Yu-Gi-Oh!: From Casual Gamer to Soulful Player

"It's my turn."

Pegasus remained relaxed, looking at his hand and chuckling as he placed a card down. "I'll also set one card face down, and then... Summon the monster 'Dark-Eyed Illusionist'!"

As Pegasus placed his card on the open pages of the book in front of him, a Millennium Eye appeared, and then, using this Millennium Eye as its head, it twisted and grew out in the order of neck, torso, and limbs.

Just looking at it is enough to make your sanity drop drastically.

"Glacier boy, I could have chosen to fight you with a cute cartoon monster. Unfortunately, Exodia is keeping an eye on me, so let's finish this quickly!"

Pegasus's Millennium Eye glowed. "The monster you set face-down is 'Mammoth's Graveyard,' and the two cards behind it are 'Trap Hole' and 'Last Will.' This means that if you summon a monster with over 1000 ATK, it will be destroyed by 'Trap Hole.' Even if I can destroy your monster, 'Last Will' can summon another monster with 1500 or less ATK. A very nice board state..."

The Millennium Eye directly read Hyoga's inner strategy; it was as if Hyoga was playing his cards openly.

At this moment, Binghe really wanted to report Pegasus for cheating.

This is practically a X-ray vision cheat!

But to whom can this report be submitted?

The current dueling rules were created by Pegasus, and he himself is the one who accepts reports. Isn't that...

Who here is accusing this official?

Damn it! Hyoga wanted to slap himself right now for thinking about old tropes at a time like this.

At that moment, Pegasus revealed another card: "In that case, I won't summon monsters with 1000 or more attack power, nor will I let your monsters go to the graveyard!"

"Ritual magic, 'Illusion Ritual' activated!"

A large golden cauldron appeared in the center of the arena, spewing out a dark hurricane that sucked the Dark-Eyed Illusionist inside.

"With the Dark-Eyed Illusionist as the sacrificial offering, ritual summoning!" Pegasus was extremely pleased with himself. "Illusion Monster, 'Sacrificial Demon' summoned!"

After absorbing the offerings, the golden jar writhed and transformed into a terrifying monster with a bluish-green body.

[The Demon of Sacrifice, Attack Power 0]

"The effect of 'Sacrifice Demon' activates, absorbing one monster you control, and granting it that monster's ATK and DEF!"

"Go! Absorb the illusion!"

The [Sacrifice Demon] unleashed an immense suction force from its massive maw at the glacial monster, drawing it directly into its body.

Then the head of [Mammoth's Graveyard] appeared on the surface of [Sacrifice Demon]'s body.

Where did this idea of ​​food growing on the body come from?

[The Demon of Sacrifice, Attack Power 0→1200]

"Round over."

Pegasus chuckled and beckoned to Hyoga, "Come on, Hyoga boy, let's see how much longer you can struggle!"

Hyoga had a serious expression, but he actually wanted to laugh because he was thinking of another tired joke.

Come here!

This provocation is really effective.

But Glacier was not fooled.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the [Sacrifice Demon] only has 1200 attack power and seems easy to defeat; there are traps inside.

Although Hyoga is a casual player, he mainly focuses on the game rules and the cards from the Synchro Era and beyond.

He was quite clear about the effects of the [sacrificial offerings].

Why? Because Pegasus was the boss of the first event in a certain Yu-Gi-Oh! mobile game.

Hyoga stopped playing right after that event, and he clearly remembers how those disgusting guys affected him.

Only one monster can be absorbed. When an attack is about to be destroyed, the absorbed monster will destroy it instead. When a monster is absorbed, if the user takes battle damage, the opponent will also take effect damage of the same value.

Pegasus provoked Hyoga in this way because he wanted Hyoga to summon a monster with stronger attack power, so that he could not only consume [Mammoth Graveyard], but also absorb the monster with stronger attack power... All the good things would be his.

So the glacier wasn't fooled.

"My turn, draw a card! Set a card face-down in the back row, my turn..."

Hyoga wanted to quickly set his cards and then immediately end his turn.

But Pegasus didn't give him that chance.

"Just then, my face-down card activates, 'Whirlwind'! It destroys the 'Torrent Tribute' you just set!"

The [Whirlwind] rose up, destroying the [Torrent Burial] that the Glacier had just covered and was unable to activate.

If Hyoga had successfully ended his turn, then during his opponent's turn, Hyoga could have destroyed all of Pegasus's monsters with Torrent Tribute.

Unfortunately, this was also prevented by Pegasus.

"Trying to use a trap to destroy my monster, Ice River Boy, your schemes won't fool me."

Glacier frowned deeply.

It wasn't just because of the Millennium Eye's X-ray vision, but also because Hyoga felt unwell.

Clearly, the duel taking place at this moment is undoubtedly a dark duel.

Although the previous battle was also a dark duel, Jera's warriors were not comparable to Pegasus.

The darkness was so intense that even just standing there required Hyoga to expend a significant amount of soul power every moment.

In the anime, although Pharaoh and Little Biao used mind exchange to avoid Pegasus's X-ray vision, Little Biao was completely unable to withstand the drain of the Dark Game and almost died!

Glacier didn't think he was much better than Xiao Biao.

But the glacier wasn't without companions.

Water Mage and Double-Beat appeared behind Hyoga.

Despite the danger, neither of them was afraid.

If the soul power consumed is shared equally among the three people, Hyoga can last longer.

"Pegasus!" Hyoga shouted, "Even though you can see into my heart, what will you do if even I don't know what card I put in there?"

"I activate the Spell Card—Pot of Greed!"

The cards that Jera's warriors gave him were incredibly useful.

Is this the fun of deck-pulling?

I felt it! I felt it!

"Based on the effect of the Pot of Greed, I'll draw two cards!"

At this moment, Hyoga drew two cards but did not look at what cards they were.

By prying open a corner like in baccarat to check the colors, and confirming that the two cards were a monster card and a trap card, Hyoga immediately placed them face down on the field.

Thanks to the current rules, Hyoga doesn't need to check the star rating of the monster card before he can set it.

"Pegasus, come at me if you dare! If you attack my monster in its defensive stance, your monster will definitely not be destroyed!"

The monsters in the current Ice Age deck all have defenses of over 1200, so they're not afraid of him charging in head-on.

At the same time, there are quite a few cards in Hyoga's deck that can directly destroy things!

Upon seeing this, Pegasus's expression changed slightly. "It seems you, Ice River Boy, are aware of the special effects of my monster!"

Pegasus suspected that Ekuzodia had told Glacier this.

After all, the Demon of Sacrifice was born here.

Even so, Pegasus didn't think Hyoga could win.

The power of the fantasy demon race he created is not limited to this.