At the beginning, unlimited skill tree!

Once you have a family, you will have emotional attachment to them, and you will have weaknesses. Not only humans, but any creature with emotions and intelligence will feel reluctant to leave.

When facing a game where you have to bet your life, even if you don't consider yourself, you should consider your family.

That group of people must have thought about it again and again, and it is absolutely impossible for them to act with passion.

Thinking of these more rational rationalists, especially the elves who are close to nature and indifferent by nature, they are more certain of the "thoughts in their hearts".

However——

The unexpected happened again.

When they looked at the plot later, the book described... "It was quiet for ten minutes."

Afterwards, when Riku opened his eyes again, he silently counted in his heart.

The number was 177——that is, a total of 177 members were willing to join them, very good!

And the number of people who left was——

"...Zero!?" Several unbelievable voices exclaimed one after another.

They all saw this and saw the final number displayed.

After seeing the incredible result, the elves were speechless.

Chapter 382 The spirit of the [Foolish King] six thousand years ago!

The members chosen by Riku - without exception, are all human elites with superior intelligence and skills.

Everyone has the same view on this point.

The [ghosts] who can be given hope by Riku and invited to participate in this game can prove that they are very excellent.

And Riku's ability to "know people and use them well" was clearly known by Hermitos and others in the beginning of Ivan's plot.

The text also described this group of people as "near death several times, survived several times - in other races, they are just insignificant dust. But as dust, they have excellent abilities."

Because of this -

in the eyes of ordinary people, this group of people is even less likely to choose the "stupid" choice.

Accompanying Riku to challenge the gods... sounds crazy and exciting, but this is not what a normal person would do.

"...Ah~ I want to tell the truth?" Riku took a deep breath.

Obviously, Riku didn't expect that there would be such a 'surprise' scene waiting for him.

This can be understood by just looking at the stunned expressions of the elves now. They don't understand either!

Facing Riku, the [ghosts] standing around him - everyone looked unbearable, as if asking: How long are you going to close your eyes?

Seeing this, some elves and humans looked away.

Riku: "I thought you should be smarter."

Hearing Riku say this, the 177 [ghosts] smiled bitterly and said: "Hey, boss, don't make a wrong judgment at the first step, otherwise people will be worried in the future."

"Riku, do you think there are still smart people in this world at this point?"

"Crazy behavior? In this world, where is there anything crazier than this world? Smart people will choose to die in this world, and smarter people will choose not to be born..."

"People here - people who have survived until now - Riku, these are the people you chose."

- Everyone nodded with a smile.

That series of speeches, although not as powerful and confident as Riku's, the sorrow and cruel truth told in that light tone still gave people a full sense of shock.

Especially the sentence, 'Smart people will choose death (commit suicide) in such a world, and smarter people will not even want to be born. '

If humans can decide when they are born.

——I am afraid that the whole hell will be overcrowded during the war!

Compared with the world on the ground, isn't hell beautiful? !

Thinking of this, Yuzuha's furry ears stood up and stood in awe.

As expected——

The group of people who can survive in such an era and still support Riku now are really stupid (cute)!

These are some cute and respectable humans! The girl sighed in her heart.

[Isn't that the representative selection of idiots? ]

After a bitter smile, Riku also laughed.

Yes, that's right. ——Humans are stupid.

Because of stupidity, one can hone wisdom and intellect so that one will not be killed by stupidity.

Surviving until today - even in this world where there is no value in survival, one still survives.

People who bet all their intellect, wisdom and technology for this.

- If they are not noble fools, respectable weaklings, then what are they?

'Everyone is crazy. It's really reliable, then -'

Riku was happy from the bottom of his heart, and then opened the map.

It took five years, no, this is a game board that humans have been updating for survival even before.

Made up of countless bones, it unfolds under the attention of 179 [ghosts] including Riku and Shubi.

Such a statement made the little princess and the others stunned.

Someone suddenly thought that humans noticed other races and began to prepare for a rainy day in a planned way, perhaps even earlier.

The knowledge and books that Riku used to learn the languages ​​of various races, those records were all passed down from humans in the distant past.

Perhaps what they saw was only a part of the struggle of the entire human history.

The will to survive tenaciously has been passed down from generation to generation.

A group of people similar to Riku and his friends may have fought and worked hard in a more distant era.

The little princesses' eyes were blurred by tears, and they were moved by such a will.

And did Riku appear to present the will that was passed down from generation to generation and put a perfect end to that effort?

'Even if there were no outstanding leaders like Riku among the predecessors, they still illuminated the way forward and opened up the future for the descendants in their own way. 'Andersen's narration suddenly opened everyone's hearts.

Perhaps those actions seemed stupid to other races, but they knew... Whether it was carving maps or recording the language knowledge of other races, there would always be places that could be used and help future generations.

Generation after generation worked hard just to provide the conditions for victory for the successors, the capable humans!

(This part is not very obvious in the original book. But in fact, according to the detailed setting of the novel, Riku's situation at that time was similar to the help that the foolish king gave to Blank. The story of Riku and Shubi is like Blank also lived once six thousand years ago.)

This world is still full of these stupid but admirable guys.

A smart person like Riku is just an exception.

Hemetos was shocked and respectful when he saw this.

As a god, for the first time, he had a feeling of respect for human beings, which was impossible to be born, not love or hate!

From the perspective of life, it is like a hunter being moved by a goat or a giant being touched by an ant.

Humans have spent countless years accumulating useful information and knowledge, and now, led by Riku, they have begun to use it. Such a scene——

Countless eyes are watching the story page by page.

Just like the 177 [ghosts] in the book, their eyes are hot and bright.

"Okay - let's start the game." After explaining some of the plans in detail, Riku in the book finally concluded and spoke.

"--【Pledge to the will】." The 【ghosts】 replied.

Just like this - everyone answered as usual, but Riku said:

"...Don't say that again. We are not swearing to the will, but to the rules we agree to."

So--right.

"Say--【Pledge to the covenant】." (This is a novel translation problem, you can figure out what to swear to.)

... (The original text is "Swear to agree", probably trying to translate the same will! It's changed here to avoid people getting used to it.)

"【Pledge to the covenant】." Yuzuha, Claire and others subconsciously murmured.

I felt touched!

Swearing to the will is to inherit the will of the dead compatriots and continue to work hard to survive.

But now it's different!

Riku said that he would start a game where no one would sacrifice their lives.

[Is there really a war where no one will die? 】

Such a dreamlike thing, dreamlike speeches and oaths... made everyone's consciousness fall into an obsessive trance for a while.

Chapter 383 Sorry! Forgive us for laughing so unkindly!

"Swear to the covenant!" People couldn't help but speak up.

This way, it seemed as if they could fight together with the human ancestors [ghosts] thousands of years ago.

After the meeting, Riku and Shubi played a card game while chatting.

Shubi lowered his head because everyone could resonate with Riku before, but he seemed out of place alone.

Shubi, who was the only one who couldn't understand that feeling, sadly told Riku that the probability of success he calculated for Riku and his team was zero.

"Zero rate...?" Claire and the others' inner enthusiasm was suddenly poured with a basin of cold water.

No wonder Shubi said that he couldn't feel the resonance...

Compared with other humans who believed in victory, did Shubi think that the plan would fail from the beginning?

"Well~ I'm talking to Shubi." Riku interrupted Shubi's thinking.

After that, there was a discussion about probability theory.

Through the game of rolling dice, he repeated the probability calculation to Shubi.

The probability of rolling six points on the six sides of the dice should be one in six, but in reality, six points will win, and the others will lose... So Riku said it should be one in two.

Either all wins or all loses...

Such a perverse logic made the little princess and the others very embarrassed.

However——

Surprisingly, the Ex-Machina, Shubi, who is known for its rationality, was silent.

"..."

The Ex-Machina was actually refuted by humans with such an emotional argument.

This scene reminded Hermitos and the others of Riku's sigh when he faced Shubi. It is impossible for humans to defeat machines!

But now, to a certain extent, it seems that Riku has won!

After that, the discussion between the two turned into a series of words such as one in ten thousand probability, non-existent people, and errors.

In the end, Riku gave a conclusion-this is called [cheating].

"How is it? It's interesting, isn't it?"

Shubi still didn't understand, "...Why... can we use the lowest probability... as the expected value?"

Everyone held their breath and looked at Riku's answer.

A shocking sentence appeared in the next paragraph.

"Hubby, humans are still alive in this world, what is the probability of this [result]?"

...!

Claire and the little princess suddenly opened their eyes wide.

They didn't expect Riku to explain it this way...

There were many ways to answer, and even the crooked theory of rolling dice could be used again.

Everyone was waiting to see what kind of interesting answer Riku would give, but they were surprised to be convinced and shocked by Riku's words.