Saio narrowed his eyes.
Chaos Core, I didn't expect it to actually bring out a monster related to the Phantom Demons. And judging from its effect, this monster is indeed a formidable shield.
After sending three Phantom Demons to the grave, it can have up to three times of destruction immunity, and all battle damage is zero. Moreover, its resistance is effective against both battle and effect destruction, indeed hard to break through.
But it doesn't matter. The number of attacks on this side is completely sufficient, not to mention the ace of "World" to skip turns. It's completely enough to break through all three times of destruction immunity and proceed with the kill.
Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth rose again.
"It's just delaying death." Saio shouted, "Then next is Secret Ceremony Power 15-Demon, attack 'Chaos Core'!"
He paused, and added.
"Demon's effect, when the attack is declared, destroy one monster on the field! Destroy 'Chaos Core'!"
Demon's effect can offset one destruction immunity, Demon's attack can knock out another. In this way, all three lifesaving tokens of Chaos Core are consumed.
Then, by activating the World's ability to skip a turn, in the next turn, all the monsters on my field can have their attack count reset, launching a total attack is how I win.
The more Saio thought, the more excited he became, and his smile grew more exaggerated.
But before all this could come to fruition.
"Activate Cover Card." Yugen snapped his fingers, "Trap Card 'Great Calamity of the Evil God'. It activates when the opponent declares an attack, destroying all monsters on the field." (Original effect)
Saio: "!"
Still a pitfall card?
"Of course, Chaos Core's effect, remove one Phantom Demon Indicator, substitute for this destruction." Yugen said calmly, "So the only thing to leave the field is your Secret Ceremony Power."
Like the power of the evil god erupting, dragging the entire field into a vortex of destruction. The World, Master of Light, Demon on Saio's field, all were torn into pieces in that vortex, dissipating into nothingness.
Only the Fool, the stubborn Fool, unaffected by any card effects from the opponent, still stood calmly in the vortex.
"Ahhh, I want to kill you!"
Saio, or the Light of Destruction, continued to rage.
"Feel free to try." Yugen still just chuckled lightly.
Saio calmed his mood, continued with a dark face, "Um... Then, activate the Equipment Magic 'Reversed Regeneration', it can revive Secret Ceremony Power monster from the grave. But monsters revived through this effect can only have the reversed position effect." (Original card)
"Reversed position, huh." Yugen said, "There don't seem to be many options."
Most cards in Secret Ceremony Power have side effects in reversed position.
But there are exceptions.
"Revive, embodiment of destiny, ultimate secret ceremony—
—Secret Ceremony Power EX·Master of Light!"
[Secret Ceremony Power EX·Master of Light, Attack Power 4000]
The card above rotated and stopped at the reversed position.
"Master of Light's reversed position effect, negates and destroys the activation of monster effects, magic, and trap cards targeting this card. But each time its effect is negated, this card's attack power decreases by 1000 points."
Mizuchi: "Achieving effect resistance by decreasing attack power, whether in the normal position or reversed position, it's always a positive effect. This is the power of the ultimate secret ceremony of the evil persona..."
Yugen: "My turn, draw a card."
Then draw another card that exited the grave.
"Preparation phase, activate the effect of 'Yellow Springs Frog' in the grave. Since my backfield has no magic trap cards, Special Summon 'Yellow Springs Frog'."
[Yellow Springs Frog, Defense Power 100]
"Then, activate the Magic Card 'Cost Reduction'. Discard one card from hand, this turn all monsters in my hand have their level decreased by 2 stars."
Yugen discarded a card from his hand to the grave.
"However, the card I discarded is the Magic Card 'Card of Compensation'. This card sent from hand to the grave can draw two cards from the deck."
"Then activate Magic Card 'Burial Spell Treasure Scroll', remove three magic cards from the game, draw two cards from the deck."
Yugen then laid down a monster card.
"Originally level five 'Dark Summoning God', because of Cost Reduction's effect becomes level 3, can be directly summoned.
Hence, I Normal Summon 'Dark Summoning God'."
[Dark Summoning God, Attack Power 0]
Saio frowned.
Again with a zero attack power monster...
For some reason, seeing a zero attack monster made him feel a bit uneasy.
"Then sacrifice Dark Summoning God, activate effect!"
Yugen raised his arm high.
"Dark Summoning God as a sacrifice, ignoring summon conditions and revive restrictions, from the grave summon 'Divine Flame Emperor Uriah', 'Thunder Emperor Harmon', 'Phantom Demon Emperor Rabiel' ignoring conditions!" (Original effect)
Saio: "!?"
Three Phantom Demons at one go???
Red, gold, and blue energies surged from Yugen's Duel Disc, bursting intensely. The energy transformed into images of three Phantom Demons, flexing their claws menacingly, seemingly looking down with disdain at the insignificant figure of light.
Divine Flame Emperor Uriah, Thunder Emperor Harmon, Phantom Demon Emperor Rabiel, summon!
Of course, ignoring revive restrictions in the animation seems very unrealistic in a physical card environment, so changes were made when this card was physicalized, modifying from grave summon to can directly summon Phantom Demon from the deck. This enhanced the summoning scope greatly, but it changed from originally summoning three Phantom Demons to only summon one.
"However, in the turn Dark Summoning God's effect is activated, I cannot enter the battle phase." Yugen said.