Qliphort, LP: 3200→2200.
Skill Drain.
Sofia lightly furrowed her brow.
As long as this card is on the field, face-up Monster Effects on the field are negated.
However, since Materialism is unaffected by Spell and Trap Cards, this card is actually a unilateral Trap Card against Sofia.
For a long time, Sofia always thought this kind of "mutual harm" card should be useless until she was enlightened by Tierra, and started to truly duel, she gradually understood.
Dueling is something that makes regular matches different by utilizing so-called "flaws."
Just like now, her Nekroz of Trishula's banishing effect was instantly negated, and not only that, due to the effect of Materialism, the Attack Points dropped by 500.
Nekroz of Trishula, ATK: 2700→2200.
2200, that's definitely not enough to beat Materialism.
But the good news is, she can still use the effect of Shrit to add a Warrior-Type Nekroz Ritual Monster from her Deck to her Hand.
She opened her Deck and slightly checked and searched.
Warrior-Type, Warrior-Type...
Not many.
She looked at the Ritual Monsters in her Deck, slightly furrowing her brow.
If possible, she wanted to search "Nekroz of Decisive Armor."
That card can increase a Nekroz's attack on the field by 1000 by discarding itself.
However, the race of Nekroz of Decisive Armor is Dragon, and it can't be searched.
Seeing Sofia fall into deep thought and taking a long time without making a move, Akaba Reiji lightly pushed his glasses, tapped the window, and reminded her: "Nekroz of Brionac."
Brionac...
Oh—
She saw that Nekroz of Brionac could discard itself to add any Nekroz Monster other than Brionac from the Deck to her Hand.
In other words, as long as a process is followed, Shrit can search all the Nekroz Monsters?
She was a bit confused.
If that's the case, then Shrit could have just directly searched all Nekroz from the start, right?
She shook her head, added the card to her Hand, then activated Brionac's effect, discarded itself, and added Nekroz of Decisive Armor to her Hand from the Deck, then discarded again.
"During either player's turn, discard this card from your Hand. Target 1 Nekroz Monster you control; until the end of this turn, that monster gains 1000 ATK and DEF.
Boost Nekroz of Trishula's ATK by 1000."
Nekroz of Trishula, ATK: 2200→3200.
"Battle, attack Materialism with Nekroz of Trishula—"
Swoosh!
The Warrior of Trishula swung the spear in its hand, launching a thrust into Materialism, causing Qliphort's Life Points to plummet instantly.
Not right—
Seeing this scene, Akaba Reiji couldn't help but push his glasses again.
Wrong move.
Sofia had previously shown him her Deck and asked for his analysis and, out of basic courtesy in cooperation, since she showed him her Deck, he naturally didn't hide much information and thus gave Sofia quite a few suggestions.
Precisely because he had seen the "Nekroz" Deck, he was well aware that Sofia was dueling incorrectly now.
Because—she could have won right now.
The Nekroz Divinemirror in the Graveyard can be banished along with a Nekroz Monster during the Main Phase to search 1 Nekroz Spell Card from her Deck to her Hand.
Banish Shrit, search Nekroz Cycle, and as long as the Levels are matched, she can Ritual Summon the Ritual Monster from the Graveyard, which is Ritual Summon Nekroz of Decisive Armor.
Although Nekroz of Decisive Armor's effect is useless against Materialism, through this method, she could directly gather Monsters with 3200 and 3300 ATK. As long as she destroys Materialism in battle and then lets Nekroz of Decisive Armor attack directly, she would have won.
However.
Sofia clearly forgot about the cards in the Graveyard.
This gave the opponent an opportunity—
Sure enough, as he thought, after Sofia finished her turn, in Qliphort's turn, it wouldn't be polite with her.
First, it spent another 800 Life Points, searched another Pendulum component from the Qliphort Deck, and Pendulum Summoned Qliphort Access Relentless.
ATK 2800—
Higher by 100 than 2700, that's the winner!
However, after seeing this Monster, Sofia couldn't help but furrow her brow again, seeming to fall into thought.
When it came to Sofia's turn, she seemed to finally remember the Monsters in the Graveyard, belatedly searched for the Ritual Spell, and Ritual Summoned the Decisive Armor, but—as Akaba Reiji previously thought.
Because she missed the best opportunity for a kill, the Qliphort Deck managed to gather the Pendulum, leading to Relentless being Special Summoned from the Extra Deck every turn. Even though the Decisive Armor has a higher ATK, it couldn't be stopped and could only watch Qliphort Special Summoning Pendulum Monsters from the Extra Deck every turn.
Akaba Reiji instinctively pushed his glasses.
A truly genuine, visibly amateur Duelist, even though he hadn't seen what the God called Tierra actually looked like, since she could win against several opponents in a world-class Duel like the WRGP, she certainly wasn't a "rookie."
Wanting to duel with someone like Tierra, the Sofia in this reflection ahead of him might not measure up by a long shot.
Yet he was also a bit puzzled.
If there were no surprises, Tierra should be a God similar to Sofia.