I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

Hearing such a question from among the ghosts, Rick proudly took out the black king piece.

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

"...to win without capturing any pieces, but is it necessary to kill someone?"

Hearing these words, Rick, the leader of the ghost, endured the sight of everyone staring at him.

However, he showed a meaningful smile and lifted the black king up.

"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 wide in surprise, but only their leader and the [Shadow] at the edge of the meeting, leaning against the wall, smiled confidently.

Chapter 64 No Death

The ghosts scattered all over the world have been active in the dark for nearly half a year. For some unknown reason, the speed of the battle has been accelerated.

Rick was also looking at the strategic map of the secret base today, playing chess face to face with Shubi.

But as expected, the elves have attracted the elves, and the contract between the dragon elves who can fight against the goblin aviation fleet has also increased. The "Elf alliance" that regards the goblins as a common imaginary enemy can be said to be rock solid.

On the other hand, besides the well-connected giants, the goblins have also attracted most phantoms. This is the result of the information that the elves have produced "weapons that can kill phantoms" from the ghosts. Thus the "Goblin League" was born.

However, it cannot be forgotten that there is another strongest force, and that is the Artosh faction with the Flügel on the adjacent continent.

Facing Artoxiu, the biggest threat in front of them, the two alliances who possessed deadly weapons had no choice but to temporarily withdraw their weapons and shake hands to form an alliance.As for the alliance, even the strongest god can't easily make a move, and the battle situation has turned into a stalemate.

The monsters moved in hope of reaping the benefits, while the beastmen moved to the Western Islands on the alert of 【Marrow Explosion】.

The world is on the verge of a catastrophe, and they are forced to confront each other in order to guard against the end of the world.

The above is the status quo of the board piled up by the strong (fools) who are playing tricks.

As a result, the Lucia Continent ridiculously became a situation where only humans "housekeepers".

The preparations went extremely smoothly, and each method had its own ingenuity. Only the last step was left for the great victory or defeat in this era.

But the only thing that puzzles Rick is that Cheng Rang seems to always be out for about three days when he goes out 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, I always said: This is the safest way, and the reason will not be found out, and he will keep silent about the details.

.......

"By the way, Shubi, I asked you before, is there 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 [Divine Essence]...the strength of thoughts and prayers...can't be strictly defined...it happens naturally...?"

When she asked a question before, she replied that it does not exist because there is no [Spiritual Essence].

"Actually, I've met the God of Games—do you believe me when I say that?"

"...If Rick believes...Huby also believes..."

While seriously playing the chess pieces, Shuby continued: "...Rick overturned Shuby's predictions.... If Rick said there is, there will be. If Rick said the sky If it's not red, then it's not red...Huby won't doubt anymore...."

"Woo~ Cheng! Come here and listen, you must have heard my wife's lines just now!"

A stone came out of the darkness and hit Rick on the forehead with a crackling sound, knocking him down, and Cheng Rang's voice came impatiently: "Stop showing off your wife to me here! You know me How much sacrifice did you make in order to quickly advance the plan? You don’t know, you only care that Hugh is getting cuter than Jiang! So hurry up and end the war, and I’m going back to reunite with my wife, hey!”

For Rick who fell to the ground and rolled his eyes, Shubi's face was a little rosy, which was not an illusion.

Then, with a hesitant tone, she dropped the pawn and said softly: "... Checkmate..."

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

Rick hugged his head with a wry smile 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 Shubi give you a few hands, can't you win, really?" Yes, she can listen to you now."

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

"—stop! stop!"

"Oh~ got it, don't you want to make Shubi sad? You really are considerate, sir~"

"Ahhh!!" Rick let out a shameful cry, interrupting Cheng Rang's words. It seems that he is still a virgin, and he seems to have really imagined such a beautiful scene.

Tuk Tuk Tuk....

"Uh, I'm sorry~ I'm interrupting the conversation where the listener is rather embarrassing, can my sister come in?"

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

"Okay ok, I've heard enough. By the way, Rick, you called me... can I report?"

Ke Long flipped through the documents and reported the current settlement—no, the status of "human beings".

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

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

"Afterwards, we used wolf smoke and scouts to explore the northern part of Lucia, and found many settlements. But even if we wanted to join them, the total number of people would reach nearly 8000, and the current settlements cannot accommodate—"

"Don't worry, Ke Long. Soon, human beings will be able to live anywhere without fear of death."

"..."

Concentrating on the chess game he played against Hugh, Rick replied, but when Crone heard this, his clenched fists couldn't help trembling.

"Everything is going well, as long as the three of us make it to the last step - we win."

Ke Long endured, trying not to express her emotions in her attitude, but seeing Rick's indifferent appearance, she couldn't bear it anymore.

"Your current state makes people unbelievable that you can continue to hold on! Although Cheng can heal you completely, but even so, you have become like this...Maybe one day, Cheng If you don't have time to save you, you will die!"

Kelong cried out with tears on his face, but Rick just smiled wryly: "I'm really sorry for Cheng, I am so self-willed, and I have been saved by him again and again, but after all, if you know magic, you have to make good use of it. .”

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

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

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

Although the skin burns caused by the relics were healed by unreasonable "magic", scars were inevitably left under the intensified "disguise" again and again, but that's all.

Next is the internal organs... Thanks to Cheng Rang and Shubi, they were spared 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.

"no big deal."

"——It's a big deal! You!!"

Croon wanted to refute, but was interrupted by Rick's ice-like voice: "The other ghosts are in a similar state, or worse. It's a miracle that no one has died so far, but everyone is devastated. "

Bruised, as the text says, literally bruised.

A total of 180 ghosts, excluding Cheng Rang, [-] people, indeed no one died.

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

The use of poison, the infection of the spirit skeleton, the loss of limbs - the ghosts have adopted various methods in order to deceive other races.

Giving up their arms just for the sake of inducement, some people ate dead flesh in order to hide the truth from demons, and some even deliberately got bitten by vampires to lure the other party—everything that could be used was used.

Everything except life must be used.

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

Just one more step, please act as if you didn't see it, and fulfill my willfulness.

Rick is really like a scumbag in this respect, but even he couldn't forgive himself, and he endured the chilling pain with a faceless face, and in the name of the leader, drove this human [Ghost Ship] Guide the situation in the world.

"In this way, the war will end, and I will..."

Finally able to forgive himself, halfway through saying this, he swallowed the words again.

Chapter 65 Star Core Penetration Plan

"Then at least tell me..." Kelong lowered his head, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably: "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 let the war end? I can't believe it no matter what!"

"......"

"If you want me to ignore your non-stop suicide behavior, then tell me!"

When Rick and Hubie looked at each other, Crohn, who lowered his head, kept dripping tears down his cheeks, splashing layers of small mud waves.

Cheng Rang sighed silently, took the initiative to stand up and hugged the always strong girl into his arms, and patted her trembling back.

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

"Since...in this case——!"

"The gods are fighting for the throne of the only god, you know this?"

Cheng Rang turned his head and gave Rick a wink. Rick was a little slow to react, and could only nod helplessly.

"The throne of the only god is something called [star cup]."

Kelong curled up in Cheng Rang's arms, she seemed to feel very reassured, her trembling gradually stopped, and she obediently listened to his story.

"The gods in this world are born from the planet. They are born with expectations, prayers, and [sacred 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 the gods to make a device that can control all the gods—right?"

"Of course... because it means that with [ten] power, you have to make [eleven] or more power."

Obviously just heard the information, but Kelong understood it in an instant, and expressed it in popular terms.

"As expected of Kelong, it's absolutely correct. That's right, it's such a stupid thing."

Of course, the so-called One God is the power that governs everything including the Deity Seed.

Suppose there are ten members of the gods, and all ten members will only have the power of ten members.

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

Basically, if the strength is insufficient, it is impossible.

"so....."

Rick accepted the words of the process, and continued as if to spurn: "So if there are ten gods, as long as you kill nine of them, you will be the only god, right?"

Destroy the [Essence] of other gods and absorb the power generated at the time of destruction.

By doing that, he can increase his own power——gain enough power to make the Star Grail appear.

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

Even if all the main gods were killed, it would be troublesome if new gods were born and surpassed themselves.

So the throne of the only god—as long as it is dominated by the [star cup], the only god will be born.

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

......

"He... are they stupid?! Did they start such a war for that reason—?!"

Kelong frowned furiously.

And Rick lazily stretched his waist and said: "Kron....Pay attention to your wording, it's too rude to a fool to say that, because ah..."

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

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

"what?"