[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh":3,"chapter-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-996":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh!?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2249845,4388,"Chapter 996: The New Machine Emperor","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-996",996,"\u003Cp>“It’s over!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald-headed commentator remained stunned for a long moment before speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The winner is, Dueling Must Be Fun Team—Wu Teng You Xuan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Commander You Xuan has once again written a one-vs-three miracle—competing solo in the WRGP team tournament and achieving this level of victory! Could Commander You Xuan truly become the first person in history to win a team championship all by himself?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That would be a historic miracle—unprecedented in the past, and likely never to be repeated again—forever etched into the annals of dueling history.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald-headed commentator was so excited his saliva flew everywhere, deeply shaken. If even the commentator was this stunned, the audience was beyond doubt in an uproar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, this wasn’t the first time You Xuan had pulled off a one-vs-three. But compared to the teams he’d faced before, this opponent’s caliber was entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the Ragnarok Team!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monarchs of Northern Europe, bearers of the legendary Supreme Deities. The Three Supreme Deities of the Star Realm were famed throughout the dueling world as legendary monsters; all three members of the Ragnarok Team were even predicted by many fans and experts alike to be the undisputed champions of this year’s WRGP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet not only did they fail to win the championship—they were humiliated by You Xuan during the preliminaries. All three gods were summoned, all three fought with their full strength, yet they couldn’t even overcome a single opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, one might even say they were completely toyed with at his fingertips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The audience exploded; the contestants were even more shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harald’s D-Wheel forcibly stopped. He sat on it, staring blankly at his hand and deck, eyes glazed, face twisted in disbelief, unable to accept this reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No… impossible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had lost—worse, he had lost to his own most prized card: the Supreme Deity Odin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike his teammates Dragan and Braver. Though all three were chosen ones, destined to wield divine power, the other two had awakened their powers through growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harald was different. The Supreme Deity Odin was a god passed down through his family’s generations—but Odin’s original card had its eyes closed. Legend said only a duelist recognized by Odin could make the god open his eyes; that was the mark of divine approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a child, Harald embarked on a journey to earn Odin’s recognition, awakened the “Rune Eye,” and gained immense power. He rose to the rank of Colonel in the military, but his Rune Eye sensed the world was on the brink of catastrophe—and dueling was the true force capable of saving it. Military service? Merely a pastime. Realizing this, he abandoned his colonel’s rank to seek the other two divine card bearers, planning to save the world through dueling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The family’s Supreme Deity Odin was his pride—he had endured countless hardships just to make Odin open his eyes. Until now, he had always fought side by side with Odin, crushing every opponent with the god’s omniscient, omnipotent power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he never imagined one day he himself would be crushed by that same omniscient, omnipotent power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re summoning a monster I didn’t even call? That’s just too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell is this Machine Emperor Dragon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harald was furious, and the other two members of Ragnarok were no better. This match was agonizing—they took turns battling, yet their gods’ power never even had a chance to manifest; they were defeated before they could even strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, all three looked grim. Even during the post-match handshake ritual, they kept their faces dark, said nothing, completed the formalities, and walked away without looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if even one more glance at that old fox was too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan watched their hurried retreating backs and shrugged innocently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t be so upset—it’s just a preliminary match, not elimination. If your mindset’s this bad, why even duel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Braver, already walking away, nearly stumbled and turned back to glare at him furiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mindset bad? Braver thought he’d already shown remarkable restraint by not just rushing over to fight You Xuan with his fists after that duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed about to say something, but Harald held him back. So Braver said nothing, only turned and walked off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after today, the name “Machine Emperor” has surely been etched into the memories of the Three Supreme Deities. Even in their long divine lives, such humiliation must be exceedingly rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, today’s match was bound to attract massive attention. After this shocking result, the story would spread further and wider—and the name “Machine Emperor” would become known throughout the entire dueling world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the Three Emperors of Taiyi, who also competed in the WRGP under the name “New World Team,” this was likely not good news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike You Xuan, who played the Machine Emperor for fun today and would probably switch decks tomorrow, the Three Emperors of Taiyi relied entirely on the Machine Emperor and wouldn’t change their deck. After today’s match, everyone now knew how terrifying the Machine Emperor was—and would all be wary, making things slightly harder for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this slight disadvantage meant nothing to the Three Emperors of Taiyi’s strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the Three Emperors of Taiyi were now even more stunned than the recently crushed Ragnarok Team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait… can someone tell me what the hell ‘Machine Emperor Dragon Trisakelia’ is?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Qi was bewildered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Does our Machine Emperor deck even have this card?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Sai was silent; Pulaxi was furious. But no one could answer his question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeah—does our Machine Emperor deck even have this card? How come we never knew?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course they didn’t know—because in this dimension, this card had only just been released yesterday. It was the latest achievement from one of the two card research divisions under Taiyi, after You Xuan took over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan realized Taiyi’s research divisions were simply superior—after all, they were led by Zone, far surpassing the scientific standards of this era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You Xuan merely pointed out the existence of a “Machine Emperor Dragon,” and the relevant division quickly delivered the exact card he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Machine Emperor Dragon Trisakelia—a card that didn’t exist during the 5D’s anime era, a future addition to the Machine Emperor series.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its greatest feature, as just demonstrated, is the ability to summon monsters from the opponent’s Extra Deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And its most crucial enhancement: unlike other Machine Emperor cards that can only summon Synchro monsters, this card’s effect simply says, “Equip one monster from the opponent’s Extra Deck”—it never specifies Synchro monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, Fusion, Synchro, or even future bizarre summoning methods—all monsters in the Extra Deck can be summoned without exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely why You Xuan loved this Machine Emperor Dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially in the anime—since the 5D’s era onward, most characters’ main monsters resided in the Extra Deck, and usually only one copy existed. Many players built entire decks around a single main monster, with every other card serving solely to summon and support that one monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So imagine how satisfying it is to steal your opponent’s main monster right at the start of the duel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is how dueling should be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1183,"2026-06-19T08:58:37.480Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9230582c52ce1f72bcde290d79303e5d2d64fa84b434ecda58a540b1dfbaa5e7","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-997","who-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-chapter-995",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwho-let-him-play-yu-gi-oh-cover.jpg"]