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'''Story 4: Virtual World''' ({{Ruby|Ｓｔｏｒｙ|ストーリー}}４ バーチャル{{Ruby|世|せ}}{{Ruby|界|かい}} ''Sutōrī Shi: Bācharu Sekai'') is a story arc in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' anime]]. The arc does not appear in that starts the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|manga]]third season of the second anime series. It is sometimes referred to as '''The Noah Arc''' or '''Noah's Arc''', by fans and by 4kids Entertainment. In the English dub, this arc and [[Battle City (part 2)|Battle City part 2]] are referred to as '''Enter the Shadow Realm'''.
The arc does not appear in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|manga]]. Originally created in order to allow for more distance between the anime and the manga, the arc bisects the Battle City story arc and serves as a side adventure for the protagonists. Many of the characters introduced in the Battle City arc, however, still appear only in but play a minimal role.
== Appearances ==
* [[Joey Wheeler]]
* [[Tristan Taylor]]
* [[Tea Gardner]]
* [[Duke Devlin]]
* [[Serenity Wheeler]]
* [[Noah Kaiba]]
* [[Seto Kaiba]]
* [[Mokuba Kaiba]]
* [[Gozaburo Kaiba]]
* [[Gansley]]
* [[Amphibian Beast (anime)|Amphibian Beast]]
* [[Battle Ox (anime)|Battle Ox]]
* [[Flying Elephant (anime)|Flying Elephant]]
* [[Giltia the D. Knight (anime)|Giltia the D. Knight]]
* [[Horn Imp (anime)|Horn Imp]]
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| [[Yami Yugi and Gansley's Duel|Duel]]
| '''Yami Yugi'''
| Gansley
|-
| [[Chess]]
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| [[Téa Gardner and Crump's Duel|Duel]]
| '''Téa Gardner'''
| Crump
|-
| [[Joey Wheeler and Johnson's Duel|Duel]]
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| [[Leitcher and Seto Kaiba's Duel|Duel]]
| '''Seto Kaiba'''
| Leitcher
|-
| [[Yami Yugi, Joey Wheeler, and the Big Five's Duel|Duel]]
| '''Yami Yugi ''' & '''Joey Wheeler'''
| The Big Five
|-
| '''Noah Kaiba'''
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| [[Yami Yugi Seto Kaiba and Noah Kaiba's Duel|Duel]]
| '''Yami Yugi'''
| Noah Kaiba
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| [[Seto Kaiba and Gozaburo Kaiba's Duel|Duel]]
{{Main|The Big Five}}
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|- style="background:green; color:#FFFFFF; clear:all"
| align="center " | '''Image'''| align="center " | '''English Anime'''| align="center " | '''Japanese Anime'''| align="center " | '''Deck Master'''
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| [[File:gansley.png|150px]]
| align="center " | [[Gansley]]| align="center " | '''Konosuke Oshita''' | align="center " | [[Deepsea Warrior]]
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| [[File:crump.png|149px]]
| align="center " | [[Crump]]| align="center " | '''Shuzo Otaki''' | align="center " | [[Nightmare Penguin]]
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| [[File:Johnson2.png|149px]]
| align="center " | [[Johnson]]| align="center " | '''Chikuzen Oka'''| align="center " | [[Judge Man]]
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| [[File:nezbit.png|149px]]
| align="center " | [[Nezbitt]]| align="center " | '''Soichiro Ota'''| align="center " | [[Robotic Knight]]
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| [[File:lector.png|150px]]
| align="center " | [[Leichter]]| align="center " | '''Kogoro Daimon'''| align="center " | [[Jinzo]]
|}
With Yugi and Téa reunited, the focus shifts to [[Johnson]], who is slated to face Joey Wheeler. Believing he finally escaped the virtual world, and eager to get his hands on [[Yami Marik]] for what he did to [[Mai Valentine]], Joey discovers that this was an elaborate trap set by Johnson, who proceeds to Duel him. Johnson manages to get the upper hand in the Duel through a combination of his Deck Master ability, "Clear the Courtroom" (which, at the cost of 1000 Life Points, cleared the field of all cards), as well as the illicit ability of manipulating the outcome of Joey's luck-based moves. Yet, just as it seems that Joey's luck was about to run out, Noah appears and insists that Johnson forfeit the Duel for cheating. Joey, in the spirit of a True Duelist, convinces Noah to let the match continue, knowing well that Johnson would not be able to cheat again, and eventually wins by outwitting Johnson at one of the mind games he claimed to be an expert at.
[[File: Yugioh106.png|thumb|right|Tristan falls to Nezbitt in his "Robotic Knight" form.]]
Tristan Taylor, Duke Devlin, and Serenity Wheeler manage to find each other, yet they find themselves faced off against [[Nezbitt]], who wants to take Serenity's body for his own. With Tristan and Duke willing to protect Serenity from harm, they try to convince Nezbitt that they should take her place, but he settles on a three-on-one Duel. Serenity, despite having never played in a Duel herself, and knowing little about the rules, is relieved that Tristan and Duke would help her along, but miscommunication between Tristan and Duke would ultimately cost Tristan his Deck Master. Crestfallen over Tristan's sacrifice, Duke manages to use his dice tricks and his signature monster, "[[Orgoth the Relentless (anime)|Orgoth the Relentless]]", to buy some time. Convinced by her older brother (who had managed to find her) that she, too, must fight in the spirit of a True Duelist, Serenity vows to continue playing. Serenity would ultimately deal the final blow in the match, thanks to her Deck Master, "[[Goddess with the Third Eye (anime)|Goddess with the Third Eye]]", whose ability allowed her to [[Fusion Summon]] monsters without "[[Polymerization (anime)|Polymerization]]", using the remnants of Tristan's playing field.
[[File: Yugioh108.png|thumb|left|Leichter uses as "Jinzo" as his Deck Mastersquares off with Seto.]]
With Nezbitt having technically won Tristan's body, Nezbitt uses it to kidnap Mokuba, while Yugi and friends seek to restore Tristan, who now resides in the body of a robot monkey (which is actually a brown version of "[[Acrobat Monkey]]"). Kaiba, in pursuit of Nezbitt, encounters [[Leichter]], the last member of the Big 5. Eager to put Leichter aside, Kaiba tries to use his "[[Crush Card Virus (anime)|Crush Card Virus]]" strategy against him, only to fail as he realizes that Leichter's Deck Master was "[[Jinzo (anime)|Jinzo]]", which renders the opponent's [[Trap Card]]s useless. Combined with "[[Imperial Order (anime)|Imperial Order]]", a card that rendered [[Spell Card|Magic Cards]] useless, this left Kaiba with only [[Monster Card]]s. Furthermore, Leichter would use "[[Satellite Cannon (anime)|Satellite Cannon]]", a monster that could only be destroyed by Level 8 monsters or above, and whose power increased the longer it is in play (but only while attacking), in an attempt to ensure his victory. However, Kaiba manages to Summon "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]", a Level 8 monster, in time, and uses it to destroy "Satellite Cannon" and win the Duel.
Having to Duel against a different kind of Duelist in Yugi, Noah uses Spirit Monsters, a type of monster that returns to the hand at the end of the turn, and the "[[Spring of Rebirth (anime)|Spring of Rebirth]]" Magic Card to attack Yugi and increase his own Life Points in the process. Although Yugi manages to use "[[Cyber Jar (anime)|Cyber Jar]]" to destroy all of Noah's monsters, including "[[Shinato, King of a Higher Plane]]" (which Seto forced Noah to Summon to the field as a result of Noah needing a target to declare as a defender for the effect of "[[Last Turn (anime)|Last Turn]]"), Noah uses another Deck Master ability to pull "[[Shinato, King of a Higher Plane]]" back to the sidelines, but with the caveat that Noah now cannot Summon "Shinato, King of a Higher Plane" back to the field for the remainder of the Duel. Because of his Spirit Monsters, "Spring of Rebirth", and another Deck Master ability, Noah's Life Points continue to accumulate to the point that Noah simply allows Yugi to directly attack him every turn - an effort that turned largely fruitless as Noah would manage to gain even more Life Points.
Being confident of himself, Noah offers Yugi a chance to forfeit the Duel, but for every turn that Yugi continues to play in which Noah is not defeated, one of Yugi's friends would be turned into stone. With time running out, Yugi ends up in a situation where he has 100 Life Points to Noah's 10,000, facing off against Noah's most powerful Spirit Monster (which stayed on the field due to a Trap [[Spell Card]]), with nothing on the field and no cards in his hand. Worse, all of his friends are eventually turned turned to stone. It seemed all but lost for Yugi, when he is reminded that even though all of his friends (Seto and Mokuba included) are turned to stone, they are still there in spirit to cheer him on. With a new-found confidence, Yugi draws "[[Card of Sanctity]]", allowing Yugi to draw six cards. With these six cards, he revives Seto Kaiba's "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" and fuses it with the two "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" he has drawn to form "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]", and he uses his fifth card, "[[Quick Attack]]", to allow "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" to attack Noah's monster immediately. He then uses his final card, "[[De-Fusion]]", to split "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" back into three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons", and attacks directly with all three, winning the Duel.
===Escape from the Virtual World===
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==Featured Duels==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|- style="background: #ccf;"
! Duel #
! Episode(s)
! Duelist #1
! class="unsortable" | vs
! Duelist #2
! Winner
! LP #1
! LP #2
! Turns
|-
| 1
| [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 098|098]]
| '''Simulated [[Seto Kaiba]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''Total Defense Shogun'''
| Total Defense Shogun
| 4000 (Deck Master Destroyed)
| 3000
| 1
|-
|2
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 099|099]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 101|101]]
| '''[[Gansley]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Yami Yugi]]'''
|[[Yami Yugi]]
|0
|400
|10
|-
|3
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 102|102]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 103|103]]
| '''[[Téa Gardner]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Crump]]'''
|[[Téa Gardner]]
|750
|0
|15
|-
|4
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 104|104]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 105|105]]
| '''[[Johnson]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Joey Wheeler]]'''
|[[Joey Wheeler]]
|0
|600
|13
|-
|5
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 106|106]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 107|107]]
| '''[[Serenity Wheeler]]<br>+ [[Tristan Taylor]]<br>+ [[Duke Devlin]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Nezbitt]]'''
|[[Serenity Wheeler]]<br>+ [[Duke Devlin]]
|2100-850 (Deck Master Destroyed)-150
|1100 (Deck Master Destroyed)
|16
|-
|6
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 108|108]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 109|109]]
| '''[[Leichter]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Seto Kaiba]]'''
|[[Seto Kaiba]]
|0
|300
|16
|-
|7
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 111|111]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 113|113]]
| '''[[The Big Five]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Joey Wheeler]]<br>+ [[Yami Yugi]]'''
|[[Joey Wheeler]]<br>+ [[Yami Yugi]]
|600 (Deck Master Destroyed)
|300-1000
|24
|-
|8
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 114|114]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 116|116]]
| '''[[Seto Kaiba]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Noah Kaiba]]'''
|[[Noah Kaiba]] ([[Last Turn (anime)|Last Turn]])
|400
|7400
|18
|-
|9
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 117|117]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 119|119]] (continued)
| '''[[Yami Yugi]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Noah Kaiba]]'''
|[[Yami Yugi]]
|100
|0
|41
|-
|10
|[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 120|120]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 121|121]]
| '''[[Gozaburo Kaiba]]'''
| '''vs.'''
| '''[[Seto Kaiba]]'''
|[[Seto Kaiba]]
|0
|100
|10
|}
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