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Chapter 402: Dark Demon’s Divine Slash

At the same time, [Scavenger Slime] and the three [Gift]s on the field all turned into light, merging with the light emitted by the magic card in Tom Nixon's hand to form an incredibly complex tribute summoning array.

As a top student among the third years, Tom Nixon's deck had a very comprehensive system.

If it wasn't for Dark Demon's magical spirits being too strong, which prevented him from activating [Predator's Gift] until just now, he could’ve very quickly deployed two second-tier 6-star magical spirits on the field.

But a magic duel was determined by how the dueler would respond in unknown situations.

He had responded accordingly, and even suppressed Dark Demon in terms of high-level combat power—if it weren't for that sword!

In Tom Nixon's opinion, although each of Dark Demon's magical spirits was very special, the most difficult one to deal with was ultimately the sword that was both an equipment card and a magical spirit card!

If Dark Demon hadn't drawn a great hand at the beginning and used [Honedge] as his starting piece, he might’ve already gone on stage to receive the award by now!

→At least, that was what he thought.

But no matter what, the duel had gone on to the tenth round, and fortunately, he still succeeded in summoning the strongest 6-star magical spirit in his hand!

A 6-star magical spirit that was even more powerful than [Bloodmoon Demon Wolf]!

"Come out! Hybrid Witch!"

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　　[Card name: Hybrid Witch(混血魔女)]

　　[Type: Spirit card]

　　[Level: ✪✪✪✪✪✪]

　　[Race: Demi-human-type]

　　[Attribute: Fairy-type]

　　[Magic energy: 3000]

　　[Attack: 2000]

　　[Defense: 2000]

　　[Ultimate: Eagle Transmogrification(鹰之魔法), Cat Transmogrification(猫之魔法), Dragon Transmogrification(龙之魔法)]

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The reason why he insisted on including this 6-star magical spirit card that didn't fit in with the rest of his deck was because it was too strong.

Although its stats didn't look exceptional and its attack and defense were even lacking compared to powerful 6-star magical spirits, [Hybrid Witch]’s three ultimates fully made up for this shortcoming.

It was obviously not the first time Tom Nixon's [Hybrid Witch] had taken the stage, for the audience recognized it to a certain extent.

The appearance of this [Hybrid Witch] was met with clamor, showcasing its high popularity.

The [Hybrid Witch] who appeared on the "blood platform" had a dignified bearing, a close-fitting black robe, and a thick greasepaint applied on the face under its pointed hat, obscuring its true appearance.

"Eagle Transmogrification!"

At Tom Nixon's shout, [Hybrid Witch] swiftly spread out its arms and heaps of black feathers suddenly gushed out from its cuffs, swirling around its body.

Amidst the flying feathers, [Hybrid Witch]’s arms transformed into wings, and an eagle's beak grew on its face. When it flapped its wings and took off, it had already turned into a black eagle!

This was [Hybrid Witch]'s [Eagle Transmogrification].

After completing the transformation, [Hybrid Witch]'s magic energy, attack, and defense stats also underwent a significant change.

Its magic energy changed from 3000 points to 2000 points, its attack changed from 2000 points to 3500 points, and its defense changed from 2000 points to 1500 points.

A whole 3500 points of attack power was a value that could only be attained by 7-star magical spirits.

"Destroy it! Eagle Witch!"

……

[Eagle Witch] rapidly swooped down, instantly shattering the [Mindpower] Espeon unleashed in an attempt to block it.

Flying at a low altitude, it straight away rushed towards the red side's magic ball.

Miltank, who was originally responsible for protecting the magic ball, suddenly turned into light at this moment, indicating that Dark Demon's tribute summoning had been successfully completed.

But this timing was obviously not good.

Fortunately, a black shadow flashed by, and Black Gatomon with [Honedge] in its hand suddenly appeared in [Eagle Witch]’s flight path.

[Eagle Witch]'s pointed beak flashed with a sharp glint as it continued to charge without fear.

Black Gatomon swung a frontal slash, fiercely colliding with [Eagle Witch]’s sharp beak.

A strong wind blew up Black Gatomon's feet, and it failed to withstand [Eagle Witch]’s charge. The damage that had been offset still battered its body, causing its already scant magic energy to plummet again.

However, as it flew backwards, a gentle force appeared behind it and barely caught it.

With a trace of distaste on its face, Black Gatomon reached out to grab the milk bottle brought over by [Mindpower], opened the lid, and drank it all in one gulp.

As the milk entered its throat, a warm current poured out and flowed to its limbs and bones.

Black Gatomon's magic energy value was restored to more than half.

On the other side, after ramming away Black Gatomon, [Eagle Witch] was met with empty air.

After the red side's magic ball promptly took off under the control of Espeon's [Mindpower], Dark successfully took over and "caught" the magic ball.

At the same time, Gatomon jumped out of the tribute summoning array and stretched out its hand towards Black Gatomon.

Black Gatomon's expression immediately stiffened, its grip on [Honedge] reflexively tightening a little.

But Honedge suddenly made a buzzing sound and began struggling in its hand.

Its face turning ashen, Black Gatomon despairingly threw out [Honedge].

Clang!

[Honedge] let out an extremely joyful vibration.

Without Gatomon needing to move, the hilt of the sword spontaneously fell into its palm.

Grabbing the "holy sword", Gatomon squinted at Leomon who was still fighting against [Parasitic Demon Seed], let out a light snort, and activated the holy power inside [Honedge].

As snow-white light shone on Leomon's body, its expression eased slightly, but the madness in its eyes still remained.

Gatomon heaved a little sigh and turned to look at [Eagle Witch].

But after failing to land a strike, [Eagle Witch] had landed on the ground and transformed into [Cat Witch] in the blink of an eye.

Then, it suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a burning fire magic circle.

A flame shot out from the fire magic circle.

Grasping the sword, Gatomon slashed down in a straight line, splitting apart the flame in the air!

But immediately afterwards, beams of flame rapidly shot out one after another.

Raising its eyebrows, Gatomon bolted out with a burst of strength, avoiding the magic flames that were hot in its tail.

The black cat [Hybrid Witch] had transformed into had redistributed its basic stats to be mainly focused on magic energy. At present, it seemed that other than the change in stats, it had gained the ability to shoot out magic flames.

The power of the magic flame was only average, but it seemed to have no CD time.

Gatomon rapidly thought as it quickly ran.

Despite the continuous bombardment of magic flames, it stubbornly pressed on towards [Cat Witch]’s location.

Then, [Cat Witch] unexpectedly transformed again the moment it got close!

Having transformed from a small black cat into an enormous black dragon whose head was taller than the contestant's platform, the [Dragon Witch] covered in black scales ferociously swatted at Gatomon!

BOOM!

After Gatomon dodged the surprise attack of the dragon claw by a hair's breadth, the "holy sword" it wielded easily pierced through [Dragon Witch]'s hefty defense of 3000 points.

It had triggered the "small chance of bypassing defense" feature of the

holy sword!

With 3000 points of magic energy, 3500 points of attack and 3000 points of defense, [Dragon Witch] had gained a body as strong as a mountain, but this came at the cost of whittling down its agility.

Its movement speed became relatively slow, and in front of Gatomon, it appeared even more ungainly.

Coupled with the triggering of the "small chance of bypassing defense" feature, the "holy sword" instantly penetrated the thick dragon scales and pierced into the comparatively fragile body.

Holy light abruptly erupted in its body, giving [Dragon Witch] an unexpected fatal blow!

With the buff of [Holy Ring] and [Honedge], this slash with an attack power as high as 3600 points actually killed [Dragon Witch] in one go!

Rumble!

When the black dragon fell, Tom Nixon was still calmly thinking about the strategy for the next round.

No one could have imagined that this black dragon with a defense of 3000 points would be so easily defeated in the face of the holy sword!

Shocked cries from the commentator and the audience echoed throughout the venue.

In the seats on the ring belt, White Gawd recalled a familiar scene.

Back in the dungeon, the holy sword he summoned using [Holy Sword Spell] seemed to have triggered a similar feature, bypassing the opponent's defense and landing a penetrating strike on it!

Indeed, this was what a holy sword was.

The weapon best at creating miracles!

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"Impossible!"

As [Dragon Witch] collapsed with a loud crash, Tom Nixon exclaimed in a trembling voice.

He hurriedly scanned his hand, trying to find a magic card that could save the situation.

But if that card really existed, he would’ve already used it long ago.

The white cat standing next to the black dragon's corpse had thoroughly confounded him.

As for Gatomon, who had unleashed the "divine slash", despite feeling befuddled inside, its gait as it put away the sword was just as composed as ever.

……

In the red side's zone, Espeon, who was becoming increasingly sluggish due to releasing too much [Mindpower], took advantage of Tom Nixon's moment of distraction and swiftly rolled up the blue side's magic ball with its stream-like Mindpower, dragging it downward.

Bang!

The sound of the blue side's magic ball smashing against the "blood platform" snapped Tom back to his senses. As he flicked his finger, a huge flow of magic energy instantly surged, grabbing the magic ball.

"Espe..."

Letting out a soft cry, Espeon had no choice but retract its Mindpower and wait for another chance to act.

Black Gatomon, who didn’t have the ability to fight in the air, could only stand in front of the red magic side's ball and honestly serve as a guard.

The tenth round was coming to an end.

After Dark Demon's summoning CD finally passed, he reached out to touch [Fusion], but instead of rashly using it, he shifted his fingers onto [Honedge]’s magic card.

Feeling the slight tremor of the sword, Gatomon threw it out without the least hesitation.

With its enormous power, the holy sword instantly pierced through the "blood platform" and shot at the blue side's magic ball that Tom Nixon had forcibly grabbed.

"Thorn Spell(荆棘咒)!"

In an emergency, Tom Nixon hurriedly activated a magic spell card in his hand.

This [Thorn Spell], which was drawn only in the tenth round, was originally meant to protect [Hybrid Witch] and reverse the tide.

But [Hybrid Witch] died way too quickly!

He wasn't even mentally prepared to use [Thorn Spell].

As it activated, a net of green thorns instantly appeared underneath the blue side's magic ball, and a mysterious power emitted from the thorn barrier.

When [Honedge] pierced through the thorn barrier, it was forcibly reflected under the force of this power, sending it hurtling back down!

Gatomon immediately frowned and took a step back to avoid [Honedge]’s trajectory.

When [Honedge] whizzed down in front of it, it raised its hand and grabbed the rapidly falling hilt, and then pressed down, changing the blade's trajectory. As if their minds were connected, it spun around brandishing the sword and used the momentum to hurl out [Honedge] again!

Together with its footsteps, Gatomon's sword-wielding posture was incredibly graceful.

The holy sword flew carrying a stronger force, instantly breaking through the [Thorn Spell] remaining in the air.

This time, it struck the blue side's magic ball without any suspense.

Bang!

At the critical moment, Tom Nixon prompted the blue side's magic ball to deviate, but the zooming holy sword still smashed the life barrier it touched!

[Magic Energy (blue): 3444→1314]

The life barrier with only 1314 points of magic energy left became extremely dim.

Face turning pale, Tom Nixon urgently poured his magic energy to speed up the escape of the blue side's magic ball.

But in fact, as he did this, a sense of despair had already crept up to him.

Gatomon's "divine slash" and [Hybrid Witch]'s sudden death had left him completely defenseless.

Since even the last [Thorn Spell] failed to catch the enemy off guard and kill it in turn, there was absolutely no more chance to turn the tide in this duel.

Even though the countdown of the tenth round had already ended, even if he drew a card that could reverse the situation from the deck, what good would it do if he couldn't even spare three seconds to do a summon?

Sure enough, when Tom Nixon looked up at the sword that was flying in the sky, it saw that its form was changing. The lone eye on its crossguard abruptly opened as it transformed into its magical spirit form!

When [Corpse Decay Curse] was suppressing [Honedge], it had simultaneously whittled its magic energy.

Now, although [Honedge] had dispelled [Corpse Decay Curse], its remaining magic energy was very limited, making it too risky to engage in a direct fight against another magical spirit.

But if it was just to chase after the magic ball, then it would be more than enough.

Moreover, the remaining magic energy of the blue side's magic ball wasn’t enough to withstand even one slash from it.

Tom Nixon had absolutely no time to chant a spell.

……

On the red side's contestant platform, as Dark Demon looked through his cards, he suppressed the urge to overdo things and opted not to use [Fusion].

Although Gatomon could fuse with Black Gatomon to evolve into [Bastemon], it would lose its resonance with the holy sword during the evolution.

Therefore, using fusion evolution was actually a choice that had its pros and cons and required careful consideration.

As for the other cards...

Dark took out two magic cards from his hand.

One was [Blinking Spell], and the other was [Wish-Granting Dice].

The former could help [Honedge] complete the final blow at the critical moment, while the latter... could be used to have fun!

Having drawn [Wish-Granting Dice] many times during the duel competition, it wasn't like he hadn't thought of having some fun with it.

But when facing off against strong third-year competitors, he actually didn't have that much leeway.

However, he never expected that he would actually find a "leeway" in the final match.

Tom Nixon no longer had any magical spirit on the field, and as for his cards—although Dark didn't know what cards he had, since he had taken out even a Magic Charm Card like [Thorn Spell], he had probably used up all of his means.

In fact, if Gatomon hadn't dealt with it properly, [Thorn Spell] would’ve been really tricky to handle.

As Dark's eyes flickered, he ultimately still gave up the idea of having fun in the match.

"Honedge, wrap up the match!"

Clang!

Feeling the trust put in it, Honedge vigorously swished its scabbard and picked up its speed mid-flight, catching up with the blue side’s magic ball controlled by Tom Nixon in the blink of an eye.

Tom Nixon's face turned ashen.

However, Dark Demon suddenly took out [Wish-Granting Dice].

The moment the life barrier of the blue side's magic ball was thoroughly shattered.

When its magic energy fell to zero and the referee blew the whistle to announce the end of the match.

Dark successfully completed the summoning of [Wish-Granting Dice].

"Abracadabra, simsalabim, please grant my wish!!"

Thereby, a white dice engraved with eighteen different colored symbols appeared in front of Espeon.

After being stunned for a while, Espeon couldn't help but lift its paw pad and flick the dice.

After all, it was a magical spirit equal to the magister "themself".

By simply flicking it, Espeon successfully triggered the [Wish-Granting Dice].

Dark was instantly overjoyed.

At the last moment, he had a sudden inspiration and thought of an idea, and couldn't help but to seize the moment and try it out.

Espeon's ultimate [Magic Bounce] could invalidate most transformation-type ultimates and even rebound them.

If it was the one who activated the [Wish-Granting Dice], there was absolutely no need to worry about the backlash of the transformation ultimates.

Thinking about it carefully, [Wish-Granting Dice] was simply Espeon's exclusive prop!

Ding!

When everything was settled and cheers broke out in the audience, [Wish-Granting Dice] started to rapidly spin, the attribute symbols on its eighteen sides lighting up one after another. White and black rays intertwined with each other, and eighteen colors of resplendent rays rotated and shone, painting a dreamlike sight.

"The winner has been decided! Although the course of the duel was full of ups and downs..."

Just as Zach Wilson was about to announce the winner, his expression abruptly froze as he noticed the "neon lights" on the field.

Subsequently, the cheers from the audience slowly subsided. Countless people's eyes were focused on the [Wish-Granting Dice] that was still spinning on the field, curiousity filling their gazes.

Even Tom Nixon, who had an extremely ugly expression, couldn't help but look over.

As [Wish-Granting Dice] came to a sudden stop, only one of its eighteen attribute symbols remained shining—yet another normal-type.

BOOM!

Then, the [Wish-Granting Dice] exploded into a ball of smoke.

Soon after, a batch of fireworks shot up from the smoke and exploded in the air, releasing colorful fireworks.

Then came the second batch, the third batch...

All kinds of ribbons and fireworks rushed into the sky, setting the slightly darkened sky aglow with lights.

The colorful fireworks kept on blooming, maxing out the atmosphere of celebration and joy.

Dark was momentarily stunned before he suddenly realized what skill this was.

He spontaneously put on a calm and graceful smile. Under the illumination of the fireworks, he slightly bowed towards the audience, and then spread out his arms and wished, "Happy Easter!"

……

"Damn it!"

The discordant voice was drowned amidst the audience’s thunderous cheers.

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