Chapter 349
Adela and Angela enter the cave and a spectacle unfolds before their eyes.
square plate.
Two factions facing each other.
The moment Angela saw the 8 ice soldiers and the 6 adventurers standing behind them, she felt a familiar sense of déjà vu.
“Is this… a chessboard?”
Anyone could tell by looking at the soldiers standing at regular intervals according to the specifications of the square. It was a giant chessboard made of ice.
how long did i wait
The white owl waiting for the two at the king’s seat during the chessboard changed into a white-haired boy with a soft duck sound.
“The path of the wisest. Welcome to the path of the sun. My name is Snow Stolas. Feel free to call me Snow.”
Snow, bowing his head like a gentleman and bowing politely, looked at Adela and called her by name as if she had known them. Adela frowned, but Snow didn’t care.
“…you have no idea how desperately Louis-sama was looking for Adela-sama.”
Snow raised his head with a very meaningful story. In the end, Adela couldn’t stand it and took a step closer without realizing it.
“Louis… me?”
The appearance of Adela emitting terrifying momentum as if she would rush at any moment. Eventually, Angela caught the agitated Adela and stopped her.
“Calm down for now!”
Angela tried to calm the agitated Adela. I thought that even with a calm mind, I couldn’t hastily approach a difficult strategy, but that was the correct answer in a different sense.
“you’re right. This is the path of the sun that covers the wise. You are breaking the rules if you try to force me into combat.”
Wide-!
Snow unfolded his two white wings in human form. At the same time, the ice giants that decorated the walls pointed their spears at Adela and Angela.
“Keep in mind. Those who break the rules in the Path of the Sun die at the hands of the Judge. It is the rule of this space and an absolute law that no one can avoid.”
Snow wore a crown enshrined in a pillar of ice. The sun-engraved crown emitted a bright light as it was placed on Snow’s head.
Cheeky duck!
As Snow wore the crown, the soldiers made of ice aimed their weapons at the opposing faction.
“The path of the sun is a place to test wisdom. For the sake of fairness, I’ve picked a game you’re familiar with. How much trouble they had to learn to play the humans’ game…”
When Snow, who climbed into the king’s seat, sighed and complained, Angela waved her hands in the air and shouted.
“Fair!? I’ve never played chess before!”
Snow shook his head and smiled strangely as if he knew something.
“It doesn’t matter. Isn’t chess supposed to have two kings?”
Snow pointed at Adela with the tip of his chin. Then, in a relaxed voice, as if they had been watching for a long time, he recited Adela’s childhood.
“Adela-sama can take care of the king. They were very considerate parents. When I was little, I used to play chess with Adela-sama.”
Snow looked longingly into the air and muttered, then ran his tongue over his lips.
“Oh, my mouth is watering. Memories and mana… He was such a delicious person. Louis was really satisfied.”
Snow’s provocation was successful.
Adela gasped for breath to calm her excitement, but her red eyes with dilated pupils were emitting more life than ever.
“…I’ll do it. chess.”
Angela let out a worried sigh at Adela’s appearance.
‘Can I play chess in that state?’
Chess is a cold game. It was a fight that had to calm down the excitement and be rational.
But now, with her hands shaking in anger, Adela’s appearance seemed far from reason.
“great. There will be a wand and a crown right in front of the entrance. The crown is the king who commands the game. The wand is one of the most important chess pieces, the queen. Please take a seat immediately after the distribution is over.”
Adela took a deep breath and put the crown on her head. As the pattern of the sun on the crown lit up, the soldiers aimed their swords at the opposing camp.
“Then I am Queen.”
Angela, holding the wand, looked at Adela wearing the crown. What the hell should I say? Now, Adela seemed hard to keep calm no matter what she said.
“Do not forget it. You and I are here for a better world. Don’t let go of something precious you’re holding because of something you’ve lost.”
Having said that, Angela squeezed her wand tightly in the Queen’s seat. From now on, I had no choice but to trust Adela.
coo-!
The scaffoldings sank and the game began. The chessboard made of ice had alphabets from A to H engraved on the horizontal cells and numbers from 1 to 8 on the vertical cells.
“Then I will take the lead.”
Snow gave the order with a pervasive smile on his lips, wondering what was so enjoyable.
“I’ll move the pawn right in front of me to number E4.” At Snow’s command, the
ice
soldier moved two squares forward. Adela, who was watching the scene, recited in a calm voice.
“…advance the pawn on D7 two spaces to D5.”
Adela knew. Chess was a strategic battle of deciding what to give up and what to win.
A greedy coward trying to win something without any sacrifice was a losing game.
“ha ha ha! Lady Adela is more ruthless than she looks. Did you throw the pawn as food to free the queen from her shackles?”
Snow burst into laughter, delighted with the strategy of sacrificing Adela’s pawn.
“great! I must be fooled here! The pawn on E4 will take the pawn on D5!”
Snow’s ice soldier raised his sword and slashed the body of an enemy soldier diagonally.
cooong!
Snow rejoiced as Adela’s ice soldiers shattered and scattered to the ground.
“Funny! great! Nothing can be gained without sacrifice!”
However, no matter how much Snow spoke, Adela’s concentration did not waver.
“Attack D5’s pawn with the queen.”
Angela smiled contentedly at Adela.
‘Was the worry unfounded?’
Angela, who let go of her worries and sprinted fiercely, grabbed the phone in an instant. Then, with the Suplex using acceleration, he slammed the ice soldier head first into the ground.
Quaang!
“I will move the knight from B1 to C3!”
“Move the queen from D5 to A5.”
“Move the pawn from B1 to B4!”
“…attack the pawn on B4 with the queen on A5.”
Adela scored again this time. Adela, who regained her reason, continued her game only in a cold judgment.
exchange and exchange.
battle over and over again.
But even Angela, who didn’t know much about chess, could tell that there was an air of victory in their camp right now.
Adela’s ability to occupy an advantageous high ground through active exchange of chess pieces was outstanding.
‘If we follow this flow, we can really win.’
Adela, dissatisfied even though she was already two horses ahead, moved her horse.
“Move the knight from C3 to B5.”
“Oh no way, Lady Adela. Are you targeting Bishop?”
However, even in the situation where Bishop was lost to Adela’s attack, which had narrowed the siege, Snow acted very leisurely.
“It’s a pity. This collection… Luis was quite fond of…”
Adela paid no attention to Snow’s actions or words. He already knew that his opponent was trying to lose his cool.
“…This must be a familiar face to Adela-sama, right?”
However, the moment Bishop took off the veil, Adela let out a breath she had been holding back.
“That figure…”
The face of the ice statue hidden behind a veil was so familiar to Adela and yet so missed.
“Yes, that’s right. You are Adela’s mother. Then you probably already know who the bishop on the other side is… right?”
frozen statue.
Is there any worse abuse than this to provoke the opponent to use the existence of his parents as a chess piece?
“It’s a fair game and you do such dirty things!”
When Angela couldn’t stand it and shouted in a voice filled with anger, Snow shook his shoulders as if wondering.
“The game is fair. The rule is to capture the opponent’s king using 16 chess pieces. I didn’t break any rules of the game.”
Snow’s eyes flashed, and unlike before, when he was relaxed, he poured out his words as quickly as a rapid-fire cannon.
“What does it matter which chess piece you use? Haven’t you come this far by sacrificing chess pieces? Nothing has changed. They are all the same chess piece, and discarded chess pieces only break.”
Adela made eye contact with the ice statue with a face she missed so much for a while. The face that smiled at him was expressionless and lifeless, and the two hands holding the teddy bear held swords.
‘I am…’
Adela, who made a decision, tried to keep her mouth shut. As painful as it is, Adela was not a fool to give up her future for a lost past.
but.
“…Could it be Adela-sama. Those aren’t my parents. It’s just ice. Are you thinking like this?”
Snow, who tilted his head like an owl and moved bizarrely, looked right through Adela with his four hundred widened eyes.
“The path of the sun is the path that seeks the wisest… anyone, not even the wise, can choose to break the ice statue for an imminent victory. Isn’t that kind of easy choice fun?”
There was no way Lewis, who uses human pain and unhappiness as raw material, would give such a trivial option.
What Lewis wanted was not the clear best, but the lesser evil, which he had no choice but to choose amid heartbreaking pain and despair.
“…Those who are frozen by Louis-sama’s cold have egos. Even now, the ego trapped in the ice must be watching you.”
Snow Stolas.
His eyes, which had the devil’s true name, were stained red. Seeing Adela in despair, Snow felt unparalleled happiness.
Blink-
“Mrs. Adela… Are you in pain? I can tell. It’s the first time I’ve ever experienced such sweet despair.”
This is a high level of despair and high level of misfortune that even the devil will cry. Snow trembled with satisfaction.
On the other hand, Adela, who had hardened like an ice statue, silently looked at her parents.
