Chapter 198: Unlimited Advancement Qualifications for Chess Types
[According to the determined voyage sequence, the next island the hot air balloon will go to is the Blue Flame Stone Statue Island. It is expected to arrive at the island in 24 hours. Investigators, please prepare in advance.]
Anson Deer came to the cab, opened the investigator's booklet, and found that the information sheet about the "Fantastic Beast Island" was already filled with information about the various chess species they had encountered.
Whether or not the information is fully filled out will directly affect the "universal reward" of the settlement section.
As for the person who filled in the information, it must be Jiang Yiji - his observation and memory are very good. Just by accompanying Anson Deer on a tour around the island, he memorized the data of most of the magical creatures.
When filling in the information, Jiang Yiji would also ask Anson Lu about the places he had neglected - after all, this was a serial copy of Anson Lu, and he had seen most of the chess types.
For example, for the invisible chess game like "Exploding Rat", Anson Deer can provide some information. They observed the rat on the island for a long time but it was difficult to get data.
“Refreshed.”
The data sheet flashed in front of him. Anson Lu raised his eyebrows and looked at the upper right corner of the data sheet. The system's "accuracy score" had come out - the accuracy score of this data sheet was 99%.
[The survey data was evaluated and scored for its level of detail.]
[The rewards for the first investigation task "Investigation of Magical Beast Island" are being calculated...]
[The rewards have been settled. All players who participated in the investigation mission will receive: 40,000 Evolution Coins, 30,000 Experience Points, and 30 Magical Beast Bond Badges (Legendary Materials)]
[The following is a system prompt tone that only you can hear. 】
[Sequence player "Old Chess Player" additionally receives:
1. Complete the "Fantastic Animal Chess Set" and get 1 "Fantastic Animal Chess" that you don't have yet (Chess you don't have yet: rare chess - vicious elk, common chess - small snow deer, rare chess - thunder and lightning bleat, rare chess - blazing horse, epic chess - scorpion-tailed rhino, etc.)]
2. "Animal Crossing" chessboard.
3. Unlimited advancement qualification for "Alien Kangaroo" (optional) (Please consider carefully. In the sequence copy, every time you complete the four investigation tasks you choose, you have the opportunity to make the corresponding "protagonist chess species" obtain unlimited advancement qualification - but only one chess species can enjoy "unlimited advancement qualification". Once it is decided, the subsequent "protagonist chess species" will no longer have the opportunity to obtain the qualification)]
[Note 1 about the third reward: After granting a chess type "unlimited advancement qualifications", the chess type will be able to surpass its original quality level through a series of conditions, and can reach the "Final Level" at the highest.]
[Note 2 about the third reward: If special conditions are triggered, unlimited advancement qualifications can be used for chess types that have not yet been born, provided that you must have a crafting scroll for that chess type.]
Huh... unlimited advancement qualifications?
Anson Lu was somewhat surprised and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He knew the importance of this choice, so he thought about it carefully in his mind.
In other words, it allows chess to have unlimited possibilities for improvement?
However, most of the mechanisms are similar to the previous upgrades. You have to pay a lot of materials to improve the quality of the chess pieces, right? But the highest upgrade to the final level is too exaggerated...
However, you can only choose one chess type from four. I can't give it to Kangaroo. Its skill mechanism is too poor, and it seems that it will be of little use after it evolves.
"Gah!"
"Forcefully take back the chess species."
After Anson Deer held down the kangaroo that suddenly jumped out, he continued to think.
Logically speaking... the four investigation tasks I have chosen now represent the four main chess pieces, which are most likely "Alien Kangaroo", "Stone Statue of the Queen" or "Stone Statue of the King", "Captain of the Dragon Sailboat" and "Santa Claus".
In other words, as long as I complete the next investigation task, I can pick one of these chess pieces and grant it "qualification for unlimited advancement."
For some reason, Anson Lu's thoughts flowed to this point, and he suddenly remembered the rumored "little girl next to the principal". He had previously speculated through some details that the little girl was the principal's chess player.
At this moment, his outstanding intuition connected the girl and the "unlimited advancement qualifications" in front of him.
These are two seemingly unrelated points, but they are closely connected in his mind.
"According to this meaning, the girl following the principal is also the product of a certain chess species that has undergone 'infinite advancement'?"
"So, she should also be in one of the chess types I can choose to investigate, and she has to be the 'main character chess type'?"
Thinking of this, Anson Lu flipped through the booklet in his hand and glanced over the table of contents of the questionnaire.
The eight investigation tasks available for selection are: 1. Investigation of the Dragon Mountains; 2. Observation of the Blue Flame Stone Statue Island; 3. The whereabouts of the Dragon Sail Pirates; 4. Investigation of the Alien Omnivore Restaurant; 5. Investigation of the Legendary Arctic Ocean; 6. Investigation of the Runaway Volcano Beast; 7. Investigation of the Magical Beast Island; 8. Investigation of the Fantasy Christmas.
Apart from the selected quest, the first quest may correspond to "Dragon of Dark Light";
The fourth task corresponds to the "Alien Creature Chess Group";
The fifth task corresponds to the "Icelandic Chess Group";
The sixth mission is still unknown, and its name doesn’t reveal what it is. None of the chess pieces in Anson Deer’s chess library have anything to do with the “Rampaging Volcano Beast”.
In any case, at a glance, there is no investigation task that may be related to "time-travel chess".
"That shouldn't be the case... It seems like none of my four chess pieces have anything to do with time travel, not to mention that the final chess piece will turn into a little girl. It can't be that Santa Claus has regained his youth?"
Anson Lu nodded and pondered.
"If that's the case, then why does the principal have the task of investigating that chess piece? Logically, that girl should be related to 'time travel', but so far, I don't have any chess pieces or forging scrolls related to 'time travel', okay?"
Anson Lu was soon relieved of this confusion... By the way, the principal may not have encountered the "sequence copy" in the seventh round of copies. He may have triggered the sequence copy in the subsequent rounds of copies.
At that time, the principal should have had the "chess species with the ability to travel through time and space" or the "scroll for crafting a chess species with the ability to travel through time and space" in his hands... Therefore, the principal had created the investigation task for that chess species in the sequence copy and granted her the authority for unlimited evolution.
In the end, this chess piece evolved into the little girl in the legend, who accompanied the principal until the last moment of his life?
This is the conclusion that Anson Lu came to using his intuition along the way.
He also found it very strange, and he sorted out his thoughts by letting it go.
Logically speaking, his intuition cannot be used to deduce what will happen in the future - perhaps it is because these things that happened to the principal, in a sense, are already "things that happened in the past", so he can use his intuition to deduce them.
"It doesn't matter, anyway I won't follow that old guy's path." Anson Lu closed the book and said calmly:
"I won't leave myself a way out. Going back in time is for cowards."
"Well, since he chose the chess piece with 'Infinite Advancement', I have to choose something else." He rested his hand on his chin.
After a pause, he scratched his messy hair and said, "Ah, it's better to say that I am not qualified to follow his old path. After all, the four investigation tasks have been decided..."
[Please decide whether to grant unlimited advancement qualifications to the chess species "Alien Kangaroo"? (Reminder: If you fail to complete the subsequent investigation tasks, you may miss the possibility of "unlimited advancement qualifications for chess species"). ]
The system prompt sounded, as if urging Anson Deer to make a choice.
It also has another meaning: If you do not choose the "Alien Kangaroo" and fail the next three investigation tasks, it is equivalent to directly missing this precious advancement qualification.
"No, no, no, forget about the kangaroo." Anson Deer twisted his stiff neck and said quickly, "I have other candidates in mind."
"Gah!"
"Forcefully take back the chess species."
[The "Unlimited Advancement Qualification" has been retained. As long as the subsequent investigation tasks are completed, the "Unlimited Advancement Qualification" can still be granted to specific chess types. ]
"That's it for now." Anson Lu opened the chessboard panel and took a look at the chessboard he had just obtained.
[Board name: Animal Crossing Board (On this board, the overall attributes of magical animals are increased by 10 points). ]
"That's quite exaggerated." Anson Deer thought for a moment: "With ten comprehensive attributes and the blue bird, it would be another monster army..."
He wasn't too interested in the new pieces in the Fantastic Beasts chess set, but he still took a look at them.
The skills of each chess piece are relatively mediocre, and the same goes for the epic rhino, which does not deviate from the range of abilities that their qualities should possess.
However, once with the blessing of Future Bluebird and the Animal Crossing chessboard, these seemingly mediocre animal chess pieces can be transformed and play an amazing role.
Anson Lu now understands a little bit:
Compared to these chess pieces with mediocre attributes and skills, those chess pieces with three-egg attributes can bring him unexpected surprises.
After all, with such attributes, the skills must be extraordinary, and the balance of the game is there.
Just as he was checking the chess library panel, the system prompt sounded again in his ears.
[Excluding the chess pieces you have placed in your collection (Raging Knight, Knight of the Round Table, Proud Knight, etc.), the total number of chess pieces in your chess collection has exceeded 30. You must select 30 of them to build a chess set. ]
The collection library is independent of the chess library. As the name suggests, the chess pieces placed in it are only for collection.
Ansen Lu was not very surprised when he heard the prompt sound - Ansen Lu had told him this at the beginning, and even ridiculed him for playing for so long but still having less than thirty chess pieces.
He was really too lazy to draw chess packs and just wanted to save money to draw more advanced chess packs - after all, the chess pieces he had were strong enough, and he was not like Ansenlu who burned, killed and looted, and had an inexhaustible supply of evolution coins.
The two people have different resource conditions, so the number of chess pieces they have cannot be compared.
However, after taking ten "Knight Chess Pieces" from Anson Lu, Anson Lu already had a total of thirty chess pieces.
It was just for convenience that he put those chess pieces in a "collection library" independent of the chess library to collect dust, so they were not counted in the "total number of chess pieces".
Now that the magical beast chess set has been added, his chess set naturally has 30 pieces overrun, for a total of 33 pieces, 3 more than necessary, so he must take out 3 pieces from it.
[Ice Ocean Chess Set: Floating Fish in the Tank (1 piece), Ice Ocean Lighthouse (1 piece), Jellyfish in the Tank (1 piece), Ice Ocean Sentry Tower (1 piece)]
[Fantastic Beasts Group: Exploding Rat (1), Different Dimension Kangaroo (1), Vicious Elk (1), Little Snow Deer (1), Different Dimension Owl (1), Cat in a Cage (1), Lightning Bleat (1), Fiery Horse (1), Scorpion-Tailed Rhino (1). ]
[No chess set: Dark Light Dragon (1 piece), Lion Beast Adaptive Device - V1594 (1 piece), Grey Shadow (1 piece), Kachi Tombstone (1 piece), Bone Hedgehog (1 piece)]
[Blue Flame Stone Statue Chess Set: King Stone Statue (1), Queen Stone Statue (1), Knight Stone Statue (2), Bishop Stone Statue (1), Pawn Stone Statue (1), Cannon Cart Stone Statue (2)]
[Christmas Legend Chess Set: Christmas Sleigh (1 piece)]
[Savior Team Chess Set: Future Bluebird (1 piece)]
[Alien Creature Chess Set: Red Spider Eggs (2 pieces), Crab Gun Master (1 piece)]
[Dragon Sail Pirates Chess Set: Dragon Sail Captain (1 piece), Dragon Sail Pirates - One-eyed Parrot (1 piece)]
Anson Deer took a quick look and didn't need to think about it. He directly removed a knight statue, a cannon cart statue, and a red spider egg, so that the chess set was exactly 30 pieces.
All three chess pieces have two pieces, so removing one piece won't have much of an impact.
[The chess set has been built. Do you want to give it a name? ]
Anson Lu pinched his chin, raised his brows and thought for a moment, then read out a name that was uniquely Chinese in its simple and elegant style.
"My good countryman."
[It has been renamed as the "My Good Folks" chess set. This chess set is your first chess set and has a certain commemorative significance. The template construction has been recorded for your convenience in future review. ]
[After the chess library is full of 30 chess pieces, every time the old chess player unfolds the chess field, he must read out the command and choose a specific chess set he has built, or a random chess set (the system randomly selects 30 chess pieces from the chess library). ]
[Until the end of the chess domain, old chess players can only use the 30 chess pieces in the chess set and cannot obtain additional chess pieces from the chess library. ]
"That's quite a hassle, but 30 will definitely be enough," Anson Lu said.
To be honest, apart from the world boss battle, he really couldn't imagine any kind of battle that would allow him to use up all 30 pieces in his chess set.
After a moment, he closed the chess panel and breathed a sigh of relief.
According to the current development trend, there will be more and more chess pieces in the future, and the difficulty of chess group combinations will only become higher and higher. Low-intensity chess groups will be eliminated sooner or later, and the future will be the era of Red Tide-level chess and above.
Of course, as long as a chess piece has the "unlimited advancement qualifications" from a sequence copy, it can be used from beginning to end, because its quality can be infinitely improved.
It was noon. After Anson Lu returned to the hot air balloon airship, the airship took off again not long after. This time the target was the Blue Flame Stone Statue Island. On the way, he could also see many chess-type islands.
"The Queen's stone statue..." He raised his eyebrows and found that all the chess pieces in the Blue Flame Stone Statue chess set were disabled. It seemed that like the alien kangaroos, they had to complete the investigation mission before they could be released.
Time flies quickly. It is a real pleasure to watch the sunrise and moonset on a hot air balloon. The sky seems to be very close. You can touch the passing clouds with your hand. The sea breeze is so comfortable that it makes you almost melt.
Soon, the night deepened, the lonely bright moon hanging above the sea disappeared behind the clouds, and the sound of the sobbing tide came from the sea.
Anson Deer sat by the window, lowered his eyes and looked at the islands. The moonlight passed through the clouds and gently caressed his cheek. An inexplicable emotion surged in his heart. He opened his friend list and looked at the name of the Icelandic girl.
She has rarely been as close to Anson Lu as before recently, perhaps Yu Mingdao's death changed something.
Yuri became more and more normal. He was no longer like before, ignorant of the warmth and coldness of human nature, nor of... the sadness that death brings.
Although Ansen Lu acted very calm in front of her, she could see that the deaths of the principal and Yu Mingdao had happened at some time, which made Ansen Lu feel a little lost. It was just that he was too good at concealing himself, as he had been living like this since he was a child.
Anson Lu knew why she was avoiding him. At the ski resort in Hokkaido, he told her that it didn't matter if Yuri died because he didn't care about the people around him at all.
At that time, he will not be hurt, will not be in pain, will not be entangled, will not feel guilty, and will not be confused. He will only move forward without hesitation, shouldering the responsibilities he should shoulder and doing what he should do.
But the death of the principal was too much of a shock to him, and his personality gradually became complete.
He also knew that he could never be as strong as he was then.
Compared to people who were never close to each other in the first place, people who were closely connected will feel deeper pain when they are separated. Yuri understood this to some extent, so he kept his distance from him.
Anson Deer didn't stop him either.
He knew that everything had to wait until he could survive the Battle of Tokyo in three months and until everything was over.
Crossing the line before this and getting too close to this Icelandic girl with a countdown on her head would only further destroy your own mind, and when the dam collapses, the flood will only pour down even more violently.
Anson Deer withdrew his gaze from the sea, took a long breath, and patted his cheeks.
"Please... you must cheer up when the time comes, okay?" He said self-deprecatingly, "Once we kill the snow dragon, everything will be fine. Maybe the old principal and Uncle Yu Mingdao will come back together... and Yu Rui too."
He said this all night without sleeping.
Anson Lu got up from the bed, with messy hair, and walked to the corridor in confusion, just in time to meet Mo Xiaoyuan who came out of the room.
"The world's number one also suffers from insomnia?" Mo Xiaoyuan asked in a vague voice, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
"The most terrifying thing is that you will suffer from insomnia." Anson Lu said contemptuously.
"I just got up to go to the bathroom." Mo Xiaoyuan said calmly, "You can do whatever you want. I'm going back to sleep."
After saying that, he returned to the room and closed the door.
Anson Deer took the elevator to the third floor and used 5 evolution coins to open the restaurant cabin.
He put his hands in his pockets and looked around, as if he was estimating something.
Afterwards, Anson Deer unfolded the chessboard in the restaurant and released the pirate parrot, the dragon sailor captain, the cat in the cage, the alien owl, Little V, the Christmas sleigh, and the Darklight Dragon.
These are chess pieces whose favorability levels are not yet full, so he will release them when he has time to refresh the progress bar.
He was a little worried before whether the Darklight Dragon would be too big, but it was just the right size so as not to break through the ceiling of the restaurant.
All his chess pieces gathered in one room. Anson Lu gave them orders in his mind. Everyone understood each other very well and ate their own pieces.
Only the cat in the cage looked helpless, as it couldn't escape from the cage - the alien owl noticed this scene, picked up the tempura shrimp from the plate and spit it into the cage.
The favorability of chess pieces increases at different speeds. This value is not determined by quality, but only by personality.
The little black lion, whose body was covered with weapons, took a bite of a pancake and jumped into Anson Deer's arms. Like a kitten holding a mouse, it lowered its round head and nibbled quietly.
Anson rubbed its head and peeled two bananas with a knife, throwing them to the two reindeer pulling the sled.
The two reindeer bleated and ate all the bananas quickly.
At this moment, Xiao V's favorability has finally reached 100 points after so long of grinding.
[The favorability of the chess type "Lion Beast Adaptive Equipment - V1594" has reached the maximum, and the overall attributes have been increased by 1 point. Chess type attributes: Strength - 12→13 points; Agility - 12→13 points; Intelligence - 12→13 points. ]
Anson Deer took a look and murmured, "Just a little, but it's enough."
Because of the cooperation of Future Bluebird and Gray Earth Phantom, as long as Xiao V's attribute is increased by 1 point, the main attribute of other chess pieces can be increased by 4 points. This is an unchanging calculation formula.
He and the chess pieces spent a pleasant evening in the restaurant. During the evening, the captain of the Dragon Sail Pirates teamed up with the parrot to perform the Dragon Sail Pirates' signature pirate song.
What’s funny is that the pirate parrot’s singing skills are even better than the pirate king next to him.
The upbeat pirate song echoed throughout the restaurant.
Under the warm yellow lights of the restaurant, two Christmas reindeers, Little V, an alien owl, and a cat in a cage leaned against each other, shaking their heads to the rhythm, looking very cute.
The Dark Light Dragon didn't dare to move. It hugged its shoulders, its dark eyes filled with disdain, inexplicably resembling that of Anson Lu.
The alien kangaroo also jumped out, took out a gong from somewhere out of his pocket, and started beating it vigorously.
Anson Lu was overjoyed. He used the player function to record a video of the concert and posted it to the union channel with the caption - Look, do they look like you?
The result is predictable. At this time, everyone in Hell Lighthouse was sleeping, and only Chu Qimo would get up at four in the morning, so Anson Lu only got a cold reply.
[Chu Qimo: President, you won't stay up late, will you? Rest time is very important in a dungeon.]
[Anson Lu: The world's number one, you are not allowed to stay up late, right? ]
[Chu Qimo: Even the world's No. 1 can suffer from lack of sleep.]
Immediately afterwards, Asuka Uesugi also sent a message in the union channel in a threatening manner - it felt like she was woken up by the message alert sound, and she somersaulted in bed, typing the words with a lot of grumpiness.
[Asuka: Get lost, I’m sleeping. ]
"Well, it's about time to rest..." Anson Lu yawned, tears welling up in his eyes, "Well, we still have to go to the Blue Flame Stone Statue Island later."
After saying that, he fell into a deep sleep on the table in the restaurant. The chess players did not want to disturb Anson Deer, so they dispersed one after another.
He was the only one left in the silent restaurant. The quiet moonlight poured in through the window, covering the boy's profile.
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