Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Chapter 435 - 67: The Essence of the Game, You Don’t Lose, But I’m Making a Killing

In other words, it had left the strange, empty space they were currently in.

In any case, the scene left even Lince speechless.

But Lince wasn’t the only one who was silent. Of course, the Cancer of All Machines and the Mother of All Things, both present in this space, were as well.

However, Lince didn’t really care.

Whether the God of Thousand Faces was truly insane or had some ulterior motive, Lince had learned one thing for certain.

The Cosmic Game did indeed possess capabilities similar to the True Game.

But its effectiveness in cultivating Players—and even in providing powerful feedback for the growth of its Authority Holders—couldn’t compare to the True Game at all.

Or perhaps it was because the Cosmic Game had been forced to accept the Three Gods.

In Lince’s opinion, the growth rate of the Three Gods was rather disappointing.

The Three Gods had controlled the Cosmic Game for well over sixty thousand years.

But, just as Lince had observed,

the Three Gods had only managed to break through to the Authority Level around twenty thousand years ago.

As for the Cosmic Game’s so-called "Contest for Authority"...

...it was merely an agreement the Three Gods had made among themselves when the Cosmic Game was reactivated, the contents of a contract witnessed by the game itself.

The terms of the contract were simple.

As long as the Three Gods themselves didn’t interfere directly, their Clans and affiliated factions were allowed to fight one another.

When one faction was ultimately defeated by another, the corresponding Deity’s supreme authority would be stripped, causing them to lose all power within the Cosmic Game.

If any of the Three Gods couldn’t accept defeat and intervened personally, the outcome would be the same.

The rules of the Cosmic Game would strip them of their authority directly.

In short, this "Contest for Authority" became one of the foundational rules of the Cosmic Game.

But was the Contest for Authority such an easy war to wage?

It was a three-way standoff.

No single party would stand by and watch one of the others be defeated.

After all, if one god obtained all of another’s game authority, the last one remaining would have no chance of winning.

So, over these many eons, while the Three Gods constantly had conflicts, they always ended in a truce due to the interference of the third party.

None of the Three Gods were fools, so under their maneuvering, the Cosmic Game continued to operate smoothly.

And now, Lince had been added to the mix.

Though he introduced more variables, it didn’t make much of a difference in the eyes of the Three Gods.

Adding another person to share the authority seemingly diluted the benefits for everyone.

But one mustn’t forget that Lince was bringing his own assets to the table.

With the fusion of the True Game and the Cosmic Game, the game was bound to change, and the benefits from its functions and feedback would even increase.

Therefore, the Three Gods knew that giving Lince a share of the authority wasn’t a loss at all.

In fact, they were the ones getting a great deal, gaining even more benefits they never would have had otherwise.

Since the Three Gods were no fools, they naturally knew they needed to offer Lince some compensation to lure him into their trap.

Otherwise, did they take Lince for a fool?

Therefore, after some discussion, and at the Cosmic Game’s suggestion, the Three Gods finally offered three ten-thousand-year compensation clauses that were not only reasonable but actually quite a bargain for them.

So, when Lince chose to join,

the Three Gods, far from feeling like they’d lost out, actually felt they had come out way ahead.

After all, from their perspective, they could have been even more generous with the three ten-thousand-year compensation clauses.

For instance, fifteen thousand, or even twenty thousand years.

And what about Lince?

He had accepted so eagerly?

So, to the Three Gods’ astonishment,

the smiles they gave Lince at first were like those of seasoned company veterans watching a naive college graduate on their first day.

But in reality?

Far from losing out, Lince would not only retain all his original authority from the True Game for ten thousand years, but he would also gain a quarter of the authority over the new, qualitatively transformed game post-fusion.

’Heh... who really came out ahead and who lost out? It’s hard to say!’

Lince marveled inwardly. ’It’s truly wonderful to meet three arrogant fools with such preconceived notions about "games".’