The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion

Chapter 52. World Collision -Seventh-

「World of Veen

Life LV.11: 240,698 New Elite Trait 1

Military LV.10: 158,786 New Excellent Trait 1

Industry LV.8: 35,895 New Excellent Trait 1

Technology LV.6: 5,671

Culture LV.7: 11,993 New Excellent Trait 1

Politics LV.0: 89

Mystery LV.9: 59,168 New Excellent Trait 1

Faith LV.9: 80,396

Total Score LV.9: 592,696

Life = 『(Plant) Tenacious Vitality: Possesses strong resistance to all factors threatening survival. It does not die easily and grows well anywhere.』

Military = 『Superior Rank: When facing an entity with lower stats, you can gain a significant advantage.』

Industry = 『Shuk-Rimuras Spiritual Architect Job Change: When Shuk-Rimuras gains experience, it follows a stat distribution specialized for Spiritual Architects, and related stats increase. Requires the 『Spiritual Architect Job Change』 trait as a prerequisite.』

Culture = 『Representative of the Race: The 〈Culture〉 required for hero promotion decreases for each race.』

Mystery = 『Spiritual Architect Job Change: Unlocks the higher position of Spiritual Architect.』

Hmm. Impressive.

〈Life〉 naturally increased, and 〈Military〉 also increased proportionally.

In the case of 〈Industry〉, it was thanks to Shuk-Rimuras’ tremendous ability to construct spiritual structures. So, I even gave it a job change to focus on that.

〈Culture〉 skyrocketed naturally as I upgraded the coral reefs, and since I have an enormous number of races compared to most multi-racial worlds, I adopted the trait that increases heroes from various races. There was even a hero among the caramel camels, so I named it [Sweet Camel].

The increase in 〈Technology〉 and 〈Mystery〉 is somewhat lacking. There aren’t many entities in my world that can use 〈Technology〉 compared to its vastness. Yogo-Tosos is developing it on its own. It’s a miracle that it’s even at level 6.

And naturally, as I restructured the spiritual realm, the scores for 〈Mystery〉 and 〈Faith〉 also skyrocketed. As a result, after the sixth collision, it reached level 9, approaching level 10, creating a monstrous ecosystem.

“How high am I?”

“Out of the 16,777,216 worlds, there are less than 130 worlds with a higher score than yours, Veen.”

“Still, there are 130?”

That’s even more surprising.

“Veen, you have gained powerful allies like Sesaisa and Mihun, making you one of the top-tier players, but there are others who have formed similar groups, creating strong synergies and running their worlds much more efficiently.”

Hmm.

“Even so, it’s not overwhelmingly strong. In fact, among those 130 worlds, there are only a few that could even hold their ground against you in a direct military confrontation.”

“So, am I the strongest player in this game right now?”

The angel shook its head.

“If you’re asking about 〈Military〉 stats, there is currently a player with 220,000 military points. That player is number one.”

What?

“How can someone have 220,000 military points? I have 250,000 life points, so my military points are 150,000. No matter how high their life points are, they can’t exceed 100,000. Even Mihun’s military score isn’t that high.”

“Hmm, I can’t tell you that, but do you remember the player with 1,400 military points during the second collision? It’s that player.”

That guy is a meteor. If we meet, it will be a life-or-death battle.

Oh, by the way.

“Can you tell me the current score of the number one player?”

“Hmm, the rankings fluctuate a lot, but the current number one has around 630,000 points.”

Is it 40,000 points higher than me? Well, 40,000 points is about 7% higher. That’s a significant number.

So, shall we prepare for the collision now? I hope it’s easy this time too, but I also hope a stronger opponent appears this time.

If I only meet easy opponents, I’ll surely become complacent… There’s no way I’ll encounter one of the top 130 out of 1.6 million, so what kind of opponent will I meet?

∞

After experiencing six world collisions, if there are only lower gods without any fellow gods, it means being one of the 1/64 players.

It’s already like being the winner of the 64-strong tournament. Mukite, who had served five terms as a local governor solely based on ‘performance’ in a civilization where the material world and the spiritual world were roughly half and half, deserved it.

Mukite passed the first three rounds through cooperation.

However, according to the game rules, even if it’s an equal alliance, if the score difference is twice as much, it’s considered a defeat to the opponent’s world, becoming a lower god.

With the skill of a seasoned local governor in a world that wasn’t particularly peaceful, Mukite successfully subdued the allied gods peacefully and politically without any military action, becoming the sole upper god of the world.

He didn’t intend to treat the losers harshly. After all, they were the ones who would diligently manage the world on his behalf. Although they lost, their contribution itself increased, and since they acknowledged that Mukite was a much better player than themselves, they accepted their position as lower gods without much complaint. (In fact, it’s a rule they couldn’t refuse.)

And he fought the fourth opponent but won easily. Mukite’s world, which was a sky island terrain, was able to descend to the ground through the mountainous terrain.

He cooperated with the fifth opponent. As he descended through the mountainous terrain, a desert appeared. Mukite demonstrated remarkable skill in the disaster zone. He deftly shifted all the disasters to the opposing gods and regained the initiative of the world.

And the sixth opponent. Mukite met a truly peculiar opponent.

As he descended from the mountainous terrain, there was a desert, an opponent who had built a civilization in the desert and rocky mountains. Mukite wondered how they could build a civilization in the desert.

But there was a way.

Although it was called a desert, from the perspective of the spiritual world, the flow was so stable and dense that it would be strange if all the living beings didn’t realize the mystery, and the diversity was also high.

According to the angels, desert terrain is generally like that. It’s hard to nurture life, but the ‘mystery’ and ‘faith’ aspects are incredibly excellent.

What was really fortunate here was that the opponent was a pure spirit civilization.

“What? This fool.”

Pure spirit. In other words, pure flow. It wasn’t attached to rocks or water. It seemed like they had built the spiritual world extremely well and tried to subdue it with just mystery.

“If that’s the case, even if they handle the mystery well, the stability as a spirit is terrible. Don’t they know that?”

Apparently, they didn’t. Mukite’s race, which harmonized life and mystery, easily subdued the opponent’s unstable world.

When they surrendered and asked, they said, “I thought pure spirits were invincible because physical attacks wouldn’t work.” They were a player from a world with only material.

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They seemed to have won all five rounds with an invincible build through pure spirits, but that’s also up to the opponent. The opponent’s spirit race was completely subdued and became slaves.

“No, if I use this enslaved race, I can easily enhance the existing creatures.”

The opponent’s epic creations were subdued without being killed and joined as members.

Rather, he provided them with bodies, supported them to rise to legendary status, and rapidly developed the world using the ‘Mirage’ terrain and ‘High Magic Zone’ that the opponent had raised to level 8, and the mines where special mysteries were formed.

After creating it like that, even if the stats themselves were a bit low, there was one legendary creation. Four epic creations. The overall stats were quite solid and stable, each close to 20,000.

In other words, the total world stats were about 160,000.

“Roughly above average.”

I’ve heard that the baseline score is between 32,000 and 68,000, but among the surviving players, the lower ranks tend to drop out a lot, and the upper ranks polarize more easily, so even a level 8 score of 160,000 is just barely above average. Players who barely meet the baseline score are actually in the lower ranks.

“Even with this much effort, if this is the level, then everyone must be at a similar level to me. Should I drop out in the 9th round…?”

Anyway, Mugite was quite fond of his world and civilization. He thought that even if he met the top ranks, he could easily make them his subordinates by exerting his political power.

“There’s no way there’s a madman who would try to start an extermination war without even attempting something like negotiations.”

“That’s right, Lord Mugite.”

More than 20 of his lower-ranking followers agreed. Common sense dictated that a world managed this well would be more inclined to negotiate and make subordinates rather than wage war, even those monstrous upper worlds with scores exceeding 500,000. Needless to say, if the scores were equal.

And now, they would easily subdue the lower ranks.

As a seasoned politician with five terms, he made inferences based strictly on common sense and rationality, maintaining a stable operation without any bias.

Particularly, it was considered effective that he had solid scores in all fields to exceed the ‘average score,’ leaving little to be considered a weakness. Additionally, he possessed many excellent heroes apart from the world’s abilities.

And then came the seventh collision.

The opposing player was ‘Veen,’ a name quite well-known in the community.

Contrary to the cute tone of his posts, Mugite realized then that Veen was a madman with not a single fellow deity.

The envoys sent as diplomats disappeared in an instant, and the opponent’s intentions became all too clear with the frenziedly opening dimensional gates and the pouring monsters.

∞

“The opposing world is at an ordinary level of development.”

It was a very solid world. A quick glance revealed no apparent weaknesses.

That meant there were no significant strengths either, and currently, they couldn’t stop my core strategy of the monster army, nor did they have a way to block the main plan in a prolonged war.

“However, it’s not a world that will easily collapse. There are many unique entities with very high abilities. The strongest one is level 7.”

Yog-Tosos is level 8. It might have higher abilities than the combined score of that world.

“Well, that’s true.”

And now, it was time to show the true nature of Yog-Tosos.

“Yog-Tosos. Show your majesty.”

【I have been waiting for that command.】

Yog-Tosos received the 《Space-Time Boundary》 as his territory and continued to immerse himself in research. It was a terrain where one could learn 〈Space-Time〉 magic.

And although 〈Space-Time〉 magic sounds grand, there are many trivial aspects to it.

Like slightly speeding up the flow of time around to move quickly, or making oneself appear small. It’s just a classification of magic, not some top-tier magic.

Well, not that Yog-Tosos, who also had the 『Master of Magic』 trait, researched to learn such trivial magic…

The world collision itself is a phenomenon similar to 〈Space-Time〉 magic. In other words, 〈Space-Time〉 magic can directly interfere with world collisions and open dimensional gates.

For a very brief moment, a dimensional gate large enough for Yog-Tosos to reveal himself.

Crack!

Yog-Tosos consumes an enormous amount of magical power, literally tearing apart the space of the enemy world and opening a dimensional gate.

In fact, it is temporary. How temporary, you ask? Yog-Tosos can’t even cross over to the enemy world. To learn that level of magic, a higher level is required.

【Kneel!!!】

However, for a brief moment, it can cast magic on the enemy world.

Fwooosh!

During the last disaster period, Yog-Tosos performed a show magic, containing all elements of 〈Beauty〉, 〈Grotesqueness〉, 〈Fear〉, 〈Intimidation〉, 〈Spirit〉, and 〈Strength〉, a splendid and grand 『Majesty of Yog-Tosos』 was displayed in the sky and outskirts of the enemy world. (If it could open a dimensional gate in the middle of the city, it would have used attack magic)

Although it was displayed in the outskirts, the scale was beyond imagination. It is a super-giant magic that artificially creates a spiritual realm and draws all surrounding flows. Although it is not attack magic, it can be displayed more boldly because of that.

To the extent that all creatures in the enemy world can clearly recognize that magic.

Unfortunately, I can’t see the enemy world exactly, but the enemy’s 〈Politics〉 score seems quite interesting.

∞

“What is that?”

Already in the city, destroying everything in sight, the unidentified monster bird (Bisyaquit) and the insane round creature (Candy that catches people) running around hunting people were driving Mukite crazy. Seeing the space suddenly tear apart in the middle of the desert, just a barren land used for farming, Mukite couldn’t help but be shocked.

【Kneel!!!】

And what appeared there was a demon with unbelievable stats. As it cast its magic, the spiritual realm and spiritual flow within the world, which had been firmly established, were all destroyed, and the formidable flow covered the residential areas and cities.

There were countermeasures, but the city residents fell into a state of panic.

“Eeeek!”

“What, what is that?! What is that?!”

“Oh God! Please watch over us!”

The 〈Politics〉 score, which was around 20,000 points, dropped to 7,000 with just one spell. One-third of the 〈Politics〉 score was blown away by just one spell cast by the enemy.

If you still don’t realize that the power difference is beyond imagination, you’re a fool.

Urgently requesting dialogue, negotiation, and eventually surrender, but the only response was a message saying it was blocked.

“What, what should we do?”

“Well, we need to attack too, to at least pressure the enemy into accepting our surrender…”

Even the subordinate gods were in panic. They never expected to meet such a merciless enemy with such a power difference and who wouldn’t accept surrender.

Mukite felt his vision gradually blur.