So far, this game hadn't even officially started. Everyone was just making "pre-battle deployments."
But Shu had already been shocked by the abstract developments a full five times.
Why five times?
Because so far, only six people had made a move! And the only one who could be called normal was Kiana at the very beginning!
What was "Premature Birth"? What was "Child Jealous of by God"? Why was there "Parasite"? And what the hell was "Entrusting an Orphan"?
At this moment, Shu only felt that his nearly 20 years of experience was like that of a rookie. He knew nothing about this world.
And in this torment, the game finally began!
[You are born. You are born in a backward and poor village. Your current identity is—a Farmer.]
Shu looked at the "Status Card" he had drawn from a thick stack of cards, and turned it over and over in disbelief.
Farmer? Really a farmer? An ordinary farmer?
There's no special mechanism, right? No special treatment, right?
After muddling through the first two initial rounds, and after triggering "Farming" twice in a row, Shu finally realized in a daze that his character's current status was really just an ordinary farmer!
Wait, then what's with his Demon King identity?
Watching the "Hero" begin his adventure, the "Evil Dragon" relying on its identity trait to ignore the "Wall of Heart" and advance towards the "Princess," the "Mage" beginning to close up, and the "Knight" also finding a "Lord" to follow...
All the characters were doing what they were supposed to be doing. Only he was still farming in the same place...
Oh no, there were two others who were also diligently providing "Food" to the field just like him.
"Shifu... when can we move out..." Li Sushang was lying weakly beside Fu Hua, resting her head on Fu Hua's lap, and asked boredly while fiddling with her hand cards.
Fu Hua smiled, patted Li Sushang's head, and then glanced at the currently clear situation on the field. "In two rounds, we should be able to set off."
The two's whispered conversation did not escape Shu's high-precision eavesdropping. After all, on the current field, only Li Sushang and Fu Hua were similar to him.
And Shu's understanding of the current situation was, if not half-understood, then it was a complete mess. The ignorant child could only watch and imitate the adults who were most similar to him.
Fu Hua and Li Sushang were obediently farming, so he was also obediently farming. Their pieces didn't move for two rounds, so he also didn't move for two rounds.
And his identity card was covered by his side, with no desire to open it at all.
"Strange... where's the Demon King?" Shu, whose heart had skipped a beat from Fu Hua's words, didn't notice Siegfried's quiet question at the same time.
"Why hasn't the Demon King shown up yet? He's not hiding, is he... playing so dirty?"
Shu had no idea what "the Demon King hiding" meant in the game of "Creation Mountain."
He also didn't know that he, who currently seemed to be penniless and only had "Food" on him, was actually the master of several surrounding blocks.
A Demon King, how could he not have a demon army to help him expand? Even if this Demon King was diligently farming at his starting point for some reason.
Farming didn't affect the demon army's secret expansion of territory for the Demon King.
Before the Demon King revealed his identity, as long as no one stepped into these occupied lands, the Demon King wouldn't even be exposed.
As for why this was a disgusting tactic?
"Wall of Heart"—before the eighteenth round, characters were not allowed to approach each other!
And the few evil dragons that could avoid this effect were even in the Demon King's faction! They were currently advancing towards the "Princess."
So who was the "Demon King"?! Before this question was solved, all the characters of the "Hero" faction who were targeting the "Demon King" could only be stalled by the hidden "Demon King."
And the "Demon King" with "Automatic Expansion" would definitely have a higher final income than the "Hero" who had to deal with the "Natural Disaster" event.
And to forcefully find the "Demon King," one would have to spend a lot of extra rounds and action points, or use specific hand cards, or perform calculations on the nearly ten thousand blocks on the field and force out the Demon King with math.
In short, it was a very disgusting way to play, which could make a game last for at least a hundred rounds.
And Shu was completely unaware of these "unspoken rules of the industry." He had chosen this way of playing completely out of caution and a strange intuition.
The first two rounds were very peaceful. Because everyone was in various corners of this large chessboard, and with the restriction of the "Wall of Heart," almost no events that Shu couldn't understand were triggered.
It was as if what was in front of him was just a somewhat abstract version of Flying Chess + Monopoly...
"The third round begins!"
However, it seemed that things began to change from this moment.
"Event occurs! Haston's Crown! Sirin! Your turn!"
"Yay!" Sirin's eyes, which had been boredly fiddling with her cards, suddenly lit up. With a wave of her small hand, she said, "Judgment! Judgment!"
"Clang!" When the pinball roulette wheel that would obviously only appear in a casino appeared, Shu's brain short-circuited again.
"I choose 13!"
"The judgment result is—16! What a pity, do you want to skip the card playing phase?"
"No!" Sirin grinded her teeth in dissatisfaction, then with a fierce expression, she "swooshed" and drew a card from her hand.
"I want to activate a skill!"
Siegfried turned around and took out a small slot machine and smashed it in front of Sirin.
As Sirin pulled the lever with anticipation, the slot machine made a cheerful sound. Amidst a series of "ding-ding-dong-dong," the slot machine finally stopped on three "HOMUs."
"Judgment successful!" Siegfried glanced at it and then loudly announced the result. "According to the judgment result, you can now attack Kiana across the area!"
"Eh eh eh?"
Hearing the exclamation from the side, Shu suddenly felt a chill run down his back.
What's going on? Why did the attacks start all of a sudden?
This time, the target of the attack was Kiana, and she was sitting right next to him... it could be said that it was a close call.
Looking at the cards in his hand again, and the targeted content on them, the little confidence that Shu had in his heart was almost instantly wiped out.
If he really became the target of an "attack," maybe his life would be over?
No, no, no, Shu, you have to think on the bright side. What if the "attack" in this game is just deducting some "HP," and it's the "attack" in a normal game?
Hmm, thinking about it this way, he suddenly felt relieved...
"I initiate a 'You Have to Do It' challenge! Kiana! Do you not like Mei at all!"
"Uh—mmm—eek—" Kiana almost twisted into a fat baby before gritting her teeth and giving a humiliated answer.
"...Yes..."
It was a f*cking personal attack!