After Keihei finished asking his question and stepped back, a large group of experts in the ruins immediately surged forward impatiently, their enthusiasm startling Yugen. For a moment, he even felt as if these people wanted to press him into a corner and rub him out, nearly prompting him to call on Silence for protection.
Fortunately, although these people seemed eager, they didn't lay a hand on him and instead bombarded him with questions about what had happened.
Yugen then simply described how he touched the stone tablet and got sucked into the Elf Realm, what he witnessed there, heard about the Evil God trying to devour the Elf Realm, and then encountered Thief Keith and had a duel with him...
Looking back, he remembered that during the Orichalcos chapter, a similar incident had occurred. Back then, Game and Atom went into the Elf Realm together, and the Black Mage Girl had asked them to defeat the Evil God of Orichalcos and save the Elf Realm.
The experts weren't particularly interested in his card game with Keith, but they repeatedly inquired in detail about the appearance of the Chaos Warrior.
"There's something else very important."
The team leader, whose hairline was a bit high, with dark circles gained from who knows how many sleepless nights, continued to ask.
"Did you experience a 'Spiritual Vision'?"
Yugen was puzzled for a moment. "What's that?"
Several members of the research team exchanged puzzled glances. Then the team leader seemed to recall something and explained, "Ah, right, you're a student scheduled to enter the Academy this year... that's right, you'll learn more about this in detail in your future classes.
To put it simply, it's a phenomenon that some Duelists experience with a high resonance with Elves. In general, we believe that those with an 'Elf Affinity' are more likely to experience a Spiritual Vision, but there are indeed cases where Duelists without this talent have experienced it."
"So what exactly is it?"
"It's a glimpse of what Elves might potentially be." The team leader said while gesturing with his hands, "This is not something we can define. Some people have seen what appears to be the form or images of Duel Monsters from ancient times, others have images of specific scenes or objects flash through their minds...
The meaning of many 'Spiritual Visions' has yet to be deciphered by anyone. However, there are numerous cases where research teams have conducted studies based on the images seen in Duelists' 'Spiritual Visions,' leading to the creation of new Duel Monsters forms or the development of related Magic Traps from the visions of scenes and objects..."
Yugen seemed to understand.
In other words, it's inspiration for card creation, right?
How to print many cards, what new forms a monster would transform into during an upgrade, what type of support cards or objects there might be...
If there could be some reference to guide the research direction, it might greatly accelerate the research progress.
Having understood this section, Yugen immediately had a bold idea.
Although he clearly hadn't seen any Spiritual Vision just now, if all that the research team required was a directional guide for card creation...
"Oh, I seem to have seen something." Yugen furrowed his brow, pretending to try hard to recall.
The entire research team was overjoyed. This was the first time someone had resonated with the Chaos Warrior-related ruins, and if they could obtain clues from the Spiritual Vision, perhaps they could break through the research bottleneck that had been stuck for years!
The team leader hastily signaled the excited members behind him to calm down, then held his breath and cautiously asked, "So... what did you see?
It's alright if it's a bit vague, Spiritual Visions are generally scattered fragments. Even a small detail can be crucial..."
"Oh, I remember, I saw two warriors who looked a bit like the Chaos Warrior, but they were in a youthful, child-like form. Judging from the Sword Qi emitted from their sword swings, one seemed to be of the Light Attribute and the other of the Dark Attribute."
The experts: "!"
There's actually a clue!
The crowd became excited, hurriedly controlling their trembling hands as they eagerly took notes.
"The two youthful warriors stepped onto an altar, with fire burning in braziers on both sides, and crossed long swords behind them. They disappeared on the altar, one transforming into light and the other into dark, merging together to change into the form of the Chaos Warrior..."
The experts whispered among themselves as they took notes.
"What does it mean? This description sounds like the 'Chaos Ceremony'..."
"Could it mean Ritual Sacrifice?"
The team leader was thunderstruck upon hearing this, a thought flashed across his mind.
They had been researching the possibility of a form stronger than the "Pioneer's Envoy," but based on the Spiritual Vision clues, could it be their direction had always been wrong?
Perhaps the key to evolution was hidden in the choice of ritual sacrifices for the Ritual Summon?
"Oh, I saw another scene..."
The experts: "!?"
Nani?
Having one Spiritual Vision was already a rare opportunity. How could this person experience two in one go?
"In a background like a light emerging from endless chaos, the youthful warrior gradually grows into the Chaos Messenger within the light...maybe later you can have your professional illustrator create an oral illustration, and I can directly help you draw the scene."
Yugen continued.
"Right, I also saw another image..."
The experts: "???"
There's more?
However, they soon discovered how naïve they were.
He didn't stop at just three. Yugen followed up with several different scenarios, describing ancient ritual sites and Gaia Knights charging into the Chaos Warrior form while riding horses...
Within moments, the expert group was left in awe.
Not only was there an extraordinary number of Spiritual Visions presented at once, but each scene was detailed down to an unprecedented level—simply unheard of!
The team leader even suspected whether the other party was making it up to amuse them, yet the shocking fact of resonating with the ruins and the acknowledgment from the Chaos Warrior Elf were undeniable truths.
So to what terrifying extent did this individual's "Elf Affinity" reach?
Of course, little realizing that Yugen hadn't actually experienced any Spiritual Vision or seen anything at all. Being from a future where physical cards existed, he naturally knew the general reinforcement direction of the entire card deck's future.
So the research team found it incredibly precise, but Yugen regretted not being able to describe it more specifically.
He could even lay out general attack-defense data and the effects of each card for them...
Yet, having self-taught some card-making basics beforehand, Yugen understood that in this world of card creation, a monster's attack and defense, the card's effects, aren't written at will but depend on the type and level of the abilities contained, then described into text that all Duelists can read based on the Duel rules.
The Card Maker isn't manually attributing written effects onto cards but describing the inherent abilities into an effect text form comprehensible to the general Duelist public.
Hence, even if Yugen were to recite a card's attack and defense data along with its effect text, it wouldn't assist in card-making, as a card can only have the effects according to the abilities it inherently demonstrates, not random unfounded effects that would make it invincible.
So what Yugen had initially described were the "Pioneer Knight," "Knight of the Night," and the Ritual Magic "Super Warrior's Bud" from the future Chaos Warrior deck.
"Pioneer Knight" and "Knight of the Night" are both Four-Star lower-level Warrior Race cards, specifically used as ritual materials. The Chaos Warrior summoned by using them as ritual material can gain powerful effects such as banishing an opponent's monster on the field, banishing an opponent's card from their hand for one turn, or launching multiple attacks within a single turn.
"Super Warrior's Bud" is the most powerful Ritual Magic Card within the Chaos Warrior system, allowing the materials for the Chaos Warrior's Ritual Summon to include monsters from both the hand and the deck.
Additionally, there were other auxiliary cards he roughly described from his memory.
These were all new cards released many years later; unfortunately, by then, they came too late for aid, as the environment had already become too brutal and chaotic for the Chaos Warrior to keep up with the times. But if leveraging the Kaiba Company's research team could strengthen it in the current environment, it still might be quite powerful.
Yugen just wanted to give it a try. He currently had no direct evidence proving that cards released in the future could be printed in this world, so this was also an opportunity seized with the help of Kaiba's top-tier research team for this experiment.
The team leader specially exchanged contact information with him, repeatedly emphasizing to contact him should he recall anything else. Conversely, the research group also promised to notify him immediately upon any advancement.
If this experiment were successful, it would hold significant implications for Yugen as well.
It wouldn't just mean he could strengthen his Chaos Card Deck. It might further prove that the impressions of many future cards in his mind and his previous life as a card enthusiast might transform into an inexhaustible treasure trove!
"Overtime! Work overtime, all of you!"
The black-eyed team leader shouted energetically, as if seeing the dawn of a breakthrough.
The Chaos Warrior Elf silently floated behind Yugen. Listening to his long and coherent descriptions, a question mark couldn't help but appear on its forehead.
Did the master truly see so many Spiritual Visions?
Why am I unaware of any of them?
Am I possibly just a fake elf...