Chapter 1262: The Whereabouts of Shoichiro

"Xyz Summon, huh." ZONE muttered.

You Xuan then realized that even the invincible ZONE God had probably only just encountered the concept of Xyz for the first time today.

After all, even if one claimed to be the last human, even if one mastered all technology and duel knowledge until humanity's end, it was actually limited only to the future of the Synchro Dimension.

In all the timelines ZONE had lived through and experienced, there had never appeared any summoning method outside of Synchro. Thus, in his cognition, the future of dueling had only one path.

But now, for the first time, he saw in his eyes a completely unknown new road that had never existed before, and it was also the first time he began to seriously consider whether the future of dueling might still hold undiscovered territories he himself had not uncovered.

If that were truly the case, then those completely new and unknown realms—could they possibly become the new possibility for salvation he had been seeking all along?

You Xuan also came before ZONE and said: "Yeah, Xyz Summon.

Simply put, it's probably about using monsters of equivalent rank stacked to summon the corresponding rank of Xyz Monster. As for the principle..."

You Xuan originally wanted to explain, but after tilting his head and thinking, he discovered he himself only had a half-understood grasp of the principle of Overlay Network. Moreover, trying to explain it clearly in just a few words didn't seem easy either.

But it's no problem. Anyway, You Xuan knows that in the Xyz Dimension, such knowledge is definitely commonplace, so next time he has a chance, he'll go find Kaito and copy a set of materials from the database for ZONE God.

He also noticed that ZONE seemed interested in these new summoning concepts.

ZONE gazed into the distance: "Back when Synchro Summon first appeared, everyone firmly believed it was the duelists' power that summoned miracles, guiding this world toward a brand-new bright future.

But later, all this turned out to be a mistake. The people's excessive frenzy over Synchro heated up generation after generation, eventually becoming irreversible, triggering a catastrophe of destruction.

Now looking back, it seems that from the moment Synchro Summon appeared, the duelists of this world became content with the status quo, halted their self-challenge, halted their path of exploration—this might have invited the tragedy."

The early duelists strove upward, filled with passion for dueling, possessing the spirit of constantly exploring the future to seek new possibilities—this is what opened the road of Synchro. But after the Synchro Era arrived, all these spirits completely vanished with the rising prosperity of the Synchro Era.

If back then everyone had not been satisfied with stopping at Synchro, but instead continued to maintain passion, continue exploring, continue pioneering—would it not have been different?

If there were more roads, more possibilities ahead of Synchro...

"Perhaps." You Xuan interrupted ZONE's train of thought, saying: "Synchro and Xyz, I can responsibly say, the future of dueling is definitely not only these two evolutionary paths—there are still many more possibilities.

However, based on my own experience, exploring too many paths is not necessarily a good thing—there are pros and cons, after all, still depending on how one understands it."

You Xuan thought for a moment, then added: "But no matter what, next time I'll bring the most complete introduction material on Xyz Summon. As for whether I can help your world's future, that will depend on you yourselves."

"Then I'll thank you first." ZONE said lightly.

"No problem." You Xuan waved his hand, "Compared to this, I received your message. I guess you summoned me not just for these 'Number Card' issues, right?"

"Yeah. This is a sudden situation that appeared after I sent you the message. Cough cough."

ZONE coughed, then manipulated his large floating device to turn around.

"Come with me, I have something I need to explain in detail."

Returning once again to that familiar pure white infinite subspace domain.

"We said before, some behind-the-scenes black hand is influencing this dimension, altering the world's history." ZONE said.

You Xuan nodded: "Altering original history can affect this dimension's forward trajectory, possibly causing the current dimension to collide with other worlds, but I thought this problem had already been solved."

"Not bad. When this dimension gives birth to its own 'King,' it equals obtaining an anchor point, and the dimension's trajectory can no longer be arbitrarily rewritten."

ZONE said.

You Xuan nodded. He remembered this—when he was about to leave, Judai Yuki had already broken through to become the newly crowned Duel King, and thus the crisis facing this dimension was resolved.

"In fact, for a long time after that, the influence of that invisible hand seemed to have indeed disappeared from this dimension. I once even judged that the other side had probably given up." ZONE said, "But not long ago, that guy's energy reaction appeared again."

You Xuan frowned.

Shoichiro?

Now he already knew that this transdimensional invisible hand was Shoichiro, and the one who had previously influenced the history of the Synchro Dimension was likely also him.

"This time it's just some minor anomalies, but it no longer poses a major threat to our entire dimension." ZONE said, "The threat itself has already been handled. Furthermore, this time I went on to capture the source of the other party and conducted reverse tracking.

Finally, we locked onto this place."

He said this, and in the void, a huge background like a map had already been projected.

A background like a starry sky, but not ordinary outer space—it was a multiverse map drawn by the technology of Taiyi.

Most of the areas were pitch black, representing unexplored unknowns. Currently, only three light points on the multiverse map were clearly marked, representing the concrete positions of the three currently known dimensions.

The first one is naturally their current position—the Synchro Dimension.

The nearest other one nearby is You Xuan's world, the Fusion Dimension of GX.

And the third one is the brand-new dimension specially marked by ZONE, which You Xuan has not yet visited.

You Xuan stared at that light point for a moment: "You mean Shoichiro's invisible hand is right here?"

"Shoichiro? Is that its name?" ZONE looked at You Xuan.

"Yes, but for now I only know one name." You Xuan said.

ZONE naturally associated this name with a certain well-known terrifying existence in duel history that coincidentally shared the same name, but since You Xuan said he only knew the name, he didn't ask further.

ZONE continued: "So, with our current technology for tracking and positioning, the energy aura called Shoichiro has probably vanished in this dimension.

But as you see, now my life left is barely any, already not likely to cross dimensions to pursue. And given the strength level Shoichiro currently displays, duelists below the 'King' rank, even if they found him, probably wouldn't have the ability to handle him."

You Xuan understood: "So you thought, I'm the most suitable person for this?"