Chapter 219

Kagemaru's face had gone the color of pig liver, and he was so choked with humiliation that he didn't know what to say!

His strongest Sacred Beast, Raviel, Lord of Phantasms, had been toyed with like a plaything by a tiny Level 1 scrub with 300 ATK!

It was the absurd contrast of readying a plasma cannon for an attack, only to be intercepted mid-air by a mosquito.

It was simply too infuriating, too painful to bear!

[Ding. Kagemaru's Emotion Points +1200]

"It seems that even though I told you earlier that Level 1 monsters are mostly monsters, you still haven't grasped it at all."

Rowan wore the look of a man disappointed in a hopeless student, and spread his hands helplessly.

That promptly enraged the old man Kagemaru, far across the field inside his life-support machine, all over again.

"Stop spouting nonsense, brat!"

Kagemaru's face turned a blackish-green as he snarled the words in fury.

"Though you turned my Raviel, Lord of Phantasms, to Defense Position, its DEF is 4000, the same as its ATK."

"With your field as it is now, you have no power that could break through its defense! If you have the nerve, then show me!"

As he spoke, he ended his turn at once.

After all, the only card left in his hand was the Spell Card, Rite of Resurrection, now laid bare for all to see. The kick from the round Kuriboh had wrecked its original plan, so it couldn't be used for now.

Apart from ending the turn, there was nothing else he could do.

"True, and Rowan already has five cards in his Spell and Trap Zone. He can't use an aid like Golden-Eyes Idol's effect again to turn the opponent's Sacred Beast into an Equip Card for Relinquished."

At the edge of the crowd, Atticus Rhodes frowned slightly as he analyzed the situation.

Rowan had used the round Kuriboh's effect to break the other side's plan, but the opponent would still be able to try again next turn.

After all, a 4000 ATK monster attacking a 4000 DEF monster would end with both sides unharmed. To crush the opponent outright, Rowan seemed to be just a little short on power.

"Since you're the one who brought up such a shameless request, it would hardly be right of me not to oblige you."

Rowan only spread his hands again as he said this, then calmly drew a card from the top of the Deck on his Duel Disk.

"My turn, draw!"

He barely glanced at the card he had drawn. With a sunny smile plastered across his face, he took one of the four cards already in his hand and held it up!

"The aid that turns a Sacred Beast into an Equip Card can't be used for the time being, but I have other NTR tricks up my sleeve!"

"I activate the Spell Card Change of Heart from my hand!"

A Spell Card showing a blonde girl with one demon wing and one angel wing, holding up a heart, appeared on the field in front of Rowan!

"What?! Change of Heart?!"

Kagemaru's face changed in an instant inside the life-support machine across from him!

He clearly knew what that card did!

"Is that card's effect also about taking control of the opponent's monster...?" Alexis Rhodes, Bastion, Chazz, and the others watching from the sidelines guessed in some surprise.

"With this card's effect, I select one monster on my opponent's field and take control of it until the end of my turn! And as it happens, the Sacred Beasts themselves are only affected by a Spell Card's effect for one turn!"

Kagemaru's face cycled through black, green, and red under Rowan's gaze, as vivid as if a dye shop had opened on it, an agonized pig-liver mess of a complexion.

Rowan lifted a hand toward the giant, savage, dark blue Sacred Beast crouching in a defensive posture on Kagemaru's field, his smile as bright as it could possibly be.

"A family should be together, all in one piece! The monster I choose to control is, of course, the strongest Sacred Beast on your field, Raviel, Lord of Phantasms!"

As his words fell, a beam of black and white light shot out of the Change of Heart projection on his field.

It landed instantly on the head of the huge, savage, dark blue Sacred Beast on Kagemaru's side.

Just like the first two Sacred Beasts, it struggled and tried to roar, but was soon brought under control. The spirit drained from its eyes, and it flew away from its place and settled in the air above Rowan's field.

Then it turned toward Kagemaru, its original master, inside the life-support machine far across the field, and bellowed at him.

"Taken again..." Jaden Yuki, Bastion, Chazz, and the others all wore strange expressions, cold sweat breaking out on their faces.

They suddenly felt as if Chairman Kagemaru was glowing all over with a faint, eerie green.

Was this Chairman about to be sent off by Rowan in this very duel...?

Inside the life-support machine, Kagemaru glared at Rowan with wide eyes and a black face, staring him down.

His mouth, wanting to curse, trembled slightly.

And on the heart monitor on the machine, which had never gone away since it popped up earlier, the red line shot straight upward!

It streaked out a perfectly straight, steep slope at tremendous speed!

[Ding. Kagemaru's Emotion Points +1600]

Even Rowan was a little startled by the sight!

He almost wanted to sigh in admiration. As expected of a Seven Stars boss-class old man, to be able to spike an ECG line that steep!

You really are something, old man Kagemaru!