If it is not, choose a number of cards from your Graveyard sent to the Graveyard by this effect, and return them to your deck."

"I discard the Puppet Dessert Mille-Feuille Cat from my hand because you have two cards on the field. I want to put two cards from the deck and send them to the graveyard." Yuan Qi said, sending the Mille-Feuille Cat and the two cards from the deck to the graveyard.

"Wait, the effect of this card..." Xuefeng opened her mouth slightly, her face bright with joy, "If Yuan Qi draws another Iai card, can he directly deal 4,000 health damage to the Dean and win the duel?!"

"How can it be that easy? A deck can only hold three of the same card at most. If he draws one now, there will only be two left in the deck at most. The probability is too small." Nafeli shook his head.

"Then, I draw a card!" Yuan Qi suddenly pulled a card from the deck, "Here it comes!"

"Here it comes? You really got it?!" Xuefeng said happily.

"No! It's not an Iai card draw!" Nafeli frowned. If it was an Iai card draw, Yuan Qi should have sent the card in his hand to the graveyard immediately.

Of course it’s not the Iai card draw. Hara Shichi didn’t expect to win the duel by the Iai card draw from the beginning. This card is enough.

"Hey, Yi, why do you call Yi this name?" Yuan Qi suddenly asked the God of Duel next to him.

"Huh? It's a critical moment in the duel, but you are asking me something that has nothing to do with the duel?" Yi frowned cutely.

"Tell me, I want to know." Yuan Qi.

"I happened to hear this pronunciation and took it as my name," Yi explained.

"I thought it had some important meaning."

"How is that possible? It's just that no one gave me a name, so I just gave myself one." Yi said with his eyes lowered.

"Then I'll call you Ayi from now on. It feels weird to just call you Yi." Yuan Qi said.

"Eh? It's not impossible, but why..." Ai tilted his head, his blue eyes full of confusion.

"Who knows." Yuan Qi chuckled, "Ayi."

"what's up?"

"The formula for victory has been assembled." Yuan Qi said, "Lend me your strength."

"I understand." Ai put her little hand on Yuan Qi's shoulder.

"First, since I didn't draw 'One-Hit Kill! Iai Draw', I returned the two cards I just put down from the Graveyard to the Deck." Hara Nana finished his operation and opened the card box at his waist. Inside, the Queen of Puppet Desserts, Crown Tiramisu, lay quietly inside.

"It's coming!" Nafeli said with a focused expression as he watched Yuan Qi take out the black card from the card box.

"There are two Level 4 monsters on the field. I'll stack Madeline Witch and Gelatin Postman. The two monsters will form a Gyro Network and Gyro Summon—Magic Queen Dessert Crown Tiramisu!"

The elegant queen once again appeared in front of everyone holding the scepter, but she found that there seemed to be an invisible force suppressing her, and her originally smiling face became angry.

"Is this the super summoning?!" Zhu Xiu subconsciously raised the frame of his glasses. The two balls of light surrounding the monster in front of him were probably the so-called super materials.

"However, no matter how powerful the monster is, as long as you are a monster, the effect of skill extraction will be invalidated." Zhu Xiu was not scared by the so-called super monster, but pointed out the key in one sentence.

"But the attack power of Crown Tiramisu is 2200, plus the effect of the Magic Dessert Castle, it is a total of 2700! And the Blue Azure Machine Knight only has 2400. There is no need to use any effect at all, just attack directly!" Xuefeng subconsciously refuted Zhu Xiudao.

"Indeed, you are right. I overlooked this point." Zhu Xiu nodded at Xuefeng and agreed.

"Uh, not angry?" Xuefeng asked in surprise, thinking he was going to be scolded.

"Because what you said is right, of course he can't be angry." Nafeli said this, but he already had a guess in his heart. As a duelist, Zhu Xiu couldn't possibly not pay attention to the most basic difference in attack power. The result of this duel might have already appeared.

"As Xuefeng said, the attack power of your Crown Tiramisu is indeed higher than that of my Azure Knight of the Machine Realm. Do you want to attack?" Zhu Xiu asked.

"No, I'm going to activate the effect of Crown Tiramisu!" Hara Nana said, plucking the materials for Crown Tiramisu and shouting, "I activate the effect of Crown Tiramisu. Once per turn, I remove 1 Xyz material from this card. I can then target up to 1 "Puppet Dessert" cards in your Graveyard. Return those cards to the Deck, and select the card with the most return points from your opponent's field and return them to their owner's Deck!"

"I choose to send the postman to the cemetery..."

"Hey! Didn't you hear the effect of Skill Drain clearly? As long as this card exists in the Spell & Trap Zone, the effects of all face-up monsters on the field are negated! Your Crown Tiramisu can't use the effect at all, it will only waste an Excess Material in vain!" Zhu Xiu scolded.

"No, I heard it clearly!" Yuan Qi opened the cover card on his duel disk. It was time to use the cover card that he had endured the impact and had not used before!

"When the effect of Queen's Crown Tiramisu activates, I chain-activate the Quick-Play Spell Card—Book of the Moon! This card can only be activated by targeting 1 face-up monster on the field. That monster changes to face-down Defense Position. I choose Queen's Crown Tiramisu on my field!"

"What?!" Zhu Xiu said in surprise.

"Wait... I see!" Nefeli paused for a moment, then burst into laughter. "I understand! The purpose of Iai's card drawing isn't to burn HP, but to build up a graveyard!"

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Xuefeng said stupidly.

"Although the effect of Queen's Crown Tiramisu is powerful, it requires a Puppet Dessert Card in the Graveyard to activate it. Hara Nana's goal is to use the cost of Iai's card drawing to send the Thousand Layer Cat in his hand to the Graveyard to fulfill the requirement of Queen's Crown Tiramisu!" Nefeli explained excitedly.

"But...but if there is skill extraction, won't the effect be invalid?!" Xuefeng said confusedly.

"Because the skill's Drain effect negates all face-up monsters on the field," Takeshi suddenly said, "and by exploiting the chain effect, we can use the Moon Book's effect to cover Crown Tiramisu the instant it activates, thus avoiding the skill's Drain range."

"The effect is now activated successfully. Not only can you bounce both of my cards back to the deck, but you can also use Golem Dessert Castle to retrieve two monsters from the graveyard. More importantly, your LP is only 500. In this case, putting the monster in Cover Position will protect you from battle damage next turn."

"A very beautiful operation." Zhu Xiu praised without reservation.

"Tsk, you actually stole my commentary." Nafeli clicked his tongue.

"I see!" Xuefeng finally understood. Wait, so... so... his Book of the Moon was of great use!

Great!

"No, there's no next turn." Hara Nana took the Thousand Layer Cat and the Postman from the graveyard back to his hand and said, "I choose the Azure Knight of the World of Machines on your field and return it to the deck with the skill Draw. Then, I activate the Spell Card from my hand—Double Summon!"

"Another Double Summon?!" Xuefeng couldn't understand, "Why did Yuan Qi draw this card again?"

"Wrong! It may seem strange, but this is how a duelist wins!" Nefeli said quickly. "A true duelist's deck construction is actually very simple. It's roughly divided into initial action cards, board clearance cards, support cards, and interference cards. To ensure the chance of getting them in play, most cards are actually at full three. That's why Hara Nana often starts with the Madeline Witch. If I'm guessing correctly, as core initial action cards, his Madeline Witch and Jelly Angel are at full three. So, as the double summons that allow him to quickly deploy, he must also have a full three!"

"We can't control what cards we can draw! So we must increase the chances of getting them by investing a lot of cards with similar functions. This is how duelists fight! A lucky draw? That's a lucky draw with the highest probability!" Nafeli was already excited. This student was just right for him!

"Then the Iai draw cards in Hara Nana's deck should also be full of three, but you just said that the possibility of drawing a second Iai draw card is very low." Xuefeng said suspiciously.

"..."

"Thanks to the Double Summon effect, I can Normal Summon twice this turn!" Hara Nana said, slapping Mille-Feuille Cat onto the field again. "I Normal Summon Mille-Feuille Cat! Then, using Mille-Feuille Cat's effect, I Special Summon Gelatin Postman from my hand!"

"Because of the effect of the Golem Dessert Castle, all Golem Dessert monsters on the field have their attack and defense increased by 500!"

Thousand Layer Cat: Attack 500/Defense 300 → Attack 1000/Defense 800!

Gelatin Postman: Attack 1600/Defense 1000 → Attack 2100/Defense 1500!

"I'm entering the battle phase!" Yuan Qi shouted. "Mille-feuille Cat and Gelatin Ice Postman, attack directly!"

The huge impact directly hit Zhu Xiu, who was knocked to the ground, and his lp continued to decrease with the attack.

lp: 2200→1100→0

Win: Yuan Qi!