The next day.
Every descendant, inheritor, passerby, believer, and fraudster with broken trust from each civilization was preparing for the civilization contest the next day.
Some had already become basically compatible with the civilization they had chosen—they could manually outplay high-level AI and believed that most players couldn't reach the level of high-level AI, which was frankly the truth.
There were so many participants that the first round could indeed be described as "gods battling it out." By then, a bunch of people would find their homelands wiped out before they even got into the swing of things due to all sorts of events.
To prevent such baffling deaths from happening,
the contestants decided to seek a little outside help.
A small loan was not considered borrowing, but a big loan... what loan, that's my own power!
Putting it in terms of cheating, the idea was the same!
