Opportunities favored those who were prepared, but favored those with capital even more.
Though that sounded a little too realistic, when an opportunity truly arose—like a stock market surge—the returns of ordinary people and capitalists would be on entirely different scales. Some might even beg everyone they knew to scrape together a little money, only to find that by the time they entered the market, the opportunity was already gone. Of course, greater returns came with greater risks. Losing the accumulated wealth of several generations overnight was another story altogether.
And in this Afterlife World—or rather, the "Soul Evolution World"—the treatment given to individual currency units, souls, and major capital, a group plus a demigod, was likewise entirely different.
"An invitation from a Chess Player right from the start?"
If it were an ordinary soul, it would fall into a beast in this world, then enter a world like a game of animal chess, slaughtering one another for the chance at victory.
No one knew what fraction of the Lucky Ones could rise step by step and regain their humanity. After that came the gladiatorial struggles of "orc society."
And in the further contests, the highest crown—or perhaps the king, a warlord lord, or a Chess Player—its reward itself...
"Becoming a god directly... that really is ascending to heaven in a single step."
Godhood could be attained in this world. Just like the "wishing to buy shares in godhood" of the human world on Earth, the Order Gods, the deities of this world were the various "Kings" of the world of death.
And the invitation Lu PingAn had received started him off as a "king," or rather, a "Chess Player."
If this was a game, then there would naturally be conditions for victory. If it was a trial, then there