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“Won’t be that easy.”"I shall have Tsukahagi and Yuki-Musume tune to Synchro Summon Oboro-Guruma, the Wheeled Makayashi in Defense Position." A flaming carriage, seemingly possessed by a spirit, manifests beside the table as the previous pair of ghosts vanish.
"I'll set two cards face down and end my turn. On to you, professor." Angelica bows her head politely.
Julia 25=25 poor
Angelica 91=91 very good
[I'll redo the end of her turn if Julia wants to negate that summon. Otherwise, go ahead with Julia's turn. Rough luck so far.
Her key card. Julia already knew about it.
Adam ignores the rush he feels at the revelation of just how much power he has over the nun, looking at her impatiently. "Yeah, yeah, you can tell her. Until this fight with your nun friends is over, just treat any question from Yumi or Julia, when we catch up to her, like it came from me, okay?"
Her key card. Julia already knew about it.
It wasn't a strong card by itself, but allowed for the Makyashi set to make some powerful combo plays into high level synchro monsters. Though, for Makayshi synchro monsters to use their effects, they still needed to special summoned from the graveyard. Otherwise, they were just relatively high stat block beaters with no protection. Even with Julia's bad hand, it would still take Angelica a little more time for proper set up, though she gave her thoughts internally to her partner.
We can't form a good counter like this, but complicated combos or not, they're still useless if we can stop her from actually doing anything.
In the mean time, Julia eyed one of the monsters in her hand. She still couldn't play it, but she kept a tight grip on it.
He'll be important later on, but we still need something we can summon now.
Julia drew her new card to join the three remaining in her hand. She frowned a bit. Not much help. It was one of the cards she pulled from that cultists deck. Not exactly a big help here but...
"I play Cauldron Of The Old Man."
As the metallic pot emerged behind Julia, she could feel the heat of very real flame as the purple and green fumes poured in the room.
"Now I place a counter and-
"Hold your horses, girlie. This is an art, you know." Behind the cauldron the elderly decrepit figured stirred the pot at a leisurely pace, not at all concerned about the duel or wager of people's souls.
"Please, may I have a drink?" Julia did her best to keep her manners with the old man who let out a begrudging "hmm" before offering her the green liquid. A little cautiously, she took it and placed it against her lips, swallowing. Despite her hesitation, her discovery came with the feeling of the bubbles in her mouth that rather than anything magical, this tasted more like a cheap carbonated drink. Still, she could feel her body feeling a little more energized. Setting the glass she took down, she took a look at Angelica to resume her turn.
"I gain 500 life points for each counter on this card, and it climbs each turn." It wouldn't do much to actually do something against Angelica yet, but it would force her to waste more resources either needing to get rid of it, or drag out the duel for longer if she let Julia's lifepoints inflate too much. Julia took a look at the other options in her hand. The other cards....well....still not time for them, just yet. She still hadn't managed to play an actual monster yet, but even with Angelica's better luck, Julia was still confident that she would be fine in outplaying her as long as she played this and choose her moves carefully.
"I'll end my turn for now."
As Julia drew again, things were looking up as she saw her luck starting to even out. She was going to attempt to use bone zombie tower to mill out her deck. And with the mayakshi's able to special summon themselves it would be risky....but....was it really time to remove the bone tower? It might actually help for Angelica to mill out her deck so Julia could start using her own graveyard effects. She was still setting up for synchro summoning. Her tuners were annoying but would be hard to remove easily. However, Julia smiled more as she drew a new card.
"It seems sketchy, but I trust her. Something is binding her to me since I won the duel. I don't believe she'll hurt me." Adam says. Despite his earlier irritation at Julia doe going off on her own, he does the same thing, swallowing his natural reluctance to say something so submissive as he goes through the door.
As Julia drew again, things were looking up as she saw her luck starting to even out. She was going to attempt to use bone zombie tower to mill out her deck. And with the mayakshi's able to special summon themselves it would be risky....but....was it really time to remove the bone tower? It might actually help for Angelica to mill out her deck so Julia could start using her own graveyard effects. She was still setting up for synchro summoning. Her tuners were annoying but would be hard to remove easily. However, Julia smiled more as she drew a new card.
As her next standby phase began, the fumes from the old man's cauldron got more intense, and Julia refilled her drink before consuming it again, feeling more revitalized. (Counter added. Julia's current life would now be 9500. 8000+500(first use) +1000(This turn's use). It would help sponge more of her attacks but that wouldn't be enough on it's own.
Julia then played the card she drew. "Well, let's see about that. Shurit, Strategist of the Nekroz!"
The young man came to life, a fair bit shorter than the monsters he was facing. Somewhat frail, but still looking confident as Julia flipped up the card she had saved. "Now, I use the mirror of Nekroz to ritual summon. Instead of paying the full cost, Shurit's effect allows him to be used as the entire tribute. Now-"
As Shurit smiled while fading away into a magical glow, the creation in his place was a geyser of flame that both players could fell the heat rising off of, the smoke and fumes of the cauldron also filling the air, completely obscuring the new figure until it settled, revealing a man in dragon like armor who looked like an older version of the strategist just tributed. "Nekroz of Arreadbhair!"
Julia smiled. "But that's not all. Shurit's other ability activates once tributed allowing me to add a Nekroz warrior ritual monster to my hand, and I choose-"
Julia knew which one she would need later on. And if Angelica knew the effect it would force her to hesitate trying to think of how to properly deal with it.
"Nekroz of Brionac!"
She didn't know how prepared Angelica was or familiar with these cards, but if she knew what it did, it would delay her plans to bother with attempting any synchro summons for now. It would also provide her fuel for tributes for Arbedhair's effect. She only had two monsters to really use for now...so she'd have to choose carefully what she wanted to negate, but it would put a stop to her ability to keep getting them back out of the graveyard.
"Arbedhair, attack and destroy Tsukasghi putting him back into the graveyard where he belongs." There were reasons for her target. While the ice ghost could bring itself back up, the poison one required very specific conditions and without her tuner, she wouldn't be able to complete the synchro summon, and as long as Arbedihar was one the field, she wouldn't have anyway to bring it back out, killing her ability to get her extra deck monsters out.
Adam signals to his companions to get ready, hiding behind the pillars. "When she comes near, we jump her from three directions." He whispers. "Pin her down, take her deck if she has one, and gag her - I don't want tricks if I can help it."
