Chapter 983: The Thunder Hammer

“Let’s settle this!”

Dragann, who had summoned the Supreme God-Thor, clearly surged in aura, his confidence soaring as he radiated an air of unmatched dominance.

The Three Star Gods—Odin, Thor, and Loki—are deities with confirmed races and attributes in the anime. Unlike Phantom Gods and Evil Gods, the Three Star Gods lack universal resistances such as immunity to traps or one-turn magic effects; their resistance stats are virtually blank. Only Loki possesses a partial trap immunity: “During battle, negate one trap card once.”

Conversely, the Three Star Gods possess a universal resurrection ability.

In the anime, all Three Star Gods are immortal: at the end of each turn, if they are in the graveyard, they automatically revive, and each revival grants a positive effect. The real cards retain this ability but add a restriction: “You must exile one Supreme Star monster from your graveyard to revive.” This limits their revival count and drastically reduces practicality.

Beyond this universal ability, each Supreme God has its own unique effect.

For example, Supreme God-Thor—You Xuan remembers its effect is “Effect Absorption.” Once per turn, until the end of the turn, Thor can negate the effect of one monster on the opponent’s field and gain that monster’s effect. It is the same type of ability as You Xing’s Savior Star Dragon.

The real card version weakened this effect. Thor can now only negate effects—he cannot steal them.

But at this moment, You Xuan’s field has only “Forest Warden·Green Baboon,” whose effect is to revive from hand or graveyard when a Beast-type monster on the field is destroyed. Even if Thor stole its effect, it would be meaningless.

Clearly, Dragann realized this, so he did not activate Thor’s effect, but instead declared the Battle Phase directly.

“Supreme God-Thor, attack ‘Forest Warden·Green Baboon’!”

Thor’s eyes suddenly flared with rainbow light; the lightning serpents coiled around Mjölnir surged as the hammer descended, ionizing the air along its path into plasma and leaving a thunderous trail that pierced heaven and earth.

The divine hammer effortlessly shattered the Green Baboon’s crossed arms; muscle fibers carbonized and disintegrated under millions of volts. The impact triggered a spherical lightning storm that expanded into a thunder domain; the sea at the point of impact sank inward as if forming a spherical vacuum, while evaporated water molecules condensed into ice-crystal thunderclouds high above.

The audience was stunned by the awe-inspiring spectacle of this divine strike—even the spiky-haired commentator gasped: “Wait, this 3D visual effect is unbelievably realistic, haha!”

The commentator was already wiping sweat.

Of course, this could not be any 3D projection system. No projection system produces such vast-scale effects or such exaggerated displays.

That was true divine power.

Dragann continued: “Facing a god, a moment’s carelessness means annihilation—let your body deeply feel this truth!”

“Activate Trap Card: ‘Mjölnir’s Demon Hammer’!”

From its name alone, this is a exclusive trap of Supreme God-Thor, an enhancement card tied to his Thunder Hammer.

“This card can be activated by selecting one Phantom Beast-type monster on your field,” Dragann said. “If the selected monster destroys an opponent’s monster in battle this turn, inflict an additional 1000 damage to your opponent!” (Original effect)

Clearly, because the real-card Supreme Gods lost their noble “Phantom Beast-type” classification, the activation condition for this trap was changed from “Phantom Beast-type” to “monsters with ‘Supreme God’ in their name.”

Before the modification, the anime version allowed all Phantom Beast-type monsters to use it, which naturally made You Xuan wonder if the Three Phantom Gods would work too. But then he recalled: apart from the Supreme Gods, no other Phantom Beast-type monsters are affected by trap cards—so upon closer thought, it seemed only the Supreme Gods were truly compatible.

“Destroying the Green Baboon deals 900 damage; Mjölnir’s effect adds 1000 more,” Dragann declared. “Take 1900 damage!” Lightning struck directly on You Xuan’s D-Ring, blasting black smoke across his D-Ring and the surrounding track, visibly damaging the racing surface.

【You Xuan, LP 3000 → LP 1100】

“Not over yet—this isn’t even Mjölnir’s full power!” Dragann roared. “Mjölnir, the Thunder Hammer, is the ultimate divine artifact capable of instantly obliterating any opponent!”

“The additional effect of Trap Card ‘Mjölnir’s Demon Hammer’: the selected monster may attack twice this turn!”

The spiky-haired commentator sucked in a breath: “Extra damage from destroying a monster, and now even a god-level monster can attack twice in one turn! What an terrifying ability! You Xuan is already at death’s door so quickly—surely the pressure from the Ragnarok Team is utterly unlike any previous opponent!?”

Thor’s warhammer descended again, poised to deliver the final blow.

Yet at that moment, You Xuan’s lips twitched slightly.

“Gods… well, they’re impressive indeed. But it’s a pity that such noble deities can’t resist traps.”

Dragann’s expression flickered: “What?”

“I mean, if it were the legendary Three Phantom Gods here instead of Supreme God-Thor, this card would be useless,” You Xuan snapped his fingers. “Activate Trap Card: ‘Ripple Shield—Wave Power’!”

“When your opponent declares a direct attack, bounce all attacking monsters on their field back to their owner’s deck!”

Dragann’s pupils shrank, his heart jolted.

Bounced back to the deck.

Not destroyed—bounced back to the deck!?

True, his god had no trap resistance—but it had immortality. No matter how it was removed, as long as Thor reached the graveyard, it would automatically revive at the end of the turn and deal 800 damage to the opponent—effectively a form of indirect resistance.

Indeed, his god has no resistance to traps, but it possesses the ability of immortality: no matter how it is removed, as long as Thor is sent to the graveyard, it will automatically revive at the end of the turn and deal 800 damage to the opponent, effectively serving as a form of resistance.

Outside the arena, teammate Braver’s face paled: “This guy actually wants to bounce the god back to the deck… what a sneaky bastard.”

“Calm down,” Harald said. “Dragann’s god has been used in matches before. It’s not surprising he found a counter.”

“Calm down,” Harald said. “Dragan’s god has been used in matches before; it’s not surprising that information about it can be found and countered.”

“But if this is enough to stop him, Dragann doesn’t deserve to be chosen by the gods. He’ll handle it.”

Indeed, the next moment Dragann declared: “Activate Trap Card: ‘Supreme Star Treasure·Reivat’!”

“Select one monster on the field that destroyed a monster this turn, and destroy that monster!”

He raised his right arm, pointing at the colossal giant looming overhead.

“I destroy my own ‘Supreme God-Thor’—the one that destroyed your Green Baboon this turn!”

“I destroyed your green baboon this turn with my own ‘Supreme God-King Thor’!”

(End of Chapter)