Although National Luck novels from China often pull all kinds of tricks out of nowhere for dramatic effect,
China in particular is often made to suffer several consecutive defeats at the start, only revealing the protagonist's importance when the nation's survival hangs in the balance.
But in reality, who would actually like that?!
No... No, no, no!
Foreigners might like it.
China definitely wouldn't.
Those authors were all scared out of their wits.
It was such a stereotypical plot that everyone was just following the trend.
But that didn't stop people from saying it!
Anyway, just in case...
If our China also suffered several consecutive defeats at the start,
you'd better wait for it. Apologize to me! Not a single one of you is getting away!
Not for any other reason.
Just because these people wrote things like that—what if it really happened? Like they'd jinxed it...
Why couldn't we put the blame on them?
Someone had to be sacrificed to raise morale, after all.
It wouldn't warrant death.
But they would definitely get cursed out.
Actually,
although Little Griseo really wanted to say that reality was far more fantastical than fiction,
Earth Mama's choice of participants hadn't been excessively bizarre either.
She could sense it.
She could vaguely perceive it, and had a feeling that
the participants were all above the average level of their respective countries, or even among the more outstanding ones.
They might not necessarily be skilled in combat.
They might be intelligent.
Or they might be artists with top-tier craftsmanship. That worked too.
What mattered was having distinctive qualities.
Little Griseo also knew that in some National Luck novels, characters from fictional works would exist, be pulled in, and become protagonists or the protagonists' companions.
Or the protagonist might simply play one of those characters.