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

Las Vegas.

At the entrance of a glittering golden building, people driven by greed for money and harboring侥幸心理 (a gambler's mentality) are continuously entering.

But almost no one knows that the number of people who leave this place each day is far fewer than the number who enter.

However, unlike the imagined scenario of various gambling tools and beautiful dealers dealing cards online, the most profitable gambling game in this casino city has now become a new type of game.

Duel Monsters.

In the very center of the hall, a golden dueling platform stood, with two duelists on either side, exchanging cards.

The two duelists had chains tied to their feet, preventing them from escaping.

These people, who have almost lost everything, have only their lives left to gamble with.

If they lose, the winner will choose to have a part of their body removed.

Therefore, they basically dare not lose.

Meanwhile, a group of gamblers who had already placed their bets on who would win were watching them intently, trying to prevent any of them from cheating.

However, compared to the gambling in the lobby, the gambling on the top floor is far more murky.

Many wealthy individuals with enormous fortunes have been arrested and brought here after being targeted.

The Dark Game is unfolding here.

The scum who manipulate the power of darkness use Duel Monsters to steal the life savings of the defeated person... and even their soul.

This was the thing the glacier feared most when it first crossed the ice river.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, who had exuded the air of a successful person when he first entered the casino, had now spent all the money he had on him to rent a powerful deck from the casino. He was now dueling with a guy who was completely covered in a cloak in front of a dueling ring.

At this point, the opponent had four monsters with an attack power of over 2000, while the middle-aged man had no monsters on his field and no cards left in his hand.

The middle-aged man, who had lost all hope, tremblingly pulled out another card from his deck at the cloaked man's urging, and then a huge joy burst from his face.

"Attack power 2,2600! Hahahaha!" The middle-aged man laughed breathlessly. "I summon 'Demon Zoa'! To attack your monster!"

[Demon Zoa, Attack Power 2600]

The monster, which looked evil, was summoned carrying the hopes of a middle-aged man.

But the next moment, [Demon Zoa] vanished!

The cloaked man opposite him chuckled, "What a pity, what a pity! Your Trap Card 'Trap Hole' has been activated! Your monster has been destroyed!"

The smile that had just appeared on the middle-aged man's face suddenly turned into an even more desperate expression.

"My turn! I summon a monster. Now I have five monsters on my field! And you have no monsters on your field, so I win! Hehe, as agreed, all your possessions, including your celebrity wife, are mine!"

"No, no, no..." The middle-aged man was completely unable to accept this.

Everything he had was taken away because of this game!

But the middle-aged man was now unable to speak.

Because his soul had also been extracted and was now entering a dark metal box held in the cloaked man's hand.

This is the source of the dark power possessed by the cloaked man.

It is precisely because these items imbued with dark power still exist that the Dark Game has never been able to completely disappear.

However, just before the middle-aged man's soul was fully absorbed into the metal box, a humanoid lizard suddenly appeared in front of the cloaked man and smashed him and his metal box into the floor with a single punch.

The middle-aged man's soul lost its attraction and returned to his body.

"Huff huff huff..." The feeling of his soul leaving his body just now was still causing the middle-aged man immense pain.

But it was at this moment that he heard a young voice.

"What a low-level tactic! Duel Monsters isn't for this kind of thing!"

The cloaked man could no longer answer him, but suddenly more than a dozen cloaked men dressed similarly appeared in the room.

This room is connected to more than a dozen other rooms, which are the rooms of these cloaked men.

The scum also like to stick together; when faced with hostile intruders, they all rush out.

A young man was now sitting in the middle-aged man's spot, looking at the cards in his deck.

"So they're all fake cards! They were provided to you by the people of Gurus, weren't they? I knew there was a reason why you all suddenly started playing Duel Monsters." Hyoga destroyed all the fake cards, speechless.

A leader stepped forward from among the cloaked men. "So you're from the International Illusion Society..."

But before he could finish speaking, a gust of cold wind blew onto him, freezing him into an ice sculpture.

This time, it wasn't the cold wind that formed an ice sculpture like an iceberg around their bodies; instead, their entire flesh turned into ice.

It smashed to pieces after falling.

The dark artifact he was wearing shattered completely.

Upon seeing his death, the other cloaked men were terrified and wet themselves.

These are opponents they could never defeat!

Run away!

The cloaked men retreated at an even faster pace than when they had charged out.

But it was too late!

"I thought it would take a lot of effort to teach you a lesson, but when I got here I found out that you bunch of lowlifes don't even inspire me to duel... Just disappear!"

A biting wind swept across the surroundings.

Even though these cloaked men had tried their best to use their dark power to resist in their shock, the cold wind still penetrated directly into their bones.

One after another, human-shaped ice sculptures appeared, most of which collapsed and broke into dozens of pieces as soon as they were formed.

For a moment, besides Ice River, the only other people in the hall were the middle-aged man who was still panting heavily, and the only remaining cloaked man who had managed to sit down on the opposite side of the dueling platform.

"You're quite clever!" Hyoga commented, looking at the cloaked man.

"Duel! I challenge you to a duel!"

The cloaked man was now even more hysterical than the middle-aged man from before.

The dark power emanating from him had formed a field around the dueling arena, enveloping him and Hyoga within it.

Although Hyoga could easily break through this level of dark power with a wave of his hand, he was genuinely intrigued to see someone actually using dark power against him.

"Lord Eczodia, it's your turn to perform!"

Hyoga's sudden remark startled the cloaked man opposite him.

Because the deck he's pulling out right now is the Eczodia deck.

It's a fake card bought from the Gurus organization, but it works in the Dark Games.

Although he had never successfully summoned it before, he didn't think his usual deck could defeat that terrifying guy, so he had to switch to the Exodia deck and gamble!

"My first move: draw a card!"

The cloaked man glanced at his hand and burst into laughter.

Because he already had four pieces of corpse in his hand.

But just as the cloaked man looked up, intending to mock Hyoga, he saw Hyoga showing him five cards.

Those were five pieces of Ecuzodia's body.

"Very well, you lost! We're gone forever!"

Eczodia appeared on the dueling platform, and a burst of furious flames instantly burned the pale-faced cloaked man to ashes.

Now it's truly trash!