Chapter Thirty-Six: Turmoil in the Underworld
As mentioned before, the world of Yu-Gi-Oh is actually full of magic, black technology, magic, aliens, etc., everything is strange.
What is shown in the anime is just the tip of the iceberg of this world. The holders of several thousand-year-old artifacts in the DM animation are the best of the dark duelists and belong to the top group of strong men. But this is by no means to say that only the thousand-year-old artifact in this world is the source of supernatural power.
For example, Mr. T, whom You Yu met before, the Darkness hidden behind him is a dark power with a completely different system from the thousand-year-old artifact.
Another example is the mysterious group "Seven Stars" that appeared in the Three Illusions chapter in Yu-Gi-Oh GX. Everyone in the group is a dark duelist from a different background, including elves, vampire descendants, alchemists, and more.
The "Nightcrawler World" that You Yu found at this moment is exactly where this kind of people gather.
To put it simply, this is the club of the Dark Duelists, a bit like the League of Killers.
Members here also sometimes accept commissions through the club that serves as a platform to complete some gray tasks.
The loser in the dark game must obey the winner according to the established rules, and those with high enough ability can completely turn the loser into their own puppet. With this kind of power, it is easy to make people in positions of great importance or important value obey, and help people to achieve some special goals easily.
And if you want to erase someone with a dark game, you can completely drag that person into the darkness from body to soul, leaving no clues at all, and there is no way to find out with conventional means.
Even if some Dark Duelist has the power of Darkness, then he can even completely erase the existence of a person, including relatives and friends, through the dark game, without even anyone noticing that such a person has disappeared from the world.
Nowadays, many of the world's top people who know the secrets actually know that the dark game exists. The organization of the Dark Duelists has no nationality or power restrictions, and if it must be said, they maintain a near-neutral attitude, and never deliberately favor one side over the other.
They will make a bid for any country or individual who is suitable, and they have good cooperative relations with many countries and powers.
It feels a little bit like a mercenary, but with a twist.
People outside the circle take a respectful attitude towards the dark duelists, because the dark duelists with extraordinary powers are mysterious and powerful from the perspective of ordinary people.
However, in the GX period, there seem to be some ordinary people who are indiscriminate, using some tricks such as hypnotism to pretend to be dark duelists to cheat money.
Just like the Titan uncle who was hired by GX to come to the Duel Academy to duel with the ten generations of Yucheng in the early stage, he pretended to be a dark duel by means of light refraction and hypnosis, but in the end it was still debunked by the ten generations.
The era that Yuyu is living in now is before the opening of Yu-Gi-Oh DM's Duel City Chapter.
Prior to this, the unique king of the Dark Duelists Underground World was none other than the founder of the card game "Duel Monsters". J. Crofodo.
Becas has the "Millennium Eye", one of the seven thousand-year-old artifacts of ancient Egypt, has a strong dark power, and comes with the ability to see through the other party's mind "Mind Scan", there is absolutely no doubt that he is the top level of ability in the world at the moment.
Bekas visited Egypt to obtain the Millennium Eye, gained terrifying and powerful strength, and at the same time, under the guidance of the Millennium Eye, carved the monster stone tablets that had been handed down thousands of years ago into cards, and invented a card game called "Duel Monster", which became popular all over the world and became one of the most famous people in the world.
As a game designer, he specially printed a set of invincible "cartoon card decks" for himself, and with the ability to read minds with the thousand-year-old eye and powerful dark power, Becas easily ascended to the throne of the underground world, and became the only recognized king of dark duelists in the world for a long time.
During that time, Bekas's International Illusion Society Foundation and its affiliated hidden forces also basically dominated the wind direction and trend of the underground world, and were powerful enough to secretly influence the world pattern.
This pattern didn't end until Becas lost to an ordinary high school student Muto in the Duel Kingdom Tournament he held.
Not only that, but after the war, Becas was even more unknown to someone who gouged out his thousand-year-old eye, and his strength plummeted, and he no longer looked down on the domineering spirit he had before. Since then, Becas has withdrawn from the battle of the underground world with his own forces and began to live a life of seclusion.
Because of this, Muto Games, an ordinary high school student, now has a high reputation among the duelists in the underground world. (Although the game itself is not aware of it)
Dark duelists around the world generally believe that if this boy named Muto Games was really just an ordinary person, it would definitely be impossible to win Bekas.
In addition, the game holds the "Millennium Building Block", which is rumored to have the highest status among the Millennium Artifact, so many people believe that the game should now be the most powerful dark duelist in the world today.
But there are also a considerable number of people who believe that the real strongest in the underground world is someone else.
That's the Gruth, a new group that has just recently joined and broken a lot of the unwritten rules of the underworld, but has a helpless power...... and the leader of the group, Malik Ishdhar.
Malik's Tomb Keepers have been a family that has been feared by all forces for years, and it can even be said that if they want to, the Tomb Keepers could become the leaders of the Underworld at any time.
The reason is simple, because the thousand-year-old artifact, which is said to have the most powerful power in the dark game, and the most powerful card in the duel monster world, the "Three Phantom Gods", have been kept in the hands of the tomb keepers for many years.
It's just that it is said that the tomb guards have always strictly followed the teachings handed down by their ancestors, and have never abused the power of the thousand-year-old artifact and the Phantom God Card.
However, Malik, a descendant of the Tomb Keepers, was clearly the first to break the rule. He took the thousand-year-old artifact and the illusion card that were supposed to be kept for the Pharaoh without authorization, and recruited a large number of dark duelists with various conditions that could not be refused, and formed the rare card hunter organization "Guruth", which quickly occupied a place in the underground world.
Due to Gurus's brutal and brutal style, which broke many of the rules that the Dark Duelists had tacitly acquiesced to over the years, several organizations had friction with Gurus in just a few months, and many people did not like Malik.
Fortunately, Malik doesn't seem to be interested in any fame or status, and his only purpose is to march into the battle city and take revenge on the nameless pharaoh in Muto's game.
Therefore, most of the forces have adopted a respectful attitude towards Gurus, allowing him to fight with the Muto Game Immortals. If only the game could pull this madman down, then the power of Gurus would naturally collapse.
However, the "Nightkin World" that You Yu is now planning to join is an exception.
Because unlike the others, the headquarters of the "Nightkin World" is located in the city of Tong Shino.
The Dark Duelist organization has a deep sense of territory, and it stands to reason that this area should belong to their territory.
The leader of the organization is still a violent temper, and he stubbornly believes that it is quite a shame to be killed by the bandits of Gurus on his own turf. He made it clear that if Gurus dared to kill the whole army with great fanfare, then they would directly declare war on the spot in Tong Shiye City!
If it weren't for the fear of Malik himself, he might have really forced him to do it himself, and the president would have led people to the Gurus base camp by now.
However, thanks to the tough attitude of Mr. President, the president of the "Nightkin World", Malik did not move the entire Gurus to Tong Shino City.
After all, his goal is only the Muto game (or the pharaoh in the game). Although he didn't pay attention to anyone other than the game, he also wanted to avoid extraneous complications if he could.
This is also why in the Battle City chapter, Malik only picks a few relatively optimistic subordinates to participate in the battle.
And at this moment, what You Yu is ready to do is the hidden mission of the faction category related to this-
- Join the world of Nightcrawlers!