I'm playing cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Night falls. Lan Shen stood on the top floor of an empty building, overlooking this duel city with an increasingly technological sense, with a complicated expression.

Prana's power can be influenced by the mind**. Thanks to these special abilities, most of the injuries suffered by Lan Shen in the duel with Overlord yesterday have been healed.

But at this time his mood had changed.

Originally, when he stood up as a representative of Prana, his whole person was extremely inflated. He has extremely high confidence in his own strength. He feels that all the games you play are just for nothing, and beating up Kaiba is just a piece of cake.

But after repeated defeats and defeats, even the most arrogant person will be hit to some extent.

This is also the question that Lan Shen is thinking about now.

Sir Xia Di said that he has fine bones and extraordinary talents, and is just one of ten thousand card-playing wizards. Isn't he actually trying to comfort me?

Maybe my poker skills are actually a bit too good?

And what's the situation with that kid who explodes at the slightest disagreement? What is the situation of the elf from another world next to him?

He was confident before and felt that even if he faced Duel King Youyu, he would have a good chance of winning by taking advantage of the rules of Dimension Duel and the strength of the square card deck.

Who would have thought that before he bumped into You Yu, he couldn't even beat his young apprentice!

Lan Shen is now deflated and a little cracked. It was as if his inflated confidence had been violently penetrated head-on, leaving a huge gaping hole in his heart.

Some things are broken when they are broken, and they can never be restored to their original state.

Even if it is repaired, it is still loose.

Fortunately, although he didn't win the card, he secretly transferred a piece of the Millennium Brick in Kaiba's hand in the underground temple.

Lord Xia Di said that the Millennium Building Block has the highest status among the eight Millennium Seven Artifacts in total, symbolizing the authority and status of the Pharaoh. Only the chosen ones can assemble the Millennium Bricks, and even then it will take many years.

Blue God has already seen Kaiba Seto's science and technology that are even more metaphysical than metaphysics. He has no doubt that Kaiba can use his own black technology to speed up the process of putting together the building blocks.

But no matter how awesome his Kaiba's black technology is, it will still take at least ten and a half months to put together the Millennium Building Blocks, right?

Lan Shen exhausted his brain power and tried to think of exaggerated aspects, but he also felt that it should not be possible to go faster. There's no way he, Kaiba, can put the thousand-year-old blocks together in one day, right?

Then he might have to eat the quantum cube in his hand on the spot.

Since Atum left this world, their prana has been preparing for the dimensional ascension for a whole year. Now that that time is finally coming, of course it is impossible to let Kaiba ruin their good deeds.

To be on the safe side, Lan Shen did not keep the transferred Millennium Brick fragments in his own hands, but gave them to his sister Sera. In this way, even if he accidentally falls into Kaiba's hands, Kaiba will not be able to get the last fragment from him.

As steady as an old dog!

However, if Lan Shen knew that after he gave the fragment to his sister, his sister turned around and handed the fragment to Muto Yugi, I wonder what he would think.

"Diva." A gloomy voice sounded from behind Lan Shen, "What are you doing?"

In fact, Blue God is not his real name. His name is actually Diva. It is very easy to think of a cute girl who sings and plays games and occasionally drives a mecha to fight monsters.

Lan Shen turned around and saw his good brother Mani behind him.

Mani is his closest friend among all Prana's companions besides his sister Sera, and one of the people he trusts most.

"I'm thinking about my next move."

"Thinking?" Mani whispered, "We don't have much time."

"I know. But Seto Kaiba is not a person who gives up easily and cannot be easily persuaded."

"Maybe you are too indecisive, Diva." Mani interrupted him, "Maybe there are some things that someone should have made up their minds about long ago. You should have killed Seto Kaiba a long time ago!"

This decision may be a bit extreme, but it may indeed be the last option they face now. After all, there is not much time left before the dimensional door opens. Perhaps tough measures are indeed the best solution to the problem.

It's not that Lan Shen doesn't agree with this decision, but the problem now is

He can't beat him!

That guy from Kaiba draws cards from the floor whenever he disagrees! The one who is very cute when he draws is Zhang Jushenbing!

Who can beat this guy? proceed if you can!

"In addition, there is the host of the great evil god, the tapir Liang who personally killed Master Xia Di." Mani said in a deep voice, "You haven't sought revenge from him yet, have you?"

Xia Di, who was equivalent to an adoptive father and mentor to these orphans, died in front of all of them five years ago and has existed in the form of a soul ever since.

And the murderer was none other than Tapirang, or to be more precise, Tapirang was possessed by the great evil god Sok.

Although technically the murderer was Suo Ke, after all, he borrowed the hand of Tapi Liang to kill him. This scene cast a huge shadow on the young Blue God and other Prana companions. Blue God has not given up the idea of ​​revenge to this day.

But Money never held the same view.

Mani is not as impulsive as Lan Shen, nor is he as easily drawn into the vortex of hatred. It wasn't like what he would normally say.

There's something wrong with him.

"Mani? What's wrong with you?"

Only then did Lan Shen notice that his companion was abnormal. He found that Mani's face was as gloomy as dripping water, and there was an unknown darkness in his eyes. Looking at him was like staring into the abyss or being stared into by the abyss.

As a companion who had grown up together, Lan Shen had never felt that Mani was as strange as he does now.

Their prana consciousnesses are highly synchronized, and they can sense each other's existence even if they are far apart.

But now he couldn't feel Mani's consciousness. Staring at the other person and listening to those heavy and muddy words, he only felt darkness.

"Your successive setbacks and repeated defeats have made me realize one thing, Diwa." Mani said, "That is, prana also has its limits."

"What do you want to say, Mani?"

Mani laughed ferociously: "I won't do prana anymore, Diva!"

He suddenly raised his arm and made a grabbing motion with his right hand. I saw countless pitch black particles converging towards his hand, transforming into a shining golden alchemy ring.

Millennium Wheel of Wisdom!

Lan Shen's expression suddenly changed: "Impossible! This thing"

"I found it, Diva! It's in the temple where you dueled with Kaiba!" Mani's voice was hoarse and twisted, "It showed me new possibilities, ways to transcend limits!

Now I can destroy everything, no one can stop me! "

Lan Shen has realized that it is the deepest darkness in the thousand-year wheel. The evil thoughts residing in this circle tainted Mani's consciousness, emptied his brain of anything that was originally there, and filled it with anger, hatred, lust, and everything else.

The person standing here now is no longer Mani.

This is a brand new personality that was possessed by the evil thoughts of the great evil god Sok and was twisted and split.

Lan Shen immediately activated the Quantum Cube, trying to resist the power. But before he could release his mental power, he was already hit by the dark vortex.

That was a powerful force that he had no way of counterattacking. He felt like his ribs were cracked, his body felt like he had been hit by a car, his head was violently dizzy when he landed, and it was like thousands of people were whispering in his ears.

"Mani"

He saw that his friend's body was occupied. The demon who killed their adoptive father seemed to have returned again, this time occupying a different host, and showed its fangs ferociously, as if mocking his weakness.

There was nothing he could do.

He doesn't have the power to defeat this demon, nor can he save his best friend from the darkness.

In a daze, Lan Shen felt as if he had gone back many years ago, losing all his extraordinary power and turning back into that helpless child, kneeling next to Teacher Xia Di's cold body and crying.

"Disappear, Diva." Mani raised the Millennium Wheel towards him and sneered, "I will complete your unfinished business and what you lack the courage to do."

But almost as soon as the words fell, Lan Shen saw Mani being shot away, followed by a long series of screams.

The Millennium Wheel of Wisdom was struck from Mani's hand and flew far into the air, making a series of metal collision sounds in the air.

Then it fell steadily into the hands of You Yu who was aside.

You Yu raised his hand and held the Millennium Wheel: "Tell me, why are you so capable of causing trouble even after death?"