Soon, the four minutes of public chat ti ca to an end.
Delicious Wind Goose didn’t hesitate to press the "8" key.
The other party quickly picked up the call:
"Who are you? What’s your identity?"
Delicious Wind Goose imdiately asked.
"I’m Defu, from the Disabling School, not a Prophet," Defu responded quickly, "You’re the captain, ti is of the essence, speak quickly. I’ll relay your commands to Andersen."
Delicious Wind Goose didn’t have much ti to think, but he had almost figured it out: "They are wearing civilian clothes with the aim to stay on the defensive. As long as nobody dies by the second night, the innocents will have won."
He had gotten this far in his thoughts when his thinking started to beco clearer: "But they couldn’t possibly defend forever, as three people would inevitably be cast out. So by the second day, eight, nine, ten, and eleven will certainly use their abilities."
And then... there was the troublemaker, the Idol Wizard.
The Idol Wizard needs two people to die, while the others can’t let the Idol Wizard win. So if the Idol Wizard jumps out and declares their identity on the second day, to prevent him from winning, they must let the "survival target" he nas die; at the sa ti, they cannot execute his "death target."
——Or they could just outright kill the Idol Wizard.
But in any case, once the Idol Wizard uses their ability, there will inevitably be a death.
So, the Idol Wizard would almost certainly kill on the first night to switch sides, and if the switch fails, they might not co forward but start defending instead.
However, as long as the Idol Wizard kills successfully on either the first or second night... by the latest the third evening, there would be killings for at least two nights.
——Defense is absolutely impossible.
"If we adopt an innocent lineup, then we can’t fight back by killing. Once a civilian really gets killed, we can’t stop the opposition by killing soone who has already claid a head. That ans switching sides...
"I’m not sure if the seven ’civilians’ are real or fake. My suggestion is, if Andersen is a Wizard, to kill numbers one and six tonight. As long as we get one civilian, by the third night we commit suicide and pass the head to soone else... Over."
Ti was almost up.
Without hesitation, Defu called number 12.
Delicious Wind Goose realized that the biggest difficulty of this ga... was ti. The extre ti constraints made complex logical thinking nearly impossible, and there was no point in talking to others because nobody would listen when ti was tight.
... Then, who should we vote for tomorrow during the day?
But at that mont, Delicious Wind Goose saw the lights for number eight and number twelve co on.
He suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
Looking at the dim runes of others, he felt as if they were looking down on him with indifference.
Delicious Wind Goose realized sothing——
Out of the twelve, it seed... only the three of them had private chats.
This ant that if soone died tonight... his identity might have been exposed already!
But there was nothing he could do; those who killed at night couldn’t communicate with each other.
Delicious Wind Goose couldn’t modify his plan on the fly.
All he could do was to wait helplessly for dawn.
Soon, the first night ended.
"So, daybreak has co."
Ek’s voice rang out: "The one who died last night was number one, he was murdered.
"According to the actions last evening, speaking order will be: number twelve, number nine, number eight, number eleven, number six; the rest had no actions last night, starting with number two, speak in nurical order."
——This is bad.
It wasn’t like he initially thought... Those who didn’t act would be announced?
Delicious Wind Goose’s heart sank.
Does this an that on the first day, the identities of our three people had been blown?
Watching the live stream, Longjing Tea sighed.
"——Old Goose’s brain really isn’t up to scratch..."
Annan couldn’t help shaking his head as he muttered to himself:
"It’s not that we can’t fight... it all depends on the play."
Gourt Goose seed to realize sothing.
But he still hadn’t pinpointed the crux of the problem.
The outco of this ga...
was not on the "Wizard".
It was on the "commoners".
Number Twelve obviously hesitated for a mont, delaying for a few seconds.
He didn’t seem to expect to be the first to act.
He hesitated.
Suddenly he began to speak, "I am the Prophet Wizard. I did not reveal my identity on the first day. Yesterday, I checked Number Seven, and he is indeed a Sabotage Wizard, not an Idol Wizard, end of statent."
...Eh?
Gourt Goose was stunned for a mont.
—Brilliant!
Although that statent was still not very good, it sowhat salvaged the situation...
Next was Number Nine, "I am the actual Prophet Wizard! Last night I checked Number Eight, he is a Disability Wizard; they’ve plotted this together! Today we should vote out the impostor that is Number Twelve, and vote out Number Eight tomorrow! I saw that Number Three and Number Eight exchanged words too, let’s vote out Number Three on the fourth day. I’ve arranged everything for you, pass!"
Imdiately after was Defu.
She spoke thodically, "Number Nine is wrong, I am not a Disability Wizard... of course, I am not the Prophet Wizard either.
"—I am a commoner."
Annan’s lips curled upwards.
Defu was the first to react.
Defu calmly said, "Numbers One to Six, six in a row are commoners avoiding assassination. As an isolated commoner, I could be targeted, so I claid to be the Prophet Wizard when there was no Prophet Wizard, obviously, I dressed up and nad Number Seven for verification by the real Prophet Wizard to prevent him from being an Idol Wizard disguised as a Sabotage Wizard for vote consolidation.
"And after I claid to be the Prophet Wizard, Number Nine contested and yet decided not to vote for but for the real Prophet Wizard, Number Twelve. I suspect he plans to kill , the true commoner, tonight, and now he is deceiving others about his identity. I suggest we vote out Number Nine today, end of statent."
Annan’s lips slightly curved.
Although there were still many issues with Defu’s statent... it seed due to her inexperience with Werewolf, her sensitivity was stronger than Gourt Goose’s.
Defu successfully disrupted the first three statents, making it impossible to fully trust anyone’s words. Therefore, those who spoke after had to choose sides, offer new information and insights, or else the situation would be at a deadlock.
This ga had a marked difference from Werewolf.
That was because commoners could not easily kill or act... so they were essentially considered, with high probability, innocents.
In other words.
—Commoners without abilities had a higher status than Wizards with abilities.
Because this was not actually a hidden identity, logic-based "murder ga".
Rather, it was a "war ga" that disguised itself as a murder ga, emphasizing the power of agitation.
There would be a clear dividing line—if no second body died, everyone tended to be defensive; but once a second body appeared, others would begin to lean toward aggression.
Under the threat of strategic deterrence, no one would act rashly. Whoever acted first would beco the target of all.
But if everyone started to act, then those who didn’t act would beco "sheep". By then, for their own safety, people would reluctantly take up arms to change sides, and chaos would ensue.
To prevent the "wolves" from fattening on too many "sheep", the commoners needed to be protected, making them the highest card at that mont; but once war started, the sheep would be rapidly devoured, making the commoners the most endangered cards.
The victory condition of this ga was not about how to conceal one’s identity or how to see through the identities of others.
Rather, it was about how those with ulterior motives could unsettle others, how those wanting to maintain order could persuade everyone to stay rational.
How to control the hearts of people, how to instigate trends—
—or rather, how to provoke or halt a war.
Therefore... this was indeed a ritual about "war".
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