Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 873

Chapter 873: Chapter 873: God-Tier Behemoth

"Abyss Soldier, bounce ’Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes’ back to the hand again!"

The trident in Abyss Soldier’s hand spun as currents surged forth like a high-pressure water jet, lancing toward the Snake King!

Viper’s eyes sharpened.

As expected!

"This time I won’t let you succeed!" Viper roared. "Activate the set card, the Trap Card ’Offering to the Snake Deity’!"

His facedown flipped up. Flames erupted beneath the Snake King, as if the entire creature had burst into flames!

"Offering to the Snake Deity destroys one Reptile on your field and two cards on the opponent’s field!" Viper barked. "Destroy your ’Abyss Soldier’ and the Continuous Trap ’Gravity Bind’!"

A powerful Reptile-only trap. The Snake King let out a piercing scream as it burned. Its body seemed to turn into a fireball, split in two, and exploded.

Abyss Soldier and the backrow trap were both struck, turning into fireballs and crumbling to ash in the blaze.

"Heh, a clean solution to that annoying formation," Adrian nodded. "This Viper isn’t bad."

He paused, then added:

"But he sacrificed his ace, the Snake King, and now his field is empty. Hard to say he came out ahead." 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

For Viper, though, this was only the beginning.

"Hehehehe..."

The professor let out a few sinister chuckles.

Then he slowly raised his head.

"It’s over."

Adrian: "?"

"This duel ended the moment Offering to the Snake Deity resolved and Vennominon went down. Why? Because at that instant, the preparations for the strongest, most terrifying monster’s birth were complete!"

Viper’s pupils shrank. His eyes flew wide open as he raised his arm high and let out a thunderous roar.

"Activate! The Trap Card ’Rise of the Sacred Deity’!!"

His last backrow flipped up, and an endless darkness seemed to erupt from it! The Snake King that should have left the field reappeared like a ghost, then was consumed by the darkness, as if something in the abyss was chewing it, digesting it, evolving it into a new form.

"Rise of the Sacred Deity can only be activated when ’Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes’ on my field is destroyed! Special Summon from hand or Deck its evolution, the final and strongest: the Snake Deity!"

Viper shouted with manic fervor.

At first glance, this card looks the same in the anime and in the TCG/OCG, but if you read carefully, there’s a big difference.

In the anime it’s "when Vennominon is destroyed," but the real card was changed to "when Vennominon is destroyed by a card effect, not by battle."

In other words, to summon the Snake Deity in the real game, you not only have to summon Vennominon first, you also have to draw this unsearchable Trap, and you must ensure Vennominon is destroyed by a card effect. So even though it has the anime aura and is stylish as hell, in terms of pure consistency you might as well go collect all five pieces of the old Exodia—much simpler and more straightforward...

"The terminus of all venom, the ultimate deity of the end times, who will annihilate all with despair and a curse! Descend—

—Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes!!!"

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