The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion

Chapter 29. World Collision -Fifth- 3

In Panwal, the main function of the 〈culture〉 ability is to support the promotion to higher entities and to increase the probability of the birth of excellent and special entities.

As the term ‘main function’ suggests, there are other functions as well.

The second function is to increase the satisfaction of one’s own race and to gain favor from other races.

In short, if the 〈culture〉 is high, happiness increases, and it becomes easier to attract other races to one’s own power while playing the game. In so-called ‘cooperative play’, 〈culture〉 is more important than 〈military〉.

And the third function is the development of religion. 〈Culture〉 and religion are closely related, so it converts the passive ability of 〈faith〉 and divine power, which the god=player must use directly, into an active ability that each entity uses on its own.

And the fourth function. In a sense, this is why culture is at least average.

Even if you only raise 〈culture〉, you can handle 〈mystery〉, so there is no problem with combat power.

In short, the world of Elguano was quite effectively defending against the fierce attacks of the dessert legion.

“Everyone, fire! Those crazy abominations are powerless against spells!”

A heroic entity. When the iguana human trained as a commander shouted, they shot different forms of light and evaporated the incoming candy army. Although they were completely exhausted, they succeeded in exterminating hundreds of insane candies.

“These guys multiply into hundreds even if there’s only one! All spellcasters must step forward with the resolve to die today and exterminate the abominations!”

There are so many types of mysteries. In [The Fantasy Creator] that Bean played, there were more than ten mysteries even in the compressed version for the game, and if you expand the scope to the entire dimension, it increases to the point where distinguishing them individually becomes meaningless…

In short, there are 〈mysteries〉 that can be used solely with 〈charm〉.

A typical example is spells. Spells are used with 〈charm〉. 〈Charm〉 is not just about good looks, but a composite score that reflects presence, spirit, aura, etc.

The advantage is that once awakened, it can be used and trained freely like a part of the body, becoming a combat-ready force immediately.

The disadvantage is that awakening cannot be achieved by desire or effort and relies 100% on talent.

However, high 〈culture〉 increases the 〈charm〉 of the born entities, and if you raise it in parallel with 〈mystery〉 and choose traits, it is possible for all born children to have potential spell talent.

Of course, the world of Elguano had not reached that level.

However, children with spell talent were born at a very high frequency, and since the range of what spells refer to is so wide, warriors who fight with their bodies are spellcasters, archers who shoot from afar are spellcasters, and even wizards who use magic to shoot lightning can fall into the spellcaster category. If you use 〈charm〉 to cast a spell, you are a spellcaster.

As a result, the puddings, which had almost no magic resistance, all collapsed just by being hit by magic waves shot from afar.

“It’s done, we did it. We successfully exterminated all the abominations that appeared in this dimensional gate!”

Another advantage of spells is that they are quite powerful even when newly awakened.

When their legendary entity, Shikadoz, crossed dimensions and devastated the opposing dimension with powerful spells, the remaining ones struggled daily to deal with the dimensional gates and the pouring abominations (man-eating candies), but they managed to conduct a decent defense.

It was the same when the enemy sent out different types of abominations.

Giant camels that burst human bodies with a kick, crazy wolves that relentlessly chase and tear enemies apart, jellies that turn soil into sand when they enter the water, giant puddings that remove grass from the plains. They consistently conducted defense battles for over a year and into the second year of game time against those ridiculous abominations.

Sometimes, there were cases where defense was impossible.

“Oh, it’s the demon bird! The demon bird has appeared!”

“Oh god! Quickly, order Shikadoz to return!”

The demon bird referred to by the residents of the world of Elguano is the strongest predator, Bisyakit.

And this Bisyakit boasted truly demonic combat power.

Bisyakit was originally a giant beast in Bean’s ecosystem that endured the tentacle whip of the fairy Aphojus at the nectar spring and drank nectar.

In its childhood, it hunted numerous giant jellies and puddings near the nectar oasis, and when it became an adult with no natural enemies, it tore apart Aphojus’s tentacles and freely ate the flesh and nectar jellies on the nectar oasis, until it was killed by Yog-Tosos, controlling its population.

And now, Biin gave up on controlling the population of the top predator in the ecosystem. He opened the dimensional gate and simply threw the overflowing Bisyaquits into the opposing world.

Aphojuice became happy because it didn’t fit, Yogurtosus became happy because it didn’t waste unnecessary energy, and Bisyaquit became happy because it could eat the fragile residents of Elguano instead of fighting monsters like Yogurtosus or Aphojuice.

Instead, everyone became unhappy, but player Biin is not a human, but a demon king.

From the beginning, Bisyaquit was tuned to increase its population excessively to the point of disrupting the balance of the ecosystem, so this top predator could be stably introduced into the opposing world at a rate of about three per month.

When this monster is thrown into the opposing world, it first looks for nectar.

But isn’t it unlikely that there would be nectar in the opposing world? Then what happens is that this creature revives its childhood habits. It simply moves and eats all large creatures.

And in the world of Elguano, that usually means humans or large livestock. It also freely eats attractive shamans who are full of magic and highly appealing.

Bisyaquit is not really a monster that can even take down hero units. It’s a natural being after all.

However, at the current level of the world of Elguano, it was extremely difficult to hunt. So, the legendary unit Sikadoz had to go out and face it.

The problem is that Sikadoz, who entered the opposing world, has to open the dimensional gate and return.

Then there is no magic power left to cross back to the opposing world.

Or there is no magic power left to prevent terrorism.

Or there is no magic power left to return after preventing terrorism.

Based on that point, Biin threw Bisyaquit into the opposing world the moment Sikadoz crossed over. Thanks to the mythical trait 『Unity with the Divine』, he could perfectly detect the moment the enemy crossed over.

And sometimes, if luck was on his side, Sikadoz would fall in front of Yogurtosus, and a catastrophe would occur where Sikadoz had to open the dimensional gate and return immediately upon entering.

However, in the end, the fight itself was sluggish.

Elguano was also quite a high-ranking player. There were many shamans. And Yogurtosus could not possibly catch the dimensional traveler Sikadoz, so it was just a waste of energy chasing it meaninglessly. Even if they knew it was meaningless, they had no choice but to chase it because if they didn’t, it would continue to destroy everything in its place.

With the current nectar oasis production, it was impossible to send more than three Bisyaquits per month.

And Sikadoz thoroughly investigated Biin’s world, recklessly burning cacti instead of camels in the cactus forest, attacking nectar jelly filled from the nectar spring, and boiling freshwater lakes, effectively destroying the ecosystem with violent spells.

And soon, it will be the third year when the dimensional passage opens.

Finally, when enough time had passed for the world of Elguano to send an expeditionary force back and forth instead of just one way, the limit was reached.

Finally, ‘mutineers’ began to appear.

“Um, excuse me. My lord… When will this fight end?”

The creatures asking knew the answer. It ends when the dimensional rift opens, and Sikadoz destroys the opposing world before the ‘Bubble Tentacle Demon’ in the opposing world invades this world and sweeps everything away.

They knew that too. But… what they were asking now was not the ‘condition’ for ending.

It was the ‘time’ for ending.

They needed the certainty that they could win in a short period.

And Elguano and his fellow gods could not possibly answer that it would end soon.

That crazy guy without civilization (Sikadoz could be sure because he couldn’t find any intelligent beings no matter how much he looked around) seemed to have infinite divine power, endlessly opening dimensional gates and throwing in monstrous creatures. Every day, without rest.

And the shamans finally reached a state of exhaustion from the monsters pouring down without rest. The real fight hadn’t even started yet.

It wasn’t just that we fought a lot and got tired. There was a problem beyond just physical exhaustion.

That was the biggest drawback of the 〈Culture〉 based build and the 〈Charm〉 series mystery that Elguano focused on.

In situations where 〈Culture〉 and 〈Charm〉 are under attack, they are completely powerless.

Of course, that’s natural. How can you enjoy cultural life in a situation where war has broken out?

In extreme situations where giant monsters are pouring in, accumulating infinite stress, how can you maintain charm, spirit, momentum, and presence?

In such a prolonged situation, 〈Politics〉 needs to be high.

But Elguano hardly raised 〈Politics〉.

Because of the advantage of 〈Culture〉 mentioned earlier. Thanks to the function of ‘increasing the happiness of the residents,’ it was easy to control his subjects even if 〈Politics〉 was not very high. Religious control of the residents could also replace it.

However, the culture, which was the foundation of all those builds, was shaking from the roots.

Now the shamans were in decline, they couldn’t maintain their sanity in the highest state of tension that lasted for three years, and the residents couldn’t live because of anxiety.

Elguano became desperate.

“This, this can’t be. This is a situation I never anticipated.”

Originally, Elguano’s side could also shake the opponent. Even more severely than what they were experiencing now.

Sure, the dimensional gates that opened every day and the monsters pouring out were threatening, but if a legendary creature that could destroy a village alone just opened a dimensional gate and appeared in the middle of the enemy camp, started shooting beams and slaughtering, no civilization would remain sane.

The problem was that the opponent had already expelled civilization from their world.

The soft and sweet creatures of the dessert desert had no thoughts even when they saw the unidentified terrorists who opened dimensional gates every day, shot beams, and ran away.

‘Hmm. This dessert desert was always such a shitty place.’ they would just pass it off.

Those who couldn’t adapt to this situation had already died, and only those who adapted succeeded in reproducing. This was the law of nature.

“What the hell is this…”

Knowing that the 〈Culture〉 centered build was weak in the long run, they made Shikadoz a 『Dimensional Traveler』 to end it early, but they never thought the opponent would be a wild place without a base, civilians, or civilization.

If you could think about it, that guy would be crazy.

Still, Elguano couldn’t lose like this, so he desperately soothed the shamans with the power of religion and trained elite soldiers who could catch Bisyakit to endure.

Anyway, the ecosystem of Bine also suffered considerable damage from Shikadoz’s terrorism. If they dragged it out like this, they could win.

And finally, they entered the dimensional passage section.

“From now on, we will cross over to the enemy’s world with elite soldiers, massacre indiscriminately, and return. Now it’s a round trip, not a one-way trip, and that guy seems to have no way to control his creations, so we can do it…”

And Elguano, who was about to cross over through the dimensional passage created in the world, couldn’t hide his dismay.

A passage opened in the sky too. That must be because the opponent had entities capable of aerial combat.

And the bubble tentacle demon, named Yog-Tosos by the creator, stuck its huge eye and a few tentacles through the small passage opened in the sky, wriggling as if it would crush the residents of your city into strawberry-flavored yogurt the moment it widened completely, endlessly staring across the world.

“You b*stard!”

If you don’t like it, you can fly into the sky, beat Yog-Tosos, and pass. Actually, you can just ignore it. There’s nothing it can do from that height, that narrow passage.

However, the passage that opened in the middle of the world will now widen every day, and the residents will have to face the dimensional rift that widens and tears every day, and the gradually growing form of Yog-Tosos and the gazing eyes beyond it.

There was no longer any room to enjoy “culture” anywhere in the world. Elguano eventually made a drastic decision.

“We need to change the system. After increasing the role of religion, we have no choice but to reorganize the system around ‘politics’ to gather forces and prepare for war.”

It’s like suddenly changing a well-functioning build, and it’s clear that the faith will hit rock bottom as it forcibly turns the residents who have been living happily into soldiers and laborers, but it was better than losing in any situation.

Anyway, if it’s the fifth opponent in the top 6.25%, the opponent is not a fool who will be defeated helplessly.

However, at this point, Elguano, who thought he should change the system and prepare for about half a year to a year before charging, faced an unforeseen situation.

A large army of monsters suddenly started pouring out from the dimensional passage they were supposed to enter.

“Huh? What? They don’t even have world civilization or intelligence?”

So, that means…

“How can they control creatures with a ‘politics’ score of zero?!”

It’s an incomprehensible situation, but even if you say that, the situation doesn’t change.

With the madly pouring dessert army’s offensive, there’s no choice but to call the exhausted and demoralized shamans and Sikadozes to somehow block it.

Elguano felt his vision gradually blur.