Kira repeated,
"Guard Mines’s effect is negated, so the destruction of Hyper Librarian proceeds!"
As the protective wall of bombs shattered and was ground to pieces, the lingering mines detonated, swallowing the Librarian in thunderous blasts.
"To think you had a trap not just to counter my attack, but another to protect your own traps... Is this a King’s strategy?"
Antinomy murmured.
"But my tactics don’t stop there!"
He thrust out his arm, ejecting a card from his Duel Runner’s Graveyard slot.
A figure made of crystal appeared before him, its body dissolving into energy and fusing with the Librarian.
A transparent armor formed over the Librarian, crystal energy shielding him as the landmines detonated mercilessly. The shell cracked and crumbled, but the Librarian remained unscathed.
Kira caught on.
"That was the monster you just discarded with ’Angel Baton,’ right?"
"Exactly!"
Antinomy replied.
"That was ’T.G. Metal Skeleton’!
As long as it exists in the GY or on the field, if a TG monster of mine would be destroyed by battle or card effect, I can banish ’T.G. Metal Skeleton’ to prevent that destruction!"
A black vortex spun open as the Skeleton was banished from the Graveyard to another dimension.
"So my Hyper Librarian is saved from Widespread Ruin!"
Antinomy pointed at Kira.
"Since Librarian is not destroyed, the battle continues! Hyper Librarian attacks, direct!"
Antinomy held his breath.
He’d just perfectly countered both of Kira’s defenses — not just his direct attack trap, but his whole trap-interference setup, neutralized in his favor. If both Hyper Librarian and Rush Rhino connected, their combined damage would clear over 4000 LP — lethal in a single turn!
"This is the Duel King of the future Riding World — impressive!"
Kira grinned.
"But if it ended so easily, that’d be letting down the pride of my dimension!"
He burst out laughing, sent another card from the hand tray, and slammed it onto his duel disk.
Streams of light and data surged from the plate, bursting from his Duel Runner.
At the last possible instant, just before the Librarian’s attack landed, thick darkness erupted in front of his Duel Runner.
A vortex of dark-purple mist tore through the air, lightning-veined thunderstorms, and soul-blue fires rising from the rift in eerie wails.
A dragon over twenty meters long emerged, its abyss-black scales bristling with jagged bone spines like a guillotine, the mask of a demon draped over its brow, jaws roaring with purple-black eldritch fire that seemed to freeze time itself.
The Hyper Librarian halted, staring up in dread.
"What!?"
Antinomy was stunned.
"Van’Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord!
When your opponent’s card is negated by your Counter Trap, this monster can be Special Summoned from your hand!"
[Van’Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord, ATK 2800]

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