If you wanted to choose the one with the highest loyalty to the pharaoh among the current seven priests, then Mahad would be second to no one.
This was obvious to all the priests, and even the veteran Simon, who was exactly the same as the Pharaoh in terms of hairstyle and eye color, dared not say that he could compare with Mahad in this respect.
When Mahad was young, he once blocked the fangs of a poisonous snake for Yami Yugi who was still a prince at that time. At that time, Yami Yugi did not hesitate at all and immediately sucked the venom out of him with his mouth.
At that time, Mahad was shocked and said: You are a prince, how can you do such a thing for me?
But the prince only smiled at him: Mahad, you and I have the same red blood, so what's the difference? My dream is to one day build a world where all men are equal…
...Do you dare to believe in talking about freedom and equality in a slave society?
It was a dream, might even be a hilarious one, but Mahad didn't think so.
In front of the noble royal family, he was a humble servant, a tool, as it should be. But the prince really regarded himself as his equal friend, a real person.
Since then, Mahad has made up his mind to use his own body as the cornerstone of the Pharaoh's dream, even if he had to sacrifice his life and blood for that dream.
This was what he was going to do now.
Millennium Ring not only helped to identify the direction but also has the effect of tracking and positioning.
Through the function of this thing, Mahad has roughly found the location of Bakura. At this moment, he couldn't hold back anymore, put on his sacred gladiator plate, and immediately prepared to go out to find Bakura for a one-on-one matchup.
...Then bumped into Yuei Vu.
"Are you… a friend of the Pharaoh?" Mahad paused for a moment.
"Probably." Yuei Vu said.
"If you are a friend of the Pharaoh, you are a distinguished guest. I hope the service from the servants is decent." Mahad bowed politely.
"Thank you for your trouble, everything is fine." Yuei Vu said, paused, and glanced at the shining golden gladiator disc in Mahad's hand, "Are you going to attack alone?"
"It's just a patrol, a daily task, no big deal." Mahad glanced away.
Yuei Vu was helpless: "Didn't anyone tell you that you're really a bad liar?"
Actually, Yuei Vu didn't really understand Mahad's idea of taking the initiative to attack alone. Obviously, he have seen the strength of Bakura, since he could track the opponent's location, why not take some helpers along?
In the animation, Priest Mahad went up to the line alone and died for nothing… Well, it couldn't be said for nothing, at least he gave up his body and became the "Dark Magician", staying by the pharaoh's side forever.
But the Millennium Ring fell into the hands of Bakura.
In this Shadow Game, Bakura's victory condition was to collect all seven Millennium Items to resurrect his own main body, the great evil god Zorc, and the Millennium Ring happened to be the most important prop among them.
So in order to avoid the development of the situation following the old path of the animation plot, it was absolutely impossible for Yuei Vu to let Mahad go out to feed the enemy.
In case he really collected the seven Millennium Items and revived the Great Evil God Zorc, then threw the Duel Disk away and said that he would stop playing cards and hit people directly, it might be a bit dangerous based on his unfathomable strength.
Seeing that he was found out, Mahad simply didn't hide it: "Yes, I did find the location of the Bandit King. I have to go, and please don't tell the Pharaoh to make him worry about it. I will definitely defeat the Bandit King and return."
Yuei Vu shook his head: "You are not his rival."
Mahad frowned slightly, a little displeased with his blunt and impolite words.
Maybe because Yuei Vu had the identity of "Friend of the Pharaoh", Mahad didn't get angry: "You may not know my strength. But please rest assured that a mere thief is not my opponent."
It's not that he's making a fool of himself. In fact, Mahad's strength was indeed impressive, and even a part of his own magical power was usually sealed. And he also has the ultimate forbidden technique at the cost of his own life. With the determination to die, he was confident that he could definitely take down the Bandit King.
"Really? If so…"
Yuei Vu said no more and directly opened the Duel Disk.
"Are you here to test my strength?" Mahad understood.
"That's right, or you can regard it as me telling you to quit." Yuei Vu shrugged, "Look, if you can't even pass me, how can you take down the Bandit King who has Three Wicked Gods?"
Mahad thought for a moment.
"…Okay," he said, "I accept."
Mahad took a few steps back, stood still at one end of the open space, and opened his ancient Duel Disk.
"I heard that you defeated Priest Seto, which just made me a little curious about your strength." He smiled slightly, "Let me also take this opportunity to prove to you that I have the strength to defeat the Bandit King. "
Yuei Vu smiled and said nothing,
[Mahad, LP 4000]
[Yuei Vu, LP 4000]
Five stone slabs fell out of thin air onto the green brick floor, and the dust spread like a layer of transparent waves.
"Then I'll start first."
Mahad raised his hand, and the stone slab fell in front of him.
"First, I use the spell slab to summon the 'Pot of Greed' sealed in the slab, and get two more slabs.
Next, I will perform the summoning of monsters——show yourself, 'Maha Vailo'! "
The mage in the dark blue robe obeyed the call and came to Mahad's field, floating cross-legged in mid-air.
[Maha Vailo, ATK 1550]
Maha Vailo, a monster whose name seemed to be related to Indian Buddhism. How it was related to ancient Egypt is unknown. However, in the animation, Yugi once told Anzu that this was his favorite card, and this card also played an important role in the victory of Anzu's duel.
"Set two more slabs on the field, and this is the end of my first round."
Mahad looked at Yuei Vu, thinking briefly.
Although he felt a little sorry for the Pharaoh's friends, Mahad really intended to go all out in this competition. Even if he had to use a rougher method, he would never give up chasing Bakura alone.
For Pharaoh's safety, he was willing to do anything!
"My turn, draw."
Yuei Vu added the drawn card to his hand first and then picked another card from his hand.
"The Spell Card 'Reasoning' is activated."
Seeing the green Spell Card appear out of nowhere on the field and release its magic power, Mahad couldn't help but move slightly.
Sure enough, it was the same as the Pharaoh's battle. He could cast spells at will without chantings and seals…
Yuei Vu said: "The effect of 'Reasoning' allows the opponent to declare a level from 1 to 12, and then I excavate cards from the top of my Deck until I excavate a monster that can be Normal Summoned.
If that monster happens to be the level declared by the opponent, send all excavated cards to the GY.
If it is not, then the excavated monster can be Special Summoned directly, and the remaining cards are sent to the Graveyard. "
Yuei Vu spread out his hands and made a "please" gesture.
"Come on, choose any level you want from 1 to 12."
Mahad thought for a while: "Then I choose level 4."
Level 4 was also the most common level for monsters used in duels.
Yuei Vu turned over three cards from the top of the deck, and the third card he excavated was a monster card.
"The monster I found is the 'Sangan', Level 3." Yuei Vu said, "According to the effect of 'Reasoning', I can special summon it."
[Sangan, ATK 1000]
"Okay," Yuei Vu breathed out lightly, "It's just right, let me try a new power here."