87: Chapter 87 Deadly Kill

The writing system of the Dragon Country has always been rather strange.

As a trash civilization, whenever it encounters resource points related to 'writing systems', it always gains more than other countries.

In the millennium-long Game of National Destiny, every country has been scrutinizing the details of the civilization they inherited.

Especially among the powerful nations, every minor advantage in detail has the potential to change the game.

Over the millennium, there have been countless 'Judgments' passed by various countries regarding different writing systems.

Generally, the results have been as follows:

Britain and the various countries that inherited english have used [english being the most widely used, covering the broadest range, having the most users, being most universally applied, and the official language of Blue Star in the Old World...] as the weight for their Judgment, making english a '9-value' writing system.

(9-value writing system: For every 10 points of writing power, 9 characters can be condensed.)

The Germanic Country, using [german as the most rigorous writing system of the Old Era], brought german down to '8.5'.

The Nile Country packaged the inherited writing system with another form of writing from its own civilization for Judgment, using [cuneiform as the most ancient writing system of the Old Era] to allow the Nile Country to reach a coefficient of '8.4' when utilizing 'writing power';

The Curry Country used the logic of [your counting all originates from me], basing it on the [source of Arabic numerals] from the Old Era, to turn the writing system used by the Curry Country into an '8.1' writing system;

Then there is Goguryeo, which used [my writing system is the simplest, reducing illiteracy in the Old Era] as a weight, maintaining its writing system coefficient at '8'.

As for the Sakura Country where the [Strategist] Saku Kenichi resides, it used [your writing system is my writing system, the inclusiveness of being able to use it as soon as it is taken] to elevate the Sakura language, bringing its writing system coefficient up to '8' as well.

In the New Era, all humans speak a common language, and the writing systems of the Old Era are only used in the Game of National Destiny.

Apart from the coefficient of the writing system, if countries encounter opponents using the same writing system in the Game of National Destiny, they will use even more details about the writing system to belittle and suppress the other side.

For example, both being countries that use english, both having a writing system coefficient of '9', when Britain encounters the USA, Britain can use [the source of english is in Britain] as a weight, causing the USA, which also uses english, to have its writing system coefficient suppressed to '7'.

There are many similar situations.

Every civilization is collecting and interpreting the writing systems of its own Old Era; collecting these is not only a need for interpreting the few remaining historical materials of the Old Era, but also a need for countries to gild the writing systems they have inherited.

The more gilding a writing system has, the more it proves its weight in the Old Era; the heavier the weight, the heavier the 'humanistic power of the Old Era' it carries.

All of the above does not include the writing system of the Dragon Country.

For one thing, the Dragon Country does not need Judgment, nor does it have the excess national destiny to use for Judgment.

The writing system used by the Dragon Country has an inherently astonishing coefficient of '10'.

There are many theories as to why it is '10'.

A more mainstream theory is: When the New Era arrived, the writing system coefficients inherited by all countries were '10', but in the process of 'you Judging me, and I Judging you', the writing systems inherited by each were subjected to the precise analysis of the giant The Scales, causing the writing systems that originally had a coefficient of '10' to become what they are today.

The Dragon Country has always been a weak nation in the Game of National Destiny; the powerful nations never considered it an opponent, so chinese characters did not even have the qualification to be Judged. Therefore, the Dragon Country inherited chinese characters, and the writing system coefficient of '10' has never changed.

Just because it hasn't changed, doesn't mean it can't change!

Previously, when the Dragon Country participated in the Game of National Destiny, if the writing system coefficient was high, so be it. You weren't a threat, so no country would bother Judging your writing system. Not only would it potentially waste the number of [Divine Judgment] uses, but even if the Judgment were won, the consumed national destiny would still be a loss.

But now it is different.

The appearance of the Dragon Country's new [Strategist] Chen Aoyun has directly pushed the Dragon Country into the top three!

Not only did it squeeze into the top three, but it also used strange verses to forge a Prophecy, making a fool of him, Saku Kenichi.

Could Saku Kenichi endure this?

"The understanding of one's own civilization is detailed, detailed to the point where it makes people feel terrified.

And the artistic conception of this verse [Li and Du's writings remain, their brilliance shines ten thousand zhang long] has also been perfectly excavated and utilized. Normal Judgment cannot bring it down.

Then only this one path remains viable!

The coefficient of chinese characters is '10', but it is not truly '10'. It is just that no one bothered with your Dragon Country before, which allowed the chinese characters of your Dragon Country to become the only writing system in the world today with a coefficient of 10.

This is an advantage, but also a pit that a new [Strategist] of the Dragon Country will inevitably step into!

[Li and Du's writings remain, their brilliance shines ten thousand zhang long] has exactly ten characters.

As long as I can Judge away even one character, this poem will no longer be sound, and it will be ruined!"

Saku Kenichi stood up, also targeting the Prophecy [Li and Du's writings remain, their brilliance shines ten thousand zhang long].

He gave up on logical Judgment, and also gave up on authenticity Judgment... To be precise, he didn't give up, he had already Judged, but they were all judged as invalid. For this, Saku Kenichi added another not-so-light, not-so-heavy stroke on the road of sending warmth to the Dragon Country.

It doesn't matter.

Then he would Judge the character count!

Furthermore, Saku Kenichi was not prepared to use the Sakura language as a comparison to Judge the chinese characters inherited by the Dragon Country.

He was going to use all the known writing systems in the world as weights to Judge chinese characters!

Do chinese characters have the characteristics of english, such as [english being the most widely used, covering the broadest range, having the most users, being most universally applied, and the official language of Blue Star in the Old World...]?

If they don't, then by what right is the coefficient of english only '9' while your Dragon Country is '10'?

Do they have the [rigor] of german?

Compared to cuneiform, are your chinese characters as [ancient]?

If they have none of these, by what right are the coefficients of those writing systems not even '9', all around eight-point-something, while your chinese characters are '10'?

He would not use his own 'Sakura language' to Judge or compare with the Dragon Country's chinese characters.

Instead, he would use the combined characteristics of all the world's writing systems to Judge chinese characters!

Sakura Country is the initiator of the Judgment, and such a Judgment would consume an immense amount of national destiny.

But since the bulk of the national destiny had already been spent on the previous few Judgments, Saku Kenichi was already numb to this level of consumption.

"I cannot lose this Judgment.

This is already the second Judgment after the reset of [Divine Judgment]!

I must win this Judgment so that the remaining [Divine Judgment] uses will be sufficient..."

Thus, Saku Kenichi placed a new weight.

From the perspective of the writing system coefficient, he was going to checkmate Chen Aoyun!

(PS:

A not-so-obscure piece of trivia: Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... were invented by the Curry people, corresponding to [your counting all originates from me] and [source of Arabic numerals] regarding the Curry Country in the text.

Another not-so-obscure piece of trivia: The han script used by the people of Goguryeo is a phonetic script, which is simple to learn.

In ancient times, and even up to modern times, because it is simple, it indirectly increased the literacy rate.

Just like learning pinyin means one doesn't need to learn individual chinese characters; the literacy rate increased, but because this writing system is too crude, it also lowered the upper limit of what the writing system could express.

This corresponds to [my writing system is the simplest, reducing illiteracy in the Old Era] regarding Goguryeo in the text.)