Lost Memory

"My turn, draw a card!"

Marik said it was drawing cards, but he had already followed the old saying "When in Rome, do what Romans do" and started drawing slabs.

"Spell Card – Silent Doom!" Marik waved his hand and flipped over a slab, "Target 1 Normal Monster in my GY; Special Summon it in face-up Defense Position, but it cannot attack.

Resurrect, Armored Zombie! "

A burst of black and sticky things churned on the ground, and the zombie in tattered armor struggled to get up from the quagmire. His green face was dry and wrinkled, just like the dry land.

[Armored Zombie, DEF 0]

"Is it the monster sent by the effect of 'Dark Sacrifice' to the graveyard last turn?" Yugi thought to himself.

Marik continued to hit a slab in his hand: "Then I take the 'Armored Zombie' and 'Revival Jam' as sacrifices to Tribute Summon——

——Red Ogre! "

The dark air of prey swept across the field, and the blood-red devil danced and landed heavily with a spiked club. He had a ferocious expression, and two rows of neat and sharp white fangs appeared from his mouth.

[Red Ogre, ATK 2800]

"Can this person actually summon such a powerful monster?" Priest Seto murmured.

Not only the bandit king, but there is also someone else who possesses such a power?

"The effect of the Red Ogre – When this card is Normal Summoned: I can send any number of cards from my hand to the Graveyard, then target the same number of cards on the field; return those targets to the hand."

Marik clicked on a stone slab and discarded it to the graveyard.

"Return the 'Quintet Magician' to your hand!"

Red Ogre waved the thick iron club, and a dark and strange whirlwind swept out. The Quintet Magician quickly cast out magic circles to resist, but the dark wind was too weird, and the Quintet Magician who only had "destructive resistance" could not resist this force, and turned into a golden light that dissipated out of thin air.

Because it was a Fusion monster, Quintet Magician would return to the Extra Deck instead.

"In this way, there will be nothing on your field." Marik shouted with a grim face, "Battle! Go, Red Ogre! Directly attack Yugi!"

Red Ogre jumped up, and the dust burst out the moment his footsteps left the ground spread like water waves. He raised his club high above his head and blasted down from mid-air with great momentum.

"At this moment, open the set card: Trap Card – Rising Energy! Discard 1 card, then target 1 face-up monster on the field; that target gains 1500 ATK until the end of this turn!

I increase the attack power of Red Ogre! "

[Red Ogre, ATK 2800 → ATK 4300]

Enough attack power to OTK!

The only monster on Yugi's field has been bounced back to the hand. If this attack passed, it would be his defeat!

"Lord Pharaoh!" Some priests have begun to exclaim.

Yami Yugi stared, and said in a deep voice: "Open the set card: Counter Trap Card – Dark Bribe! When an opponent's Spell/Trap Card is activated, negate the activation and destroy it. As a price, the opponent can draw a card."

He raised his finger to the trap slab in Marik's back row.

"I negate your 'Rising Energy'!"

[Red Ogre, ATK 4300 → ATK 2800]

Boom!

The black iron club with spikes slammed down on Yami Yugi's body. The ground broke with this bang, and countless gravels scattered around.

[Yami Yugi, LP 4000 → LP 1200]

"Pharaoh!"

Mahad eagerly stepped forward to help, but found that he was blocked by an invisible barrier——a black and transparent barrier that separated the two people in the duel from the priests outside.

That was the realm of the Shadow Game, and no one could set foot until the winner was decided.

The severe pain that was transformed into substantial damage made Yami Yugi slightly sway back two steps. Seeing his killing blow was blocked, Marik pouted uncomfortably.

"Tch, lucky guy as always." He snorted, "But because of the effect of 'Dark Bribe', I draw a card."

"At this moment, the effect of the 'Gorz the Emissary of Darkness' in my hand was also activated." Yami Yugi said, "If there are no cards on my field, when I receive damage from the opponent, this card can be Special Summoned from my hand!

Come, Gorz the Emissary of Darkness! "

There was a black cyclone, and the messenger of the underworld with flowing red hair and black armor appeared gorgeously, with a life-threatening blade on the back of his hand.

[Gorz the Emissary of Darkness, ATK 2700]

"Gorz's follow-up effect." The game continued, "When this card is successfully Special Summoned through this effect, if the damage I received is Battle Damage, Special Summon 1 'Kaien the Emissary of Darkness Token'!"

The black vortex beside Gorz opened, and a female messenger in white armor appeared on the field, holding a sharp and shining white long knife.

"The ATK and DEF of 'Kaien the Emissary of Darkness Token' will be equal to the amount of battle damage I took." The game continued, "The damage I received is 2800, so the attack power of Kaien is also 2800!"

[Kaien the Emissary of Darkness Token, ATK 2800]

"As expected of Lord Pharaoh." Priest Isis said, "Even if he is in a disadvantageous situation, he can immediately summon such a powerful servant to fight back…"

"Cut, it's just a guy who didn't die."

Marik pouted. At this time, according to the effect of the "Dark Bribe", a new slab has been summoned to the field. He glanced sideways and directly chose to launch.

"The one I just drew is the Spell Card 'Pot of Greed', I will draw two more cards."

After two more stone slabs were used, Marik glanced at them, waved his hand, and chose to set them directly.

"Set two cards, I end my turn."

Glancing at the cards at his feet, the corners of the six-year-old's mouth slightly raised, revealing another cruel smile.

The two cards he concealed were "Malevolent Catastrophe" and "Nightmare Wheel".

Malevolent Catastrophe: Activated when the opponent's monster attacks. Send all cards on the field to your opponent's Graveyard. (manga effect)

No matter what kind of monsters were summoned next turn, this card had the ability to instantly wipe out the entire field!

The other card, Nightmare Wheel, was the type of Continuous Trap that autism players loved most.

Nightmare Wheel: Activate this card by targeting 1 monster your opponent controls; it cannot attack or change its battle position. When it leaves the field, destroy this card. During each of your Standby Phases: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent.

The LP of Yugi was only 1200, and it was quite painful to deduct 500 every round.

"It's too boring to simply kill you." Marik licked his lips again, sneering secretly in his heart, "I'm going to torture you slowly, let you feel your own cold death little by little!"

"My turn." Yami Yugi put his finger on the deck, "Draw!"

The drawn card was like a golden starlight illuminating the darkness.

Yugi's eyes moved, and he seemed to feel some mysterious throbbing the moment this card was drawn.

A fragment of a certain image flashed in his mind——

——In a dark world, a majestic man stood on the ground with a cone-shaped golden pendant on his chest, facing a huge demon god that shot straight into the sky like a mountain.

The world collapsed, the gods fell, and the dark clouds of despair enveloped everything in the world…

Then he quickly returned to the present.

Was that just…my lost memory?