Global Games: Old Chess Players

Night falls suddenly, the sky is dark and the moonlight is faint.

At this moment, the lone ghost warrior slowly approached the alley, and his figure became increasingly clear in Ansenlu's sight.

Coming...

Ansonlu 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 were closed tightly.

The appearance of the ghost warrior is really too scary. The ferocious and twisted face is like an evil ghost growing in a sulfur spring. The whole body is filled with a stench between fishy smell and tobacco smell.

"I'd really like to thank you, why are you so disgusting..." Anson Deer squinted his eyes. His stomach felt like there were a thousand earthworms and other coelenterates squirming back and forth, trying to flow back up from the esophagus.

Moving forward, he arrived at the center of this street.

This is to facilitate the layout of the chessboard. If the chess field is expanded in the lane, the range of movement of the chess pieces will be greatly restricted.

Like a shark smelling blood, the ghost warrior twisted his stiff neck. Under the shadow of his helmet, his eyes burning with dark blue ghost flames stared at the figure of Anson Deer.

This thing is much scarier than zombies, this sense of oppression... Anson Deer's scalp was numb, and he spoke softly:

"Chess field."

According to the method taught by the game system, silently recite the word "chess field" in your mind, and the environment within a radius of thirty meters will be 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, expand the chessboard and release extraordinary chess pieces. The chess pieces will act within the chessboard according to the instructions of the old chess players. The chess pieces cannot leave the chessboard, otherwise they will disappear immediately. 】

[Note: The coverage range of the chess domain will expand with the improvement of mental attributes]

The domain belonging to the old chess players spread out, dividing the streets within a thirty-meter radius into grids that formed the chessboard.

As the chess field unfolds, Anson Deer's passive skill "Chess Master" 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 covered by the chessboard.

At this time, the shadows of four chess pieces gradually appeared around Ansonlu's shoulders. The shadows of the chess pieces slowly rotated around him, like stars revolving around the earth.

From the shapes of these ghosts, you can easily identify which chess types these ghosts represent.

"There is only one piece..." Anson Deer said, "It's gone after you use it. Every time you take back the chess piece, or after the chess piece is defeated, you have to wait half an hour before you can use the chess piece again."

[You can silently recite an instruction similar to "arrange xx chess pieces to xx squares" in your mind to realize the extraordinary chess pieces into reality]

Ansenlu used the God's perspective brought by "Chess King" to quickly confirm the number of grids at his location and clearly see everything within a thirty-meter radius.

The wind blows, the leaves sway, every falling snowflake, and the twisted figure of the ghost warrior stumbling forward are all clearly presented in his mind.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he suddenly felt that the passage of time had become extremely slow, or maybe his thinking speed increased significantly after the chess field expanded.

"It would be great if I could play chess like this every time."

Anson Deer adapts to the overlap between the first perspective and the God's perspective. Relying on this extra perspective, he can collect information about the surrounding environment in a way far beyond that of ordinary people.

The ghost warrior hunched his waist and rushed towards Anson Deer with his sword in hand.

"roar!!!!"

The two men continued to approach, the cold wind howled, and the sword's blade shone with a cold light.

Anson Deer stretched out his well-jointed right hand and clamped the four stone chess pieces between his five fingers. The chess pieces' eye sockets were burning with surging flames, drawing a cold blue-red trail in the night sky.

At the same time, he thought in his mind:

"The king's stone statue is placed in the b2 grid."

"The knight's stone statue is placed on the c2 grid."

"The bishop's stone statue is placed in the d1 grid."

"Stone statues of soldiers are placed on the e2 grid."

His thoughts fell as fast as the wind, and the four stone chess pieces disappeared in the hands of Anson Deer.

Instead, huge stone statues with strange shapes suddenly appeared in front of the young man.

The shapes of these stone statues perfectly match the images of "King" (King), "Bishop" (Bishop), "Knight" (Knight) and "Pawn" (Pawn) in chess.

The eyes of the four stone statues were burning with blazing green fire, and the raging fighting spirit was like the roar of the pine wind. The ground shook slightly, as if thousands of troops and horses were stepping across the chessboard.

[In the old days, chess players were not restricted by the rules of any chess game. You could use the chess pieces to act at will, but the chess pieces could not exceed the chessboard, otherwise they would quickly dissipate]

"Oh, there are no rules like 'the bishop can only move diagonally, and the pawn can only move forward'..." Ansonlu was stunned for a second, and the corners of his mouth kept rising:

"The knight statue, move to square d4 and attack it!"

tread!

tread!

tread!

The horse's hooves of the stone knight's statue moved, and it galloped out on the stone horse. The steel spear in its hand tore through the air, making a burst of sound, and stabbed the ghost warrior with strong momentum.

"Pfft..."

The ancient armor was unable to withstand the spear of the knight statue. The ghost warrior's chest was pierced by the tip of the spear, and his entire body was lifted high by the knight statue and thrown into the sky.

The health bar above the ghost warrior's head dropped rapidly, from 100% health to only 40%.

【100%→40%】

At this time, the figure of the ghost warrior turned around in the air. It gripped the sword tightly, roared to the ground, and slashed the sword towards the stone statue of the bishop!

The Bishop Stone Statue is a chess type responsible for healing and has no direct combat effectiveness.

"Real or false, it doesn't matter."

Ansen Lu stared at the ghost warrior turning in the air, somewhat surprised. He originally thought that such a two-level monster should be broken into pieces at a touch.

"But, it doesn't matter..." He said calmly, "The soldier statue, move to the right to square D2 and kill it."

The stone statue of a soldier stepped forward with heavy boots, three steps in a row, raised the steel sword in his hand, and slashed vertically with an unstoppable force.

"hiss!!!"

The blade of the sword just struck the ghost warrior who fell from the air, creating a fatal green-black ravine. 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 also bottomed out and dropped to zero at an extremely fast speed.

【40%→0%】

"Solved so quickly..."

Anson Deer scratched his hair, a trace of boredom flashed across his dark brown eyes.

"I wanted to try it again, but forget it, if it takes so much effort to defeat a monster, it wouldn't be considered a hidden profession."

Using the bird's-eye view brought by "Chess King", he confirmed that there were no other ghost warriors around, so he temporarily put away the chessboard.

[Chess Domain] The cooldown time of this skill is 10 minutes. If Anson Deer wants to lay out a new chessboard elsewhere, he must survive the ten minute cooldown period.

To be honest, Anson Deer really hopes that this cooling time will be gradually reduced in the future.

Otherwise, the limitations of the profession of chess players in the old days were too great, and they were especially easy to be restrained by players or monsters with higher mobility and more agility.