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Nessa knew Booker would not be a fan of her sacrificing her Life Points, but the goal was to get rid of the threat on the field. You could not win without beating your opponent’s win condition, and the ChonoTubers all said Life Points did not matter except for the last life point.

Of course, they were playing duels where losing Life Points didn’t drain away life energy and inflict pain. Maybe that was worth changing strategies for, but Nessa knew winning was the goal, not avoiding pain.

Before Booker, the other player set another Champion in defense position, which surely waited to do something sinister when it was flipped.

After Booker nearly decimated the man whose monster had drained away most of Nessa’s Life Points, the cultist war in bad shape. He growled, drawing his card, with only a thousand life points remaining. Looking down at his drawn card, he smirked. “You think you’re so clever, but this is so much bigger than you or I…” He inserted two Magic cards into his Duel Disk. “First I activate the Magic, Gift Calling, letting me Call my next Champion to someone else’s field.” What a weird effect! Nessa had to wonder why he would do something like that.

“I activate The Ceremony of Cultist Calling! Using Tributes from my hand and my partner’s field equal to 10 Levels to Ceremony Call a Champion, alongside the fair cost of a thousand Life Points.”

Nessa gasped. ”That’s all you have left!”

“A sacrifice for the cause! To my partner’s field, I Call Cultist’s Demonic Archentity!”

Two Cultists from the man’s hand and the face-down Champion, another type of Cultist, joined together in a summoning circle. The duelist’s Life drained to fill their cauldron of blood, and all the Champions vanished, cracking the circle. From the crack, a massive demon with brutal wings and an exposed skull emerged.

Nessa’s horror almost distracted her from what happened to the man whose Life hit zero. “Finish our… mission….” The man fell to his knees, dissolving into a mist that coalesced until it vanished somewhere unseen.

“His sacrifice will be your undoing! Our Archentity cannot be destroyed by battle thanks to the Devoted Cultist I sacrificed to it. And now that his turn is over, during each of our End Phases, I can target one Champion to be destroyed by my Archentity. This effect cannot even be negated! I target your Riot Girl!”

Nessa shook off the shock of the disappeared man, activating her set card. “No way! I activate my Nimble Magic, Riot Girl Recruitment! I target my own Riot Girl and Special Call another Riot Girl with a different name from my deck! Her effects on the field are negated, but get out here, Gabby!”

The pink haired Riot Girl appeared beside Angie. “And immediately after this effect resolves, I Attunement Call a Champion with the both of them! Come out, Riot Girl Bou!”

Gabby became attunement circles, converting Angie into sparkling energy that reformed as a masked woman adorned in neon markings. ”Not only does your effect fizzle when your original target is no longer on the field, when Bou is called, I draw a card, and when Gabby is sent to the Grave, her effect can activate there to add a Riot Girl to my hand!” And like that, Nessa had three cards in her hand to work with.

The Archentity had three-thousand Attack and Defense. While Booker’s Field Magic was active, Nessa’s Champions also had their stats flipped, so Bou was in Defense. Nessa took a breath and drew for her turn.

She could work with this.

”I use Rekindling! It can bring back as many FIRE monsters from my Grave with two-hundred Defense as possible, but they’re banished by the end of my turn.”

“Go ahead—Archentity cannot be destroyed by card effects, and it is immune to damage thanks to my Tribute. Just try to be clever.”

Three Riot Girls from the Grave were called to the field beside Bou, including the Level Six Angie. ”I will! And when Manuela is Called back, I can destroy a card on the field. Since your entity is off limits, I’ll destroy my brother’s field.” It was inevitable. She did need to be able to use her own monster’s high Attack, and she knew Booker’s Griffin could do something similar. ”I use my four Called Riot Girls to Attunement Call my boss—and really, it’s just bringing the whole gang together.”

The Champions joined together as energy, but what emerged was not one Champion, but a group of armed young women collected as one Champion. ”Welcome to Riot Girls – The Rebellion! These ladies gain a hundred ATK for each Riot Girl in my Grave. With thirty-four-hundred Attack, I can beat over your Archentity!”

“Go ahead, he won’t die!”

”But you take four-hundred damage! I set a card and end my turn—”

“Which means, I can destroy one of your Champions! I choose—”

”As a friendly tip, when you destroy Champions on the field, Bou inflicts damage to you.”

That gave him pause, since he intended to destroy monsters on this turn and the next, which would stack up. “Then I destroy her!”

The life of Bou drained before Nessa’s eyes. ”The effect still applies to her! Two-hundred times her level for eighteen-hundred damage!”

The man groaned, clearly hit hard by such a steep cost, but he shook it off. “Whatever! The destruction of your Champion calls a Demon Minion to my field! I begin my turn! By tributing that Demon Minion, I drop all other Champions by a thousand Attack! Now that the annoying flying cat is at no Attack, I’ll strike your precious brother!”

The massive demon smashed the Grifighter, dealing a massive three-thousand damage to Booker. Nessa glared angrily, knowing Booker still had another monster to be targeted after that. “I end my turn, and when I do, I can destroy—”

”What, gotta pick on the animals? Not a big enough man to fight the girls?” she goaded.

The man glared, switching his sights from the Newt to the Rebellion. “Of course not. I can crush your foolish Rebellion with my end phase effect. I hope your girls are ready to be sacrificed for the cause, just like the rest of you.”

“Perfect! I chain to the activation!”

“You cannot negate this destruction!”

”Don’t have to! I activate the Surprise, Riot Girls Angst! When a Riot Girl is destroyed, you take damage equal to their Level times two-hundred and I draw a card. Level Twelve, so twenty-four hundred is more than enough to end this! Consider it Bou’s ghost haunting you for your crimes.”

As the girls withered away, the Cultist freaked out. “No! I—if I can activate Infinite Impermanence to negate my own—”

”You said it yourself. This can’t be negated. I didn’t have to defeat your entity; just the cultist who summoned him.”