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"I activate the Spell Card, [Strange Clover]! By discarding one Level 4 Plant-Type monster from my hand, I grant one monster on the field the ability to attack twice during one Battle Phase!"
Mai Valentine revealed a card from her hand. "The card I'm discarding is this one, Sangan! Then, my Amazoness Fighter on the field will gain the ability to attack twice."
[Amazoness Fighter] [Level 4 / EARTH]
[Warrior-Type / Effect]
[ATK 1500 / DEF 1300]
"Because of Swords of Revealing Light, both of your Marauding Captains on the field were changed to Set Defense Position, and due to Swords of Revealing Light's Effect, as long as this card is on the field, your monsters cannot change their Battle Position."
[Set Defense Position monster (Marauding Captain)] [DEF 400]
"Next, I'll use my Amazoness Fighter to crush your monster! Enter the Battle Phase!" Mai Valentine said, waving her hand to command Amazoness Fighter. "Go, sweetie! Show that arrogant guy across from us how strong we are!"
"Attack the face-down monster!"
Following Mai Valentine's command, Amazoness Fighter ran forward, charging towards the card Set and surrounded by Swords of Revealing Light. In just a few moments, she arrived in front of it.
Although Amazoness Fighter seemed to have no weapons in her hand, she didn't actually need such hindrances to her battle, because her body was the most powerful weapon!
"First attack!"
"Hraahh!!"
A well-trained, muscular iron fist swung out, unlike a typical girl's hand. With just one strike, it broke the Sword of the Marauding Captain who was hiding inside the card, holding the card horizontally in a defensive stance. A hand chop slashed down on the metal armor, leaving an exaggerated dent. The Marauding Captain spat out blood, was sent flying, and was completely destroyed and sent to the Graveyard!
Seeing this, Mai Valentine cheered in a very unladylike manner, "Nice! Well done! Just like that, beat him flat!"
"Keep up that momentum! There's still a second monster! Go!"
Amazoness Fighter nodded, looking at the other card not far away. She took a deep breath, pulled back her hand, and suddenly did a forward handspring and leaped up. Her heel, wrapped in battle bandages, came crashing down like an unstoppable battle axe!
The card hiding the Marauding Captain was flipped open. A shield was held by the Marauding Captain, meeting Amazoness Fighter's downward chop. Originally, Mai Valentine was dismissive of the Marauding Captain pulling out a shield for defense.
After all, no matter what kind of equipment you brought out, be it a laser sword or a force field shield, no matter how flashy it was, Duel Monsters ultimately still came down to the actual ATK/DEF values. Amazoness Fighter's ATK was 1500 points, while Marauding Captain's DEF was only 400 points. Even if he carried a city wall, he wouldn't be able to block the attack.
But then Mai Valentine saw that the shield the Marauding Captain was equipped with not only perfectly blocked Amazoness Fighter's attack, but the spikes on that shield with a Unicorn relief actually successfully pierced Amazoness Fighter's defense, causing her heel to bleed profusely!
"Chain Shield," Valon said calmly. "In that battle just now, I used your attack to flip the Marauding Captain, and then I activated this Chain Shield."
Valon spoke calmly, watching as the Marauding Captain, after flipping back to Face-up Position, pushed Amazoness Fighter back to Mai Valentine's field with a strong thrust of his shield. "After this card is activated, it becomes an Equip Card that can increase ATK by 500 points, and it was equipped to the Marauding Captain who flipped back to Face-up Position."
"When a monster equipped with Chain Shield battles in Defense Position, that monster's DEF only increases by its ATK value during Damage Calculation."
[Marauding Captain] (Equipped with Chain Shield) [1200/400 → 1700/400 → 1700/2100 → 1700/400]
During the Damage Calculation process just now, the Marauding Captain, relying on the Equip Card's ability, instantly increased its DEF to a full 2100 points. No wonder Amazoness Fighter couldn't break through his defense and defeat him.
Mai Valentine snorted, a little annoyed. "You've got some tricks up your sleeve. Although theoretically, if the attacking monster's ATK is lower than the defending monster's DEF, I should take the difference as Battle Damage, but because of Amazoness Fighter's Effect, the Battle Damage I take from this card's battle becomes 0."
If it weren't for this Effect, Mai Valentine's attack would have failed, and she would have also taken 600 points of difference damage. Although the damage wasn't very high, it would have put Mai Valentine at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.
However, Mai Valentine was a little confused about one thing: "Since both of your monsters are Marauding Captains, Chain Shield should be usable by either monster, right? Why didn't you use that card when Amazoness Fighter attacked for the first time?"
"Hmm, as for the answer to that question, it's probably because I'm kind-hearted and can't stand to see others' lost expressions," Valon tilted his head, revealing a subtle smile. "You just now used up a full four cards from your hand to give your monster the ability to attack my monster twice. If such a large cost hit a wall on the very first attack, well, I'm just helpless when girls cry."
Valon's words were like adding fuel to the fire, making Mai Valentine, who was already annoyed by her blocked attack, even more furious.
"Next Turn, I'll definitely make you take back those condescending words!" Glaring fiercely at Valon with her beautiful eyes, Mai Valentine angrily set both cards in her hand. "Then I Set two cards, End Turn!"
[Mai Valentine: 4000 LP, hand 0]
[Amazoness Fighter] [ATK 1500]
Swords of Revealing Light
[Set Card] X2
"Hmm, I'll be waiting," Valon said with a smile, drawing a card, a barely concealed smile on his lips. "However, I think the possibility of you being able to do that is really too low."
"My Turn, Draw."
"Then, I activate this card, Double Summon! This Turn, I can perform a second Normal Summon!"
Mai Valentine recognized the card Double Summon, because this card could increase the number of Normal Summons, which could originally only be performed once, to twice. If your hand was decent, you could directly prepare the Tributes and perform a Tribute Summon in one Turn, directly Normal Summoning a High-Level Monster to achieve suppression. It was a quite practical card.
And now Valon already had one Marauding Captain on the field. Because of Swords of Revealing Light, even though it had flipped to Face-up Position and was equipped with Chain Shield, increasing its ATK to 1700 points, surpassing Amazoness Fighter's, the Marauding Captain could still only hold its shield in defense and could not be used for attack.
In that case, Valon could completely summon one monster, and then use that monster and the Marauding Captain together as Tributes to summon a powerful High-Level Monster.
While Mai Valentine was speculating about Valon's possible next operation, Valon had already drawn a card and placed it on the Duel Disk to summon.
"The monster I will summon is this one, Chevalier de Fleur."
As Valon placed the card on the Duel Disk, a ball of flames surged on his field, blooming next to the Marauding Captain.
From within the flames, a sharp steel blade swung out, splitting the flames and revealing a knight completely covered in armor, wrapped within. Only a pair of sharp eyes could be seen looking out from between the helmet.
And the split flames did not dissipate. Instead, they obediently gathered behind Chevalier de Fleur, like a cape fluttering in the wind.
[Chevalier de Fleur] [Level 4 / FIRE]
[Warrior-Type / Normal Monster]
[ATK 1900 / DEF 900]
When she saw that the cool-looking Chevalier de Fleur was actually a Normal Monster, Mai Valentine was slightly stunned. She had thought that this Warrior-Type monster, which had a somewhat special entrance and a unique aura, might have some powerful Effect, and she was secretly wary. But it turned out to be a Normal Monster?
To be honest, Mai Valentine hadn't seen Normal Monsters appear for quite some time. Of course, that didn't mean she hadn't seen them at all. With the increasing popularity of Duel Monsters, there were plenty of Normal Monsters being sold in the card shops on the streets. Mai Valentine just hadn't seen many Duelists whose Decks still used these low-Level Normal Monsters.
After all, the Duelists she usually interacted with were either Hayato and Yugi Mutou, who had an endless stream of cards with various Effects, or Joey Wheeler, who was a wildly Lucky King. Their Decks rarely had low-Level Normal Monsters anymore.
Of course, monsters like Summoned Skull, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Gaia the Fierce Knight, Dark Magician, and Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon no longer belonged to the category of ordinary Normal Monsters.
However, Mai Valentine didn't dwell on Chevalier de Fleur being a Normal Monster for too long. Anyway, this monster would only be a Tribute for Valon to Tribute Summon other monsters, so it wasn't worth worrying about.
But what Mai Valentine didn't expect was that after summoning Chevalier de Fleur, Valon didn't rush to play the card in his hand. Instead, he pointed at the ready Chevalier de Fleur: "Then, I will summon Chevalier de Fleur again!"
"Summoning a monster a second time?" Mai Valentine couldn't help but widen her eyes, looking at Chevalier de Fleur. "This monster is a Gemini Monster!"
Mai Valentine revealed a card from her hand. "The card I'm discarding is this one, Sangan! Then, my Amazoness Fighter on the field will gain the ability to attack twice."
[Amazoness Fighter] [Level 4 / EARTH]
[Warrior-Type / Effect]
[ATK 1500 / DEF 1300]
"Because of Swords of Revealing Light, both of your Marauding Captains on the field were changed to Set Defense Position, and due to Swords of Revealing Light's Effect, as long as this card is on the field, your monsters cannot change their Battle Position."
[Set Defense Position monster (Marauding Captain)] [DEF 400]
"Next, I'll use my Amazoness Fighter to crush your monster! Enter the Battle Phase!" Mai Valentine said, waving her hand to command Amazoness Fighter. "Go, sweetie! Show that arrogant guy across from us how strong we are!"
"Attack the face-down monster!"
Following Mai Valentine's command, Amazoness Fighter ran forward, charging towards the card Set and surrounded by Swords of Revealing Light. In just a few moments, she arrived in front of it.
Although Amazoness Fighter seemed to have no weapons in her hand, she didn't actually need such hindrances to her battle, because her body was the most powerful weapon!
"First attack!"
"Hraahh!!"
A well-trained, muscular iron fist swung out, unlike a typical girl's hand. With just one strike, it broke the Sword of the Marauding Captain who was hiding inside the card, holding the card horizontally in a defensive stance. A hand chop slashed down on the metal armor, leaving an exaggerated dent. The Marauding Captain spat out blood, was sent flying, and was completely destroyed and sent to the Graveyard!
Seeing this, Mai Valentine cheered in a very unladylike manner, "Nice! Well done! Just like that, beat him flat!"
"Keep up that momentum! There's still a second monster! Go!"
Amazoness Fighter nodded, looking at the other card not far away. She took a deep breath, pulled back her hand, and suddenly did a forward handspring and leaped up. Her heel, wrapped in battle bandages, came crashing down like an unstoppable battle axe!
The card hiding the Marauding Captain was flipped open. A shield was held by the Marauding Captain, meeting Amazoness Fighter's downward chop. Originally, Mai Valentine was dismissive of the Marauding Captain pulling out a shield for defense.
After all, no matter what kind of equipment you brought out, be it a laser sword or a force field shield, no matter how flashy it was, Duel Monsters ultimately still came down to the actual ATK/DEF values. Amazoness Fighter's ATK was 1500 points, while Marauding Captain's DEF was only 400 points. Even if he carried a city wall, he wouldn't be able to block the attack.
But then Mai Valentine saw that the shield the Marauding Captain was equipped with not only perfectly blocked Amazoness Fighter's attack, but the spikes on that shield with a Unicorn relief actually successfully pierced Amazoness Fighter's defense, causing her heel to bleed profusely!
"Chain Shield," Valon said calmly. "In that battle just now, I used your attack to flip the Marauding Captain, and then I activated this Chain Shield."
Valon spoke calmly, watching as the Marauding Captain, after flipping back to Face-up Position, pushed Amazoness Fighter back to Mai Valentine's field with a strong thrust of his shield. "After this card is activated, it becomes an Equip Card that can increase ATK by 500 points, and it was equipped to the Marauding Captain who flipped back to Face-up Position."
"When a monster equipped with Chain Shield battles in Defense Position, that monster's DEF only increases by its ATK value during Damage Calculation."
[Marauding Captain] (Equipped with Chain Shield) [1200/400 → 1700/400 → 1700/2100 → 1700/400]
During the Damage Calculation process just now, the Marauding Captain, relying on the Equip Card's ability, instantly increased its DEF to a full 2100 points. No wonder Amazoness Fighter couldn't break through his defense and defeat him.
Mai Valentine snorted, a little annoyed. "You've got some tricks up your sleeve. Although theoretically, if the attacking monster's ATK is lower than the defending monster's DEF, I should take the difference as Battle Damage, but because of Amazoness Fighter's Effect, the Battle Damage I take from this card's battle becomes 0."
If it weren't for this Effect, Mai Valentine's attack would have failed, and she would have also taken 600 points of difference damage. Although the damage wasn't very high, it would have put Mai Valentine at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.
However, Mai Valentine was a little confused about one thing: "Since both of your monsters are Marauding Captains, Chain Shield should be usable by either monster, right? Why didn't you use that card when Amazoness Fighter attacked for the first time?"
"Hmm, as for the answer to that question, it's probably because I'm kind-hearted and can't stand to see others' lost expressions," Valon tilted his head, revealing a subtle smile. "You just now used up a full four cards from your hand to give your monster the ability to attack my monster twice. If such a large cost hit a wall on the very first attack, well, I'm just helpless when girls cry."
Valon's words were like adding fuel to the fire, making Mai Valentine, who was already annoyed by her blocked attack, even more furious.
"Next Turn, I'll definitely make you take back those condescending words!" Glaring fiercely at Valon with her beautiful eyes, Mai Valentine angrily set both cards in her hand. "Then I Set two cards, End Turn!"
[Mai Valentine: 4000 LP, hand 0]
[Amazoness Fighter] [ATK 1500]
Swords of Revealing Light
[Set Card] X2
"Hmm, I'll be waiting," Valon said with a smile, drawing a card, a barely concealed smile on his lips. "However, I think the possibility of you being able to do that is really too low."
"My Turn, Draw."
"Then, I activate this card, Double Summon! This Turn, I can perform a second Normal Summon!"
Mai Valentine recognized the card Double Summon, because this card could increase the number of Normal Summons, which could originally only be performed once, to twice. If your hand was decent, you could directly prepare the Tributes and perform a Tribute Summon in one Turn, directly Normal Summoning a High-Level Monster to achieve suppression. It was a quite practical card.
And now Valon already had one Marauding Captain on the field. Because of Swords of Revealing Light, even though it had flipped to Face-up Position and was equipped with Chain Shield, increasing its ATK to 1700 points, surpassing Amazoness Fighter's, the Marauding Captain could still only hold its shield in defense and could not be used for attack.
In that case, Valon could completely summon one monster, and then use that monster and the Marauding Captain together as Tributes to summon a powerful High-Level Monster.
While Mai Valentine was speculating about Valon's possible next operation, Valon had already drawn a card and placed it on the Duel Disk to summon.
"The monster I will summon is this one, Chevalier de Fleur."
As Valon placed the card on the Duel Disk, a ball of flames surged on his field, blooming next to the Marauding Captain.
From within the flames, a sharp steel blade swung out, splitting the flames and revealing a knight completely covered in armor, wrapped within. Only a pair of sharp eyes could be seen looking out from between the helmet.
And the split flames did not dissipate. Instead, they obediently gathered behind Chevalier de Fleur, like a cape fluttering in the wind.
[Chevalier de Fleur] [Level 4 / FIRE]
[Warrior-Type / Normal Monster]
[ATK 1900 / DEF 900]
When she saw that the cool-looking Chevalier de Fleur was actually a Normal Monster, Mai Valentine was slightly stunned. She had thought that this Warrior-Type monster, which had a somewhat special entrance and a unique aura, might have some powerful Effect, and she was secretly wary. But it turned out to be a Normal Monster?
To be honest, Mai Valentine hadn't seen Normal Monsters appear for quite some time. Of course, that didn't mean she hadn't seen them at all. With the increasing popularity of Duel Monsters, there were plenty of Normal Monsters being sold in the card shops on the streets. Mai Valentine just hadn't seen many Duelists whose Decks still used these low-Level Normal Monsters.
After all, the Duelists she usually interacted with were either Hayato and Yugi Mutou, who had an endless stream of cards with various Effects, or Joey Wheeler, who was a wildly Lucky King. Their Decks rarely had low-Level Normal Monsters anymore.
Of course, monsters like Summoned Skull, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Gaia the Fierce Knight, Dark Magician, and Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon no longer belonged to the category of ordinary Normal Monsters.
However, Mai Valentine didn't dwell on Chevalier de Fleur being a Normal Monster for too long. Anyway, this monster would only be a Tribute for Valon to Tribute Summon other monsters, so it wasn't worth worrying about.
But what Mai Valentine didn't expect was that after summoning Chevalier de Fleur, Valon didn't rush to play the card in his hand. Instead, he pointed at the ready Chevalier de Fleur: "Then, I will summon Chevalier de Fleur again!"
"Summoning a monster a second time?" Mai Valentine couldn't help but widen her eyes, looking at Chevalier de Fleur. "This monster is a Gemini Monster!"
