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

For Hyoga, the seahorse is not worth his serious attention at the moment.

Even with three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Kaiba's "momentum" is still limited to 8 stars.

So just now, Hyoga used his 10-star "Momentum" soul power to enhance the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and easily defeated the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the other side.

It's not that Blue-Eyes White Dragon isn't strong enough, it's that Kaiba isn't strong enough right now.

Of course, this only applies to situations where Pokémon clash. In a duel, Hyoga's Blue-Eyes White Dragon can only trade one for one with its opponent.

However, for the seahorse, there is a way to easily overcome this disadvantage.

Even without the God Cards, as long as Kaiba can rely on his own power to make the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons truly fuse and summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, that's enough.

Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is a 12-star monster that surpasses even gods, enough to allow Kaiba's "momentum" to rise to 12 stars without any obstacles.

Thinking about it that way, it's actually quite enviable.

"Stop!" Kaiba looked at Hyoga, who was back on Blue-Eyes White Dragon's back. "You still haven't said..."

But Hyoga showed no intention of staying to continue talking to him.

Upon seeing this, the seahorse's expression grew even more somber.

What happened in that short time had already changed his perception of the world.

"Isono!"

Looking back at Isono and the others who were frozen in ice, Kaiba was completely certain that they were indeed frozen.

Although the other side showed mercy by leaving ventilation holes, their lives would still be in danger if they weren't released quickly.

But this solid ice is not something a modern seahorse can break with its bare hands.

So Kaiba immediately went back to the president's office to call for help to rescue them.

After doing all this, Kaiba looked at the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in his hand.

Duel Monsters, can it really do this much?

The seahorse's eyes gleamed with even greater fervor.

……

Domino City, Kameki Game House.

Now, after school, Yugi Muto has returned to his grandfather's shop to work for him.

However, because this shop doesn't have a dueling ring, business has been much worse lately.

Although the game also tried to persuade his grandfather to buy the Kaiba Group's dueling ring, Muto Sugoroku refused no matter what.

He still harbors a grudge about the Blue-Eyes White Dragon being torn apart by the seahorse!

Buying anything from his company? No way!

"Ugh! I lost again!"

Jonouchi looked at his LP, which had reached zero on the damage calculator, and then slumped back onto the table.

"You're amazing at the game! Why don't you participate in the national tournament?"

Jonouchi believed that if his friend joined the national tournament, he would definitely dominate.

The smiley face in the game is quite cute when there's no duel. "Because I've decided that if I participate in a competition, I'll participate with Kaiba-kun."

Jonouchi was speechless; the game was quite obsessed with Kaiba.

He said he would wait until Kaiba understood the soul of the card before having a fair fight with him.

But Jonouchi doesn't even know what a card soul is.

"Hey buddy, how about we play a game?"

At this moment, a guest who had been standing by watching the game asked the game a question.

The game is definitely fine.

The purpose of playing games here is to attract more and more customers to the game room.

Upon seeing this, Jonouchi put away his deck full of monsters and made way for him.

After the guest sat down, he continued watching the game, "However, I don't think the current rules for Duel Monsters are very interesting. Could we duel according to the rules I'm about to explain?"

After listening to the guest's words, the game understood that the other party wanted to use his village rules to fight.

Village rules are a common element in many interactive games.

In other words, players create their own rules when they feel that the original rules of a game are not fun.

The main reason for these restrictions is that after playing a large number of games, players themselves feel that the game is unbalanced, leading to these restrictions.

Because it is used only in a very small scope, it is called "village rules".

There's nothing wrong with games, of course.

Duel Monsters is a fun game in itself, just drawing cards and comparing their sizes.

However, as the guest explained the rules, the game's expression gradually changed.

Because the rules this guest mentioned were so comprehensive, they even completely rewrote the rules of Duel Monsters from the ground up.

But after listening to the game, I felt that the rules were really good.

Although restrictions have been placed on Ritual and Fusion Summoning, Tribute requirements have been added to Normal Monster Summoning, and the activation speed of Spell Cards and Trap Cards has been limited, the base LP has been increased to 4000 points, and monsters can even attack the player directly, the playability feels greatly increased.

The guest smiled and said to the game, "Then, Game, why don't you modify your deck according to these rules?"

This guest, of course, was Glacier. He recited the expert rules as if they were village rules to the game.

Hyoga finds fighting with the current rules and game utterly meaningless.

"Okay, I've assembled it!"

The game is now very enthusiastic about the new rules.

Because his grandfather was a super expert at playing all kinds of games, Yugi Muto, who was influenced by him, was originally a person who loved playing games.

However, he had never had any friends to play games with before, so after spending eight years assembling the Millennium Puzzle that "can grant wishes," his wish was to have friends to play games with.

Now he has more friends, but his love for games has not diminished at all; on the contrary, it has grown even stronger.

This passion is what drives the game itself to become stronger every moment.

After setting the base LP of the damage calculator to 4000, Hyoga smiled and said to the game, "Then let's cut the cards!"

Jonouchi, observing from the sidelines, felt that such a complicated process could be avoided, but Hyoga waved his hand, "Cutting the cards is necessary; it's a guarantee of fairness for both sides!"

The game also conveyed this meaning, and they seriously exchanged decks with Hyoga to cut the cards.

After tossing another coin, it was Glacier's turn to attack first.

"Then I'll begin!" Hyoga said with a smile, "Oh, my turn, draw a card!"

"I summon 'Water Sorcerer' in Defense Position! I then set three cards face down. End of turn!"

With a practiced T-formation, Hyoga gestured that it was his turn to play!

"Wow! A monster with a whopping 2000 defense points! That's incredibly strong under these rules!" Yugi exclaimed, then laughed, "Luckily, I have one too! I'll summon 'Holy Spirit' in Defense Mode!"

[Holy Elf, Defense 2000]

"Then I also set three cards face down, turn..."

"Wait a minute," Hyoga waved his hand, "I'm going to activate the Trap Card 'Torrent Tribute' and destroy all monsters on the field at the same time!"

See? Torrent Burial got the first move right in the first round!