Duelist Kingdom: Duelist Kingdom is the fourth story arc in the manga and the first in Duel Monsters and involves a tournament hosted by the game's creator, Maximillion Pegasus, on his own personal island. Pegasus, using thepower of the Millennium Eye, manages to seal the soul of Solomon Muto away, and it is up to Yugi to save him. Meanwhile, Joey Wheeler enters the tournament in order to pay for his sister'ssurgery and Pegasus and several top executives at Kaiba Cororation plot to remove Seto Kaiba from the head of his company. Rebecca Hawkins accuses
Solomon Muto of stealing her grandfather's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and Duels Yugi. Yugi and his friends play the Legendary Heroes virtual reality game to save Seto Kaiba, who has been trapped in the virtual world by his former executives.
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Battle City (part 1): When Kaiba hears of the three legendary God Cards, Kaiba believes that with the three cards in his deck, he will be able to defeat Yugi. In order to obtain the God Cards, Kaiba hosts a tournament to take place in the streets of Domino, with the rule that each person that enters the tournament must ante up a card for the winners of the duels to keep. Meanwhile, Yugi hears of the three God Cards and how they are tied to an ancient Egyptian legend - one that involves the nameless Pharaoh. At the same time, Marik Ishtar, guardian of the Pharaoh's Tomb and wielder of the Millennium Rod, which has the power to brainwash people, wants the Pharaoh's power for himself, and seeks to defeat Yugi. In the Japanese version, he actually wishes to torture and kill Yugi for revenge and to free his family from serving the NamelessPharaoh.
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Virtual World: As Yugi, Kaiba, Joey, and Yami Marik are traveling to the destination of the Battle City finals, the airship suddenly takes an unexpected turn. The main characters find themselves trapped in a virtual reality simulation, in which the former executives of KaibaCorp plan to take their revenge against Yugi, Joey and Kaiba.
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Battle City (part 2): When the four finalists escape safely from the Virtual World, they arrive at KaibaCorp Island. There, they conduct the final rounds of Battle City, and stop Yami Marik and his Shadow Games.
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Waking the Dragons: When the ancient organization, Paradius, steals the God cards and begins to seal the souls of people and Duel Monsters in an effort to revive a monster thought to have lead to the destruction of Atlantis 10,000 years ago, it is up to Yugi and friends to stop them. To do so, Yugi, Joey and Kaiba join forces with the three legendary dragons, Timaeus, Critias and Hermos and take on Paradius's leader, Dartz, and his three henchmen: Rafael, Valon and Alister who recruit and take advantage of other pro duelists to help them.
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Dungeon Dice Monsters: A new student, Duke Devlin, defeats Joey in a game of Duel Monsters, forcing Joey to become his servant. Duke orders Joey to wear a dog costume and humiliates him in public, leading Yugi to challenge Duke to a duel. However, this will not be a Duel Monsters duel but a new game named
Dungeon Dice Monsters.
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Grand Prix: With Dartz's group defeated and no money to return home to Domino, Yugi and company enter a tournament hosted by Kaiba, in his new amusement park, in return for a ride home. With KaibaCorp crippled cause of Dartz's activities, one tournament entrant seeks to finish the job and take down KaibaCorp for good.
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Capsule Monsters: In between the battles with Zigfried and Zorc Yugi and his friends head on into an adventure with capsule monsters where this mysterious man named Alexander was corrupted by the spirit of the millennium ring. Now Yugi and his friend must stop this evil and other monsters in this new adventure.
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Pharaoh's Memories: With all three God Cards in his possession, Yami Yugi is ready to find all his lost memories. However, he's in for more than he bargains for when he is thrust into the World of Memory, an alternate reality inside the Millennium Puzzle based on the events that occurred in Egypt 5,000 (in the English anime, 3,000 in the Japanese anime and manga) years ago. There, the Pharaoh must relive the last days of his previous life, fighting his old enemies and reuniting with his old friends. But his new friends have not forgotten about him, and Yugi and his friends travel inside the Millennium Puzzle to find the World of Memory and help the Pharaoh recover all his memories.
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The Final Duel (Ceremonial Battle): Most of the quest is complete. Pharaoh Atem has obtained all seven millennium items, acquired all three Egyptian God Cards, defeated Zorc The Dark One and Yami Bakura in the Memory World and has found out all about his past, including his name. Now, the pharaoh can quietly leave the mortal world, and join his faithful priests in the afterlife. However, the doorway to the afterlife can only be opened if the pharaoh is defeated in a duel. Yugi takes on the challenge, dueling Atem to let Atem go. Even though Atem would very much want to go to the afterlife, he has good pride in his skills never letting anyone defeat him easily.
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