"Even the apocalypse will not stop the president's card addiction", this sentence definitely did not contain any exaggeration.
The little trouble with Noah and Gozaburo did not affect the president's determination to play cards at all. The dueling boat that regained control quickly returned to its normal track and began to march towards the final location – Alcatraz island.
As mentioned before, Alcatraz was the wreckage left by Gozaburo's ambition to conquer the world. In fact, for President Kaiba, this match on Alcatraz was a crucial turning point in his entire life.
Seto and Mokuba lost their parents when they were young, and their relatives fought over the inheritance. The brothers ended up in an orphanage with no one to care about.
Seto won the opportunity to turn around in his life through his own strength, but after becoming the adopted son of Gozaburo, his childhood was still gloomy. From beginning to end, Gozaburo just treated him as a business machine, trying to squeeze all the value out of his genius mind, and in the end, he even conspired to take away his body as well, making him a container for Noah.
Now, these have all been overcome by the Kaiba. He preemptively knocked down the opponent before Gozaburo started, and won the Kaiba Corp, becoming the winner who stood until the end. But there was nothing worth looking back on on the road of Kaiba's life that has come to this point.
All he saw was the future.
In Kaiba's eyes, the future had infinite possibilities, while the past was just a footprint. What has passed has no meaning, and the true king should always look to the future.
That's what he wanted to do – win the title of Duel King in the duel on Alcatraz Island, say goodbye to everything in the past, and take a new step.
Before reaching the target, of course, Yuei Vu did not hesitate to get all the new crystals from the Noah mission and smashed them all into the system card pool.
In fact, in all fairness, the reward given by this plot mission was really rich: 3000 crystals for one quest.
Such a huge amount was enough to make most players smile in their sleep, but Yuei Vu, who was used to harvesting, felt it was not much…
As expected, nothing of high rarity came out. Among the few URs and SRs, most of them were duplicates of his existing cards.
On the contrary, Mokuba kept his promise, and immediately dragged him a box of cards to replenish ammunition after getting on the airship.
It was conceivable that since it was presented by the Kaiba Corp, the box contained entirely rare cards.
It's just that most of them were actually useless Normies. The proportions could be roughly referred to in the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! DM, when President Kaiba tried to use it to fool Yugi's grandpa and wanted to exchange "Blue Eyes White Dragon" with a case of Normies…
But there were still a few useful cards.
One was the "Card of Demise" that Yuei Vu has long been thinking about. If possible, he actually wanted to get a few more, but maybe the president felt that it was useless to bring too much of this stuff, so only one was given in the box.
In addition to this, there was another Thousands of Years Banned Card from the DM era – Ring of Destruction.
Ring of Destruction (Normal Trap Card): Destroys a monster on the field, and inflicts damage equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster to all players.
A simple and rude, yet powerful and effective Trap Card, that's why in the real card environment it has been banned for a long time. In the DM, President Kaiba usually used it, and it has also appeared many times in the GX anime.
This was indeed a good card that might come in handy.
The sincerity was indeed enough. Yuei Vu boldly speculates that although President Kaiba was full of "nosy" disgust every time he saw him, he may actually be grateful.
It's just that he didn't say it himself, and let his brother do it all for him.
The dueling boat landed on the ruined island. Everyone followed Kaiba and walked into the towering iron tower in front of them. There was a sense of sacred ceremony.
"So… do we still have to draw lots now?" Jonouchi consciously stood in the auditorium and looked around, "Hey! Kaiba, you won't cheat at this, will you? For example, deliberately assigned to be in the same group with Yugi or something…"
Kaiba folded his arms and snorted, ignoring it.
At the same time, four metal door panels were automatically opened on the surrounding walls, and an elevator equipped with a computer was placed behind each door.
The invincible referee, Uncle Isono, appeared again and calmly explained the semi-final grouping rules to everyone.
Each of the top four players must stand on one of the elevators, spread out to four different corners, and each fight for a four-person Battle Royal.
Under the Battle Royal rules, all players could not attack in the first round. Each player represented their own side. There were no teammates. Participants could attack any side they like.
The player's LP was connected directly to the elevator computer under them. Whenever a player lost LP, the lift would rise by the corresponding height.
The grouping rule was also simple. The two people whose LPs were down to zero first were the first group, and the remaining two whose LPs were not reset to zero were the second group.
The two winners in each of the semifinals would enter the final, and the champion would get the title of Duel King.
This plan was really very President Kaiba-ish – there was no problem in the world that could not be solved by playing cards, and even the order of playing cards could be solved by playing cards…
But in this way, winning or losing the duel became irrelevant. There was no benefit in winning or losing, it was nothing more than a way to decide the opponents of the top four.
Thinking of this, the brains of the participants quickly became active.
Especially if you looked at the president, he has just stood on the elevator platform, the machine has not started yet, his eyes are already fixed on the opposite Yugi, and his heart may still be crying silently——
——Yu ↑ Gi ↓!
This duel will be the site of our fateful battle, so get ready to go full speed ahead!
During this period, the president seemed to remember something, glanced at Yuei Vu, and seemed to think of the "Osiris the Sky Dragon" in his hand, and also thought of the cards they couldn't finish because the Duel Disk's screw was lost.
The president pondered for a second or two…
…and then looked back at Yugi with burning eyes.
Sure enough, the opponent I want to fight the most is you! Yu ↑ Gi ↓!
Although Yuei Vu was also a man recognized by the president, their duel was just a draw. But for him, Yugi was a peak standing in his heart. Yugi has made him feel powerless to fight back more than once. It was an existence he was eager to surpass.
In addition to this "Yugi torture me a thousand times" mentality, Kaiba felt that there seemed to be something beyond time and space that guided him to fight Yugi again, like an invisible rope. brought them together – although he wouldn't admit to this "supernatural trick".
And compared to Yugi, Yuei Vu…
. . . . . just be a bit handsome.
Marik was even more undisguised. He was not even on the elevator, yet has already started to laugh vulgarly while staring at the back of Yugi, like a perverted uncle following a loli.
That expression was as if it was explicitly written – I don't want to play if the opponent is not Yugi!
Looking at President Kaiba and six-year-old Marik, all four eyes fell on Yugi, Yuei Vu deeply felt that he was like a little transparent who was ignored, he couldn't help but feel worried about the insecurity of the Pharaoh…
The contestants each boarded their own lift platform with their thoughts in mind. The device was activated, and the four-person lift platform rose to the designated height at the same time and stopped.
With the order of the referee Isono, this great Battle Royal that was involving the reincarnation of the Pharaoh three thousand years ago, the priest and the next pharaoh, the descendants of the Tomb Keepers who bear the fate of revenge… and an outsider with the Yu prefix, has been kicked off.
"Duel!" x4
Yami Yugi went first: "My turn, draw! I summon 'Celtic Guardian' in attack position!"
The projection equipment in the duel venue was running, and the light and shadow effect projected the image of a swordsman in steel armor and a cloak, holding a sword horizontally in front of the chest, protecting it in front of the master.
[Celtic Guardian, ATK 1400]
This guy was also one of the representative monsters of Muto Yugi. His appearance rate may even be as high as that of Yugi's ace "Dark Magician".
It's just that his name may be slightly wrong, and it may be more appropriate to change it to "Elf Swordsman Who Was Tossed by the Enemy". Because the role of this poor swordsman every time was cannon fodder summoned to the field by Yugi to be beaten first. He was also affectionately called "cannon fodder swordsman" by the players…
"I end my turn." Yugi declared.
"Then it's my turn next, draw!" It was President Kaiba's turn, "I summon the 'Vorse Raider' in attack position!"
[Vorse Raider, ATK 1900]
"Set another card, I end my turn!"
After quickly completing the action of playing cards, the president's eyes returned to Yugi again, and there was a great urge to go up and put Yugi on the ground to play cards with him…