Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-112.208.245.31-20191012105220/@comment-35248429-20200917221834

73.221.145.72 wrote: Sourcedartonline wrote: Bringing anyone back to life at this points cheapens every other death in the series. But they brought Asuna back in season 1. If bringing Eugeo back cheapens it then so is bringing back Asuna. Asuna doesn't die in season one. Kayaba keeps both of them from dying when their avatars die. That's fundamentally diffent than actually dying.

Again, there are no backups. The total population of Underworld is at least 150,000 at this point given the numbers that know for sure, and in reality greater since not all of the dark territory probably fought. The entire light cube cluster only holds 250,000 odd cubes, and not all of those can be used for actual fluctlights. There's no way to have a copy of all souls in the Underworld.