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【Dimensional Slice】, one of the mainstream decks that was active in the Yu-Gi-Oh! competitive environment in the early days. Although it didn't succeed in winning the world championship at the time, it once proved its combat power in the early environment, and even wasn't completely without the power to fight the champion of that year.
Yuugen's initial deck-building train of thought referenced the hand destruction of the champion deck, but due to the lack of some components and the fact that the current environment wasn't completely the same, he only followed the train of thought and adjusted the build.
Dimensional Slice was one of the builds he was currently testing.

As the name implies, the core train of thought of this deck was to send the opponent's cards to another dimension. It mainly relied on the violent one-for-one trades of cards similar to "Dimensional Warrior," which could forcibly remove itself and the opponent's monster from the game, but his side all had lower-level monsters that could be used immediately, which often allowed him to trade with the opponent's big monsters that they spent a lot of resources to create, creating a resource advantage.
Just like what Yuugen was doing now.
And because the opponent's monsters that were destroyed were kicked to another dimension instead of going to the Graveyard, it could also cause a lot of trouble for the mainstream decks that relied on Graveyard resources in the competitive environment of that year. At the same time, the environment of that year was also filled with a large number of last words monsters that had "search from deck when sent to the Graveyard," but these monsters couldn't activate their effects when facing Dimensional Slice, which was very uncomfortable.

Yuugen hadn't personally experienced that ancient environment, but he could imagine that the duelists who first encountered the Dimensional Slice build, after painstakingly creating a big monster, had it sent to another dimension with a single normal attack from the opponent. Their mentality must have collapsed...
...just like Manjoume now.
Dimensional Warrior desperately fought to the death before dying, slashing the void with a single blade, opening a black hole in the field like Dimensional Slice. The boundless gravity instantly captured the two warriors, and the Swordsman and the female warrior were both sucked into it, disappearing on the other side of the black hole.

Losing the equip targets, the two equip magic cards in the back row exploded with a pa pa sound, turning into golden light fragments and dissipating.
Manjoume's initial operations were as fierce as a tiger, but the big monster he spent resources to create was kicked off the field without even cutting out one strike. For a moment, he was almost choked up.
But Manjoume took a deep breath and quickly stabilized his mentality.

Calm down, you must calm down.
It was just losing a mere eight-star big monster, two equips, and four cards in his hand...
No big deal.

"When the Equip Magic Card 'Jewel Sword' is sent to the Graveyard from the field, I draw one card [N O V E L I G H T] from the deck."
Manjoume drew a card from the deck, finally getting back some of his lost life force. He looked at it and inserted the drawn card directly into the Spell & Trap Zone.
"Set a card face-down on the field, end turn."

"My turn, draw."
Yuugen added the drawn card to his hand, then revealed another card from his hand.
Yuugen said, "Summon 'Wild Woman Warrior.'"
【Wild Woman Warrior, ATK: 1100】

"Direct battle," Yuugen waved his hand and ordered, "Wild Woman Warrior, direct attack on the opponent."
The female warrior drew her sword and leaped towards Manjoume.
But Manjoume also had a countermeasure. With a wave of his arm, he flipped open his set card: "Activate trap card, 'Absorb Shield'! Negate the opponent's attack, and restore life points equal to the attacking monster's attack power!"

A transparent rainbow barrier floated in front of Manjoume. The female warrior's longsword slammed into the barrier, and the force was instantly transformed into energy and absorbed, turning into a warm golden light that fell on Manjoume.
【Manjoume, LP: 4000 → LP: 5100】
"Heh, too bad. But this level of attack was completely within expectations," Manjoume continued to act to be proud and stuck-up.

Yuugen didn't care. Everyone who played cards knew that this game was only about zero HP and full HP. As long as you still had LP, it wasn't as important compared to the other resources in this game.
"Then I set one card face-down, end turn," Yuugen said.
"My turn!" Manjoume drew a card, then immediately revealed it, "Magic Card - Pot of Greed! Draw two more cards from the deck."

Pot of Greed, standard equipment for the GX protagonist group, everyone had a Pot of Greed in their hand.
"Summon Dark World Warrior - Dark Blade, in attack mode!"
The image of the card floated, and a warrior in black steel armor holding dual blades flew out from the card image, his whole body was covered with fangs like silver-white blades.

【Dark World Warrior - Dark Blade, ATK: 1800】
"Now let you know that this old man's monsters are all elites among elites, and are completely different from low-level small fry!" Manjoume raised his hand and shouted, "Go, Dark Blade! Destroy the Wild Woman Warrior!"
The corners of his mouth hooked up, and he sneered triumphantly.

Although the underworld stuff on the other side had trick his big monster, it didn't matter. 【Dark World Warrior - Dark Blade】 was also a powerful lower-level with high market value. Normally speaking, its attack power of 1800 at level four was still very playable.
Could you pull out a Dimensional Warrior Unit 2 from your pants and kick me to another dimension again?
The black armor swordsman leaped forward, and his dual blades slashed through. The female warrior was immediately cut in half at the waist, and exploded on the spot with a boom.

【Yuugen, LP: 4000 → LP: 3300】
With his monster destroyed, Yuugen's face was calm, and he pulled out the deck from the duel disk and began to flip through the cards.
"Wild Woman Warrior's effect activates. When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, Special Summon from your Deck 1 EARTH Warrior-Type monster with 1500 or less ATK in Attack Position.

The one I'm summoning is this guy..."
Saying this, he had already drawn the card he searched for from the deck.
"... Summon Dimensional Warrior in attack mode!"

【Dimensional Warrior, ATK: 1200】
Manjoume: "!"
No, not again?

He also knew this monster. The Dimensional Warrior, when battling a monster, banished both the opponent's monster and this card from the game.
It was another card in the Dimensional Slice build that had the same effect as the Dimensional Warrior.
Watching the Dimensional Warrior stand still on the opposite field, Manjoume's eyelids twitched twice, and he couldn't help but feel a little troublesome.

No...
How could you people from the underworld fly out of the deck?
No, I must calm down, I can't lose my composure...

Manjoume's eyes afterglow glanced at a card in his hand.
It wasn't that there were no means to deal with this underworld thing...
"I set a card face-down on the field, end turn," Manjoume declared.

Yuugen's gaze swept over the set card.
Judging from this posture, did he seem to have a countermeasure against the Dimensional Warrior?
He smiled slightly.

It doesn't matter.
"My turn, draw."
Yuugen confirmed the card he had drawn and revealed it directly.

"Summon Spirit Extinguisher - Hai Ku, in attack mode."
The one who appeared was a bald monk wearing a patchwork outer robe worn by Buddhist monks, but with a fierce face. His posture of holding prayer beads also looked like he was about to beat people with this thing at any time.
In short, he was one who looked like a martial monk who loved to "convince people with reason".

【Spirit Extinguisher - Hai Ku, ATK: 1800】
Manjoume narrowed his eyes and sized up this big monk.
The attack power was 1800, not much better than the attacks. Was he going to end it mutually, or...

"Battle," Yuugen said, "First, Dimensional Warrior, attack Dark World Warrior - Dark Blade."
As expected.
"Don't even think about it... activate trap card!"

A glint flashed in Manjoume's eyes, and he waved his hand to flip open the back row.
"Trap Card - Blast Armor! When an opponent's monster attacks, that monster is directly destroyed!"
He pulled the corner of his mouth, revealing a confident smile.

"Heh, you still want to use the monster effect to banish my monster? Too bad, the same trick won't work on this old man a second time! It's your own monster that's going to be destroyed!"
Yuugen raised an eyebrow.
Blast Armor, huh.

Yu-Gi-Oh! audiences all knew that throughout the entire history of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Blast Armor had a lot of chances to appear in the anime, but the number of times it was successfully activated was still zero. It even seemed that everyone who tried to use this card was to perish as if they were cursed by the will of the world...
Then this curse naturally couldn't be broken in Yuugen's hand.
"Activate set card." Yuugen's back row also flipped open, "Counter Trap Card - Seven Tools of the Bandit. Pay 1000 life points, negate the activation of a Trap Card and destroy it."

Manjoume's eyelids jumped again.
What?!
Damn it, your underworld things even have red pit escorting the whole way??

【Yuugen, LP: 3300 → LP: 2300】
Manjoume's trap was countered. The miserable Blast Armor shattered into pulverize with a pa sound, continuing its unbeatable myth of not passing. The battle continued. The Dark Blade wielding his blade to kill, and the two sides drew and the Warrior was destroyed
The Dimensional Warrior was hacked through by the Dark Blade, but the warrior also tore open the dimensional crack before his death. The black hole was the result, both being sucked into and destroyed on the scene.

【Yuugen, LP: 2300 → LP: 1700】
That way Manjoume's front field and back field were both empty.
"Then is Spirit Extinguisher," Yuugen continued, "Direct Attack on Manjoume."

Hearing this, Hai Ku stepped forward. The prayer beads in his hand were thrown out like hidden weapons and slammed on Manjoume's forehead, sending shockwaves that made his head buzz, as if he felt the weight of the Buddha.
【Manjoume, LP: 5100 → LP: 3300】
"At this moment, the Spirit Extinguisher's effect also activates," Yuugen continued, "When Hai Ku inflicts damage to the opponent's life points through battle, I can remove up to two monsters from your Graveyard from the game."

However, although he could choose two, all of Manjoume's monsters had already been kicked to another dimension, and there were only the Maiden Swordsman - Canaan and another monster card that he discarded from his hand at the beginning used as tributes in the Graveyard.
So Yuugen clicked on those remaining two monster cards.
Not only the field, but even the only monster resources in the Graveyard were sent to another dimension. Manjoume was completely messy.

This was too much.
Are you not even going to let me rest in peace after I enter the grave?