My Level Zero System-Chapter 323: Illusion

Conflicting interests cannot be reconciled; the so-called cooperation naturally becomes bubbles and bursts.

At this point, it can be seen that all of the Zento alliance's choices have been locked tight by Faith.

This style of Faith's, which is no different from playing chess, is something Kain could not be more familiar with. He views everything and everyone as chess pieces, and even in a game so full of balance and randomness like this, Faith can still "grant" each person the function of a specific piece, and they can only move within the limits of that piece.

Just like playing chess with Faith, although before the first piece is placed there are countless moves that can be made, over time, once the formation is set, the choices are actually limited and manipulated.

Free choice is nothing more than an illusion.

Faith is still that terrifying.

Even Kain, this time, is only a pawn being pushed by Faith to the end of the board to be promoted to a Queen.

Of course, it is also because Kain made the correct choice to be cast in the role of that pawn to be promoted.

Currently, the game has two deciding turns.

Kain, in his position as the one holding the most gold coins since the beginning of the game, will certainly only take action to bid on the 50th turn, after which the game will end.

That means the struggle to steal from the fat sheep Cyrus will take place on the 49th turn.

In the turn before that—around the 48th turn or lower—Faith will surely make a strategically "accurate" decision, which is to withdraw all the money already in his treasury to "prepare" for the struggle to steal Cyrus's treasury on the 49th turn.

But Cyrus has also been secretly stockpiling money; in reality, his treasury is empty. And because he is not affected by the fight between the two alliances, the amount of gold coins he can accumulate in hand is more than any other single player at that time, except for Kain.

Therefore, the winner of the bid on the 49th turn is none other than Cyrus. And Faith's behavior causes the quota of resources shared by the Sword Family to become a flat zero. They can only throw their last 10 gold coins into the bid on turn 50 to be allocated money into the treasury.

A mere 1 gold coin added to the treasury. An extreme irony for the greedy Sword Family. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

There might even be players who make the same decision as Faith, and they will suffer the same disastrous defeat, losing both their bait and their hook.

This was originally part of Cyrus's strategic intention, the way he harms other factions, leaving them nearly empty-handed.

With the massive amount of gold coins in the treasuries of Kain and Cyrus, the percentage share of the other eight players will shrink to the absolute limit.

It might even be a discrepancy of 1 compared to 100, especially for the Sword Family.

Causing the Sword Family to only be shared a resource amount equal to 1/100 of the other families—this is the defeat that Faith spoke of in the letter, and also Faith's revenge against the Sword Family.

What is even more terrifying is that, overall, all of Faith's decisions were not at all wrong in the strategy of "leading the Sword Family to victory"; it would be difficult to find fault with them.

One can only say that Cyrus's "talent" deceived all the remaining factions. Consequently, the anger of the Sword Family will instead fall upon Cyrus and the Bethel Family.

Meanwhile, Kain is safe because he truly did not intervene in anything, playing in the simplest way and winning—a victory that is overwhelming in terms of results but unimpressive, even causing others to look down on him.

But if one did not deduce Faith's true intention from the start, this could very well have become a nerve-wracking battle of wits for him.

Kain even believes that even his deduction of the truth was already within Faith's calculations from the beginning; every word he planted in the letter could have been intentional, from separating the first-person subject from the Sword Family to the special choice of words.

He can even trace back even deeper, to the first days when Faith discovered his existence and pulled Myra in to pull him here. Faith had already known beforehand about the resource distribution game.

So that finally, the place where all the branches of his plan converged into a single point was also the moment Faith tore the Sword Family apart.

At this point, even Kain could not help but tip his hat in admiration for the persistence and wisdom of that small, blond fellow. At the same time, he also felt a sense of anticipation for their next confrontation in the following school year.

Someone like Faith is rare and hard to find.

At this point, Kain also temporarily concluded his mental simulation. Looking at the other players who were still eyeing each other warily, he suddenly felt a slight urge to laugh. Using the first five turns to define the subsequent fifty—truly, aside from himself, only Faith could pull that off.

In reality, the simulation he had just run matched Faith's intentions perfectly.

Noticing Kain making a slight movement to lean back, his shoulders dropping slightly, Faith also chose this exact moment to close his eyes for twice as long as usual amidst the suffocating wait.

On the other side, Faith caught a glimpse of this before returning his gaze to normal.

"Kain is relaxing."

The observation flashed through Faith's mind, followed immediately by a conclusion.

"Kain is sending me a second signal."

While neither of them would claim to be masters of controlling unconscious body language, their minds were incredibly resilient—especially in the context of such a high-stakes psychological game where every ounce of energy was "invested" into cognitive processing.

To someone who understood Kain as well as Faith did, there was no way he would naturally exhibit this behavior. Though subtle, there were enough indicators to confirm and lock in the conclusion regarding the nature of his actions.