ALL NOVEL chapter 30
Chapter 30. World Collision – Fifth – 4
I played Panworld for about 50,000 hours. Of course, I didn’t invest all that time in creating ecosystems.
No, rather the opposite. I invested about 40,000 hours in building civilizations and creating an ideal world.
If you ask why, it’s because I thought the civilization of NPCs and the interactions that arise from it were unique ecosystems of creatures.
Just as human civilization is a natural ecological activity that arises from the life form called humans, I thought there was no big difference between raising human NPCs or non-human NPCs and creating my own biosphere or aquarium.
50,000 hours invested in a game. Even if you play 10 hours a day, that’s 11 years.
It was entirely because the depth of this game was so great, and especially because the main game was cheap, the expansion packs and DLC volumes were enormous, there were frequent sales, and the mod support was excellent, so I never got tired of it.
But around the 40,000-hour mark, I installed a new expansion pack themed around implementing various ecosystems and unique creatures, and I realized something by chance.
“From this expansion pack, they don’t distinguish between ordinary creatures and people?”
So, the ‘people’ that you have no choice but to raise are just highly intelligent beings who can handle tools and build civilizations.
Livestock, monsters, or ‘creatures’ existing in nature are just beings with low intelligence or even if they have high intelligence, they can’t handle tools and can’t build civilizations.
At that moment, I had a thought for the first time.
Anyway, even if the main race changes as you play the game and the main race changes, I can still be the master and god of the world.
Can’t I play without people and civilizations in the world?
Although it’s called an expansion pack, everyone criticized it as just making the game more complicated and useless. The idea for the anti-intellectualism build started from that trash expansion pack.
Of course, it was not from the perspective of a god that I see now, but from the level that humanity’s computers could implement, so there were limitations in system implementation, but I endlessly installed mods and developed my own mods to test tens of thousands of times whether this ‘non-civilization build’ was possible within the existing system.
And there was a conclusion.
It is possible. You can clear the highest difficulty of the game without an intelligent entity, and you can achieve a meaningful win rate even in multiplayer.
Secondly, it becomes much easier if you add the mods that I have modified and tuned.
Thirdly, the environment of the game I am currently participating in is much more favorable for using this build than the mod-filled environment back then.
The closer it is to reality, the easier it is.
∞
The opposing player right now would have no idea how a creature without civilization could send a legion of monsters beyond the passage.
The lack of civilization means the lack of society, and the lack of society means that “politics” is zero. Zero politics means that my creations are so uncontrollable that they wouldn’t listen to me at all.
However, absurdly enough, the premise was wrong.
“Politics LV.0: 2”
My “politics” is 2.
In other words, I can control my creations, albeit slightly.
So, there is a society in my ecosystem.
But there is no civilization.
“This is really interesting. Even without civilization, society exists.”
That’s right. Humans are called ‘social animals,’ but more accurately, it means ‘humans are one of the social animals.’
Society, discipline, and institutions are not exclusive to humans.
Look at those little things flying over there.
[Teegamchi]. In my ecosystem, they hold the status of ‘flocking birds.’
Their food is just nectar seeping into the ground, or eating the corpses of dead jellies or puddings, or eating grains or small fruits near freshwater.
Survival mechanism? They just fly fast and flock in large numbers. That’s how they avoid predators.
In other words, they are the lowest consumers in the food pyramid, and many raptors in my ecosystem often fly a bit faster than them to catch them for their meals.
But, these guys have something really interesting.
Usually, flocking birds just flock instinctively, but these guys flock ‘consciously.’
They were like that from the moment I discovered them. On Earth, ‘crows’ and ‘parrots’ were incredibly intelligent. To the extent that they could use tools, solve simple puzzles, and calculate benefits to induce specific behaviors.
It seems these guys chose intelligence as their survival mechanism along with their small size and flocking behavior. They are at least as smart as crows.
In other words, they understand very simple revelations. I only gave one revelation to the leader of this flock of Teegamchi.
‘There are no predators beyond the passage. Go across.’
Then the predators that hunt Teegamchi follow them. And the jellies and puddings in my world have evolved to respond to the movement of Teegamchi, realizing that they move to places with more food.
Then the predators that hunt jellies and puddings follow. They are strong enough to catch sheep and, if they flock, they can kill humans.
Of course, to do this properly, we need to create some confusion for the leader of the Ttegamchi. We need to slightly disrupt the direction of the revelation so that this guy runs around the world, attracting the attention of predators and running straight ahead.
But, by doing so, we can introduce a large number of dessert troops into the enemy world with just a small revelation.
“Will that change things?”
“It will. Because Ttegamchi is also a dessert troop.”
What I’m saying is, for our Ttegamchi, who lived in the hellish dessert desert, eating poisonous sap, moving thorns, flying predators, and grain as hard as stones, their world is a paradise.
First of all, the world is twice as wide, so the probability of encountering a predator is halved.
The fields are covered with grain.
The native birds and livestock here had much weaker bodies, ridiculously lacking tenacity, and insufficient reproductive power compared to the scaly membrane wings of the Ttegamchi.
In the first year of the dimensional passage, the enemy, who happened to be in the harvest season, had their farming completely ruined by the Ttegamchi.
And the predatory Ttegamchi, who realized that it was easier to hunt the people, livestock, and native wild animals here than the Ttegamchi, also ruthlessly ravaged the enemy world, and the jellies and puddings, a bit flustered, just slowly nibbled on the soft and tasty grass and soil, slowly turning their steppe plains into a dessert desert.
These birds are harmful birds. You might want to say something like that, but how are you going to control them?
Are you going to send shamans to catch each palm-sized Ttegamchi one by one? I’m going to order Yogurt Sauce and throw a few Biscuits over the dimensional passage?
It’s a looting baptism of the Ttegamchi army. A scarecrow won’t be enough to stop them.
These guys, who lived in the most hellish places in the world, are full of guts, stubbornness, tenacity, and a fighting spirit that fears nothing.
Let’s see if you can hold out until Yogurt Sauce arrives.
∞
“Hold on! Hold on! They’re just birds at best! If you don’t want to starve to death, squeeze out every last bit and control them!”
Elguano and his fellow gods were already using all their divine power to train shamans.
Unlike the magical mysteries that need to be properly studied and learned, shamanism could be awakened by the gods bestowing talent with divine power.
Honestly, I didn’t want to do this. This method of bestowing talent is too inefficient.
In the first place, the ability itself is a stat that is greatly influenced by talent. It’s not an ability that can be given to just anyone.
But there’s no other way. Their world had no plausible mysteries other than shamanism. Moreover, the foundation was a desert-steppe zone, so there were no trees to make bows, and in the end, long-range attacks were impossible except through shamanism.
It’s too unfair to say that Elguano is incompetent. Of course, it was true that the strategy was to go all-in on the hero Shikadoz. But the hero Shikadoz alone could handle 99 out of 100 situations.
But should he be blamed for not being able to handle just one? And it’s not even one out of 100, but one out of 33 million?
But that’s what meteors are like. When they come unexpectedly, you can’t help but get hit.
I’m anxious. I’m insanely anxious. Every day, the crack in the sky is widening little by little.
The enemy’s monstrous creatures may not be infinite, but if this continues for just two more years, the demon looking down on their world from the sky will come down and sweep everything away. If that thing comes down, there will be no chance of winning.
【Oh God! Can’t we call Shikadoz?】
“No! If we turn Shikadoz to defense now, we will never win! We must continue the terror against the enemy world while the demon’s attention is on this place!”
【But, but! Another demon has appeared now!】
What on earth is that? I looked and saw an abnormally flamboyant bird had toppled the hut and was devouring all the straw used to build it.
No matter how much I hit it, even attacking with a hammer or spear, I couldn’t make a dent in its massive body covered in a tough shell.
It even counterattacked by shooting spells that exploded from its mouth.
“What the…”
Upon closer inspection, it was a 〈Heroic Entity〉. It even had a title, 〈Great Red Crest〉.
“How, how can a heroic entity appear!!! In a world without civilization, what kind of culture could produce a heroic entity!!!”
∞
「Culture LV.0: 1」
Surprisingly, my culture wasn’t zero. It was half as low as my politics, but only by 1.
As mentioned earlier, the Gamchis are creatures that almost entirely occupy the ecological niche of birds. And birds are incredibly cultural creatures.
Flamboyant feathers.
Prominent crests.
Abnormally long tail feathers or color patterns.
All of these are 〈attractive〉 displays to entice mates.
My 〈Politics〉 and 〈Culture〉 may seem low in terms of numbers. But that’s entirely due to the way this game’s stats are calculated. This game considers ‘quality’, ‘quantity’, and ‘average’.
But I have an enormous number of creatures, not many social creatures, and not many creatures with enough leisure to adorn themselves, so the ‘average’ is extremely low, resulting in low stats. However, if limited to specific species or individuals, there are quite stable societies and very flamboyant presences.
And the game’s system judges these as having 〈Politics〉 and 〈Culture〉 equally.
“Ah, so the anti-intellectualism build isn’t about abandoning all other stats and only raising 〈Life〉, right?”
That’s right. How can you win a game with 8 stats by abandoning 7 of them? It’s the opposite.
What’s the most important stat in the game? As everyone knows, it’s 〈Life〉.
So, just raise 〈Life〉 extremely high, then push the other stats with the ‘quantity’ of creatures, create specialized individuals through evolution to raise the stats, level up by raising the stats, and gradually elite-ify my creatures.
Then, even without a single civilization, you can generally complement all the stats and attack and conquer the ecosystem itself, not the opposing civilization. No civilization can completely abandon nature and survive.
“Just from the explanation, it sounds incredibly amazing.”
Of course, no matter how much, in the late game, there’s a limit because you can’t accumulate 〈Technology〉 points without civilization, so you become rapidly weaker.
“Ah, is that so. Well, 〈Technology〉 itself is civilization.”
Even then, there are ways, and the most important specs and weight classes can be brought similarly.
This is the anti-intellectualism build. A strategy to end the world without a single civilization, a strategy to destroy all civilizations.
And finally, after waiting, it began.
The dimensional rift opened. My ecosystem’s ultimate weapon, the ultimate predator Yog-Tosos, finally entered the opposing world.
And as if to prove victory, surrender request messages started pouring in like crazy.
∞
“Please. Please accept my surrender…! Please! The exit is coming up soon! I’ll give you everything, even Shikadoz or whatever, just please…!”
「You have been blocked by the opposing player.」
Elguano’s vision went dark.