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

Chapter 78 Logging into the Duel Kingdom Tournament (Please Subscribe)

"Oh, right! Duelists all over the world! To celebrate the resounding success of the national tournaments, to celebrate the replacement of the existing rules by the Expert Rules, and to celebrate the upcoming Duel Kingdom tournament, we at International Illusion will be releasing a brand new card pack based on the Expert Rules!"

"In addition to the original cards, a brand new Field Spell Card will also be released. Please check our official website for details on how to use it."

"New rules, new duel boards, a new era has begun."

"I sincerely hope that all duelists can become stronger in this new era!"

"Alright, duelists! See you at the Duel Kingdom Tournament in three months!"

After Hyoga finished speaking and bowed, all the lights shining on him disappeared, and the brightest light in the entire arena returned to the "Duel King" badge on the big screen.

The live broadcast signal to the world was also cut off at this time, and the last image left on this channel was also the "Duel King" badge.

Many duelists stared at the badge, reluctant to change the channel for a long time.

However, many more people have flocked to the International Fantasy Society's official website, wanting to find out more details about this huge rule change.

The original dueling rules had become quite rigid.

The high-attack monsters are mostly taken up by veteran players who started the game earlier, making it really difficult for new duelists to defeat them.

However, the Superior Summoning rule in the Expert Rules now prevents those high-star, high-attack monsters that the old duelists possess from being directly summoned onto the field, giving later duelists a greater chance to defeat them.

This can be considered a kind of balancing adjustment.

Moreover, new card packs are coming soon, which will definitely contain many new cards. Many duelists are already eager to acquire those powerful monsters that are becoming increasingly rare.

Although many new duelists previously criticized the old-timers for possessing high-level monsters, when it came to their own opportunity to obtain them, their behavior was not much different from what they had criticized the old-timers for.

Also, that's the Duel Disk.

A large number of people who can only be considered players, not duelists, are searching the official website for information on how to purchase duel disks.

However, an announcement stated that the International Vision Company has already distributed a large number of Duel Disks around the world, with at least one sales location in each country, and offline sales will begin at midnight.

However, the specific sales locations will be announced at midnight.

Some duelists, seeing that there were still two hours until midnight, temporarily relaxed.

But after seeing the announcement, many duelists got dressed and rushed out of their homes.

Even if it's not mentioned in the announcement, there are only a few locations in many countries where Duel Disks are eligible to be sold. Why don't you just go find them?

Soon enough, less than ten minutes after the national competition ended, long queues had already formed outside many shops around the world.

The shop owners were preparing with their employees to open at midnight, as agreed with the International Illusion Society!

Upon hearing the news, he opened the door, saw the situation outside, and quickly retreated back inside.

With so many eager eyes, if the door had been open any longer, and these duelists had seen the dueling disks already displayed in the shop, it would have been almost certain that a free purchase event would have occurred.

Horrible!

The game and the others were looking at the International Illusion Society's official website when they heard a lot of voices outside the game room, along with loud knocking on the door.

"Who is it? The arcade has been closed for ages! Want to duel tomorrow—"

Jonouchi curiously opened the door, but was so frightened that he stopped talking halfway through.

Because Jonouchi saw that there was a long queue outside their game shop.

The first few people in line saw the game room open and, with red eyes, wanted to rush inside.

They want to buy duel disks.

Fortunately, Jonouchi and Honda did their best to block them all.

The game developers, after figuring out the situation, shouted that they didn't sell duel disks there, and the players stopped.

Undeterred, they glanced inside the game shop again. It certainly didn't look like they were going to start selling Duel Disks at midnight. Disappointed, they spat out their contempt, "Pah! This crappy game shop wasted so much of my time! Let's go to the next one, the Sanmachi Game Shop."

So the crowd that had just formed a long queue all ran away.

But even before midnight, a steady stream of players continued to come here to inquire about the Duel Disk.

Even if the door is closed, these people will keep knocking.

There was no other way but for Jonouchi and Honda to continue standing guard at the door, making sure the players could see that there really were no duel disks in the game room before they could all be driven away.

Seeing this, Kyoko exclaimed with genuine emotion, "They're really passionate!"

Yugi nodded and smiled, "Because Duel Monsters is really fun!"

After watching Mr. Hyoga and President Pegasus demonstrate the Expert Rules in their duel, I realized that the "village rules" gameplay that Mr. Hyoga taught me was actually the new Expert Rules.

I really like this "village rule" and I've been playing according to it these past few days with Jonouchi.

Unexpectedly, I got a taste of the new era's rules of the game ahead of time, as if I had gotten a free ride.

Just as Yugi pulled out his deck, wondering if he needed to make some adjustments, he heard Kyoko calling his name, "Yugi, come quick! The International Illusion Club's official website has updated with another announcement about those of you who have been invited to participate in the Duel Kingdom Tournament."

Upon hearing this, the game player naturally rushed over.

The announcement was simple: those who were invited can now log in according to the instructions on the invitation!

This means filling in the numbers on both the [Weapon] and [Kingdom] cards, and eight hours later, an agent from the International Fantasy Society will deliver the weapon and kingdom to the invitee.

For those without an invitation, it's virtually impossible to guess the number by trickery.

Each card has a ten-digit number, which together makes a twenty-digit password. If someone manages to guess it correctly, they'll really be wasting their lifespan!

And even if someone were to guess correctly, the weapons and kingdom would only be delivered to the corresponding invitee.

"Game, do you want to log in now?" Anzu read the announcement aloud and then looked at the game.

But as soon as she turned her head, she felt like she saw another person.

Compared to the original, rather childish games, the current games feel very mature and cool—they even have muscular arms!

It's obvious that the Dark Game has emerged.

When it came to participating in the Duel Kingdom tournament, the gentle cousin naturally left the choice to Yami Yugi.

"Alright! Let's log in now!" Yami Yugi said with a smile. "Even if someone tries to steal my weapons and kingdom, I will never lose!"

Anzu looked at the game at that moment, a hint of shyness appearing on her face.

But in order to avoid being discovered by the game, Kyoko took the two cards that the game handed her and filled in all twenty digits of the number.

After confirmation, a notification popped up on the official website: "Congratulations on successful login! You have been confirmed as Duelist Yugi Muto. Our specialists will deliver the weapon and kingdom to you in eight hours! Please look forward to it!"

"You did it!" Kyoko exclaimed happily. "I really look forward to seeing you shine in this match! Show your full strength and take back the title of 'Duel King'!"

Yami Yugi nodded. "That's what I think too."

Kyoko wanted to say something more, but then she suddenly felt that the game had returned to its usual state.

She swallowed back the words that were already on the tip of her tongue.

"Oh, right!" Kyoko changed the subject, "Here's a list of registered duelists. Let me see if you were the first one to log in."

Xingzi clicked on the relevant page and found that three people were already logged in.

The game is in the second position; the picture above is a frontal shot of a card game in progress.

"This must have been taken by Mr. Hyoga, right?" Yugi looked at the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl that he had summoned in front of him, confirming that he had only summoned them at the same time recently when he was dueling with Mr. Hyoga.

But I didn't see him take out a camera at the time.

"No, it's not a game! This isn't a photograph, it's a painting!" Kyoko confirmed with absolute certainty after examining it closely. 6C

He must have drawn it after he left.

The game was surprising.

Someone actually drew a picture of themselves!

I suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Of the three people who have already logged in, the third one has an English name, so he must be the national champion of some country.

His picture also shows him summoning his strongest monster in the tournament and winning the victory.

It is also an oil painting.

But Kyoko felt that it shouldn't be by the same artist as the one in the game.

As for the first person—

That's Seto Kaiba!

His picture shows him summoning three blue-eyed white dragons at the same time.

Just by looking at this picture, you can imagine his domineering nature.

As expected of the first person to log in, without the slightest hesitation.

Of course, this picture of his is also an oil painting.

Kyoko is certain that this image and the one from the game are by the same artist.

But after watching the game, I felt something was off.

Even though all three Blue-Eyes White Dragons were behind him, in the painting, one Blue-Eyes White Dragon was still faintly reflected in Kaiba's eyes.

This must be a drawing error, right?

After all, the fourth [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] had already been torn to shreds by Kaiba!

It's impossible to be his enemy!

Haima Group headquarters.

The seahorse, which had successfully logged in, frowned as it looked at its own image.

When did this happen?

Since his battle with Yugi, Kaiba has fought several duels, but he has never summoned three Blue-Eyes White Dragons at the same time again—there has been no opponent worthy of his attention.

But if the painting is from more than six months ago, then his duel with the game doesn't make sense, does it? The clothes he's wearing are clearly from recently.

Most importantly, the seahorse also discovered the blue-eyed white dragon reflected in his own eyes in the painting.

It's that vengeful ghost!

That bastard!!!