According to the Main Quest's description, Lu Li only needed to obtain 50% exploration progress and a World Core with 50% purity to complete it. Ensuring humanity was not wiped out did not seem difficult to him.
After all, they had already secured six victories. Tomorrow, the gods would choose their representative first, so their victory was basically assured.
Yet when Lu Li had appeared in the first match and killed Thor, the Thunder God of Norse Mythology, he had not received a World Core fragment. That did not fit his previous understanding of the process for clearing a world.
Moreover, the quest had not specified whom he needed to extract the World Core from this time. Similar quests in the past had usually made that clear.
Lu Li had spent the past few days leisurely and comfortably, focused on the direction of the matches, so he had not paid much attention to his quest progress.
Only after Aizen brought it up did he realize that not receiving a World Core fragment seemed very wrong.
Taken at face value, Lu Li had initially thought there would be thirteen battles in total and that winning seven would mean victory. His simple way of thinking was that if they killed one god in each match, then after seven matches, the World Core's purity would naturally accumulate to over 50%.
After all, the manga was about a war between humans and gods, with thirteen battles in total. Lu Li had assumed that the thirteen gods appearing in it were the "protagonists," the focal points of the World Core.
But on closer thought, that was not the case. Just as he could temporarily decide to replace someone and send out Xiang Yu, who had not existed in the original manga, the gods could do