# Chapter 262: Uria, Lord of Searing Flames, Revived from Death
Lightning spewed from the ferocious maw, shattering the [Bottomless Trap Hole] in Yugi's Spell & Trap Zone. Seeing this, Haga let out a sinister laugh. "Hehehehehe, it was [Bottomless Trap Hole], what a shame, Yugi. However, even if [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] didn't destroy your Set Card, it doesn't matter, because Traps are unaffected by him!"
"I Set a Card, then enter the Battle Phase!"
Haga's eyes swept across Yugi's Field, looking at [Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast] and [Dark Magician Girl]. After a brief moment of deliberation, he revealed a smug smile. "It wouldn't be good to end this revenge match too quickly. I'll let your [Dark Magician Girl] survive for a while."
"[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames], Attack [Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast]! Super Flame Wave!"
Following the lightning that shattered the Trap, a thick column of flames engulfed the [Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast] on Yugi's Field. Because it was in Attack Position, Yugi also took the overflow Battle Damage.
"Cough!" Just like when [Centipede] attacked before, Yugi, injured for the second time, could finally confirm one thing—this Duel had somehow, unknowingly, been turned into a Dark Game by Haga?
Flames enveloped him. The previous stinging pain hadn't completely faded when suffocating heat assaulted him.
[Yugi: 5200 → 4300 Life Points]
"[Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast], if it's Destroyed by battle, I can Special Summon one of its two Fusion Materials—[Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts] or [Berfomet]—from the Graveyard to my Field." Yugi Sent the [Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast] Card to the Graveyard, but took out another Card instead.
"I Special Summon [Berfomet] in Defense Position."
[Berfomet] [Level 5/DARK]
[Fiend Type/Effect]
[1400/1800]
"What tenacious life force, but Yugi, the more you struggle, the more interesting I find this Duel." Haga said, looking at Yugi with arrogance. "The humiliation I suffered from you guys back then, I'll return it to you little by little!"
"End Turn."
[Haga: 4000 Life Points, Hand 0]
[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] [ATK 3000]
[Set Card]
"Even now, do you still think you're innocent?" Yugi's voice was somewhat serious. For some reason, facing [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames], a fire burned in his heart, as if something invisible had offended him. "Although I don't know what you've been through, your fate is nothing but just deserts!"
"My Turn, Draw!" Yugi looked at the Card he drew. "Summon a Monster in Face-Down Defense Position, then change my [Dark Magician Girl] on the Field to Defense Position."
Setting the Card he had just drawn onto the Field, Yugi's gaze was sharp. "Unlike you, who couldn't defeat others and resorted to unscrupulous means, even tearing up my [Exodia], I will defeat you. Even if you use a Monster as powerful as [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames], I will defeat you honorably!"
"End Turn! And if you dare, Attack, Haga!"
[Yugi: 4300 Life Points, Hand 0]
[Dark Magician Girl] [DEF 1700]
[Berfomet] [DEF 1800]
[Face-Down Defense Position Monster]
"How dare you provoke me like this, provoke me, the former national champion!" Haga's expression was somewhat distorted with anger. "Since you're so eager to be defeated by me, I'll satisfy you. Draw!"
"I Activate the Set Trap Card on my Field, [Reckless Greed]! I can Draw two Cards from my Deck, then skip my next two Draw Phases." With his Hand size becoming three, Haga Sent [Reckless Greed] to the Graveyard and said, "[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]'s ATK changes with the number of Trap Cards in the Graveyard. Because [Reckless Greed] was Sent to the Graveyard—"
"[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]'s ATK will rise again!"
[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] [ATK 3000 → 4000]
[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames], whose ATK increased once again, let out a loud dragon roar towards the sky as its power grew. At the same time, Haga continued to Summon Monsters.
"I Activate the Effect of [Doom Dozer] in my Hand! Although this Monster cannot be Normal Summoned, I can Banish two Insect Type Monsters from my Graveyard to Special Summon it from my Hand!" Saying this, Haga Banished the [Centipede] and [Dragonfly] that were previously Destroyed by Yugi's [Dark Burning Attack].
[Doom Dozer] [Level 8/EARTH]
[Insect Type/Special Summon/Effect]
[2800/2600]
"Come forth, [Doom Dozer]! Unleash my rage upon Yugi!" Haga pointed his Hand towards the [Berfomet] on Yugi's Field. "First, let's get rid of this Monster that refuses to die obediently!"
[Doom Dozer], whose appearance was somewhat similar to [Centipede] but significantly larger, let out a roar. Like a steamroller, it charged straight towards the [Berfomet] on Yugi's Field. Although [Berfomet]'s DEF was a respectable 1800, [Doom Dozer]'s ATK was as high as 2800. It was easily crushed and Sent back to the Graveyard.
Haga watched [Doom Dozer] return to his Field with satisfaction. "Hehehe, next is [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]'s Attack. Attack [Dark Magician Girl]! Super Flame Wave!"
Following [Berfomet], [Dark Magician Girl] was also Destroyed and Sent to the Graveyard. Noticing [Dark Magician Girl] looking at him with pitiful eyes just before being Destroyed, Yugi ignored the scorching air around him caused by the aftermath of [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]'s Attack and stared intently at Haga.
Since both Monsters were in Defense Position, even though they were Destroyed by battle, Yugi's Life Points did not take Damage.
"In that case, the only Monster left on your Field is that lackey hiding there, right?" Haga looked at the only remaining Face-Down Defense Position Monster on Yugi's Field. "Next Turn will be [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]'s Direct Attack. Start your final Turn, Yugi, filled with the fear of being engulfed by flames!"
"End Turn."
[Haga: 4000 Life Points, Hand 1]
[Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] [ATK 4000]
[Doom Dozer] [ATK 2800]
"My Turn, Draw." Facing Haga's boasting, Yugi calmly drew the Card from the top of his Deck.
Yugi: "The Duel has reached this point, and our resources are pretty much depleted, aren't they? In that case, I Activate the Spell Card [Card of Sanctity]!"
With Haga's ugly expression, Yugi, who originally only had one Card in his Hand, instantly drew six Cards. "However, I can also Draw five Cards."
"So what if you drew powerful Cards?" Haga said, looking at Yugi's happy face with some displeasure. "I have two powerful Monsters on my Field, [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] and [Doom Dozer]. You can't possibly pull out a second [Dark Magician Girl] and [Dark Burning Attack], can you?"
"Do you think that's the only trick I have, Haga?" Yugi revealed a confident smile and pointed towards the Face-Down Position Monster on his Field. "Actually, I deliberately fulfilled your wish just now and gave you an opportunity to get revenge on Hayato. Because this Face-Down Position Monster on my Field is one that Hayato gave me."
"A Card that guy Hayato gave you?" Haga frowned and said dismissively, "Hmph, anyway, that guy's Monsters are just some Warrior-Type Monsters that rely on Equip Spell Cards or [Ojama] Monsters."
Yugi extended his Hand and Flip Summoned the Monster that was in Face-Down Position on the Field. "Let me show you the bond between Hayato and me! I Flip Summon [Man-Eater Bug] on the Field! When it's Flip Summoned, I can choose one Monster on the Field and Destroy it!"
"What?!" Haga watched the Insect leap out from the Card flipped up on Yugi's Field and jump onto the head of [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] on his own Field. "Why does that guy have this Card?! Isn't this an Insect Type Monster?!"
"Although it has protection against Traps, [Man-Eater Bug] isn't a Trap. Fall now, [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]!"
Yugi waved his Hand forward. Following his movement, [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames], whose ATK had reached 4000, was Destroyed by the weak [Man-Eater Bug] and Sent to the Graveyard. Then, Yugi Activated a Card from his Hand. "Spell Card [Level Modulation]! I Pay 500 Life Points to decrease the Level of one Monster in my Hand by 1 Star."
"Then, I Tribute [Man-Eater Bug]! Come forth, the most powerful Spellcaster, and my most loyal servant!"
"[Dark Magician]!"
[Yugi: 4300 → 3800 Life Points]
Swallowing [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]'s eyeballs when Yugi wasn't looking, [Man-Eater Bug], satisfied after its meal, was Tributed by him for a Tribute Summon. In its place appeared Yugi's ace Monster—[Dark Magician]!
[Dark Magician] [Level 7 → Level 6] [ATK 2500]
"After decreasing its Level by 1 Star, a Level 6 [Dark Magician] only needs one Tribute to Summon? But, my [Doom Dozer] still has higher ATK!"
Yugi smiled confidently. "You can't say that for sure. As I said before, the most powerful aspect of Spellcasters has never been the amount of their magic power; exquisite magic is their most powerful weapon!"
"But before that, even the most powerful Spellcaster needs an assistant to cast powerful magic."
Yugi placed a Card in the Spell & Trap Zone. "I Activate the Spell Card [Sage's Stone]! If [Dark Magician] exists on my Field, I can Special Summon one [Dark Magician Girl] from my Hand, Deck, or Graveyard."
"Phew, I almost didn't make it back." A magic circle appeared beside [Dark Magician], and [Dark Magician Girl]'s figure stumbled out from it, leaning on [Dark Magician] and panting heavily. [Dark Magician] glanced at the open magic circle, snapped his fingers, and the closing magic circle severed the hand of a Monster reaching out from within.
[Dark Magician Girl] was startled by this but quickly said to [Dark Magician] with a smiling face, "Master is the best, thank you, Master~"
Glancing at Haga, who only had [Doom Dozer] left on his Field, [Dark Magician Girl], emboldened by having her master backing her up, suddenly felt her confidence swell. "Hmph, that hateful kid wearing glasses actually took me down. Master, you must get revenge for me!"
Although Haga saw [Dark Magician Girl]'s appearance, he couldn't see the abilities of the Duel Monster Spirits, so he naturally didn't know that [Dark Magician Girl] was currently complaining to [Dark Magician]. "He actually revived [Dark Magician Girl], hehehe, but this doesn't seem to increase [Dark Magician]'s ATK."
"Don't be impatient, the Effect of [Sage's Stone] isn't over yet." Yugi said, beginning to Search his Deck. He selected a [Dark Burning Magic] and revealed it. "After [Dark Magician Girl] is Special Summoned to my Field, I can Set one [Dark Magician], [Dark Burning Attack], [Dark Burning Magic], or [Dark Magic Twin Burst] from my Deck onto the Field."
"Because [Dark Burning Magic] is a Quick-Play Spell Card, this Card cannot be Activated this Turn. However, the magic I will use to break through your [Doom Dozer] is not this one."
Setting the revealed [Dark Burning Magic] in the Spell & Trap Zone, Yugi drew a Card from his Hand. "The Card I will Activate is this one!"
"[Dark Magic Twin Burst]?" Haga looked at the projected Card and read its Name, then read its Effect word for word. "[Dark Magic Twin Burst]! Target one [Dark Magician] you control; until the end of this Turn, increase its ATK by the combined ATK of all [Dark Magician Girl] on the Field and in the Graveyards?!"
"I have one [Dark Magician Girl] with 2000 ATK on my Field. Therefore, [Dark Magician]'s ATK will increase by 2000." Yugi pointed his Hand forward. "Go, [Dark Magician], Destroy [Doom Dozer]!"
"[Dark Magic Twin Burst]!"
Under Haga's gaze, a black-purple magic orb gathered at the tip of [Dark Magician Girl]'s Staff. Once mostly formed, she flicked it lightly towards [Dark Magician]. [Dark Magician] also had such a magic orb at one end of his Staff, which he caught lightly with the other end that had no orb.
Waving his Staff in a complete circle, accompanied by [Dark Magician]'s movement, his emerald Staff was wrapped in black-purple magic power lightning. With a teleport holding the Staff, [Dark Magician] appeared in the blind spot behind the unreacting [Doom Dozer], bringing the Staff raised above his head down forcefully!
[Dark Magician] [ATK 2500 → 4500]
[Haga: 4000 → 2300 Life Points]
"Then, it's [Dark Magician Girl]'s Direct Attack!" Yugi glanced at the eager [Dark Magician Girl] and nodded, signaling that she could go.
"He said I can go!" After getting Yugi's permission, [Dark Magician Girl] immediately rushed out impatiently, mimicking [Dark Magician] by gathering magic power on her Staff, then forcefully smashing it into Haga's face!
"Woohoo! Liftoff!"
[Haga: 2300 → 300 Life Points]
"Ugh ahhhhh!"
Yugi had felt pain for a long time from just 300 points of Damage before. After being attacked by [Dark Magician] and [Dark Magician Girl] with "powerful magic" one after another, Haga finally experienced the pain from the Dark Game. After being smacked in the face by [Dark Magician Girl]'s "magic," he flew back and fell to the ground, snot and tears streaming out, wailing miserably while lying prone.
Ignoring Haga's unsightly state, Yugi gave [Dark Magician] a somewhat reproachful look for teaching his disciple bad habits and Set a Card from his Hand. "End Turn."
[Yugi: 3800 Life Points, Hand 1]
[Dark Magician] [ATK 2500]
[Dark Magician Girl] [ATK 2000]
[Set Card] [Set Card]
"Was that considered magic just now? Are you doing justice to the cool lines I just said?"
"Why wouldn't it be magic? It was Great Magic - Silence and Great Magic - Transformation."
"Silence (physical) that makes others unable to speak after taking them down, and Transformation (physical) that beats others into pig heads, right?"
The above was, of course, not a conversation between Yugi and [Dark Magician], this pair of master and disciple with a long-standing relationship, but rather a thought from Hayato, who had just arrived and hadn't quite figured out the situation.
"That guy on the ground, is that Haga?" Hayato hid to the side, choosing not to reveal himself, but instead observed the two Dueling. To be honest, after hearing that dragon roar earlier, Hayato's first thought was that Marik had already found Yugi and was planning to get revenge on the Pharaoh by controlling a puppet, just like in the original plot.
But as he ran, he remembered that the current Marik couldn't possibly do that anymore.
In the original timeline, Marik only arrived in Domino City a few days after the Duel City tournament began. During this time, he sent members of the Rare Hunters in Domino City to cause trouble for Yugi in various ways, and even remotely controlled Joey Wheeler to Duel Yugi as revenge.
To strengthen the Rare Hunters' presence in Domino City as much as possible, Marik also specifically gave one of the two [Three Egyptian God Cards] he possessed, the unwanted (crossed out) [Slifer the Sky Dragon], to a puppet he controlled—codenamed "Puppet".
Although God Cards are quite powerful, only "Chosen Ones" who possess a [Millennium Item] are qualified to Control a God in battle, and among the entire Rare Hunters, only Marik himself had the [Millennium Rod] to Control a God.
Of course, the "Puppet" being defeated by Yugi and ending up as an ace Card deliveryman, sending the Card to Yugi from a thousand miles away, is another story.
However, all of the above happened in the original timeline without Hayato's existence.
The current Marik, due to Hayato's continuous provocation, not only arrived in Domino City the day before the Duel City tournament officially began, but also didn't need to give a God Card to his puppet to increase the number of Duelists. Furthermore, in the Duel last night, he even lost [The Winged Dragon of Ra] to Hayato.
In such a situation, how could Marik still give the Card to the "Puppet" instead of keeping it himself?
More importantly, before, due to the distance, he had only vaguely felt a god level pressure, but as he gradually got closer, Hayato clearly felt a strong malice, which felt exactly the opposite of the [Three Egyptian God Cards].
If [Slifer the Sky Dragon], which forcibly Activates Thunder Force (and traps people), represents Osiris, the God of the Underworld who treats everything with deathly justice, then the "God" that had descended upon Domino City at this moment was more like an evil demon that found an opening in the Underworld and used it to repeatedly gain benefits and revive itself.
And simultaneously, having left the bustling urban area and arrived at the relatively secluded riverbank, Hayato, whose view was no longer blocked by tall buildings, was finally able to glimpse the true form of that dragon roar. Its appearance, not much different from [Slifer the Sky Dragon], allowed Hayato to finally confirm the true identity of the "God"—it was none other than [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames], one of the [Three Sacred Beasts], which would be sealed beneath Duel Academy in the future "GX" era!
And it was just as Hayato saw [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] that a warm, sun-like feeling came from the Card Box at his waist.
Taking out the Cards from the Card Box, Hayato saw that the [The Winged Dragon of Ra] Card seemed to be burning with flames, but it wasn't hot to the touch, rather relatively warm. Inside the [The Winged Dragon of Ra] Card, Hayato was quite surprised to see [Gaia The Fierce Knight], [Rainbow Kuriboh], the [Ojama] family, and the [Performapal]s "visiting".
After communicating, Hayato learned that an unknown power had been draining their life force just now, but [The Winged Dragon of Ra] had protected them in time.
"There seems to be an evil energy spreading in the air." Reminded, Hayato placed a Hand on his [Millennium Puzzle] and looked around, noticing that a dark magic was continuously spreading outwards from the Duel arena where Yugi and Haga were Dueling, or rather, from [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] which had just been Sent to the Graveyard.
On the street, Hayato saw that behind many Duelists, their Duel Monster Spirits, which had awakened but whose masters didn't have the ability to see them, were listless.
"I remember there was indeed a scene like this in the future. That person who gathered all [Three Sacred Beasts] at once drained the life force of Duel Monsters from all over the world during a Duel, actually turning from an old man into a muscular tough guy?" Hayato glanced at Haga, who had finally recovered from the pain and stood up. "But perhaps because there's only one Sacred Beast, the absorption speed is much slower?"
"Even so, the absorption of life force still exists. It's best to act quickly, Yugi."
Hayato, hiding in the corner, was not noticed by the two Duelists who were focused on their Duel. Haga finally recovered from [Dark Magician Girl]'s Attack. After standing up, he stiffly looked up at Yugi. "Yugi... Yugi! You damn guy! How dare you Attack me, how dare you Attack me, who is Controlling [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames]!"
"I will not forgive you!" Because his Draw Phase was skipped due to the Effect of [Reckless Greed], Haga immediately began his Turn. "I Activate the Spell Card, [Card of Safe Return]!"
"Then I use the Effect of [Uria, Lord of Searing Flames] in the Graveyard! I Discard the Trap Card [Ring of Destruction] from my Hand to Special Summon it from the Graveyard!"