{Yogur-Thoth}
Stamina Lv.4: 1,943
Combat LV.6: 4,513
Dexterity LV.2: 422
Intelligence LV.4: 984
Charm LV.2: 398
Spirit LV.3: 801
Authority LV.6: 5,196
Magic LV.5: 3,573
Total Individual Score LV.5: 17,830
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In fact, these numbers seem to explain everything about this strategy.
No, um. What should I say? Did this guy eat something wrong?
Even originally, objectively, Yogur-Thoth was an all-around legendary unit with high health, overwhelming magic, power, and combat ability.
However, after receiving special training from Seisaisa, his combat power literally increased fivefold.
His skills, charm, and spirit, which were originally low and hard to utilize, only slightly increased, but the most important power and the number and strength of spells he could wield skyrocketed, making his total score a whopping 17,000 points.
My military power score is 6,632 points, of which 3,000 points come from Yogur-Thoth's personal combat power.
There's no way individual combat power and world combat power correspond 1:1, but this crazy guy is objectively stronger than all the other creatures in my ecosystem combined.
"Angel, what do you think?"
"3,310 worlds."
"A world that has even a 'possibility' of capturing Yogur-Thoth?"
"Yes. As I mentioned last time, excluding the worlds that would capture and perish together, there are about 2,800 worlds out of the remaining 130 million worlds that have a practical possibility of capturing Yogur-Thoth."
"Hasn't it decreased by 90% than last time?"
"Rather, it's because Yogur-Thoth is too strong. In most worlds, it's either impossible to harm Yogur-Thoth at all, or they can't even block his attacks. The condition is to filter out the worlds that can at least withstand and counter-attack, so it's either they can definitely capture him, or they can't at all…"
"Huh."
"In short, his abilities are too focused on a specific magic system, so either a counter can be properly applied, or they can somehow deal with his relatively weak mental strength… In such cases, if we add carnivorous candies here, there are less than 100 worlds that can face your world, Vein."
The extreme power boost in the beginning led to this result.
"Well, yes. In the early stages, a single entity with higher individual specs is more threatening than the total power of civilization. Somehow, you obtained it, and now Vein, who wields this world, has gained invincible power."
That's right. To properly understand the world tuned by Seisaisa, I think I need to get a detailed explanation in the next game, but anyway, the current ecosystem is very stable.
"Can I take all the unselected traits at once now?"
"Of course."
Life =『Artificial Evolution 2: Evolution efficiency through divinity increases by 200%.』
Military = 『Yogur-Thoth Combat Mage Advancement: When the legendary creation Yogur-Thoth gains experience, it follows the stat distribution specialized for combat mages, and related stats increase. The prerequisite is the [Combat Mage Advancement] trait.』
Industry = 『Rock Industry: Becomes efficient in industries processing
Mystery = 『Mage Advancement: Each entity can advance to a mage. When an entity advances to a mage, the stat distribution changes upon gaining experience.』
[Combat Mage Advancement: The upper class of mages. Unlocks the combat mage advancement.]
Up to this point, it was easy to choose. In fact, there weren't many options, and this was just the most efficient. The problem was the
"..."
"What's wrong?"
"Well, I can't tell the superiority of the traits I can choose."
If it were just 'attack magic' or 'fireball magic', it would be easier to understand from a gamer's perspective, but since Seisaisa is involved, the characteristics are filled with very specialized terms.
"Do you want me to explain each one?"
"No, I still don't get it… Even after playing games for 50,000 hours, magic is too difficult and frustrating, so I only learned it superficially."
"Uh… The community is about to clash, so it is closed."
I pondered for a moment, then suddenly came up with a new idea.
"Hey, Yogur-Thoth. I have something to ask."
[Yes, Creator. Command me.]
"I'm going to tell you the magic you can learn from now on, so tell me what you think you should learn."
[Ah, are you giving me the choice? Then please tell me your intention. What would you like me to be useful for?]
"Hmm. As the commander of the first army of the Dessert Army, and since I've invested a lot in you, you need to be competent in many areas. Rather than being extremely good at one thing, I'd like you to handle most problems with your power, but overall, you should be good at 'massacre', 'self-survival', and 'ecosystem control'."
[As you wish, Creator.]
Every time I mentioned one of the three options, Yogur-Thoth chose a magic on its own. So Yogur-Thoth learned four types of magic. I don't know much, but they said this would be advantageous in all aspects of attack, survival, and ecosystem maintenance.
"But how was Seisaisa? Did they teach you magic well?"
Then Yogur-Thoth seemed very pleased and praised Seisaisa.
[Oh, my Creator. Their wisdom seemed endless. Just by sharing a part of their infinite wisdom, my power has grown so strong, and my understanding of mystery, magic, and the structure of the world has deepened so much that I can't even fully explain it with my intelligence.]
…Yeah. Sorry for not knowing magic, even as a god. But isn't that guy hearing something similar right now?
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Meanwhile, in Seisaisa's world.
'When will Lord Vein come again? It would be nice if we could have the grace of abundance he bestowed upon us just one more time.'
"Aren't I your creator? Is that guy your creator?"
'Lord Vein is not the creator, but the god of abundance.'
'We serve the creator and enjoy the mysteries according to your will, but we only worship the one who has given this body prosperity…!'
"…Well, whatever. That guy must be hearing something similar from his creations."
Seisaisa had no time to think further. The clash had begun. The same was true for Vein.
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A distant world. Not an infinitely expanding universe, but a narrow otherworld where So-on, a politician, had long since grasped the essence of this game.
"This game is not about leaving one last person standing. It's about making a good defeat before that and disembarking at the right time. And it's a game that values cooperation over competition."
In theory, if all players gave up on confrontation and formed alliances, they could all become the gods of a unified world. Purely theoretical, of course.
In other words, this game is about how to form alliances and how big you can grow those alliances before disembarking. That is what determines victory or defeat.
So-on, therefore, formed an alliance with the opposing player at the first clash. The second clash, two opponents, formed an alliance. The third clash, four players, and a community of fate with eight members was born.
And So-on, a politician, fundamentally understood what was most important in this game.
"The essence of this game is politics. Only overwhelming political power can bring our tribe to a superiority among the eight tribes, the stability of our alliance system, and further superiority over the opposing players."
During the protection period between games, So-on fully utilized his abilities as a politician. The ability his world and his tribe focused on the most was
With high
So-on's tribe literally stood tall as the ruling tribe among the eight tribes without lifting a finger.
When other allied gods were surprised and tried to intervene urgently, it was already too late. So-on's hero, who received direct orders from him, began to recruit key figures from other tribes, enact laws, and complete a system where completely different tribes lived together.
Breaking that system itself became a situation where you could lose the game. So-on's tribe, demonstrating the virtue of the ruler, in other words, noblesse oblige, monopolized wealth and points in the game from the upper echelons, while other tribes demonstrated their strengths in various fields and operated their world stably.
"Let's go with a cooperative stance with the next world as well. According to the angel, there are no factors that hinder cooperation 'yet'."
That's right. He heard the rules of the game in detail from the angel. Every fifth game, a 'disaster' comes. After the disaster, you can't cooperate unconditionally with the opposing players and inevitably have to choose the terrible means of 'soul annihilation'.
But, conversely, until the fourth game, there was no reason to annihilate souls in this game.
Trying an aggressive strategy is a bad move. Until the fourth game, focus on internal affairs and have an above-average army but focus on defense.
This is probably the standard strategy. And So-on had logical confidence in this standard strategy.
This is a sure-win strategy. Not in the sense of winning unconditionally, but in the sense that it has the highest expected return.
'Our world's total score is 21,221. Originally, it should be level 3, but with cooperation, it reached level 5. Even the military strength is slightly over level 4 with 1,300 points. Even if the enemy has three or four times the military strength, we can defend sufficiently using palisades, earthen fortresses, and the
That can soon be solved with political power. So, the fourth world collision that occurred, he wasn't worried at all. This wasn't the main battle anyway.
Would the opponent exceed 21,000 points?
Even if they did, would their military strength exceed 5,000 points?
Even so, wouldn't they still demand an alliance?
There was no need to worry. He had the overwhelming weapons of 'reason' and 'logic'.
"The god of the next world is… [Vein]? Huh? Why aren't the names of the allied gods or subordinate gods showing up?"
"It's not that they're not showing up, the player in question has annihilated all opponents and ascended."
At the angel's words, So-on felt his brain freeze for a moment. Soon, the dimensional gate opened, and when the envoy his tribe sent beyond the gate saw 'that' floating in the sky, was instantly torn apart and killed, and then the shell-covered monstrous creatures that burst out of the dimensional gate started crushing and devouring the weak tribe's civilians with body slams.
"Everyone, prepare for battle! A demon has appeared!!!"
Instead of letting go of his consciousness, So-on urgently sounded the highest crisis alarm and began to summon all the defense forces within the world.
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