#457 - The strength of family

The effect of "Mechanical Mayhem King" is: Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 "Mechanical Mayhem Yellow", "Mechanical Mayhem Green", or "Mechanical Mayhem Black" from your hand or Deck.

Manjoume chose the monster "Mechanical Mayhem Yellow."

And the effect of Mechanical Mayhem Yellow is to Special Summon Mechanical Mayhem Yellow Tokens to the field. These Tokens have the same Attribute, ATK, and effects as it—damage you take from battles involving this card is 0.

If this card is destroyed, inflict 300 damage to your opponent.

Honestly, looking at this effect alone, it's actually very powerful.

Before Amakage Hikari transmigrated, this kind of effect was also considered strong at a glance.

Because in his world, due to the existence of "Link Summoning," Tokens could also be used as materials to Special Summon Link Monsters. As long as it was handled properly, these monsters could completely fill the field.

To say nothing of the similar type, "Phantasm Spiral Dragon" was also a famous card before "Crystron Halqifibrax" was banned.

Moreover, even in this world, it's already a "Scapegoat"-level effect, and the protection effect is still very strong.

These two cards profoundly demonstrate what is called "the older, the stronger." In that era when the effect of "You can only activate 1 card with this card's name per turn" was uncommon, even "You can only activate this card's effect once per turn" was considered a restriction, these two cards had absolutely no restrictions.

Even before Amakage Hikari transmigrated, relying on Sapphire Pegasus's powerful ability to attach to the Spell \u0026 Trap Zone and Ruby Carbuncle's powerful Special Summon ability, Gem-Knights could easily fill the field in one turn, making Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir and Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess, plus powerful three-color Counter Traps and a large number of resources.

Gem-Knight's Spell and Trap Cards are also very powerful, each card having a super strong return ability.

Well—the only problem is that if too many family members are in hand, then you'll be stuck right there.

But then again...

That also depends on who's using it. Johan definitely won't have a hand clog.

This is also why Johan was able to play so well before the quarter-finals.

Even relying only on lower-level Gem-Knights, he could use Spell and Trap combinations to defeat many opponents. Moreover, because he ran into Judai early, he and Pegasus excitedly dug out the "Rainbow Dragon" tablet ahead of time.

Johan, who possesses Rainbow Dragon, is a different matter.

First of all, the ATK. 4000 ATK is far higher than the ATK of most ordinary monsters.

Gradually, the duel continued for several turns, and the situation on the field became: Manjoume had a Pile Armed Dragon on his field, and his LP was 1500.

Johan, on the other hand, had a total of 7 different Gem-Knights on his field, and his LP was still 1100. It was Johan's turn,

He drew a card, looked at the card in his hand, and excitedly shouted: "Here it comes! When there are a total of seven types of [Gem-Knight] on your field and in your GY, this card can be Special Summoned! Appear, Ultimate Gem-Knight Rainbow Dragon!"

Following Johan's call, the clouds in the sky slowly tore open a gap, and a colorful rainbow light shone down from above. A huge colorful dragon slowly descended from the sky.

Ultimate Gem-Knight Rainbow Dragon, Level 10, LIGHT Attribute, Dragon, 4000 ATK

"4000 ATK?" Manjoume was slightly surprised.

4000 ATK is already very high. Even Kaiser's Cyber End Dragon is only 4000.

"Haha, it's not just that. Rainbow Dragon can send all Gem-Knights on the field to the GY, and for each one, it gains 1000 ATK!"

"All of them!" Manjoume glanced at Johan's field.

3 monsters in the front row, 4 Gem-Knights in the back row.

A total of 7—"11000 ATK?" Manjoume felt a little pressure and leaned forward to prepare to face the enemy.

If he didn't deal with it well, he would lose.

On his field, there was only one Pile Armed Dragon with 2800 ATK. If 11000 attacked, he simply couldn't withstand the attack.

"Haha, yes—but, but—this effect." Johan scratched the back of his head and laughed, "Hahaha, Rainbow Dragon cannot activate its effects the turn it is Special Summoned!"

Manjoume's surprised gaze instantly froze.

"Huh?" Judai, who was watching the live broadcast, shouted directly.

"Hmm—" Several of the quarter-finalists looked at each other.

An ATK of 11000 is indeed very good, that's right. Even Cyber End Dragon, which is Fusion Summoned with Power Bond, only has an ATK of 8000,

But—

It can only activate its effect next turn?

"It doesn't matter. Rainbow Dragon's effect can be activated during the opponent's turn!"

"In any case, attack Armed Dragon LV7! Transcending Rainbow!"

A colorful laser shot out from Rainbow Dragon's mouth, shattering Armed Dragon.

Manjoume's LP also reached 300.

He struggled to get up and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In any case, he wasn't defeated this turn.

If it had really been 11000 attacking, it would have been difficult for him to fight.

Amakage Hikari watched from the side.

It's no wonder the old Yu-Gi-Oh! players liked to joke that Gem-Knights' "Ultimate Gem-Knight God" was Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder.

Rainbow Dragon's own effect is indeed a bit funny.

The Gem-Knight family members more or less have some strange places.

Rainbow Dragon's own effect is indeed very strong, but once Manjoume's Armed Dragon evolves to LV10, he doesn't need to look at how much ATK the opponent's monster has, and he can directly destroy everything by discarding one card from his hand.

Amakage Hikari watched from the side.

Johan should be about to lose.

Although he obtained Rainbow Dragon earlier than in the original work, he only has the normal "Rainbow Dragon." He obviously doesn't have the Fusion version of Ultimate Gem-Knight God in his hand.

Next semester, Johan, Jim, Obrien, and other representatives from the branch school will come to the main school for exchange studies. By that time, with the compatibility between him and Judai, it is estimated that he may obtain a stronger Gem-Knight God.

As for now, one is that he doesn't want to win that much, and two is that the cards do have a bit of a difference.

As expected, after Manjoume revived LV7 and then Special Summoned LV10, he used the field wipe effect to destroy Rainbow Dragon, and then it was a direct attack.

"Sorry, Ruby, I still lost."

"Johan, cheer up! It's just a game."

"Hahaha, you're right. There will be more interesting duels in the future. I'm already starting to look forward to the exchange student semester next semester!"

The duel ended, and Manjoume shook hands with Johan.

During the duel, he discovered that Johan was not a more orthodox, stronger duelist, but a duelist who purely played and joked with Gem-Knights.

Neither a standard duelist nor an entertainment duelist, but a duelist who treats cards as family members.

But he didn't hate it.

Everyone has their own choices. At least now, he knows—

He looked at Amakage Hikari, his eyes filled with excited fighting spirit.

He only has one goal, and that is to become the strongest duelist!

Amakage Hikari couldn't help but smile and gave him a thumbs up.

The Final!