My Life Score Is 29,131
My life score: 29,131 points.
After barely scraping out a narrow victory in only his fourth World Collision, the player AutenTol let out a deep sigh.
He was a player who had entered this game in the form of The Fantasy World Creator, from a place that was not Earth.
He never imagined that playing a lot of games would actually give him the chance to become a god, but as a skilled gamer and fairly intelligent player, he had planned to at least hold on until the fifth elimination round.
“Of all people, I had to run into a lunatic. Goddamn it.”
He had climbed through the first and second collisions through negotiation and cooperation. The others were reasonable enough to talk with, and together they had built up considerable military strength, growing into a massive alliance of four races.
The problem came at the third collision. They faced two opponents with quite high military power who had formed an alliance, enslaving the defeated races. They must have won the battle and forced a surrender.
The player count was 4:2. In total score, AutenTol’s world held the advantage. The issue was that they were overwhelmingly outmatched in military strength.
Fortunately, his world had a few Heroic Entities to hold the line. If he hadn’t had heroes, he didn’t know how he would have survived. It was a stroke of luck that the operators had handed out Unique Creation Rights to everyone at the very beginning of the game for some unknown reason.
By the time of the fourth collision, they had successfully promoted all their heroes, giving them four heroic entities in total.
They accepted the enemy through what could only be called a humiliating alliance, putting their military specialists to work. The six-member alliance then collided with their fourth opponent—one strong world and two weak ones—and engaged in a brutal, bloody battle while maintaining control.
It was only thanks to those borrowed military experts doing their jobs and the heroic entities fighting brilliantly that they pulled through…
One of them had even risen to a Narrative Entity. To have a narrative entity appear at this stage was enough to bring tears to his eyes.
But both worlds had been left in ruins. A territory of roughly 160 square kilometers—forests, valleys, mountains, and plains in perfect harmony—had been a fine land. Now, after fire attacks, monster assaults, and the destruction of cities, even the fields lay in tatters. His Life score had plummeted to a mere Level 3, hovering around 600 points…
This was dangerous. Population was the absolute indicator. With the total score having dropped to around 13,000 points due to the war, he needed to raise it quickly.
I have to increase the population fast. I wonder how much the others’ Life scores are at this point?
Normally, the Life score was considered the population score. While points were also given for livestock, military beasts, forests, and fields, what usually decided the Life score was how many members of the main species existed.
Life scores usually rise in proportion to the number of collisions. Since this is the fourth, even at the minimum it should be between 926 and 1,944. In other words, around 1,400 points minimum. The high scorers are probably at Level 5 or 6, exceeding 2,000, or maybe even pushing past 4,000…
Unfortunately, none of their six gods specialized in population growth. In fact, they didn’t even know how to further increase food production.
Since we’re in the shop phase, the community will be split between those trying to buy points and those trying to sell them. If you ask what’s better between good traits and points… obviously points in the short term. Good traits only become truly powerful when the strong obtain them. In a weakened state, it’s better to buy general traits and massively boost your score instead.
He browsed the community. Maybe the greatest specialist in Life was selling their services.
So when he asked the angel to search—
…an absolutely insane post had shot to the top of the community’s popularity chart.
Huh…?
His brain momentarily shut down.
He clicked into the post to check.
Life score: 29,131 points. A blatant LV.8 verification stamp was displayed. It looked like it had been updated since—the score had now surpassed 30,000.
Uh… uhhhh…? A Life score of 30,000? Our entire world’s total score is only 13,000, but one Life score alone is 30,000?
The first thing he felt was pure terror.
Crazy. Life is the most fundamental indicator in a world, right? You need a large population to do anything. If Life is 30,000, then how many points are in the other categories? Even if we coldly assume it’s only one-tenth—3,000 points—the total score would exceed 50,000 at this stage?
And realistically, it was impossible for someone with 30,000 Life to have every other stat at only 3,000. The only logical conclusion was that this guy’s other stats averaged at least 10,000 each. His total score was likely around 100,000 points.
In reality, the player Biin had 30,000 in Life while everything else was either rock bottom or only moderately high, so his actual total score barely reached 60,000.
But whether it was 60,000 or 100,000, when AutenTol’s own world sat at 13,000, the difference in feeling was the same.
Of course, there were posts showing Military scores of 15,000 or 20,000 floating around… but military power required brutally grinding your citizens, and defense held a massive advantage over offense, so those numbers didn’t mean much.
But a Life score of 30,000? That was an entirely different story. What kind of madman could pull that off?
“W-wait a second, Angel. Is this person really the Life score ranking number one?”
The angel could only answer with publicly available information and could not respond to anything specific.
“Yes. The player ‘Biin’ holds the number one Life score among all players. For reference, second place is… 11,356 points.”
“Three times higher than second place?!”
“Yes.”
“This guy is really rank one?”
“I cannot answer that.”
“Then what is the current number one total score?”
“Hmm… The current number one has 90,108 points. For reference, ranks one through one hundred are all clustered around 80,000 to 90,000 points.”
Then this ‘Biin’ was probably someone within the top 100. There really was a madman among them. AutenTol had never considered himself top tier, but this was a historically insane player.
He hurriedly scrolled down. The very first comment was already the best comment, and its content was short and sweet.
It was the perfect expression. He completely agreed. The comments below were more or less the same.
Upon reading that he had started in the desert, even AutenTol felt like he was losing his mind. Since the organizers had attached a (Truth Verified) tag, it wasn’t a lie.
Desert start…? Not a forest, not a beach, not a jungle—out of all possible terrains, the one where raising the Life score is the hardest, where you have to survive purely on Mystery and Faith bonuses… the desert? And he got 30,000 points from there?
Insane. That was the only word that came to mind. AutenTol looked at the internal state of his own world.
The best ecosystem specialist in the game will raise your Life score
💰 Payment can be made in any designated Holy Power. Minimum payment required. 4 points per 1 contribution. Points only accepted (IMPORTANT!!!)
User review: Praise him! Thanks to Sir Biin’s advice, my Life score rose by 2,000 points right after the third collision, and my total score increased by over 10,000. Holy power consumed is as follows (chart attached). It was well worth using. (Truth Verified)
He had to do it. He absolutely had to. The thought that simply receiving consultation from this player could save his devastated world made AutenTol immediately discuss it with his companions and request an urgent consultation. They hesitated slightly, but ultimately agreed it was worth applying.
38,968 people waiting. The more Holy Power you expend, the higher your position on the list.
“Aaaaaaaaagh!”
He was too late. Far too late. He should have applied the moment he saw it instead of wasting time being impressed.
AutenTol felt like he was going to go crazy from the frustration, but he couldn’t recklessly remove his Holy Power limit. If he did and the other side massively increased their contribution, the points would turn into debt and he would be finished.
Still, separate from missing the opportunity, one question kept nagging at him.
What kind of world could possibly have a Life score of 30,000…?
He had heard it was a desert. But since it was the starting terrain, maybe there was some narrative trick involved.
Perhaps the map he received afterward was a land flowing with milk and honey. Or maybe it produced nectar. After all, desert was one of the few terrains where nectar could appear.
Even so, this was excessive. His own score was currently 600, but it had once been 2,000. He had meticulously filled 80 square kilometers with people, livestock, plants, and fields to reach 2,000.
Even if it were twice that, his world would probably max out at 5,000 at best—and that would require packing people, fields, forests, and livestock to the absolute limit.
How on earth do you get six times that on the same area…? It would be overflowing with creatures… The population density would be so high it would be impossible to live.
Maybe it was an incredibly tall forest or dense jungle, covered from floor to ceiling in trees, and somehow survivable…
No. To build a civilization you would naturally have to cut down trees and clear space. Unless they were living as savages, how could they reach six times the score? Even if they lived as savages, producing 30,000 points on that area was impossible no matter how hard you tried…
It made no sense. No matter how much he thought about it, it made no sense.
AutenTol had no choice but to browse other parts of the community in search of resources. Maybe he could import new slaves or livestock.
Meanwhile, at that very moment, there was one player more shocked than anyone else.
“The Life score… exceeded 30,000? Did I hear that wrong?”
The current overall ranking number one. And in Life score, the ranking number two with 11,356 points. The player Terasion stared at the community post and the angel’s words, unable to believe what he was seeing.
A beautiful human—specifically, an angel in the form of Homo sapiens—answered.
“Yes. The player ‘Biin,’ who holds the number one Life ranking, has surpassed 30,000 points.”
“…How?”
If there was ever a land flowing with milk and honey, this had to be it. A world where civilization and environment existed in perfect harmony, where every living thing ate its fill and multiplied endlessly—a true paradise.
Terasion, who had 2,800 points at the second collision and had never once lost the overall score ranking number one since his very first collision, could only mutter in disbelief.
He had purchased that ridiculously expensive Mythic trait using points earned purely through active trade and victory. And yet here he was, muttering helplessly.
“How do you get three times this much??? Even improving it by 10% seems impossible???”
After roughly finishing one consultation and looking for the next player, the angel spoke to me.
“Um, excuse me. Sir Biin. I understand why you tell the other players ‘That’s corporate confidential lol’ and refuse to teach them, but even I don’t understand this. Why is your world’s Life score so high?”
“Huh? Oh, that. It’s because my world is an absolute shithole to live in.”
“Pardon?”
“The evolution of life and the balance of an ecosystem aren’t achieved in some paradise where everyone avoids competition. They’re achieved when every single creature is desperately struggling, fighting for its life with everything it has. Every lifeform in my ecosystem lives in a horrifying world where it could become prey in an hour, or might not even see tomorrow’s sun if it falls asleep. That’s how they gradually develop vicious strategies and grow stronger.”
“Are you making some kind of Gu poison or something?”
Think whatever you want. If you’re a Demon King, you should at least be able to create Gu.
Some people describe civilized society as a savage jungle. That’s bullshit. Even a country in the middle of a civil war is far more livable than real wilderness.
‘Real wilderness’ is the worst place imaginable. The toughness and stability of the ecosystem my creatures built in such a hellish environment, that dynamism—it’s only natural that it surpasses everyone else’s.
Alright then. With the next player’s consultation, I should be able to complete the points needed to buy a Mythic trait. Let’s snag one more client.