100 Dark Malik: The Sun God is invincible! (Bullshit)

“Malik! Although you revived the Phantasmal God Winged Dragon, because the spell card you activated is meant to go to the Graveyard, your Life Points will drop another 600 points from the Interrogation Room and Undead combo!”

Though 700 points of Life are not enough to activate the Sun God’s strongest power—the God Phoenix!

But don’t forget: on Dark Malik’s field there is still a face-down card that has been set since the duel began and never activated. Yui does not want to gamble that this card is not one that restores Life Points.

“Yui’s life-drain combo is overpowered beyond criticism!”
From beneath the ring, Jounai watched Dark Malik’s Life Points sink into the lowest hundreds and could not hold back a gulp. Even with his deck receiving epic upgrades, the chance of winning against the combo Yui is using now is no more than thirty percent.
Besides, Yui has not yet even touched the two Illusory Gods waiting in his deck.

“Indeed. If Malik can’t turn things around on this turn, then when Yui gets the next turn, the duel ends.”

Even in a game, even they had to take Yui’s blood-draining deck seriously. If one could break through Yui before his combo took shape, there might still be a chance to win. But once Yui has completed his field, Malik’s winning chance becomes extremely small.

“Hmph.”
The aloof club president gave a low snort and said nothing. Still, he had to admit that this strategy was close to a true fifty-fifty proposition.
And why a fifty-fifty split, even better odds than the two before it?
Mainly because Haimase Ren’s Blue-Eyes deck is built on a crushing high-attack doctrine.
If one White Dragon isn’t enough, then I’ll just summon more and beat them all at once.
There is no opponent that White Dragon swarms cannot tear apart—if there is, then it simply means our White Dragons are not high enough in power yet.

Back to the field.

Looking at his own Life Points, now down to the lowest three digits, Dark Malik still involuntarily frowned. The earlier deductions had not bothered him; once the Sun God was summoned, one strike could repay everything.
But under the Sun God’s current summon, his Life Points had become a fragile candle in the wind, and the severity was unlike anything before.

“Proceed to the Battle Phase!”
Malik ignored all that, entered battle, and immediately commanded the Demon-Form Mace to attack Yui’s sheep token. A token with 0 Defense, it split apart the moment the Mace touched it.
Having destroyed Yui’s only wall monster, and seeing an empty Monster Zone on the opponent’s side, Malik couldn’t resist a loud laugh.

“Haha-haha! Shrimp Dumpling-san! Open your eyes and watch properly! This is the power bestowed by an ancient spell!”

Deliberately forgetting that his Life Points stood at only 100, while Yui’s core life-drain combo still sat on the field, Dark Malik crossed his hands at his chest, closed his eyes, and parted his lips. He was murmuring something; even from this distance no one could hear a thing.

After more than ten seconds, Malik finished the incantation, opened his eyes, and shouted to Yui:

“Now, behold the Sun God Ra’s hidden second ability! Open your eyes wide, and let this sight burn itself into your memory!”

“Ra! Use your second ability!”
“Reek!”

In the Sun God’s piercing cry, golden flames swept across Malik’s side of the field, wrapping both him and the Illusory Winged Dragon inside.
With golden fire roaring and Malik’s wild laughter booming, the Sun God’s second special ability was officially triggered.

“Hey, look! Malik’s body is fading away!”
Jounai, sharp-eyed below the platform, peered through the flames. He saw Dark Malik’s figure slowly disappearing in the inferno, until only a left eye remained, eerily hovering in midair at exactly the position where Malik had stood.

“Look! He appears above the Sun God’s head!”
Honda Hiroshi echoed him right behind. He, too, had seen it: the vanished Malik now above the Sun God’s head.

“The Sun God’s second special ability is to fuse the player with the god himself!”

His lower half had plunged completely into the sapphire set in the Sun God’s forehead, the point of fusion hidden by a veil of purple smoke, as if hiding something forbidden from mortal eyes.

“The Sun God’s special ability sets the player’s Life Points to 1, and the deducted amount becomes the Sun God’s power!”

“Ninety-nine attack points… still not as high as that cursed Chestnut Orb from the game!”
Jounai muttered under his breath, and as though answering him, Malik’s voice rang out. The Sun God’s power is more than that!

“Release my two field monsters—the Demon-Form Mace and the Swift Leech—as offerings to amplify the god’s power!”

Golden flames devoured both monsters. In an instant, both beasts and the fire alike were swallowed into the Winged Dragon.
The Sun God can absorb the soul-force of the other monsters on the controller’s field, transferring their attack and defense values onto himself!

“But if you do this, you’ll still take chain damage from Undead and Interrogation Room. With your Life Points at one, that is obviously match-defining damage!”
Yui narrowed his eyes. He could not fully understand why, knowing he would still suffer the chain damage, Dark Malik had decided to activate that middle effect of the Sun God’s second ability.

Then Malik explained perfectly:
“Muda-da, muda-da! The Sun God absorbs monsters’ soul-force. That means these two cards have vanished from this world. So your life-drain combo can’t affect me! Ah-hahaha!”

The crowd watching the ring: “!”
Yui and the others were shocked that Malik could do this with his own card monsters, and Yui was left speechless that Malik could pull off such reckless brilliance.

“Now then, Sun God Ra! Directly attack our dear Shrimp Dumpling!”
“GodBlazeCannon!!”