Chapter 49: Ruins

Early the next morning, Fujiki You Xuan set off from the dojo and embarked on a journey to visit the ruins with the students.

To be honest, Fujiki You Xuan was quite interested in the stone slabs in the ruins before they were made into cards. Especially after learning that there were more than just stone slabs in the ruins that could be made into cards, he was even more so.

However, the world of Yu-Gi-Oh is like this. There are far more things that can be made into cards than stone slabs. Gems can be made into cards, swords can be made into cards, and sometimes even living people can be made into cards...

Or rather, it is not "card making" to make stone slabs into cards, but simply "transplantation."

After all, stone slabs are cards that the ancients made thousands of years ago. What Pegasus did back then was just to transplant ancient cards to a brand-new modern medium. And the process of the ancients making stone slabs was the process of the corresponding cards being truly created.

The ruins are located in the suburbs. Fujiki You Xuan got off the car and didn't walk far before he arrived near the excavation site and met Uncle Saito, the good brother of Dojo Master Takeuchi.

"Yo, you're here."

Uncle Saito came up to greet him enthusiastically, especially looking at Fujiki You Xuan twice more.

"The little brother's duel yesterday was quite beautiful, the benefits later should be quite a lot, right?"

"It's okay." Fujiki You Xuan smiled, "Thanks to Uncle for taking us to visit."

Uncle Saito waved his hand: "This is nothing. Actually, I just brought you here a few days in advance. The team seems to have decided that if there are no new discoveries, this ruin will be open to duelists above level 4 in two days."

Uncle Saito led the group inside while explaining.

"You should have heard of it, right? The rumor that sometimes spirits will choose duelists by themselves?"

"Heard of it." Everyone nodded.

Fujiki You Xuan also remembered that the most representative one in the original work was the Crystal Beast. After Pegasus made the Crystal Beast deck, he was watching the competition of the contestant Johan Andersen at a duel competition one day, but he didn't expect the deck in the box to suddenly shine.

So Pegasus then gave the Crystal Beast deck to Johan, and Johan also had a bond with his deck that ordinary duelists could not compare with. So many times it is not the duelist who chooses the card, the spirit will also choose the duelist.

"Master Takeuchi also said." A dojo student recalled, "He said that a duelist rejected by the card cannot exert the true power of the deck."

Fujiki You Xuan listened and wondered, what is meant by unable to exert the power of the deck?

Is it possible that if the spirit hates you, it will desperately stuff waste parts into your hand, making people doubt life because of hand accidents?

Damn, that's quite scary.

"Yes, some ruins are also like this. Sometimes the research on some ruins has no progress at all, but when a certain duelist comes to the ruins, the ruins will suddenly have strange phenomena that were not there before, as if he was chosen..."

"But I don't know the specific selection criteria."

Uncle Saito smiled.

"After all, I'm just an old man moving bricks here, just listening to people talk more."

Sato Koji asked: "So can you tell us now what ruins it is today? Master said it is very powerful, but he is mysterious and refuses to explain the details..."

Uncle Saito smiled mysteriously: "You will know when you go in."

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Moving along the path of artificial excavation, they soon arrived in a huge space. Surrounded by towering stone walls, carved with complex patterns and mysterious symbols, they were still clearly visible despite being suspected of having gone through thousands of years.

In the center of the ruins, there was a huge stone platform, where a yellowish stone slab that had passed through unknown years stood. In the center of the stone slab was a warrior holding a sword.

Although the ancient painting style was very abstract, everyone still recognized this shape at a glance, and many students exclaimed directly.

"Black Luster Soldier!"

Some archaeological myths are very exaggerated, saying that he is the strongest warrior who opened up the world, using his sword to split chaos, one side for light and one side for dark, opening up the world and creating all things. Of course, because this account is too outrageous, it is currently only regarded as a mythological background story.

It is also one of the famous ace monsters once held by Yugi Wu Teng.

"Yes, Black Luster Soldier. The legendary monster has become a key topic for many teams since the appearance of 'Envoy of the Beginning'. Unfortunately, although 'Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning' caused a shock in the Duel Realm when it appeared back then, it also became a research bottleneck."

"Many years have passed and no team has made any breakthroughs. Some expert teams even claimed that they believe 'Envoy of the Beginning' is already the full potential of Black Luster Soldier, and there is no possibility of further evolution..."

It seems normal to have such thoughts. Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning has extremely simple summoning conditions, 3000 attack power, and powerful abilities to banish a monster on the opponent's field and attack twice in one turn.

It is so powerful that it was banned by K-sha in 2005 in reality, and its strength is indeed very high in the environment of this era.

Of course, as a person of the future, Fujiki You Xuan clearly knows that this is not the limit, and there are still many series of cards of Black Luster Soldier that have not been developed.

Looking at this stone slab, his mind became a little active.

In fact, even without subsequent new card supplements, Envoy of the Beginning alone was strong enough in the early years. Speaking of which, after the 【Hand Destruction】 deck he used before, the world champions for the next two years were both Chaos themes, and Envoy of the Beginning was the main force.

The Chaos of that year already had a feeling of the super mainstream of later generations, and it was almost a dimensionality reduction blow to other decks in the environment of that year. Even until the Great Beginning was locked in the small black room, and a year later, the "Chaos Sorcerer," known as the Little Beginning, barely replaced his position, the world champion that year was the 【Last Will Chaos】 construction, still a Chaos theme.

Fujiki You Xuan wondered if he could find a way to get a Great Beginning, maybe he could consider trying another champion deck.

"Then isn't it just helpful for new research to dig out the relevant ruins this time?" A student asked strangely.

"I don't know the specifics very well," Uncle Saito said, "But I seem to have heard the experts of the research team say no. Because the stone slab found in the ruins this time corresponds to the ritual monster 'Black Luster Soldier' that we already had and was made many years ago."

"It seems that no clues containing any further evolution of monsters have been found here..."

The ritual monster "Black Luster Soldier," which is the original vest that Yugi once summoned in the Duelist Kingdom chapter. A ritual ordinary monster with 3000 attack power and no effect, although it bears the name of "legendary monster," it has long been unable to keep up with the version.

"... Here."

Fujiki You Xuan: "?"

He seemed to hear someone talking in his ear. But he turned his head following the sound, and there was no one.

The students were in the opposite direction, excitedly discussing topics related to Black Luster Soldier and the Duel King Yugi Wu Teng of that year. People came and went in the ruins hall, and no one stood in the direction the sound came from.

Auditory hallucination?

He looked around blankly, and there was really no other explanation. But just as he turned around.

"Here."

It was that voice again.

Fujiki You Xuan looked back again. That direction was still empty, and it didn't look like anyone could talk to him.

What's the situation? Telepathy? Sound transmission?

Then his gaze locked in that direction, on another stone slab unearthed from the ruins.

Unlike the Black Luster Soldier stone slab surrounded by people, it was a blank stone slab.

It seems to be... this white board?

By some strange coincidence, he approached and slowly raised his arm.

It was like being pulled by some invisible force.

At the same time, someone among the researchers in the ruins camp suddenly exclaimed: "Team Leader!"

"What's the matter?"

The team leader wearing a white coat and the KC logo walked quickly towards the person.

"Energy! The reading of duel energy suddenly started to soar!"

The team leader looked at the instrument reading and was also shocked: "Is this a spirit reaction? But this intensity value... how is it possible?"

His expression was unbelievable.

Their previous tests clearly did not find any monster spirit reactions in these ruins, but in just such a second, the instrument reading suddenly soared like crazy.

And if it is really a spirit manifestation, this exaggerated energy value...

"Isn't it as strong as 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon'?" The research team leader was surprised.

Nowadays, there are a lot of ruins dug up all over the world every year, which is nothing strange. But spirits of the magnitude of Blue-Eyes White Dragon are still rare.

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Just as his fingertips touched the stone slab, Fujiki You Xuan seemed to suddenly feel a powerful suction.

He was caught off guard, only feeling his feet off the ground, and his whole person seemed to merge into a huge vortex, being sucked into another world.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 50 =====