"…Do you want to go to help him?"
Just a few minutes after Yami Yugi entered the stone slab and embarked on the journey of retrieving his own memory, a phantom appeared out of nowhere in the airtight hall.
Everyone turned around following the sound and found that a dark-skinned Egyptian suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the supposedly empty hall, wearing a white ring robe, with large golden earrings on his ears, and blue pupils suddenly appeared. It seemed very empty, but it made people feel unfathomable upon careful observation.
Jonouchi and Honda yelled "Ghost", and the two brothers hugged each other like monkeys climbing a tree.
"Shadi!" Yugi Muto recognized the other party's identity at a glance.
Both Shadi and the Ishtar family were the tomb guards of the Pharaoh in modern times, but the difference was that he was already dead. Five years ago, the Millennium Ring was unsealed, and the great evil god Zorc killed him when his soul woke up.
Shadi, who appeared in front of everyone now, was actually a soul that reluctantly continued to cling to the land of living for his responsibility and mission to the Pharaoh.
The players who were watching the CG paddling immediately got excited.
Come, come, their chance to join the plot is finally coming!
"Do you want to go to help him?" Shadi asked this question again.
"Yes!" Yugi Muto nodded vigorously.
"The only way to get to him is to find the pharaoh's real 'soul room' in the Millennium Puzzle."
Shadi spoke slowly, and took out a shining golden instrument from the wide robe that resembled the ankh in "Monster Reborn".
The Millennium Key, one of seven Millennium Items, was an artifact that could connect to the inner world of others.
"Using this 'Millennium Key', I can lead you into the Pharaoh's 'Maze of Heart', but whether you can find the real room in the labyrinth depends on you.
But you need to be careful, once you stumble into that maze, you will probably fall into the abyss of eternal doom, and you will never come back. Even so, would you like to go? "
There was hardly any hesitation in Yugi's voice: "I do!"
"Is it needless to say? We are partners, of course, we must go together!" Jonouchi also responded.
The tool people who were only thinking about joining the plot quickly nodded like chickens pecking at rice: "Yes, yes!"
"Good."
Shadi said lightly and raised the Millennium Key in his hand.
The golden ankh exuded dazzling brilliance. A gentle and invisible force seemed to have grabbed their souls and pulled them lightly out of their bodies. The Millennium Puzzle on Yugi's chest also emitted light in response, as if opening the door for them.
…
The speed of time in the memory world was different from that of the outside world. You could spend many days in this virtual world, and the outside world may only pass one minute.
On the first day of coming here, Yuei Vu received a side quest of "eradicating monsters" in a small town, and received a lot of money from the local magistrate.
Although the NPCs here also resented Yuei Vu as a "heretic", they were still more afraid of the dormant monsters in this area. It was said that many people have become the rations of that monster these days. Although people have been sent to the royal palace to ask for help, it would take some time for the journey and related procedures. During this period, people may die every day.
Yuei Vu accepted the commission without much thought, and went to challenge the monster described by the locals as vicious and terrifying near midnight, but found that…
…It turned out to be just an old tree that had grown into a spirit.
There was also such a card in the Yu-Gi-Oh card, called "Ancient Tree of Enlightenment", a Normie with 600 ATK and 1500 DEF…
So without any surprise, Masked HERO Goka smashed through it with a fist, and it was burnt to ashes from the trunk to the root.
This entrustment allowed Yuei Vu to earn a lot of money, at least he didn't have to worry about travel expenses for a short time. In addition, he specifically asked the officials for a map of the whole area, so that he could identify the direction and travel.
This made Yuei Vu feel like a demon hunter who ran around picking up garbage. You were usually not seen, and you were only remembered when people needed you to kill monsters.
He wandered around the map, picking up missions in a village from time to time to earn extra money. If he encountered any troubles, just light up the Duel Disk and ask——
——Would you like a tense and exciting game of cards?
It felt quite similar, even the model of "you can solve all problems by playing cards" is exactly the same. This once made Yuei Vu feel that he might not have logged into the card game version of the "Witcher" series of games.
After getting the map, the problem of having no sense of direction was solved first. Yuei Vu judged his location according to the label of the town where he was and found that his login location was probably at the boundary of the entire diorama, which seemed to be a little far from the palace where the Pharaoh was.
But for the time being, he was not in a hurry to go to the palace, but set foot in the exact opposite direction, continuing to march towards the border.
On the way, he was commissioned to fight monsters and occasionally picked up garbage. Yuei Vu even enjoyed this super-real card-playing RPG for a while.
He felt more and more that the priests of ancient Egypt were really awesome. They actually developed such an interesting immersive RPG game 3,000 years ago, and even far more realistic than the video game 3,000 years later…
After two days, he finally arrived at the destination he was aiming at.
This was located at the map boundary of the entire memory sandbox, and there was no way to move on. After all, no matter how realistic it is, the game map had boundaries. This memory sandbox covered most of the area of Egypt three thousand years ago in the Pharaoh's memory, but there was only a blank space in the farther place.
At this moment, the place Yuei Vu came to was not strictly speaking the area under the jurisdiction of the Pharaoh, but one of the hidden branch areas in the RPG game map.
It's called "The Land of Trials".
It was said that three thousand years ago, Pharaoh himself passed the test of light and darkness here and was recognized, and obtained the high-level power called "Chaos".
Of course, that was three thousand years ago.
However, this world was built based on the Pharaoh's memory, even "The Land of Trials" in his memory has also reappeared on the map.
"Young man, are you an outsider?"
The person speaking was dressed as a mage, but his whole body was tightly wrapped and only a pair of eyes were exposed. The voice seemed to be that of an old man. There were five-pointed star magic circles drawn on the hood wrapped around his head and the clothes on his chest.
This was the "Ancient Sorcerer". In the future duel monster game, it was also a monster card with an attack power of 1000.
He was the gatekeeper of The Land of Trials.
"Yeah." Yuei Vu nodded and admitted.
"That's how it is. It is true that occasionally outsiders come to this trial site, wanting to get treasures from here." The ancient magister nodded clearly, and said, "The trial site allows any warrior with strength to enter and challenge. But the weak are not welcome.
If you want to pass from here, you must first prove your own strength. "
Yuei Vu nodded: "How to prove it?"
The Ancient Sorcerer was serious, showing off the golden armband he wore on his forearm, a few grids popped out under the armband, it looked like…
…like a rich gold version of the Duel Disk.
"Pass through the sacred battle ceremony!" The Ancient Sorcerer said loudly, "If you can beat me in the ceremony, you will have the qualification to enter!"
Yuei Vu: "…"
So… still playing cards?