Yu-Gi-Oh!: Starting as a Rabbit-Eared Demon King

"Activate the effect of Self-Destruction: Your opponent takes 500 damage for each monster they control. You have 4 monsters on your field, so you take 2000 damage. I win!"

Li Youming passionately explained the effect of his card. As Zorc's life points returned to 0, a powerful twisting force appeared on the black mist that belonged to Zorc.

"Impossible, how could you be so strong? Oh right, you even know my real name! Who... are you...?"

No one answered Zorc; he simply vanished into thin air. At that moment, the mechanical voice sounded again.

"Defeat the Great Evil God Zorc once, gain the overflowing energy of the Great Evil God, and the degree of obtaining the Great Evil God's power: 30%"

"Hey, what do you mean by obtaining the power of a great evil god? What do you need this power for?"

There was no response to Li Youming, as if the mechanical voice he had just heard was an illusion.

"Forget it, since there's no response, I won't think about it anymore. I'll go check what timeline we're in now." Li Youming didn't dwell on it and quickly returned to Bakura's house in his memory.

"Now that I've been transported into Bakura's body, I'll be called Bakura from now on (from now on, all other characters will call the protagonist Bakura)."

Through television, Li Youming learned that this was the timeline in which Seto Kaiba lost to Yugi Muto, causing Seto Kaiba's company stock price to plummet.

"The Duel Kingdom timeline, huh? I'll have to plan this carefully. Pegasus has a lot of exploitable assets. In the process, I'll think about how to obtain Zok's power."

Li Youming pondered his current situation and future actions, then slapped his thigh and said, "There's no use thinking too much. I should go buy cards to strengthen my deck first. Without a good deck, everything is in vain. I can't play like this forever."

Finally, Li Youming stopped thinking about anything else and just wanted to improve his deck for a good duel.

Fortunately, Bakura's father was an archaeologist, very wealthy but rarely home. This gave Li Youming a lot of free time, preventing him from feeling restricted.

"To bolster my deck, I guess I'll have to go find my good friend Yugi Muto. It'll be a good opportunity to meet the main characters. I've been wanting to meet them for a long time." Li Youming stood in front of Yugi Muto's grandfather's shop and solemnly knocked on the door.

"Please come in. What would you like to see?" A strong but elderly voice rang out, accompanied by a kind old man who came out and smiled at Li Youming.

"I'd like to buy some Duel Monsters cards." Li Youming returned Bakura's standard kind smile, which, combined with Bakura's face that appealed to both men and women, instantly increased his favorability by 100%.

"Sure, sure, come and see my new card packs." Upon hearing that there was business to be had, Muto Soroku's eyes immediately lit up, and he led Li Youming directly to the counter filled with card packs.

Looking at the card packs, Li Youming felt a strange sense of unease. His hands seemed to be enveloped in a black mist, and some of the card packs seemed to resonate with this mist, compelling him to reach for them.

"Could it be the so-called power of the Great Evil God? Could I be going to draw something good?" Li Youming picked up the card packs that resonated with him, went to the counter to pay, and couldn't wait to start opening his card packs.

"Whirlwind, Angel's Blessing, Pot of Greed, Monster Resurrection... Wow, all these versatile and powerful cards have appeared, and this is..."

Li Youming picked up the card and saw a monster covered in gold, raising its hands as if it were a king looking down at its subjects.

"The Golden Kingdom? It's actually the Golden Kingdom?" Li Youming looked at the other cards in his hand again, and saw that there were two more Golden Lords - Golden Kingdom Lich, one Golden Madman - Golden Kingdom Lich, and all the other matching magic and trap cards in his hand.

"Is it the power of the Great Evil God that made me resonate with the Golden Kingdom of the Undead? So in the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, ordinary people can only use ordinary monsters. Only some people with special opportunities have special powers. And only the so-called legendary duelists have a complete set of cards."

Li Youming pondered these points and stared blankly at the Golden Country card in his hand, while Muto Sugoroku, a game enthusiast, was also excited to see that his shop had released quite a few rare cards from its card packs.

"Wow, that's a pretty good rare card. This young man is quite lucky." Although Muto Sugoroku was surprised, he didn't have any intention of exchanging cards unless the other party was willing.

"Yes, I'm really lucky." Li Youming returned the smile. He put away the Golden Kingdom card, preparing to go back and study his deck carefully.

"Is there anything else you need, sir? Otherwise, I need to go upstairs and check on Jonouchi. To win the national dueling tournament and get the huge prize money, I have to train him like crazy." At this point, Muto Sugoroku gritted his teeth, as if Jonouchi, who only wanted the high prize money, wasn't a good duelist.

"Jonnouchi, I'm classmates with him and Yugi Muto. My name is Bakura. I'm free now, so how about I go up with you to see them?" Li Youming introduced himself, taking advantage of Yugi Muto's words, intending to get to know the main characters and see the characters he had always loved in the anime.

"Oh, you should have said so earlier. I would have given you a discount, but now I don't offer refunds or exchanges, hehe." Muto Soroku joked, and then led Li Youming upstairs.

"By the way, Jonouchi wanted to use the prize money from the dueling tournament to pay for his sister's eye surgery, but no one in the family could afford it."

Li Youming recalled this part of the story and couldn't help but think, "And it was also during this time that Insect Moth and the others qualified to participate in Duel Kingdom, as well as learn some inside information about the rules of Duel Kingdom. At this time, I didn't even appear in this long part of the story. The only time I did appear was when I was directly killed by the Dark Game. After that, I was just a cheerleader."

"I also need to participate in Duel Kingdom this time. Firstly, I can meet Pegasus and find his Millennium Eye to advance the later plot. Secondly, I need to prepare for the Duel City plot and obtain something very important from Pegasus!"

"Since that's the case, then I'll participate in the National Duel Tournament, win the national championship, and qualify for the Duel Kingdom!" With this thought, Li Youming's resolve hardened. After all, there were significant opportunities to gamble on during this period.

"My turn, draw a card!"