Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Roar of the Weak

Chapter 237 The Ice Sand Monster

Di Xing attempted to turn the cards into cards, but discovered that the required spiritual power was an extremely large amount, which he simply couldn't do at his current level.

"What are you doing?" a pleasant voice rang out.

Di Xing turned around and was taken aback. The speaker was a beautiful young girl with red eyes, light blue bangs of uneven length, and long, purple hair styled in curls on either side of her head. Two tufts of hair stood up and swayed.

Di Xing recognized this face all too well, because she was his favorite female character from Yu-Gi-Oh! VIII anime. "You are... Kamishiro Rio???"

Although she's dressed in a snow-white winter coat, unlike in the anime, her face is exactly the same as Rio Kamishiro's.

But the girl looked confused.

"You've mistaken me for someone else. My name is Tianxuan."

The Heavenly Pivot in the Big Dipper? Isn't that the code name of Kamishiro Rio among the Seven Emperors of the Alien Crystals?

"Isn't Tianxuan just 'Merag' in Japanese? You're still saying you're not Kamishiro Rio?"

The girl was getting angry. "What's wrong with you? Can't you understand human language? Besides, I'm here to seek justice for my friends."

Di Xing then noticed that behind Tian Xuan were a group of card sprites, including the Arctic Penguin and the Snowstorm Wolf, who had been teary-eyed after his sneak attack. These card sprites were all glaring at him angrily.

"No, no, there's a reason for this," Di Xing tried to argue.

"No matter the reason, you can't bully my friend," Tianxuan said firmly.

Both Kit and Dai Meng took a step back, as if to say that this was all done by this man and had nothing to do with them.

"Wait, wait a minute! Ah! Look at that!" Di Xing suddenly pointed to the sky behind the card sprites.

As a result, Tianxuan directly took out a card and slapped it onto the duel disk made of four dark blue ice crystals on her left hand. "Come forth, [Zero Bird Princess Ice Bird Banshee]!"

Holy crap, this trick has never worked! And now that Zero-Bird Princess has appeared, they're still saying it's not Kamishiro Rio!

Seeing the army of card sprites and Zero Bird Princess Ice Bird Banshee charging towards him, Di Xing quickly shouted, "We have cats here!"

Tianxuan heard a cat and let out a cute squeal, "A cat!? Where?"

Di Xing hurriedly pushed Kit forward, and Kit, bewildered, twitched her cat ears.

"No, no, get her out of here right now, quick!"

Hehehe, so you say you're not Rio Kamishiro? You're even the same way about being afraid of cats!

The card sprites, seeing their leader crouching on the ground in fright, quickly surrounded him.

Di Xing then turned around, grabbed Ji Te and Dai Meng, and ran away.

"No, we weren't the ones who ambushed those card sprites, why should we run?" Kit complained.

Do you think they'll care about these things?

The three ran a long way and discovered that a huge rock in front of them had been blown away by an avalanche, revealing a cave behind it. The cave entrance was covered with footprints.

Presumably it was Nami and the others, Di Xing pulled the two girls straight into the cave. The cave wasn't long, and they quickly rushed out, only to find a huge icy lake ahead. It seemed this was inside a volcano.

"What's down there!" Kit's voice rang out, and Di Xing hurriedly looked down.

Countless card sprites were found frozen in the icy lake.

"What... what is this?"

"How magnificent! I want to dig them up and see them!" Kit exclaimed, sounding quite excited.

"What are you so happy about, Kit? We need to get out of here quickly. If that Galaxy-Eyed Photon Dragon catches up here too, and her attack shatters the ice, these elves might all come back to life!"

"Di Xing, look over there, isn't that Nami and the others?" Dai Meng pointed to several figures in front of her.

"Oh, yes, indeed." Nami and Lifei Huayue's blonde hair stood out especially brightly in the white environment.

Di Xing hurriedly ran towards them, only to see them gathered around a pool of purple, soft, mud-like stuff—it was the [Sandskin Monster]!?

"Alright, let's eliminate it. That will make us three."

"But it's a little pitiful," Immortal Dao Divine Era said weakly.

"Hmm, and...and I think it's kind of cute."

"Hua Yue, your taste is a bit strange," Nami complained. "Didn't we come here to collect elemental crystals from water-attribute monsters?"

"Oh, well, okay then."

Primella waved her flag. "Leave it to me!"

Upon seeing this, Di Xing was terrified. "No! Don't hit it!"

Nami and Lifei Huayue turned around when they heard Di Xing's voice, but Primella's flag was already unstoppable, slamming heavily onto the Ice Sand Monster's head, instantly turning it into a puddle of liquid.

"Wanla"

"W-What's wrong?"

Just then, the remains of the Ice Sand Monster—the purple liquid—suddenly began to evaporate rapidly, and then the frozen lake began to shake violently, with huge cracks suddenly appearing on the ice surface.

"If you have three Ice Slice Monsters in your Graveyard and Banished Zone, you can banish yourself to revive a Level 5 or higher Sea Dragon monster! And this effect has no turn limit!"

"Wh-what?"

The ice surface suddenly cracked open, and with a deafening roar, a giant dragon made of ice burst forth.

"This is?"

"They are death pillars and water horses."

The deathly ice pillar and water horse made their appearance, unleashing a deafening roar. The surrounding air rapidly crystallized, while boundless power converged upon them from the icy lake.

"Oh no! When this monster is successfully Normal or Special Summoned, it increases the ATK of one WATER monster in your Graveyard!"

At this point, the frozen lake was teeming with water-type monsters, making it impossible to determine how much the Death Ice Pillar and Water Horse had increased their attack power.

"This ferocious beast has reached the level of national annihilation," Di Xing's terminal stated emotionlessly.

At this moment, the Deathly Ice Pillar Water Horse discovered Di Xing and his companions, and immediately unleashed a destructive icy breath upon them. Its attack power was now immeasurable.

However, just as the breath attack was about to hit Di Xing and his companions, the Snow Maiden, a cunning schemer, leaped out from the snow—a contingency plan Di Xing had prepared long ago.

The Snow Maiden, also a Water-type Ice-type card spirit, received an enhanced power here. Although she was destroyed by a breath attack, a massive black net descended from the sky, covering the Death Ice Pillar Water Horse and attempting to force it into a defensive position. The Death Ice Pillar Water Horse let out a defiant roar, miraculously resisting the effect.

Just then, Mikaelas appeared, her holy light blade tearing through space and banishing the immobilized ice pillar and water horse of death to another dimension.

However, in one corner of the frozen lake, the remains of another ice monster turned into steam, and the cracks in the ice field grew even larger. The next moment, a giant water dragon with two heads emerged from it.

"Holy crap! [Water Dragon - Cluster]! Doesn't this thing have special summoning restrictions?"