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Chapter 598: Forgot to Come Up with a Title and Accidentally Left It Blank
Fully armored, Valon drew two cards from his Hand. "Only one Armor Monster can attack per turn, even if its attack was Negated. So you got lucky there, Joey Wheeler."
"But the outcome still won't change," Valon said firmly, glancing at Kujaku Mai who was running over from a distance. "I will defeat you under Mai's witness."
"I Set two cards. My turn ends. And at the End Phase, the Armor Monsters Special Summoned by 【Armor Gravitation】 will be destroyed and sent to Graveyard."
As Valon finished speaking, the Armor on his body instantly disassembled, leaving only a 【Mental Helmet Armor】 remaining on Valon's head in Attack Position.
[Valon: 3600 LP, Hand 1]
[Mental Helmet Armor] [ATK 0]
[Card of Safe Return] [Set Card] X3
A long time ago, after Battle City ended, Industrial Illusions and KaibaCorp planned the Forbidden & Limited List. At that time, many cards were nominated for the Forbidden List, such as 【Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End】, 【Yata-Garasu】, and so on.
Although the final result was that besides the "and so on", only 【Yata-Garasu】 and 【Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End】 were put onto the banlist, at that time, the currently Limited Card Graceful Charity was also almost added alongside them. The 【Card of Safe Return】 used by Marik in conjunction with 【Revival Jam】 was also similar, nearly becoming unusable.
Now, after several turns, Joey Wheeler could truly feel how powerful the 【Card of Safe Return】, which was almost Forbidden, was. With the constantly Resurrecting Armor, Valon continuously gained a large Hand to squander, while Joey Wheeler was practically out of resources.
His Hand and Spell/Trap Zone were empty, and there was only a 【Player Token】 on the Field with an ATK of only 400 Points, equivalent to his own Life Points. His effort just now, not just to Valon, probably seemed like nothing but futile struggle to anyone.
However, Joey Wheeler didn't think that was the case.
"Is only the result important? No, that's not it." Raising his head, Joey Wheeler looked at Valon through the helmet's lens, meeting his gaze, and said firmly, "Valon, in my opinion, my effort wasn't wasted at all."
"If you only pursue the 'result' and ignore the 'process', it's easy for people to take a shortcut. And when people step onto a shortcut, they might lose the truth, and even lose the full passion for why they were moving forward in the first place."
Placing his finger on his Deck, Joey Wheeler made the preparatory motion for a draw. "More important than the 'result' is the 'process', the will to seek the truth within the 'process'! As long as I have this will to move towards the truth, even repeated failures cannot defeat me, and I will eventually arrive at my goal, because I am always moving forward, that is certain!"
"My turn! A True Duelist can even create the future of their draw!"
"Draw!"
The drawn card was smoothly flicked into the Duel Disk by Joey Wheeler. "I activate the Spell Card, 【Card of Fate】! If you think the result 'you have achieved victory' is locked by destiny, then I will now surpass that destiny!"
A spinning dice flew out from the opened 【Card of Fate】 and rolled onto the Field. Joey Wheeler said, "This card's effect is, roll a die, I draw a card from the Top of Deck equal to the number of points rolled, then banish the same number of cards from the Top of Deck!"
The dice stopped rolling, revealing the largest number of points: Six!
"Yosh! Then I can draw six cards, and then banish 6 cards from the Top of Deck! Draw!"
Drawing six cards to replenish his Hand to its maximum value, and then banishing six cards from the Top of Deck, significantly decreasing the thickness of his Deck, Joey Wheeler lowered his head to check his Hand and saw a familiar card.
Turning his head to look at Kujaku Mai, who had already arrived not far away, Joey Wheeler showed a smile and drew that card to activate it. "Although this is a one-on-one fight, it seems I'm not fighting alone."
"Activate the Spell Card, 【Harpie's Feather Duster】! Destroy all Spell/Trap Cards on the Opponent's Field! Lend me your power, Mai!"
"Nani?!"
Seeing that Joey Wheeler's Divine Draw had actually drawn a powerful card like 【Harpie's Feather Duster】, even Valon couldn't help but show a surprised expression.
The 【Harpie's Feather Duster】 waved, stirring up a strong wind that swept through all four cards in Valon's Spell/Trap Zone, destroying them one by one. However, after the storm dissipated, Joey Wheeler saw Valon putting on a piece of armor.
【Active Guard Armor】 [DEF 1500]
Joey Wheeler understood what was happening. Wasn't it the Magnetic Armor from before? It chained to 【Harpie's Feather Duster's】 activation to Special Summon 【Active Guard Armor】 from the Graveyard, and also utilized the effect of 【Card of Safe Return】 one last time to draw a card before being destroyed.
Even though his Spell/Trap Zone cards were destroyed, Valon, now wearing the 【Active Guard Armor】, showed no sign of being annoyed. In fact, when he looked at Joey Wheeler, he couldn't help but show an expectant expression.
Not pursuing the "result" but pursuing the "process";
Preferring constant "change" and "forward movement" over a "calm" life without waves;
No matter how you looked at it, Joey Wheeler seemed to be a different existence from Valon, but at this moment, Valon only felt a strange similarity with Joey Wheeler, and at the same time, a peculiar passion was being awakened from within Valon.
He looked forward to what kind of card Joey Wheeler would bring out next, and how Joey Wheeler would change destiny with Life Points that were less than a fraction of his own.
In the dissipating storm, Joey Wheeler played a card from his Hand. "Here I go! I activate the Ritual Spell Card, 【Red-Eyes Transmigration】!"
"From my Hand or Field, I tribute monsters until their Levels total 8☆ or more, or I can banish a 【Red-Eyes】 monster from the Graveyard as an alternative to tributing!"
Raising his Duel Disk and taking out a 【Red-Eyes Black Dragon】 from his Graveyard, Joey Wheeler then pointed his thumb at himself and declared loudly, "I banish the Level 7 【Red-Eyes Black Dragon】 from my Graveyard, and I tribute myself, the 【Player Token】!"
"From my Hand, I Ritual Summon this card!"
The existence of 【Red-Eyes Black Dragon】 transformed into blazing flames and descended onto Joey Wheeler's body. Fire shot up into the sky, and from within this scorching fire, Joey Wheeler's firm voice was heard:
"Tear through the Pitch Black Darkness, burn the heavens and earth to ashes, the solitary and absolute king!! Look down upon all things as they tremble before your might!!"
"Ritual Summon! 【Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon】!!"
Thank you for the 500 Points from "Jie Qing" for the Tip. Thank you very much.
It's a new week again, how about some Recommendation Tickets, please?
(End of Chapter)
Fully armored, Valon drew two cards from his Hand. "Only one Armor Monster can attack per turn, even if its attack was Negated. So you got lucky there, Joey Wheeler."
"But the outcome still won't change," Valon said firmly, glancing at Kujaku Mai who was running over from a distance. "I will defeat you under Mai's witness."
"I Set two cards. My turn ends. And at the End Phase, the Armor Monsters Special Summoned by 【Armor Gravitation】 will be destroyed and sent to Graveyard."
As Valon finished speaking, the Armor on his body instantly disassembled, leaving only a 【Mental Helmet Armor】 remaining on Valon's head in Attack Position.
[Valon: 3600 LP, Hand 1]
[Mental Helmet Armor] [ATK 0]
[Card of Safe Return] [Set Card] X3
A long time ago, after Battle City ended, Industrial Illusions and KaibaCorp planned the Forbidden & Limited List. At that time, many cards were nominated for the Forbidden List, such as 【Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End】, 【Yata-Garasu】, and so on.
Although the final result was that besides the "and so on", only 【Yata-Garasu】 and 【Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End】 were put onto the banlist, at that time, the currently Limited Card Graceful Charity was also almost added alongside them. The 【Card of Safe Return】 used by Marik in conjunction with 【Revival Jam】 was also similar, nearly becoming unusable.
Now, after several turns, Joey Wheeler could truly feel how powerful the 【Card of Safe Return】, which was almost Forbidden, was. With the constantly Resurrecting Armor, Valon continuously gained a large Hand to squander, while Joey Wheeler was practically out of resources.
His Hand and Spell/Trap Zone were empty, and there was only a 【Player Token】 on the Field with an ATK of only 400 Points, equivalent to his own Life Points. His effort just now, not just to Valon, probably seemed like nothing but futile struggle to anyone.
However, Joey Wheeler didn't think that was the case.
"Is only the result important? No, that's not it." Raising his head, Joey Wheeler looked at Valon through the helmet's lens, meeting his gaze, and said firmly, "Valon, in my opinion, my effort wasn't wasted at all."
"If you only pursue the 'result' and ignore the 'process', it's easy for people to take a shortcut. And when people step onto a shortcut, they might lose the truth, and even lose the full passion for why they were moving forward in the first place."
Placing his finger on his Deck, Joey Wheeler made the preparatory motion for a draw. "More important than the 'result' is the 'process', the will to seek the truth within the 'process'! As long as I have this will to move towards the truth, even repeated failures cannot defeat me, and I will eventually arrive at my goal, because I am always moving forward, that is certain!"
"My turn! A True Duelist can even create the future of their draw!"
"Draw!"
The drawn card was smoothly flicked into the Duel Disk by Joey Wheeler. "I activate the Spell Card, 【Card of Fate】! If you think the result 'you have achieved victory' is locked by destiny, then I will now surpass that destiny!"
A spinning dice flew out from the opened 【Card of Fate】 and rolled onto the Field. Joey Wheeler said, "This card's effect is, roll a die, I draw a card from the Top of Deck equal to the number of points rolled, then banish the same number of cards from the Top of Deck!"
The dice stopped rolling, revealing the largest number of points: Six!
"Yosh! Then I can draw six cards, and then banish 6 cards from the Top of Deck! Draw!"
Drawing six cards to replenish his Hand to its maximum value, and then banishing six cards from the Top of Deck, significantly decreasing the thickness of his Deck, Joey Wheeler lowered his head to check his Hand and saw a familiar card.
Turning his head to look at Kujaku Mai, who had already arrived not far away, Joey Wheeler showed a smile and drew that card to activate it. "Although this is a one-on-one fight, it seems I'm not fighting alone."
"Activate the Spell Card, 【Harpie's Feather Duster】! Destroy all Spell/Trap Cards on the Opponent's Field! Lend me your power, Mai!"
"Nani?!"
Seeing that Joey Wheeler's Divine Draw had actually drawn a powerful card like 【Harpie's Feather Duster】, even Valon couldn't help but show a surprised expression.
The 【Harpie's Feather Duster】 waved, stirring up a strong wind that swept through all four cards in Valon's Spell/Trap Zone, destroying them one by one. However, after the storm dissipated, Joey Wheeler saw Valon putting on a piece of armor.
【Active Guard Armor】 [DEF 1500]
Joey Wheeler understood what was happening. Wasn't it the Magnetic Armor from before? It chained to 【Harpie's Feather Duster's】 activation to Special Summon 【Active Guard Armor】 from the Graveyard, and also utilized the effect of 【Card of Safe Return】 one last time to draw a card before being destroyed.
Even though his Spell/Trap Zone cards were destroyed, Valon, now wearing the 【Active Guard Armor】, showed no sign of being annoyed. In fact, when he looked at Joey Wheeler, he couldn't help but show an expectant expression.
Not pursuing the "result" but pursuing the "process";
Preferring constant "change" and "forward movement" over a "calm" life without waves;
No matter how you looked at it, Joey Wheeler seemed to be a different existence from Valon, but at this moment, Valon only felt a strange similarity with Joey Wheeler, and at the same time, a peculiar passion was being awakened from within Valon.
He looked forward to what kind of card Joey Wheeler would bring out next, and how Joey Wheeler would change destiny with Life Points that were less than a fraction of his own.
In the dissipating storm, Joey Wheeler played a card from his Hand. "Here I go! I activate the Ritual Spell Card, 【Red-Eyes Transmigration】!"
"From my Hand or Field, I tribute monsters until their Levels total 8☆ or more, or I can banish a 【Red-Eyes】 monster from the Graveyard as an alternative to tributing!"
Raising his Duel Disk and taking out a 【Red-Eyes Black Dragon】 from his Graveyard, Joey Wheeler then pointed his thumb at himself and declared loudly, "I banish the Level 7 【Red-Eyes Black Dragon】 from my Graveyard, and I tribute myself, the 【Player Token】!"
"From my Hand, I Ritual Summon this card!"
The existence of 【Red-Eyes Black Dragon】 transformed into blazing flames and descended onto Joey Wheeler's body. Fire shot up into the sky, and from within this scorching fire, Joey Wheeler's firm voice was heard:
"Tear through the Pitch Black Darkness, burn the heavens and earth to ashes, the solitary and absolute king!! Look down upon all things as they tremble before your might!!"
"Ritual Summon! 【Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon】!!"
Thank you for the 500 Points from "Jie Qing" for the Tip. Thank you very much.
It's a new week again, how about some Recommendation Tickets, please?
(End of Chapter)
