Chapter 841: Chapter 814: Data Loss
"So,"
Yugen took the tablet offered by the researcher who had just come out of the lab, swiped open the screen, and glanced at the data from the experimental test displayed on it.
"Do you see what kind of Elf this might be?"
"Sorry, the data obtained from the test so far is very limited."
The researcher said regretfully.
"We’ve tried all the conventional tests, but it seems that the information on this card is hidden very deeply... Or perhaps you could say it might be completely lost."
"Completely lost?"
Yugen looked a bit strangely at this blank card.
"Does that mean it’s become useless?"
Suddenly, an eye appeared angrily within the empty card image: "Hey! I can hear you!"
But Yugen didn’t mind and bluntly spoke his mind even in front of the involved party.
"Without a name or information on the card, it can’t be used in a duel. For a monster that can’t go to battle, isn’t that pretty much useless?"
The eye showed a look of anger but soon wilted after a few seconds of fury.
"Seems... hard to argue against..."
"Have you seen a similar situation on other cards before?" Yugen asked.
The researcher looked troubled, supported his chin, and tried hard to recall for a while.
"Well... this is indeed a very rare situation, it seems that there really hasn’t been..."
But after a moment of tight frowning, suddenly it was as if a light bulb appeared on his forehead.
"Ah, right, now that you mention it... it can’t be said to be the same situation, but there have been similar ones. And it was actually President Kaiba’s..."
"Oh?" Yugen was surprised, "President Kaiba?"
Keihei was also stunned for a while before he suddenly reacted: "You don’t mean... the Light Dragon?"
"Yes." The researcher replied, "That was many years ago.
The president at the time was seeking the power to defeat his nemesis Muto Yuugi and the Three Phantom Gods he controlled... I mean, the other Muto Yuugi who is no longer around, the president went to seek Beckas, the founder of the International Fantasy Association, to try to find a power that surpasses the Three Phantom Gods."
"Indeed, there was such a thing."
Keihei nodded.
"That time my brother got two cards from Beckas. One of the cards wasn’t created by Beckas himself, but was secretly planted by a resurrected evil power targeting the Three Phantom Gods, ’Light Pyramid.’
And the other was designed by Beckas personally, which he claimed to surpass the Three Phantom Gods, the ultimate Blue-Eyes, ’Blue-Eyes Light Dragon.’
Yugen nodded without interruption. This was a story he knew from DM’s movie "Light Pyramid."
"After that, President Kaiba and Muto Yuugi had a great battle, but during the fight, to destroy the Light Pyramid and its contained evil power, Blue-Eyes Light Dragon was sacrificed." The researcher continued.
Here the sacrifice was not just the ’tribute’ in the duel, but the real soul of the monster was sacrificed.
After all, in the animation, the Light Pyramid was a divine-level trap that could even banish the Three Phantom Gods, conventional means used by Yuugi to destroy it were completely ineffective.
In the end, Blue-Eyes Light Dragon burned its soul, sacrificed its existence, activated the ultimate ability "Shining New Star," and perished with the Light Pyramid in a one-to-one exchange.
After the pyramid vanished, Yuugi was able to call back his ace, the Three Phantom Gods, setting the outcome of the duel in one strike.
"After that, President Kaiba tried everything he could think of to revive the sacrificed Blue-Eyes." The researcher said, "The deeper our research went, the more our research group became convinced that the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon was thoroughly sacrificed.
The monster’s Elf was sacrificed, and even the card was burned to ashes, making it impossible to be called back. But President Kaiba disagreed; he firmly believed that the Light Dragon was still somewhere, just asleep, waiting for him to awaken it."
"Ultimately, was he proven right?" Yugen asked.
Because he already knew the result. During the last Duel City final battle against him, Seto Kaiba once again summoned the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon that had long disappeared. So Yugen naturally was spoiled with the knowledge that Kaiba had succeeded.
"Yes. Because that was also a monster comparable to a god, during the attempt to recreate it, our group paid unimaginable costs in terms of money and resources."
The researcher adjusted his glasses and said.
"We once thought we succeeded. We recreated the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon card, identical to the one the president originally obtained from Beckas. The laboratory was already starting to celebrate, but President Kaiba quickly poured cold water on our excitement."
He paused, as if imitating how Kaiba spoke back then.
"’It’s just a soulless shell; what’s there to be happy about?’ "
"A shell?" Yugen asked.
The researcher nodded.
"The following practical tests also proved that the president was right. We merely recreated what looked like the Blue-Eyes Light Dragon card, but it was nowhere near its former strength. This card lacked the pressure comparable to the Phantom God, merely an ordinary Monster Card.
And after successfully bringing the effect text to reality, we found that even the Monster Effect was much weaker than before.
Previously, Blue-Eyes Light Dragon had the ability ’freedom to choose whether to accept card effect influence,’ but this time the card we recreated didn’t have such resistance, and it became ’effects targeting this card are ineffective.’
Yugen: "..."
Physical Card conversion, huh?
"Let me guess, that Light Dragon probably doesn’t have the ’Shining New Star’ ability either?"
Shining New Star is the ability by which Blue-Eyes Light Dragon can sacrifice itself to destroy any card on the field.
"Eh, how do you know?" The researcher was surprised.
Yugen: "..."
Yep, it’s undoubtedly a neutered Physical Card.
"But when I faced it, President Kaiba’s Blue-Eyes Light Dragon had recovered its full glory." Yugen said.
"Yeah. Because after that, Seto Kaiba took that Light Dragon card to the Elf’s dimension," the researcher explained, "We don’t know exactly what happened, but when he returned, he had found the Elf of Blue-Eyes Light Dragon."
He paused, looking at the card in Yugen’s hand.
"Thinking back now, the state of the Light Dragon card we recreated back then is somewhat similar to this Elf now, it’s that the card’s information had been lost.
Only this time this Elf’s situation is much more severe than back then. We’ve only uncovered a small amount of information now..."
The eye on the card took on a proud look: "So that means, I must have been quite a formidable monster in the past!"
But immediately followed by hearing the researcher say: "Currently the only thing we can confirm is, the card’s original Attack Power was apparently only 0..."
The once proud eye instantly wilted.
"Nani!? Impossible, it must be your machines that got it wrong!" It protested loudly, "Arienai (Impossible)!"
Yugen didn’t say anything, quietly putting the card away.
"By the way, didn’t you say you had something important to discuss with me today?"
Yugen put away the card and looked at Keihei.
"Oh, yes. The International Fantasy Association mentioned there’s a project, and they specifically wanted to find you."
Keihei paused, then cryptically added.
"Yugen, have you heard of... Jade Beast?"
