Chapter 219

Chapter 219

“ No, Eugene and Yuri are only twenty! They don’t have exceptional battlefield experience, and they don’t have a lot of combat experience either... Of course, Yuri is the top student in the Knight Department, but I remember your brother never even touched the children when he taught them...”

“ Did they attach a monitor to me?”

“ Just...? You seem a bit...? Um... like that?”

After watching the flustered Saint sip her tea for a while, Ivan sighed, thinking, Right, priests are usually like that.

He shook his head and replied.

“ Eugene is strong enough, and Yuri does not lose.”

“ What’s the basis for that belief?”

“ The Hero, the Demon King, and me. Eugene, Oswald, Yuri.”

At Ivan’s words, the Saint fell silent for a moment, lost in thought. Was he saying to consider the commonality among those six? They were all so different in origin, talent, appearance, and gender...

No, wait a moment. Compared to the first three, the latter three, whom she had almost forgotten due to their faint presence...

Those three were indeed the ones who were possessed last semester. And for the possessed...

“ Then, what you said about ‘the Lord’s voice’...”

“ Yes. It was probably the ability of the possessed. Just as the Hero was born with ‘power,’ that too was his strength.”

“ Then, what about the Saint Yuri?”

Yuri had only been possessed for four years, and in the body of an orphan girl, she had entered St. Jan’s University Knight Department as the top student despite the unfamiliar environment.

Since then, she had not missed the top spot in practical exams every semester, even without any special training or education. What that meant was,

“ She has a special possession advantage.”

Like Eugene who had a status window, and Oswald who had elf blood and magical talent.

After confirming that, Ivan dismissed his thoughts about Yuri. There was no need to teach her; she was immediate combat power. In any situation, she could almost perfectly substitute for his absence— a “completed power.”

Her special advantage is:

“ As long as there’s even a slight chance of victory, she does not lose.”

*

Yuri Frank. No, she was an illustrator. And she was responsible for the illustrations of a very ‘strict’ game.

She had no idea what kind of game she had been possessed into. All she usually saw was low-quality erotic game scripts; she just assumed it was something like that.

Fortunately, there were many similar things. Medieval fantasy with magic, academy, bearded men, half-squinting characters, and Kim Taeyang.

The problem was that the genre of this world was dark fantasy. Since she had never played such games, it was even harder to grasp.

But luckily, this body had a strange power. No, it had a talent. She can skillfully wield a sword she had never used in her life, and ‘fantasy university classes’ learned without ever being trained stuck into her head.

So what kind of work had she been possessed into? It was time to consult Ivan while contemplating.

“ I don’t know.”

“ No, I mean... what I’m saying is....”

“ No, I mean I don’t know the work I entered.”

“ ...Huh?”

Ivan and Yuri had a commonality. They both possessed after encountering a large number of unspecified works. Ivan had been possessed after leaving negative comments on dozens of works, while Yuri had been possessed after working as a freelance illustrator for various erotic games.

There was no way to know the original work. However...

“ There are tendencies.”

“ Tendencies?”

“ If the controlled character loses, the game ends.”

“ That varies by game....”

“ If we apply the structure of games harshly to reality, it would be like this.”

Ivan summarized Yuri’s words.

In reality, losing is directly tied to death. As he had recalled at one time, death is the most certain proof of existence. Because there’s no other choice.

As previously stated, a game is ‘interaction.’ It is a kind of play that allows the player to ‘choose’ the character’s situation in a nonlinear structure.

In other words, a situation in which one cannot ‘choose.’ A situation in which one can never make any choice again forever means a game over. Then, with somewhat extreme logical reasoning, losing means a game over.

If everyone who has been possessed in this world has a certain ‘tendency.’ If they have some ‘advantage.’

Then for Yuri, that advantage would be, not dying.

“ If it were the Great War era, they would have called you the immortal Yuri Frank.”

“ Hahaha.”

“ Thankfully, you would have had to face many dying comrades.”

“ That’s a joke. Let’s quickly move on to jokes. I feel like I’m really going to suffocate now.”

“ Right.”

Ivan nodded briefly and replied.

A game is an ‘interaction’ that resolves ‘possibility’ with ‘choice.’

Hit rate, damage probability, random encounters. No matter what, the program presents the player with quantified ‘possibilities,’ and the player continues the play through the best choices they desire.

So, in this case...

“ If there’s a possibility of victory...”

*

“ She does not lose.”

Yuri dodged the knight wielding the sword and plunged the sword deep into his chest. Murmuring the prayer she had memorized without forgetting since hearing the story of the ‘possession advantage.’

*

“ If the situation comes where you have to face dozens of knights alone, that means there’s no chance of victory.”

If she had to face the Demon King or the Seven Dragon Lords alone, or ‘overwhelmingly powerful opponents,’ there wouldn’t be any possibility of victory.

She couldn’t face a legion alone, nor could she destroy a nation by herself.

But, if she could lead them into a situation where there is a ‘possibility’...

Ivan finished speaking while looking at the Saint.

“ If given a situation where one can ‘choose’ within a ‘possibility,’ Yuri does not lose.”

That was the reason he placed Eugene and Yuri together. With their combination, they would never die in Frechenkaya.

If someone like the Seven Dragon Lords appeared, Enrique could create a ‘survivable situation.’

A large army could not invade Frechenkaya.

A small strike force could create a ‘winning chance’ if it was Eugene’s power.

That was the reason why Yuri had been deployed to Frechenkaya with at least one companion throughout all their journeys.

Yuri was Ivan’s strongest card allocated to Frechenkaya.

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