Anime Crossover: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, My Stand is the World

"Religious victory."

A voice filled with helplessness and exhaustion came from the side.

It's Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"While you're still foolishly piling up your fancy but impractical 'spectacles'."

"The other side has used a 'religious' blitzkrieg to completely conquer you on the level of 'culture' without shedding a drop of blood."

“To put it simply,” she paused, looking at Yui with an expression as if she were an idiot, “you have become their 'vassal state'.”

"Nani?"

Yui let out a cry of disbelief.

Yui Yuigahama, unable to rise again!

Exit!

As expected of Tuanzi, she became the first to leave the game less than two hours after it started.

Such skill is truly admirable.

The first domino fell.

……

Game time, round 100.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's "Greek" has entered its golden age, the "Classical Age".

She didn't make the same basic mistake as Yui.

She abandoned military affairs and devoted all her resources to "diplomacy" and "culture".

Her city, Athens, became the center of world art.

Her "parliament" has united all the AI ​​nations on the map that have been oppressed by Rome, forming a powerful "anti-Rome alliance"!

"Hmph, blank space, huh?"

"Let me see what you'll do next time. Everything is under my control, Kasumigaoka Utaha."

She looked at the screen, at her impregnable city defenses, and the vast blue map representing the "alliance," and a charming smile appeared on her face.

"Your iron hooves are formidable. But can you stand against the entire world?"

however.

Then she heard Kong's contemptuous laughter.

"Be an enemy of the whole world? No, no, no, Kasumigaoka-senpai, you've got it wrong."

"We have never needed to be enemies with the world."

"because…"

"All I need to do is buy off 'the world'."

The words just fell!

A series of system notifications filled Shiyu's screen!

[—Your ally 'Persia' has accepted Rome's '3000 gold coins' in aid and announced its withdrawal from the alliance!]

[—Your ally 'Egypt' has reached a 'spice' trade agreement with Rome and declared neutrality!]

[—Your spy, having laid a trap in the capital Rome, was caught red-handed by the enemy's counter-espionage, causing a significant drop in your diplomatic relations with all AI nations!]

"what?"

Shi Yu's smile froze instantly!

She watched helplessly as the "blue alliance" she had painstakingly built crumbled in an instant!

Meanwhile, the Roman legions, now in a vulnerable position, seized this opportunity and marched deep into the enemy territory!

They surrounded her proud Acropolis, making it completely impassable!

"My only enemy has always been you. Let me tell you this now, Ms. Kasumigaoka."

“All countries are driven by interests; it’s instinctive. No ally can be relied on forever. Among nations, only interests are eternal.”

Kong's red eyes stared straight at Shi Yu, like a sharp sword piercing her.

The enigmatic smile on her lips seemed to mock her naiveté.

"how come…"

"'Silver bullet diplomacy' plus 'counter-espionage', that's really impressive!"

A cold, clear voice delivered the final verdict for her.

That was Yukino Yukinoshita.

"To be able to use such methods, with 'capital' and 'conspiracy', to dismantle all of Shiyu's advantages from behind, if this had happened before the apocalypse, you would probably have been able to make great strides in politics!"

Hearing Yukino Yukinoshita's praise in the first half, Sora was still smug, but when he heard the second half, "If this were before the end of the world, you would probably be able to make a name for yourselves in politics!", he immediately stopped laughing.

The thought that before the apocalypse, he and his sister were still staying up all night playing games, making them complete NEETs and useless social outcasts, made him unable to laugh.

"..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha gazed at her utterly isolated "lonely castle" and fell silent.

Finally, she bit her lip in reluctance.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, unable to rise again!

Exit!

The second domino fell down.

……

Game time, round 150.

Yukino Yukinoshita's "France" is the most powerful civilization on the map besides Rome.

Her culture reached its peak.

Her city, Paris, was magnificent and impregnable.

She learned from Shiyu's lesson and refused to form any "alliances," focusing solely on farming and development.

She thought that as long as she didn't provoke the other party, she could live peacefully until the end.

but.

She was wrong.

After the blank slate of Rome unified the entire continent.

The massive Roman legion, composed of musketeers and cannons, arrived at her city walls as expected.

War broke out.

It was a massacre without any suspense.

Yukino's magnificent "medieval" army, composed of longbowmen and knights.

Faced with Rome's modern musket array, they were as fragile as paper.

Using firearms against cold weapons is like a dimensional reduction attack; it's easier than a father beating his son.

boom! boom! boom!

Accompanied by earth-shattering cannon fire.

The beautiful and prosperous Paris that she had painstakingly built up over a hundred rounds of battles had its walls easily breached by Roman cannon fire.

From this point on, France began its countdown to destruction.

Just before the city was about to fall.

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at the "Iris Flag" on the screen, which was about to be engulfed by the flames of war.

There was silence for a moment.

Finally, I calmly tapped the "surrender" button on the screen.

It preserved the last spark of civilization, number 3.2.

Then, she silently took off her headphones.

Surrender is the only way out for her!

The third domino finally fell.

……

Just a dozen hours.

Three, or rather two, girls who are considered "the chosen ones" in real life.

They were completely defeated by the "Blank" siblings using three completely different, textbook-level, dimensional reduction attacks.

The skill of the God of Games is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people; genius is merely the threshold to their level.

The entire game screen.

Only Su Chen's [Huaxia] remained, struggling to survive amidst the three-sided encirclement of the [Roman] Empire.

Kong's calm voice, carrying the air of a victor, reached Su Chen's ears.

"All right."

"The troublesome 'small fish' have all been cleaned up."

"Su Chen."

"—Now, it's the three of us's turn to have some fun."

Chapter Fifty-Two: A Hymn to Humanity is a Hymn to Endurance

The battle has entered its final stage.

1V1.

The pure, unpretentious King vs. King round has begun.

Su Chen's [China] faces off against [Blank]'s [Rome].

"Is it... over?"

Yui Yuigahama stared at the despairing tactical map on the holographic screen, her voice barely audible.

Su Chen's Chinese civilization is now reduced to its last isolated city.

Luoyang.

Outside the city walls, there was a deathly silence.

The Roman legionary phalanxes, like silent tombstones, covered the entire field and stretched to the distant horizon.

There was not a sound, only a golden ocean of thousands of armored figures, reflecting a chilling light under the constant sunlight of the game world.

The sheer scale of the scene caused everyone present to instinctively hold their breath, and the oppressive line from Li He's poem involuntarily came to mind.

"Dark clouds press down on the city, threatening to crush it; armor gleams in the sun, like golden scales."

"No, it's not over yet."

In the midst of a heavy silence, Kasumigaoka Utaha's voice suddenly rang out.

Instead of despair, her beautiful wine-red eyes shone with an unusual light, as if she had noticed something.

“Take a close look at Su Chenjun’s ‘Luoyang’.”

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately refocused their attention on the isolated city.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this.

That seemingly isolated ancient capital city had somehow been completely surrounded by the "Great Wall," an exaggeratedly long wall that winds and twists like a giant dragon on the map.

The city wall's height of 19 degrees and thickness even exceed the theoretical upper limit set in the game, clearly triggering some hidden civilization characteristic.