<h4>Chapter 366 Chapter 366: Hidden Conditions</h4>


    [Option 1: Idiot, you really want to go and save her! Give up!]


    [Option 2: Are you stupid? Don''t think you''re so powerful. Two fists cannot defeat four hands. The Ashen base has just begun to develop, and you cannot let it be destroyed! Give up!]


    [Option 3: Momo is a subus! How could a subus be afraid of such things? It''s possible that Momo has already had a lot of experience, and the Subus Queen is just deceiving you. There is no such thing as a virgin subus in this world. Give up!]


    [Option 4: Send troops, dere war on the five bases of Blue Dye, Stone Hammer, Aisin, etc., then march towards the Enchanted Forest, capture the Subus Queen, and rescue Lena.]


    ….


    ''Every time I think back to that moment, I still feels a bit of emotion''


    At that time, Renji''s in-game power was in thetter half of its rise, whether it was the size of the base or the construction of the army, there was still a lot of room for development before reaching the bottleneck.


    ''Although conquering the world was always my goal in the game, these other human bases would have to be attacked by my forces sooner orter.''


    ''But the most prudent n was definitely to first conserve strength and store up energy, then defeat them one by one. Eventer, when they saw the expansion of my power, there was no need for me toe to them; given the character of most base leaders, who fear death and covet life, perhaps they would take the initiative to surrender to me.''


    ''In theter stages of the game, when I upied half of the continent''s territory, the remaining base forces didn''t need me to wage war anymore. They were scrambling to join the territory of the Ashen Empire''


    ''But at that time, my topbat power was actually just Nova and Zero. Suthia, serving as a healer, was already showing signs of fatigue in the era of bases and armies.''


    ''Thebat power of the Ashen base was indeed strong, plus, having me as a "yer" perspective formand, it could be said to be invincible in battle. But at that time, the poption of the Ashen base added up to just over a hundred thousand, and the Ashen army had less than fifty thousand, of which a few thousand were logistical troops.''


    ''Inparison, the five bases I had to face –?Aisin base had about two hundred and fifty thousand people, Stonehammer a bit less, also at the hundred thousand level, but from the name, it can be seen as a fortress built on a rock basin, very easy to defend and difficult to attack.''


    ''As for the Blue Dye base, not to mention, it was the regional tyrant at that time, like a boss among the bases, with a total poption of more than half a million, and the number of troops was even half of that, shown on the panel as two hundred thousand. Although there was certainly a lot of exaggeration in that number, the gap in quantity was clear at a nce''


    The remaining two bases, although rtively weak, also had poptions at the hundred thousand level. The five basesbined, the number of troops would probably be more than ten times that of the Ashen army.


    Under such circumstances, where Ashen Base had to be the attacker with fewer numbers, you can imagine the difficulty, destined to rely on countless "rollbacks" to have a chance of sess.


    Indeed, just a chance.


    In the game "Fallen Chronicles,"?even if yers could save and rollback, it still doesn''t mean all problems could be solved. For example, with natural disasters or attacks by tainted Miasma waves, rolling back a hundred times would be useless.


    On the contrary, Renji has seen too many yers on the forums who were full of confidence when they saved their game, only to find outter that their previous decisions were wrong, leading to aplete copse, with no way to go back, ultimately turning their save file into a "dead save" and furiously criticizing the game.


    ''When ites to the choices involving Lena, choosing a less challenging option would have been eptable just to keep an extra save slot open. However, the issue is that I was limited to only one save slot in the extremely difficult situation.''


    Like with the previous choices involving the Subus, Renji dared to "identally" slip because the "consequences" of those choices were not long-term, requiring no further use of the save feature, hence no risk of overwriting.


    But this time it was different.


    Waging war against five bases would at least take a week toplete this campaign, and it was inevitable that he would need to use the save function during it. Once he used the save, it meant overwriting the previous save, which also meant that he had no chance to go back and make a different choice.


    After all the effort put into the highest difficulty of "Fallen Chronicles,"a game no one has everpleted, to have such a "heaven-sent" start, if it turned into a "dead save," it would mean all efforts were wasted. he might never encounter a startingpanion like "Suthia," an early-game war goddess, no matter how many times he restarted.


    ''But.''


    ''How should I put it?''


    ''Firstly, it''s not because Lena includes "Wanderer," "Fortune Teller," andter "Subus Princess" among her initial options, giving her several more portraits than others from the start.''


    Renji just felt that if he didn''t dare to take a risk even in a game, wouldn''t that be too much of a failure?


    The campaign took even longer than Renji had anticipated, a full half month to finally conquer, with countless attempts to find the optimal solution and repeated saving and loading.


    The risk was great, but naturally, so was the reward.


    After sessfully incorporating these five bases, the game''s progression greatly elerated, expanding the Ashen base''s power several times over and truly setting it on the path to bing the Ashen Empire.


    Moreover, a somewhat bted realization struck Renji, discovering another point.


    ''Precisely because I chose to speed up here, it indirectly caused a butterfly effect, allowing me to establish the empire before the "World Tree" was corrupted and withered by the Tainted Miasma, thanks to the Subus race knowing about the existence of the "Elven race" and having the strength to go and save them''


    ording to Lena''s diary, the biggest aid in understanding the world''s truth for the her and Miyuki was from that native World Tree.


    Although Fallen Chronicles is calcted in real-time, with all maps beingpletely random and each yer''s world being different with different characters, some "basic elements" that constitute the world are still the same. Such as the races like humans, demi-humans, Subi, machines, etc., like the Tainted Miasma, gathering ces, shelters, and bases as upgrade paths. Landmark buildings are also one of the "basic elements" that constitute the world.


    Simrly, there are the Subi''s Forest of Enchantment, the Undead''s Land of Skeletons, the Demi-Human''s Orc ins, and for the Elven race, it is the World Tree.


    Combining the true nature of the world from the diary, it wasn''t difficult for Renji to understand that each yer''s world has a "native" World Tree, serving as an incarnation of the cosmic World Tree, somewhat like a proxy server.


    However, if the yer''s "progress speed" through the game isn''t fast enough to reach the Elves and save the World Tree before the Tainted Miasma corrupts it, then even if theyter seed in defeating the Miasma and saving the world, that native World Tree would still be irreversibly lost, equivalent to aplete loss.


    Whether the World Tree exists or not, whether this "proxy server" is broken, has no impact on the "first ythrough" of the game. It''s considered a neutral building that yers can''t control and doesn''t have any special functions; the initial Renji didn''t pay much attention to it.


    But looking back now.


    Renji became clearer on why among the yers of "Fallen Chrnonicles", only he had the option to start a "second ythrough."


    It''s not only because of the highest difficulty choice, having powerful and well-backed Eclipsers like Lena and Miyuki.


    An equally important reason is the greatly "elerated" progress through the game due to Lena, which saved the World Tree.


    And subsequently, sessfully contracting Miyuki, allowing the World Tree to be cared for by a more powerful Elf and to revive and grow.


    In game terms, the state of the native World Tree is the hidden condition for unlocking the "second ythrough," an absolutely indispensable part.


    ''Thinking about it this way, my impulsive decision really reaped huge rewards.''


    ''At that time, not knowing so much about the future, just as a yer outside the screen, I was also very excited and felt it was a huge gain.''


    ''Not just because of winning battles and expanding power, but don''t forget, in the fourth option at that time, besides dering war on the five bases, there was another sentence.''


    ''Head towards the Forest of Subi, capture the Subus Queen, and save the imprisoned Lena.''


    yers are actually quite strange.


    When ying visual novels, they always want to find the story, but when ying serious games, they always look for something more tititing.


    Renji can only say, back then, he, with eyes bloodshot from staying up all night, spent half a month nning to overturn the five bases, and the allure of this final reward segment yed a significant role.