Chapter 575: King Remains (1/2)

Sam checked his health bar one last time before he left the place. His health reduced by two bars and Sky's health reduced by one bar. This is not because they are injured.

It is just the exhaustion of energy.

Sam reappeared in the chair and once again entered the battle zone for his next move. This time, it is a pawn against another Knight of Kartikeya.

This Knight was a female and is mounted on an eagle-like beast.

Sam couldn't fly on a beast by himself, because he is a pawn, but he has a hoverboard and when the knight was feeling complacent and was trying to toy with Sam, who has already dodged quite a few attacks, he suddenly took out the harbinger and zoomed to the top. He didn't attack her, instead, he took reaper and sliced the bird on its belly.

His sudden move made the bird screech as it crashed into the ground.

The Knight this time is an archer and she is quite good from the top, but now that she crashed into the ground before she could recover Sam already sent a barrage of sharp wind blades from his sword that she has no other way but to dodge it.

But this made the beast which was behind her and already lost, most of the health takes the full brunt of attacks.

Sam fought for a while, but was still taken down by that woman and before he dies, he was able to reduce the health to seven.

Since the beast is also gone, the woman's health was reduced to half.

Sam came back and game continued.

One after another the chess pieces are being removed. But the problem is for every pawn on Sam's one of the bigger pieces of Kartikeya was being removed.

But not before one of Sam's knights, a bishop and rook were gone.

After several moves, Sam was left with three pawns one rook, one bishop, one knight, the queen, and the King.

As for Kartikeya, he was only left with a single pawn, a rook, the king, the queen, and an almost dead Bishop with half a health bar.

Sam is clearly in favor of winning, but he is not least bit happy.

From start to finish, Kartikeya is playing in an extremely leisurely manner. It is almost as if he is a spectator.

This made Sam quite nervous. After all, he is playing with a commander of gods. Many lesser gods and even some higher gods have to follow his orders and what kind of commander should he be if he can lead such forces? Clearly, Sam is not cocky enough to think he is on the same level.

He never thought, he was best at commanding. He might be good, but that is not one of his excelled arts.

That is why he trained the soldier differently. To every possible scenario so that he doesn't have to try and command for every obstacle they encountered.

But now the greatest commander of all is losing to him in a chess match; at least that is what spectators would think.

Sam, however, thought otherwise. He is not keen on thinking that he really has that much ability.

Kartikeya finally moved his queen.

The queen has twenty health points and is a fifth-level Nascent. So, Sam is quite nervous to his dismay, he moved the queen to the same line as his pawn. Definitely trying to take this out. Sam didn't like it. This pawn is the closest to the other party's place.

Once he advanced, he could have another queen. So, he didn't want it to be destroyed.

He quickly thought of something and looked at his other pieces.

He also moved his queen and placed it on the same line as his own pawn.

He is quite confident that he can take down the queen with his own queen with ease. And he is quite sure that even Kartikeya knows that, so he is willing to see if he would take the risk.

And as he thought, the other party didn't, but he has a peculiar light in his eyes and started moving his rook to the remaining pawns.

This time, Sam didn't care and move his pawn one step forward.

Kartikeya has locked the pawn in a horizontal line and Sam in a vertical one, so there is no need for him to move.

Now Kartikeya didn't focus on the pawn and started dealing with the remaining two. The first pawn that encountered the Rook was dead just like that and could barely reduce the Rook's health by three points.

Sam moved the Pawn once again and after this only one step remained for him to advance and his pawn would be promoted.

He felt like something is fishy. No matter how he looked Kartikeya's game was almost over. There are not many ways to turn the game around.