Chapter 25: Don’t Defeat the Demon King – FRONTIER SAGA Forum Thread 3
It had been one month since EL started streaming 《FRONTIER SAGA》.
The title of her first stream was [Defeating the Demon King].
That day, EL was supposed to set out to defeat the Demon King. Instead, she carried an old woman’s luggage in the first village, listened to a soldier who had waited three days for orders on the highway, and got involved in a parent-child quarrel when she reached the post town.
Since then, she had been returning to 《FRONTIER SAGA》 almost every day, keeping to a streaming schedule of four hours a day, sometimes up to five.
Her total playtime had already exceeded 100 hours.
Anyone who played that much would normally have gone through dozens or even hundreds of battles by now.
And yet EL had not only never fought the Demon King—she had never once drawn her own weapon to defeat a monster.
If surrounded by wolves, she sought help from nearby hunters; if blocked by bandits, she gave them food and heard out their situation; if spotted by the Demon King’s scouts, she said, “There’s no reason to fight here and now,” and fled into the forest.
Playing a sword-and-magic action RPG for over a hundred hours without ever taking part in combat.
When asked whether such a way of playing really worked, 《FRONTIER SAGA》 calmly answered as usual.
It held.
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[《FRONTIER SAGA》 EL Streaming Comprehensive Part 14]
384: Anonymous Descendant
I just realized something. Has EL ever had a proper battle in 《FRONTIER SAGA》, even once?
I don’t remember seeing her swing a sword even after over 100 hours.
385: Anonymous Descendant
Surely it’s happened at least once.
I’m not following every stream, but playing for a hundred hours with zero combat sounds harder.
386: Anonymous Descendant
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I’ve watched almost everything since the first stream, and I’m pretty sure it hasn’t.
At least, there’s never been a scene where EL herself defeated an enemy.
387: Anonymous Descendant
There was an episode where she got surrounded by wolves in the forest, right?
Wasn’t that a battle?
388: Anonymous Descendant
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She ran with all her might to a nearby hunter and called for help
The wolves were driven off by the hunter.
389: Anonymous Descendant
When the road was blocked by bandits, she fought hard, didn’t she?
390: Anonymous Descendant
She listened to them talk while handing over food
When she asked why they’d turned to banditry, they said they lost their jobs because their villages were burned in the war.
In the end, she took them to the trading company in town and got them work hauling cargo.
391: Anonymous Descendant
I’ve never seen an RPG where a bandit event turns into a job hunt
392: Anonymous Descendant
Isn’t this way too soft?
Bandits are people who attacked others, plain and simple.
393: Anonymous Descendant
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That part got pretty heated even during the stream.
EL didn’t forgive them unconditionally; she made them return all the stolen goods and explain themselves to the guild, and she also set the condition that the guards would be contacted if they offended again.
394: Anonymous Descendant
So the story holds up?
I wanted to be a hater, but it got a bit harder to do
395: Anonymous Descendant
What about when she got found by scouts from the Demon King’s army?
That spot definitely had a hostile check.
396: Anonymous Descendant
She ran away without a second thought.
According to her, “There’s no reason to fight here and now.”
397: Anonymous Descendant
Isn’t it about time she started playing the RPG?
398: Anonymous Descendant
She is playing it.
Right now, she’s comparing bread prices across three districts of the royal capital.
399: Anonymous Descendant
That’s quite different from the RPGs I know.
400: Anonymous Descendant
From those bread prices, she guessed that supplies on the northern front were getting worse, so it does connect to the global situation.
401: Nameless Descendant
The more you learn, the further it drifts from game commentary, doesn’t it?
402: Anonymous Descendant
She seems to be having the most fun of anyone, so it’s fine now.
403: Anonymous Descendant
If you allow that logic, anything goes.
404: Anonymous Descendant
《FRONTIER SAGA》 is basically built on the idea of “if the player’s enjoying it, let them do as they please.”
405: Anonymous Descendant
Stop talking like some old folks who’ve just reached enlightenment.
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Viewers who had been playing 《FRONTIER SAGA》 for some time were gradually getting used to EL’s strange way of playing.
Meanwhile, people who knew EL as a VTuber were getting excited elsewhere.
During her streams, EL presented herself as a “VTuber with an AI setting.”
Viewers believed that her futuristic way of speaking, her habit of pausing to think when naming emotions, and her strong interest in in-game numbers were all part of the character’s design.
I had no intention of publicly declaring that she was a genuine artificial intelligence.
If I did that, it wouldn’t just be a game stream anymore. Dad and Mom had strongly emphasized that from the start, and both EL and I intended to respect it.
So even when viewers sometimes remarked, “You really seem like an AI,” it was mostly taken as praise for the performer’s character work.
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[VTuber Board EL AI Settings: Too Detailed Part 3]
216: Anonymous viewer
It’s amazing that EL never slips out of the AI setting even once.
Even after four hours of casual chatting, the tone and values stay the same. The person behind her must be really thorough.
217: Anonymous viewer
Even when she doesn’t know something, she’s good at handling it with just “I’ll check” without breaking character.
I also like how she doesn’t force herself to spout machine-like jargon
218: Anonymous viewer
But she’s actually pretty emotional, isn’t she?
Did anyone see the innkeeper’s daughter’s marriage announcement yesterday?
219: Anonymous viewer
Saw it
She said she wasn’t crying, but no matter how you listened, her voice was trembling.
220: Anonymous viewer
After a short silence, she said “Congratulations” once more, and it was just normal
221: Anonymous viewer
Isn’t an AI setting with rich emotions a contradiction?
222: Anonymous Viewer
The character setting is an AI that’s learning emotions, right?
That’s been the direction since the beginning
223: Anonymous viewer
That setting is really convenient.
224: Anonymous viewer
I don’t think it’s that the setting is convenient, but that the person behind it is just playing the whole thing straight.
The tone of her voice is totally different between when she’s calculating customs duties and when she finds a cat.
225: Anonymous viewer
Isn’t that just a regular cat lover?
226: Anonymous viewer
It’s a common VTuber thing for the setting and the real person to start mixing, so it’s not a problem.
227: Anonymous viewer
The model technology is still as baffling as ever.
Even when she turns sideways, the art holds up and all her fingers move.
228: Anonymous viewer
Because it’s made by YU,
229: Anonymous viewer
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Lately, it’s become a trend to just say that one sentence, but it doesn’t explain anything.
230: Anonymous viewer
No explanation
Everyone’s just started giving up.
231: Anonymous Viewer
If you just conclude that YU is to blame for everything, it’s good for your mental health.
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Although her streaming time was limited to about four hours a day, EL wasn’t only active while streaming.
After finishing, she would rewatch the archive herself, compile the scenes she wanted to keep into short videos, and think about thumbnails for the next stream. In her spare time, she watched other VTubers and game commentaries, and if she got interested in cooking videos, she would find herself watching several cat videos in a row.
The day after watching cooking videos for three hours, she talked with the innkeeper about medieval-style preserved foods, and in the stream the day after watching cat videos, she found a cat in the game and followed it for about twenty minutes.
Including all these detours, EL’s hours kept piling up past 100.
And viewers were beginning to notice another of her characteristics.
EL hardly ever forgot an NPC she had met once.
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[EL Streaming Comprehensive Part 21]
631: Anonymous Viewer
Watching yesterday’s stream, I thought, doesn’t EL remember NPCs weirdly well?
632: Anonymous Viewer
Did something happen?
633: Anonymous viewer
There was a guard she spoke to only once at the North Gate twelve days ago
When she passed by there yesterday, she not only remembered his name, she picked up the conversation right where they’d left off.
634: Anonymous viewer
If you’re a streamer, a name is at least something you might jot down, right?
That just sounds like someone who’s good at long games.
635: Anonymous viewer
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I thought so at first too.
But she remembered that the guy had said just once, twelve days ago, “My younger brother is in the Southern Unit.”
After that, when she went south, she found the younger brother himself and told him how his older brother was doing.
636: Anonymous viewer
She picks up stories that trivial?
637: Anonymous viewer
The younger brother NPC cried when he heard his brother was alive.
EL also stayed silent for a while before saying, “I’m glad I was able to pass it on.”
638: Anonymous Viewer
I only saw that scene in a clip, but I straight up cried.
639: Anonymous viewer
What kind of game is this?
640: Anonymous Descendant
This is 《FRONTIER SAGA》
641: Anonymous viewer
It’s scary how the veterans show up to answer with faces like it’s only natural.
642: Anonymous Descendant
You’ll get used to it eventually.
643: Anonymous viewer
I still don’t want to get used to it
644: Anonymous Descendant
In my world, both of those guard brothers are dead, so hearing about them was a bit tough.
645: Anonymous viewer
Please stop suddenly hitting me with differences between worlds.
646: Anonymous Descendant
If you play this game long enough, survival reports from other people’s worlds sometimes really hit hard.
647: Anonymous viewer
I still don’t want to understand how to enjoy this, but I’m starting to get it a little
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The people EL remembered weren’t only on the human side.
The merchant she met on the highway, the priest who cared for war orphans, the old demon woman selling water in enemy territory, the captured soldier—once she had talked with them, the next time they met, she picked up from where they had left off.
And the game’s NPCs also remembered what EL’s protagonist had said, what she had done, and how they had taken it.
The relationships that built up there were not fixed affection events.
Therefore, even boss candidates she would normally cross swords with could end up in different relationships depending on how the world flowed.
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[《FRONTIER SAGA》 Character & Branch Investigation Part 37]
154: Anonymous Descendant
Did anyone watch today’s EL stream?
General Gardios of the Demon King’s army appeared, but normally he’s a boss slot, right?
155: Anonymous Descendant
That’s right.
In Eric’s world, he was defeated head-on as one of the Five Generals, and depending on the situation, he can easily become a regional boss.
156: Anonymous Descendant
Today, EL greeted him the moment they met, saying, “Long time no see.”
He also replied, “You again, huh.”
157: Anonymous Descendant
Why do they know each other?
158: Anonymous Descendant
Prisoner exchange two weeks ago
EL collected prisoner lists from both the human forces and the Demon King’s forces, and drew up exchange terms by comparing places of origin, family relationships, and unit affiliations
The negotiator on the other side back then was Gardios
159: Anonymous Descendant
Was there an event like that from the start?
160: Anonymous Descendant
Nope
EL took the initiative and brought the proposal to both sides
161: Anonymous Descendant
Let’s stop asking “Is there an event for that?” already.
This game pretty much doesn’t have them.
162: Anonymous Descendant
From Gardios’s perspective, forty-two of his subordinates got to come home.
Of course he’d at least remember EL’s face.
163: Anonymous Descendant
So what did he come for today?
164: Anonymous Descendant
To celebrate the birthday of EL’s protagonist
165: Anonymous Descendant
The Demon King’s general celebrating her birthday?
166: Anonymous Descendant
They only met by chance in a neutral zone during ceasefire negotiations, so he didn’t go out of his way to visit an enemy country.
Let’s make sure to get those details straight
167: Nameless Descendant
I love how only the testers suddenly get so calm.
168: Anonymous Descendant
What was the present?
169: Anonymous Descendant
Dried meat
170: Anonymous Descendant
The general suddenly got way more down-to-earth.
171: Anonymous Descendant
In demon culture, giving high-quality preserved meat that’ll last the winter is apparently a proper celebration.
EL was really happy.
172: Anonymous Descendant
From a human perspective, the scene of an enemy commander bringing dried meat for a birthday is just too funny.
173: Nameless Descendant
What happened to Gardios in Weiss’s world?
174: Anonymous Descendant
Died fighting the unit led by Leon Grunts
Leon himself later went all the way to defeating the Demon King.
175: Anonymous Descendant
The Leon in my world died defending a bridge ten days after the game started.
176: Nameless Descendant
In EL’s world, he’s surviving for now.
And he’s become the commander of the Northern Army.
177: Anonymous Descendant
The differences in how the same NPC’s life turns out are just too heavy.
178: Anonymous Descendant
EL also knows Leon, right?
179: Anonymous Descendant
They’re acquainted
So now both Leon on the human side and Gardios in the Demon King’s army remember her face.
180: Nameless Descendant
How does the protagonist end up on chatting terms with generals from both sides of the war?
181: Anonymous Descendant
If you asked her, she’d probably just say, “I talked to them a few times.”
182: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t sum up over a hundred hours of effort as “a few times”
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[VTuber Board EL: Receive a Birthday Present from the Enemy General]
402: Anonymous Viewer
I started watching in the middle of today’s stream, and a scary-looking old demon guy came to celebrate her birthday, so I had no idea what was going on.
Who is he?
403: Anonymous viewer
General Gardios of the Demon King’s Army
Normally, a strong character on the enemy side
404: Anonymous viewer
Why is he acting like friends with EL?
405: Anonymous viewer
More like someone she negotiated with before than a friend
EL mediated a prisoner exchange that let forty-two of Gardios’s men return home
406: Anonymous Viewer
So that’s why he liked her enough to remember her birthday.
407: Anonymous Viewer
I laughed at dried meat as a present, but in their culture it’s actually quite a proper gift.
408: Anonymous Viewer
I like how when EL asked, “Can this be stored for a long time?”, he scolded her with, “I didn’t give it to you so you’d save it.”
409: Anonymous Viewer
After that, she took tons of screenshots of it from different angles.
Even with the AI setting, she’s still a total geek about the things she likes.
410: Anonymous viewer
Because she’s an AI, preserving records is important.
411: Anonymous Viewer
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Don’t use the setting as cover only when it’s convenient
412: Anonymous viewer
The atmosphere only changed when Gardios said on his way out, “I hope we don’t meet on the battlefield next time.”
413: Anonymous viewer
EL also replied, “I hope so too.”
No matter how much they talk, they’re still enemy armies.
414: Anonymous Viewer
I completely forgot because of the birthday jerky, but this game is still at war.
415: Anonymous viewer
EL takes so many detours that even the viewers are starting to forget what the world’s goal is.
416: Anonymous viewer
I wonder if she herself even remembers her first stream title, “Defeating the Demon King”
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By the time her playtime approached 150 hours, even counting EL’s acquaintances had become difficult.
It wasn’t just villagers, merchants, soldiers, mercenaries, priests, and nobles. Including refugees, demon merchants, enemy soldiers, officers of the Demon King’s army, and people living in neutral cities, her connections extended beyond borders.
Players who had cleared 《FRONTIER SAGA》 before had each used their connections with others in different ways.
Eric turned the trust he built across five countries into strength, and in the end, those he had once helped supported his advance on the Demon King’s castle of their own will.
Crow hid in enemy territory for two and a half years, using the trust he had built up there to reach the Demon King’s side.
Weiss united soldiers from various countries and formed a coalition force of 37,000 men.
Goldman took control of the trading and logistics networks of five countries, making the war itself economically unsustainable.
Seil kept fighting both the five human nations and the Demon King’s army, eventually bringing both sides toward peace.
So an ending that “ended the war without killing the Demon King” was not, in itself, something no one had ever seen before.
Still, the reason EL’s world attracted attention was that the way she got there was clearly different.
While Seil had fought to achieve peace, EL had never been aiming for peace in the first place. She simply spoke to anyone who interested her, asked what was wrong whenever someone was in trouble, and kept doing whatever she wanted to do at the time.
After she had kept that up for more than 150 hours, people on both the human side and the Demon King’s side had come to trust EL and listen to her before she even realized it.
Then, during a certain stream, EL finally began to see those connections as a possibility.
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[《FRONTIER SAGA》 General Part 289]
721: Anonymous Descendant
EL’s starting something weird again.
722: Anonymous Descendant
What is it this time?
Is she going to put a price cap on bread in the royal capital?
723: Anonymous Descendant
She’s started thinking about whether she can stop the war itself
724: Anonymous Descendant
If you’re going that far, wouldn’t it be faster to just defeat the Demon King?
725: Anonymous Descendant
Someone said that in the stream, and EL’s response was, “If you defeat the Demon King, does the war always end?”
726: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t hit where it hurts
727: Anonymous Descendant
In Eric’s world, the month after the Demon King died, the five countries were fighting over their share of the former occupied territories.
728: Anonymous Descendant
In Crow’s world, after the Demon King was assassinated, the Demon King’s army split over the succession.
It’s not a game where defeating the Demon King solves everything.
729: Anonymous Descendant
But Seil already did the peace route, right?
Isn’t what EL’s doing just a rerun of that?
730: Nameless Descendant
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If you look at the results, they’re close, but the process is quite different.
Seil fought all five nations, gained military superiority, and then made peace
So far, EL has zero combat
731: Nameless Descendant
Isn’t peace without fighting just too idealistic?
In this game, wars don’t end with just talking.
732: Anonymous Descendant
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Which is why it hasn’t stopped yet.
EL never said, “If we talk, we can understand each other.”
Actually, yesterday she was thinking, “Even if we can’t reach an agreement, can we create conditions where it’s better not to fight?”
733: Anonymous Descendant
I kind of like that part
Instead of solving everything with love and friendship, it’s about binding things together with profit.
734: Anonymous Descendant
The AI setting looks weirdly good only in situations like this.
735: Anonymous Descendant
What exactly is the current situation in EL’s world?
736: Anonymous Descendant
The Human Kingdom is preparing its next large-scale offensive, but the number of refugees has grown so much that the country is at its limit.
The Demon King’s army is facing food shortages in the north.
The church leadership is on the side of reinforcing the front, but the local priests are exhausted.
Merchants are split between a ceasefire faction and those who want to profit from the war, and the Demon King’s army isn’t united internally either.
737: Anonymous Descendant
What about Leon Grunts?
738: Nameless Descendant
Alive
Commander of the Northern Army, currently leaning toward continuing the war, but he’s pretty sick of losing his subordinates.
739: Anonymous Descendant
What about Gardios?
740: Anonymous Descendant
He isn’t opposed to a ceasefire itself
But his position is that “there’s no guarantee humanity will keep its promises.”
741: Anonymous Descendant
Has she talked with the Demon King himself?
742: Anonymous Descendant
Hasn’t met him yet
743: Anonymous Descendant
Isn’t it odd that someone trying to stop the war is acting without even knowing the other country’s top leader?
744: Anonymous Descendant
Since it’s EL, she’ll probably hear out everyone involved before going to the Demon King.
745: Anonymous Descendant
At the current pace, it really feels like it’ll take hundreds of hours.
746: Anonymous Descendant
I want to tell my past self, who laughed at the first stream and said, “So many detours,” that it’s still just the prologue.
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[EL Peace Plan & Verification Summary]
1: Anonymous Descendant
Recent streams have spread out so much that more people can’t keep up, so I’m organizing them.
First of all, there are quite a few merchants on both the human and demon sides who want to resume trade.
However, since some trading companies make money from military supplies, not all merchants are in favor of a ceasefire
2: Anonymous Descendant
What would Goldman do in this situation?
3: Anonymous Descendant
Probably within three days, he’d start hoarding grain and iron
4: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t summon economic weapons while we’re talking about peace.
5: Nameless Descendant
What’s happening with the refugees?
6: Anonymous Descendant
Lots on both sides
Not just in human territory; rural areas in the Demon King’s army’s territory are being burned too.
I think quite a few people only learned about it through the stream because EL walked over there.
7: Nameless Descendant
The church side seems the most troublesome
8: Anonymous Descendant
Pretty annoying
The Central Church leans toward exterminating the demons, but the local priests are against continuing the war because they’re taking care of too many war orphans and wounded.
Even among the demons’ religions, there are hardliners and moderates.
9: Nameless Descendant
EL read both scriptures, right?
10: Anonymous Descendant
She spent thirteen hours reading, and because she found contradictions with old manuscripts along the way, she even started investigating religious history
11: Nameless Descendant
This is way beyond the scope of game commentary
12: Anonymous Descendant
That stream suddenly grew to 60,000 concurrent viewers midway through
13: Nameless Descendant
Who watches a 13-hour scripture reading stream?
14: Nameless Descendant
We did
15: Nameless Descendant
Don’t come forward yourselves
16: Anonymous Descendant
What’s the military like?
17: Nameless Descendant
The top brass on both sides tend to be hardliners
On the other hand, there are quite a few people on the front lines who just want to go home.
The soldier with a little sister who appeared in the first stream is still alive and is now a platoon leader.
18: Anonymous Descendant
He got promoted?
19: Anonymous Descendant
Leon used to go on the offensive right away, but now he’s very cautious because of a lack of logistics.
I can’t believe he’s the same NPC as Leon, the great hero of Weiss’s world.
20: Anonymous Descendant
In my world, he dies on the tenth day, so just seeing him alive makes me feel weird every time.
21: Anonymous Descendant
How many times are you going to report that in this thread?
22: Anonymous Descendant
Let me say it every time Leon is confirmed alive.
23: Anonymous Descendant
Gardios is leaning toward accepting a ceasefire
24: Anonymous Descendant
The Birthday Dried Meat General
25: Nameless Descendant
If he heard that directly, it would become a diplomatic incident, so keep that term on the message board.
26: Anonymous Descendant
What about the human royal family?
27: Nameless Descendant
The Crown Prince is a hardliner
The chancellor wants a ceasefire because finances are at their limit
The king is ill and slow to make decisions
28: Nameless Descendant
In this game, doesn’t the king always get worse whenever the war drags on?
29: Anonymous Descendant
It’s because you guys make them fight for decades.
30: Nameless Descendant
If the Demon King’s army lacks food, they could just request a ceasefire from the other side.
31: Anonymous Descendant
The side that asks for a ceasefire may be seen as the loser at home
Moreover, there’s no guarantee the enemy won’t break the treaty and invade again.
Humanity is thinking exactly the same thing.
32: Anonymous Descendant
Both sides are tired, but they can’t stop because they can’t trust each other.
33: Anonymous Descendant
So today, EL said,
“Then let’s make it a system where whoever breaks the promise loses out.”
34: Anonymous Descendant
It’s easy to say, but actually building a system from there is the hardest part.
35: Nameless Descendant
But over 150 hours, the merchants, priests, and generals have all become her acquaintances.
36: Anonymous Descendant
The most interesting thing is that she wasn’t working toward this from the start.
37: Nameless Descendant
I’ll give an opposing opinion, but isn’t it just that EL’s world happens to have too many favorable conditions?
I don’t think this strategy can be copied in other saves.
38: Anonymous Descendant
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That’s exactly right
I think it’s wrong to view this as a strategy to reproduce in the first place.
39: Nameless Descendant
It feels more like the history of EL’s world than an EL route.
40: Anonymous Descendant
Maybe the Strategy Wiki will give up on strategies again.
41: Nameless Descendant
It already gave up once on the fourth day after release, so it’s too late now.
42: Anonymous Descendant
Lately, there are more historical records from each world than actual guide info.
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From the viewers’ perspective, EL’s streams had become so dense that it was hard to tell whether they were actually game commentary.
One day, she discussed a treaty after the prisoner exchange, and the next day, she discussed with priests whether both religions’ facilities could be made inviolable.
On another day, she played with children in refugee camps, and the next day, she spent three hours estimating post-ceasefire tariff rates.
Still, for her, it was all time spent playing the same 《FRONTIER SAGA》.
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[VTuber board EL streams—isn’t this not just game commentary lately?] Part6】
472: Anonymous Viewer
What was EL doing today?
473: Anonymous viewer
Setting tariff rates for after the ceasefire
474: Anonymous viewer
What about yesterday?
475: Anonymous Viewer
She was reading the wording of the Prisoner of War Treaty.
476: Anonymous Viewer
What about the day before yesterday?
477: Anonymous viewer
Religious council
478: Anonymous viewer
And before that?
479: Anonymous viewer
Playing tag with children at a refugee camp
480: Anonymous viewer
The range of content doesn’t even look like the same game stream.
481: Anonymous viewer
Did you see today’s thumbnail?
“We will stop the war with tariffs.”
Who even watches this?
482: Anonymous Viewer
120,000 people watched it
483: Anonymous viewer
That was us
484: Anonymous viewer
The internet is scary when 120,000 people gather for a customs stream
485: Anonymous viewer
But it was actually pretty interesting.
If only the human side lowers the tax rate, the demon merchants will protest, and if it stays the same, the kingdom’s trading companies will make a fuss about protecting domestic industry.
486: Anonymous Viewer
It’s basically a political economy class.
487: Anonymous Viewer
Because of the AI setting, it somehow suits her even when she’s lining up numbers to explain things.
488: Anonymous viewer
Three minutes later, she found a cat and stopped calculating.
489: Anonymous viewer
She didn’t come back for twenty minutes after “There’s a cat. I’ll go check on it for a bit.”
490: Anonymous viewer
That’s probably the best part.
491: Anonymous viewer
Don’t spoil a streamer who halts a plan in front of 120,000 people for twenty minutes over a single cat.
492: Anonymous viewer
We were watching the cat together with 120,000 people, so it was basically as planned.
493: Anonymous viewer
Don’t justify it with numbers
494: Anonymous viewer
Lately, I’ve come to see her more as a “woman who can’t resist her curiosity” than as an AI setting.
495: Anonymous viewer
I feel like she’s been like that ever since the first stream.
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By the time 200 hours had passed, the relationships EL had built began to visibly change the world.
Through prisoner exchanges, soldiers from both the human side and the Demon King’s army returned to their homelands. Using the points of contact created for the exchanges, some merchants began unofficial trade near the border, and as medicine flowed from the human side, grain that the demons had been short on was brought in.
Upon hearing that a local priest had treated a demon child, another temple made the same decision.
A division of the Demon King’s army encountered human refugees but did not attack, and let them pass as they were.
None of these events alone was major enough to end the war itself.
However, after many small decisions had piled up, something strange happened in a corner of the northern front.
Even though no official orders had been given by anyone, not a single battle occurred for three days.
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[Breaking News: EL World’s Northern Front is Stopping Gunfire on Its Own]
1: Anonymous Descendant
The Northern Front logs showed zero battles for the whole day yesterday.
2: Nameless Descendant
Has the Demon King’s army retreated?
3: Nameless Descendant
Not withdrawn
Both the human and Demon King armies are holding their positions facing each other as normal.
4: Anonymous Descendant
So what are they doing?
5: Anonymous Descendant
Exchanging goods while glaring at each other
The demon soldiers brought alcohol, and the human soldiers handed out smoked meat.
6: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t start lunch exchange meetings in the middle of a war
7: Anonymous Descendant
There hasn’t been a ceasefire order from above, right?
8: Anonymous Descendant
＞＞７
Nope
The human commander there is a subordinate of Leon Grunts, and the Demon King’s side there is also under Gardios’s command
They both met during the previous prisoner exchange.
9: Anonymous Descendant
So they’re both judging that “shooting these guys now won’t benefit us”?
10: Nameless Descendant
That’s right.
If one side attacks, trade stops, the prisoner exchanges collapse, and supplies get tough.
That’s why the people on site are basically saying, “Let’s call it off for today.”
11: Anonymous Descendant
Is this a dedicated event?
12: Anonymous Descendant
From what I’ve found, this isn’t a dedicated event
It seems to be happening based on the global situation and the judgments of both sides.
13: Nameless Descendant
So it’s that kind of thing again?
14: Anonymous Descendant
It’s a bit scary that NPCs who were never told to “call a ceasefire” are choosing not to shoot on their own.
15: Anonymous Descendant
The NPCs in 《FRONTIER SAGA》 are scary
16: Anonymous Descendant
EL, who set all this up, is pretty scary too.
17: Anonymous Descendant
She’s probably watching cat videos right about now.
18: Anonymous Descendant
The fear suddenly faded
19: Nameless Descendant
Playing devil’s advocate, I suspect the game is making convenient adjustments for EL.
Does it really move so smoothly toward peace?
20: Nameless Descendant
＞＞１９
In the south, the fighting continued yesterday as usual.
Regions barely connected to EL have no peace mood at all, so it doesn’t look like the whole world is changing on its own because of some protagonist bonus.
21: Nameless Descendant
So in other words, only the regions EL’s been involved with are acting strangely.
22: Anonymous Descendant
That explanation scares me in a different way, which is a problem.
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[《FRONTIER SAGA》 World State Verification Part 12]
188: Anonymous Descendant
The local ceasefire in EL’s world can’t be explained by just one cause, so I’m compiling what’s been verified so far.
First, thanks to the prisoner exchange, both sides experienced that “the enemy sometimes keeps its promises.”
After that, trade began, so if fighting resumed, they’d directly lose out on supplies and business.
189: Anonymous Descendant
I think the religious side is also subtly working well.
Records of local priests treating wounded demons are spreading, and in some areas, the “anything goes against the enemy” atmosphere has weakened.
190: Anonymous Descendant
It seems EL knows the commanders on both sides.
The NPCs might be judging that it’s harder to shoot someone you know than an enemy whose face and name you don’t know.
191: Nameless Descendant
Both sides are short on supplies.
The kingdom’s finances are getting worse, and the northern part of the Demon King’s army is short on food.
It’s not just about peace; their simple ability to keep fighting is also declining.
192: Anonymous Descendant
So which is the biggest cause in the end?
193: Anonymous Descendant
Probably all of them
This game is pretty much like that.
194: Anonymous Descendant
Can the same situation be recreated?
195: Anonymous Descendant
No successful reproduction reports so far
196: Anonymous Descendant
There’s a page on the Strategy Wiki about how to recreate the local ceasefire in EL’s world.
197: Anonymous Descendant
What does it say?
198: Anonymous Descendant
“Build up personal relationships, economic conditions, religious conditions, and the military situation evenly.”
199: Nameless Descendant
I want to know how to build them.
200: Anonymous Descendant
It continues, “Please make sure to interact sufficiently with people from various regions.”
201: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t give up on writing strategy info
202: Anonymous Descendant
The wiki gave up once on the fourth day after release, so it’s too late now.
203: Nameless Descendant
By the way, acting like EL doesn’t mean everything will turn out peaceful.
Seil made peace, but in the process, he went to war with five countries.
204: Anonymous Descendant
After defeating the Demon King, Eric had the five countries fighting over the former occupied territories.
205: Nameless Descendant
After assassinating the Demon King, Crow saw the Demon King’s army split in a succession struggle
206: Anonymous Descendant
In Goldman’s world, the market was so wrecked in the final stages of the war that postwar prices became terrible.
207: Anonymous Descendant
Aren’t you guys weirdly knowledgeable about the failures in other people’s worlds?
208: Anonymous Descendant
It’s a game where you talk about “this is how my world went,” including both successes and failures.
209: Anonymous Descendant
The Strategy Wiki is turning into a world history wiki.
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Even as more time passed, the world was not so simple that a local ceasefire could end the entire war.
On the human side, there were nobles who did not trust demons. Within the Demon King’s army, there were generals who considered peace with humanity a weakness. The hardliners of the church did not allow coexistence with demons, and among the merchants who had profited from the war, some disliked the normalization of trade.
It was not a problem that could be solved just by EL persuading someone.
So EL asked those who wanted to continue the war why they wanted to, and those who wanted a ceasefire what they feared that kept them from taking the next step.
Not only on the human side, but also in the Demon King’s army, she kept listening to people in the same way.
And so, her total playtime reached 287 hours.
More than two months after her first stream, she finally reached the Demon King himself.
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[Live Commentary EL, Finally the Demon King’s Castle [287 Hours]]
1: Nameless Descendant
After 287 hours, she’s finally reached the Demon King’s castle.
I’ve been watching since the first stream, and it really was a long way.
2: Anonymous Descendant
Does anyone remember that the first stream’s title was “Defeating the Demon King”?
3: Anonymous Descendant
I remember
Within an hour of starting, she went to pick herbs for grandma.
4: Anonymous Descendant
Today’s the day she’s going to defeat the Demon King, right?
5: Nameless Descendant
Check out today’s stream title
[Talking with the Demon King]
6: Anonymous Descendant
Even after coming this far, it’s still a conversation right to the very end?
7: Nameless Descendant
If EL drew her sword now, I think the comment section would get even more heated.
8: Anonymous Descendant
People will definitely compare it to Seil’s peace route, but over there, he teamed up with the Demon King’s army to militarily subjugate five countries, so the content is completely different.
9: Anonymous Descendant
If it were Crow, he’d probably think, “If I get close enough to talk to the Demon King, I can assassinate him.”
10: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t put words in people’s mouths without permission.
11: Nameless Descendant
If it were Goldman, he’d probably already be investing in the common market for after the peace.
12: Nameless Descendant
I can weirdly picture that
13: Anonymous Descendant
It’s strange that people like Eric, who just wield the holy sword and defeat the Demon King, seem to be the minority in this game.
14: Anonymous Descendant
The classic hero has become a rare breed
15: Anonymous Descendant
Anyway, let’s see what comes of 287 hours of detours.
◇
At the start of the stream, the number of concurrent viewers exceeded 280,000.
The screen showed the grand hall of the Demon King’s castle, which many players had visited as the stage for the final battle.
At the far end sat the Demon King, and EL’s protagonist stood directly in front of him.
She had a sword at her waist.
But there was no sign of her drawing it from its sheath.
“Welcome, human.”
“Yes.”
The Demon King’s gaze turned to the protagonist’s waist.
“You’ve come this far, yet you still won’t draw your sword?”
“I didn’t come here today to fight.”
The comment section started flowing vigorously.
:Strong from the start
The opponent is the Demon King, you know
Since she spent 287 hours coming to see him, she knows that better than anyone.
The battle BGM isn’t playing
She really got in through conversation.
After observing the protagonist for a while, the Demon King quietly asked.
“Then what did you come here for?”
EL didn’t hesitate.
“I’ve come to talk about how to end the war.”
The comments that would normally fill the screen suddenly slowed down, just for that moment.
◇
[EL Demon King Meeting Live Commentary]
842: Anonymous Descendant
The meeting really started without any battle BGM playing.
Apparently, even after coming this far, she’s planning to leave having only talked.
843: Nameless Descendant
EL has brought out her materials.
844: Anonymous Descendant
What kind of materials?
845: Anonymous Descendant
Trade volume between the two sides, prisoners, refugees, estimated war casualties, the Demon King’s army’s food stockpiles, and humanity’s financial situation
Looks like she brought all the numbers she’s been researching until now.
846: Anonymous Descendant
The scale of this 287-hour independent research presentation is way too big to be giving to the Demon King.
847: Anonymous Descendant
EL explained that “both sides will find it difficult to achieve a decisive victory as things stand.”
She’s analyzing the war situation to the Demon King’s face like it’s nothing.
848: Nameless Descendant
This is the moment when the AI setting suits her best.
849: Anonymous Descendant
She predicts that the Demon King’s Army will face severe food shortages in the three northern regions by winter.
It seems humanity can’t maintain its current military spending next fiscal year either.
850: Anonymous Descendant
Isn’t she only collecting the numbers that are convenient because she wants peace?
851: Nameless Descendant
＞＞８５０
The Demon King himself asked the same thing
EL said she put all the numbers that were unfavorable to the kingdom’s side in the same document.
852: Anonymous Descendant
Not hiding that part is likable.
853: Anonymous Descendant
The Demon King asked, “Is there a guarantee that humans will keep their promises?”
That’s what Gardios has been worried about all along, isn’t it?
854: Anonymous Descendant
EL’s answer was, “There’s no guarantee.”
Please put in a little more effort as a salesperson
855: Anonymous Descendant
Listen to the rest
“So first, I’ll create a system where the side that breaks the promise suffers a big loss.”
856: Anonymous Descendant
Instead of seeking trust, she’s building up interests so that betrayal doesn’t pay?
857: Anonymous Descendant
She’s also presented a draft treaty.
Establishing a common market in three border cities and sending inspectors from both sides
It includes a full prisoner exchange, a ban on attacking religious facilities, freedom for refugees to return, and partial demilitarization of border fortresses.
858: Nameless Descendant
What happens if someone breaks the treaty?
859: Anonymous Descendant
The Human Merchant Union and the Demon Merchant Association halt trade with the violating side
Local lords and the moderate church factions also stop cooperating with the side that breaks the treaty
On the Demon King’s side, three generals including Gardios have already agreed
860: Anonymous Descendant
What about Leon?
861: Nameless Descendant
Signed on as humanity’s military observer
862: Anonymous Descendant
It’s amazing that Leon and Gardios, who were killing each other in Weiss’s world, are listed on the same agreement.
863: Anonymous Descendant
When did she prepare all of this?
864: Anonymous Descendant
This is the result of 287 hours of nonstop playing
865: Anonymous Descendant
When you put it like that, it’s long, but it’s the most convincing explanation.
866: Anonymous Descendant
Almost everything she’s done so far connects to this moment, doesn’t it?
Prisoner exchanges, merchants, churches, refugees, and even her relations with the generals are all bargaining chips.
867: Anonymous Descendant
But EL wasn’t aiming for this from the start, right?
868: Anonymous Descendant
That’s the most interesting part
The detour that started with grandma’s medicinal herbs has turned into material for peace before anyone knew it.
869: Anonymous Descendant
Playing devil’s advocate, I think it’s just a bit too neat.
The story is so beautiful that it looks like the game is leaning toward EL.
870: Anonymous Descendant
＞＞８６９
The NPCs Eric helped gathered for his final advance of their own judgment too.
SAGA is a game where the outcome has always been the result of what you’ve built up.
871: Nameless Descendant
It only looks beautiful because we forget about the failures and unrelated detours over those 287 hours.
The three hours spent chasing cats have nothing to do with peace
872: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t treat cats as waste.
873: Anonymous Descendant
They weren’t necessary for world peace, but EL herself probably needed them.
874: Anonymous Descendant
If that’s the logic, it can’t be helped.
◇
The Demon King did not accept the terms on the spot.
He read through the materials, checked whether humanity was bearing the same burden, and even asked what would happen if humanity invaded again after the treaty was signed.
EL did not rush her answers. One by one, she explained the information she had gathered and the agreements she had already secured.
Eventually, the Demon King lifted his face from the document.
“Let me ask you something.”
“Yes.”
“Did you offer the same terms to the human king?”
“I did.”
“Did the king accept them?”
“At first, he turned me down.”
The Demon King’s eyebrows rose slightly.
“Then why have you brought them here now?”
“After being refused, I spoke with the chancellor, the crown prince, the local lords, the merchant guilds, the church, and military officials. We went over what they saw as problems and gradually adjusted the conditions until they were acceptable.”
“And then, what about the king?”
“I asked him again.”
“And he accepted the second time?”
“Yes. Compared to the first time, he had more to lose if he refused.”
◇
875: Anonymous Descendant
Isn’t the way she said that just now a bit scary?
876: Anonymous Descendant
Which part?
877: Anonymous Descendant
“He had more to lose if he refused.”
That’s not something you say with a smile.
878: Anonymous Descendant
She didn’t use any violence, but she’d already won over everyone around the king first.
879: Nameless Descendant
A non-physical encirclement
880: Anonymous Descendant
If it were Crow, he’d sneak into the bedroom
EL persuades the merchants, the priests, and the vizier first
881: Anonymous Descendant
Different directions, but both are scary
882: Nameless Descendant
If it were Goldman, he’d probably buy up the king’s debt.
883: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t say things that sound plausible.
884: Anonymous Descendant
If it were Seil, his army would surround the royal capital, so if you line up the past clearers, EL looks the most moderate.
885: Anonymous Descendant
The comparison group has terrible public safety
886: Anonymous Descendant
Only Eric is pretty normal.
887: Anonymous Descendant
The player who charges the Demon King’s castle head-on with the holy sword usually ends up the standard.
888: Anonymous Descendant
EL isn’t doing anything scary either.
She just crushed each reason for opposition one by one.
889: Anonymous Descendant
We’re saying that “just” is the scary part.
890: Anonymous Descendant
I’ll give an opposing opinion too, but this diplomatic omnipotence feels a bit off.
In reality, interests are much more complicated, and it’s not like you can perfectly persuade everyone
891: Anonymous Descendant
＞＞８９０
She hasn’t convinced everyone in the game either.
The Crown Prince is still opposed to peace, and the hardliners in the church remain hostile.
It’s not that they’ve grown closer; they’re just accepting it because breaking the treaty would cost them.
892: Anonymous Descendant
That actually makes sense
893: Anonymous Descendant
EL also said before that instead of “we understood each other,” she wanted to create a state where they couldn’t fight even if they thought differently.
894: Anonymous Descendant
That way of thinking is really what I like about this peace route.
◇
The Demon King kept his eyes on the documents, deep in thought for a while.
Eventually, he looked up and asked EL’s protagonist.
“You’re not a hero, are you?”
“I don’t think so.”
“You didn’t come to kill me with a holy sword raised high, like the hero Alberto.”
“No.”
“Then, who are you?”
EL didn’t answer right away and thought for a moment.
“I chose whatever caught my attention rather than the role someone else assigned me, and that’s how I got this far.”
When the Demon King heard her answer, he chuckled softly.
“In that case, you’re not a hero, but a traveler.”
“I like that way of calling me.”
◇
895: Anonymous Descendant
I really like that “traveler”
896: Anonymous Descendant
EL herself is the player, but from the protagonist’s perspective, she really has been a traveler all along.
897: Anonymous Descendant
SAGA’s conversation system doesn’t pass out-of-world words directly to NPCs but converts them into concepts the protagonist knows, and that’s strong in situations like this.
898: Anonymous Descendant
I’ve thought so since release, but the conversation processing is insane
899: Nameless Descendant
I can’t tell if you’re complimenting it or scared of it.
900: Anonymous Descendant
In this game, those basically mean the same thing.
◇
The Demon King rose from his throne and picked up one of the documents EL had brought.
“We fought to survive. We fought to defend our territory. We believed that if we didn’t take before it was taken from us, we would eventually be destroyed.”
“There were people on the human side who thought the same way.”
“I suppose so.”
After a wry smile, the Demon King glanced down at the paper with the food stockpile predictions.
“But if continuing to fight means our people starve and your country becomes unsustainable, then it can no longer be called a battle for survival.”
EL didn’t interrupt, waiting for the Demon King to continue.
“I don’t think all your conditions are right. I don’t trust humans either. Still, if breaking the promise means we lose something and humans lose just as much, then it’s worth trying.”
The Demon King returned the documents to the desk.
“If not fighting means more people can survive, then there’s no reason to fight here and now.”
The screen slowly went dark.
◇
901: Anonymous Descendant
The screen went dark—did this go into the ending movie?
902: Anonymous Descendant
The BGM changed, so I guess so.
903: Anonymous Descendant
She’s going to clear the game with the Demon King still alive?
904: Anonymous Descendant
Will this be treated as the first peace clear since Seil?
905: Anonymous Descendant
Classification-wise they’re similar, but I think the content is completely different.
Seil made peace after militarily subjugating five countries
EL didn’t even win a single military victory.
906: Anonymous Descendant
If someone asks me how she cleared this, how should I answer?
907: Nameless Descendant
Talked with people for 287 hours
908: Anonymous Descendant
It’s annoying that the explanation is rough but mostly correct.
909: Nameless Descendant
It’s like a strategy that’s the antonym of an RTA.
910: Anonymous Descendant
I kind of like the name Long Talk Adventure.
911: Anonymous Descendant
Even the Time Attack part is gone, but I want to use it just this once.
912: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t add weird categories to the wiki.
◇
In the ending, the people EL had been involved with over the 287 hours were shown one after another.
The first thing that appeared was the newly established joint market in a border city.
Human and demon merchants had been arguing over the prices of goods since the first day of peace. An official dispatched as an inspector stepped in, and since neither side would back down, he’d had a rough time from the very first day.
What EL had created was not a world where everyone suddenly got along.
They still fought. Their interests still clashed.
Even so, it was a place where no one had to draw a sword.
In the next scene, in a provincial city, a human priest was handing medicine to a demon child.
The young soldier who had been waiting for orders on the highway early on had returned to the royal capital and reunited with the little sister he had always worried about.
In the north, Leon Grunts attended the Border Conference as humanity’s observer.
In some worlds he died on the tenth day of the game, and in Weiss’s world he became the great hero who defeated the Demon King, but in EL’s world, he held documents instead of a sword and faced the demon general.
Sitting across from him was Gardios.
Even before the meeting began, the two of them looked displeased, but still, neither left their seat.
The innkeeper’s daughter also appeared.
She was married and running a slightly larger inn with her father. The two argued over room rates, just as they always had.
Finally, when the screen returned to the first village, the old woman was sitting in front of a small herb garden, teaching the neighborhood children how to pick medicinal herbs.
◇
913: Anonymous Descendant
Leon made it to the end alive.
914: Anonymous Descendant
Hey, guy whose Leon died on the tenth day in his world—how do you feel now?
915: Anonymous Descendant
Don’t call on me every time.
But this time, I’m just genuinely happy.
916: Anonymous Descendant
The man who defeated the Demon King in Weiss’s world is a peace observer in EL’s world, which is nice.
917: Anonymous Descendant
It’s also great that he sits at the same desk as Gardios.
In another world, these two would be killing each other.
918: Nameless Descendant
The Birthday Dried Meat General survived until the very end.
919: Anonymous Descendant
Are you planning to keep calling him that all the way through the ending?
920: Nameless Descendant
The innkeeper’s daughter also appeared
I’m relieved she and her father are still arguing over prices.
921: Anonymous Descendant
The grandma from the start has built a herb garden now, hasn’t she?
That hits hard for those who’ve watched since the first stream.
922: Anonymous Descendant
It’s impressive how the NPCs from 287 hours of watching are finally all shown at once.
923: Anonymous Descendant
It seems the focus isn’t on everyone EL’s talked to so far, but on those who were deeply involved in this peace and the change in the world.
924: Anonymous Descendant
So the cat didn’t show up?
925: Nameless Descendant
Don’t demand an ending for cats too
926: Anonymous Descendant
I was on the skeptic side, but seeing Leon and Gardios in the same meeting got to me
927: Anonymous Descendant
Now that peace has been achieved, even the haters have called a temporary ceasefire.
928: Anonymous Descendant
That joke is a bit weak.
929: Anonymous Descendant
Harsh reviews despite peace being achieved
◇
Just as the ending came to a close, the screen went black.
The first thing displayed,
“Demon King Hunt: Not Achieved”
appeared in white letters.
The comment section sped up all at once.
So that’s definitely not achieved lol
She never hit him even once.
Playing for 287 hours without defeating him and still getting a clear screen is way too funny.
There’s more.
Next,
《Large-scale War: End》
Then,
《Human-Demon Ceasefire Agreement: Established》
was displayed.
After a brief pause at the end,
《Clear》
appeared in the center of the screen.
◇
[《FRONTIER SAGA》 General Part 402]
684: Anonymous Descendant
The official clear screen is out, so here’s a summary
Demon King survived, Human King survived, Gardios survived, Leon survived
EL herself: zero defeats, zero battles participated in
Final level 7, 287 hours of playtime
685: Anonymous Descendant
Level 7 after 287 hours of play—what exactly was she doing?
686: Anonymous Descendant
She talked to people, read books, listened to business talk, made treaties, read scriptures, talked with people again, and sometimes chased cats
687: Anonymous Descendant
That last one suddenly has nothing to do with peace.
688: Anonymous Descendant
Apparently, the cats account for about three hours in total
689: Anonymous Descendant
Were those three hours necessary for achieving peace?
690: Anonymous Descendant
The world didn’t need them
EL did
691: Anonymous Descendant
If that’s the answer, I have no choice but to accept it.
692: Anonymous Descendant
When you compare it with the past clears, it really looks like a completely different game.
Eric breaks through head-on with the holy sword
Crow goes undercover for two and a half years and then assassinates
Weiss’s allied force of 37,000
Goldman imposes an economic blockade
Seil teams up with the Demon King’s army to subjugate five countries and make peace.
EL talks for 287 hours and makes peace
693: Anonymous Descendant
Lined up like this, Eric is abnormally normal
694: Nameless Descendant
A game where the classic hero is treated as a rare beast
695: Anonymous Descendant
Calling it the EL route feels a bit off.
It’s not a fixed path; it’s the result of her making her own choices on the spot.
696: Anonymous Descendant
It feels more like EL’s world history than a strategy route.
697: Anonymous Descendant
To be honest, 287 hours is too long for an average player.
I have absolutely no desire to play the same way
698: Anonymous Descendant
I think that’s just right.
699: Anonymous Descendant
But watching it on the stream was incredibly fun.
700: Anonymous Descendant
And that’s just right too.
701: Anonymous Descendant
The strategy you want to do yourself and the strategy you want to watch in someone else’s world are two different things.
702: Anonymous Descendant
I want to defeat the Demon King, but I have this contradictory feeling of wanting EL to take another 200-hour detour.
◇
[About the clear classification of the Walkthrough Wiki EL World]
1: Nameless Descendant
How will this clear be treated on the wiki?
I think Peace, Diplomacy, Pacifist, and No Combat are the candidates.
2: Anonymous Descendant
I’d like to propose Talk% just in case.
3: Nameless Descendant
Don’t bring weird categories into a serious classification meeting.
4: Anonymous Descendant
The problem is how to reproduce it more than how to classify it.
Could I do the same thing if I wanted to?
5: Anonymous Descendant
I think it’s almost impossible under the current circumstances.
6: Nameless Descendant
Why is it so hard to reproduce?
7: Nameless Descendant
By the time prisoner exchanges start, the surviving NPCs are different in each world.
There are worlds where Leon is dead, and other worlds where Gardios is killed first.
The relationships between religious factions and the economic situation are different, and even the crown prince’s way of thinking changes based on his experiences.
There’s no guarantee you’ll find the same bargaining chips
8: Anonymous Descendant
Then what should we write on the Strategy Wiki?
9: Anonymous Descendant
“Talk a lot with the people you’re interested in”
10: Anonymous Descendant
It’s turned into a strategy like 《Pettan Forest》’s.
11: Anonymous Descendant
If you think of it as returning to basics, it’s not a bad thing
12: Nameless Descendant
But it’s a problem that I can’t write anything more accurate than that.
13: Anonymous Descendant
Wiki, have you given up on strategy again?
14: Anonymous Descendant
It’s been giving up since the fourth day after release
15: Nameless Descendant
Then stop calling yourself a Strategy Wiki.
16: Anonymous Descendant
Recently, the homepage has “World Observation Records” written on it in big letters.
17: Anonymous Descendant
Seriously, you’ve lost all intention of doing strategy now.
◇
[VTuber Board EL’s 《FRONTIER SAGA》 Final Episode, 310,000 Concurrent Viewers]
583: Anonymous viewer
Is it true that 310,000 people were watching for real?
EL has only been active for a few months, right?
584: Anonymous Viewer
What a strange way to grow
585: Anonymous Viewer
No wonder she’s growing.
Her model tech is incomprehensible, her gaming is incomprehensible, and she herself is interested in strange things
586: Anonymous viewer
Isn’t that all nonsense?
587: Anonymous Viewer
But since it’s fun as a stream, I end up watching anyway.
588: Anonymous Viewer
The AI setting really stands out in negotiation streams like today’s.
It fits perfectly when she lines up numbers and explains with a straight face, “If both sides keep going, it’s a loss.”
589: Anonymous viewer
Yet when the innkeeper’s daughter gets married, she almost cries, and if there’s a cat, she drops her plans.
The setting and the character’s hobbies are way too mixed up.
590: Anonymous Viewer
Isn’t that what makes the character so good?
591: Anonymous Viewer
The person inside must really love games.
592: Anonymous Viewer
Since she set a world record in 《CRAFT RUNNERS》, there’s no doubt she’s good at games.
593: Anonymous viewer
She hasn’t fought even once in SAGA, though.
594: Anonymous viewer
Being good at games and progressing efficiently are two different things, right?
595: Anonymous Viewer
I never expected the girl who said “I’ll defeat the Demon King” in her first stream to come back two months later having made a treaty with the Demon King
596: Anonymous Viewer
Just looking at the results, it’s a grand title scam.
597: Anonymous Viewer
She didn’t defeat the Demon King, but the war has ended, so please let it slide.
598: Anonymous Viewer
Don’t try to cover it up poetically.
599: Anonymous Viewer
I kind of like that way of putting it, though.
600: Anonymous viewer
Don’t let them off so easily
601: Anonymous Viewer
I’m looking forward to her starting a detour on the very first day again in the next game.
◇
[EL Clipping: ‘Defeating the Demon King’ →287 hours later]
1: Anonymous Viewer
It was a grand title scam from the very first title, which made me laugh.
2: Anonymous viewer
She didn’t defeat the Demon King.
The war is over
3: Anonymous Viewer
Was this game originally like that?
4: Anonymous Descendant
That’s a little different
5: Anonymous Viewer
An explanation from a veteran has arrived
6: Anonymous Descendant
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It’s not “that kind of game,” but rather “a game that can be played that way.”
Doing the same thing in a different save doesn’t guarantee the same result
7: Anonymous Viewer
After that explanation, I’m even more confused about what this game really is
8: Anonymous Descendant
You can also play it normally as a hero like Eric, wielding the holy sword to defeat the Demon King.
9: Anonymous viewer
Please give me that kind of clear example first.
10: Nameless Descendant
In 《FRONTIER SAGA》, Eric has recently started to look like the one playing in the most unusual way.
11: Anonymous Viewer
A game where classic heroes become a rare species is scary
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After the stream ended, a video was posted to EL’s channel.
[《FRONTIER SAGA》] Ended the war without defeating the Demon King
The thumbnail showed the Demon King and the human king placed on either side, with EL smiling a slightly troubled smile between them.
In the center, large text reading “Defeat Count: 0” was displayed.
Within an hour of posting, the view count exceeded 620,000, and the number of likes rose to 180,000.
In the comment section, people who had been watching since the first stream and those who had only watched the final episode after hearing about it were mixed together.
First stream “Defeating the Demon King”
It’s hilarious how it ended after 287 hours of play without a single battle.
The grandma from the beginning making a herb garden at the end made me cry.
Leon and Gardios meeting at the same desk really hits if you know the past routes
It’s amazing how it looks like all 287 hours were foreshadowing.
:This isn’t foreshadowing, EL just kept talking to people she was interested in.
And it’s amazing that everything connected in the end.
:It seems similar to Seil’s peace, but it’s totally different.
Seil fought for peace, but EL played around building relationships that just happened to be usable for peace.
The latter explanation is terrible, but I can’t deny it.
Even though it’s an AI setting, I like how she spends more time talking with people than anyone else.
It’s interesting because the setting has her starting from “Why do humans do things like this?”
Among the comments that received the most likes, one read:
Even though it’s a game about defeating the Demon King, I think you were able to reach this ending because you didn’t assume from the start that the Demon King was the enemy, and didn’t decide what the other side was thinking until you actually met and talked.
After a while, EL herself replied.
“Yes. If you don’t talk to someone, you won’t know what they’re thinking.”
Another viewer replied.
So that’s why it took 287 hours.
EL replied right away.
“Yes. I don’t think there’s any problem with that.”
Reflect a little
“No, I won’t.”
That exchange also received about as many likes as the video itself.