Who asked him to play Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 1372 Overture to the New Era

Within half a day, the news spread throughout the entire Haima Group. Within a day, it reached almost the entire dueling world.

Xyz Summon.

The word spread like wildfire and seemed to suddenly become known to everyone.

Two months ago, rumors circulated that Haima Group had found a new direction for dueling and the future of humanity. A new summoning method called "Synchro Summoning" was under development, and if successful, this method would be linked to the field of new energy, using dueling to construct a new future for humanity.

Of course, this news has not been confirmed, and the whistleblower has not revealed a truly credible and authoritative identity. The news remains a rumor and has not been verified to date.

Even the topic of "synchronous regulation" is still in the rumor stage and has not been confirmed. Now, something called "over-regulation" has emerged. You can imagine what kind of uproar it has caused in the industry.

Numerous media outlets and online forums have published related reports, such as "Where is the future of dueling headed?" and "Is the dueling world about to undergo a reshuffle?"

Haima Group has not yet made any public comment on this matter, but You Xuan, who is somewhat of an insider, has already obtained inside information.

Next month, Haima Group will likely announce the existence of the concepts of "synchronization" and "overload".

With the perpetual motion machine brought back by Yuugen, the first batch of Synchro cards had already been completed. Now that the development of the perpetual motion machine has entered the experimental stage, Synchro Summoning has theoretically become entirely possible, and the first Synchro card pack can be completed by next month.

The official release of the over-produced cards may still be some time away, but it seems perfectly feasible to showcase the first batch of prototype cards at the launch event next month.

After all, the first native Xyz card in this dimension has already been developed.

It was the Red-Eyes Steel Flame Dragon that Yuugen had mentioned to Jonouchi before.

As a long-established card series in this dimension, Red-Eyes has always been a key development focus for Pokémon, and it performed well in recent Xyz tests, thus receiving significant resource investment and quickly completing the development of the first Xyz Pokémon in this dimension.

The development of Red-Eyes has always been a focus of Yuxuan's attention.

He wasn't particularly interested in the Red-Eyes deck at the moment. It wasn't because Red-Eyes Black Dragon was too rare—while Red-Eyes was a rare card, it wasn't as rare as Blue-Eyes, where there were only a handful in the world. In the anime, more than one person possessed it, and with the resources and power Yugen currently had, getting a Red-Eyes card wouldn't be difficult at all.

However, in Yu Xuan's opinion, the current Red-Eyes is only of average strength and lacks any special features, so it doesn't have much to attract him.

Even so, he knew this was still a card worth investing in. After all, he knew that Red-Eyes had produced god-tier cards like "Red-Eyes Dragon Knight" that were enough to rewrite the meta. Although even when a god-tier card appeared, it was still incredibly powerful, capable of carrying countless players to higher ranks but unable to carry the rest of the Red-Eyes family.

He was also quite interested in this Steel Flame Dragon Yu Xuan card; it matched his style quite well. "As long as the opponent activates the card's effect, it will reliably burn 500 HP." Just seeing this line of text, his long-trained and somewhat twisted thought process, bordering on retaliatory, almost instinctively sketched out the framework of several revenge tactics.

However, Yugen himself doesn't play Red-Eyes decks, and a key effect of Steel Flame Dragon is that "removing one Xyz Material allows you to revive a Red-Eyes monster from your Graveyard, and you can use it during your opponent's turn." While it's not unusable even if you ignore this effect, without this crucial effect, the card's full potential isn't realized. Therefore, Yugen informed Jonouchi first, and the card was given to him.

After all, the strongest Red-Eyes user in this dimension is currently recognized as Jonouchi.

Furthermore, Yuugen felt that sharing his ingenious idea with Jonouchi would likely pique Jonouchi's interest. After all, Jonouchi was Yugi Muto's best friend and the sole designated user of the "Fireball" technique, the originator of blood-burning attacks in the anime; Yuugen believed he had the potential.

However, with the release of the new card and breakthroughs in research, Yu Xuan couldn't help but ask Gui Ping an important question.

Yu Xuan said that Haima Group has so many great things now, such as perpetual motion machines, synchronization, overload, dimensional travel, and time stop. Any one of them is a priceless and terrifying technology.

With so many valuables, what if we run into a robbery? Shouldn't we consider strengthening security?
But Guiping simply waved his hand confidently, saying that everything was fine, and that he trusted Haima Security, saying there was no safer place in the world.

You Xuan hesitated, wanting to speak but holding back, and finally said nothing.

He thought to himself that if he were a local, it wouldn't matter, but as someone who had watched the anime, he knew that the awesome Seahorse Group was incredibly advanced in its technological development, a hundred years ahead of its time. However, regardless of whether Seahorse's products were of high quality, they certainly weren't theft-proof.

The Kaiba Corporation has been targeted by malicious attacks in the anime more than once. They've been targeted by the AI ​​Noa, by AI Gosaburo Kaiba, by Dartz's organization Doma, by Pegasus Yagyō, and by Kigu Lloyd.
If it were just a matter of losing small things every day, one could simply assume that the president of the company is wealthy and doesn't care about such trivial matters, that he's so rich that he doesn't care about a few dollars or a few cards.

The thefts at the homes of problematic company presidents are usually quite serious. Either the entire company is gone, or the long-time hostage, the vice president, has disappeared.
Although each theft was understandable, and the perpetrators were mostly exceptionally skilled, the repeated occurrences still gave Yu Xuan the stereotypical impression that "the security at the president's house is roughly equivalent to a bus conductor's," and that everyone who got on the bus could evade the fare.
However, You Xuan ultimately remained silent. He then reconsidered and realized that poor security might not be such a bad thing.

The treasures are all here; consider them bait. If someone really comes to steal them, even better; we can seize them while he's at it, saving him the trouble of searching for all the culprits hiding in the shadows.

The next two days passed uneventfully, and no new information came from the Hyperdimension.

They didn't obtain any further useful information from the two Hyperdimensional Vanguards they captured. Yu Xuan felt they were like suicide squads, not even knowing how to return to their own dimension.

Whether they can get back depends entirely on whether the other side comes to pick them up, and judging from the current situation, it seems that the other side has completely abandoned them.

But You Xuan knew that things would not end so simply, and that the other party would make another move sooner or later.

What he didn't expect was that the next time he received news about the Hyperdimension, it wouldn't come from the academy or the Kaiba Group.

It came not from his Hannover knights.

(End of this chapter)