Yu-Gi-Oh!: This isn't a duel!

It has arrived.

"Splash—"

As the viscous magma churned violently, the first thing to break through the surface of the lava and reveal itself to the world was a huge and ferocious dragon head.

That was by no means an ordinary flesh and blood body evolved from life in nature, but a death mask completely woven and forged from dark red sacred metal and the bones of ancient behemoths!

The jagged, sharp bone spurs and thick, ancient armor plates on that faceplate possess a violent beauty and an extreme sense of oppression, accumulated over millions of years.

Its eye sockets are sunken, and there is no physiological structure of an eyeball inside. Instead, there are two golden divine flames that are more dazzling and hotter than the core of the sun!

These two divine flames burned fiercely in their deep eye sockets, radiating an absolute, godlike coldness and arrogance as they looked down upon the fragile world that was about to be completely ignited and reduced to ashes.

Accompanied by a deafening roar, what followed breaking through the magma was its long, winding, and enormous serpentine body, resembling the main ridge of a continuous mountain range.

"Boom—!"

Enormous, crimson vertebrae violently shattered the boiling lava lake, snapping and assembling in mid-air with a terrifying, teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound. Each joint resembled a high-pressure jet forcibly torn open, relentlessly spewing out extremely dangerous liquid flames.

Its body has no excess flesh or soft tissue; it is entirely a skeleton frame, extremely terrifying and full of violent beauty, born purely to bear the laws of destruction.

When its enormous body, which had originally been perched at the bottom of purgatory, completely rose from the ground and majestically ascended into the sky, this ancient demon finally spread its wings completely.

Those were neither the feathers of an ordinary creature, nor the skin of a demon.

"Whoosh—!"

On the massive skeletal framework extending from both sides of its spine, countless ultra-high-pressure crimson flames erupted simultaneously, spewing forth like hundreds of active volcanoes poised to erupt!

These viscous liquid flames violently intertwined and spread in mid-air, eventually forming a pair of destructive fire wings that were enough to cover half the sky!

The phantom demon representing despair—[Divine Flame Emperor Uria]—has truly descended upon the world at this moment!

It perched proudly above the ruins of Raleigh, its massive, crimson skeletal body radiating terrifying heat capable of melting everything.

This heatwave caused the lava lake below to boil violently and expand outwards continuously. The originally solid ground around it melted and collapsed rapidly like fragile ice under this extreme heat.

It slightly opened its massive jaws, filled with sharp metal fangs, and let out its first roar upon arriving in this fragile reality.

"--hold head high!!!!!!!"

That roar seemed to tear one's soul apart!

The destructive sound waves, mixed with solidified scorching heat, swept out in a ring like a tsunami, burning away the thick clouds in the sky in an instant, leaving behind a shockingly huge hole!

This king of purgatory, who had once been mercilessly sealed at the bottom of the abyss, finally revealed all its fury and majesty to the insignificant humans without reservation.

……

"This...is this the appearance of a god?"

On a desolate mountain thousands of miles away, a man wearing a black horse mask stared intently at the strange phenomenon that had dyed half the sky red in the distance, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

The mere residual energy from the moment the seal was broken almost obliterated them both on the spot.

Although the horse-headed man and the woman wearing the unicorn mask reacted quickly and had already fled thousands of miles away, the man's heart was still filled with lingering fear as he looked back at the hellish landscape that had been completely reduced to ashes.

"If it weren't for that person who assimilated Raleigh City in advance and turned civilians into data... the entire city would probably be half a dead city by now."

The horse-headed man wiped the cold sweat dripping from his chin, his eyes beneath the mask revealing deep fear.

"I'm afraid that just that sudden commotion could have killed tens of thousands of people instantly."

He swallowed hard and turned to look at his companion beside him:

"Could it be... that this cataclysmic scene was all within the leader's expectations?"

"Heh, if you're interested, you can look it up yourself. I won't stop you."

The woman wearing the unicorn mask glanced at him coldly and let out a disdainful chuckle.

Although her tone remained calm, the slight tremor at the end of her voice betrayed her true feelings of surviving a near-death experience.

Chapter 287 The Second Deity—Earthbound God—Aslia Pisco Descends!

A fierce wind, carrying with it scorching heat waves from afar, swept past, filling the air with a suffocating, burning smell.

The man wearing the horse-head mask shook his head repeatedly, a helpless and bitter smile playing on his lips.

He turned around and took one last deep look at the towering, devastating fire demon in the distance, its aura of endless destruction filling the sky. His eyes, hidden behind the mask, were filled with profound solemnity and deep apprehension.

He swallowed hard, his saliva dry, and muttered to himself:

"Speaking of which... the situation of others is probably more dangerous and more desperate than ours is now, isn't it?"

After a brief pause, he looked up at the sky, which was reddened by the firelight, and continued in a dry voice:

"After all... our mission was only to break the seal from afar. But they... are going to face monsters of this caliber head-on and perform a real summoning!"

Meanwhile, inside the laboratory at the headquarters of the Celestial Arbitrators.

"Beep—beep—beep—!"

The continuous, extremely piercing alarms echoed throughout the spacious laboratory like a death knell.

The laboratory was already packed with staff members who looked terrified.

Just as Kelos's mood had begun to calm down after learning the reason for the external anomalies, his face turned deathly pale upon hearing the piercing alarm, and his heart sank into an abyss once again.

Although the communication links with the outside world had long been severed by that strange data turbulence, the various precision instruments in the laboratory used to detect high-dimensional energy fluctuations were still barely maintaining normal operation because the Tianxing Arbitrator headquarters was currently being protected by a powerful force.

These instruments were originally designed by the Celestial Arbitrators to monitor for unusual occurrences in the Elf Realm.

However, at this moment, they produced an effect that surprised everyone.

Under the stark white operating lights, the entire main control screen was completely covered with glaring red exclamation marks, and the frantically flashing red light made everyone's face look extremely sinister.

With the continuous, piercing alarms that seemed to shatter eardrums, even the most oblivious person could clearly sense that something extremely wrong was happening—a terrifying catastrophe beyond their control had definitely occurred outside.

"Damn it...damn it...damn it!!!"

Kelos's eyes were bloodshot, like a furious lion, as he slammed his fists heavily onto the hard alloy control panel.

He roared through gritted teeth, "What kind of insane madman would release the sealed Divine Flame Emperor Uria?!"

"What exactly do these people want?!"

As a top-notch researcher, Kairos was acutely aware that the breaking of the Phantom Demon Seal was not a random natural disaster, but a complete man-made catastrophe!

Because he vividly remembered that the forbidden power used to seal the God Flame Emperor Uria was no weaker than the power of the Dark Archmage on Chen Yuexi's body.

At present, there are no signs of assimilation at the Tianxing Arbitrator Headquarters, which means that the absolute defense at that level is extremely solid, and the seal is absolutely impossible to collapse on its own due to changes in the external environment.

Kelos clutched his hair in anguish, breathing heavily.

Originally... he had clearly figured out the ins and outs of this incident and had a way to break the deadlock!

Since this cataclysmic crisis was caused by the virtual world, Lilith's sudden disappearance may not be a disappearance at all.

She was most likely forcibly sucked into the virtual world and, due to some unknown circumstances, fell into a deep sleep.

Combined with the incident just now where You Yang was able to use the power of the elves to travel through the network and directly jump to the Tianxing Arbitrator Laboratory through a small mobile phone screen.

His brilliant mind easily arrived at a bold conclusion.

Lilith wasn't assimilated by accident; rather, she was directly sucked into that virtual abyss through the medium of her mobile phone!

Now, the media phone is in his hand, and the elves who escaped from the virtual world are also present.

Kairos was absolutely confident that, given enough time, he could reverse engineer the data and develop a device to travel into the virtual world from the opposite direction, thus completely resolving this world-ending problem at its root!

But now... it's all destroyed!

There is an incomprehensible madman who, at this most critical juncture, released the God of Destruction, Uriah the Divine Flame Emperor!

Kelos felt a chill run through him, and a wave of despair washed over him.

It should be noted that the last time, in order to suppress the Divine Flame Emperor Uria, it took the combined efforts of many top forces, and they paid an extremely heavy price to barely seal him away.

Whether the Tianxing Arbitrators alone can achieve a renewed crackdown remains to be seen.

What's even more suffocating is that the data assimilation storm in the outside world has now reached an extremely terrifying level.

It's likely that an average-level Elf Duelist would be instantly assimilated by that torrent of data the moment they stepped out of the base's defensive barrier!

Even the most powerful and elite elf duelists must constantly expend a great deal of mental energy to fight against the pervasive assimilative force in the harsh external environment.

In such an extreme predicament where they are attacked from both sides, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and they still have to face a world-destroying phantom demon.

That's utterly delusional!

Inside the oppressive laboratory, piercing alarms and blinding red lights mingled together.

With external communications completely cut off, it is now impossible to send out requests for help to other branches.

If Kelos wanted to forcefully break through the signal blockade and gather top combat power to stop the Divine Flame Emperor Uria, he would have to stop his reverse engineering work on cracking the virtual world virus.

He clenched his fists so tightly that his nails almost dug into his flesh.

Although he felt extremely reluctant, he didn't know if Lilith, who was deep in the virtual space, was safe at the moment.

However, as the celestial arbiter who protects the world, it is absolutely impossible for them to stand idly by and allow a god representing destruction to run rampant in the real world!

Otherwise, even if he managed to crack the virtual world and save everyone, it would only provide fresh flesh and blood fuel for the rampaging Divine Flame Emperor Uria outside.

Just as Keros gritted his teeth, about to make this extremely painful decision, You Yang, who had been silently observing from the side, suddenly spoke up, his voice as calm as a still well:

"Divine Flame Emperor Uria... leave it to me."

Although no one gave him a detailed report from beginning to end, based on the top-secret information that kept popping up on the screen and the desperate expressions of the staff around him, You Yang's brain could roughly guess what was going on outside.

The current desperate situation, where even the arbitrators are stretched thin, seems to have reached a point where they have no choice but to take action.

"What do you know?!"

Upon hearing this sudden and arrogant remark, Kelos, who was already on the verge of collapse, reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and instinctively flew into a rage.

Ordinary people have no idea what kind of indescribable terror the word "god" represents, and they want to stop the gods with the power of a mortal.

This is utterly irrational and delusional!

He turned his head sharply, his eyes bloodshot with extreme anger, ready to unleash a torrent of furious curses at this arrogant fool.

However, when he finally saw the face of the person speaking beside him clearly, the roar that had been rising in his throat suddenly stopped, and he fell into an eerie silence.

When he met Shang Yang's clear, deep, and fearless black eyes, the raging anger in Kairos's chest seemed to be doused with ice water, and he immediately lost all his temper.