Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

While Lin Yu actively engaged with the other representatives, time flew by in a flash.

Soon, the Glory Festival came to a close.

Although Lin Yu had long since confirmed he could meet the clearance conditions, and even completed them through ”deception” in a way that perfectly fulfilled the ’Promotion conditions’, becoming the pre-determined champion and leaving the arena early to spectate.

But for Lin Yu, until the moment he was officially declared the champion.

He still didn’t count as having officially completed the clearance.

Because the ”clearance condition” referred to obtaining the ”Warrior Medal”, not ”passing the Glory Festival”.

After all, all of this was just a verbal agreement between Jiang Rong and the representatives of the Ten Great Tribes and Lin Yu—at least, the 『Death Game』 did not recognize the validity of these verbal agreements.

Of course, this was also something Lin Yu was happy to see.

Because he didn’t idle away the remaining days either.

Lin Yu successfully spent five days leaving a deep impression on these ten representatives.

He first managed to offend every single one of them, making those guys feel ”this Rakshasa is so annoying”, thereby leaving a strong first impression.

In the following days…

Building on that distinct impression, Lin Yu began negotiating with these people.

Although Lin Yu usually socializes very little, if an excellent and intelligent actor exhausts all means to try and build a good relationship with a specific person, it’s very hard for them to fail.

Because they can act out a personality that the other person finds easy to talk to.

After five days had passed…

All the representatives from the Black Marsh world had greatly changed their views of Lin Yu.

They even felt a natural sense of goodwill towards the long-vanished ancient Rakshasa race.

And five days of mere conversation typically wouldn’t leave too deep an impression no matter what.

However…

Because Lin Yu first made them all feel disgusted, then slowly reversed that initial impression.

This ”contrast” and ”change” naturally and subtly deepened all the representatives’ impression of Lin Yu.

And Lin Yu’s reason for making this extra effort while observing was also quite simple…

[Congratulations on your victory in the ”Blood and Fire Festival” game!]

[Calculating your rewards for this game!]

[You have received the basic reward: 7 days of survival time.]

Arriving in the familiar Settlement Space, Lin Yu felt the 『belief』 on his body that still hadn’t disappeared, just become somewhat peculiar, and let out a sigh.

”Hah… It’s a bit different from what I imagined, but it wasn’t a complete waste of effort either.”

The source of that 『belief』 was naturally those important figures from the ”Black Marsh world”.

By mentioning ”otherworldly visitors” during his earlier probing of ”Jiang Rong”, Lin Yu guessed that the higher-ups within those large tribes of the Black Marsh world were more or less aware of the existence of ”Players” and ”other worlds”.

In other words, the cognition of these individuals itself could achieve a ”cross-world” effect.

So…

Their 『belief』 might also be able to.

Thinking this far, Lin Yu immediately had the idea to test it.

Since in reality, the 『May May』 identity could allow him to possess the abilities of 『Doctor』 for a long time by being ”remembered” by others, couldn’t he use the method of having the ”Moro” identity be remembered…

Thus allowing him to possess Rakshasa abilities?

He didn’t need to possess them permanently, just be able to transform briefly!

Although it was crazy, Lin Yu felt it was worth a try!

After all, once successful, this would be equivalent to having a card that could allow him to confront 『Third Tier』, even powerful 『Third Tier』 opponents head-on!

He had only completed half of his 『Second Tier』 『Promotion Trial』, yet he would possess a trump card comparable to 『Third Tier』. That would be like soaring to the heavens in a single step!

And upon arriving in the 【Settlement Space】, Lin Yu could be certain his line of thinking wasn’t flawed.

The 『belief』 those tribal higher-ups held towards the ”Moro” deception indeed still existed and was effective even after he left the Black Marsh world.

However…

Lin Yu also wasn’t in the best situation he had predicted, able to play the ”Rakshasa” anytime, anywhere.

This cross-world 『belief』 had strong ”restrictions”.

Just like when he used the 【Counterfeit】 disguised as a 【Collar】 to take Stiller away.

It was still effective, but not fully effective.

Lin Yu focused on the sensation…

This cross-world 『belief』 continuously accumulated, its form more like a temporarily stored ”energy”.

If he wanted to use Rakshasa abilities, transform into Moro, it would consume this accumulated 『belief』!

Currently, this amount of 『belief』 was probably only enough for him to transform for about one second.

”Although there are some limitations, it’s still a very powerful trump card after all… and if I don’t use it normally, I can keep accumulating it.”

”Anyway, it wasn’t a complete waste of the hard work I put into acting until the very end, getting the Warrior Medal, and even uttering the lie ’I want to travel around here for a while’ before rushing off to hide just before the 【Settlement】…”

Lin Yu said with a sigh.

Moreover, although the accumulation speed of 『belief』 wasn’t fast now, if the secret of the Rakshasa gradually began to spread among the higher-ups of the Black Marsh world, perhaps the accumulation speed of this 『belief』 would increase again!

Furthermore, Lin Yu had another thought…

The Black Marsh world also had gods.

When these ”gods” heard the rumor of the Rakshasa’s revival, especially after it had been passed around so much it became hard to distinguish truth from falsehood, yet had some genuinely credible powerful individuals as ”witnesses”…

Could he possibly deceive those higher-ranking ”gods”?

Lin Yu guessed the God of Fairness and Judgement might have a way to confirm whether the Rakshasa he imprisoned had escaped—but maybe he didn’t.

But as long as other gods didn’t have confirmation methods, Lin Yu could very likely achieve… the feat of deceiving gods!

He had experienced 『belief』 from a god once before—it was indeed too useful.

It seemed that because deceiving a god itself had a ”commendable” attribute, just a tiny bit of 『belief』 could produce a 『realized』 effect powerful enough to distort the 『Death Game』 itself!

”I hope things go smoothly.”

”But… for this 【dungeon】, you were probably watching again, maybe even interfering, right, Crow.”

Lin Yu looked at the crow mark on his wrist and asked softly.

However, this question wasn’t asked using a ”question” opportunity, so naturally, he didn’t get a response from the Crow.

”Anyway, this 【dungeon】 has ended smoothly.”

”But I still have another 【dungeon】 to clear this time, so this is just an intermission—better check out what gains I got from this 【dungeon】 quickly!”

”I hope I get some good stuff I can use in the next 【dungeon】!”