As selfish as it is, I don’t really care what happens to the world once we achieve our goal.
All that matters is the end result.
“On the other hand, if you don’t choose our approach… If you choose to side with Dustin and the Word of God…these sacrifices won’t happen. Life will continue as it is now…at least, I think so.”
I corrected myself at the last minute.
Because I have no idea what Dustin and his people are planning to do from here on.
“To be honest with you, I don’t know what Dustin and the others are thinking. But based on what was said during the world quest, I’m guessing he’s got something up his sleeve.”
Otherwise, they wouldn’t be opposing us like this and offering the options of saving people or saving a god.
There’s no proof that the depleted souls of humanity would be saved if they just keep up the status quo and go on saving energy.
So the implication that abandoning the goddess will somehow save humanity probably means that they’ve got some kind of plan, too.
“I don’t know what that plan might be. So I can’t tell you the positives and negatives from their perspective. For all I know, they might even have some groundbreaking plan that would get the world out of this mess with far fewer sacrifices than our plan. But since we were given the choice of either saving a god or saving all people, it’s safe to assume that their plan doesn’t favor Lady Sariel. So there’s no point.”
Lady Sariel is my top priority.
“I will save Lady Sariel, no matter the cost. That’s what I’ve been striving for all this time. So I have no intention of changing course now.”
I’m going to see this through, even if I have to sacrifice more than half of humanity to do it.
“Now, that should be enough for you to understand our position. Next we’ll go over the rules again, and discuss the conditions for our victory.”
I think my explanation has made my stance clear to the audience.
“Firstly, as I’ve been saying this whole time, our goal is to destroy the system. Let’s assume their goal is to stop us.”
It’s possible there’s more to the other side’s goal than just that, but there’s no point in worrying about it when we have no way of knowing.
All we can do is aim to achieve our goals.
“And as it happens, the destruction of the system is already underway.”
The audience murmurs in surprise at that.
I wave a hand to calm them down and continue.
“That doesn’t mean it’s going to be destroyed any minute now, though. A job that big can’t be accomplished in such a short span of time. For reference, it’s sort of like demolishing a huge building, you know?”
It takes time to properly destroy a structure that big.
We’ve had to slowly dismantle the giant conjuring known as the system while saving up energy to put into restoring the planet.
It’s not the kind of thing you can just blow up with a controlled explosion. It takes time.
“Naturally, the other side is going to try and stop us. So we need to focus on defense until the system’s destruction is complete.”
Basically, we’re on defense, and they’re on offense.
“In fact, they’re already in the process of trying…”
White and Gülie’s battle is already underway, for one thing.
I’m sure Dustin is already hard at work behind the scenes, too.
“Like they announced in the world quest, the god of black and the god of white have already begun their battle. By the way, the god of white is on our side. Oh, and even though it’s begun, it’s not gonna end right away any more than the destruction of the system. So don’t freak out.”
A battle between gods is one of attrition.
It’ll take a pretty long time before a winner is decided.
Especially in the case of White and Gülie.
White has got ridiculous survival abilities, yet her attacks are on the weak side for a god.
She’s the type to stubbornly stay alive and slowly chip away at her opponent.
I don’t know what Gülie’s power is like exactly, but I just know White won’t go down without a fight.
First of all, she’s so tough that I had to give up on destroying her even before she became a god.
“They’re probably fighting in an alternate dimension, so we can’t interfere with their battle directly.”
Not that any of us could probably do much to affect a battle between gods anyway.
They’re on another level entirely.
“But the world quest has given us a means of indirectly affecting the battle.”
Namely, by praying.
You can pray to one of the gods and send power to them.
I imagine the power from each individual prayer is quite small.
But if it comes from every living person in this world, it’ll add up to a lot.
Every vote counts, or something like that.
As a result, even the most powerless people now have a means of affecting the outcome in a way that matters.
In other words, all of mankind can participate in this fight.
“To put it bluntly, the outcome of this battle is now directly linked to which side emerges victorious.”
Both White and Gülie are too far apart from anyone else in terms of power.
They’re each strong enough to wipe out the other’s army of followers all on their own.
At my strongest, I might’ve been able to at least put up a decent fight against Gülie… Not so much in my current state, though.
On top of that, White is the one in charge of destroying the system.