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

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Trembling all over, Beidou woke up from a big tree.

Beidou had a nightmare in which he was being controlled to attack a glacier.

Although Hyoga was not injured, the anger and murderous intent he felt towards him at the time still lingered in Baidou's mind.

I want to kill Hyoga? How is that possible?

But when Beidou opened his eyes and saw that he was indeed banished to another world as described in his dream, Beidou was somewhat devastated!

It was all a dream! It was all a dream!

Yes, it was a dream from the moment I climbed that sand dune!

We didn't attack the glacier, and the water demon didn't leave us!

Baidou, who had grown up, now seems to have reverted to his pre-evolutionary mentality.

"Hyoga! Water Demon!"

With its eyes closed, Beidou called out to its two closest companions, hoping for their response.

But how could that be possible?

Then Beidou started crying.

But then, screams and cries for help came from not far away.

Because of these sounds, Beidou, who had a sense of justice, temporarily stopped crying and ran towards the source of the sounds.

It was a village.

A giant wooden figure, number 18, has just emerged from the forest and is attacking the villagers.

Seeing this, Beidou rushed forward without hesitation.

He has to stop that wooden figure!

However, Beidou failed to notice that atop a thick tree several hundred meters away, a demon in a black cloak was watching him.

"Such pure dark power!"

"The Pandemonium is about to welcome another high-ranking demon!"

……

After confirming that Pegasus was not lying and that he still had a chance to bring Betto back, Hyoga rallied.

So what will they do next?

"Mr. Bekas, what was your original plan?"

As the father of Duel Monsters, Pegasus naturally had his own development plan.

At this point, the Duel Monsters game still adheres to the standards of a board game.

It's basically a very basic stage where you take a monster board, and both players simply place cards and use a calculator and notebook to record the score changes.

Although a battle arena, about half the size of a room, capable of bringing monsters to life, has been created through collaborations with some high-tech companies to develop a new generation of stereoscopic imaging technology, it has not yet been made public.

The reason Seto Kaiba has a machine to fight Pharaoh is because he obtained it beforehand using his financial power.

Therefore, Pegasus will promote the Duel Arena by holding national Duel Monster tournaments around the world.

The updated card packs will also feature a wider variety of effect monsters, as well as some normal monsters that, while not as powerful as Blue-Eyes White Dragon, still have decent attack power.

However, these cards will all be relatively rare Rhea cards.

After all, competition should become increasingly intense.

It's perfectly normal for one's abilities to inflate.

A game will completely fail if it remains unchanged.

Otherwise, Seto Kaiba, wielding three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, could have easily overwhelmed duelists with nearly 100% skill.

However, Pegasus was not satisfied with this dueling arena.

He hopes to be able to summon monsters anytime, anywhere.

It's like the duel disk of a Soul Warrior, allowing you to duel anytime, anywhere.

Pegasus's main reason for this goal was that he wanted his "resurrected" fiancée's card to be able to materialize and appear beside him at any time.

But for the game Duel Monsters, if it can really achieve this, then it will truly become a game for everyone.

Who wouldn't want to be able to summon a powerful and domineering monster anytime, anywhere?

Of course, being able to summon a sister card is also pretty good.

To achieve this, Bekas needed the technology from Haima Group—once the world's most powerful arms company.

"If we can achieve this, the power of Duel Monsters can spread throughout the entire world. Then, even if something happens in this dimension, we'll have enough warriors to defend against the invaders!"

Even though most of them were just cannon fodder, Begas looked at his plans with great pride.

From this perspective, although Pegasus has his own selfish desires, he hasn't neglected his duties as a dimensional guardian.

Unfortunately, Hyoga knew that his plan would not be so easy to achieve.

First of all, Seto Kaiba is not someone who is willing to be on equal footing with others and cooperate for mutual benefit.

Although Seto Kaiba ousted and forced the original head of the Kaiba Group, who was also his adoptive father Gozaburo Kaiba, to his death and shut down the group's arms division, thanks to Gozaburo's upbringing, Seto Kaiba is also someone who only trusts his own judgment.

Even if Pegasus were to cooperate with him, Seto Kaiba would absolutely insist on taking control of the situation himself.

This is also consistent with his usual practice of using "power" to suppress others.

What kind of person you are determines what kind of cards you play.

A person's character is reflected in their card playing style.

This is something that even Pharaoh's "Mental Breakdown" attack on Seto Kaiba couldn't change.

Oh! No, that's not right either. The seahorse did change a bit after being "mentally broken".

In addition to still using "momentum", he will also use "skill" to assist him.

For example, viruses that damage card decks.

Therefore, if Pegasus' International Illusion Society wants to establish a partnership, Seto Kaiba definitely doesn't want to be just a technology and equipment provider.

Seto Kaiba definitely wants to use this collaboration to gain control of Kokusai Miku's card-making and printing rights.

But Pegasus would certainly not agree to such a request.

Therefore, the subsequent struggle between Pegasus and Seto Kaiba directly turned into a fight to the death.

Pegasus later organized the "Duel Kingdom" tournament, offering 40% of the shares of the International Illusion Company as a reward for the champion who challenged him to victory—a calculated move against Seto Kaiba.

Furthermore, with his younger brother Keihei also having his soul extracted by Pegasus, Seto Kaiba had no choice but to fall into the trap even though he knew it was a trap.

In order to fight Pegasus, Seto Kaiba even resorted to moral blackmail—because he couldn't beat the Pharaoh, he told him that if he won, he would jump off the castle.

That's really shameless!

They're just taking advantage of the game's high moral standards.

How could a seahorse that had abandoned its usual style and completely lost its spirit possibly defeat Pegasus, who was waiting in comfort?

If it weren't for the appearance of the Pharaoh, the Haima Group would very likely have been completely taken over by the International Illusion Society!

Why did Pegasus manage to lure Yugi, who had never participated in any tournaments or achieved any results, into joining Duel Kingdom?

Is it so that the game where the seahorse was defeated can become another bait to lure the seahorse into participating?

Or is it simply for the Millennium Puzzle?

I honestly can't recall that.

Unfortunately, Pegasus's attempt to steal the Millennium Item backfired. He not only lost his shares in the International Illusion Company, but also attracted another owner of the Millennium Item who was controlled by an evil god, who stole his Millennium Eye as well.

Without the Millennium Eye, all of Pegasus's plans would have failed.

International Illusion Society could only become a vassal of the Haima Group.

In the future, the International Illusion Society will almost entirely be left with nothing but developing new cards.

Everything else—printing and selling cards, organizing various tournaments, and establishing the Duel Academy—is the work of the Seahorse Group.

That's terrible!