Fortunately, this "empty field" situation didn't last too long.
After a few seconds, the white light fragments after the [Eight-Armed Serpent Demon] shattered slowly gathered and re-formed into a [Python Monster] with an attack power of 1000, displayed in attack position.
Although this monster isn't strong, it can still be used as a barrier, which is better than nothing.
"Alright, this daddy's turn is over." On the other hand, after completing the battle phase, Feng Bujue had no more cards to play, so he immediately declared the end. "It's your turn..."
At this time, Snow's expression had become quite solemn.
Currently, he has no cards in his hand, and the situation on the field is also very unfavorable (the field magic is placed in the neutral zone, so it doesn't count as his field); this situation... is a far cry from the "superiority in field, life points, and card advantage" that he pursues.
Feng Bujue's seemingly desperate, but actually calculated, play style suppressed Snow's well-thought-out, scheming style, which also had a certain impact on the latter's emotions.
"Where exactly is the problem..." Snow muttered to himself, "Judging from the cards revealed by [Director's Prophecy] and the results of several dice rolls, his luck is at most of a mediocre level... Tactically, he can't compare with me either. From beginning to end, this guy has only played three cards, and all the others have been shuffled or discarded... But now, both he and I have zero cards in hand, and he has a monster with 4000 attack on the field, while I only have a miscellaneous monster. What 'factor' is causing this gap?"
This is a very good question...
If Feng Bujue were to answer, he would definitely say, "That's the difference between a true duelist and scum like you."
However, Snow has a more rational answer...
"I understand... it's 'single card quality' and 'luck in drawing cards', right?" Snow pondered for a few seconds, then thought, "The cards this guy uses are all cards with 'expensive costs' and effects with gambling properties. If used carelessly... not only will he fail to establish an advantage, but he will also suffer a great loss; but he has used every card very appropriately... And the most crucial thing is that in the second turn, with zero cards in hand, he top-decked [Sakamoto-kun]; this draw allowed him to summon such a powerful monster with 'zero cost', and just this card advantage alone... is worth two to three cards; later, the effect of [Sakamoto-kun] was successfully activated, which made me lose two cards for nothing... With the increase and decrease, it has become the current situation."
"Hey! What are you spacing out for?" After waiting for a few seconds, seeing that the other party had no reaction, Feng Bujue began to urge, "Just say you want to surrender!"
"Heh..." After "figuring things out", Snow's confidence returned. He smiled and replied loudly, "Don't worry, I'm just organizing my thoughts... I'll start now."
As he said that, he raised the duel disk on his left arm and stretched his right hand towards the deck.
"My turn, draw!" Snow declared, drew a card smoothly, and then placed the drawn card in front of his eyes to take a look.
At that moment, his expression froze, then he was startled, and then... it turned into a strange smile.
"Heh... hehe... hahahahaha..." This standard three-stage laughter undoubtedly declared that something quite amazing had happened.
"What? Did you draw a magic card that can replenish your hand, and then you're just laughing like an idiot?" Feng Bujue said, staring with his dead fish eyes.
"Sigh..." Snow sighed, "To be honest... according to my own thoughts, it would indeed be best to draw a 'magic card that can replenish my hand' at this time, but... hehehe... sometimes luck comes, and you can't stop it~"
As he said that, he slapped the card in his hand onto the duel disk.
"I special summon from my hand... one of the Three Yokai Gods - [Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae]!" Along with Snow's summoning declaration, a gorgeously dressed ancient beauty in a plum-red cloak appeared in the arena, standing in front of [Sakamoto-kun].
Feng Bujue knew the effect of this card even without looking, because it was a "God Card"; in the current card pool of [Mad Thinking], there are only four sets of God Cards in total, namely "Heaven and Earth Double Demons", "Three Yokai Gods", "Seven Divine Fighting Stars", and "Nameless King".
In terms of strength, every card in the God Card series is amazingly strong, but according to the "severity of the summoning conditions", gathering "Heaven and Earth Double Demons" is the simplest, followed by "Three Yokai Gods", and so on... "Nameless King" is almost an "impossible to summon" God.
Let's not talk about the other sets of God Cards for now, let's just talk about the one in front of us...
[Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae] can be said to be the easiest to summon among the "Three Yokai Gods". There are two ways to summon her.
The first is the normal summon, that is: offer three tributes to summon her from your hand - this kind of "three-tribute" normal summon is basically standard for God Cards.
The second is a special summon: when the opponent's field has at least one monster that is male (must be male, asexual species or female are not allowed) and has an attack power of 3000 or more, and the total number of cards on our field and in hand is less than or equal to two, [Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae] can be summoned directly from the hand, without the need for tributes.
If Feng Bujue's earlier draw of [Sakamoto-kun] was considered a divine draw, then Snow's draw of Tamamo-no-Mae under this circumstance is simply a super divine draw...
"Tch... a troublesome thing has appeared." Feng Bujue looked at the monster with "0" attack and defense, but a hint of condensation flashed in his eyes, and his mind... had already quickly analyzed what kind of tactics the other party would use with this card, "Speaking of... you can actually get a 'God' in the random card selection mode... With this kind of luck, could it be that you have more than one?"
"Hehe... who knows?" Snow smiled mysteriously, avoiding the question, "Even if I do, you may not be able to see it..." Saying that, he immediately changed the subject and returned to the game, "[Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae]'s special effect... activate! Tamamo-no-Mae can halve the attack and defense of all male creatures on the opponent's field, and the total value of the attack and defense that is reduced will all be converted into Tamamo-no-Mae's attack and defense, until the start phase of my next turn."
As he spoke, Tamamo-no-Mae in the arena threw a charming look at Sakamoto-kun. Sakamoto-kun's expression didn't change, but his attack power decreased to 2000, and the 2000 points of attack that were reduced became Tamamo-no-Mae's attack power.
"Hmph... you should be glad, Feng Bujue." After saying the declaration, Snow continued, "At this moment, if you had many male monsters on the field, you would already be dead."
"Hmph..." Feng Bujue also snorted coldly and replied, "Boring assumption... Tamamo-no-Mae's effect of absorbing attack and defense can only be activated in each turn's main phase. Even if my [Sword-Wielding Con Artist] is still here, his attack power outside the battle phase is also 0... The attack power you absorb is still only two thousand."
"Oh? It seems... you are very clear about the special effects of God Cards." After two seconds, Snow said again, "Heh... then you should also be clear that [Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae]'s effect is not just one!"
As he said this, the form of the monster on the field had already begun to mutate...
This is the second special effect of [Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae] - Yokai Fox Transformation.
As she transformed, the beautiful woman waved her cloak, and in the blink of an eye, she became a huge Yokai Fox. Her fur was silver-white, as clear and bright as moonlight; her eyes were blood-red, revealing a compelling demonic aura. Behind her huge figure, nine giant tails, like flames soaring into the sky, danced wildly in mid-air.
To be honest, just for this animation effect, a ten-star God Card is well-deserved.
"[Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae]'s second special effect... transform into a Yokai Fox, destroy one card in the opponent's hand, and have its controller draw nine cards from the deck!" Before Snow finished speaking, he had already started drawing cards, "Unfortunately, you have no cards in your hand for me to destroy, but... just for the effect of drawing cards, I have to activate this move."
In a word, nine cards had already been drawn.
At this moment, objectively speaking... Feng Bujue had fallen into a very dangerous situation.
Because... Snow's battle phase has not yet begun this turn. Relying on the... whole nine cards he just drew, he is very likely to kill Feng Bujue.
Not to mention that there isn't a single card in Jue Ge's magic trap zone right now... Even if he has face-down cards, he may not be able to solve the problem, because all God Cards can resist magic and traps to a certain extent.
Of course, each God Card performs differently in this regard. For example, some cards "don't eat any magic traps", while others "don't eat magic traps that target individual monsters, but are still affected by some general-purpose cards", and still others are God Cards "that can reverse the effect of magic or traps"...
And this [Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae] on Snow's field belongs to the type that "is not affected by any magic and traps".
"Hehehe..." Snow stared at the nine cards in his hand for a long time. While looking at the cards, he would occasionally glance at Feng Bujue and laugh a few times, as if the other party was a lamb to be slaughtered.
"Even if you repeatedly leer at me, I won't panic." But Feng Bujue... calmly responded with ridicule, "You can't win against me, there's no doubt about that." He also laughed, "Heh... whether you have nine cards or ten cards, whether you have Gods on the field or demons... people like you who despise dueling can never defeat this daddy, a 'true duelist'."
"Hmph..." Snow was a little annoyed when he heard words that went against his own philosophy, "Enough already, you're in your twenties, don't you feel ashamed to say such chuuni lines?"
"I don't." Feng Bujue replied without thinking and asked in return, "What? Is it a shameful thing for you to duel with others while wearing a duel disk?"
"It's okay..." Snow continued, "After all, I won't use your kind of wording and actions..."
"That's why I said... you don't understand anything." Feng Bujue said, "There's no point in talking too much with people like you. Stop laughing and hurry up and do it, you can't kill me anyway, can you?"
"Tch..." Snow couldn't help but spit after hearing this.
He was really unhappy, because... he really couldn't kill Feng Bujue.
He drew a full nine cards, with monsters, magic, and traps, but... no matter how he calculated and combined them, he couldn't directly win in the current turn.
"I summon from my hand - [Evil Kappa], in attack position!" Snow hasn't used up his normal summon right this turn, so he summoned another monster to the field.
After the summoning declaration, a humanoid creature less than one meter tall, with a monkey face and bird's beak, covered in mucus, appeared in the arena.
"[Evil Kappa], launch a direct attack on [Crazy Unfeeling]!" After summoning this monster, Snow directly commanded it to attack.
Of course, this is also possible; according to the rules... when a player commands a monster to attack without saying "enter battle phase", the system will default that the player has entered that phase and terminate its main phase.
Pa——
Soon, the slimy guy rushed over and patted Jue Ge. However, this Kappa's attack is even weaker than the Lamp Monster... It's just a two-star monster with 800 attack, but because of the effect of [Oxygen Deprivation Zone], he can still bypass [Sakamoto-kun] and directly attack the player.
"[Python Monster], direct attack!" Before the Kappa finished attacking, Snow issued another attack command.
Hiss——
The Python Monster's attack power wasn't high either. Feng Bujue casually parried it with his duel disk and got through it.
However, the combined attacks of these mediocre monsters... have already reduced Jue Ge's LP to 1500, so he's basically in a state where he'll die if he takes one more attack.
But... Snow just can't make that attack.
Because... [Nine-Tailed Fox Tamamo-no-Mae] is "not affected by any magic and traps", which means that she is not affected by the effect of [Oxygen Deprivation Zone] either, and cannot directly attack the player by bypassing the humanoid creatures on the opponent's field.
Furthermore, since her attack power and [Sakamoto-kun]'s attack power are both 2000, she can't get past this "wall"...
Snow would naturally not allow his "Yokai God who can constantly activate and change attack and defense effects" to die together with the opponent's "ordinary monster that has already activated its effect", so his Tamamo-no-Mae can only hang up in the battle phase this turn...
"I... set four cards." After a few seconds of pause, Snow said dejectedly, "End this turn."
"Ha! What did I say?" Feng Bujue saw this and smiled arrogantly, "A deck without a 'soul', no matter how great the advantage, is nothing but an empty bubble!"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Snow's anger was stirred up, "I have three monsters on the field, four face-down cards, and four cards in my hand! And you only have one monster on the field and no cards in your hand... Do you think you can survive until the next turn?"
"Hahahahaha..." These words brought about even more crazy laughter from Jue Ge, "That's nonsense! The first card on the deck... symbolizes the duelist's hope and determination to move towards victory! As long as there are still cards in the deck, I will not give up!"
After saying that, he crossed and drew again with that exaggerated pose, and waved his arm, "This daddy's turn... draw!"