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Chapter 387: Dark Demon's Ultimate Three Consecutive Fury Cutters
The difficulty of tribute summoning was much higher than that of Normal Summoning Spell.
In addition, Dark hadn't had much time to practice lately, so he could only compress the tribute summoning time to about 9 seconds.
3 seconds of Normal Summoning Spell.
9 seconds of tribute summoning.
Those were Dark's current learning results.
After "tribute summoning" was used to summon Gatomon, the summoning spell thereby entered a cooldown period.
Dark made use of this time to carefully observe Mike Irving's reaction.
When [Hanging Sword] failed to work, Mike Irving didn't show any disappointment.
It seemed as though he hadn't expected [Hanging Sword] to achieve any kind of results in the first place.
When controlling the [Hanging Sword] to slash down from above, he had already drawn his next magic card.
A magical spirit born amidst the gale appeared in the air only two meters away from the red side contestant’s platform.
It was a special magical spirit that could only be specially summoned in an environment brimming with wind element!
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[Card name: Stormblade(风暴之刃)]
[Type: Spirit card]
[Level: ✪✪✪✪✪]
[Race: Element-type]
[Attribute: Flying type]
[Magic energy: 1800]
[Attack: 2300]
[Defense: 1400]
[Ultimate: Call of the Wind Element(风元素之眼), Stormblade]
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[Call of the Wind Element: When the concentration of wind element in the area is high enough, magical spirits who possess Call of the Wind Element can be summoned without requiring any sacrifice.]
[Stormblade: A blade-like gale that swirls around the entire body. When resisting powerful opponents, it can turn into a storm that destroys everything in its way!]
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"It's actually [Stormblade]!"
On the commentator’s tribune, Zach Wilson took on a look of astonishment. He clearly remembered that the wind elemental magical spirit Mike Irving habitually used was supposed to be a 4-star magical spirit named [Eye of the Storm(风暴之眼)]...
But as a commentator, he certainly couldn't stop speaking at this moment.
He immediately said, "It's only the second round, and yet Mike Irving has now summoned the 5-star magical spirit [Stormblade] without using any sacrifices. Although contestant Demon has similarly summoned a second-tier magical spirit through tribute summoning, will [Gatomon], who is only a 4-star, be able to face off against the formidable wind elemental?"
When his voice was still echoing through the venue, the two magical spirits in the duel arena had already faced each other head-on!
Despite being a 5-star magical spirit, [Stormblade]’s basic stats were actually not that high. What made it popular among 5-star magical spirits were the ultimates [Call of the Wind Element] and [Stormblade]...
[Call of the Wind Element] made it easier to summon, while [Stormblade] endowed it with both defense and offense power!
[Stormblade] was a humanoid magical spirit with a height of only about 1.3-1.4 meter. Its whole body was transparent, and there was a wisp of breeze circulating through its body.
A cyan cape was draped over its shoulders, making it look like a little hero.
After emerging from the remaining wind element of the [Hanging Sword], it stretched out its hands and swooped down from above. The wind blades swirling all around its body instantly turned it into a terrifying killing weapon.
Meanwhile, in the blue side’s summoning area, Gatomon was standing in front of the blue side's magic ball. With a slight raise of its head, rays of light akin to red wheels burst out from its eyes, rapidly shining on the swooping [Stormblade].
Although Gatomon, who was skilled in close combat, had the upper hand in terms of basic stats, dealing with this kind of "thorny" opponent was still very tricky.
Therefore, the most optimal choice was to use [Cat's Eye Hypnotism] to make it so disoriented that it couldn't control the wind element around it.
Gatomon undoubtedly succeeded.
When [Stormblade] was three meters away from it, it suddenly lost control. The wind blades around it blasted out in all directions.
As its eyebrows rose, Gatomon shrank back, slid backwards, grabbed the magic ball, and dashed towards the edge of the arena like a gust of wind.
The wind blades practically trailed after its footsteps, shooting at the ground with a swishing sound.
It made one last spurt and evaded all the wind blades.
When it looked up again, there was no more gale swirling around [Stormblade].
[Stormblade], who was the focus of everyone's gaze, looked thoroughly confused upon snapping to clarity.
It flew in mid-air with its cape fluttering and its hands spread out, rooted on the spot in a daze.
As if sensing something, Gatomon swiftly raised its hand. A sheathed sword exuding a sacred aura fell straight down from the air and into the palm of its hand.
——Here comes the sword!
With the sword in its grasp, Gatomon’s aura became completely different.
It tossed up the blue side's magic ball, promptly lowered its upper body, exerted force on its hind legs, and shot out like an arrow of light!
As it charged ahead, it held the sword in its right hand, grabbed the sheath with its left hand, and pulled it out with a clang.
Half of the blade was exposed, gleaming with a cold light.
"Stormblade, get out of the way!"
Mike Irving, who had already seen the power of this [Honedge] in the preliminary battle royale, hurriedly shouted.
In just one minute into the duel, Mike Irving had completely cast aside his worries before the start of the match and thrown his whole body and mind into the thrilling duel.
Tick-tock.
When the 30-second countdown for the third round began, Dark calmly drew his cards, but Mike Irving fixedly stared at the duel arena as if he hadn't noticed.
A duel between magisters was unpredictable. One moment they could be sure of victory, but the next moment they might very well go out like a candle in the wind.
Without the ultimate it shared a name with, [Stormblade]’s takeoff speed had obviously become slower. Moreover, it had just woken up from a "confused" state, so there was an inevitable delay in its reaction.
When it tried to respond to its magister's expectations, a flash of light was already approaching in its line of sight.
Leaping into the air, Gatomon only drew its sword the moment it closed in on [Stormblade]. The glint of its slash was like water, pure and bright, instantly cutting [Stormblade] into half!
The traits of wind elemental creatures made them almost immune to physical attacks, but what it was currently up against was a holy sword that could "land a sure hit regardless of the opponent's stat modifiers"!
After equipping [Honedge], Gatomon, whose standard attack power reached 3600 points, took it down in just a single slash.
Light spots of magic energy floated around like fireflies.
Gatomon stepped down on one foot, softening its landing, and resheathed its sword after two steps.
It raised its head and looked straight at the red side's magic ball hovering in the air, a sharp gleam flashing in its eyes.
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Gatomon's supreme performance left even Wilson, the commentator, speechless.
But the one on the red side contestant's platform, Mike Irving, was after all a seasoned third-year student.
Once he was sure that [Stormblade] was unsalvageable, he immediately calmed down and reached out to draw his cards.
He still had three magic cards in his hand. These three cards weren't useless, but they were not yet ready for use.
If the two magic cards in the third round could make up for the shortcomings, there was still a chance to turn things around.
Such were magic duels. No one could arbitrarily claim victory or defeat until the very last moment.
Mike Irving took a deep breath. He was just about to look at the two newly drawn magic cards, but his eyes abruptly froze. From the corner of his vision, he suddenly noticed that below, Gatomon had assumed a "throwing" stance!
After putting the sword back into its sheath, Gatomon actually hurled the sheathed sword towards the magic ball he was controlling to fly up in the air!
At that instant, Mike Irving made an emergency decision with utmost urgency.
He decisively gave up on checking the magic cards, and with a burst of magic energy from his fingertips, immediately used the long-distance control method to move the red side's magic ball.
At this time, [Honedge] had already been thrown out, hurtling as fast as lightning.
Mike Irving poured in all of his magic energy, and the magic ball instantly shifted.
[Honedge] shot past it by a hair's breadth distance.
Upon perceiving [Honedge]’s sacred aura from a close range, Mike Irving felt that if he had been a little slower, the life barrier with a magic energy value as high as 8000 points might not be able to withstand its blow.
This illusion had him sweating on the back of his head.
But fortunately, this kind of throw attack was entirely in a straight line.
Once the magic ball avoided a frontal blow, it was no longer a threat.
Fuu——
At this time, a transmission of feedback came from the magic energy at his fingertips.
Mike Irving finally figured out the types of the two new magic cards.
Thereupon, a look of joy surged in the depths of his eyes.
But as soon as this joy arose, it abruptly turned into shock.
Mike Irving's emotions went up and down like a roller coaster.
But he wasn't the only one astounded by the turn of events.
"That’s…"
At this moment, Commentator Wilson’s voice had changed its tone.
More than half of the audience exclaimed in surprise.
An atmosphere of utter perplexity permeated the dueling hall.
Even the Valkyrie Alvette and Sun Warrior Montierfalli couldn't suppress their astonishment.
Under the gaze of countless people, the sword everyone found to be mysterious suddenly opened the lone eye in the center of its crossguard, the ribbon at its pommel stretching and widening as it turned into an arm.
With the "fingers" of the ribbon, it grabbed the sheath and pulled itself out of it.
Then, it shot out like lightning and slashed out without a moment of pause, vigorously striking the red side's magic ball that had settled still in the air!
This time, Mike Irving had no time to control the magic ball—even if he really attempted to do so, it wouldn't be possible to make the magic ball move faster than a flying 4-star magical spirit.
The slash that caught everyone by surprise abruptly split open the life barrier surrounding the magic ball!
Crack!
With the cut as the center, cracks spread across the glass-like life barrier.
In an instant, the life barrier’s magic energy value dropped from 8000 points to below 6000 points!
Under normal circumstances, a magic energy value of 6000 points was still amply sufficient.
Realizing that he still had room for maneuver, Mike Irving immediately poured his magic energy and controlled the magic ball to rush upward, trying to shake off this [equipment card] that somehow "came to life".
But after [Honedge] landed its first slash, it turned around without stopping and unleashed the second slash!
When it unleashed this slash, the original basic attack of 2200 was increased by 50% due to the effect of [Fury Cutter] and rose to 3300 points!
As the slash struck, it was almost as though the magic ball’s life barrier exploded. Fragments of magic energy scattered in all directions, and its magic energy value dropped from 5901 points to 2621 points in the blink of an eye!
"Rise!"
Seeing [Honedge] becoming more daunting after the second slash—its entire body thrumming with a whizzing sound as though air currents were swirling around it—Mike Irving's face turned red, and his magic energy burst to the limit.
At last, the magic ball shot up with an explosive speed, zooming away from the terrifying [Honedge]!
However, [Honedge]'s momentum did not lessen. It simply turned around and chased at its heels, unleashing the third slash in a straight thrust!
Mike Irving instinctively felt that the magic ball's remaining magic energy value of 2621 was absolutely not enough to withstand the third slash.
As he stepped up the injection of magic energy and vigorously pointed ahead, the magic ball turned at a right angle and bolted in the direction of the blue side contestant's platform.
After this maneuver, he resolutely stopped controlling the magic ball, pressed his hand on one of the magic cards, and initiated [Normal Summoning Spell].
To continue controlling the magic ball to evade attacks was a doomed strategy.
Once Dark also used magic energy to interfere with his magic ball, [Honedge] would catch up with it in the blink of an eye, cornering him to a dead end.
Therefore, he could only pin his last hope on the magic cards in his hand.
Moreover, it had to be a magic card that could be summoned within three seconds!
"In the name of Mike Irving, magic summon——Triple Bron..."
"Blinking Spell!"
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With a speed difference of one second, Dark, who started chanting the spell earlier than Mike Irving, activated the Magic Charm Card he had already gotten since he drew his starting hand——[Blinking Spell]!
It was a basic Magic Charm that could enable the magister or the magical spirit they personally crafted to teleport by one to three meters forward.
At that instant, it shortened the distance between [Honedge] and the red side's magic ball by a whole three meters!
At this critical moment, this three-meter distance was like the straw that broke the camel's back.
Before Mike Irving's [Triple Bronze Gates] could be erected, [Honedge]'s third slash had already hacked at the life barrier of the red side's magic ball!
Crack.
Upon being struck by the last of the three consecutive Fury Cutters, the remaining 2621 points of magic energy value of the red side's magic ball’s life barrier instantly bottomed out. The transparent life barrier shattered in the wind, disappearing without a trace.
[2621→0]
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It took a full thirty seconds before Zach Wilson's voice finally erupted.
"The match is over! The winner of this duel is, first-year Noble House student——Dark Demon!"
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In the ring belt, Angus Jeffrey had his hands clasped and his fingers interlocked, his gaze dripping with malice.
Beside him was Stuart Fawn, who had at some point come to the seats in the ring belt.
"One and a half minutes."
"From the start of the Battle Phase, it only took three rounds in total."
Stuart Fawn's whisper crept into Jeffrey's ears like the muffled buzzing of locusts.
"Irving has already tried to put up a fight."
Angus Jeffrey took in a long breath and straightened his posture.
As he sat up straight, the malicious look in his eyes disappeared without a trace, replaced by a "magnanimous" smile.
Afterwards, in the auditorium located behind the ring belt, a roar of cheers at last erupted like a surging tide.
No one expected that in the first match of the Easter Duel Festival’s main round, the third year versus first year match that should’ve unfolded without suspense would turn out to be so exciting and intense.
"Who can tell me the name of that cat?"
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