Is this the poker world?Ada thief!

"Why!?" Looking at his hand that had turned back to normal, Loki was incredulous. "There is no doubt that there is nothing wrong with my operation! The power of the Nine Realms [King War] should have been concentrated in my body!"

"【Iron Realm King Battle - Dwarf United King】, 【Flame Realm King Battle - Nagilfar】, 【Ice Realm King Battle - Nidhogg】, 【Hollow Realm King Battle - Utgard】, 【Sword Realm King Battle - Frode】, 【Light Realm King Battle - Queen Maador】, as well as 【Death Realm King Battle - Hel】, 【Eternal Realm King Battle - Jörmungandr】, and 【Tomorrow Realm King Battle - Hal】."

"The concentrated power of the Nine Realms [King War] should be more than enough to serve as a sacrifice for me to become the King of the [King War], the highest, strongest, and most evil [King War] - the [Shadow Realm King War]!"

“Why, why, why——!?”

"Alright, that's enough. Stop going crazy, [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt], ​​you idiot." Hayato said impatiently, "No, you wanted to call yourself [Shadow World King's War - Levantine]? Although you didn't succeed in 'transformation', I can satisfy you a little bit in terms of the name."

"It's hard to accept the truth, and you want to scream to the sky? There's really no way, let me point out your stupidity. First, let's 'check the answer', [Shadow World King Battle - Levantine]."

"Don't use that name to humiliate me!" [Shadow World King War - Levantin]. No, [Shadow of King War - Loput] was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He didn't succeed in the promotion and felt extremely humiliated when he heard the self-proclaimed name he just proposed. He would rather continue to use the name [Shadow of King War - Loput]. "And the answer?"

"Answers are useless to me! As you can see, I have already gained the strongest power! The power of the nine realms has also been concentrated in Levantine. The steps to becoming a god are unobstructed, as easy as picking a leaf from the bushes by the roadside. I will soon be able to -"

"idiot."

"!" Hayato's words made the interrupted [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt] suddenly shudder.

"Are you such an idiot that you can't even understand what's being said? Or is this also a distortion caused by you absorbing too much power? [Shadow World King War - Levantine], no, [Shadow of the King War - Lopt]. You, no matter how much you devour the power of the Nine Realms [King War], you can't achieve the sublimation of [Shadow World King War - Levantine] who is qualified to ascend to the position of the King of the Nine Realms."

"Don't you understand? In other words, if you don't have the consciousness link qualification to guide 'Duel-Links', you don't have the qualification to become a [King of War]."

"!!"

"Once a person with the talent of 'super consciousness' that surpasses human intelligence, namely 'prana', is mixed into the consciousness link, it can trigger the dimensional ascension and open a passage to an unknown dimension." Because he had also experienced the "Dark Side of Dimension" incident, Yugi also remembered what Lan Shen and the others had explained. "From another perspective, does it also mean that in order to trigger the power of dimensional ascension, it must be a 'person' with the talent of 'prana'?"

"Although they are NPCs in the game, the creation of [Sword Realm King War - Frode] is based on the consciousness of the players who entered this virtual world. Therefore, [King War] all have the qualifications to compete for the position of the King of the Nine Realms. However, [King War Shadow - Lopt] who invaded this virtual world as a stowaway is not a human, so of course he does not have such qualifications."

Jonouchi laughed at the gloomy face of [Shadow of the King War - Lopt], ​​"Even if he gathers all the powers of the [King Wars], he is not qualified. Just like Hayato said - he is not even qualified to be a [King War]."

“Mm, mmm, mmm!” [Shadow of the King’s War - Lopt]’s expression twisted, and he growled like a wild beast through gnashing teeth. “It’s really – absolutely correct!”

"Without the consciousness link of 'Duel-Links', I am not qualified to become the [King of War]! Correct, correct! Hmm~hmm~hahahahaha, what have I done!"

"Then I understand! What should I do?"

Glaring at Hayato, Judai and the others who stood in his way, [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt] grinned and showed his fangs, "If that's the case! If that's the case, then from the beginning - we shouldn't be so obsessed with the [King's War]! The original idea of ​​becoming the strongest, most evil and most supreme king of the [King's War] is ridiculous!"

"It doesn't matter whether I can invade reality or not. I will destroy everything in this fantasy world! I will kill your spirits in this world!"

"It is not used as nourishment for my ascension to godhood, but only as a tool for venting my anger. Destroy it completely from the inside out!"

The "Levantin" in his hand was broken into pieces by [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] without any reluctance, and the power suppressed in it was instantly released and turned into a ray of light, shooting towards everyone.

Everyone who had anticipated this dodged at the first opportunity. Even Maeda Hayato easily avoided the light cannon, which had an obvious pre-swing but was not aimed at all. However, it seemed that the light cannon was not aimed at them from the beginning, but went straight through the square where everyone was and landed on the Rainbow Bridge in the distance.

  The portals to the eight kingdoms of the other nine realms appeared simultaneously as the Rainbow Bridge was hit by the light cannon. The cold air of the already unfolding "Fimbulwinter" also invaded the nine realms along the portals. Among them, the portal leading to the atrium Midgard - the [Eternal Realm], emitted an unprecedented powerful aura!

The players who were still in the atrium and had not entered other worlds discovered that after a beam of light fell from the World Tree that was their target and hit the area around the World Tree that was guarded by the guards of [Sword Realm King War - Frode], they saw the whole world begin to shake, and all the mountains that could be seen around them began to move at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Continental plates moving? No, the sleeping Earthly Serpent——[Eternal King Battle - Jörmungandr] has awakened!

  Even in Asgard, the [Booming World] far away on the top of the world tree, through the clouds at the end of the world, Judai and the others could still clearly see the hideous head of [Eternal King War - Jörmungandr] with his torso raised and his body straight!

This is not the end yet. In the portal leading to the [Death Realm], a woman holding a skull staff appeared on the other side of the portal, grinning and commanding a large number of undead soldiers to invade the other nine realms.

“Fenrir, Jörmungandr, and Hela, among my three most powerful children, only Fenrir is a pity that he did not come to this world. However, both Jörmungandr and Hela became one of the kings in the [King War]. In order to protect this world that would have fallen under my rule, I put Jörmungandr into a deep sleep and Hela in the deepest part of the underworld. But it doesn’t matter now, so destroy everything as much as you can. [Eternal King War - Jörmungandr], [Death King War - Hel]!”

Having his men destroy the other players scattered throughout the Nine Realms, [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] looked at Judai and the others, "And I will kill you bastards with my own hands!"

"First, there's the inherently evil 'Danrito', then your friends, then all the living beings in the [Booming World], and then everything in the Nine Worlds!"

"Play everything to death with your own hands!"

".Are you talking about everything? Is that so? I see. That's what you just said, right, [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt]." Judai looked at the ferocious-looking [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt] and nodded, "No matter how crazy a lunatic is, he shouldn't be able to say that, right? Well, he can't say that."

"Kill them all? I see. If you've devoured the power of the [Wang Zhan], you can say something like that—"

Suddenly opening his eyes, Judai shouted angrily: "How could I let you do this, idiot!" "Idiot!? You actually did this to me!" [Shadow of the War King - Lopt]'s expression twisted, "If it was 'Danrito', it would be hard to say, but a guy like you actually dared! It is absolutely unforgivable! No matter what your reason is!"

"You can have as many reasons as you want!" Judai took a step forward fearlessly and firmly, "This is justice! You are a hero! You want to hurt my teacher, my friends, and my classmates, and I will never let you do it!"

"Huh? I was wondering what you would call yourself at this point, hehe." [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt] looked at Judai with contempt, "I see, so it is, it is something similar to the reserve of those heroes? However, don't treat the prophecy I asked [Fara] to spread as a lie. If I can't become the king of the Nine Realms, then I will become the demon god who destroys the Nine Realms. Let me listen to your foolish dream of becoming the last hero in this world!"

"Why did you pick up the card? Why did you join the battle?" [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] sneered, "'Hero', what is justice?"

"You don't need to answer or say anything - use your wailing and screaming to serve as the answer!"

As he spoke, [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] began his first real attack, shooting a laser beam at Judai's heart, trying to kill him.

  However, before Judai could even get [E·hero Eternal Warrior] to defend, a water curtain suddenly rose from under the frost on the ground. It looked weak but easily blocked the attack of [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt]! ?

From the water curtain, [Water Dispatcher of the Temple] walked out, then respectfully stepped aside to greet Hayato. [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] turned his head and found that a similar water curtain appeared in the energy shield he had arranged. It seemed that the two water curtains were connected and could be used for space transfer.

"Don't be so surprised. The [Aramesian Ceremony] can easily summon heroes from another world, let alone transfer within the same space." Hayato touched the head of the [Water Sent by the Temple], making the latter reveal an intoxicated and obsessed expression, as satisfied as if he was about to ascend to heaven, and then looked at [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] and said, "Want to hurt my students? I'm so sorry——"

“——Here, Accelerator!”

"Hmmmm! I'm sorry! What's important to you is nothing more than a toy in this world that is about to be destroyed! An instrument that plays anguish - a musical instrument embellished with lamentations, sadness, and tears!" [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt] looked at Hayato, "Can you stop me - and my army - by yourself?"

Behind [Shadow of the King's War - Lopt], ​​[Curse of the King's War - Fara] launched a sneak attack in silence, and a breath of undead spirits transferred from the underworld approached Hayato and the students around him from all directions, but at the same time, a huge golden magic circle suddenly opened on the ground, completely isolating the attacking death energy! ?

"——Hayato, you finally made a move. Now I can move a little." Holding the card of [Black Magician - Dark Magician] in his hand, the taciturn magician followed Yugi, and behind him, [Devil's Light], [Silent Swordsman·Zero] and [Silent Magician·Zero] appeared one by one.

At the side of the energy shield that had previously imprisoned Yugi, the [Three-Color Gadget] jumped down and was dispersing to dismantle the energy shield where Anzi, Rebecca, and Peacock Dance were. It seemed that they had just removed the restrictions on Yugi.

As for Jonouchi? Seeing that Hayato and Yugi were both out, he didn't pretend this time, but punched the energy shield with his elbow.

Shattered Energy Shield: Man, what can I say?

Yugi couldn't help but ask curiously, "Jounouchi, doesn't your hand hurt?"

Jonouchi, who was about to gasp in pain, found that after Yugi asked this question, Hayato's students all looked at him, and he pretended that nothing had happened: "I don't feel anything!"

“Even the energy shield can’t hold you in!? Tsk, that’s perfect. It’s more satisfying to slaughter the pigs and dogs that are at the mercy of others than to defeat the dying ones. Since you are unwilling to be slaughtered, then I will tear your resolutions and wishes into pieces and destroy them right here!”

"Crush them——[Jörmungandr]!"

  Hearing the order from [Shadow of the War King - Lopt], ​​Wanzhangmu turned around in shock and saw that the head of [Jörmungandr] that had appeared in front of them before had turned to the side of [Bomb World]. The huge python of the world actually stretched its body from the atrium all the way to the kingdom of God and roared at them threateningly!

“Don’t get in the way. There’s no room for a big guy like you to move around here!” Seeing that [Eternal King War - Jörmungandr] was about to smash his huge head down on everyone, Jonouchi quickly took out the [True Crimson King] card and held it in front of him, shouting, “HenShin!”

"【True Crimson King】!"

Flames wrapped around Jonouchi's body, and he instantly put on armor like a masked warrior. With a high leap and a kick, he actually stopped the downward smash of [Eternal King Battle - Jörmungandr], and even brought him down to the atrium below to prevent it from intruding into the battlefield!

"【Jörmungandr】!" When 【Curse of the King's War - Vala】, who had been silent the whole time, saw that 【Eternal World King's War - Jörmungandr】 was actually taken away by someone from Jonouchi, she was about to take action, but a flash of lightning swept past her.

The [Devil's Light] behind Yugi put down his hand. This was just a warning from Yugi, and Yugi turned around and said to Hayato, "It's a pity that Jonouchi took away the most powerful [Jörmungandr]. So Hayato, at least leave an opponent for me - such as this one who is also good at magic?"

"I have no objection. Just be sure you are not afraid that Kyoko and Rebecca will get jealous because you challenged a woman to a duel." Hayato shrugged nonchalantly and looked at [Shadow of the King's Battle - Lopt]. "As for this arrogant idiot, leave it to me."

"By the way - you just said, what kind of king do you want to be?"

[Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] shuddered. This should have made him feel ashamed and angry for his cowardly reaction, but at the moment he was unable to vent such emotions.

Because opposite him, Hayato clearly didn't even make a move to draw a card, but countless terrifying auras began to spread around him, puppets in the shadows, miserable actors, demons bound by the earth, and even phantom demons that preyed on lives.

He dared to attack Judai and the others because he saw through their inability to produce powerful monsters, but if he attacked this terrifying guy in front of him——

  Will it win?

Guaranteed to die!

“Duel!” Not wanting to beg for mercy or be beaten by these terrifying beings, [Shadow of the King of War - Lopt] shouted decisively and materialized a duel disk on his arm, refusing to give in and weakening his momentum, “I am the King of Destruction of the Nine Realms! My fantasy and my ridicule will destroy your future here! I will defeat you with the duel ritual that you are best at!”

"This time, your [Divine Monument] can no longer defeat me!"

[Lopt: 4000LP, Hand 5] (End of this chapter)