Within half a day, the news had spread throughout all of KaibaCorp. Within a day, it had reached nearly the entire Dueling World.
Xyz Summon.
The term spread like wildfire, and seemingly overnight, everyone knew it.
Two months earlier, rumors had claimed that KaibaCorp had found a new direction for dueling and humanity's future. A new Summoning Method called "Synchro Summon" was under development. If all went well, this Summoning Method would be tied to the field of new energy, with dueling building a new future for humanity.
Naturally, none of this had been confirmed, and the people leaking the information had not revealed any truly credible or authoritative identities. The news had remained mere rumor and had yet to be verified.
Before even the subject of Synchro had moved beyond the rumor stage, something called "Xyz" had suddenly emerged. It was easy to imagine the uproar this caused throughout the industry.
Numerous media outlets, websites, and forums had already begun publishing reports on the subject, with headlines such as "Where Is the Future of Dueling Headed?" and "Is the Dueling World About to Be Reshuffled?"
KaibaCorp had yet to make any public comment, but Kira, who was more or less half an insider, had already gotten hold of the inside information.
Around next month, KaibaCorp would announce the existence of both the "Synchro" and "Xyz" concepts at the same time.
With the Perpetual Motion Machine Kira had brought back, the first batch of Synchro cards had actually long since completed their prototypes. Even development of the Perpetual Motion Machine had entered the testing stage. Synchro Summoning was theoretically already entirely possible, and the first Synchro booster pack could absolutely be completed before next month.
Xyz still had some time to go before its official release, but displaying the first