"Well done."
ZONE looked at Yugen, who had just returned to his domain, and said calmly.
At this moment, Yugen was sorting through the cards he had just acquired from ZONE, or rather, from a certain research institute under his control.
ZONE was the actual mastermind behind the Taiyi Organization, which spanned across different eras of human civilization, establishing a formidable foundation and concealing forces and organizations in each era. Of course, some of these organizations included card printing and duel-related institutions.
Yugen had just received sponsorship from one of these organizations, with some new cards that piqued his interest.
For example, an incomplete Technology Attribute Card Deck.
As the first card deck in animation history to debut "Accelerated Synchro" as its trump card, Yugen was also somewhat interested in the Technology Attribute. Thanks to Antinomy's significant role and popularity in the animation, the Technology Attribute received some enhancements in the future.
Yugen did not know what kind of card deck the Technology Attribute would become in the future world, whether it would be extremely rare like the heroes of the GX Era or actually not that special. However, at least in ZONE's hands, there was a stock, though incomplete aside from the deck in Antinomy's possession.
Not to mention, heavyweights like "Technology Attribute: Blade Gunman" and the ultimate trump card "Technology Attribute: Lance Shooter" for Accelerated Synchro were missing.
Yugen felt a bit regretful in his heart.
He was somewhat interested in the animated effect of Lance Shooter, but unfortunately, it seemed unavailable.
Simply put, Yugen felt that the animated Lance Shooter was quite compatible with him. It could block any form of summoning three times in one turn, and even negate the effects of cards used to summon Monsters.
With such formidable suppression, how joyful would it be to summon it?
Isn't the most important thing in a duel the joy? Is there anything more joyful than such a duel?
Unfortunately, there wasn't.
However, Yugen considered that Accelerated Synchro, in the animation, was a kind of special trump card that had touched the extraordinary level of power.
In the setting, one needed to comprehend the "Heart of Bright Mirror and Calm Water" to harness Accelerated Synchro Monsters. And even after Yusei obtained the Meteor Dragon, every time he synched summoned the Meteor Dragon, he would draw a card with a blank card face, with the Katu of Meteor Dragon printed on it during the Accelerated Synchro process.
Thus, Yugen boldly speculated that Accelerated Synchro Monsters mostly appeared during the acceleration process in a duel when one had comprehended the state.
But Yugen wasn't very clear on this so-called state of Bright Mirror Calm Water, and the animation didn't offer much insight into the mindset.
Besides the Technology Attribute, Yugen also gained another unexpected reward this time.
"Are there really so many of these cards?"
Yugen sorted through the large pile of Mechanical Emperor cards and various components in his hands, feeling a bit surprised.
He initially thought that card decks used by cadres like the Taiyi Three Emperors might be Rare Cards. But to his surprise, not only were they not Rare Cards, but ZONE had a stockpile, almost like mass-produced items.
But upon reflection, it made sense. The "Mechanical Emperors" were mass-produced machines in the apocalyptic future, quite like locusts worldwide.
It was said that the Perpetual Motion Machine was tainted by the darkness of human hearts and began to catastrophe], reversing. These machines, named "Mechanical Emperors," were precisely the automatically mass-produced machines from the reversed Perpetual Motion Machine.
In the animation, in the future team's memories, the main opponent of the last human resistance organization before extinction was the Mechanical Emperors. These things were just like Terminators in the apocalypse, densely covering the entire Earth, eradicating humanity everywhere, as if the Perpetual Motion Machine deemed humans as the virus leading the world toward darkness, and the Mechanical Emperors existed as antibodies to eliminate the virus.
But when ZONE assimilated his personality with Yusei, having also comprehended the "Bright Mirror Calm Water" state and summoned the Meteor Dragon, all Mechanical Emperors collapsed before ZONE and the Meteor Dragon.
This precisely confirmed Yusei's theory: by guiding the Perpetual Motion Machine with the right heart, opening the path of the duel, it was possible to halt the reversal of the Perpetual Motion Machine and prevent the apocalypse from arriving.
ZONE had transported the stones inscribed with the information of the three Mechanical Emperors from the future to this era. As long as those three stones existed, mass-producing Mechanical Emperor card decks was no difficult task.
As for the Mechanical Emperor card deck that the Taiyi Three Emperors used in the animation, Yugen wasn't very enthusiastic about it, as previously mentioned.
Admittedly, the Mechanical Emperor could absorb Synchro Monsters and swap different components to gain multiple powerful Monster Effects, which sounded impressive at first.
However, it was notoriously clunky.
The basic form of the Mechanical Emperor had five components, five Monster Cards. Moreover, these couldn't be drawn into the hand; the Mechanical Emperor Core had to be manually summoned, and the Explosive Card effect had to be used to destroy the core to Special Summon the five components from the Card Deck, with conditions so harsh that they were somewhat excessive.
Of course, the Destiny Warrior wouldn't struggle with the hand, and the Three Emperors in the animation managed such a difficult card deck without a hitch. But even setting aside the hand issue, the sheer number of junk parts occupying card slots within the entire Mechanical Emperor system was also daunting.
Even from an animation construction perspective, if the system itself took up such a huge card position, it meant it took up space for other meaningful cards.
In the animation, if your Card Deck couldn't accommodate cards that could handle various bizarre situations, it meant your ceiling was lowered. Most of the time, there might be no problem, but even a rare situation can cause the entire Card Deck to collapse and end the game.
Therefore, Yugen wasn't interested in this combined Mechanical Emperor card deck in the animation. However, he was interested in the Mechanical Emperor's "Synchro Killer" series itself; after all, it could counter any Synchro Monster, which, in the current Synchro Dimension, was indeed effective.
In this respect, Yugen thought the physical card Mechanical Emperor was better. Just one Mechanical Emperor, one card. The summoning condition: "can be Special Summoned when a Monster on your field is destroyed by effect and sent to the graveyard."
Although it didn't have the five components and multiple Monster Effects like the animation's Mechanical Emperor, it still retained the most important characteristic of "absorbing the opponent's Synchro Monster." That alone was enough.
Yugen roughly sorted through his gains. ZONE quietly watched him for a moment, then suddenly said, "The Mechanical Emperor, you seem interested in that."
"Not bad. Since it's named 'Synchro Killer,' it's worth some research."
Yugen put away the cards he had collected, then looked up at ZONE.
"Alright, so can I ask about your next steps?"
ZONE paused for a moment before saying, "We're going to hold the world's top Riding tournament, the WRGP, in this Dimension... in just one month."
Yugen was surprised.
One month... so soon?