Chapter 15
One week has passed since the Day of Fate.
Ever since the SNS 1 post by the riajuu, my Domain has had a continuous stream of invaders.
As I was gradually running out of CP due to the overwhelming number of invaders and their combat prowess, I was driven to manipulate information and to adjust the balance moderately.
First, the information manipulation.
３２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｈｇｙｔａｙｅ
Hasn’t the number of low-ranked monsters decreased in that Kanezawa dungeon?
３５ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｋｅｄｕｆｈ
I’ve heard something like that as well. It looks like goblins suddenly appeared at the entrance.
４１ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｌｅｓｄｃｒｆ
＞３５ Srsly? We planned to challenge it tomorrow, but should we stop after hearing the rumors?
４２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｋｅｄｕｆｈ
＞４１ What’s your level?
４３ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｌｅｓｄｃｒｆ
＞４２ Of course we’re level 1.
４４ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｋｅｄｕｆｈ
Then you better stop. That is if you are no suicide candidate.
５２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｑｗｆｔｈｂｃ
＞３５ Liar. We tackled it yesterday, but only ran into some slimes and wolves.
７２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｄｆｇｈｊｋ
I’m a demon king lol. Should I solve the riddle for you? haha
７４ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｅｊｄｕｒｈｓ
Ewww, a demon king has descended, or rather, clarify it for us if you’re really a demon king. lmao.
７５ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｄｆｇｈｊｋ
The monster-respawn requires 6 hours.
That’s all I’ll tell you.
I endeavored in manipulating information through my smartphone.
By the way, the replies 32, 35, 41, 43, 44, 52, 72, 75 on the anonymous message board are all mine. I kept changing my ID using an app.
Moreover, since I regularly switched the slimes with goblins as subordinates deployed at the entrance of my Domain, there was plenty of credibility to it, too.
My submitted posts suddenly created a heated discussion, accelerating the posting rate on the anonymous message board. It was even picked up by some index sites.
An intense response battle repeatedly unfolded between those believing in the 6 hours respawn theory and those calling it a hoax.
If it’s found to be the truth, it will turn into a crucial information for humanity.
Eventually a professor of a certain university came forward and decided to carry out experiments.
The details of the experiment was to send 12 humans above level 3 into the Kanezawa dungeon – in other words, my Domain – where the rumors started from, and have them kill nothing but slimes and rats around the entrance.
After having exterminated all the slimes and rats, they will retreat, and then they will restart the invasion once more in one hour, three hours and six hours intervals.
For the sake of making the above-mentioned experiment a success, it’s necessary to inform other people to not challenge the dungeon during that time. As a method to notify many people, a call-out over the net was chosen.
The progress of the experiment will be streamed in real-time over the TV and various net channels.
◆
And so the experiment began.
50 slimes and rats in total are deployed to the entrance area of my Domain. I ordered them to charge at the humans near the entrance of the dungeon, making them go in groups of two and three, instead of attacking full force right away.
After 2 hours, all of the slimes and rats had been defeated.
After confirming that there are no monsters in the vicinity, the invaders withdrew.
After one hour, the invaders entered my Domain once more.
I had strictly ordered all my subordinates to stay away from the entrance area.
The invaders explored the entrance area for an hour and then retreated.
Two hours later, they invaded my Domain for the third time.
I deployed 10 goblins with bows and arrows near the entrance area. They welcomed the invaders with a rain of arrows.
“A-A large crowd of goblins!? Retreat! Fall baaack!”
The invaders evacuated my Domain in a hurry.
After another three hours the invaders re-entered my Domain.
I deployed slimes and rats at the entrance area. The positioned slimes and rats perished before long.
With this—the rumor of the monster’s respawn time being 6 hours was actually proven true.
Though in reality, it’s a complete hoax.
◆
The verified respawn time created various controversies.
Among them, there were many posts from people – who were very likely real Demon Kings – who saw through my hoax, saying 『What BS! lol』, but because the discussion didn’t take place only in the net, but also in talk shows and all kinds of academic facilities, their voices didn’t cause an impact.
At the end of the majority of them however, the conclusion they came to was — a blitzkrieg.
Dispatch the main force into the dungeon in waves over a short time, and capture the dungeon without wasting much time. In short, the common opinion was to subjugate the Demon King, finally releasing the inviolable Domain.
In reality, the compensation for the subordinates’ creation — CP, recovers over time.
If you put it into Demon King-like terms, subordinates are consumable goods. It possible to replenish the depleted subordinates as long as you have CP, even if it takes a long time. On the other hand, if 【Law】 — humans die, it’s the end for them. Their numbers are overwhelmingly larger, but a lost life won’t come back.
Defeating a Demon King through a blitzkrieg might be called a strategy following logic.
Do your best, humans! Please strive in the subjugation of Demon Kings for the sake of survival!
—However, leave me out of it and only subjugate the other Demon Kings.
I begin my second information manipulation.
Cleverly using different IDs, I not only post on the anonymous message board, but also write comments on influential blogs.
What I wrote is—
『What’s the point of liberating the low-level farming dungeons?』
『I’m level 1, so if all the dungeons with slimes are gone, I will be hard pressed to survive in the current world.』
『Right now we’re are the ones attacking one-sidedly, but won’t it be dangerous if the demon kings were to attack?』
『Wouldn’t it be a good idea to keep a farming dungeon, for example that Kanezawa dungeon, to use it as training ground?』
『Since you can also pick up items of good quality over there, it will be troublesome if it’s gone.』
I continued posting requests and comments to receive protection as — the dungeon with items of good quality that had been confirmed through eyewitnesses, or as the dungeon where low-ranking monsters appear — what’s commonly referred to as a 『Farm』 by humans.
Right now the world was in chaos. Rules and regulations have turned into a mere shell, and the world transformed into a place where one’s level decides one’s social standing.
However, challenging a dungeon all of a sudden is a scary situation for anyone.
As a result, a great majority of humanity was stuck at level 1.
Stirring up the anxiety of those level 1 humans, who are the majority, is my aim this time.
My continuous information activity bore fruit. The public opinion shifted towards the protection of my Domain as 『Farm』.
That’s how my Domain managed to obtain a moderate break time so that my CP doesn’t run out, moreover it lured in many low-leveled humans.
Chapter 15
One week has passed since the Day of Fate.
Ever since the SNS 1 post by the riajuu, my Domain has had a continuous stream of invaders.
As I was gradually running out of CP due to the overwhelming number of invaders and their combat prowess, I was driven to manipulate information and to adjust the balance moderately.
First, the information manipulation.
３２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｈｇｙｔａｙｅ
Hasn’t the number of low-ranked monsters decreased in that Kanezawa dungeon?
３５ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｋｅｄｕｆｈ
I’ve heard something like that as well. It looks like goblins suddenly appeared at the entrance.
４１ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｌｅｓｄｃｒｆ
＞３５ Srsly? We planned to challenge it tomorrow, but should we stop after hearing the rumors?
４２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｋｅｄｕｆｈ
＞４１ What’s your level?
４３ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｌｅｓｄｃｒｆ
＞４２ Of course we’re level 1.
４４ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｋｅｄｕｆｈ
Then you better stop. That is if you are no suicide candidate.
５２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｑｗｆｔｈｂｃ
＞３５ Liar. We tackled it yesterday, but only ran into some slimes and wolves.
７２ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｄｆｇｈｊｋ
I’m a demon king lol. Should I solve the riddle for you? haha
７４ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｅｊｄｕｒｈｓ
Ewww, a demon king has descended, or rather, clarify it for us if you’re really a demon king. lmao.
７５ Unknown Adventurer ＩＤ：ｓｄｆｇｈｊｋ
The monster-respawn requires 6 hours.
That’s all I’ll tell you.
I endeavored in manipulating information through my smartphone.
By the way, the replies 32, 35, 41, 43, 44, 52, 72, 75 on the anonymous message board are all mine. I kept changing my ID using an app.
Moreover, since I regularly switched the slimes with goblins as subordinates deployed at the entrance of my Domain, there was plenty of credibility to it, too.
My submitted posts suddenly created a heated discussion, accelerating the posting rate on the anonymous message board. It was even picked up by some index sites.
An intense response battle repeatedly unfolded between those believing in the 6 hours respawn theory and those calling it a hoax.
If it’s found to be the truth, it will turn into a crucial information for humanity.
Eventually a professor of a certain university came forward and decided to carry out experiments.
The details of the experiment was to send 12 humans above level 3 into the Kanezawa dungeon – in other words, my Domain – where the rumors started from, and have them kill nothing but slimes and rats around the entrance.
After having exterminated all the slimes and rats, they will retreat, and then they will restart the invasion once more in one hour, three hours and six hours intervals.
For the sake of making the above-mentioned experiment a success, it’s necessary to inform other people to not challenge the dungeon during that time. As a method to notify many people, a call-out over the net was chosen.
The progress of the experiment will be streamed in real-time over the TV and various net channels.
◆
And so the experiment began.
50 slimes and rats in total are deployed to the entrance area of my Domain. I ordered them to charge at the humans near the entrance of the dungeon, making them go in groups of two and three, instead of attacking full force right away.
After 2 hours, all of the slimes and rats had been defeated.
After confirming that there are no monsters in the vicinity, the invaders withdrew.
After one hour, the invaders entered my Domain once more.
I had strictly ordered all my subordinates to stay away from the entrance area.
The invaders explored the entrance area for an hour and then retreated.
Two hours later, they invaded my Domain for the third time.
I deployed 10 goblins with bows and arrows near the entrance area. They welcomed the invaders with a rain of arrows.
“A-A large crowd of goblins!? Retreat! Fall baaack!”
The invaders evacuated my Domain in a hurry.
After another three hours the invaders re-entered my Domain.
I deployed slimes and rats at the entrance area. The positioned slimes and rats perished before long.
With this—the rumor of the monster’s respawn time being 6 hours was actually proven true.
Though in reality, it’s a complete hoax.
◆
The verified respawn time created various controversies.
Among them, there were many posts from people – who were very likely real Demon Kings – who saw through my hoax, saying 『What BS! lol』, but because the discussion didn’t take place only in the net, but also in talk shows and all kinds of academic facilities, their voices didn’t cause an impact.
At the end of the majority of them however, the conclusion they came to was — a blitzkrieg.
Dispatch the main force into the dungeon in waves over a short time, and capture the dungeon without wasting much time. In short, the common opinion was to subjugate the Demon King, finally releasing the inviolable Domain.
In reality, the compensation for the subordinates’ creation — CP, recovers over time.
If you put it into Demon King-like terms, subordinates are consumable goods. It possible to replenish the depleted subordinates as long as you have CP, even if it takes a long time. On the other hand, if 【Law】 — humans die, it’s the end for them. Their numbers are overwhelmingly larger, but a lost life won’t come back.
Defeating a Demon King through a blitzkrieg might be called a strategy following logic.
Do your best, humans! Please strive in the subjugation of Demon Kings for the sake of survival!
—However, leave me out of it and only subjugate the other Demon Kings.
I begin my second information manipulation.
Cleverly using different IDs, I not only post on the anonymous message board, but also write comments on influential blogs.
What I wrote is—
『What’s the point of liberating the low-level farming dungeons?』
『I’m level 1, so if all the dungeons with slimes are gone, I will be hard pressed to survive in the current world.』
『Right now we’re are the ones attacking one-sidedly, but won’t it be dangerous if the demon kings were to attack?』
『Wouldn’t it be a good idea to keep a farming dungeon, for example that Kanezawa dungeon, to use it as training ground?』
『Since you can also pick up items of good quality over there, it will be troublesome if it’s gone.』
I continued posting requests and comments to receive protection as — the dungeon with items of good quality that had been confirmed through eyewitnesses, or as the dungeon where low-ranking monsters appear — what’s commonly referred to as a 『Farm』 by humans.
Right now the world was in chaos. Rules and regulations have turned into a mere shell, and the world transformed into a place where one’s level decides one’s social standing.
However, challenging a dungeon all of a sudden is a scary situation for anyone.
As a result, a great majority of humanity was stuck at level 1.
Stirring up the anxiety of those level 1 humans, who are the majority, is my aim this time.
My continuous information activity bore fruit. The public opinion shifted towards the protection of my Domain as 『Farm』.
That’s how my Domain managed to obtain a moderate break time so that my CP doesn’t run out, moreover it lured in many low-leveled humans.
