<h4>Chapter 331: You and Aya Are the Same</h4>


    Trantor: Subudai11 Editor: Chrissy


    "Tsk, this makes me uneasy."


    Stepping on the glitteringdder, Wang Lu could not help butment as he looked back at the light of the exit.


    After passing through the maze of the second pass, the team proceeded to the third pass. In this road of champions trial, between each pass, there was a long shiningdder. Wang Lu initially had suspected that the Holy Light Religion people wouldn’t have been able to hold themselves back from interfering, however, even until the end, they didn’t meet that expected interference. It was as if Holy Light Religion ignored Wang Lu’s achievement in going through the two passes.


    Although without people interfering meant that his strategy became smoother in its implementation, Wang Lu always felt a bit uneasy.


    And at this time, his teammate with the most amazing eyesight, Liu Li, has seen the end of the scenery and happily said, "I see the stone gate. There’s a text written on it! It’s the ancientnguage of Western Continent. It should read as… military strategy?"


    Wang Lu was surprised. "You actually know the ancientnguage of Western Continent?"


    Liu Li foolishlyughed and said, "A few days ago, Aya gave me a dictionary of the ancientnguage. I have memorized them all!"


    "Good, your brain power is indeed the strongest." Wang Lumented and at the same time saw the scenery at the end of the path. Ahead of them was a gray stone gate, and indeed, there was a simple and unsophisticated handwriting of the words ‘military strategy’.


    "Military strategy… Does that mean the main point of the test is to show the military strategy?"


    While saying that, Wang Lu stepped on thest step of thedder, and then formally stepped on the area in front of the stone gate. As soon as his voice fell, a dull sounding voice rang in front of them.


    "That’s right, the main point of this pass is to test your military strategy."


    With that, a wave-like ripple appeared on the surface of the stone gate.


    Wang Lu smiled. "Did you also lose the king’s treasure and was punished here to guard the gate?"


    That stone gate said, "Me? I lost a bet to the Golden King, and since I can’t pay the gambling bet, I can onlye here to ept the punishment."


    Although this stone gate has a dull sound, his character was more lively than the first stone gate, very much a talker.


    "I once was a tribal leader,mander of a powerful army that conquered arge piece of territory through numerous victories. Because of these victories, I also won the title of military god. But then came Golden King, whose kingdom and army was far superior than that of mine. I know that I’m not his opponent in a head-on battle, so I made a bet with him. We would have a decisive battle using an army of the same size. If I win, his army would not cross my border forever. If I lose, I would surrender on the spot and be at his mercy. Relying on my ability tomand the army, I was sure that I would win if the size of the army of the Golden King was as the same as me… Unfortunately, at the end of the war, I regretfully lost to him and had to surrender. At that time, I heard that Golden King was cruel and heartless, so I thought I would end up dead. But then he said that, as a bastard, my military ability is really rare, so it would be a waste to just kill me. Upon hearing this, I felt that I was given a hope of survival, so I hurriedly expressed my wish to serve him, be his weapon to conquer his enemy. In any case, although I can’t beat Golden King, I can still win against other people. But then Golden King sneered and said that if I could find an enemy worthy of him to subjugate, I could work for him. But, at that time, I knew that my tribe was the only one on the continent who had not surrendered to him."


    Upon hearing this, other people didn’t have much reaction. But, Aya actually asked in surprise, "Thest tribe conquered by the Golden King, you’re the barbarian military god Tannu!"


    "Oh, I can’t believe someone actually remembers my name!" The stone gate Tannu was very happy. "Hahaha, sure enough, the longer you live, the easier for you to encounter surprises. When I said I was willing to offer him my skill, Golden King said there was no more opponent on the continent worthy to be subjugated by him, so no matter how high my ability was, it was still useless. Therefore, he put me in his Treasure House to guard the pass for him. Although it is a punishment, but by letting me take the shape of a stone gate so that I don’t die for thousands of years, I think it’s more like a reward from the Golden King, hahaha!"


    "Well then, let’s get back to the main topic." Tannu stopped smiling and seriously said, "This pass will test your military strategy ability. To pass this test, you must defeat the opponent bymanding the army that will be provided to you by me. Very simple, right?"


    Wang Lu asked, "Very simple? Aren’t you the one who would be our opponent?"


    Tannuughed and said, "Of course it’s me, otherwise, who else? But don’t worry, I’m not a bully here. The army that I will bring is not many, just 400 golden guardians, 30 golden warlocks, and 8 regimentmanders. And me."


    "Then how many is our army?"


    "That depends on you," Tannu said. Then the surface of the stone gate rippled, which then presented a form.


    Wang Lu identified the form as a handwriting and somewhat said in surprise, "Golden Guardian, 10 logistic points; Golden Warlock, 20 logistic points; Regimentmander, 50 logistic points. In addition, there are archers, chariots, cavalries, each with different logistic points… Do you want to assign us logistic points and let us set our own army ording to this?"


    Tannu said, "Correct. The core of the army is logistic and supplies. Strong logistic capacity can support huge military operation."


    Wang Lu nodded. "This design is reasonable. In simple terms, this is simr to a poption limit. You have 400 Golden Guardians, 30 Warlocks, and 8 Regiment Commanders, which amount to 5000 logistic points? So how much do we have?"


    Tannu said, "It’s also up to you. Here, look."


    With that, a stone table rose in front of the stone gate. On it, there was a board with many small squares, two tokens and a few dices.


    Wang Lu took a careful look and saw that there were winding squares, one square connected to each other to form a ring. Different digits were written in most of the squares, some were painted with a single color. In addition to the token pieces and dices, there were several stacks of cards, as well as some exquisitely small building models. Upon seeing these, Wang Lu’splexion could not help but greatly change. "This, this is…"


    Tannu smiled. "When I was still alive, this is a very popr game in the whole continent. It’s called operation simtion game!"


    "Simtion your ass, this is obviously a monopoly!" Wang Lu pointed at the board. "Aren’t you supposed to buynd, collect tax, and defeat the opponent through various events and props?"


    Tannu was pleasantly surprised. "Unexpectedly, a foreigner from eastern ce actually know this game!"


    "… Forget it. I’ll just take it as a beautiful coincidence. The world is big, so there is bound to be several pain in the ass people who ended up designing such a game. In short, you want me to y monopoly with you and my logistic points will be decided by the end settlement points?"


    Tannu said, "Correct. Therefore, the number of logistic points depend on yourself. Of course, I will not be a bully, so even if you end up losing everything in this operation simtion game, I will still give you at least 5000 logistic points to ensure parity with my army. And on that basis, if you have the ability to win 20000 points within 100 rounds, then you can have ten times as many as my strength. But I doubt that you can do it! Pro tip, you have to defend yourself as hard as you can! Protect your 5000 points capital without losing it! Hahaha!"


    Apparently, this former tribal military god has a very high confidence in his ability to y the game.


    "Interesting, you even dare to show off your game ability in front of me." Wang Luughed and then walked towards the stone table. "Since you’re bent on seeking death, then I’ll give it to you."


    —


    Two hourster.


    "How-how is this possible!"


    The voice of the stone gate Tannu that was filled with shock reverberated in that narrow space.


    On the board, Wang Lu’s red selection had upied more than ny percent of the area, while Tannu’s blue was stuck in a corner, surrounded by the red. Just now, with the roll of the dices, his piecended on the red square, thus hisst line of hope disappeared.


    Wang Lu gently sighed and then rose up, and sprinkled the chips symbolizing the money on the board.


    "It’s game over on the ny-third round, and I have sessfully obtained 25000 points. Humph, unexpectedly, you, this barbarian military god, are quite tenacious. You actually hold on until the veryst."


    "This-this is impossible." Tannu’s voice trembled as he was still in the state of disbelief. As the guardian of this pass, he had been lonely for thousands of years. His only amusement was ying this game with few other gatekeepers! Ten thousand years period was enough to hone his skill on this game, however, with the passage of time, more and more gatekeepers died, thus he was unable to disy his brilliant skill in this game, feeling extremely lonely.


    More than eighty years ago, he identally met with a group of challengers from outside. At that time, Tannu was wild with joy. Therefore, he generously gave them ten attempts. Actually, he just wanted to y a few more games. However, the best result of those challengers was to keep their five thousand original points! Then, by virtue of the same army strength and a richer and more reasonable ssbination, they narrowly defeated Tannu.


    Therefore, Tannu never thought that he would lose, or even lose miserably! If he had not been a stone gate at this time, perhaps his head would blow on the spot! Luckily, he got no head.


    "What method did you use?"


    Wang Luughed. "The board game is yours, the tokens are yours, the dices are also yours, so what method can I use??" With that, he pointed at the board game and asked a question, "How do you describe my skill in this game?"


    Tannu very reluctantly said, "… Far better than me."


    Wang Lu said, "Then logically, there are only two possibilities. First, I was too strong that in this game, my skill has already reached the divine realm, and no one can defeat me. The second is, I’m not that strong, it’s you who are too weak."


    "I’m too weak?" Tannu immediately felt that he was being despised at. "Don’t go too far!"


    "Don’t go too far? It’s actually not that often I y a game simr to your operation simtion. My interest in that game is not too strong, so I’m not good at it at all. Moreover, there are a lot of different rules between your game and the one that I yed years ago, so I need time to adapt. Even so, I still managed to overwhelmingly defeat you. Is that really because I’m too strong? Speaking of which, where exactly did your confidence in ying this gamee from?"


    Tannu somewhat dejectedly said, "Before you, I haven’t been defeated for ten thousand years."


    "Then there are two possibilities. First, you are too strong; second, your opponents are too weak. If you objectively think about it, who were those that apanied you ying this game all these years? Were those masters of this game collected by Golden King from all over the continent? Or a group of ordinary people who were not interested in this game but through soft and hard tactic forced by you to y? Oh, and were thest team who came here good at ying this game?"


    "But I’ve been here for more than ten thousand years!"


    Wang Lu sighed. "If you put two men in a cell, even in one hundred thousand years, they won’t be able to conceive any child. So obviously, time is not everything. Moreover, by ying with a group of people with mediocre skill, the more you y, the more your skill will worsen. Your main skill is the military god, not ying a board game. If you put too much energy into something that is not your forte, you would be like the Knight King who made a fool of herself by obsessing in the dark art of cuisine."


    The Knight King who was obsessed in the dark art of cuisine angrily called out, "Hey!"