Yu-Gi-Oh!: This is the real duel!

“The incantation to break the spell is…” Mana blushed, “Wait! Let me see!”

As she spoke, she conjured a magic spellbook from her hand and began to frantically flip through it.

Mahad sighed helplessly and said, "Never mind, I'll do it."

Wang Yang stood aside, watching the interaction between the two, feeling a warmth in his heart. Although this was just a dark RPG game, it was projected using memories from three thousand years ago. This meant that he did indeed have these two friends three thousand years ago, and that he was also very important to them...

The wilderness outside the royal city.

Alone, Bakula leaned against a rock, chewing on a sweet potato in his hand.

He chuckled wickedly as he gazed at the distant capital, plotting his next move.

His goal in achieving victory was to kill the Pharaoh and destroy the entire civilization at all costs!

Although his undead army has been completely wiped out, Bakula, who is familiar with the area, still has many plans to destroy the royal city!

The most cruel method is to collect all the ancient artifacts and summon the legendary demon king who is sleeping under a seal.

"Seven ancient artifacts..." Bakula chewed on his food, pondering, "It would be quite difficult to seize them all at the same time."

"But as long as we can gather them all in the crucial positions at the end, that will be enough."

"By then, we will be able to find out what the eighth key to open the gates of the underworld is."

"In that case, let's start by seizing the Millennium Wisdom Wheel!"

"That thing can guide me to anything I want; with it, everything becomes simple."

"Click click click click——————————————"

In the dimly lit secret room, thanks to Mai's manipulation, Yugi and his companions successfully found a way out of the narrow space. However, the eerie and strange thing was that the way out led deeper underground, not to the surface.

"Should we continue down..." Jonouchi said, rubbing his arms as he faced the eerie wind coming from underground. "I have a very bad feeling about this!"

Peacock Dance said, "But there's no other way. We have no other path to take."

Yugi Muto nodded: "I can only give it a try, but... I don't have enough magic power, I need to rest for a while."

Before the tunnel leading underground, Yugi Muto sat on the ground, softly chanting a spell. He had used this spell to restore mana many times before and could remember it without having to consult his spellbook.

A faint blue light emanated from his body. A few minutes later, he opened his eyes and walked deeper into the tunnel with Jonouchi and Mai.

After passing through a series of dark stone paths, the group finally arrived at a heavy stone door. Kong Quewu tried to open it with her backpack's tools.

But at that moment, a strong aura of darkness emanated from it, making all three of them shudder and get goosebumps.

Clearly, this place is extremely dangerous and may be hiding some potentially deadly threats.

The three of them glanced back at the tunnel above. The way they had come from was blocked, so they had no choice but to grit their teeth and walk into the darkness.

To conserve Yugi Muto's mana, Mai Kongzaku lit a torch. Behind the door was another secret passage. Stepping into the passage, the surrounding environment grew brighter and brighter, with red and yellow lights constantly shining in.

The three walked to the end of the secret passage and saw huge, crisscrossing stone beams in front of them. Below the stone beams was a huge square sandy area filled with blood and corpses.

A series of eerie and terrifying roars echoed from above the three of them. When they looked up, they saw countless cages suspended by iron chains, and inside those cages were humans with hideous faces and covered in wounds!

"What... what is this?!" Jonouchi instinctively took a half step back. "Is it a prison?"

Just then, a few cold laughs came from the opposite side of the stone beam, and a mysterious man in a black robe slowly emerged from the shadows. He said with a sinister smile, "You've said about right."

"This is a prison, a dungeon, and also a barbaric arena!!"

"Here, countless dark and evil monsters will fight each other, and only those that survive will have the chance to be included in the temple's stone tablets!!"

Yugi Muto frowned: "So, this is how all the monsters in the temple came to be?!"

The mysterious man smiled and shook his head: "Of course not. You can think of this as a method used by Lord Aknadin to select monsters. Monsters selected here naturally belong to Lord Aknadin."

"Now that you've come this far, don't even dream of returning to the surface alive."

"I don't care who you are, as long as you're here, you're just playthings for my training!!"

"Come on!! Let's begin this fun game~~"

"Boom!"

As soon as the words were spoken, two stone slabs descended, completely blocking the three's escape route. Standing on the stone beam, the three had no choice but to continue forward. A ferocious roar followed, and dark energy drifted out from one of the iron cages, transforming into a terrifying monster in front of them!

The monster had a pair of ram's horns, and its entire head was almost entirely occupied by a huge eye. It gripped a sharp scythe tightly with its thin but powerful arms, and chuckled as it slowly approached the three of them.

"What?!"

The three of them were startled.

They had no way to defeat the monster except to knock it down!

but……

Their professions weren't particularly suited for combat, and they hadn't anticipated this situation when they arrived here.

Seeing the scythe-wielding demon closing in, Yugi Muto made a snap decision, quickly drawing an offensive spell from his magic book and unleashing it: "Fireball!!!"

The dice, formed from yellow sand, were thrown and rolled a six, but this was a 1D10, so the damage wasn't particularly significant.

"boom------------------"

Crimson flames erupted from Yugi Muto's palm, the burning fire coalescing into a ball that blasted towards the monster.

An explosion rang out, and the monster revealed an angry expression. The attack seemed to have hurt it a lot, but it wasn't enough to kill it!

Yugi Muto gritted his teeth and threw out two more fireballs, finally eliminating the monster before it could charge at him.

"Heh~ A Grand Magister? Not bad, not bad~" the mysterious, aloof man chuckled. "But it seems you're only level three~ I wonder if your magic power can hold up. I'll give you two more~"

With a flick of his wide sleeve, two more demons appeared before the three of them.

This time, it's two even more hideous and ferocious demons!!

Yugi Muto's face was covered in sweat from expending a large amount of magical energy in a short period of time.

The three huddled together, with Jonouchi holding his torch like a weapon in front of him: "What do we do! Can we really destroy this thing...?"

Peacock Dance vaguely noticed that the three of them's golden arm armor seemed a little different from before, as if they had just defeated a monster and gained some experience: "I don't know... but if we can kill one more, we should be able to level up!"

"After the upgrade, the game's mana should be fully restored!"

"At the same time, as a level four cultivator, he can also unleash more advanced spells!!"

Jonouchi gritted his teeth: "So what do we do now? Which one should we take down first? The lizard on the left or... Damn it! This one on the right looks so weird!"

Peacock Dance quickly took off her backpack and found several thief tools inside, including a crossbow with five arrows and a grappling hook. These were the only things she had that could be used as weapons.

"Mai!! Your agility is higher than mine, here's the crossbow!" Jonouchi tried to take the grappling hook, but was stopped by Yugi Muto.

“No, Jonouchi, use the crossbow…” Yugi Muto was exhausted, but with his mana depleted, he had no chance to recover his mana.

“That’s right.” Peacock Dance took the grappling hook. “The grappling hook is more difficult to use. Since you’re not a rogue, it will be less effective when you use it, so you should just use the crossbow!”

Upon hearing this, the man inside the castle raised his crossbow and aimed at the enemy: "Which one are you shooting at?!"

At that moment, the two demons, one on the left and one on the right, charged towards them.

Yugi Muto used up his last bit of mana, and a six-pointed star incantation descended, binding the hideously ugly demon in place: "Attack the left one! The right one can't move!!"

"Yoshi!!!" Jonouchi pulled the trigger, and a gleaming silver arrow shot out from the whistling wind.

In that instant, space froze again. Jonouchi grabbed the dice that had appeared in mid-air and swung them forcefully: "Come on! Gambler's skill! Good luck!!"

However, his attempt to use it failed.

Yugi Muto explained, "Jonnouchi, no, that skill can only be used in random events. Now it's an attack roll, so we can't confuse the two."

"I see..." Jonouchi looked nervously at the dice that were spinning around. "But my Agility value is three, so the damage should be decent anyway, right?"

"Rolling around ——————————"

Finally, the ten-sided die came to a stop, revealing a surprising number: ten!

Both Yugi Muto and Mai the Peacock were both surprising and delightful.

In RPG games, rolling the maximum number is considered a critical success, granting unexpected bonuses!

"Whoosh——————————————————"

After the judgment was completed, crossbow bolts shot out from within the castle, dealing a total of thirteen points of damage, based on the base damage of ten points plus three additional points!

The silver-white crossbow bolt pierced the demon's head with a powerful, precise strike, doubling the damage!

The demon that had been struck in the forehead by an arrow did not die immediately. Instead, it staggered and crashed into another demon that was bound and trapped by a six-pointed star. In the end, both demons fell off the stone beam together and turned into dissipating black mist...

"That's great!!" Jonouchi was absolutely thrilled. "Looks like my good luck works everywhere!!"

"With this, the accumulated experience should be enough to level up!" Kong Quewu was very excited.

Three golden rays of light descended from the sky, each person leveling up by one, and at the same time, half of their experience bar was filled.

With the upgrade, Yugi Muto went from level seven to level eight, from a level three mage to a level four mage, and the spellbook in his arms became even shinier than before.

The crisis is not over yet, so the three of them are not in a hurry to add attribute points. Instead, they want to escape before the new monsters appear.

Having become a level four mage, Yugi Muto unlocked a new spell—teleportation!

He stood still and began chanting rapidly, and an ice-blue magic circle formed beneath the feet of the three of them!

Upon seeing this, the smug mysterious man's expression changed drastically. He shouted repeatedly, summoning demons to the stone beam. One of them was extremely agile and rushed towards the three of them as soon as it landed.

The castle was filled with the crossbow bolts, ready to fire another shot.

Peacock Dancer used her hook claws to strike first, binding the demon to the ground.

Thanks to the bonuses from her Rogue class, Peacock Dance's use of the grappling hook far surpasses that of others.

The defeated monster became a stumbling block for the monsters behind it, and the congested stone beams became chaotic. Just as a monster resembling a crow was about to rush over, Yugi Muto finished chanting his teleportation spell, and the three of them flashed to the outskirts of the royal city.

Jonouchi breathed a sigh of relief, then asked in confusion, "Yugi, how did we get here? Shouldn't we have gone back to the palace to tell them what happened?"

Yugi Muto shook his head: "We were just underground outside the royal city, which is the farthest we can go. Of course, I should tell my other self about these things, but I reckon that priest Aknadin will definitely try to stop us."

"So what do we do now?" Kong Quewu asked.

Yugi Muto replied, "There's no other way but to bite the bullet and go to the Valley of the King's Long Sleep!"

Chapter 300 Akhenadin's Plot

The rapid sound of horses' hooves rang out from outside the royal city, and a large group of people rushed into the city from the darkness. The guards on the city's side changed their expressions, thinking that the enemy had attacked again.