Chapter 8: Demonstrating Chess Skills
Night falls suddenly, the sky darkens and the moonlight is dim.
At this moment, the lone ghost warrior slowly approached the alley, and its figure became clearer and clearer in Anson Lu's sight.
Here it comes...
Anson Deer took a deep breath, and a chill began to spread from his spine, gradually spreading to every inch of his skin, and even his pores closed.
The appearance of the ghost warrior was too creepy, with a hideous and distorted face, just like an evil ghost growing in a sulfur spring, and his whole body was filled with a foul smell between fishy smell and tobacco smell.
"I would really thank you, why is it so disgusting?" Anson Lu couldn't help but complain.
Moving forward, he came to the center of the street.
This is to facilitate the layout of the chessboard. If the chessboard is set up in the alley, the movement range of the chess pieces will be greatly restricted.
The ghost warrior twisted his stiff neck like a shark that smelled blood. Under the shadow of his helmet, his eyes burning with deep blue ghost flames stared at Anson Deer's figure.
This thing is much scarier than zombies. This oppressive feeling... Anson Deer's scalp tingled, and he whispered:
"Chess field."
According to the method taught by the game system, he silently recited the word "chess domain" in his mind, and the environment within a radius of 30 meters was instantly divided into six or four grids by dotted lines.
[Skill name: Chess Domain]
[Skill type: Active skill]
[Skill introduction: Based on the surrounding environment, unfold the chessboard and release extraordinary chess pieces. The chess pieces will move on the chessboard according to the instructions of the old chess player. The chess pieces cannot leave the chessboard, otherwise they will disappear immediately.]
[Note: The coverage of the chess domain will expand as the spiritual attribute improves]
The territory belonging to the old chess players expanded outward, dividing the streets within a radius of thirty meters into grids that made up the chessboard.
As the chess field unfolds, Anson Deer's passive skill "Chess King" also shows its effect.
Chess Master - The effect of this skill is to give Anson Deer a God's perspective overlooking the chessboard, making it easier for him to observe the situation within the area covered by the chessboard.
At this time, the shadows of four chess pieces gradually emerged around Anson Deer's shoulders, and the shadows of the chess pieces slowly rotated around him, like stars rotating around the earth.
From the shapes of these phantoms, you can easily identify which chess type they represent.
"There is only one..." Anson Lu said, "Once you use it, it's gone. Every time you take back a chess piece, or a chess piece is defeated, you have to wait half an hour before you can use it again."
[You can silently recite instructions like "Place xx chess piece to xx grid" in your mind to materialize the extraordinary chess piece into reality]
Anson Lu used the God's perspective brought by "Chess King" to quickly confirm the number of grids in his position and had a clear insight into everything within a radius of thirty meters.
The wind blew the grass, the trees shook and the leaves fell, every drifting snowflake, and the twisted figure of the ghost warrior staggering forward were all clearly presented in his mind.
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he suddenly felt that the passage of time became extremely slow, or maybe his thinking speed increased significantly after the chess game unfolded.
"I wish I could play chess like this every time."
Anson Deer adapted to the overlap of the first-person perspective and the God's perspective. Relying on this extra perspective, he could collect information about the surrounding environment in a way far beyond that of ordinary people.
The ghost warrior bent his waist and rushed towards Ansonlu with a sword in hand.
"roar!!!!"
The two men were getting closer and closer, a cold wind was howling, and the blade of the sword was shining with a chilly light.
Anson Lu stretched out his bony right hand and clamped four stone chess pieces between his five fingers. The eye sockets of the chess pieces were burning with surging flames, drawing a cold blue-red track in the night sky.
At the same time, he thought to himself:
"The stone statue of the king is placed in grid B2."
"The stone statue of the knight is placed in grid C2."
"The bishop's stone statue is placed in grid D1."
"Soldier stone statue, placed in grid E2."
Thoughts came down as fast as thunder and lightning, and the four stone chess pieces disappeared in Anson Deer's hands.
Instead, huge stone statues with bizarre shapes suddenly appeared in front of the young man.
The shapes of these stone statues perfectly match the images of the "King", "Bishop", "Knight" and "Pawn" in chess.
Raging blue fire burned in the eye sockets of the four stone statues, and their surging fighting spirit was like the roar of pine wind. The earth was shaking slightly, as if thousands of troops were stepping across a chessboard.
[In the old days, chess players were not restricted by any rules of the game. You could use chess pieces to make actions at will, but the chess pieces could not go beyond the chessboard, otherwise they would quickly dissipate.]
"Oh, there is no rule like 'bishops can only move diagonally, and pawns can only move forward.'" Anson Deer was stunned for a second, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.
"Knight statue, move to D4, charge it."
tread!
tread!
tread!
The knight's stone statue's hooves stepped on the ground, and it galloped out on its stone horse. The steel spear in its hand tore through the air, making a sound of breaking through the air, and stabbed towards the ghost warrior with a powerful force.
“Puff——”
That ancient armor was no match for the spear of the stone knight. The ghost warrior's chest was pierced by the spear tip, and his entire body was lifted high by the stone knight and thrown into the air.
The health bar above the Ghost Warrior's head dropped rapidly, from 100% health to only 40% length.
[100% → 40%]
At this moment, the ghost warrior's figure flipped in the air, it gripped the sword tightly, roared and landed on the ground, and slashed the sword at the stone statue of the bishop!
The Bishop Statue is a chess piece responsible for healing and has no direct combat power.
"Is this true or not? Is this okay?"
Anson Deer stared at the ghost warrior who turned in the air, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He originally thought that this kind of small monster at level two should be shattered with just one touch, but he didn't expect it to be so resistant to blows.
"But it doesn't matter..." He continued to order in a calm voice: "Soldier statue, move to the right to D2 and kill it."
As the order was given, the stone statue of the soldier stepped forward in heavy boots, took two steps at a time, raised the steel sword in his hand high, and slashed out with unstoppable force.
"hiss!"
The sword just hit the ghost warrior falling from the sky, leaving a fatal blue-black groove, and the ghost warrior and his armor were almost cut in half.
"roar--!!!"
The ghost warrior howled miserably, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground.
Its limited health value reached the bottom and dropped to zero at an extremely fast speed.
【40% → 0%】
"It was resolved a little too quickly..." Anson Lu curled his lips, a hint of boredom flashing across his dark brown eyes.
"I wanted to try other mechanisms," he said. "Forget it... Actually, if it takes so much effort to kill a small monster, it can't be called a 'sequence profession'."
After confirming that there were no other ghost warriors around with the bird's-eye view brought by "Chess Master", Anson Lu temporarily put away the chessboard.
The cooldown time for the skill "Chess Field" is 10 minutes. If Anson Lu wants to set up a new chessboard somewhere else, he must endure this ten-minute cooldown period.
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