Capítulo 1394: Chapter 1394: War Chess
After resting for a day with his companions, Yang Yu was eager to go. He arranged the five Treasure Boxes in front of Iyas and tasked her with opening them.
With flashes of golden light, Iyas did not disappoint Yang Yu. The Epic Equipnt that once required arduous journeys to obtain now seed as if it were free, delivered directly upon opening the Treasure Box with a click.
Along with the Epic Equipnt, there were rare and bizarre materials and tools, neatly arranged on thick book pages and Skill Scrolls.
Conquering the eighth floor, Yang Yu gained a lot.
The scenery of the eighth floor was beyond Yang Yu’s expectations, and he could no longer predict what challenges would await on the ninth floor.
But he was already eager to tackle the ninth floor.
The more things he obtained from this Underground Maze, the more confident he would feel when facing the Demon King in the future.
Yang Yu and his companions raised their hands and placed them on the sphere.
The sphere emitted a gentle glow, absorbing Yang Yu and his group, and transported them to the ninth floor.
The ninth floor was a gigantic chessboard, with white lines slicing the blue floor into individual squares. So squares sunk deeply to form ravines, while others elevated high to form artificial mountains, constructing an extrely complex environnt on the chessboard.
Large chess pieces were casually scattered across the squares of the chessboard.
The pieces were divided into black and white, with white being Angels and black being Demons, each piece uniquely styled, depicting characters from different factions.
Each character stood on a platform over two ters high, making their already grand figures appear incredibly imposing.
Approaching the pieces, Yang Yu and the others discovered the platforms on which the pieces stood, describing the movents and abilities of the chess pieces.
A particularly familiar Demon Chess piece suddenly caught Yang Yu’s eye:
[Marbas]
Movent: One to ten squares.
Chess piece attributes: Blood Volu: 755/755, Magic Power: 65/65, blood recovery 20/round, Magic Recovery 3/round
Strength 55, Defense 45, Magic 35, Special Defense 45
Skills:
Passive [Giant War Chariot] – This piece occupies four squares, able to inflict damage on enemies within two squares around itself, but consuming 1MP per enemy attacked.
Active [Range Bombardnt] – Inflicts 150% Physical Strength damage on enemies within three squares, shattering 50% of enemy armor, consus 20MP, cooldown of three turns.
Active [Concentrated Shooting] – Launches a frenzied attack on a single enemy within attack range, inflicting 300% Physical Strength damage, shattering 70% of enemy armor, consus 30MP, cooldown of three turns.
Seeing the words written on the squares, Yang Yu quickly judged that the ninth floor was a strategy chess ga.
The strategy chess ga requires playing as a Commander, dragging pieces to fight. Due to its turn-based nature, the players’ strategy and overall perspective directly influence the direction of the battle outco.
Yang Yu imdiately instructed his companions to copy down the text on the chess piece platforms, while he used [Climbing] along the walls to record the map of the chess battle and the distribution of the pieces, facilitating the developnt of a strategy.
With Bai Jin, who could use Magic, Yang Yu obtained all the information about the pieces when he ca down from the ceiling.
There were a total of sixteen Demon Chess pieces and twelve Angel Chess pieces on the field. Judging by numbers alone, the Demons had an advantage….
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However, each skill of the Angel Chess pieces was quite troubleso.
Take the [Gabriel] piece as an example, this Angel Chess piece not only had a super long range of five squares but also had a powerful passive that increased damage by 10% every turn, in addition to a bug skill that allowed a friendly piece to be revived five turns after Death by consuming 20MP.
The overall attributes and skills of the Demons compared to the Angels were not inferior, but just a group of underdogs.
According to the nature of this Underground Maze, the ninth floor should require wielding Demons to defeat the Angels.
Such a complex strategic chess ga couldn’t be completed in just one or two days; one wrong move could lead to a complete failure.
Moreover, there were details that Yang Yu needed to test.
For example, the Demons had four different pieces capable of reducing defense, but their thods differed. How they interacted and whether they could reduce an opponent’s armor to negative…
Additionally, there were questions about how damage is calculated, how attacks perform when encountering terrain, if there are any Special Easter eggs, how pieces move, and how Skills are released…
These aspects would influence decision-making to so extent.
Many pieces of information were not written on the chess piece platforms and needed players to explore each one.
To master strategic chess, so knowledge is essential.
Fortunately, while mapping, Yang Yu noticed a [Reset] button on the spherical square leading to the Tenth Floor.
This ant if they encountered a certain defeat, they could reset all the pieces and start over.
With the opportunity to trial and error, Yang Yu began testing.
First was the movent of the pieces, and as Yang Yu had expected, they could only move the Demon Chess pieces, not the Angel Chess pieces.
Pieces could be moved by pushing or pulling them in the desired direction. It was important to note that only one piece could be moved per turn, and lifting a hand from a piece would end the turn.
When turning, the hand must also be in contact with the piece, or it would be considered the end of the move.
Additionally, if a piece occupied multiple squares when releasing the hand, it would actively move to the square it occupied more, saving much stamina.
Next ca the issue of the pieces’ attacks and skill releases.
When there are people within the piece’s attack range, it will automatically attack at the end of each turn, with the attack lasting several seconds. If skills are to be activated, Magic Power must be infused into the desired piece before moving it.
By figuring out everything he wanted to know, several days had unknowingly passed.
Yang Yu once again pressed the reset button, all moved and destroyed pieces returned to their original positions.
During these days, Yang Yu sent people to inspect the refresh situation across various layers.
Surprisingly to Yang Yu, upon checking, Iyas and others discovered that the previously conquered Underground Maze had spawned monsters anew, even the recently conquered seventh floor had refreshed with monsters!
Perhaps because Yang Yu had conquered the layers and completed the storyline, the monsters refreshed in each layer had lower Levels and attributes than when Yang Yu initially conquered, and with their mastery of techniques, Iyas and the others could easily manage them.
Logically, the Underground Maze shouldn’t refresh so quickly; could it be that progressing in later stages automatically refreshes previous layers?
Upon learning this, Yang Yu, who was strategizing in the Hall of History, decided to split into two groups.
Yang Yu and Bai Jin alone were enough to conquer the ninth floor, while others were sent to tackle the refreshed Underground Maze to Level up and collect book pages.
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