The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion - Chapter 46



Chapter 46. World Collision -Sixth-

「The World of Bine

Life LV.10: 100,832

Military LV.9: 77,382

Industry LV.7: 18,006

Technology LV.6: 4,513

Culture LV.6: 4,378

Politics LV.0: 8

Mystery LV.8: 33,829

Faith LV.8: 27,688

Total Score LV.8: 266,636」

New 〈Life〉 Excellent Trait 『Shuk-Rimuras 〈Stamina〉 Enhancement: Increases Shuk-Rimuras’ 〈Stamina〉 by 79,451.』

Shuk-Rimuras is responsible for the restoration of my ecosystem, so it must not die. Of course, there are countless beings that must not die, but this one really must not die.

So, with the level 10 trait, I took the brute-force approach of nearly quadrupling Shuk-Rimuras’ stamina. With no attack power, its life force is so high that it probably won’t die even if the entire world’s forces attack it all day.

Other than that, there were no notable changes in my ecosystem. Industry is actually close to reaching level 8, so I can acquire a new trait, but it’s not that important. The rest, such as 〈Technology〉, 〈Mystery〉, and 〈Faith〉, have all slowed in growth.

Or rather, is it fortunate that they are still growing?

Shuk-Rimuras is wandering around with the spiritual realm called Creamland and the Syrup River, messing up the flow of my world.

This can’t be good… Sesaisa is going to be really angry.

However, Sesaisa seemed to be very busy right now.

[Sesaisa: Lament! Bine. I’m sorry, but a disaster has struck me too terribly. It’s not even a disaster related to your proud ecosystem, so I can’t get any help, and I don’t have time to look at the spiritual realm of the world you’ve ruined.]

[Bine: ㅠㅠ There’s nothing I can do. Hang in there! Fighting!]

What can I do? I just wait for the upcoming sixth collision.

Fortunately, I have enough foundation to win the confrontation.

Powerful creatures, and freshwater organisms cultivated enough to destroy the enemy’s ecosystem, vicious creatures to destroy farmland, and the top-tier entities Yogo-Tosos and Shuk-Rimuras.

With this, I think we can either win or, even if we lose, we can do something close to a threat.

“Hey. Mr. Veen.”

“What is it, angel? It’s not another weird announcement, is it?”

“No, it’s not that. It’s just… as the host, I have a question.”

They wouldn’t ask why I don’t create intelligent beings. What is it?

“It seems like what you’re doing is a bit contradictory.”

“Contradictory?”

“I mean, you say there’s a limit to monster builds, and you don’t like intelligent beings. But it seems like you’re actually relying on highly intelligent entities for your victory plan? You wouldn’t say Yogo-Tosos or Shuk-Rimuras are natural creatures, right? Shuk-Rimuras is quite intelligent, even if its actions are simple.”

Ah. Is that what they’re pointing out?

But that’s an environmental issue.

“An environmental issue?”

“Of course, you know… My starting area was a desert. Even with the miraculous resource called nectar, the fact that it’s a desert doesn’t change. The other terrains that barely came out were rocky mountains and dry grasslands. It’s a terrain where there can’t be many species.”

“That’s true.”

“Even if I somehow figure out how to use magical terrains or open-pit mines, fundamentally, I received a terrain that’s too bad for the build I want to implement.

So, the monster plan, which is a kind of sub-plan, especially the plan relying on powerful upper-tier entities, has become the main one.

Anyway, the monster strategy isn’t bad in the early stages. In fact, if you only consider the early stages, it’s one of the superior builds in the game. When you’re short on ‘technology’ in the early stages, ‘life’ is a powerhouse.”

“Then do you change the build in the mid-to-late stages?”

“If I can’t attempt the main plan before round 10, you could say I’ve lost the game. It takes quite a long time for the main build to take root.

The good thing is that after round 6, there’s a drop-off point where you can get the terrain you want. It would be nice if I could pick up something suitable from the world of dropouts and modify it.”

You wouldn’t know how bewildered I was when I first received the terrain. It was fortunate that there was at least a nectar spring; if it had been a pure desert terrain, I would have seen hell.

“And I hate humans and civilization… I quite like intelligent beings that aren’t human, like elephants, dolphins, and apes. Yogo-Tosos is powerful, smart, and even develops magic on its own, but it can’t build a civilization. It’s just a single entity that can’t reproduce.”

If I hated all ‘intelligent beings,’ I wouldn’t be able to send out anything but bacteria. Even plants or sea cucumber-level creatures can learn.

And would I have cultured bacteria in a game meant to be fun? I’ve tried all sorts of bizarre things without forming a civilization.

I just hate humans. Always have.

“But don’t elephants, dolphins, and apes also do quite cruel things?”

“Do you think I wouldn’t know? Elephants are violent, dolphins are cruel, and apes wage war.”

“Then why do you show such hostility only towards humans? Dolphins and apes clearly do things like torment others for ‘fun.’ Don’t say humans are worse. Humans can be much more noble than less intelligent creatures.”

…

“Hey, angel.”

“What?”

“I think most of the problems that humans and civilizations face stem from biological factors. So, what do you think is the biggest problem with the system of civilization?”

“Well, I’m not sure.”

“Biologically speaking, the problem with civilization is this: the system of civilization advances when the intelligence of each member is high, but ironically, civilization is more stable when there are more individuals with lower intelligence.”

“……”

“To put it more simply, a system that collapses when there are too many fools is a system that doesn’t function without fools.”

Among humans, there are people with lower intelligence than even a smart gorilla. Those who are called intellectually disabled or borderline intelligent. But why do they exist evolutionarily?

From a social perspective, an overly intelligent person is actually not helpful for maintaining the system.

The moment a worker questions, ‘Why are the king/boss/landlord earning more when we are the ones working?’ and when that number exceeds a certain threshold, every system collapses.

The funnier thing is, in an equal system where workers and managers receive the same wages, these smart ones think, ‘Then I don’t have to work hard,’ and they ruin the system again.

But if there are many fools who just say, ‘Is that important? At least we get food,’ and you beat them with a stick to shut them up and make them quietly conform to the system, the system is surprisingly well maintained.

In this structure, the most ideal situation is for a small number of good smart people to take care of the many bad fools. But common sense tells us that it doesn’t always work that way, right?

Listen to the stories of those who are considered the social elite. How much they believe in superstitions, how wise the leaders elected by vote are. Whether they fall for obvious scams.

Surprisingly, the intelligence required to create a civilization is lower than the intelligence required to maintain it.

When I spent tens of thousands of hours playing games, after ‘winning’ the game, I didn’t leave the game but watched without any manipulation, and every civilization ended in a hopeless catastrophe. Even though it was a game, I couldn’t help but feel disgusted.

“In that sense, the civilization of this game, where a god exists in the form of a ‘player,’ is at least desirable. There is an entity that directly intervenes, expels fools, and maintains civilization. It seems my world didn’t have such a god, but if such a god consistently watches over, civilization might be okay.

But this is not what I want. I want a permanent nature that lasts forever without anyone watching. A nature where even if an intelligent being appears, they can never cultivate civilization.”

The angel asked back, seemingly flustered by my words.

“But according to that logic, as a god, you don’t need to adopt an anti-intellectualism build, do you? You even said it’s inefficient.”

“Ah… that. Even though I know there’s a build with the highest efficiency, I adopt an anti-intellectualism build in this world for a different reason.”

“What is it?”

I couldn’t say the next words out loud.

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But I could think, and the angel could read my thoughts, so it was naturally conveyed.

It’s pitiful.

Life is originally trash. The wild is originally miserable.

I agree with that, and I have no guilt in making my dessert desert a hellish place.

Everyone just lives desperately. To leave something of themselves. I think this is natural.

But for intelligent beings with a clear ego and intellect to be raised as soldiers in the name of God’s will, manipulated, fought, and died, and ultimately exist only to elevate their god to the position of a true god… isn’t that pitiful?

If they were game NPCs, it would be one thing, but it’s not something to do to intelligent beings who are desperately living and searching for the meaning of life.

“Well, it’s quite unexpected…”

“Because it’s hypocritical?”

“No. That’s not it. Mr. Bine is not hypocritical.”

Is this guy comforting me?

“To put it bluntly, Mr. Bine is just a bad person… To be hypocritical, you have to do good deeds first, but even if Mr. Bine has a kind heart, he ultimately turns the world into hell and kills everyone.”

That’s the way of the Demon King.

“Wow…”

「The world collision will begin soon. Only the surviving players will advance to the next round.」

Anyway, the preparations are complete.

Now, no matter what happens, there is no retreat. Come on. Who is the opponent to face the master of this great extinction? Come!!!

∞

It’s over. Wuancho thought.

『Reversal Consciousness: The morale and discipline of the army are always at rock bottom.』

In the disaster zone, their world couldn’t overcome the disaster. Was it inevitable? Although they were cooperating, the ten gods were practically in a state of civil war.

In the disaster zone, where everyone had to work together to win, they couldn’t decide ‘who would sacrifice first,’ and even the lower-ranked ones voted to take on additional disasters and shifted all the responsibility to the higher-ranked ones.

And the result is the current situation, with three unresolved disasters in a world with penalty traits.

The traits obtained as penalties are close to the worst. A trait that neutralizes the army itself, in other words, means they can never win a war.

“These trash…”

There was only one hope. If the opposing world also received penalty traits.

Then they would cooperate to merge the two worlds into one. And everyone would disembark at the disembarkation zone. There was no other way to survive.

Fortunately, everyone agreed up to that point. In fact, what could they do if they didn’t agree? The disembarkation authority was with each individual.

“Please. I hope the next opponent received a penalty… Please… If we disembark, we can still salvage about 10,000 points.”

The opponent player was ‘Bine.’

Wuancho’s vision went dark.

∞

「You have won the world collision against player ‘Wuancho’ and multiple players.」

「The player’s world expands.」

“You won easily. Congratulations.”

What is this? Why does it feel so empty?

I worked so hard to cultivate the world and prepared as much as I could, but the opponent was so weak that my preparations were meaningless… I never thought sending twenty Biscuits at once would collapse the civilization.

“This is something that can happen at this stage. But it’s not a bad thing, right?”

That’s true. Because, after all, it was like minimizing losses and gaining compensation.

The opponent surrendered, but honestly, I couldn’t accept it even if it wasn’t me, because it had a penalty trait. If I accepted the surrender, I would take on the penalty, and even if they all disembarked later, the penalty would remain with me. I had to kill them all to move forward.

“At the end of every multiple of 3, it’s a disembarkation zone. That’s all for the sixth round. Do you advance or disembark?”

“Advance.”

“Then the points you gain from victory will be doubled. Congratulations. You’ve made an enormous profit.”

The battle ended too early, so Sesaisa and Mihun were still far from having a conversation. I’m a bit curious about what kind of world they’re fighting against…

That’s that. I naturally sent my avatars to thoroughly examine the opposing world, which now had nearly 32 fragments of the god embedded in it.

The foundation of the enemy world was still a desert. Desert, mountains, hills, freshwater areas, grasslands, and magical terrain… Damn. It’s practically a dessert-less dessert desert 2.

“Still, it’s fortunate that it’s a disembarkation zone. If you find a world among the disembarked ones where you can realize the main plan.”

“Oh!”

“You startled me. What’s wrong?”

I found it. There’s a seed in the enemy world that can evolve into the main plan.

This is actually much luckier than anything else.