Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Duelists Beyond Light

The memories conveyed by the Eye of Rune contain everything about the last time travel and Youqing.

Halard and the other two knew that You Qing was not a duelist from this dimension. Back in the previous timeline, You Qing had already endured multiple powerful dueling forces simultaneously.

He is indeed a Dragon Seal Bearer, but he is more than just a Dragon Seal Bearer.

In a sense, it's not entirely certain whether he was actually summoned to this world by the Red Dragon!
Yugi Muto's final duel gave Harald and the others a glimmer of hope, however faint, that the duel could continue.

"It seems we were too desperate."

At this moment, the Valley of the King's Long Sleep welcomed a long-awaited sunny day, and the once dusty place was now spotless.

A dazzling golden light descended from the sun high in the sky, just like the divine light of the king when Atum returned.

With all their might, the Ragnarok team managed to bring the immensely heavy three Egyptian Gods onto the D-Wheel.

They need to carry on the king's will and find a messenger worthy of entrusting the Three Phantom Gods—You Qing!
The Valley of the King's Long Sleep is far from New Domino City, and there are countless dangers and hardships to be encountered along the way.

But no matter what, Ragnarok Team will get this done!!
This time, it's not for dusk, but for dawn!!!

A mysterious space.

The last two members of the New Future Team are using a mysterious power to monitor the Ragnarok team as they leave the Valley of the Kings' Long Sleep.

When they carry both God Cards at the same time, the protective power given by the Eye of Rune dissipates. Under normal circumstances, neither they nor the Dragon Marker would be directly observed, but now, they have been exposed.

The last two members of the New Future Group sent out assassins to stop the transport of the God Cards.

One of them was the former leader of the Future Group—Zone.

The other person is the mysterious entity that triggered the third and fourth timelines—Parallel.

“Foolish Norse envoy,” Zone asserted, “that you would actually try to end everything in this way.”

Parillar's voice was extremely ethereal and dreamlike:
"They are just pawns who don't understand the bigger picture."

"I only feel sorry for them."

"There may have been an opportunity to make them our strength."

“It doesn’t matter anymore. At least everything is going according to plan.” Zone pondered. “You Qing can indeed control the three Phantom Gods, but even if those three guys gave the three Phantom Gods to him, it wouldn’t change anything.”

After saying that, he looked through some mysterious power at a destroyed and dilapidated city.

At the heart of the city stands a giant, dust-covered Moment device; this city is the same Neo-Domino City that ultimately met its demise in the first timeline.

Parilla said, "It'll be soon. Once the Cradle of Arcs is complete, we can implement the final plan. When the ultimate white hole light appears, the fractured dimension will disappear, and the echoing ripples will stop completely."

Upon hearing this, Zone felt a deep sorrow welling up inside him.

The "Echoing Ripple" was created by him to save the Duel World, but he never expected that his unauthorized reversal of time would lead to an even more terrible disaster.

There is a paradox in the past of the human world: no matter what, as long as one goes back to the past, there will inevitably be inexplicable causal errors.

However, this paradox has been rarely mentioned since the discovery that multiple dimensions may exist.

A true return to the past is impossible. In fact, it is the creation of a new dimensional universe from a certain point in the past.

That was the very first thing Zone did.

He reversed time and space, creating an additional timeline in the dimensional universe. This extra timeline disrupted the original unity and integrity of the dimensional universe, much like a stone breaking a calm lake.

According to the previously mentioned "ripple effect," initially, only a new dimension was created. However, the energy entanglement and collision between the new dimension and the original dimension was like water ripples hitting the shore and bouncing back to create new ripples, leading to the emergence of more and more complex new dimensions.

As the number of dimensions increased dramatically, the original dueling dimension, which had lasted for three parts, finally experienced a spacetime fracture at a certain point.

There have been no new stories since Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. Instead, new worlds have taken place in various new dimensions—ZEXAL, ARC-V, VRAINS, SEVENS, and so on...

These new dimensions coexist within the Duel Universe. If the Duel Universe is a leaf, then these new dimensions are countless leaf cells.

Almost the same principle applies: each dimension, like each cell, needs to function independently. To avoid interference with other dimensions, there are structures like cell walls that separate all dimensions.

What separates all dimensions, in layman's terms, is the "dimensional rift".

Although the Multidimensional Rift possesses enough power to separate so many dimensions, its energy is finite. Countless new ripples are being generated every moment, and one day, the Multidimensional Rift's energy will be completely exhausted!
At that time, the energy of all dimensions will no longer be constrained or limited; they will collide, intertwine, and cause uncontrollable chaos.

At that time, the Duel Universe will be completely destroyed!!
In order to change the ultimate destruction of the Duel Universe, the mysterious power—the Multidimensional Rift—generated a humanoid consciousness projection. This projection was responsible for changing the outcome of the destruction, and it was Pariral who triggered the third and fourth timelines.

In the third timeline, Parril's goal is to return to the timeline before the dimensional rupture and fundamentally eliminate the power of the duel, thereby avoiding the subsequent crisis.

This aligns with the Future Group's goals, which is why they were able to quickly form a new Future Group.

This is also why Parril regretted not being able to successfully recruit the Ragnarok team earlier. If the Ragnarok team were willing to attempt the "Rite of Twilight" in the third timeline as they are now in the fourth, then they would be completely on the same side...

Now, this is the fourth timeline.

Parril and the New Future Group, which they formed, began to realize that the seed of this universe—"Duel"—was too deeply rooted to be eradicated completely.

So this time, they decided to try a new approach.

In the second timeline, which is the original timeline, the Future Team uses the perpetual motion machine Moment that was destroyed in the first timeline to operate in a negative direction, offsetting the positive reversal of the perpetual motion machine Moment in the new Domino City, and attempts to end the Synchro Summoning through collision.

This time, they will strike at the right moment, colliding two positively moving moments!
When two moments connect and rotate in the same direction simultaneously, they generate unimaginably powerful energy. This energy grows exponentially, reaching a level within seconds sufficient to alter spacetime!

At this point in time, before this dimension has fractured, the Duel Universe currently has only four timelines. If the New Future Group's plan succeeds, one of them will become powerful enough to eventually absorb the other timelines!

In this way, the branching timelines and new dimensions will cease to exist, and the Echoing Ripple event will come to an end!
Parillar, also known as the "Gap Between Dimensions," can return to the most original cosmic energy, without constantly consuming itself to ensure that future multidimensional interactions do not affect each other.

However, before Moement's power becomes strong enough to alter dimensions and spacetime, an incalculable number of people in the world will be reduced to dust, with only a small percentage having a chance of survival.

Parilla didn't care about any of that.

Having already experienced a period of great despair, the original Future Group was extremely cold and rational. If forced to choose between sacrificing the vast majority of people and the complete annihilation of civilization, they would now resolutely choose the former.

Such a cruel method is destined to be neither understood nor supported...

"Those stubborn idealists can't resist for long."

Zone's tone was very low.

"This is the last timeline to be rewritten; the power of the universe cannot sustain it until the fifth timeline emerges."

"This is our only chance."

"The 'Eternal White Hole' must succeed!!"

Shin-Domino City
The gathered Dragon Seals discovered that the Three Emperors of Taiyi had changed history.

The memories of the vast majority of people in the world have been altered, except for these powerful duelists with mysterious abilities.

However, there was one exception—Shirley LeBlanc.

She possesses a mysterious card left to her by her parents, named "Z-ONE." Under the power of this card, Shirley Leblanc was unaffected by the timeline changes.

After confirming this, Yu Qing, the Dragon Markers, and Shirley LeBlanc secretly met.

Everyone gathered at the 5Ds base, but as soon as everyone arrived, a mysterious and extraordinary event occurred!

The red dragon has appeared once again!!

Within the crimson divine light it emitted, the others also learned about the rewinding of timelines, the echoing ripples, and the gaps between multiple dimensions.

A great shock filled everyone's hearts. Besides those events, what surprised them even more was that You Qing came from another dimension.

It took everyone a long time to process.

It wasn't until nightfall that they gradually began their discussion.

Shirley Leblanc placed the magical card with mysterious power—Z-ONE—on the table and said solemnly, "In the previous timeline, this card was the key to activating the time-space travel wormhole at the Moment perpetual motion machine development test base."

"It seems the New Future Group wants to prevent us from entering the wormhole and interfering with their plans, so..."

"That's why they killed my father and mother!!!"

Izayoi Akira pondered, "Then... what is the function of this card now?"

Jack Atlas analyzed, "It's still unclear. Perhaps, just like before, the New Future Group's plan succeeded the moment the Memont perpetual motion machine experimental base disappeared. This card is probably the key to the wormhole device."

“That’s possible,” You Qing added. “Even if they’ve rewound the timeline, the New Future Group will try their best not to change too many events that don’t need to be changed, because that would create more ripples, that is, new dimensions. If they can achieve their goal with the least amount of change, then they definitely won’t go to great lengths!”

Kro Hogan sighed, his head throbbing. "This is really a headache. But what is their goal now? Is it to completely destroy Synchro? To destroy the universe?"

No one had a clue.

At this moment, Yusei Fudo turned on his computer, placed one of the cards from his deck into the testing device, and attempted to decipher the energy code within it using a new method.

Ever since learning about those past timelines, Yusei Fudo has been very concerned about one person: his very special best friend from the past—Bruno, also known as Antinomi.

In the third timeline, Antinomi is a completely different person, a truly terrifying enemy.

In this fourth timeline, he became even more insane, risking his life to kill You Qing!

but……

Deep down, Yusei Fudo still firmly believes—Bruno is Bruno!!!

"Hey, Yusei, what's on your mind? Hey, what are you doing?" Ryuya asked curiously and walked over.

As he slammed the keyboard down, Yusei Fudo exclaimed in surprise, "I knew it! This is..."

Everyone immediately gathered around.

You Qing stood in the crowd, his eyes widening in surprise.

Just now, Yusei Fudo, who had gained memories of the past timeline, recalled a new energy encoding method that he and Bruno had developed to improve the speed of D-Wheel in high-speed duels.

Unwilling to believe that Bruno was truly an enemy, Yusei Fudo re-deciphered the Burst Mode card in that manner, and sure enough, he found a message left by Bruno within it.

Looking at the words on the computer screen, everyone was deeply shocked, and their eyes gradually welled up with tears.

"Yusei, if you see this message, it means you remember who I am, and you haven't forgotten those things."

Even if this is a completely different time and space on the verge of destruction.

That's right, I deliberately dropped this Burst Mode card during a duel.

Hopefully, this will help you defeat Apollia and the Machine King, and hopefully, it will also let you know in advance how to deal with what's to come.

I know that using a life-or-death duel to convey a message is far too extreme.

But this is the only covert way and opportunity.

I believe that Youqing can master Acceleration Synchronization in the duel and defeat me, and I also believe that you will definitely win again!!
The New Future Group's plan this time is the 'Eternal White Hole', which involves causing two Moments to move in the same direction and accelerate each other, thereby creating a time-space hole with terrifying energy, which will then devour other timeline branches with absolute power and light.

This is a viable solution, but it comes at the cost of too many sacrifices...

Duels should be a shield to protect the world, not a sword to hone oneself through killing.

I believe in you all; you will definitely find a way to truly save this world, and you will definitely be able to rescue the Duel Universe from this seemingly unsolvable despair…” (End of Chapter)