Chapter 2

All players, upon creating their accounts and logging in, will automatically have a Duel Disk equipped, which is equivalent to a starter pack.

The timeline for the Link World game's server opening is set during the Duelist Kingdom arc of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. At this point, KaibaCorp had just developed the Duel Disk, a device that could project holographic images of monsters for card battles, and generously provided these new Duel Disks to all "recognized" duelists for free.

You Yu confirmed that the time he had been reborn into seemed to be even earlier than the server opening.

On the GG sign on one side of the commercial district street, it read that KaibaCorp's Duelist Kingdom tournament was still over a month away, which also meant that the game's server opening and the influx of real card players were still about a month away.

Emmm.....

...A month is way too short, right?

According to this kind of rebirth trope, shouldn't there be at least three years to develop before waiting for the players to come and be harvested?

In a month, who knows if you can even build a decent deck in a game like Link World that is both liver-destroying and hair-loss-inducing....

It's worth noting that many cards that can be easily obtained in real life might be highly rare in Link World. Even if you go all out and grind, there's no guarantee you can get them.

For example, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

This card can never be drawn from the system's card pool, and up until You Yu's arrival, there was no news of any player obtaining it through quests.

While there's no solid evidence, some even suspect that there might be only three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in the entire game, all in the hands of the NPC Seto Kaiba....

There are other rare cards, like the Dark Magician, which, while not as rare as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, are still extremely difficult to obtain and cannot be drawn from the system's card pool.

In short, certain rare cards and decks in Link World are a bit like secret manuals in martial arts games; whether you can obtain them depends not only on your game skills but also on your luck.

As everyone knows, decks are the most powerful weapons in the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, so it was natural for You Yu to check his initial deck shortly after being reborn into this world....

...And as expected, it was a set of Elemental Heroes.

Wow! Starting with a set of Elemental Heroes! Being a protagonist's deck, it must be pretty awesome, right?

...Hell no!

Not only are there no "Hero Arrival" or "Masked Change" cards, but can't you at least give me a Sky Lark?

Without Sky Lark, who the hell would want to be a hero?

(Note: Elemental Hero Sky Lark, 4 stars, Attack 1800, Defense 300

Effect: When this card is successfully summoned or special summoned, you can choose to activate one of the following effects.

1) Select and destroy up to the number of "Hero" monsters on your field, excluding this card, of magic and trap cards on the field.

2) Add one "Hero" monster from your deck to your hand.)

However, not only are there no such powerful cards, but the system's initial deck doesn't even have a single fusion card. Not to mention the powerful monsters that came later, the entire deck seems to have no effect monsters at all.

In other words, it looks like he has to start from scratch, relying on the famous "Four Soul (Waste) Heroes" to make his way in the world....

The "Four Soul (Waste) Heroes" refer to the earliest Elemental Heroes used by Jaden Yuki in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Wingman, Heat, Clayman, and Sparkman. Because they are all normal monsters with no effects and low attack power, they have been given this glorious title by fellow players....

Of course, there's not much to complain about, as this initial deck was the one You Yu chose when creating this alt account.

When creating a character, the system offers many different themed initial decks for players to choose from. However, after research, players found that it doesn't really matter which one they choose, as the initial decks only give you a bunch of useless normal monsters.

These monsters are respectfully referred to as "common bones" by the player community....

So why did this alt account choose to start with Elemental Heroes?

That's because You Yu had promised his audience at the end of his last video that the next video would feature a "pure" Hero deck. Who knew he wouldn't become a hero and would end up being transported with his account? (Giant Soldier Warning.JPG)

However, You Yu has another advantage.

As a reborn player, he clearly remembers various anecdotes and side quests that have occurred since the game's server opened, including some hidden plots.

He remembers that in his previous life, a player seemed to have triggered a one-time hidden plot and received a substantial reward, becoming a top-tier player in the arena for multiple versions.

You Yu carefully recalled and organized the various hidden plots and quests with rich rewards that he remembered, but most of them either had extremely strict triggering conditions, required one-in-a-million luck, or had complex processes and required strong skills—

—You often need a powerful deck to meet the conditions to complete the quests.

Some quests and plots might be very dangerous, even life-threatening.

What? You say a card game can be fatal?

That's right.

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe, there are supernatural powers, the most well-known of which is the "Dark Game."

The Dark Game is said to be an ancient ritual passed down from ancient Egypt, which can be initiated by those who possess supernatural powers.

This power can affect any game with rules and a win/lose condition, regardless of the type of game, such as card games, mahjong, chess, or even coin flipping.

However, among all types of rituals, the game of Duel Monsters has the strongest magical power. Dark Games based on Duel Monsters rules often involve the souls of the participants and sometimes even transcend life and death, known as forbidden games.

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe, there are actually many people who possess dark powers, not just the few shown in the anime.

Each generation of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime focuses on the protagonist, so viewers only see what the protagonist sees.

But in reality, this is just the tip of the iceberg in this universe. The Yu-Gi-Oh! story involves gods and demons, the human world and the underworld, time travel, and dimensional barriers.

In fact, there have always been different levels of dark power users scattered around the world, and the ancient ritual has been passed down for thousands of years without interruption.

This is also why the gameplay of Link World is so rich. Players don't have to revolve around the main storyline and can trigger other plot quests in other regions that are not shown in the anime.

However, these power users vary in strength. The strong ones, like the Millennium Item holders, can even connect to the underworld and transcend time, while the weak ones....

...Well, they might just make the loser of the game bark like a dog.

For players, it doesn't really matter. Even if their game characters die in a Dark Game, they can still be revived. The worst loss for players is just the failure of the corresponding quest.

But for You Yu, it's different.

Although he still has the game interface, his template has become that of an NPC. Who knows if he can be revived if he dies in a Dark Game.

So, as a precaution, he doesn't plan to take on these dangerous quests for now.