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----There was no possibility of losing.
At first glance, those words sounded like empty bravado.
However, when connected to the three reasons Noah had just mentioned and the two victory conditions of the Grace Game Pest had hosted using Host Authority, it became clear why Noah had said that.
Pest's advantages mainly consisted of three points.
First: she could alter the rules through a council resolution and delay the game's restart until a month later.
Second: she could likewise alter the rules through a council resolution, requiring both victory conditions to be fulfilled in order to clear the game.
Third: she had injected Black Death's virus into the contestants' bodies, ensuring that none of them could guarantee they would still be alive in a month to solve the restarted game.
Under such circumstances, even if the riddle behind the second victory condition was solved, the contestants here could not guarantee that they would survive another month and continue participating in the game.
Even if they could, they would merely have fulfilled the second victory condition.
After being tortured by Black Death until they only had half their lives left, whether they could defeat a Five-Digit Level Demon Lord a month later was no longer a matter of difficulty, but of feasibility.
After all, Black Death's incubation period was only two short days.
A month was absolutely enough time for everyone here to die out completely.
Even if someone survived by sheer luck, having even one person live until