Chapter 1069: Chapter 255: The Last Moments Underground, Farewell (Part 2: Combined Chapters)
(Desperate Trojan (Adversity Heaven I), 25 Dark; [Treasure—Divine Artifact/Curios]; Effect: This card must be placed horizontally into play. Inspect your deck, search for four Creature Cards from your deck and remove them from the battle. Then shuffle your deck. Place it horizontally, pay 40~(0) of any (this card has forty count indicators on it. After this card is in play, every time a non-black creature dies on your field, remove one count indicator from it. When you remove the last indicator, use it without paying any spell cost), place the cards removed from the battle into play. ’Opportunity lurks within the storm, hope hides within adversity.’)
Brand couldn’t help but be enthralled. He had never thought that Destiny Cards could mutually support each other to form a strategy. The cards he received were scattered and random, without any pattern. Sometimes he purely treated the Travel Mage system as a summoning system, but didn’t realize there was so much knowledge within it. However, at this moment he also grasped a question and couldn’t help but ask: "You said Desperate Trojan requires more than forty non-black creatures to die on the battlefield to be cast. But didn’t we keep preventing the number of Nightmare Furnace Creatures from increasing in previous battles?"
"Of course," the Deer Demon sighed: "Little one, are you an idiot? The only non-black creatures in the Dark Adversity are the Nightmare Furnace ones, and they are already considered Spirit Statues, to put it simply, they are inherently in a death status. Once there are forty Nightmare Furnace Constructs on the field, Desperate Trojan can meet its conditions. This is the power of Desperate Trojan. When the Nightmare Furnace Constructs trigger a Lightning Storm, they can often simultaneously meet its condition."
"Then killing the Nightmare Furnace Constructs doesn’t count as them dying on the battlefield?" Brand asked again.
"Death is death, annihilation is annihilation, have you seen a dead person die again?"
Brand was suddenly enlightened but rolled his eyes at the Deer Demon Sister’s sarcasm. Who is born knowing these things, the Travel Mage system is itself quite quirky, isn’t it?
But then he thought of another problem. Even though Adversity Heaven’s black and white combination seems so strong and perfect, it still couldn’t defeat Tu Men. He couldn’t help but recall how unimpressive Tu Men seemed the first time they met.
He thought for a moment and couldn’t resist asking: "Is Tu Men really that powerful?"
But Yi Lian Sister glanced at him: "Of course, Tu Men was one of the top-tier Travel Mages at the time. I don’t quite understand his Unity of All Things, but even just the energy of the White Card Series within the Five-Colored Card System is unimaginable. You’ve seen the core card Golden Radiance Battle Banner of the City State Alliance, and you should know that most summoned creatures of the City State Alliance deck are group-shaped, combined with various alliance effects and the Golden Radiance Battle Banner, do you think this deck is just ordinary?"
"You should know that this is merely Tu Men’s defense card system. His Five-color Deck is complementary, just like Adversity Heaven’s black and white combination. As far as I know, throughout history, there are few Travel Mages who are Tu Men’s match with this deck."
"Damn." Yi Lian’s supplement made Brand secretly exclaim. The Golden Radiance Battle Banner is indeed a bit overwhelming. When he further considered how such an overwhelming card was merely a defensive system within Tu Men’s Five-colored Card System, he couldn’t help but be speechless. It’s like the kind elder he saw at the underground auction suddenly became grandiose.
But while Brand was being speechless, Sister was continuing: "Moreover, don’t get happy too soon. Although Adversity Heaven has a basic cycle, this deck still has several shortcomings."
"You mean, lacking strong creatures so that Desperate Trojan can’t exert its effects?" Brand immediately realized. Trisman might have the Eternal Wound, but he doesn’t have the ability to seal its rules.
"Yes, this is just one aspect. Strong creatures can be collected slowly. But secondly, you lack card filtering means since the two core Divine Artifact Cards of Adversity Heaven——Life Holy Scripture and Desperate Trojan——each only have one copy. How to draw them from the deck to your hand can only rely on luck. In fact, your Golden Radiance Battle Banner is the same. Third, you lack a stable means to retrieve from the grave. You have Graveyard Resurrection and Great Angel, but it’s not enough. The Great Angel can only maintain a number of active cards normally, since they can only reset into play once a day, and Graveyard Resurrection will attach to the resurrected card, also usable only once."
