Chapter 572: Chess (1/2)

As soon as Kartikeya spoke Sam felt like he recovered all his strength, then only he understood that this guy just wanted to talk to him and the recovery time is just an excuse.

”Since you are from Planet Earth, you must be familiar with this game,” Kartikeya spoke and snapped his fingers and the stone table transformed itself.

A large square groove appeared and the groove transformed into a chessboard. The grid is black and grey. The chess pieces are also Black and grey and made of stone. Sam picked up a pawn and looked at it carefully. It is an extremely beautiful sculpture.

He hadn't seen such a sculpture in a long time. He was amazed and attracted to it and went on to check the rest of the sculptures.

Saying he was impressed was an understatement.

”Although the game we are playing is chess, it is not exactly the same. There are some new rules which I would like to add so that the game becomes more interesting.” Kartikeya let Sam examine the pieces and continued to explain the rules.

”The basic movements of the pieces are the same as the one you know. The pawn, the rook, the knight, the bishop, the queen, and finally the king. The names are the same, but their purpose and power is completely different in this game.

I will simplify the explanation so that you could get a hang of it easily.

Since you are a Nascent stage cultivator at Level-6, your king will have that cultivation level and your queen will be having the cultivation level of Level-5 Nascent stage.

As for the bishop, they will have Level-2, the Knights Level-3, and finally the Rooks Level-4.

The pawns are all Level-1 Nascent stage cultivators.

You will move the pieces in the exact same way as you would in a normal game, but when you want to kill my piece, that means, if you want to remove my pawn with yours, there will be a battle between the two.

And you will be battling in the place of that pawn and a soldier from my army would be battling in place of my pawn, your cultivation will be suppressed to Nascent stage Level-1.

After the battle is over, whoever wins occupies the place and the loser's piece will disappear. But the damage to the winner piece wouldn't disappear.

Every pawn has five health points and when two pawns fought and yours won but only has two points left, the next battle, you will feel weary and will only have forty percent of your original strength at that level for the next battle.

As for the real you, who is sitting here, you don't have to worry about any form of physical injury.

In similar ways, the Bishop has ten health points, the knights have fifteen and the Rooks have twenty, the queen twenty-five and finally the king thirty.

There are no checks and checkmates, everything will be decided by the battle. As for the battle rules, you would understand once you start the game.

Any doubts?”

Sam looked at the game with a curious look.

”What is the name of the game?”

Sam asked he looked at Kartikeya and the latter looked at him and said.

”The Cultivator Chess.”

Sam felt like he was looking at his long-lost alter ego. How can someone be as bad as him at naming? He felt like the person who named the Black star Gold is dumb enough in the naming sense, but even the god himself?

This is something he didn't expect.

”If you don't mind me asking, what are the rewards of this Palace of Inheritance? I didn't see a single reward since the start.”

”Well, everyone will get a reward based on their performance. Don't worry, since you are the winner you have a different reward system altogether and you have more variety to choose from. Only after you are done with them, the rest will get to choose. Currently, the rest of the people all are going through enlightenment and cultivating since this is a superior environment.”

Sam nodded his head and looked at the game.

”Who goes first?”

Sam asked as he eyed his pieces. His pieces are black and their positions are also the same as modern chess.

”Of course, I will be going first. I am the one testing and I am the one going to invade.”

With that Kartikeya made his first move. He moved the pawn in front of the knight that was on the queen's side first and made two steps. Sam didn't think much and just moved the pawn in front of his bishop on the queen's side for two steps. He let the piece go because he wanted to see how the battle goes first.