Daigo was walking along the school yard, taking in the beautiful scenery and possible places to explore. Maybe the volcano first? Or the beach? HIs train of thought was interrupted by this more wild looking individual with a red jacket, unkempt brown hair, and fierce, yet striking, brown eyes. A slifer? Daigo smirked. Not what he expected for his first challenge here, but not one he was going to turn down. “[color=6ecff6]Sure thing bud![/color]” Was that how you said that? But he quickly reached down, grabbed the more familiar of the decks, and slotted it in. “[color=6ecff6]Let’s test your metal![/color]” “[color=ed1c24]Alright! I’ll start us off by summoning Elemental HERO Stratos![/color]” Leo opened the duel by slapping a card down in his monster zone, the hero appearing in a gust of wind that whipped up the dust around their feet. “[color=ed1c24]Then I activate his effect to add a HERO monster from my deck to my hand.[/color]” [hider=Elemental HERO Stratos][img] https://ms.yugipedia.com//thumb/d/db/ElementalHEROStratos-HAC1-EN-C-1E.png/300px-ElementalHEROStratos-HAC1-EN-C-1E.png[/img][/hider]”[color=ed1c24]I’ll add Elemental HERO Blazeman and end my turn.[/color]” [hider=Elemental HERO Blazeman][img]https://cdn.statically.io/gh/The-Olacaryn-Nebulae/TheOlacarynNebulae/91f604c/63060238.jpg[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]Nice start there.[/color]” Daigo draws, “[color=6ecff6]Why don’t I repeat it? I summon Chronomaly Nebra Disk in attack mode![/color]” [hider=Chronomaly Nebra Disk][img]https://ms.yugipedia.com//thumb/1/1b/ChronomalyNebraDisk-WSUP-EN-PScR-1E.png/300px-ChronomalyNebraDisk-WSUP-EN-PScR-1E.png[/img][/hider] “[color=ed1c24]Eh, never seen a card like that before. Looks kind of old and ragged.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]Yea. But ancient historians have believed it to be used to detail future events. With this being the case, I add Chronomaly Moai from my deck to my hand, which, as the disk foretold, I summon right to the field![/color]” [hider=Chornomaly Moai][img]https://ms.yugipedia.com//thumb/c/cb/ChronomalyMoai-REDU-EN-C-1E.png/300px-ChronomalyMoai-REDU-EN-C-1E.png[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6][color=6ecff6]And what’s better yet is that I have two of them![/color][/color]” he slaps down the secondary copy from his hand onto the disc. “[color=6ecff6]Following this, I use both Moai to build the overlay network.[/color]” The two large heads go jumping right into a large black vortex. “[color=6ecff6]Ancient scriptures of the past, give rise to the flying chariot that comes from the dieties above. I xyz summon Chronomaly Vinmana![/color]” [hider=Chronomaly Vimana][img]https://ms.yugipedia.com//5/58/ChronomalyVimana-MP22-EN-R-1E.png[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]Vimana, blast away the flying Hero with your Heavenly Blasts![/color]” Vimana opens up its sides and fires a large blast of golden energy at Stratos. Stratos took the attack from the giant floating building, temple… thing head on, withstanding it for a second before bursting apart. Leo threw his arm up to block the wind from blowing more dust into his face, conveniently hiding his grit teeth at the same time. The damage from that battle wasn’t too bad, but the next part was going to hurt. [Leo: 8000 LP > 7500 LP] “[color=6ecff6]Next I follow it up with Nebra Disk’s assault. Go, Time Dilation![/color]” The disc vibrates with intense frequency, sending a shock wave over at Leo. “[color=6ecff6]With that, I’ll set one card and end my turn. Your move there.[/color]” [Leo: 7500 LP > 5700 LP] “[color=ed1c24]Tch, not bad.[/color]” Drawing a card for turn, Leo grimaced and added it to his hand. Losing his monster wasn’t too big of a deal, he had assumed his Stratos would be destroyed after he had done its job of helping him set up for this turn, but he hadn’t expected the follow-up from his opponent to be so intense. Still, a fancy heap of rubble and a collection of old relics weren’t going to be enough to stop his deck or him from winning this duel. “[color=ed1c24]No matter the challenge, a hero will always rise up to face it. I normal summon Elemental HERO Blazeman and activate its effect.[/color]” Pulling a card from his deck, Leo held it out towards his opponent to see. “[color=ed1c24]I add Polymerization to my hand.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]Ah. I see you are about combining things together to get to a possible solution. Go on and show me what you got.[/color]” Daigo smiles. Let’s see how far this person can get without many interruptions. Further test out the capabilities of the island with, arguably, the weaker of the dorms. [hider=Polymerization][img]https://cdn.statically.io/gh/The-Olacaryn-Nebulae/TheOlacarynNebulae/91f604c/24094653.jpg[/img][/hider]”[color=ed1c24]I activate Polymerization, fusing the Blazeman on my field with the Shadow Mist in my hand. I don’t have a clever introduction for him like you did, but let’s see how to deal with my Elemental HERO Nova Master![/color]” [hider=Elemental HERO Nova Master][img]https://cdn.statically.io/gh/The-Olacaryn-Nebulae/TheOlacarynNebulae/91f604c/1945387.jpg[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]That is completely fine. I just love a bit of theatrics is all.[/color]” ”[color=ed1c24]Well, let’s see how you like this. Because it was sent to the graveyard, I get to activate the effect of my Shadow Mist.[/color]” [hider=Elemental HERO Shadow Mist][img]https://cdn.statically.io/gh/The-Olacaryn-Nebulae/TheOlacarynNebulae/91f604c/50720316.jpg[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]Oh contraire my good man, I activate Vimana’s effect. By detaching two materials from it, I can negate the activation of a monster effect. And, while I am curious to see how far this goes, I don’t want to let you get too ahead of yourself.[/color]” By sending the two moais to the GY, Vimana starts shining brightly. “[color=6ecff6]Deva’s Judgement![/color]” The light then subsides as Shadowmist’s effect doesn’t activate. “[color=ed1c24]Tch, fine. Next I’ll activate Miracle Fusion.[/color]” [hider=Miracle Fusion][img]https://cdn.statically.io/gh/The-Olacaryn-Nebulae/TheOlacarynNebulae/91f604c/45906428.jpg[/img][/hider]”[color=ed1c24]I banish the Shadow Mist I just sent to grave and the Stratos you destroyed last turn to bring out my Elemental HERO Great Tornado.[/color]” [hider=Elemental HERO Great Tornado][img]https://cdn.statically.io/gh/The-Olacaryn-Nebulae/TheOlacarynNebulae/91f604c/3642509.jpg[/img][/hider]”[color=ed1c24]I activate his effect to halve the attack and defense of all your monsters; Great Tornado, cut those guys down to size![/color]” The cloaked Hero whipped an arm out to his side, summoning forth a howling wind as he did that swept across Daigo’s side of the field and buffeted his monsters, lowering their attack and defense. Chronomaly Vimana - ATK 2300 > 1150 Chronomaly Nebra Disk - ATK 1800 > 900 This is getting a bit more tricky now. “[color=6ecff6]I’ll activate Vimana’s secondary effect. By attaching a Chronomaly or an XYZ monster to it as material, I can increase one monster’s attack by half the attack of the attached monster. I choose to attach a Moai to it to give Vimana an extra 900 ATK[/color]” Chronomaly Vimana - ATK 1150 > 2050 “[color=ed1c24]It’s still not strong enough to survive this. I go to the battle phase and attack Vimana with my Nova Master.[/color]”The flame-cloaked hero rushed towards the golden building, summoning fire to its hand as it threw a punch that saw them both being consumed by an explosion. [Daigo: 8000 LP > 7450 LP] Daigo is blasted back a little by the fiery punch that hit his giant golden temple. “[color=6ecff6]Yes. But like all ancient artifacts, they don’t simply disappear with time. I use the effect of Chronomaly Acambaro Figures from my hand[/color]” [hider=Chronomaly Acambaro Figures][img]https://ms.yugipedia.com//thumb/9/9a/ChronomalyAcambaroFigures-DAMA-EN-C-1E.png/300px-ChronomalyAcambaroFigures-DAMA-EN-C-1E.png[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]By discarding the figures, I can prevent the destruction of a Chronomaly monster![/color]” The figures appear in front of the giant floating citadel, having taken the firefly punch for it instead, before disappearing.. “[color=ed1c24]Not enough. Like all relics, that thing is history; I attack Vimana again with Great Tornado[/color]” Next, the green-cloaked hero struck, raising a hand towards Daigo’s monster and conjuring a writhing, roiling twister which shot forward and slammed into the temple, building, pyramid-thing. [Daigo: 7450 LP > 6700 LP] Vimana starts crumbling with the large force of winds, and disappears into the digital dust.”[color=6ecff6]Yes. Sadly even the biggest temples tend to fall to the harsh reality of nature.[/color]” “[color=ed1c24]Are you trying to turn this into a history lesson or something? I end my turn.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]No. Just wanting to have some fun dialogue to go with the monsters.[/color]” Daigo smirks, though he does feel incredibly awkward now as he draws. “[color=6ecff6]But history always has a way of coming back to us. I use Acambaro’s effect to Special Summon itself from the graveyard by paying 1000 life points.[/color]” He holds up his disc as a light comes from the gy, and the weird looking figure comes out onto the field in defense. [Daigo: 6700 LP > 5700 LP] “[color=6ecff6]How about we get a change of scenery?” The field spell zone on the disc pops open and Daigo plops a card in there. “I activate the field spell Chronomaly City Babylon![/color]" [hider=Chronomaly City Babylon][img]https://ms.yugipedia.com//thumb/7/7c/ChronomalyCityBabylon-PGLD-EN-GScR-1E.png/300px-ChronomalyCityBabylon-PGLD-EN-GScR-1E.png[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]Now that we are in an ancient arena, fit for this fight, I use its effect, I banish one Moai from the GY to summon another.[/color]” A giant head comes breaking out of the ground. “[color=6ecff6]Now let me know if you’ve seen this before, as I build the overlay network with Moai and Figures.[/color]” Both disappear into a swirling vortex that explodes into another Vimana. “[color=6ecff6]No catchy chant this time. Don’t want to constantly repeat my plays.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]Let’s learn from our past mistakes though. I use Vimana’s effect to attach the Vimana in the GY to it to gain more attack.[/color]” Almost as if seeing double, a more faded vimana floats its way into the vimana on the field as another yellow orb starts to surround the temple. Chronomaly Vimana ATK: 2300 > 3450 “[color=6ecff6]Now battle! Vimana attacks Nova Master! Heavenly Blasts![/color]” The large lasers lock onto the blazing hero and fire their golden beams.The fiery hero tried to fight back the attack using his own flames to contest the beams, but was swiftly overpowered and destroyed. [Leo: 5700 LP > 4850 LP] “[color=6ecff6]With that though, I switch Nebra Disk to defense, and end my turn. Now, show me what you can do…[/color]” It was at this point that Daigo realized he forgot to ask for this Slifer’s name. “[color=6ecff6]Uh… A bit of an odd question, but what is your name? I am Daigo Roberts.[/color]” Chronomaly Vimana ATK: 3450 > 2300 “[color=ed1c24]Huh?[/color]” Oh right, Leo hadn’t asked this guy for his name when he challenged him, or even introduced himself at the time either. He’d been kind of fired up wanting to duel at the time and hadn’t thought to mind his manners. “[color=ed1c24]It’s Leo. Nice to meet ya.[/color]” With that out the way, Leo drew a card for turn. Once he saw what it was he slapped it down in his duel disk without even bothering to add it to his hand. “[color=ed1c24]Let’s try this again. I summon Elemental HERO Blazeman and activate its effect.[/color]” Daigo chuckled. “[color=6ecff6]Nice try there Leo, but I failed this experiment before. I won’t do so again. I use Vimana’s effect to detach Vimana and Figures from it to negate the effect of Blazeman.[/color]” Two of the orbs disappear and Vimana starts shining. “[color=6ecff6]Deva’s Judgement![/color]” The light overpowers Blazeman, before disappearing back into itself. Dammit, he’d forgotten all about that. “[color=ed1c24]Tch, alright, no problem. I move to battle and attack your Vimana with Great Tornado.[/color]” Holding out his hand once more, the wind-manipulating hero shot forth another twisting burst of wind to try and destroy the ancient structure. “[color=6ecff6]As I said, I won’t let that happen twice. In the Damage Step, I use Vimana’s secondary ability, I attach the Vimana I just detached from it, back to it, increasing its attack by half the attack of the monster attached to it.[/color]” A new orb appears as canons appear along the edges of Vimana, and start blasting away the gale force winds. Chronomaly Vimana ATK: 2300 > 3450 “[color=ed1c24]It can do that during battle too?[/color]” The golden beams lanced through the blustering winds, tearing through the storm and also through the hero who had conjured it, Great Tornado bursting apart as it was destroyed in battle. [Leo: 4850 LP > 4200 LP] “[color=ed1c24]Grrr, fine. I attack your Nebra Disk with Blazeman.[/color]” The flames brought forth by Blazeman as he charged forward was nothing compared to those of Nova Master, but it was still enough for the fiery hero to blast apart the ancient disk with a single punch. That was all he could do however, and with Vimana negating all of his search effects and strengthening itself in battle, Leo wasn’t sure how he was going to deal with it. “[color=ed1c24]I end my turn.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]Not bad there Leo. You are definitely giving me a fight,[/color]” Daigo was trying to be positive here, giving Leo some form of support through this. Even he could admit that Vimana was a bit of a silly card when it came to stuff like this. He drew, and, wanting to give Leo a bit more of a test, he proceeds straight to the battle phase. “[color=6ecff6]Attack Vimana. Destroy Blazeman.[/color]” The canons line up and blast the Hero away. “[color=6ecff6]With that, I end my turn. Now Leo, how will you get out of this situation?[/color]” [Leo: 4200 LP > 3100 LP] Good question. Leo drew for turn, adding the card to his and weighing up his options. He had Shadow Mist and a Stratos in hand; he could summon the latter and search another monster, but Vimana would just negate it again, while the latter could be set and also search a monster should it be destroyed in battle, but that would just be negated too. He also had a Miracle Fusion he could use, but he’d already gone through both Nova Master and Great Tornado so the only HERO he could summon now was Elemental HERO Escuridao, which was strong enough to attack over Daigo’s monsters but wouldn’t be able to deal with Vimana if it used its damn attack boosting effect again. He had no choice. “[color=ed1c24]I set one monster and end my turn.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]That is a shame.[/color]” Daigo sighs. Maybe his hand had bricked. Lord knows Daigo had that early on, if it weren’t for Nebra Disk. He drew, looked over his cards, and figured this little test was more than enough. Don’t want to showcase bad manners to his fellow classmate. “[color=6ecff6]I use the effect of Nebra Disk in the graveyard.[/color]” He holds up his disk as light comes out of the graveyard. “[color=6ecff6]If all monsters I control are Chronomaly, I can special summon it from the graveyard.[/color]” The disk flies out and spins into place in Defence Position. “[color=6ecff6]And I release the Nebra Disk to get a new monster. Come out, Chronomaly Moai Carrier.[/color]” Nebra disk envelope itself in a rainbow energy and morphs itself into Moai Carrier. [hider=Chronomaly Moai Carrier][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1027820567593746432/1032300180806049912/unknown.png[/img][/hider] “[color=6ecff6]Then history always loves to repeat itself. By paying 1000 life points, I bring back another Acambaro Figures.[/color]” Another light comes from the gy to bring on out the same reptile looking figure. [Daigo 5700 LP > 4700} “[color=6ecff6]I then build the overlay network with my Figures and Moai Carrier![/color]” Both monsters erupt into energy and go flying into a large vortex. “[color=6ecff6]Great city of the heavens that history nearly forgot, form thyself and fly into battle. I XYZ Summon. Appear, Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech![/color]” [hider=Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech][img]https://ms.yugipedia.com//1/12/Number33ChronomalyMachuMech-REDU-EN-UR-UE.png[/img][/hider] Summon after summon after summon. The amount of monsters that Daigo brought to his side of the field, only to immediately send them away or use them as tribute for something else was almost too much to follow. Even if Leo had been able to resolve his effects, even if he could have summoned more fusions, would they have been able to stand up to this? For the first time since he had gotten serious about duelling, the answer was probably no. It wasn’t like Leo have never lost before, never been beat by somebody better than him, but this was different. And as Daigo summoned another city-sized monster to his side of the field, it was obvious Leo had bitten off more than he could handle with this challenge. “[color=ed1c24]Tsk. So this is what it takes to be an Obelisk huh?[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]More than likely.[/color]” Daigo smirked. “[color=6ecff6]Keep up the hard work though, and you’ll get here eventually. Battle! Machu Mech, blast his facedown away![/color]” A large line of canons come out from the ring around Machu Mech, then fires a variety of blasts at the face-down monster. Shadow Mist appeared briefly when the city opened fire and was immediately engulfed by the cannon fire and destroyed; Leo didn’t even bother to activate its effect in grave. He’d make it there eventually huh? Yeah, he would and then he’d wipe that condescending smirk right off of this guy’s face as he kicked him to the curb. “[color=6ecff6]And blast him away, Vimana, by first using your effect to attach the Nebra Disk from my graveyard to it as material, and increasing Vimana’s attack by 900.[/color]” Vimana’s cannons aim at Leo before firing everything it has at him. “[color=6ecff6]Heavenly Blast![/color]” Chronomaly Vimana ATK: 2300 > 3200 This time, it was Leo being struck directly by the golden beams and not one of his monsters. He was blown back by the simulated force, knocked off of his feet as the ancient building reduced his life points to zero. [Leo: 3100 LP > 0 LP] The duel was over. He planted a fist in the dirt and pushed himself up, not even trying to hide his dissatisfaction with his loss as he faced his opponent… no, Daigo. As he faced Daigo. He’d remember that name. “[color=ed1c24]Congrats… I’ll beat you next time. Count on it.[/color]” “[color=6ecff6]I look forward to it.[/color]” Daigo smiles as he walked over and held out his hand to help Leo up.