Why did Ogolaot, who clearly had a higher total score than Vein, suffer an overwhelming defeat?
You can't condemn Ogolaot and all 46 of his subordinates as being stupid.
If more people meant more good ideas, the most populous country would be ruling the world. But is that so?
Ogolaot's defeat was not due to the incompetence of his subordinate gods, but to other factors.
The leader's disposition. The disposition of the player himself, Ogolaot. And the contribution methods of the subordinate gods, tailored to that god's preferences.
Ogolaot was clearly a brilliant manager who would have achieved tremendous success in the world of business. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about ranching and livestock, as well as political and economic acumen, a solid philosophy, and a rational understanding of the world's structure.
But fundamentally, Ogolaot didn't know how to 'attack'.
It was different from Vein's previous opponent, Mukite. Mukite attempted to use Tademoira, now Nyaltartep, to pressure Vein in return, and he attempted to maintain that pressure until the dimensional fusion stage.
Rather than just enduring the beating, he was constantly thinking about how to counterattack.
Which is why even the Tademoira, a subordinate creation, was thinking of something like a flower pollen that could neutralize the Dessert Army.
Because Mukite was a politician from a vicious world and knew the importance of an attack.
Even though he was in a weaker weight class, he knew that a true victory was achieved by hitting the opponent rather than just enduring the blow.
However, Ogolaot was a rancher in a peaceful world.
Ogolaot's strategy can be summarized as: extracting maximum growth potential from its vast lands and pushing it onto the global stage.
Indeed, Ogolaot created a wonderful world, and the gods under his command continued to contribute to that wonderful world and amplified its growth.
However, Ogolaot had never been in a fight in his life. Negotiations and politics conducted verbally were different from fights with fists, knives, and bullets.
Ogolaot thought that he should protect himself, thinking that he could not lose his success and his score, and as a result, he was constantly getting beaten by the enemy without being able to make a plausible counterattack.
In short, if Ogolaot had not just casually saved the 3,000 knights, including Haina, who had crossed over to the other world, or abandoned them altogether, but had taken a more extreme approach by opening a dimensional gate and sending the knights to scour the dessert desert, the outcome would have been different.
Of course, if Ogolaot had something to say. Wouldn't he counter with, "If I had gone on the offensive like that, wouldn't my world, already lacking in military power, been trampled by the Dessert Army's fierce onslaught?"
But if he had sent 20,000 men, crossing the threshold, it would be a different story. With 3,000 knights, they plowed 100 kilometers squared of land. 20,000 men, by simple calculation, would be at least seven times that amount of labor. That means they could plow about half of Vein's 1,280 square kilometer ecosystem.
Then, the attack of the enemy will be delayed.
With that level of military might, they might even be able to capture Shuk-Rimuras, or turning things around by taking down Yogur-Thoth.
Even Ogolaot knew from one glance at the ecosystem of Vein was sustained by the productivity of the nectar spring.
If he just threw everything away and went straight for the Nectar Spring and destroyed it, Vein's ecosystem would have come to a halt in that moment.
If he thought things through even more, it is possible that Yogur-Thoth, although strong, could only use aoe magic, so they could have hidden in the forests of the enemy world and carried out a vicious strategy to have Yogur-Thoth destroy its own ecosystem with his own hands.
Even so, Haina, a master of epic proportions, was not capable of such tactical judgment. She was too valuable of a creation to simply be sent along with the engineering army to dig up dirt.
Even if 20,000 people who crossed over to the extreme die there, the influence Vein can exert on their land will be reduced, so by appropriately editing the terrain with 『Heaven and Earth Formation』, and using a small number of teleporting knights to eliminate only the core species of evil species, continuing to endure while consuming the resources of the non-human ecosystem just like the resources of their own world, and recovering at least some of the surviving knights during the dimensional passage stage. If this had continued into a direct slugfest…
Maybe Ogolaot would've won because he was in a higher weight class!
Of course, since he was not an idiot, Vein would have launched a counterattack like crazy and devastated the world of Ogolaot.
Perhaps Yogur-Thoth's
However, that's within the realm of possibility. Otherwise, the world of Ogolaot would surely be devastated, as it is now. In that case, he should have fought while preparing for loss to be incurred.
Because even if he just exterminated the enemies that entered his world, there's no chance of winning. So, even if the risk of defeat increases, shouldn't he strike at Vein's ecosystem to increase his chances of winning?
However, Ogolaot did not do that.
Before you lash out saying, "Haha! You idiot!" There's something to think about. Ogolaot had no idea the power of Vein was this strong. He couldn't even read Vein's strategy.
Even from the dimensional gate stage of the ecosystem, tens of thousands of evil species have already poured in.
In this situation, how could a ranch owner think, "I'm going to go beat up that guy who's attacking me, thoroughly prepared to lose half of my property, my livestock and land?"
If Ogolaot could turn back time, he probably would have anticipated the enemy's attack and still thought, "I should have defended better."
He wouldn't have thought, "I should have attacked directly."
It's simply a problem with the human mindset.
Meanwhile, Vein knew Ogolaot's way of thinking. He simply heard it from Wahwando.
"Ogolaot is a brilliant manager, but his ability to manage the military is extremely poor. While he possesses excellent managerial skills, he is reluctant to take risky decisions. Therefore, if you exploit this weakness with a bold strategy, he will likely find himself vulnerable."
It was a priceless piece of information, worth a whopping 100,000 points. Vein tested it out based on Wahwando's information and realized that his opponent was actually a player who prioritized defense over offense, a player who prioritized safety.
So, during the dimensional passage stage, he recklessly threw in 280,000 points worth of life forms.
Even then, if the 10,000 knights had counterattacked and destroyed the nectar spring instead of destroying the forests, the dessert army would not have been able to penetrate the fortress city and they would have been able to destroy the nectar spring.
Vein could have been completely destroyed and the Dessert Army annihilated!
However, he was able to attack beyond his resources allowed because he believed the opponent would never do it due to his personality.
As a result, Ogolaot made a decision to stay put even in his last moments.
In this situation, none of his 46 subordinates could say, "We're going to die anyway, so why don't we just push back?" It was too late, and given Ogolaot's nature, even if he had been offered this advice earlier, he probably wouldn't have accepted it.
That's why he lost. He was a great manager, but he wasn't a great leader.
He was a somewhat unfortunate candidate for leading a civilization, even if he was good at business or ranching.
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[Kneel before my greatness, you insignificant creature!]
[Get out, you devil! This is not your territory!]
It was the first commander of the Dessert Army.
The showdown between Yogur-Thoth and the volcanic giant Daioto
It was truly miserable.
Yogur-Thoth can't fly hundreds of meters without riding on the flow of magical energy, so he only hovers at a constant height of about 30 meters above the ground.
And it only made him slightly higher than Daioto, who had originally been born from the volcano.
Daioto, wielding a weapon forged from fragments of terrains, caused a massive eruption that was like a living, breathing volcano.
[I am the ruler of this sky! Kneel before my power to control the climate!]
Yogur-Thoth pours out countless magic spells with the {Yogurts} under his command.
Beneath it, the magical monsters also worshipped Yogur-Thoth, providing a continuous flow. Yogur-Thoth's power, summoning rain, thunder, and storms, was enough to completely destroy a part of the city.
[Big! Minute! Fire!]
And then Daioto explodes the condensed flow all at once, creating the storm itself.
He blew it away.
Daioto, who had blown up the storm's low pressure system with flying volcanic bombs and heat, stabbed Yogur-Thoth, who was somewhat lacking in physical strength, with his spear, impaling him and sending him crashing to the ground.
[How does the floor taste?! You stinky, frothy little bastard!]
[You punk!!! How dare you throw me to the ground!]
With the power of
But Daioto didn't back down. He continued to scatter the volcanic spirits he had created, covering Yogur-Thoth with massive amounts of smoke and ash, and fought without giving an inch.
This side was having a great fight in its own way, and there was also a fierce fight unfolding on the other side.
"Boooooooooo!"
[More!!!]
A showdown between the great buffalo Unjara and Shuk-Rimuras, who leads a thousand baby breads.
Unjara unleashes a massive burst of energy, sending shockwaves through the air, but Shuk-Rimuras remains unmoved. She charges in and attempts a body-slam with Unjara.
And thousands of buffalo cavalry following Unjara, what could be called the final force, rushed out all at once, hunting down the thousand breads and dark rims, engaging in a battle with the ground forces.
Shuk-Rimuras is at a higher level, but unfortunately Unjara has a higher
In short, Shuk-Rimuras is not a very good fighter. However, its military is much more numerous.
The cavalry forces clashed fiercely and launched the Shuk-Rimuras Raid.
Civilians can't afford to give up either. They kill as many evil spirits as they can, learn cooking magic to somehow turn the dessert army into ingredients, fight, kill, repair the collapsing city, and pray to the gods to endure.
A fierce battle has ended. It seems that he has learned several auxiliary spells.
Yogur-Thoth couldn't defeat the close combat oriented Daioto.
But Daioto was also badly wounded. Shuk-Rimuras was also unable to fall back under the onslaught.
There was no outside.
Even unique creations must devote months to recover after a fight that leaves them injured. In other words, the next fight will likely be months away.
However, Daioto quickly recovered by absorbing the earth's magic to endure the prolonged battle. In short, only the Dessert Army was left exhausted because Yogur-Thoth is a nectar-eating monster.
"Okay. Then let's finish the harvest and stock up on food."
It's funny, but even though many people died and the harvest was reduced, it was still manageable.
Instead of grains that required a lot of work and were vulnerable to weeds, they planted vegetables and relief crops that grew abundantly in the soil, even if they weren't tasty.
If you can hold out like this for about 20 years, they can be forced to surrender to the opposing world.
The horned dwarves who thought so and put the first harvest of the year in their mouths
"Wow, wow!"
After eating, they suffered from dizziness, diarrhea, and vomiting.
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Ogolaot was going crazy.
"What?! He put poison in it? How?"
No, it's not poison.
There is a poisonous ingredient in the crop itself.
"How...?"
Did you know that surprisingly, all plants in the nightshade family that are eaten as vegetables are poisonous?
Eggplants, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, etc. But they are not very harmful to humans. Or the method of removing them is too easy. With poisons like nicotine or capsaicin, they are even used as a condiment.
And, although it is not necessary, if they decide to improve the breed, it is possible to improve it to an extreme degree to increase the poison content.
And if they crossbreed this improved poisonous vegetable with an existing vegetable, the existing vegetable also turns into a poisonous vegetable.
This applies even to non-vegetables. Grains are no exception.
Surprisingly, plants are similar very similar to one another and can be crossbred, but one can be edible and the other can be such a trash crop that it is impossible to eat.
In a word, a hybrid strategy.
Weeds simply take away nutrients, but Vein can use them to analyze the crops of their opponents, and by crossbreeding with those crops, they evolve and cultivate crops that are completely useless, and then crossbreed them with crops from the opposing world.
When crossbreeding, the seeds and pollen are sent by beings like mosquitoes. This is not a temporary attack on the crop, but an attack that destroys the seeds themselves in the long term.
At first, it seemed like just a slightly different appearance, but at some point, all the crop varieties were replaced.
Then it's doomed. Unless they had the seeds of the original crop, that year's crops will be ruined. If they continued to neglect them, they'll keep growing, and the entire crop will end up in being wasted.
"How do I fix this?"
He can evolve the crops again with divine power. However, he cannot evolve food that has already been harvested.
In short, this year's harvest is 0…
Ogolaot's vision faded to black.
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