SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System-Chapter 44: Ainsworth’s Analysis

In just a short period, Ainsworth started analyzing his targets, including the man leading the survivors and the survivors themselves.

’Those survivors, according to their clothing and condition, seemed to be from different streets and occupations. Furthermore, they also came from different ages, as a few are children led by their parents or older siblings, while some are middle-aged men and old people.’

’In a survivor group, if not managed well, those middle-aged men will undoubtedly complain if there is a lack of resources and especially if the cause of it is due to a surplus number of members who aren’t even contributing to the team and are just being heavy teammates to carry. Most of such members are those children who couldn’t go out and fight zombies, as well as very old men who’d suffer if they moved around too much.’

Looking at their microexpressions, Ainsworth analyzed further, ’The cohesion of their team isn’t that strong or even could be said to be very loose. After all, it has been only a day since the start of the zombie apocalypse, and they barely knew each other, so there isn’t any sense of attachment or camaraderie within the group and its members.’

’Although it’s not that obvious, the middle-aged men and more capable members had positioned themselves away from those they considered a burden to the team, as they subconsciously resisted being with them. In a normal setting, they wouldn’t be this bold, but in a life and death setting like the zombie apocalypse, they didn’t think or believe they were wrong.’

’Now that I know that their team isn’t an elite team composed of well-seasoned people from all walks of life but instead, burdened by unnecessary members, I can make use of that to put a rift in their team or at least open a gap to make Rian, Dante, and me join their team temporarily to see if I can trigger a side mission.’

’I don’t know why I haven’t triggered a side mission when I established my own force, but I have to guess that it’s likely due to establishing a cult doesn’t directly plunder a zombie apocalypse’s world origin.’

’After all, the purpose of the main missions and side missions is for the Earth’s Will to plunder the world origin of an invaded Otherworld and weaken it until it could be either completely devoured and used as nutrients for the Earth’s growth or taken under its wing as a subordinate world.’

’Perhaps this world might be stronger than the average apocalypse world and is more special than most, but not that much. At least, not to the point that doing something contrary to its intended world line or plot line would allow awakeners like myself to plunder its world origin that way.’

’Most worlds have their own protagonists who are called by many names, like children of destinies, chosen ones, heroes, and many more. A complete timeline where the protagonists fulfill it’s roles, or at least even if the protagonist doesn’t fulfill it’s roles, but as long as they existed and spent their time in this world without any interference from outsiders, is a timeline considered as the world line or plot line of a world.’

Remembering his teachers’ lectures in Edenbridge High School, Ainsworth pondered, ’Outside interference from otherworlders like us Earth’s awakeners can stray off a world’s destined world line.’

’There are ways to plunder more world origin, and aside from stealing artifacts and items that are crucial to that world or eliminating its protagonists, there’s also a way, which is to do what the protagonists did in the original world line and completely replace them. After replacing them, the otherworlders can then sabotage the world line after making the protagonist irrelevant to the world.’

’Main missions in most cases are direct ways to plunder world origin, and most worlds wouldn’t be easily devoured by the Earth in just one Otherworld Mission session if the Earth dealt with an Otherworld via main missions only. However, the advantage of the Earth is that it could send another batch of awakeners to do main missions again until all the world origins of that Otherworld are completely plundered.’

’On the other hand, side missions might be contrary to main missions as they mostly reenact what the protagonists did in the original world line. A side mission being completed is like an otherworlder taking over the original protagonists’ role and making them useless, so most of those side missions are what the original protagonists would do in the original world line.’

’Therefore, performing better than the protagonists and doing those side missions better would lead to more world origin being successfully plundered. It could also be said that I didn’t trigger any side missions when establishing my cult is that either the cult has been recently established and isn’t bing enough to make an impact in the world line or the protagonists never established one so I can’t take over the protagonists’ role and do better than them.’

’But then again, I could be wrong in a way that establishing a cult had indeed plundered the world origin as it disrupted the world line in a way it warranted a hidden mission. Unlike main missions and side missions, hidden missions’ completion will only be calculated after the main missions are completed and the awakeners are eligible to return back to Earth.’

’If my cult gets big enough and disrupts the world line even more, then I should be eligible for a high rank hidden mission completion. The mission score is mostly graded by the more world origins that are plundered, the greater the mission score would be. And the better the mission score, the better the rewards the Earth could grant to the awakeners.’

After recalling all those information, Ainsworth’s attention shifted back to the survivors and the man leading them as he decided, ’Since in most zombie apocalypse world it’s either a loner protagonist who doesn’t affiliate themselves with survivors or they join or establish human survival bases, I can test and see if I can manipulate this survivor team and trigger a side mission.’

’It’s best if my team and I could, but if not, then I can take drastic measures. Anyway, Rian and Dante will listen to my orders as the team leader, no matter how vile my actions would be, as long as it could be framed as the progression of our otherworld mission.’

’After all, Rian and Dante have no attachments to the Otherworld, and they aren’t dead weight teammates who are difficult to carry as they don’t have a savior complex. If they did, then even if they are my best friends, I’d rather go solo than bring them with me.’

After determining his next course of action to manipulate the survivor group as well as determining that his teammates wouldn’t be against it, Ainsworth already formulated his plan in just less than a second, thanks to the usage of his Ultimate Freedom (SSS) to increase his thinking time.

This time, Ainsworth released his God-Level Charm as he had previously restrained it when Rian, Dante, and he had taken off the Church of Evolution’s attires.

But unlike his previous divine-like being charm that could captivate mortals and make them revere him, this time, he used the charm of a destined sworn brother who was naturally friendly and made the other party regret not meeting them sooner.

There were different types and styles of charm, and his God-Level Charm could tailor any of them to fit his needs or his target’s preference.

With the charm of a naturally friendly sworn brother that one could trust with their life, Ainsworth approached the leader of the survivor group but halted two meters away from him.

Afterward, he extended his hand for a handshake as he amiably said, "Comrade, we also came in peace. I’m Arthur, a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

Seeing Ainsworth propose a handshake to him and even go as far as to introduce himself, the survivor group leader felt moved and extended his hand as well and shook Ainsworth’s hand, "You can call me Thomas, I’m the leader of this survivor group."

"If you aren’t affiliated with any survivor group, do you want to join us? We plan to head to a survival base established by the military. With your power, we can reduce casualties as much as possible."

Even though Thomas and the survivor group had witnessed Ainsworth, Rian, and Dante’s power as they had cleared a horde of zombies, Thomas still tried his best to recruit the three of them into the group.

He was well aware that Ainsworth, Rian, and Dante had achieved power beyond human capabilities, and only they could ensure that their survivor group could survive until they arrived at the human base established by the military.

After they shook each other’s hands, Ainsworth didn’t immediately reply to Thomas and merely smiled affably.

Knowing that there wasn’t any free lunch in this world and that it was already the best outcome that Ainsworth didn’t downright refuse, Thomas gritted his teeth. He offered, "If you can join our group and guarantee our group’s safety, I’ll let you become the leader of our survival group."