Thread:Omega64/@comment-43737459-20190912174907/@comment-12642484-20190915145006

Actually, "reaching the same plot points" isn't true. Yuuki's goals and motivations are completely different. In WN Seven Celestial Sages stay loyal toward Ruminas till the end, but in the LN they turn traitor and get disposed off after trying to kill Hinata, Rimuru and Diablo.

And one MOST IMPORTANT difference is that in WN Rudra is a senile old man who can barely do anything, while in the LN he is very young and still got his wits with him, completely outsmarting Rimuru to get Veldora, while getting Veldora in the WN version was mostly out of pure luck and coincidence.

The one Yuuki fights on his way to the Eastern Empire is Leon in the WN, which ends in a tie, while in the LN it's Guy who goes after him, completely one-sidedly beating him down, but letting him go in exchange for becoming Guy's spy/underling.

Chloe in the WN was a 3-wishes-granting djinn basically, but that's no longer the case in the LN so it can no longer "go the same way", because there is no one to keep Guy in check anymore. And again, Rudra is much more competent this time around.