Can I become the Yu-Gi-Oh by summoning the Flame Swordsman?

"It's my turn, draw a card." Bai Chu took a look at his remaining 200 health points and reached for the deck.

"During your Standby Phase, I activate a Face-Up Card." Qin Zhen pressed the Face-Up Card activation button just as Bai Chu drew a card. "Continuous Trap Card, Grave Robber's Retribution. During each of your Standby Phases, for each banished monster, your opponent will take 1 points of damage."

"Give me damage based on the number of monsters I banished?" Bai Chu smiled bitterly. "I have two monsters I banished, the [Dead Guardian] and [Licker] that just saved my life. If I don't win the duel this round, I will take 200 damage after you draw a card."

Bai Chu was saved, but not completely saved.

In Qin Zhen's opinion, the victory of this duel was already his. When the God of Death [Ghost God of Heavenly Power Dragon] appeared on his field, Bai Chu no longer had any chance to resist.

[Dragon of Heaven's Might] not only has an attack power of up to 3000, but also has the effect of banishing a monster once per turn when the opponent activates the effect of that monster.

According to Qin Zhen's observation, Bai Chu does not have any monster that can defeat [Dragon Demon God of Heavenly Might] without relying on monster effects. Even if Bai Chu's ace monster, Iron Magic Knight, reappears, he will have to kneel at the feet of [Dragon Demon God of Heavenly Might] and become a dead soul.

How can the opponent break through Qin Zhen's field and win this duel without relying on monster effects when there is no card on the field and only two cards in the hand? Even if Bai Chu destroys [Retribution of the Grave Robber] with one card in his hand, how can he evaluate the attack of Qin Zhen's next turn with one card.

"Now, the outcome is decided, right?" Qin Zhen smiled confidently.

"I don't know the answer to this question yet. I will know the result only after I activate this card." Bai Chu did not lose his mind, but showed a card in his hand to Qin Zhen.

"Do you still want to struggle?" Qin Zhen looked displeased as he looked at the card Bai Chu showed - it was a magic card.

"I activate a Normal Spell Card, [Treasure of the Reversed Flame], and if your opponent controls more cards than you do, you can select 1 Link Monster your opponent controls, and draw from your Deck an amount equal to the number of Link Markers on that monster. During the turn this card is activated, you cannot Normal Summon or Special Summon a monster other than a FIRE monster."

Needless to say, Qin Zhen has a total of 3 cards on the field, while Bai Chu only has the activated [Treasure Card of the Reverse Flame] on the field, and Qin Zhen has only one link monster on the field, which is [Dragon Fist Saint of Heavenly Power] with a link value of 3.

"You're drawing three cards with one card?" Qin Zhen suddenly felt something was wrong. "But you can't summon or special summon monsters other than fire attribute monsters this turn, so what can you do even if you draw three cards?"

“That’s not necessarily true.” After Bai Chu drew the card, he suddenly had a familiar feeling. The first of the three cards he saw was [Flame Swordsman].

"The outcome is decided." Bai Chu smiled faintly, took out the [Flame Swordsman] from his hand alone, and whispered softly: "Please change it into the card I need!"

"The outcome is decided? Are you going to surrender?"

“No, what I want to do is to defeat you! I set [Pendulum Swordsman of Flame] with a scale of 7 to my Pendulum Zone. Activating the Pendulum Effect of [Pendulum Swordsman of Flame], I can destroy this card and add 1 Level 4 or lower [Pendulum Swordsman] monster from my Deck or Graveyard, other than a card with the same name, to my hand.

I choose to add [Blue Blaze Swordsman] from the deck to my hand. "

"Pendulum? Are you kidding? If you want to perform a Pendulum Summon... it will take two cards just for the Pendulum Scale."

"Is it not possible?" Under Qin Zhen's suspicious gaze, Bai Chu drew two cards from his hand: "After that, I will set the scale 3 [Dragon Horn Hunter] and the scale 5 [Libra Magic Scale] to the Pendulum Area, so that I can Pendulum Summon all level 4 monsters at the same time."

"No...right? This is a messed up pendulum scale?"

“摇曳吧，灵魂的钟摆！我将额外卡组的【炎之灵摆剑士】（炎/★4/战士族/通常/灵摆/1800/1600）和手卡中的【苍炎之剑士】（炎/★4/战士族/效果/1800/1600）灵摆召唤。”

"Hmph, even if you have these two monsters, what does it matter? You only have one card left in your hand. Can you defeat my monsters and win me this round with only two monsters with 1800 attack points?"

Bai Chu smiled faintly and inserted the last card in his hand into the Duel Disk: "I activate the Normal Magic Card, [Cross Attack]. When this card is activated, select 2 face-up Attack Position monsters with the same attack power on your field. This turn, the selected monster can directly attack the opponent. The other monster cannot attack."

"What? Direct attack?" Qin Zhen's face changed, and he looked at his remaining health points - it was not less, exactly 1800.

"How is this possible? This is too absurd. Where is the effect of my [Heavenly Mighty Dragon Ghost]? Why didn't it activate?"

"You have to ask your own monster about this question, and my duty is to defeat you!" Bai Chu restrained his smile and said seriously: "Enter my battle phase, I will use [Flame Spirit Pendulum Swordsman] to attack you directly!"

"Ho!" [Flame Spirit Swordsman] drew out the long sword behind him, and a red flame ignited. His feet flew like a red hurricane, passing over Qin Zhen's two monsters and slashing towards Qin Zhen.

"Ah——" (Qin Zhen's health 1800→0)

The outcome is decided!

"Cough!" Qin Zhen knelt down in pain, lowered his head and coughed up a pool of blood. "I lost, no regrets, kill me."

"Brother!" Qin Liu could no longer stand by and watch, and ran to block Qin Zhen's way: "You are not allowed to hurt my brother, if you want to kill someone, kill me!"

Bai Chu was about to say something when he heard a noise behind him.

"Your Majesty, what happened?" Bai Chu turned his head and met an old eunuch with a treacherous face: "Oh no, an assassin attacked Your Majesty, come, cut this man into pieces!"

"All of you retreat!" Qin Zhen shouted. "I lost the duel. Only death can live up to the honor of the royal family. After I die, you can support my younger brother Qin Yu as the new king. He will be very good..."

Before Qin Zhen finished speaking, Bai Chu interrupted him: "When did I say I would kill you? I just want you to agree to my request."

Are you still thinking of handing your throne over to your brother? Then I have lost the game by myself.

"You are not here to kill me?" Qin Zhen raised his head and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then he remembered that the person in front of him seemed to be here to talk to him about the Fu Hai uprising. However, when he saw his true face later, he subconsciously thought that he was an assassin who disguised himself as Xian and came to kill him.

"What is your request?"

"Now you can listen to me carefully, right? Let's go to your office and have a good chat. By the way, please get these people away." Bai Chu pointed to the guards behind him who were about to draw their swords.