Chapter 353: The Last Meeting Before The Universal War (2)
[After stating his opinion, Old MacDonald used the Sixth Revolver. Unfortunately, with luck normalized, he was no longer luckier than Morvane and Astraea, literally dying on the First Trigger.]
[After he was revived by Jade, Old MacDonald acted as if nothing had happened and passed the Sixth Revolver to Scarlet stoically. Knowing the principle of "if I’m not embarrassed, then everyone else is", he showed a stoic expression as if his previous bragging was merely an illusion.]
[Receiving the revolver from Old MacDonald, Scarlet stated her opinion, "I also support starting the Universal War now. Only Astraea and I are at Mid Celestial rank, but even if we were given six months, it’s too short and won’t allow us to reach Late Celestial rank."]
["Moreover, pure power rank doesn’t matter much since Astraea and my combat power are still comparable to a Late Celestial rank powerhouse’s."]
[Using the Sixth Revolver, Scarlet had average luck and only survived up to the Third Trigger.]
[Passing the Sixth Revolver to Magnus, Magnus received it while commenting, "Old MacDonald is right. We need to initiate the Universal War a few months before the bottom line of those Divine rank Wild Gods so that they wouldn’t be more sensitive to the time of the Celestial rank Wild Gods’ unsealing."]
["If we were to eliminate them now, our current combat power wouldn’t have much difference compared to six months from now. So, it’s better to do it now than later."]
[Using the Sixth Revolver, Magnus only performed at an above-average rate, managing to survive up until the Fifth Trigger.]
[Passing the revolver to his wife Cecilia, Cecilia merely nodded to support Magnus’s comment before using the revolver, resulting in her death at the Fourth Trigger.]
[Seeing that it was Bes’s turn, Bes refused to play it, "My human form is merely a spirit form and so it doesn’t have a true physical body. My main body is still in the Blood Orchard World, so I’ll have to pass."]
["Also, I basically agree with anything the Conductor decides. I’m already at Peak Celestial rank with an 81.764% Blood Sovereignty, so six months earlier or later wouldn’t change my combat power much."]
[With Bes stating his refusal, Cecilia tossed the Sixth Revolver to Jade, to which Jade caught it with ease while boasting, "Even if everyone’s luck has been normalized, there just exist people luckier than even those who are cheating."]
[To prove her boasting, Jade rapidly pulled the revolver’s trigger, clicking sounds resounding within the entertainment facility as she survived up until the Thirteenth Trigger, which caused Morvane to exclaim in surprise.]
["Fuck! Jade must be cheating! Referee, I call it bullshit!"]
[Seeing Morvane agitated, Old MacDonald chuckled, "Can it even be called lucky? Look at it from another perspective, the point of using the Sixth Revolver is to kill the target at the First Trigger."]
["In other words, for someone to use the Sixth Revolver and be unable to kill their target within six triggers must be truly unlucky."]
[Morvane snorted, "Who are you fooling, old man? You are just salty that you got shot in the first trigger."]
["True luck in this context would mean to use the Sixth Revolver and it following their user’s wishes. In other words, if someone can kill their enemy at the first trigger while surviving in the seventh when they pointed it towards themselves, then they are lucky."]
["Yet, Jade survived in the thirteenth trigger."]
[In response to Morvane’s complaints, you received the Sixth Revolver from Jade and merely shrugged, "Everyone is currently at their base luck; I’m not playing favorites here. Even amongst Terrans, Jade’s luck is one of the greatest, and it’s not exaggerated to call her the female protagonist like in those novels."]
["Moreover, the Sixth Revolver is truly random. Even without luck, it’s not impossible to determine its outcome and survive more than a hundred triggers."]
[To prove your point, you pointed the Sixth Revolver’s muzzle towards your temple and, without any hesitation, you rapidly pulled the trigger at an unusual pattern.]
[At one point, you’d pull the trigger nonstop. Yet, there were also times you’d paused for a few seconds.]
[Eventually, you managed to pull up to the One Hundred Third Trigger before it shot a bullet to kill your physical body.]
["Boundary of Life and Death!"]
[Using Absolute Boundary, your body became ethereal, currently in the boundary between the state of being alive and dead.]
[After strengthening the boundary of life, you easily ignored the rule-based death mechanism of the Sixth Revolver.]
[Your Boundary Sovereignty was the standard of a Late Celestial rank powerhouse, while the Sixth Revolver was a Late Celestial-grade artifact. But since your power was greater than a Late Celestial-grade artifact, your rule priority was greater than the Sixth Revolver.]
[The Sixth Revolver had similarities with the Death Papyrus, but the Death Papyrus was superior in rule priority. After all, while the Death Papyrus could mostly only cause physical death, it did have the feature of collecting the souls of those killed into the papyrus.]
[However, unlike the Death Papyrus, the Sixth Revolver could kill those entities who were nameless as long as they were shot with the bullet. The greatest weakness of the Death Papyrus was that it couldn’t be used against those who didn’t even possess an alias, let alone a name.]
[Because of that, you had upgraded the Sixth Revolver precisely to cover up that weakness of the Death Papyrus.]
[If you were to ever encounter someone who was nameless, using the Sixth Revolver against them would work wonders. Not to mention, unlike the Death Papyrus that required time to write the target’s name and their cause and manner of death, the Sixth Revolver could immediately be used to kill the target.]
[The only downside was that if one was unlucky, it would take them plenty of attempts to pull the trigger just so that the bullet could be shot from the Sixth Revolver.]
[But since you planned to be a Human Progenitor even in upcoming doomsday life simulations, you wouldn’t have to worry about lacking luck, especially when there’s also X-rank All Stars Aligned innate talent.]
[Seeing that you easily survived more than a hundred triggers, Morvane could barely contain his shock, "What the fuck? Truly what the fuck!"]
[Compared to Morvane, Magnus quickly realized what you did, so he asked for clarification, "Since it’s based on probability that could change each time, let me guess, you used Hint Prompt to determine if pulling the trigger would cause the bullet to shoot out of the revolver or not?"]
["This also explains the weird trigger pull pattern you did instead of just purely rapidly pulling the trigger just like what Jade did. If Jade relied on pure luck, you used intelligence to determine at what time frame the bullet would not be shot out of the revolver."]
[Hearing Magnus’s explanation, you smiled, "Clever as always, Magnus. That’s right, I indeed achieved it with Hint Prompt. After all, we only agreed to normalize each other’s luck and seal any luck-based innate talent like All Stars Aligned."]
["However, we didn’t have any agreements on preventing the usage of information-based talent."]
["If Jade had wanted to, she could have also used her X-rank Hint Inquiry innate talent to determine the time frame when the revolver’s trigger couldn’t be pulled. Of course, future sight is also possible."]
["But in this case, Jade didn’t rely on information-based abilities but purely on her luck."]
[After explaining this, you declared, "It seems I win this Russian Roulette of ours with Jade taking second place and Astraea as the third."]
[Regarding this, Morvane merely snorted in annoyance at losing, while the rest of the Zenith Train Crew wasn’t as salty as Morvane since they cared more about having fun.]
[Although Old MacDonald’s face wasn’t that good since he wouldn’t have cared if he had lost, it was truly embarrassing that he died on the First Trigger.]
[He could only console himself that if he wielded the Sixth Revolver and used it against an enemy, at least his First Trigger releasing the bullet meant that he could kill the enemy faster than you all.]
[After declaring the winner of the Russian Roulette: Zenith Train Crew Version, you announced, "Based on popular opinion, we’ll initiate the Universal War now!"]
["I’ve already discussed it with the Universe Will long before this, and the Universe Will had actually already finished preparations for the Third Major Plan since the hundredth year."]
["In other words, the Universe Will was merely waiting for us to take the initiative to unseal the Wild Gods and start the Universal War against the Celestial rank Wild Gods."]
["The Survivor assigned by the Universe Will had already let a portion of the population of each major and minor race into his train, and the Universe Will had also finished modifying his train to survive the travel beyond the void surrounding the space outside the universe."]
[Hearing your words, bloodlust flashed in Morvane’s eyes as he eagerly said, "So what are we waiting for? Let’s start the war now!"]