Chapter 1306: The Strongest Timelord

The fake Z-ONE's key trap was bounced, but both sides knew this was only the beginning.

"Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, effect continues," Kira said. "Discard two more cards from my hand and return 'Metaion, the Timelord' and 'Kamion, the Timelord' to the hand as well."

Two more cards were casually sent to the Graveyard.

Brionac's ice-blue body shimmered. Its snowflake-like head released a sky-full of icy mist. The mist condensed into two counterclockwise blizzard vortices above the Timelords. Metaion's steel joints froze first, while Kamion's crystal turned into amber-like ice.

With a clear dragon roar from Brionac, the frozen Timelord ice sculptures suddenly cracked with web-like patterns and exploded into countless ice crystals. The two Timelords turned into streams of water and flew back into Z-ONE's hand amid the falling ice shards.

The fake Z-ONE retracted the two Timelord cards with his mechanical arm, his face cold and silent.

"If you have no objections, I'm going on the offensive."

A relaxed smile hung on Kira's face, but the heavier the smile, the darker the clouds seemed to gather on the opponent's side.

"Battle! Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier attacks this copied Mr. Z-ONE directly!"

Brionac's head emitted blinding cold light. It swung its long tail fiercely. Hundreds of ice lances condensed in the air and rained down like a storm toward Z-ONE's nautilus device.

The moment the ice lances struck the silver shell, spiderweb-like frost cracks spread across the entire hovering device. Bone-chilling cold seeped into the metal, forming ice flowers inside. The entire device shook and fell like a frozen bird, shedding metal ice shards. The nautilus shell was completely frozen into blue-white crystals and plummeted like a meteor.

[Fake Z-ONE, LP 4000 → LP 1700]

However, after falling a distance, the giant ice boulder steadied itself. The ice crystals on its shell cracked like glass and shattered. The fake Z-ONE rose again amid the falling ice crystals.

"Good. Very good."

The fake Z-ONE said darkly.

"It seems you truly understand the Timelords well and have made thorough preparations. Excellent."

Though he said "excellent," his turbid voice showed little emotion. Yet for some reason, such calm words carried an overwhelming killing intent, as if he wanted to dismember the opponent.

"You flatter me. I only made some rough countermeasures based on personal ideas."

Kira laughed heartily.

"If there are any oversights, please feel free to point them out."

The fake Z-ONE stayed silent.

Point them out? Point out your ass.

The Timelords had been bounced back to hand yet again—who knew how many times this duel.

That wasn't even the main issue. More importantly, his "Infinite Machine" had also been bounced.

Bouncing Timelords was a small problem. As long as Infinite Machine was on the field, he could resummon any number on his turn. They just couldn't act as walls during the opponent's turn.

But Infinite Machine being bounced was a big problem. As Kira said, it could only be activated by sending "Empty Machine" from the field to the Graveyard. Now that Empty Machine was gone, Infinite Machine was stuck in hand.

Without Infinite Machine, he could at most summon one Timelord per turn and could no longer maintain a powerful formation of three or five at once. He would also have to properly gather two tributes for summoning—painful to even think about.

Kira: "I set one card. Turn end."

He even shrugged regretfully. "What a shame. I originally wanted to see the ultimate Timelord's majestic form. It seems your ability is limited and you can't do it.

Sigh, as expected of a copy. This is probably your limit."

The fake Z-ONE: "..."

He was furious but couldn't refute it.

Given the current situation, summoning the Timelord series' ace, the ultimate Timelord, seemed almost impossible.

Sephylon, the Ultimate Timelord could only be summoned in the anime via the Continuous Trap "Infinite Light." Infinite Light required sending the Continuous Trap "Infinite Machine" from the field to the Graveyard to activate.

And Infinite Machine…

It was stuck in hand after being bounced and couldn't be activated.

So the already extremely strict summoning condition for the ultimate Timelord had basically died in the womb after the opponent's relentless bouncing.

Even the real Z-ONE watching from below fell silent.

The silent Z-ONE was now wondering whether Kira's deck had possibly been built specifically to counter him.

He believed he was stronger than this copy and didn't think he would necessarily lose to such a deck. But he would definitely suffer some losses and feel frustrated.

Watching from the sidelines, he even felt his fists clench.

"My turn, draw."

The fake Z-ONE said gloomily.

"Indeed, under your interference it may be very difficult to summon Sephylon, the Ultimate Timelord. But the Timelords' aces are not limited to that one.

Since you insist on courting death, watch carefully!"

The fake Z-ONE swung his mechanical arm and played a monster card from his hand.

"When I control no monsters, Special Summon 'Time Maiden' from my hand!"

[Time Maiden, ATK 0]

"When performing a Tribute Summon of an Angel monster, Time Maiden can be treated as two tributes," the fake Z-ONE said. "Tribute 'Time Maiden' treated as two monsters! Tribute Summon—

—Sandaion, the Timelord!!!"

The night sky was torn by blinding golden light. A golden gear formation formed a time ring in the air. The moment Sandion descended from the spacetime rift, its golden body produced metallic resonance. The cross-shaped crystal on its chest sealed a twisted human face that now wore a hair-raising expression.

The face in the chest crystal gritted its teeth lightly. Sandion slowly clenched its golden-armored fists. The surrounding domain suddenly changed color. The invisible stellar particles floating around were pulled like iron filings to a magnet, forming a rotating time turbulence.

[Sandaion, the Timelord, ATK 4000]

Sandaion, the Timelord—the eleventh sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the only base Timelord with 4000 ATK, and the strongest Timelord below the ultimate!

"Sandaion, the Timelord!" the fake Z-ONE shouted sharply.

"Attack 'Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier'!"

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