I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

Hearing such questions from the ghosts, Rick proudly took out the black king chess piece.

"As long as we defeat this guy, it will be our victory."

"....You can win without taking any pieces, but is it necessary to kill someone?"

Hearing these words, the leader of the ghosts, Rick, bore the gaze of everyone staring at him.

However, he showed a meaningful smile and lifted the Black King.

"Listen, the rules are absolute, no one will die, because [Black King] is..."

He slammed the chess piece on the board and said word by word: "This guy~"

The ghosts opened their eyes in surprise, but only their leader and [Shadow], who was leaning against the wall at the edge of the meeting, smiled with confidence.

Chapter 64 No Death

The ghosts scattered around the world have been secretly active for nearly half a year. For some unknown reason, the war has accelerated.

Today, Rick was also looking at the strategic map of the secret base and playing chess face to face with Hubie.

But as expected, the elves have won over the elves, and the contract between the elves and the dragon elves that can fight the goblin air fleet has also increased. The "elf alliance" that regards the goblins as a common imaginary enemy can be said to be Solid as a rock.

On the other hand, in addition to the giants with whom they have good relations, the goblins have also attracted most of the fantasy species. This is due to the ghost leaking information about the forest elves producing "weapons that can kill fantasy species", so the tight and strong " The Goblin Alliance" was born.

But we must not forget that there is another strongest force, and that is the Artosh camp with the Flügel in the adjacent continent.

The two alliances, who had deadly weapons hidden in each other, faced the biggest threat in front of them, Artosh, and had no choice but to temporarily put away their weapons and shake hands to form an alliance. As for the alliance, even the strongest gods could not take action easily, and the battle situation evolved into a stalemate.

The demon species moved in hopes of reaping the benefits, while the orc species moved to the Western Islands to be wary of the [Marrow Explosion].

The world is on the verge of breaking out, and they have no choice but to confront each other in order to prevent it from becoming an apocalypse.

The above is the current situation of the market created by the clever and powerful people (fools).

As a result, the continent of Lucia comically became a situation where only humans were the "housekeepers".

The preparations were carried out extremely smoothly, and each approach was ingenious. The final victory or defeat in this era was only the last step left.

But the only thing that made Rick a little confused was that Cheng Rang always seemed to be out for about three days when he went on missions.

Even if it's as simple as revealing a sentence to other races,

For such intelligence operations, he would have to leave for three full days before returning.

When I asked him the reason, he would always prevaricate by saying that this was the safest way and would not be discovered. He would not tell any details.

.......

"By the way, Hubie, I asked you before if there is a God of Games, right?"

"right....."

"The concept is that if you meet the activation conditions, you will become a god species. So what are the activation conditions?"

"...obtaining the [Divine Essence]...the intensity of thoughts and prayers...cannot be rigorously defined...happens naturally...?"

When asked before, she answered that it does not exist because there is no [Divine Essence].

"Actually, I have met the God of Games - do you believe me when I say this?"

"...If Rick believes it...Hubby believes it too..."

While playing the chess pieces carefully, Hubie continued: "...Rick has subverted all of Hubie's predictions...If Rick said there is, there will be. If Rick says the sky If it’s not red, then it’s not red… Hubie will no longer doubt…”

"Oh~Cheng! Come here and listen quickly. You must have heard what my wife said just now!"

A stone cracked through the darkness and hit Rick on the forehead, knocking him down. Cheng Rang's voice came impatiently: "Stop showing off your wife to me here! You know I How many sacrifices have you made in order to advance the plan quickly? You don’t know, you only care about Hubie-chan getting cuter and cuter! So I want to end the war quickly, and I want to go back and reunite with my wife!"

To Rick, who was lying on the ground and rolling his eyes, Hubie's face turned a little rosy, but that was not an illusion.

Then, with a hesitant tone, she put the chess piece down and whispered: "...Checkmate..."

"I said, God of Games, can't you just let me win once?"

Rick smiled bitterly and hugged his head and got up from the ground, while Cheng Rang walked out from the side, rubbed Rick's swollen head vigorously and said: "You just need to let Hubi give you a few moves, can't you win? It's really Yes, she will listen to you now."

Cheng Rang put a smile on his face that all men understand, and joked: "And even if there is no [hole] underneath Hubi, married life can still use your mouth to make you..."

"——Stop it! Stop it!"

"Oh~ I understand, don't you want to make Hui Bi sad? You are really considerate of people's hearts, Mr. Leader~"

"Ahhhh!!" Rick screamed in shame, interrupting Cheng Rang's words. It seemed that he, who was still a virgin, had really imagined such a charming scenery.

Tuk-tuk-tuk....

"Uh, I'm sorry~ I interrupted the conversation while the listener is still embarrassed. Can my sister come in?"

Ke Long appeared politely, and the two stopped fighting. Rick coughed twice and said: "Well, you came just in time, Kelon, let me tell you, just now-"

"Okay, okay, I've heard enough. By the way, Rick, you asked me to come... Can I report it?"

Kelon flipped through the information and reported on the current situation of the settlement - no, "human beings".

"Although it's hard to believe, as Rick said, there are no more sighting reports of other races."

Kelong, who didn't know the reason, heard Rick smile and say "I think so", she frowned and continued:

"After that, we used smoke and scouts to explore northern Lucia, and found many settlements. But even if we wanted to join them, the total number would reach close to 8,000 people, and the current settlements cannot accommodate them——"

"Don't worry, Kelon. Soon, humans will be able to live everywhere without fear of death."

"..."

Focusing on the chess game with Hubie, Rick answered this, and Kelon's clenched fists couldn't help but tremble after hearing this.

"Everything went well, as long as the three of us got to the last step - we won."

Kelon endured it and tried not to show her emotions in her attitude, but seeing Rick's indifferent expression, she couldn't bear it anymore.

"It's unbelievable that you can continue to hold on in your current state! Although Cheng was able to fully treat you, but even so you have become like this... Maybe one day, Cheng If I don’t have time to save you, you will die!”

Kelon screamed with tears on his face, but Rick only smiled bitterly: "I really feel sorry for Cheng. I am so willful and have been saved by him again and again, but after all, if I can use magic, I have to make good use of it. .”

"I beg you, Rick, stop joking and take care of your body!"

Hearing Kelong's pleading voice, Rick had no choice but to reorganize his physical condition.

First of all, the whole body is covered with bandages.

Although the skin burns caused by the spirit skeleton were healed by unreasonable "magic", scars were inevitably left behind under the "disguise" that got worse again and again, but that was all.

Next came the internal organs...Thanks to Cheng Rang and Hubi, they were saved from the fate of complete necrosis.

Since healing can only restore health, but cannot restore areas that have been completely damaged, Rick lost an eye. Both hands are intact, but one foot is completely ulcerated.

It can be removed and is now replaced by a prosthetic limb made of wood. In other words, part of the maximum health is lost.

"it's not a big deal."

"——It's such a big deal! You!!"

Kelon wanted to retort, but was interrupted by Rick's ice-like voice: "Other ghosts are in a similar state, or worse. It's a miracle that no one has died so far, but everyone is already covered in wounds. "

The whole body is covered with wounds, as the text shows, the literal meaning is the body is covered with wounds.

There are a total of one hundred and eighty ghosts. Excluding Cheng Rang, there are 179 ghosts. Indeed, no one has died yet.

Knowing Cheng Rang's healing ability, Rick also added it to his plan to make full use of it, so he was able to advance the war.

Using poison, infecting spirit bones, losing limbs - the ghosts have adopted various methods to deceive other races.

Some people gave up their arms just for the sake of inducement, some people ate corpse flesh in order to hide from the demon species, and some even deliberately got bitten by vampire species to induce the other party - they used everything they could.

Everything except life must be used.

Cheng Rang, who wanted to dissuade Rick from continuing like this, knelt down and begged.

Just one more step is all it takes. Please pretend you didn’t see it and fulfill my will.

Rick is really like a scumbag in this regard, but even for this he cannot forgive himself. He endures the spine-chilling pain with an expressionless face and drives this human [ghost ship] in the name of leader. guide the situation of the world.

"In this case, the war will be over, and I will..."

Finally able to forgive himself, he swallowed his words halfway.

Chapter 65 Star Core Penetration Plan

"Then at least tell me..." Ke Long lowered his head and his shoulders couldn't help shaking: "Inducing other races, even the gods, to disappear from the Lucia continent, even now I still can't believe it, I really I think it’s amazing - but the war is going to end? No matter what happens, I can’t believe it!”

"...."

"If you want me to ignore your constant suicide behavior, then tell me!"

When Rick and Hubie looked at each other, Kelon lowered his head, tears kept dripping down his cheeks and fell to the ground, splashing layers of small mud waves.

Cheng Rang sighed silently, took the initiative to hold this girl who had always been very strong in his arms, and patted her trembling back.

"Ke'ron, if Rick didn't trust you, if it weren't for you, he wouldn't have handed over everyone in the settlement to you without any scruples."

"In that case...in that case-!"

"The gods are fighting for the throne of the only god. You know this, right?"

Cheng Rang turned around and winked at Rick. After a moment of slow response, Rick could only nod helplessly.

"The only throne of God is something called the [Star Grail]."

Kelong shrank in Cheng Rang's arms. She seemed to find it very reassuring. Her trembling gradually stopped and she listened obediently to his story.

"The species of gods in this world are born from the planet. They are born after receiving expectations, prayers, and receiving the [Divine Essence]."

"But too many have been born. The Star Cup is a conceptual device set up by the gods in order to limit gods, that is, beings who can perform the level of magic created by the race, to only one person."

"..."

"But it's impossible for a divine species to create a device that can control all divine species - right?"

"Of course...because it means using the power of [ten] to achieve more than [eleven]."

It was obviously information that he had just heard, but Ke Long understood it instantly and expressed it in layman's terms.

"As expected of Kelon, that's absolutely right. Yes, it's such a stupid thing."

Of course, the so-called single god is the power that controls everything, including the species of gods.

Assuming there are ten members of the divine race, the combined strength of all ten people will only have the power of ten people.

But [Star Cup] is to create a power that can completely control the power of ten people.

Basically, if you don't have enough power, it's impossible.

"so....."

Rick took Cheng Rang's words and continued as if he was scorning: "So if there are ten gods, he only needs to kill nine of them, and he will be the only god, right."

Destroy the [divine marrow] of other gods and absorb the power generated during the destruction.

By doing that, you can increase your power - gain enough power to manifest the Star Grail.

However, after all, as long as the gods are prayed for, a corresponding number will be born.

Even if all the main species of gods are killed, it will be troublesome if a new species of gods is born and surpasses itself.

Therefore, the throne of the only God - as long as it is controlled by the [Star Cup], the only God will be born.

"This is the truth behind this extremely boring [war]."

...

"Are they...are they idiots?! Are they launching such a war for that reason—?!"

Kelon frowned in anger.

And Rick stretched lazily and said: "Kelong... pay attention to your wording. It's too rude to say that to an idiot, because..."

"Even if you don't do that kind of thing,

You can also make the [Star Cup] appear. "

"Huh?"