Chapter 135

As Fujiki You Xuan expected, both Misawa and Asuka accepted his invitation.

After he revealed the "Machine Angel Ritual" and "Carbonedon" that he had modified—which happened to be the cards of these two people—the two were shocked and then boarded the ship almost without hesitation.

The matter of card printing is not just about knowledge and technology; it also depends on fate power. Although some senior students might have slightly stronger knowledge reserves at this stage, most of them can't beat the original characters when it comes to fate power.

Misawa goes without saying, a top student, learns everything very quickly. In the original work, he directly transformed into researching dueling physics in the later stage, taking the scientific research route. Honestly, Fujiki You Xuan has always felt that compared to playing cards, he is a natural scientific research talent.

Asuka actually has a bit of this feeling too; when planning for graduation, she also considered staying at the school to teach and do research. Sometimes Fujiki You Xuan feels that if they directly transferred to scientific research positions and didn't go to the front line to play cards, maybe they wouldn't have had their reputations damaged like in the original work.

At the same time, if card printing involves fate power, then Fujiki You Xuan feels that research by people who already have a close connection with the deck might increase the success rate. So for the Cyber Angel project, Asuka is also more suitable than others.

Besides Cyber Angel, the ones he can think of that have significant room for strengthening are actually HEROes and Cyber Dragons.

Cyber Dragons are shelved for the time being partly because he hasn't met Ryo Marufuji yet and isn't very familiar with him; he might consider pulling Kaiser on board later. It's just that he doesn't remember many Cyber Dragon cards that are significantly stronger than the anime cards; if he wants to strengthen them, he has to print new cards, and the development difficulty would be a grade higher, so it might not work.

Of course, his small laboratory has just been built and is only a prototype. Just because the technical strength is not good now doesn't mean it won't be in the future. When it becomes a large team later, and both funding and technology are up, let alone reinforcement cards, maybe even new deck series can be printed.

As for the HERO deck, Masked HEROes are generally much stronger than in the original work, but Judai only seems to have Elemental HEROes in his hands now.

And asking Judai to do scientific research is really embarrassing for others. He belongs to the type of high-fate-power player who "can print cards on the spot if the atmosphere is right," but he usually either skips classes or sleeps in class, so asking him to do a research position is indeed unrealistic.

Two days later, Fujiki You Xuan finally received news from the research team of the Kaiba Corporation.

The research team leader told him very excitedly that through the spiritual clues he provided, the development of the Black Luster Soldier deck theme had made breakthrough progress, and asked him to come and see it quickly.

The team leader was quite excited, and when he called, it was almost midnight, and he still said he would send someone to pick him up immediately. However, Fujiki You Xuan said that he still had to ask for leave from the academy, and it wouldn't be too late to rest at night and go the next day.

So early the next morning, a helicopter with the KC Corporation logo flew to the academy island. Fujiki You Xuan boarded the island and took a special plane directly to the legendary dueling resort, the Duel City of New Domino City.

Which is where the headquarters of the Kaiba Corporation is located.

Arriving at the headquarters building, the plane had just landed, and the team leader in a white coat had already greeted him excitedly, grabbing Fujiki You Xuan's sleeve and pulling him inside, talking incessantly about the research their team had been doing day and night these days.

But in fact, even if he didn't say it, Fujiki You Xuan could tell from the dark circles under this guy's eyes, which seemed even more exaggerated than last time.

He wanted to say, brother, take it easy, there's a long way to go, I'm counting on you for my Black Luster Soldier strengthening later, it wouldn't be good if you died suddenly from overwork...

But the team leader seemed quite energetic. He quickly led Fujiki You Xuan to their laboratory, where a room full of people seemed to have been looking forward to it.

Fujiki You Xuan saw a researcher immediately get up and come to the end of the laboratory, to a cylindrical device on the wall that he didn't recognize for a moment.

The team leader and another person took out keys separately and inserted them into two different keyholes to rotate in opposite directions. With a click, the mechanism unlocked, and a password pad popped out from inside.

Then the two entered a set of passwords separately, and after iris and fingerprint authentication, the cylindrical device rumbled and operated, slowly rotating while popping outward.

Several cards were sealed inside.

"These are the cards that have just been completed."

The team leader handed the cards to Fujiki You Xuan with almost pious movements.

"The test field is already prepared."

Fujiki You Xuan took them and looked.

Sure enough, they were exactly the cards he had described before.

【Beginning Knight, 4 stars, Attack 500, Defense 2000】

Simply put, the "Black Luster Soldier" summoned using this card as a Ritual material can gain two effects. Once per turn, banish one monster on the opponent's field from the game. Also, when it destroys an opponent's monster in battle, it can attack one additional time.

Similar to the effect of Envoy of the Beginning, but even stronger. Envoy of the Beginning cannot attack in the turn it uses "Dimension Slash," but the Black Luster Soldier summoned by Ritual using this card has no attack restrictions even if it uses the banishing ability.

This card is Light attribute, and there is also a Dark attribute card with a similar effect.

【Evening Twilight Knight, 4 stars, Attack 500, Defense 2000】

Similar to Beginning Knight, it can also grant additional effects to "Black Luster Soldier" when used as a Ritual material. The first is also "Dimension Slash," which can banish one monster on the opponent's field.

The second effect is that it can randomly banish one card from the opponent's hand. However, the banished card will return to the opponent's hand during the End Phase of the next opponent's turn.

If both cards can be used as Ritual materials to summon Black Luster Soldier, then that Black Luster Soldier will simultaneously gain the ability to banish the opponent's monsters, attack additionally, or banish cards from the hand.

It will undoubtedly be a top-notch powerful big monster in the current dueling world, finally making that Black Luster Soldier, who was just a 3000-attack Ritual normal monster despite bearing the title of "legendary warrior," worthy of his title.

In addition, the new Ritual Spells in his previous description have also been developed, and there are two types.

【Super Soldier Ritual】, a Ritual Spell dedicated to Black Luster Soldier. And when this card is in the Graveyard, by banishing itself and one Light and one Dark attribute monster each from the game, you can Special Summon one 【Black Luster Soldier】 Ritual monster from your hand, ignoring the summoning conditions.

In other words, when it exists in the Graveyard, it can make the summoning conditions of any Black Luster Soldier Ritual monster in the hand the same as Envoy of the Beginning.

【Super Soldier Synthesis】, can choose one Light and one Dark attribute monster from the hand and deck respectively as materials to perform a Ritual Summon for Black Luster Soldier, which is currently the strongest Ritual Spell in this system.

The difficulty of printing these new cards out of thin air is much higher than strengthening an existing original card to a physical card effect; it was only possible with the help of this top team under Kaiba.

In fact, Fujiki You Xuan also revealed some information about the new Black Luster Soldier armor, but after asking, the team leader said they were still trying, but it was not going well at the moment.

It is also consistent with what Fujiki You Xuan learned in the process of learning card making. The more powerful the monster, the harder it is to print; even such a top team has only developed low-level monsters and Spells/Traps for support so far.

Powerful deck terminals don't seem to be that easy to make.

The research team couldn't wait to invite him over, just to ask Fujiki You Xuan, who holds the Black Luster Soldier spirit, to use the newly developed cards for Ritual Summoning and collect data for further development and adjustment.

This is naturally not difficult, as simple as opening a Duel Disk and playing a set of military boxing against the wall.

After assisting in completing the test, Fujiki You Xuan returned to the control room from the field, only to see Mokuba had already entered.

"The development seems to be going very smoothly, thanks a lot." Mokuba said with a smile, "Once these new achievements are made public, it will surely be another major breakthrough that shocks the academic world."

The two exchanged routine pleasantries, and then Mokuba quickly got to the point: "I'll take you to see the company's inventory later. Of course, don't hold too much hope; we don't have everything in our inventory normally, so don't even think about super-rare cards like Dark Magician or Red-Eyes Black Dragon."

"No problem, no problem, I'll just take a look." Fujiki You Xuan laughed.

"By the way, there's also the surprise I mentioned to you before."

Mokuba smiled mysteriously.

"The 'Link System' I mentioned last time is nearing completion, want to try it?"

(End of chapter)