The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion

Chapter 49. Main Plan, Sub Plan 2

The proud Marquis of Sesaisa began to speak as if he were very proud.

【Hoo hoo. Bean. Your idea was brilliant. Connecting the spirit world and the territory with the flow created by meat.】

“Uh. Hmm.”

【But then, there’s no need to connect it with the flow of primitive, weak, small, inferior meat! I couldn’t kill the meat I was raising, so I evolved the defeated species, enlarged their brains, and created a circuit connecting their brains and nerves.】

“If you make it in that form, it won’t be alive.”

【Lament! There was such a trivial problem. But fortunately, there is a mystery that raises the dead meat of the opponent! And by applying the amazing meat manipulation technique you showed me, I was able to create a huge circuit that self-propagates and extends while predating!】

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This guy’s ideas are really crazy, probably because he’s not originally a living creature. I know brains are efficient, but I never imagined raising living things to cultivate brains and nerves and connecting them with necromancy.

【Compared to yours, the efficiency and maintenance cost are lower, but the performance of connecting the spirit world and the territory is several times better. In that respect, yours is truly an amazing technique. Truly unparalleled when it comes to meat.】

“Thanks for the compliment. It’s a technique I can’t imitate.”

【Thank you! Now, as always, please consult. My main body, which has crossed over to your world, is having a hard time. I didn’t expect you to destroy the spiritual structures like that. But the existence called [Shuk-Rimuras] is wonderful.】

This doesn’t matter. I have to do my job.

The world of Sesaisa was always a trashy ecosystem.

I look at it from an ecological perspective, but this guy always looks at it from the perspective of ‘flow’ and ‘spiritual flow’, so he doesn’t care about the structure of the terrain at all, and only diligently connects natural magical terrains, which makes the ecosystem efficiency terribly bad.

“Editing the terrain a bit.”

【Do not touch the spiritual realm.】

“Damn it. The spiritual realm is linked to the terrain.”

【Still, it can’t be helped. For the ideals of Sesaisa, it is inevitable.】

What a strange expression.

“Do you have a grand plan?”

【Of course. Doesn’t everyone have a victory plan? It’s a pity! I know you’re ignorant about mysteries, but even so, I can’t share my ultimate dream plan with you. Unless you fully cooperate with me.】

“Huh? What? Are you thinking of cooperating with me?”

Sesaisa, in its giant elephant avatar form, asked as if it were obvious.

【Honestly, I want to continue cooperating with you. We’ve been winning so far, but how do we know we’ll survive the next battle?】

“That’s true.”

【In that sense, cooperation with you, who perfectly complements what I lack, would bring quite impressive results. However, it’s impossible to merge the worlds right now.】

That’s true. The Dessert Legion is not compatible with other ecosystems.

Even if I want to cooperate with another world, I can’t control all my creatures, so I can’t accept surrender even if I want to, and I can’t surrender even if I want to.

Even if I want to cooperate with Sesaisa’s world right now, the Dessert Legion and those elephants can’t possibly merge, so it wouldn’t be efficient at all.

【But, from what you’re saying, it seems you don’t want to cooperate.】

“Personally, I want to win alone.”

【Hmm. Why?】

Huh? Why?

As I paused to answer, Sesaisa waited for a moment as if it had asked a strange question, then continued.

【In short, I, Sesaisa, have a dream. If I can’t become a true god, I want to become an emperor in my homeland with the knowledge I gained here.】

“Is your homeland a caste system?”

【Caste system? What’s that? Wait, does your world not have classes? To the point where you have to name a system with classes?】

“Well, there are implicit ones, but not institutionalized.”

【Be astonished! Amazing. How can there be no classes?】

“In my world, there’s no magic. No matter how strong someone is, they’re inferior to someone with power. If there were magic, it might be different. Anyway, in our world, in principle, anyone with power and wealth had a high status.”

Then Sesaisa said something unexpected.

【Well? In my world, there was almost no meat, but still, status was divided by the size of power.】

…Huh?

“What does that have to do with having no living creatures?”

【Huh?】

Sesaisa looked at me, seemingly realizing something, and explained.

【Ah. I see. So, there was no mystery at all in your world?】

“Yeah. At least as far as I know.”

【Marvelous! So that’s why you know so much about meat? Hmm. It’s not really a great knowledge, but to explain, you need meat for a powerful flow to reside.】

“Huh?”

So, you can’t use powerful magic without a living being?

【Isn’t that obvious? What did I explain last time? ‘The flow of the spiritual realm is fluid and not easily fixed.’ I said. The same goes for spirits made only of flow, and those residing in mediums like stone or water are better off but still poor.

But meat, with organs like the brain, creates a point somewhere between the material world and the spiritual realm. As a result, it can create a stable and clear flow in the form of matter.】

“Huh.”

【In this world of Sesaisa, there was so little meat that most beings made only of flow could never obtain even a small piece of meat in their lifetime. Sesaisa, being a marquis, used a fairly decent body of meat, but unfortunately, it was still more insignificant than the most insignificant meat in this world. That’s why I like my species. Big, strong meat.】

What? So, the word “meat” wasn’t derogatory? They just call living beings made of meat that because they are rare in their world?

That made me suddenly remember something.

In the game, there was no civilization where the main plan didn’t work.

In other words, even in the late game, where they dragged around magic-science space battleships and did dimensional travel, there were still farms.

They greatly increased the efficiency of farmland, fully automated it, or created highly efficient crops through the fusion with magic, but there were still farms.

This is common sense. There was technology to make food in factories on Earth, but the efficiency of living beings was hard to match with factory efficiency.

Robots capable of precise movements and computers with ultra-high-speed calculation abilities were certainly better in performance than humans, but their production and maintenance costs were much higher than humans. So, no matter how advanced science became, crops were still grown on farmland. At least within level 30?

But, the question I had when I played the game was why there was no ‘perfect magical civilization.’ At first, I thought it was for balance. If there was a pure spirit civilization that didn’t eat, they couldn’t compete with biological civilizations.

But when I played, even if I started with pure magical beings, like a spirit civilization, in the mid-game, they ended up having biological bodies? Even if they started with elements, they ultimately became living beings.

Thinking about it, life wasn’t different. A life form with ‘mystery’ was superior to just a life form. Ultimately, life forms were meant to use magic.

I thought this was just a fantasy game concept, but now that I think about it, beings at the extremes of matter and flow were advancing towards a middle point from opposite sides.

“Ah. Wait. Sesaisa.”

【Hmm?】

“I’ll share what I just realized with you, so if you have any ideas, let me know.”

So I explained my hypothesis about the correlation between life and magic that I just thought of. Sesaisa got excited.

【Oh! I see! I hadn’t thought of that. So, meat can’t become a great being without mystery and flow?】

“Probably.”

【If you, the greatest meat expert, and I, the greatest mystery expert, cooperate, we might create something amazing. Like a way to permanently grant flow to a life form.】

“Huh?”

【What’s wrong?】

Why, you ask. Because as soon as I heard those words, the face of the dinosaur sage who taught me the inherited magic of Caramelize (Yosu Technique) flashed before my eyes.

So, from that perspective, does that mean Mihun has the talent to create the perfect midpoint between life and magic? But he lacks knowledge about the ecosystem and the spiritual realm.

“I know a player who can do that without knowledge of the ecosystem and the spiritual realm.”

【Praise! Can you introduce me?】

“Well, if you become too strong, it might be a problem, but it might be possible with a reasonable price…”

【A reasonable price. This Sesaisa is a great scholar proficient in general mysticism, the spiritual realm, the spiritual land, and the external structure and magic series mysteries. Do you need anything?】

It seems Mihun and Sesaisa have different directions. Mihun naturally raised the level of the land, while Sesaisa is the type to raise the values of 〈Faith〉 and 〈Mystery〉 through auxiliary structures called the spiritual realm.

“Ah, I see. Sesaisa.”

【What is it?】

“It seems like a pretty important issue to me, but can you tell me what those ‘pure flow spirits’ live on?”

【Of course, it’s the flow. But, to be precise, it’s a question of ‘what’ flow they consume and by what principle they ingest it, right?】

Yes. Even when I played the game, it was a weakness. To starve civilizations close to spirits, I need to know about such ‘magical ecosystems.’

【Alright. It’s not great knowledge, so I’ll explain it in detail. There are various kinds of flows…】

I carefully listened to the dirty difficult explanation. To fully construct the main plan. To obtain a way to truly starve all opponents.

【So, general spirits are divided into at least seven types…】

Really, such a dirty and complicated explanation, but I listen. I grit my teeth and listen.

While editing the ecosystem and learning hard, it was time to move away from the ecosystem and organize the city part built by Sesaisa’s elephants. After all, livestock can be raised in cities and villages.

But there was something that shouldn’t be there.

“Hey. Sesaisa. Are those the species you conquered and enslaved?”

【Ah, no. During the last disaster period, I suffered too much, so I found someone in the community doing consulting business like you. That person had no knowledge of the spiritual realm like you, so we exchanged knowledge. They also built the meat city’s buildings.】

I had a strange thought when I saw the ‘hermit crab’ species building the elephants’ houses.

I think I saw that in Mihun’s world too. Didn’t they say it was the helper’s species or something?

So, are they experts in 〈Industry〉 and urban planning? They are building houses and making tools here and there. The species with the hermit crab appearance was too distinctive to miss.

Hmm… Well, but I guess I won’t be involved with them. I’m not going to build a city, nor will I operate such a large-scale factory.

“It seems the spiritual realm of my world is almost complete. This consultation ends here. I’ll introduce you right away.”

【As always, it was a good deal. Bine. I’m curious about that great expert.】

“A bit of a unique person, but… well.”

It’s impossible to deceive in a deal. I pass on information about Mihun.

The knowledge Sesaisa is teaching my avatar in the original ecosystem is being recorded step by step. Now, even without Sesaisa’s help, I can roughly repair the spiritual realm.

But the same goes for Sesaisa. Overall, it’s a mess, but at least he understands the ecosystem.

In the end, we won’t be able to extract the core knowledge from the other side, and at some point, we will either fully cooperate or go to war. Ultimately, that is.

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“Mr. Bine. Do you not want to kill Mr. Sesaisa?”

“I don’t know what that guy thinks.”

I don’t consider him a friend. I think of him as a business partner. Both he and I only think about exploiting each other.

Without distinguishing between ‘good intelligences’ and ‘bad intelligences’, I dislike the entire category of ‘intelligences’. That’s why I dislike Sesaisa. In the end, he’s not a living being, but he has the bad traits of an intelligence.

“But?”

I’m no different. I just think that way.

Although the topic was glossed over, I couldn’t answer why I had to win the game alone.

And if I drop out midway, what will I do? What will I do, left alone in a world where all intelligences have been killed?

──And my consciousness returns to my original ecosystem. It’s time to prepare for the seventh collision of the ‘Minor Round’, which will be a major turning point.