Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu (Kyouwakoku-hen) - Ch. 5

[finalm]

The tree is foundation of this country. It favors a small selection of people it marks. This gives that selection of people additional powers beyond magic. With it this doofus was able to beat up one of Marie's chucklefucks (who are VERY good at fighting) like it was nothing.

This creates your typical scenario from proverbial dating sim of terrible nobles lording over the heroine with their bullshit power. It's just that this time MC group is on the recieving end.

And yeah, it is INCREDIBLY unfair. Even in manga characters are stumped that it worked because they themselves said it was not theirs, but the tree has it's favourites.

The reason that a rando can't get the whole Republic is because the rest of the elite are also tree favorites so they are more likely to loose if they tangle with those.

Yes, this is veeeeeeeeeerrry heavy handed, but a typical trope in these kind of settings.

The one thing to consider is, why was Luxion included in the bargain. Not like the boat in question is Luxion's main unit. Nor did Piere and his crowd know of his existence.

He wasn't, it's a scheme he came up with. He gives the impression that he's bound to the ship, while it's the other way around. The tree can't really compell anybody in any way beyond the threat of retribution if the terms are broken. Luxion could simply lock down the ship, making it worthless, but then the guy would go after the MC using the same tactic, so it's a losing situation. This way gives them the potential to manouver.

 

[finalm]

Swear on the sacred tree
We will accept the duel, but the ship...

This is either bad writing, or the sacred tree is not very sacred. It's common for oaths made on anything sacred to be prefaced with something like "I hereby swear this oath on the sacred whatever." Yet this "sacred tree" accepted the duel before they were even able to finish their sentence, let alone actually swear on the sacred tree.

It's not sacred. It's an artifact of the same civilization that created Luxion, designed for specific purposes.

 

[Astra_Starwalker]

It's not sacred. It's an artifact of the same civilization that created Luxion, designed for specific purposes.

So the bully was just spouting nonsense by calling it "the sacred tree"?
I wouldn't put it past them, him being a bully and all that.
But what, then, is it that triggers the tree to know to bind someone to a pact/oath/deal?

 

[darkalpha]

It's an otome game so it doesn't matter if nothing makes sense?

OMG, it's been ages since I've seen this guy. So long that I've forgotten who he is as well the title of manga he featured in. But I sincerely remember that reading it was a blast.

Actually, Google Lens came to the rescue- it's Joukyuu Kunitoshi from Aiki manga.

 

[finalm]

So the bully was just spouting nonsense by calling it "the sacred tree"?
I wouldn't put it past them, him being a bully and all that.
But what, then, is it that triggers the tree to know to bind someone to a pact/oath/deal?

Kind of. The Alzer Republic has been calling it that for untold generations, so he just doesn't know better. In short, they don't understand what they have, but that does not prevent them from using it. That makes sense in the context of the story, since it was previously established that all lost tech is by definition incomprehensible to the current humanity, though not necesarily unusable or particularily powerful. For example, conventional, combustion-based firearms have been found in various ruins in that world and no one (other than perhaps reincarnators) knows how they are able to function. They aren't in any real demand though, since the magi-tec versions they already had, that shoot magic bullets, are considered superior. Same thing with Leon's Arroganz - when the school first saw it during his duels they knew right away it was lost tech, because similar ones were discovered by adventurers. They still mocked him for it being too bulky and unwieldy to be a challenge for the speed-optimized magic versions of the prince's entourage. They didn't expect the performance to be anywhere near to what it really was.

The tree responds to the bearers of it's crest, in this case the nobles from the country's great houses, Pierre is one of them. This is why they have absolute authority and even powers beyond the magic available to all New Humans. In other words, a non-bearer has almost no chance against them in all-out, conventional combat - this is why no other country has ever beaten Alzer, when fighting within the tree's radious of influence, it allows them to annihilate entire armies.

 

[iamdestro]

yeah nah im 100% sure luxion is not letting a new blood riding arrogant. This is probably a ploy by leon and luxion

 

[Artimid]

That's one thing. But then, when they agree to the duel, you somehow get to decide that the rules of the duel dictate that the opponents must kill themselves. WTF?

We get it. The nobles are assholes. But we really don't need such contrived, idiotic crap to portray that fact.

This right here is my thought. The Sacred Tree enforces promises that aren't made against an entire group when only one person agrees?

So get recognized by the tree, bet one person and enslave the entire continent, or make them all kill each other until only the last remains? This is just too stupid.

 

[Zeemigoo]

Hey bro let’s wager on the sacred tree that if I win I get ownership of [insert random billionaire here]’s house
Sacred tree: sounds legit