The protagonist of the Yu-Gi-Oh! world might be the same person.

Soon, Isono raised his right hand: "The duel begins!"

Yugi Muto: LP4000

[Dark Malik: LP4000]

"Heh heh heh, I'll make the first move, here I come!"

Dark Malik licked the lollipop and then held it high.

The eyeball on the Millennium Staff emitted a golden light, and the top of the Duel Tower was quickly shrouded in black mist.

"This is a dark game!"

This was the first time the game had faced such a brutal battle head-on. In the past, the Dark Games had always been handled by Yugi, so he was a little nervous about playing against a Dark Duelist for the first time.

Of course, since you can switch players at any time in the game, I'm not too afraid.

"Hehehe, I've prepared the ultimate dark game for this duel with you. Once one of us is defeated in the duel, his soul will be devoured by darkness."

Because Dark Malik is still relatively weak, he cannot take other souls hostage as he did in the original work, so he can only use the souls of the duelists as stakes.

"Alright, the gates of hell are now opening, hehehehehe..."

After laughing, Dark Marik finally recovered from his initial fear.

Then he drew out a card.

"Let's begin, my turn, draw a card!"

[Dark Malik's hand: 5 → 6]

He picked up three cards: "Defense position summon [Guide to the Underworld]..."

Dark Marik played this card again.

[Guide to the Underworld: Defense 800]

"Then I'll cover two more cards, and the turn ends."

After having two more cards covered, he was satisfied and announced the end of the round.

[Dark Malik's hand: 6 → 3]

"My turn, draw a card!"

[Yugi Muto's hand cards: 5→6]

After drawing a card, the game immediately inserts a card from your hand into the Duel Disk.

"I activate the Spell Card [Bitter Choice] from my hand."

Show 5 cards from your deck to your opponent. Your opponent then chooses 1 card from those cards. The card your opponent chose is added to their hand, and the rest are discarded to the graveyard.

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[Yugi Muto's hand cards: 6→5]

The five cards selected by the game were lined up and shown to Dark Malik.

—【The Sealed Exodia】, 【The Sealed One's Left Arm】, 【The Sealed One's Right Arm】, 【The Sealed One's Left Foot】, 【The Sealed One's Right Foot】!

Dark Malik couldn't help but click his tongue: "Tsk! As expected, it's [Exodia] again."

However, he soon broke into a smile.

"But sending [Exodia] to the graveyard means you've abandoned your previous tactics, hehehe..."

This immediately relieved a lot of his pressure.

So after that, he picked a card to add to the game.

The game then directly placed that card onto the Duel Disk.

"I summon [The Left Arm of the Sealed One] from my hand."

With a flash of light, a giant yellow hand was projected in front of the game.

[The sealed person's left arm: Attack power 200]

"Foolish! This guy actually used the same tactics as that old man!"

Seeing the game summon a component, the president was somewhat disappointed, believing that using this strategy was abandoning Exodia's strongest ability.

While that's true, the game isn't going to summon a useless character like Gosaburo's [Exodia's Undead].

At this point, the game picks up another card.

"I release one of my 'Sealed' monsters from my field and Special Summon this card from my hand."

As he spoke, his left wrist disappeared from the game field, and at the same time, he slammed the card in his hand onto the duel disk.

"A fall! The true form of the Demon God, [Summoning God Exodia]!"

The pentagram array opened a portal to another dimension, and a complete Exodia emerged from it, descending onto the game's field.

[Summoning God Exodia: ? → 5000]

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[Yugi Muto's hand cards: 5→4]

"It's [Summoning God Exodia]!? Impossible, I've never heard of such a card before! And its attack power is a whopping 5000 points..."

The president, who was already in a bad mood, was stunned by the sudden situation.

The game then begins to explain the effect: "[Summon God Exodia]'s attack power is determined by the monsters in the graveyard."

This card gains 1000 ATK for each Sealed monster in your Graveyard.

Therefore, the attack power of the summoned god is only five thousand.

The game continues, "And this card is unaffected by the effects of other cards!"

"What?! It actually possesses abilities comparable to the God Cards!"

Dark Marik was immediately thrown into a panic.

This is the most crucial point. The reason the game summons this monster is to guard against Dark Malik's God Card. All resistance doesn't matter whether it's a god or a monster.

He's in for a lot of trouble now.

Chapter Fifty-Eight: The God Who Couldn't Take the Stage

"Here we go, Malik!"

Once a summoning god with all resistances is summoned, the game can proceed directly into the battle phase without any probing.

"Battle has begun! I'm using [Summoning God Exodia] to attack [Underworld Guide]! Demon God Flame Cannon!"

The demon god, following the attack command, unleashed demonic flames that instantly obliterated the demon.

After that, the game said, "According to the monster effect of [Underworld Guide], if this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, it will automatically activate the effect of destroying one monster on the field, but [Summoning God Exodia] will not be affected by that effect."

Dark Malik's expression was grim: "Tsk, what an annoying ability..."

This is an effect that he couldn't possibly handle even after completely searching for it.

Finally, the game ends with the two cards from your hand being inserted into the duel disk.

"Cover two cards, my turn is over."

[Yugi Muto's hand cards: 4→2]

"And the additional effect of [Summon God Exodia] is activated."

Activate this effect during your End Phase. Add 1 "Sealed" monster from your Graveyard to your hand.

"It even has the effect of recycling [Exodia]!? That's a terrifying card... This is so much stronger than the card Gosaburo used!"

President Kaiba suddenly realized just how vast the gap was between the game and his adoptive father.

At this point, the game has already taken a card from the graveyard.

"I add [Sealed Exodia] from the graveyard to my hand."

[Yugi Muto's hand cards: 2→3]

[Summon God Exodia: Attack Power 5000 → 4000]

"Attack power has decreased... So be it! Although [Summoning God Exodia] is very powerful now, as long as my attack power is enough, I can destroy it, hahahaha..."

Seeing Dark Malik talking to himself, the others were speechless.

Wang Yang: Is this guy crazy? Does he think AIBO's face cards are just for show?

Jonouchi: That's right...

President: ......

They know all too well how outrageous the game can be. Look at that brat from before, wasn't he also tricked into questioning his existence by being so badly scammed?

Therefore, the tragic fate that awaited Dark Malik was already foreseeable.

"My turn, draw a card!"

[Dark Malik's hand: 3 → 4]

Dark Marik eagerly drew a card.

"Hahaha, here it comes!"

The veins on his face bulged wildly.

"Did you draw a God Card?"

The game immediately realized what the card was.

Dark Marik's smile grew even more unrestrained: "Hehehe, you're right, this card is the strongest god, [Winged Dragon of the Sun God]."

"Then I will discard this card as a price to activate the Spell Card [Resurrection of the Dead], adding a monster from the Graveyard to my hand, which is to say, adding [Ghost Guide] to my hand."

This two-for-one trade seems like a bad deal, and it actually is a bad deal, but his only goal was to throw the God Card into the graveyard.

[Dark Malik's hand: 4 → 3]

However, this move did surprise the audience.

Wang Yang was somewhat confused: "Impossible! He actually discarded such a powerful God Card..."

Game shook his head: "No, it must be that the [Winged Dragon of the Sun God] had some hidden special ability that made it deliberately discarded."

"Hidden special abilities...that does seem possible..."

Wang Yang stopped worrying about it.

I just don't know what the other party wants to do.

However, the answer will be revealed soon.

At this moment, Malik picked up two cards.

"I set one card face down from my hand and then summon [Demon Pestle]."

【Demon-shaped Pestle: Attack Power 1700】

[Dark Malik's hand: 3 → 1]

"Attack signal summons a monster!? There's a conspiracy!"

Thinking of this, the quick-thinking game player immediately clicked the button and flipped over one of his face-down cards.

"I discard [Sealed Exodia] and activate the Trap Card [Causal Break]!"

You can discard 1 card from your hand, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; banish that monster. If any card with the same name as the banished card is in your opponent's Graveyard, banish all cards with the same name as that banished card.

[Yugi Muto's hand cards: 3→2]

[Summon God Exodia: Attack Power 4000 → 5000]

"The one I'm excluding, of course, is the [Demon-Forming Pestle]!"

As soon as the game was finished, the Demon Pestle vanished from Dark Marik's field.

"Tch! That's decisive enough..."

Now that his monster had been eliminated, Dark Marik had to temporarily abandon his original plan.

"Well, I'll let you escape this time, Yugi!"