Chapter 543: Lost Information

"So,"

Fujiki You Xuan took the tablet handed to him by a researcher who had just come out of the lab, swiped the screen open, and scanned the experimental test data.

"Did you figure out what kind of spirit this is?"

"Apologies, the data obtained from the current tests is very limited."

That researcher said with regret.

"We have already used all conventional tests, but it seems the information on this card is hidden very deeply, or perhaps it could be said that it has been completely lost."

"Completely lost?"

Fujiki You Xuan looked at this blank card with some curiosity.

"Does that mean it has become a piece of junk?"

In the empty card art, that eye suddenly appeared, looking annoyed: "Hey! I'm listening!"

But Fujiki You Xuan didn't mind at all, speaking bluntly in front of the person involved.

"Without even a card name or information, it cannot be used in a duel. For a monster that can't get on the battlefield, isn't it just a piece of junk?"

The eye showed anger, but after a few seconds of anger, it quickly wilted.

"It seems... hard to refute."

"Have you seen similar situations on other cards before?" Fujiki You Xuan asked.

The researcher looked troubled, cupping his chin as he tried hard to recall for a good while.

"This... is indeed a very rare situation; it seems there really hasn't been..."

But after frowning for a moment, a lightbulb suddenly seemed to go off in his head.

"Ah, right, if you put it that way... I can't say it's the same situation, but similar ones aren't entirely non-existent. And it was actually our President's..."

"Oh?" Fujiki You Xuan was surprised. "President Kaiba?"

Mokuba was also stunned for a moment before suddenly reacting: "You don't mean the Light Dragon?"

"Yes," the researcher said. "That was many years ago."

"Back then, in order to seek the power to defeat his arch-rival Yugi Wu Teng and the three Egyptian Gods he commanded—I mean, that other Yugi Wu Teng who is no longer here—the President went to find Pegasus, the founder of Industrial Illusions, trying to find power that surpassed the Egyptian Gods."

"There was indeed such a thing."

Mokuba nodded.

"That time, my brother obtained two cards from Pegasus. One of them was not created by Pegasus himself, but a card targeting the Egyptian Gods secretly planted by an evil force awakened from ancient times, 'Jin Zita of Light'."

"And the other one was personally designed by Pegasus, which he called the ultimate Blue-Eyes that surpassed the Egyptian Gods, 'Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon'."

Fujiki You Xuan nodded without interrupting. This was a story he knew, from the DM theatrical film "Jin Zita of Light".

"After that, President Kaiba and Yugi Wu Teng had a great battle, but during the battle, in order to destroy the Jin Zita of Light and the evil power contained within it, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon was sacrificed," the researcher continued.

The sacrifice here didn't just mean "tribute" in a duel, but the true soul of the monster being sacrificed.

After all, in the anime, the Jin Zita of Light was a god-level trap that could even banish the Egyptian Gods; Yugi trying to destroy it with conventional means was completely useless.

In the end, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon burned its own soul, and at the cost of its own existence, sacrificed itself to activate the ultimate ability "Shining Nova", ending in mutual destruction with the Jin Zita of Light.

After the pyramid disappeared, Yugi was able to summon back his trump card, the Egyptian Gods, and settled the outcome with one blow.

"After that, President Kaiba tried every method to bring back the sacrificed Blue-Eyes," the researcher said. "The deeper the research went, the more our research team was convinced that the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon should have been completely sacrificed."

"The monster's spirit was sacrificed, and even the card was burned to ashes; it was impossible to summon back. But President Kaiba disagreed. He firmly believed that the Light Dragon was still somewhere, just sleeping, waiting for him to awaken it."

"In the end, it was proven he was right?" Fujiki You Xuan said. Because he already knew the result. During the last Battle City finals, Seto Kaiba had once again summoned the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon that had long since disappeared when dealing with him. So Fujiki You Xuan had naturally been spoiled in advance that Kaiba had succeeded.

"Yes. Because that is also a monster comparable to a god, our team paid unimaginable costs in money and resources during the attempt to recreate it."

The researcher pushed up his glasses and said.

"We once thought we had succeeded. We recreated the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon card, exactly the same as the one the President got from Pegasus back then. The lab had already started cheering, but President Kaiba quickly poured cold water on us."

He paused, as if imitating Kaiba's tone back then.

"'It's just an empty shell without a soul, what is there to be happy about?'"

"An empty shell?" Fujiki You Xuan asked.

The researcher nodded.

"Subsequent practical tests also proved that the President was right. We only recreated a card that looked like Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, but it was no longer as powerful as it was back then. This card didn't have the pressure comparable to the Egyptian Gods; it was just an ordinary monster card."

"And after the card text was successfully manifested, we found that even the monster effect was much weaker than before."

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"Originally, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon had the ability to 'freely choose whether to accept the influence of card effects', but this time the card we recreated didn't have such resistance, and it became 'negate the activation of cards that target this card'."

Fujiki You Xuan: "..."

Real-life card conversion, huh?

"Let me guess, that Light Dragon probably didn't have the Shining Nova ability either?"

Shining Nova was the ability where Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon could sacrifice itself to destroy any card on the field.

"Eh, how did you know?" The researcher was surprised.

Fujiki You Xuan: "..."

Yeah, a neutered real-life card, no doubt about it.

"But when I faced it, the President's Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon had already returned to its peak state," Fujiki You Xuan said.

"Yes. Because President Seto Kaiba later took that Light Dragon to the spirit dimension," the researcher said. "We don't know exactly what happened, but when he returned, the spirit of Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon had been found by him."

He paused and looked at the card in Fujiki You Xuan's hand.

"Thinking about it now, the state of the Light Dragon card we recreated back then and the state of this spirit now are somewhat similar; that is, the card's information was lost."

"It's just that the situation of this spirit this time is much more serious than that time. We have only unearthed a very small amount of information now..."

The eye in the card art looked smug: "So, I must have been an incredible monster in the past!"

But immediately after, he heard the researcher say: "Currently, the only thing we can confirm is that the original attack power of this card should have been 0."

The eye that was smug a second ago immediately wilted.

"Nani!? Impossible, it must be that your instruments are wrong!" It shouted unconvinced. "Ari-en (Impossible)!"

Fujiki You Xuan didn't speak, silently putting away the card.

"By the way, you said you had something important to discuss with me today?"

Fujiki You Xuan put away the card and looked at Mokuba.

"Oh, yes. Industrial Illusions said they have a project and specifically asked for you."

Mokuba paused, then added somewhat mysteriously.

"Fujiki You Xuan, have you ever heard of Crystal Beasts?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 544 =====