Chapter 23 vs. Holy Night Knight
Xia Ze looked at the cards in his hand, and finally covered two cards and ended his turn.

"My turn, draw a card."

When it was his turn, Xia Qing did not act in a hurry, but kept his eyes on the opponent's backcourt cards.

Night Knight is different from those old card decks and can barely be considered a product of modern Yu-Gi-Oh.

It has the standard red and green array of modern decks, namely continuous magic and continuous traps.

Although the effect of the "Divine Birth" is far inferior to the "Anchorage" of Abhidharma and the "String Sound" of Pearl Tears.

But he couldn't ignore the effect of chain summoning 7-star dragons once every round.

Xia Qing focused his eyes and cast a quick-attack magic.

"I activate the effect of 'Double Tornado', discard a card from my hand, and destroy two Spell and Trap Cards on the field."

Xia Ze noticed that the card Xia Qing discarded was "Silent Magic Blast", and his pupils shrank slightly.

"What I want to destroy is 'Holy Nativity' and the adjacent cover cards." Xia Qing declared.

Xia Ze looked at his cousin meaningfully. He had not originally intended to use this card.

But it is impossible to allow the two backfields to be destroyed.

He immediately shouted, "That won't work. Open the trap card, Holy Brilliant Flame."

Holy Blaze: Return a Level 7 Light Dragon monster on your field to your hand, negating the opponent's Spell, Trap, or Monster effects and destroying them.

It can deal with monsters and magic traps, commonly known as the noble "Three-Color Kang".

"Return the Holy Night Dragon on the field to your hand, negating the effect of the Double Tornado."

In the center of the battlefield, two tornadoes suddenly formed and were about to attack Xia Ze's backcourt.

The Holy Night Dragon suddenly appeared, blocking the tornado's path, and the flames it spewed out condensed into a wall.

The sacred flame locked the tornado tightly, preventing it from moving forward, until it exhausted its remaining strength and completely disappeared.

Soon, the Holy Night Dragon flapped its wings and flew away like a hero who had completed his mission.

Seeing the Holy Night Brilliant Dragon return to Xia Ze's hand, Wang Lin, who had suffered a loss, immediately panicked.

"Oh no, this card is back in my hand, and the effect of the continuous spell can be activated again."

He hurriedly reminded Xia Qing: "From now on, be careful when using card effects."

As long as Xia Qing activates the effect, "Holy Nativity" can special summon "Holy Night Dragon" to explode the card again.

"Yeah, I know." Xia Qing nodded in response.

Although he knew it, he had no good way to deal with it, and could only rely on the quality of the cards in his hand to step into this trap.

First, activate the effect of "Silent Magic Blast" in the graveyard, exclude yourself, and retrieve a Silent Magician from the deck.

Looking at the silent magician who was quiet and elegant in his hand, Xia Qing felt much calmer.

It’s easy to appear, has high attack, and also has magic counter and last words effects. With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for?

After all, the Holy Night Dragon only has 2500 attack power.

"Normal Summon 'Witch of the Dark Forest'."

The witch with a third eye on her forehead slowly appeared on the battlefield.

She wears a simple black robe and has purple hair. As the earliest sister card, the style of the card cannot be said to be beautiful.

But compared with those monsters and demons of the same period, she deserves to be called a goddess.

I can only say that the artist has tried his best.

But Xia Qing did not let this monster, which had witnessed the history of Yu-Gi-Oh and experienced many vicissitudes, stay on his field for too long.

"Use 'The Witch of the Black Forest' as the connecting material."

The next one to appear is the monster with the highest appearance rate in Xia Qing’s deck.

"Link Summon 'Holy Demon Girl Artemis'."

But there is no way around it, the Holy Demon Girl is an indispensable part of the operation of his deck.

Fortunately, Xia Qing has two Holy Demon Girls in her extra deck, which allows them to work in shifts and avoid death from overwork. "Link Monster?"

Xia Ze showed a look of surprise and looked at the girl in white dress on Xia Qing's field in disbelief.

When will his cousin be able to produce this kind of monster?
Although connection is a summoning method that has only emerged in recent years, its convenient and powerful effects have already begun to emerge.

Almost at the same time, a group of rising stars who mastered Link Summoning began to appear in various parts of the world.

He even heard a well-known professor bluntly say in a private lecture: "The future must be a connected future. Duelists who cannot master the connection summons will be swept into the garbage heap of history."

Although Xia Ze felt that the professor's statement was a bit extreme, a duelist who could skillfully use Link Monsters would undoubtedly have an advantage in a duel.

For example, Xia Qing sent the monster to the graveyard through the connection and forcibly triggered the last words effect.

"When 'The Witch of the Black Forest' is sent to the Graveyard, I activate her effect and add 'Witch Doll: Goddess Aluru' to my hand."

Xia Qing shows the retrieved monster to his opponent.

[Witch Doll·Goddess Alulu, 8 stars, attack and defense 2800/0]

"Witchcraft?"

Xia Ze looked at the card and became suspicious. Could it be that his cousin was using the Witch card deck?
No, "Witch Doll·Goddess Aluru" has the function of protecting the Magician-Type monsters on the field.

In addition, he had previously searched for "Silent Magician" and used "Witch of the Black Forest", so it should be a mixed deck with Magician monsters as the main ones.

Xia Ze was indeed a senior card player who had been admitted to a 985 university based on his duel performance. He immediately guessed the general composition of Xia Qing's deck.

Seeing that Xia Ze did not activate the permanent magic "Holy Birth" and special summon the "Holy Night Brilliant Dragon" to blow up his Holy Demon Girl, Xia Qing felt relieved.

I don't know whether Xia Ze was letting her win on purpose or he thought that this delicate girl with 800 attack points could not pose any threat to him.

But Xia Qing knew that the Holy Demon Girl was an important springboard for his deck.

"When there is an Extra Monster on the field, "Dogmatic Saint Ecclesia" can be Special Summoned from your hand."

Before activating the Saint's effect, Xia Qing asked Wang Lin, "Are you going to play an extra monster next turn?"

Wang Lin didn’t know why he suddenly asked this, and his reaction was a little slow: “It shouldn’t be used…”

Before Wang Lin finished speaking, Xia Qing noticed the empty extra area and realized that he had wasted his time.

"When the Saint appears, add "Dogmatism's Punishment" from your deck to your hand."

The big eater holding a silver hammer appears.

The saint looked quite dignified and elegant before embarking on the road of wandering.

Wearing silver-white armor, with golden hair fluttering in the wind and the holy mark between her eyebrows shining brightly, she looks like a holy angel on earth.

Even Wang Lin, who had always only watched monsters attack, was captivated by it: "Just looking at the card picture, don't you think that the real Saint is so cute?"

As he spoke, he took a step forward without realizing it.

However, Ecclesia suddenly turned around and shook the hammer that was extremely inconsistent with her body shape.

Wang Lin was so frightened by the sudden reaction of the virtual reality image that he sat on the ground.

Fortunately, he was brave enough to get up from the ground quickly.

“Can we actually interact and experience it so realistically?”

Wang Lin patted his chest with lingering fear and never dared to enter the duel area at will again.

"Even if it is a virtual image, it is dangerous." Xia Ze kindly warned Wang Lin when he saw his rash behavior.

Every once in a while, there will be news about casualties caused by virtual images, and everyone has become accustomed to it.

After all, Duel Monsters were used in wars in the past.

Although everyone is just enjoying the duel now, various duel facilities have the function of restraining the power of monsters.

But among the seven billion people on the blue planet, there will always be a few who don't believe in it.

Privately modifying the duel disk; holding illegal underground duels; or finding a ritual that is said to be an ancient duel in an unknown ancient book.

There are always people who like to commit suicide, and they do so in all kinds of ways and no matter how hard it is banned, they still continue.

(End of this chapter)