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Click, click.

I changed the number by 1 and repeated meaningless mouse clicks.

[Character / Jinor’s Message]

[Alliance / Serpina Army / 36 months / Dowry: Gold 2558]

[executive character / monarch]

[I know what the monarch wants, but I don’t think he will be able to achieve what he wants.]

Click.

[Character / Jinor’s Message]

[Alliance / Serpina Army / 36 months / Dowry: Gold 2557]

[executive character / monarch]

[I know what the monarch wants, but I don’t think he will be able to achieve what he wants.]

Click.

[Character / Jinor’s Message]

[Alliance / Serpina Army / 36 months / Dowry: Gold 2558]

[executive character / monarch]

[I know what the monarch wants, but I don’t think he will be able to achieve what he wants.]

‘Oh, really!’

The remaining money in my hand is 2,558 won.

I had to somehow use this to form an alliance with the Serpina Army, the current strongest nation.

No, if they didn’t do it, the mainland would almost certainly be invaded on the next turn, and the game would be over.

This game, [Garland Eternity Saga], was a classic game that came out more than twenty years ago.

It was a land-grabbing game that was way out of fashion by today’s standards, and its goal was to destroy the enemy’s castle and unify the virtual fantasy continent [Garand Continent].

It’s a turn-based battle, but it doesn’t have a lot of depth, and it’s not so boring that it’s just an ordinary game.

Still, I quite like this game because it brings back memories from my childhood, so it was a game that I tried to unify at least once a quarter.

There were various monarchs on this continent, but my favorite play was definitely the [randomly generated monarch] play.

I’ve already played all of the named monarchs that can be selected in the game once, and I’m already sick of them because I increased the difficulty level and cleared them all.

Of course, the game itself is not particularly based on actual history, and the monarchs had subtly different lifespans in each game and received strangely different compensation values in various situations each time, so the same monarch was not always unified, so it was just Even if you choose a named monarch, it feels like you are playing a quite different game, so it is a national rule not to play the randomly generated monarch unless you are someone who plays this game quite hard.

For someone like me who poured 10,000 hours into this game, there was no way to feel any fun or enjoyment other than playing random monarchs.

Anyway, to sum up the situation now-

The army led by the random monarch I chose, [Random Lord 5338], happened to respawn right next to Serpina, the most vicious and warlike tyrant in the game.

Serpina is a woman who inherited the blood of Jerome von Eyngart, the last emperor of the unified empire before the era of war, and was close to the last boss who would unify the game in about 67 out of 10 rounds.

The period of CPU invasion in this game began after one year of in-game time had passed since the game was started.

3 months per turn. So, if I can’t form an alliance with Serpina’s army within 4 turns, it’s over for me.

Even so, there was no need to give up already.

As it is a classic game that was released more than 20 years ago, the weak point was that the game did not have that much depth.

Moreover, there was a reason not to give up.

The strategist who is currently giving me advice, that is, Jinor, our military strategist, has an intelligence of 99.

This was a very good number. No, it was safe to say that it was actually the highest number.

Characters with 100 intelligence did not exist unless they used cheats, except for the named character [Eleanoa], whose life is almost always short-lived.

In this game, the advice given by a person with 100 Intelligence is 100% correct.

99% of the advice comes from someone with 99 intelligence.

Even if it was 99%, it was actually 100%, so it was trustworthy enough.

Moreover, not only the constable but also the surrounding countries, excluding Serpina County, were quite good.

A-Chers was behind me, who was weak in the beginning but later showed great potential as a talent pool.

The best time to absorb the talents of Acious County was by far the moment the game started.

In other words, just by successfully forming an alliance with the Serpina army, winning the war against the Aishous army, and absorbing talent, he could lead the game stably enough to not feel like he was a random monarch.

Maybe a speed run of random monarch starting would have been possible.

Compared to today’s gacha games –

This means that the rerolling process is successful in all aspects except the starting position.

So you can’t give up.

My current situation was one where Jinor, who had INT of 99, was telling me, ‘You cannot ally with Serpina’s army.’

So why am I so foolishly changing the value of gold I am offering as a tribute for an alliance by 1?

That’s because if you keep working hard like this, one day you will say, “There is a possibility.”

In other words, it was a kind of trick play.

What mechanism makes this kind of trick play possible? What is the basis?

I don’t know anything about that.

It’s just a strategy post that collects tips for this game in the past. [If you keep repeating it, sometimes the mantra will change, and this is your chance! I just saw it written, “If you need to make a difficult suggestion, use it.”

Programming as it is an old game? Problem with? I don’t even know it’s there. Anyway, I don’t know.

All I know is-

No matter how absurd a proposal may be, there exists at least once a [God moment] when it is accepted.

3800 gold is the entire property currently owned by our military.

Of course, Serpina is the type of person who will never give you an alliance unless you give her a treasure that increases your strength, so it would be impossible to form an alliance with her with just this amount of gold –

I was confident that if I kept repeating this [trick play], it would definitely work at least once.

Because the big data in my head accumulated over 10,000 hours of playing said so.

If things continued like this anyway, I was destined to be trampled by Serpina’s army, so there was nothing else to do.

‘Please do better, please do more!’

How many minutes, no, how many hours did I spend clicking like that?

I opened YouTube on my phone and watched it, while on my computer I kept clicking the mouse repeatedly.

And finally.

[Character / Jinor’s Message]

[Alliance / Serpina Army / 36 months / Dowry: Gold 2556]

[executive character / monarch]

[As the monarch shows his sincerity by visiting in person, Serpina’s heart will also be moved.]

‘It’s up!’

Because I was doing the task repeatedly while watching YouTube, I almost missed it and barely managed to avoid clicking it again.

it’s okay!

Jinor’s intelligence is 99.

That meant that his advice was 99% correct in this world.

99%! Not 90%, but a whopping 99%! Isn’t this the same as 100% in this game?

‘good. Now, while allied with the Serpina army, we will be able to somehow stop it by clearing out the nearby Aicious army, making Yuuri the general, securing the rear, and then placing soldiers on the border with the Serpina army. ‘

36 months.

12 very precious turns.

In this game where there is so much you can do in one turn, it could be said to be a fortune.

I thought about my next plan and pressed the [Send messenger] button.

and.

[Random Monarch 5338’s Reaper / Random Monarch 5338]

[Today I came to talk to Serpina in person]

[Please form a 36-month alliance with our military]

[Condition: Gold 2556]

[Serpina’s Trickster / Xena]

[Master, you must not fall for coaxing]

[Lord of Serpina County / Serpina]

[There is a limit to treating people like fools]

‘no? what?’

Why not?

Why don’t you ally?

Jinor’s intelligence is 99. What he says is 99% accurate.

but… … There was one harsh fact that was always easily overlooked.

99 was not 100.

‘Hey, Seapearl.’

One%!

The figure that stopped me was just 1%!

There was a 1% chance that the alliance would fail and be rejected.

[Random Monarch 5338’s Reaper / Random Monarch 5338]

[I won’t borrow your power]

Can not help it.

It seemed like I had to do plan B, which was to abandon the castle and run away to another province.

Of course, I will suffer huge losses in the process… … Because I didn’t want to end this game like this, with only 99 intelligence points I had acquired.

but.

A situation began to unfold in which even my small hope would soon become nothing more than a bubble.

[Lord of Serpina County / Serpina]

[Hey, is there anyone there?]

[Put this man in the dungeon]

‘???’

what?

Taking a lion captive?

No, of course this game had that feature.

However, if you imprison an envoy who has only come for diplomacy and not for war, it is not done well because of the penalty of having your reputation with other monarchs around you plummet and being at a huge disadvantage in diplomacy.

But- who is Serpina?

Isn’t he the greatest tyrant this game has ever produced?

‘under… … .’

But what… …

Even if you’re trapped in a dungeon… … what… … There must be a way, right?

If we somehow manage to escape before the invasion force arrives at our territory… …

Beep!!!

As I burned down the last happiness circuit, I heard an unpleasant 8-bit sound in my ears.

[Serpina of Serpina Army cut off the head of Random Monarch 5338, the monarch of Random Monarch 5338]

[Random Monarch 5338 The monarch of the army, Random Monarch 5338… … Close your eyes here]

[The maintenance of Random Monarch 5338 will be inherited by Jinor]

[GAME OVER]

‘… … under.’

dead.

It seems that Serpina had me executed right away after putting me in prison.

The penalty for simply imprisoning the country is enormous, making it impossible to even dream of diplomacy, and if an envoy is executed like this, no neighboring country will really want to have a proper dialogue.

But it doesn’t matter.

Because that bitch is just that kind of bitch!

‘Zinor you bastard!’

Besides, what about my army? Jinor is taking over?

I know it’s just a game, but the situation was so exquisite.

Didn’t you send that bastard to a dangerous place on purpose to kill me and take over my country?

‘Anyway, 99 intelligence is not possible because of this. ‘Your intelligence should be at least 100.’

It was my fault for believing that intelligence was 99 in the first place.

I should have just played league games again a long time ago.

I took a deep breath and pressed the mouse to get past the [Game Over] screen.

I decided to press Start again and try again, this time far away from Serpina.

but.

No matter how many times you click the mouse… … It doesn’t advance to the next screen.

‘?’

what? Has it stopped?

How many times do you repeat the mouse click?

After playing this game for 10,000 hours, a screen that I have never seen before appears.

[Character Jinor / Mantra]

[Is 99 intelligence enough?]

‘???’

what?

What does this mean?

No matter how many times I press it, it doesn’t advance to the next screen.

There’s only one thing I can press.

Below is [easy. It was a button that said, “Intellect must be at least 100.”

Beyond the feeling of not understanding this situation-

I pressed the button as if fascinated by the phrase that seemed to represent my feelings.

[??? / answer]

[It’s easy. [Intellect must be at least 100]

[Character Jinor / Mantra]

[Is that so]

And that moment.

The world began to shake.

‘This can’t be… … !’

I know. This kind of development.

You’re getting sucked into the game, right?

I remember seeing this kind of development of a worm being possessed dozens of times.

however… … why?

Why am I the only one being drawn into this old world of classic games!!!

If possible, I want to be drawn into novels or sophisticated gacha games that pretty girls are obsessed with!!!!!!!!

[Teacher Jinor / Mantra]

[I hope you give it a try]

Reading that phrase, I lost my mind.

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