Is this the world of card dealers? Yada thieves!

As Blue God's life points decreased, the game glanced at the two face-down cards on Blue God's back row.

'Is only one [Explosive Armor] a trap set by the attack declaration? Well, sorry, Blue God, I'm going to win.'

"Then, there was the direct attack from the [red gadget]."

However, when the game commanded the [Red Gadget] to attack, the Blue God, who had only taken a negligible 1200 points of damage, spoke up at that moment: "Wait a minute, Yugi Muto, I have a face-down card to activate."

As Ayami pressed the button on the Duel Disk to activate a face-down card, one of his face-down cards in the backfield was revealed. Yugi subconsciously looked at the revealed card, unaware that Ayami's way of addressing him had unknowingly changed from "Muto-kun" to "Muto Yugi".

"That card?" Yugi was increasingly puzzled as he looked at the Trap Card "Descent of the Square World" on the back field of the Blue God, which featured a black monster that looked like a preserved egg. He could understand not seeing the card art for previous cards like "Descent of the Square World," since they were activated in the Graveyard, not on the field. But he was certain he had never seen this card before.

Where did that [Cube] card come from in Blue God's deck?

"The effect of the Trap Card [Descent of the Cube] is that you can activate this card when your opponent's monster declares an attack. Special Summon one [Cube-Bim-Vijam] from your Deck and then transfer the target of that attack of your opponent's monster to that [Cube-Bim-Vijam] and calculate the damage."

Blue God drew a monster card from his deck and slammed it onto the Duel Disk without a second thought, laughing triumphantly: "Come forth, the high-dimensional monster that heralds the beginning of destruction, [Fangjieyin-Vijam]!"

Golden cubes gather on Blue God's field, and the spherical monster that appeared in the "Descent of the Cube" card art appears on Blue God's field in defense position.

【Fang Jieyin - Vijam】【DEF0】

After [Fangjieyin-Vijam] appeared, the [red gadget] that was originally attacking the Blue God was unable to trigger a battle rewind and was forced to continue attacking [Fangjieyin-Vijam]. However, the little fist failed to destroy [Fangjieyin-Vijam]'s soft and wet body after hitting it.

As the [Red Gadget] returned to the field, the [Cube World-Vijam] on Blue God's field dissipated back into a golden cube and landed in Blue God's back field. Blue God watched the game commentary and said, "[Cube World-Vijam] is a high-dimensional monster that cannot be destroyed by battle, and its effect can be activated at the end of the damage step when it battles a monster."

"I place [Square Intent - Vijam] as a Continuous Spell Card face-up on my back field, and then place a Square Counter on the opponent's monster that it battles. Monsters with Square Counters cannot attack and their effects are negated."

As the blue mythical sound faded, Yugi noticed that gray stone-like substance was spreading and covering the [Red Gadget] on his field. In the blink of an eye, the [Red Gadget] turned into a stone statue and became unable to move.

Since the Dimensional Realm Duel has not yet begun, although Blue God summoned [Cube Yin-Vijam], its effect is different from that of Hayato's duel. In the Dimensional Realm Duel, Cube Pointers could be placed to stop attacks when attacked, but in the non-Dimensional Realm Duel version, it is noticeably weaker after the battle.

Furthermore, because the battle is not taking place within a dimensional realm, Blue God cannot use the rules of dimensional realm battles to avoid combat damage, nor can he use the dimensional marker to reduce the opponent's monster's attack power to 0.

"【Fangjie】Monsters... they give me a very uncomfortable feeling." Yugi looked at the now empty field of Blue God with a serious expression. "Blue God, which monsters are you—"

"Those things aren't important, Yugi Muto. We're still in the middle of a duel." Blue God impatiently interrupted Yugi. After using Yugi's power to Special Summon the first [Fangjieyin-Vijam], Blue God felt he had a significant advantage and no longer needed to continue the pretense of being classmates with Yugi. "All you need to consider is whether to continue attacking."

The sudden change in Lan Shen's previously mild and humble attitude surprised even the gamer. Then, as if he had thought of something, he nodded firmly and said, "I will definitely defeat you and rescue Lan Shen!"

Although he didn't react immediately, Yugi was too experienced with this kind of "personality change after taking out a certain card" thing. He blindly guessed that Blue God must be controlled by some dark personality like Bakura and Malik. In particular, the cards of [Fangjie] didn't look like good people. The [Hellfire Machine] and [Shadowdo] deck, which were comparable to Hayato's, must have been the cards that controlled Blue God.

That would be too easy; all you would have to do is defeat the opponent.

Although Blue God is a member of Prana and can perceive others' thoughts to some extent, it is different from mind reading. He could vaguely sense that Yugi Muto in front of him had suddenly made up his mind, giving him a strange feeling.

However, he didn't care. He just waved his hand at the game and said, "The Dimensional Token is probably just something like the indestructible [Six-Pointed Star Curse]. It's nothing serious. I'm going to use the [Green Gadget] to continue attacking you directly, Dark Blue God!"

"What is this Dark Blue God?" Blue God said unhappily as he watched the [Green Gadget] attack him under the game's command. He pressed the button to activate the face-down card, revealing the last face-down card on his back field. "If you like fighting with low-level monsters so much, why don't I give you more low-level monsters instead?"

"When my opponent's monster declares a direct attack, I activate the Trap Card [Cube Reincarnation], targeting the monster that attacked me directly—[Green Gadget]—and activating its effect." A twisting golden ring composed of small golden cubes appeared before Blue God, and he said with a disdainful look, "Special Summon as many monsters with the same name as that monster from my opponent's hand, graveyard, or Deck as possible in Attack Position."

Upon hearing Blue God's words, Yugi was somewhat surprised and saw that one card from his deck and one card from his hand lit up. Under the effect of [Square Reincarnation], the remaining two [Green Gadgets] from his hand and deck were Special Summoned and placed face-up in Attack Position on his field.

"It actually helped me summon even more monsters?"

Faced with the game's confusion, Blue God sneered contemptuously: "However, miracles and magic are not free. The attack power of the monster targeted by the [Cube Reincarnation] effect and the monster Special Summoned by this effect will be reduced to 0, and each of them will also have a Cube Counter placed on it, making it unable to attack and negating the effect."

Compared to the Dimensional Counters placed by [Fangjieyin-Pijam], the Dimensional Counters placed by [Fangjie Reincarnation] are clearly closer to the effect in Dimensional Realm Duels, sealing all the effects of the three [Green Gadgets] on the game field and reducing their attack power to 0.

The fact that the effect of searching for the "Red Gadget" when the "Green Gadget" is Special Summoned is not a big deal, but having three monsters with 0 ATK in Attack Position on your field is not a good thing. What's more troublesome is that the "Cube Reincarnation" on Blue God's field has not disappeared yet, so there is obviously still an effect that can be dealt with.

"The final effect of [Cube Reincarnation] is that after placing Cube counters, I can Special Summon any [Cube] monster with a Level of 4 or lower from my hand, ignoring its Summoning conditions." The card he had specifically searched for using the effect of [Cube Karma] was meant for this moment. Blue God held the card above his head arrogantly and said, "Prepare for your destruction, Yugi Muto!"

"Special Summon 'Meteor Cube - Sky Dust' in Attack Position, and I will activate its effect, which can only be activated when it is Summoned or Special Summoned, to send 1 'Cube' card from my Deck to the Graveyard."

【Meteorite Boundary Artifact - Heavenly Dust】【4☆/Light】

[Mechanical Race/Effect]

[1600/1600]

After sending a "Cube World" card to the Graveyard, Blue God looked at the game with satisfaction, thinking to himself: "The card I sent to the Graveyard is 'Cube World Origin.' By banishing it, I can grant one of my 'Cube World' monsters the ability to deal damage equal to the monster's original ATK when it destroys a monster with a Cube World Counter, thus restoring the effect of Dimensional Domain Duel."

"Besides, I deliberately let Yugi Muto's [Yellow Gadget] attack me to reduce my Life Points, so I could use the second effect of [Descent of the Cube] in the Graveyard to Special Summon [Descent of the Cube - Vijam].'"

'I don't even know how I could lose!'

However, seeing Blue God Special Summon the monster, Yugi pressed the button to activate the face-down card and said, "Now that you, Dark Blue God, have summoned that monster, I will also perform my summon. Activate face-down card, [Mobile Castle - Fortress]!"

As the game unlocks the card, similar to the previous [Mobile Fortress - Powerful Bastion], a violent tremor ripples through the ground, and another large bunker rises behind the game, transforming into a gigantic silver robot.

[Mobile City - Fortress] [4 stars/location]

[Mechanical Race/Trap/Effect]

[0/2000]

"After the Continuous Trap Card [Mobile City - Fortress] is activated, it becomes an Effect Monster and is Special Summoned to my Monster Zone in Defense Position. It can be used as a Trap Card." Yugi drew the card from his back row and placed it face down in his Monster Zone, continuing, "Furthermore, if I control all three monsters: [Red Gadget], [Yellow Gadget], and [Green Gadget], [Mobile City - Fortress]'s ATK becomes 3000!"

The yellow gadget laboriously scraped up the red and green gadgets, which had turned into stone sculptures, and embedded them into the chest of the crouching [Mobile City-Fortress]. Although the two monsters were rendered immobile after being placed with the boundary markers, they were not needed as cog parts.

As the [yellow gadget] finally jumped into its position, the [Mobile City-Fortress], with the three gaps in its chest filled, unleashed its full power, causing its attack power to skyrocket!

[Mobile City - Fortress] [0/2000→3000/2000]

However, seeing the monster's attack power soar, Blue God was unconcerned and even mocked Yugi, saying, "So what if its attack power has increased to 3000 points? It can't attack in defense mode. It's nothing special!"

Upon hearing Blue God's words, Game shook his head and said, "I never intended to use [Mobile City - Fortress] to attack, Dark Blue God."

"Who is the Dark Blue God?!"

Ignoring Blue God's complaints, Yugi continued, "I'm going to end the Battle Phase, and then in my Main Phase 2, I'll activate my last face-down card, the Normal Spell Card [Double Summon]."

After much hesitation, Yugi ultimately held back in his duel with Blue God. The fact that he has only used cards from the "Tools" deck and has not used cards like "Magic Cylinder" or "Divine Shield - Mirror Power" is a clear indication of this. The fact that Yugi set "Double Summon" instead of activating it earlier is even more direct evidence.

"【Double Summon】? It's just the ability to perform a second normal summon. Muda muda muda, even if you summon a powerful monster after the battle phase is over, you still can't defeat me!"

Upon hearing Blue God's arrogant words, Yugi, having gained his second Normal Summon ability, quietly removed the two cards Blue God had given him from his field as tributes and Tribute Summoned a monster card from his hand: "Who says you can't deal damage without a Battle Phase? I'll release two 'Green Gadgets' on my field..."

"Black Gold Tyrannosaurus! Break the shackles that imprison you in the cracks of this world, and bring destruction to my enemies!"

A pink gem, exuding an aura of destruction (Hayato: That's magenta!), lit up one after another. Behind Yugi, a jet-black dragon spread its wings and let out a roar that seemed to destroy the world!

Chapter 954 You can lie to your buddies

"Bugahhh!!!" Under the sweeping beams of pink...magenta light, Blue God was sent flying backwards, and amidst his painful screams, his base score was reduced to zero.

[Blue God: 2800LP→0]

The game, however, turned its head to look at the black and gold dragon behind it, which seemed to be the embodiment of destruction.

【Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X】【8☆/Dark】

[Dragon Clan/Effect]

【0/0→3000/0】

As we all know, monsters with 0 attack and 0 defense are mostly monsters, because they generally exchange their seemingly good-looking stats for ridiculously powerful or even excessive effects. The [Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X] summoned at the end of the game is an outstanding example of this.

His effect is that once per turn, he can destroy all monsters on both players' fields without any cost, and inflict effect damage to the opponent's duelist equal to the ATK of the monster destroyed by his effect, and then his ATK can be changed back to that same value.

What does this mean? A field-bombing effect once per turn is already very powerful. Both are Tribute Summoned monsters, but [Sea Dragon Daedalus] requires sacrificing the Field Spell Card [Sea] to activate its field-bombing effect, while [Destroyer Dragon Gandora X] requires no sacrifice.

Then, the ATK of the monster with the highest ATK among the destroyed monsters is used as the damage inflicted on the opponent's duelist. This is essentially a Destruction Wheel that activates at the fastest speed. Regardless of whether the opponent has a powerful monster on their field or you have one on your field, the higher the ATK, the more powerful and terrifying the damage that [Destruction Dragon - Gandora X] can cause. Not to mention that the ATK of [Destruction Dragon - Gandora X] will then increase to the same level afterward.

Even with the negative effect of having your Life Points halved during the End Phase of your turn, the card 【Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X】 was banned early on in the Duel Monsters environment of Hayato's previous life because its previous effects were already powerful enough and its ability to kill in one turn was too overpowered.

The reason why the game activates [Mobile Castle - Fortress] before Normal Summoning [Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X] with the effect of [Double Summon] is because it gathers three [Tool] monsters. Although [Mobile Castle - Fortress] is still in defense position, its attack power is indeed increased to 3000 points.

When [Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X] destroys a monster and inflicts damage to the opponent's Life Points, the damage is calculated based on the monster's ATK when it's on the field. A whopping 3000 points of effect damage was applied to the Blue God due to its powerful effect. Furthermore, because the game was being played seriously, this time [Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X] didn't hold back, dealing substantial damage typical of Dark Games!

Seeing Blue God knocked to the ground, Yugi put away his Duel Disk but didn't get too close. Instead, he observed his opponent and said, "You lost, Dark Blue God!"

"How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not some 'Dark Blue God'!" Propelling himself up and looking up at the game, the Blue God's expression was ferocious. "I am who I am, Diva Sin, that's my real name!"

With a look of resentment on his face, the Blue God, whose real name is "Diva Shin," seemed unwilling to accept the reality that he would lose to Yugi. "You are just a vessel for the Pharaoh, so why do you have such power, Yugi Muto!"

“Xin…” The game was somewhat familiar with this surname, but he didn’t pay much attention to it. Hearing the way Blue God addressed him, he frowned. “‘The Pharaoh’s Vessel’ and all that? Did you come to me because of another me, because of Atum? Who exactly are you?”

Having taken the damage from [Destroyer Dragon - Gandora X], Blue God's injuries from his previous duel with Hayato, which had not yet fully healed, worsened again. Pale-faced, Blue God forced himself to stand up and looked at Yugi, saying, "Me? I am a member of Prana, shouldering the mission of leading all mankind to salvation and fulfilling Lord Shadi Shin's prophecy of 'dimensional ascension'."

“We, Prana, who were born from humanity and are pioneers of evolution, should have stood with us and joined us. But instead, you and that Hayato Kobayashi are plotting to bring Pharaoh Atum, who has already returned to the underworld, back to the world of the living?”

As Blue God spoke, he raised his hand, and the game saw the same special effect as when those [Cube Boundaries] monsters appeared gather in Blue God's hand, turning into a small golden cube missing a corner.

At the same time, the amount of information in Blue God's words was really too much, and even the game couldn't fully understand it smoothly for a while: "Plana, Shadi?"

"If it weren't for that guy Hayato Kobayashi, our great mission would have already begun, with my [Quantum Cube]. But now, you should be grateful you escaped with your life, Yugi Muto!"

If everything goes smoothly as Shadi predicted, there is actually no need for Blue God to appear in front of Hayato or Yugi, because the Pharaoh's return to the underworld has sealed the Millennium Items. The seven Millennium Items, which originated from the ultimate darkness, will be reversed into the ultimate "good" under the guidance of the Quantum Cube.

Then, through the connection of their minds and consciousness via Prana, humanity will receive the miracle and salvation of "dimensional ascension." Even if anyone tries to interfere with their plans during this process, with the power of the harmonized [Quantum Cube], the Blue God can banish those troublesome individuals directly to similar but different dimensions.

But there are no "what ifs" in life. The reality is that Hayato Kobayashi has seized the power of the Millennium Item, preventing the Quantum Cube from unleashing its full power and making "dimensional ascension" impossible. At the same time, he is also plotting to bring Pharaoh Atum back to Earth.

Therefore, the Blue God had no choice but to approach Hayato to try to seize the card containing the power of the Millennium Item, and also to try to kill Yugi Muto, the vessel of the Pharaoh, but all of them ended in failure.

A flash of light appeared on the Quantum Cube, so bright that the game could barely open its eyes. When the light faded, the game opened its eyes again and found that there was no one in front of it. It seemed that Blue God had taken the opportunity to escape.

This left the game somewhat frustrated: "Damn it, we still couldn't rescue Blue God?"

—Until Blue God escaped, the game was unable to clarify the fact that Blue God had never been possessed or controlled in the first place.

Recalling what Blue God had just said, Yugi muttered to himself, "Judging from what he said, has he already approached Hayato? Could it be that Hayato's sudden departure was because he sensed that person's existence? I wonder how Hayato is doing now."

——————The dividing line of Blue God's escape——————

"Hey! Why is this happening?!" At the registration point for Seahorse Park, a black-haired boy slammed his hand on the table in protest. "Who made this rule?! This is outrageous!"

Catching the pen that almost rolled to the ground, Aoki, an ordinary employee, looked at the little boy in front of him and said calmly with dead fish eyes, "But rules are rules. People under 12 years old cannot participate."

"That's why I said who set that disgusting rule? I'm exactly 11 years old this year!" Jun said indignantly. "It was clearly a great opportunity to defeat that guy!"

"That guy?" Behind Jun Manjoume, a boy with brown and yellow hair styled like a jellyfish peeked out, looking at Jun Manjoume standing in front of him with a puzzled expression. "Who is he? Is he your new friend, Jun Manjoume? Wow, you're really good at making friends."

"It's Mr. Manjoume!"

"Okay, Ten Thousand Eyes Lightning!"

Seeing that Yuki Judai had come with him to register for the GeneX competition but failed to register due to his age, Manjou Jun, who had no way to deal with the other, left the registration line with him to let the others continue, and went to the side.

"Oh, don't worry, it's just that you can't register this year. You'll be 12 years old after your birthday in the second half of this year, right? Then you'll meet the minimum age requirement for registration next year."

Patting Manjoume on the shoulder, Judai said nonchalantly, "Didn't Mr. Hayato say that this competition will continue indefinitely? We'll have plenty of opportunities."

"Hmph, that's different. There's a difference between the first and second editions." Manjoume snorted coldly, shrugged his shoulders, and shook off Jaden's hand, speaking like a little adult. "Because it's the first time it's been held, the first GeneX tournament champion will have a greater reputation than the second champion, just like the first champion of a hit variety show has a much higher value than the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth editions."