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Chapter 1960 No.577: [Excitement]

Is it scary?

Yes, it's scary.

Although Uma Musume regards the racetrack as a battlefield and running as a battle, the real battlefield often does not even have relative fairness.

The combat power of the two sides can be very different, just like one is in heaven and the other is on earth. No matter how hard you try to make up for it, you can't cover up the huge gap that has been developed outside the game, and this is exactly where the cruelty of war lies.

But the Dream Cup. Long Distance is really just a competition. The selection of contestants is not so random. Moreover, the density and number of rules are getting stronger and stronger with each generation, just to decide on a relatively fair basis that can convince everyone.

——Well-deservedly strong.

Is it true?
The price is that there are no absurd scenes that would appear on a real battlefield.

Like a warrior who has fought his way through many battles and seemed like a god descending from heaven being killed in seconds by someone passing by, or even simply being killed by a stray bullet from some new weapon... Such scenes often occur on the interstellar battlefields that the Federation has expanded to, so much so that TV dramas on war themes have been made to look like comedies.

The seriousness and heaviness of the game are no match for the absurdity of the game. The drama of this development is quite enough, but it lacks the entertainment value that a competitive game should have. Of course, if it were a bloody or cruel game where the humiliation of the loser is the main entertainment value, it might be different.

But the Dream Cup is not that kind of competition.

Here, you can see the cruelest part, that is, the loser will become the stage foil of the winner, to dance with the winner, to greet the cheers of the winner from a not-so-distant perspective...

Admittedly, this sounds like the ultimate insult.

If you don't consider that willpower training has long been a compulsory part of horse girls' training, and that the winner's stage has been a convention that horse girls have accepted since childhood, then it's probably just as cruel as it is.

But you can't help but consider it.

In fact, due to the specialized will training and the need for idol shaping, the winner's stage serves as a mental buffer for most of the failed contestants.

Because there are their fans in the audience, and there will be cheers and support for them, which can boost the spirits of those contestants a little.

Those who cannot do this have deep emotional problems and need trainers to go on to their personal storyline.

It is precisely based on such good feedback from education and living environment that you can see many relatively ideal events unfolding in this circle.

It can only be said that there are many people with goals like Chairman Akikawa in this circle. This in itself is a valuable positive cycle. It is also because of their existence that the horse racing circle has not withered despite its longevity.

However, local insect infestation is inevitable.

Otherwise, the skill trees of the three goddesses would be greatly reduced.

Is it possible to not understand the causal relationship between these two sentences?

Because the so-called red skills and the so-called obstacle system construction are based on the horse girl's condensed control of extreme emotions. And those so-called extreme emotions, in most cases with statistics, are negative emotions.

In this regard, there is even a well-known paper in the industry that "examines the rise and fall of the horse racing industry based on the fluctuations in the mastery of red skills by horse girls from generation to generation."

The reading rate is not low at all.

It is precisely based on this that the red skill is not only an important part of the skill tree of the three goddesses, but also an important part of the unique program effects on the field. On the other hand, it also acts as a manifestation of the various oppressions brought to the girls with horse ears by the environmental transformation of the entire horse racing industry over the years.

The very act of studying it forces the girls to confront and overcome the extreme emotions that come from all the pressure.

Therefore, its existence is also the mercy given by the three goddesses to the entire horse girl community.

It is a transformation path specially set up for them, so that all the oppression, all the struggle, and all the injustice can be transformed into the cornerstone of their own new strength.

Admittedly, the red skill itself as a form of debuff will inevitably attract contempt and dissatisfaction.

Common sense would naturally assume that in the field of racing, the winner should be determined by "speed", and starting from other aspects is not really "strong". There will be a lot of spectators who call it a crooked way, and there has long been resistance to the red skill-related regulations in the history of horse racing.

But the players they support often have different ideas.

This involves a phenomenon that can only be called cold knowledge rather than a secret.

In Uma Musume’s own contempt chain, the most despised thing is laziness, followed by strategy.

The red skill is above strategy.

It is not difficult to understand why laziness is despised, and strategy is despised because there are inevitably a lot of sour people who want to do it but don't have the ability. After all, "overall view and judgment within the game" really requires talent!

But why aren't red skills despised and disliked so much?
Is it because of discrimination strategy that the weak are banding together? !
Incorrect.

That's just because the number of red skills may be affected by some off-field interference, such as trainers not supporting horse girls' training, but horse girls with many red skills must have a variety of extreme emotions, and they have also managed to overcome all those extreme emotions!
That is undoubtedly "strong".

A strength that may be related to talent, but not particularly related to talent. It is a strength that can directly prove its spirit.

That powerful performance was not only reflected in the associations of the horse girls after they encountered obstacles in their own contact and study, but also in their personal experience -

They will know when the opponent's red skill falls on them.

Although there are several types of red skills in the interference system, there are three categories: single-target lock/random single-target/AOE, most of them are differentiated tracks for psychological interference and a small amount of real interference.

But the underlying logic of the red skill is still the caster's own emotions.

And it is used to interfere with another organism that has its own mind.

What does this mean?

This means that whenever the latter's inspiration is high, or simply matches the emotional wavelength of the source energy skill, there is a chance to touch the other party's emotional essence - the most direct manifestation of which in the racing arena is being hard controlled.

Even if the symptoms are mild, distraction is inevitable.

What will be the consequences if you get distracted in this race against time?
Although there is no newcomer in this competition, all of them are veterans who have been hit by many red skills, and some of them have even achieved Iron Will Sprint, which is almost immune to red skills, but this kind of energy source involving mental obstacles often has to deal with the issue of dosage.

Can Xiao Deng’s red skill be the same as Lao Deng’s red skill?

To put it more clearly:

Can the strength of the red skill of a horse girl who has overcome psychological barriers but still fails repeatedly in subsequent competitions and life until she retreats and becomes afraid of trouble be the same as the strength of the red skill of another horse girl who has also been defeated repeatedly, but keeps fighting, and rises again even after retreating?

Perhaps someone will try to theorize a different view based on the details.

But at this moment on the Jiemen District racecourse, everyone obviously had only one answer in their minds.

Because of that answer, they kept going, even to the point of creating a chaotic rhythm that is particularly common in classic years.

Accelerating drastically just after entering the mid-game...is definitely not a good choice for a long-distance race.

But the problem now is not this, but that there is a large group of things like a meat grinder rushing up from behind.

The Psycho Shock Teams of multiple levels, mixed together without distinction, are getting closer and closer. Should we say they are awesome?

It's amazing that he could still accelerate forward despite such heavy bombardment!
Regardless of what happens later, it's remarkable that the speed seems to be steadily increasing right now.

So, can people like me be that great?
Narita Shirahito, Rudolf Symbol, Maruzensky, and Good Opera have their own conclusions, but whether the answer is yes or no, they all made the same choice.

Speed ​​up!
Endless suffering can also breed hope and inspire vitality!
Yes, and the vitality that is born in the name of fear of suffering is no different.