Chapter 66 - Chapter 66 - Clockwork Night (Part 3)

"Activate the Spell Card: !"

Melonica's passionate shout echoed through the void.

"Whoosh———-"

Luo Bai emerged from the chaotic memories, awakening as if from a dream, his breath still slightly uneven.

"I send from the Deck to the graveyard, and change 's level to 8!"

Melonica placed her hand on the Extra Deck, closed her eyes, and her agitated emotions gradually calmed, conducting deep channeling.

"Bzzzzzz————"

She suddenly opened her eyes, an overwhelming aura erupted, and her pupils shone with an astonishing red light.

"Unite as one!"

"I overlay and !"

(Outside the field: What? Overlaying a Level 1 monster with a Level 8 monster?)

(Luo Bai: Is he coming out?)

"Oh Eternal Night Monarch, sleeping for a thousand years."

"I offer thee my blood as sacrifice for your arrival."

"Awaken! My most loyal servant!"

Melonica raised her hands high, and the void turned chaotic.

"Xyz Summon! !"

"Click———–"

The void split open, and a swarm of red-eyed bats flew out from the pitch-black rift.

The dark red sky was as black as ink, with no starlight visible, and dense black mist spread out.

A howling wind roared, crimson lightning streaked across the sky, strange flowers and plants withered rapidly, and animals fled in panic.

Before they could escape far, the animals collectively turned into dried corpses, with bright red blood gathering in the black mist, forming a pair of scarlet eyes.

The black mist dispersed with a roar, and the Epic Card descended.

"When the opponent's monster is used as an overlay material for , its level can be treated as 8." Melonica explained in a deep voice.

"I detach Scarlet Scourge to activate 's effect!"

"Both players send the top 4 cards of their decks to the graveyard. If any of them are monster cards, I can Special Summon one of them to my field."

"Go!"

"Whoosh!"

Melonica shouted loudly, forcefully tossing the top four cards of her deck into the void.

Luo Bai did not dare to follow suit, obediently placing his cards into the graveyard without any response.

The four cards sent were: , , , and .

That's really bad. The only has been sent to the graveyard, is wasted halfway, the Kaiju is gone, and there's one less Cyber Emergency from the Deck.

Even Little Blue wouldn't pile up cards like this!

(T/N: Little Blue = Laundry Dragonmaid.)

"Processing The Zombie Vampire's effect." Melonica glanced at the cards sent to the graveyard and smiled with satisfaction.

"I Special Summon !"

A chill swept through, and Vampire Fraulein stepped out from the black mist, dressed in a luxurious and ancient black gown. Her face and limbs were half alive and warm, and half dead and cold.

"Set three cards, end my turn."

Melonica declared coldly.

Front 3, Back 3, Hand 0, LP: 1500

"Fuuu..." Luo Bai steadied his heartbeat and breathing, staring thoughtfully at the field.

"Zero resistance?"

"Three backrow cards, there should be something there that lets her counterattack..."

The front line of , , and doesn't interrupt the opponent's setup, but those three face-downs were quite intimidating.

"It's my turn, draw!" Luo Bai's gaze flashed with determination as he shouted.

"Standby..."

At that moment, Melonica waved her hand and said, "Activate the face-down card , activate the Field Spell: from the Deck, then Special Summon from the graveyard."

"I pay 1000 LP to activate 's effect, Special Summon from the graveyard."

The field instantly changed from Front 3 and Back 3 to Front 5, Back 2 + Field Spell!

Meanwhile, Melonica's LP: 1500 -> 500.

[DING!]

Luo Bai pressed the button.

He vaguely remembers that has a weak monster recovery effect, but he's not very sure, as this card is used by few people.

Vampire Voivode

You can only use each effect of "Vampire Voivode" once per turn.

If this card is Normal Summoned: You can target up to 2 monsters in your opponent's GY; Special Summon those monsters to your field in Defense Position, but their effects are negated.When a monster's effect is activated, while a monster(s) with its same name is in the GY(s) (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation.If a monster(s) is Special Summoned from your opponent's GY: You can Tribute 2 monsters; Special Summon this card from your GY.

"The heck, Effect 2 feels like it's really targeting !"

Generally speaking, the second effect of this monster is hard to use; the activation condition is quite harsh, requiring the same-name monsters to be in the graveyard to activate.

Isn't it quite a coincidence?

When , , and are on the field or in the graveyard, their card names are all considered as . They all have differing effects, but the part of them being named is the same.

"Main Phase."

Luo Bai finished his card check and glanced back and forth between his opponent's face-downs and his own hand.

"The set Vampire cards are probably and ."

"Vampire Voivode can handle lower-level monsters. provides tri-color counter and LP recovery, can summon a Duke for a Spell Speed Destruction, and Vampire Fraulein boosts ATK and DEF for Zombie-Type monsters."

(T/N: Duke's Special Summon sends a card from the Deck, but Vampire Kingdom destroys a card when a card is sent from the opponent's Deck to the GY.)

"One Stat Booster, three Floodgates, and five to six monsters."

With the search ability of Vampires, it's hard to imagine achieving this without playing hundreds of thousands of matches.

Fortunately, he had seven cards in hand: two , , , , , and a card of unclear meaning.

He can win this!

Luo Bai confirmed his hand and spoke: "Discard to activate 's effect, I Special Summon it to the field."

"Upon Special Summon, 's effect activates, I Special Summon a Cyber Dragon from the graveyard."

"Don't even think about it!" Melonica shouted.

"I activate Vampire Voivode's effect to negate Nachster!"

Vampire Voivode swung his trident, a stream of blood essence piercing Nachster, causing it to become dull and weak.

"Well then, try this!" Luo Bai exclaimed passionately.

"I activate the Spell Card , using Nachster on the field and from my hand as materials for a Fusion Summon!"

"Fusion Summon, "

"Rampage Dragon's effect activates, destroying your two face-down cards!"

"I activate the Trap Card , negate and destroy , then I restore LP equal to its original ATK." Melonica said coldly.

"'s original ATK is 2100, so I regain 2100 LP."

LP: 500 -> 2600

She clearly let out a sigh of relief. Being at 500 LP was actually quite unsettling and made it difficult to activate the effect of Vampire Fraulein for ATK boosts.

Having restored her LP to a safer level, her expression relaxed significantly.

"Hehehe..." Luo Bai sneered, showing a cunning grin. "Then what are you gonna do about this!?"

"I summon !"

With both the negation cards already baited out, the handsome baby boy makes his debut!