response to his declaration of attack, Lorin played an instant crush card from her hand, “Right Back At Ya”.
“Lorin plays Right Back At Ya, which halves the opponent’s attack and sends the other half back at him. Both players take damage to their KP!”
More cheers erupted from the viewers in the stands as Aura’s time to strip was finally here. Both players rose to their feet and stared each other down. Aura pointed at Lorin’s tunic. Lorin pointed at Aura’s gauntlet. Both players quickly stripped the targeted items off and sat back down.
“I got off pretty easily,” Aura said with a delighted grin as he feasted his eyes on his opponent’s new look. Though he normally hated showing off his blackened appendage, this was an occasion he was okay with. “Let’s keep going!”
Aura had finally found his confidence. But Lorin had a pretty nasty surprise in store for him to ruin all that.
“I play “Endless Ocean”,” she said, slamming the card down on the table. “And I’ll follow it up with a new combatant, “Tsharknami”, which can attack the first turn its played, and attack your Captain Coral with it.”
“Quite the power play by Lorin!” Hakusho commented. “Endless Ocean is a card that powers up aquatic combatants, and her Tsharknami definitely fits that description. Aura’s combatant gets a bonus too, but its just not enough to fend off Lorin’s shark attack. Aura loses KP!”
Disappointed but not letting it show, Aura stripped off his jacket. The situation had taken an unexpected turn and he wasn’t sure how to deal with it. Lorin’s Endless Ocean card was helpful to both players, but how many aquatic combatants did her deck even posses? On the flip side, most of Aura’s cards were water-types that would gain a bonus from her card. For the moment it seemed like he might have an advantage.
Her Tsharknami is way stronger than my Mermanatee , he deduced. But if I can just get a stronger combatant out there, I should be fine. One more attack and it’s time to set the twins free ! he thought, grinning from ear to ear.
“Thanks for the power-up,” he said, drawing his next card. “Let’s see if it doesn’t come back to bite you in the ass.”
But of course, Lorin had her reasons for using a card that at first seemed like it only provided an advantage to Aura. It wasn’t apparently obvious at first, but on her next turn when she played a card called “Sharkbait” to wipe out Aura’s remaining combatants it became evident to Ash and any other Devil’s Duel experts exactly what kind of strategy she was now using. Aura seemed oblivious as he rebuilt his army. He laid another combatant, “Coral Conquistador” in hopes it would buy him some more time.
Lorin had a few aces up her sleeves, or she would have if she had any sleeves on at the moment. She played two cards, a combatant called “Hydrothunder Down Under” and a kingdom card “Superconductive Coral”. Together, these cards were a powerful combo that greatly overpowered the death toucher.
“What a combo by Lorin!” Hakusho beamed, shouting into her megaphone. “The Superconductive Coral card grants a mega-bonus to any water-and-electric types, like her Hydrothunder! Let’s see how Aura recovers from this!”
It was now apparent even to Aura that Lorin had simply copied his water deck strategy, albeit with more overpowered cards directly from the creator’s freshest mint. There was no way Aura could survive the next attack. He didn’t have a single card that could save his butt.
There was no way he could win , but a different strategy formed in his mind. He wouldn’t need to win to see Lorin strip off her top. For that, all he would need to do is cause a small amount of damage to her KP. If he could just land a successful attack once more time…
That’s when a combatant’s effect caught his eye. Seeing it as his only opportunity, Aura added the “Superior Stingsquid” combatant to his army. Lorin scoffed
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