103: Chapter 103 Becoming a Chess Piece, the Chessboard of God!

Lu Chen had arranged for a large number of Ice Horn Ant pet beasts to be placed on the Goddess of Wisdom statue in advance, preparing for the attack.

The next second.

Squelch!

Lu Chen attacked himself, piercing his heart; with his high attack power combined with a critical hit to a weak point, his HP bar was emptied instantly.

Under the effects of the resurrection ring, Lu Chen did not feel much pain from death; at most, it felt like a single knife cut.

Once Lu Chen died.

The Divine Play rules determined:

[Ding, because the number of people in the Goddess of Wisdom faith faction is less than 10%, the Goddess of Wisdom statue has been activated!]

Immediately after.

The Goddess of Wisdom statue stirred significantly, auras of life appeared on its body, and it instantly came to life.

It opened its mouth.

Revealing fangs of extreme evil!

Its eyes were scarlet like a demon's!

How could this be the Goddess of Wisdom? It was clearly a demon god that had crawled out of a Hellish abyss.

Its attributes were similar to Lu Chen's, belonging to an Advanced Tier 5 World Lord BOSS, but it was still a bit short of reaching a top-tier Tier 5 World Lord BOSS.

Immediately.

Lu Chen chose to resurrect on the spot.

Just as Lu Chen expected.

The faith BUFF contained negative effects; after resurrecting, it would be automatically cleared by the resurrection effect.

The Goddess of Wisdom's Omniscience BUFF on his body disappeared!

Without needing Lu Chen to give the order, the Ice Horn Ants, which had long been prepared to attack, collectively bit down. They didn't release any skills, but through basic attacks and fixed true damage abilities, they killed it instantly.

The Goddess of Wisdom BOSS didn't even have time to display its strength before it was killed instantly and reduced to slag; its body turned back into a stone statue and shattered all over the ground!

[Ding, congratulations, you have successfully defeated a Mother Goddess statue!]

Hearing this prompt, Lu Chen looked happy. Indeed, the three Mother Goddess statues were the key to clearing the stage!

Subsequently.

After the resurrection ring effect refreshed, Lu Chen chose to worship the War Mother Goddess, then immediately committed suicide again to trigger the War Mother Goddess's activation, and then killed it!

He repeated the process.

And also killed the Fortune Mother Goddess!

Thus.

All three divine statues were shattered by Lu Chen, and the space cracks in the sky no longer dropped Invading Monsters of faith, but instead transformed into a portal.

Seeing this!

The three of them smiled knowingly.

At the same time, Lu Chen was also shocked and angry at how malicious the Three-Eyed Mother Goddess was in designing this scene of the Divine Play.

If he didn't have resurrection, wanting to clear this Divine Play would require his whole family to die—this was simply a death-themed Divine Play!

Even if one knew the method to clear it in advance, someone still had to worship the three divine statues first to trigger the activation.

This meant that no matter how many people participated in this Divine Play, at least three people had to die for there to be a possibility of clearing it.

And the more people who worshipped, the more people were guaranteed to die; it was truly devoid of humanity!

When you think you chose to worship? It was nothing more than the gods selecting sacrifices!

Gods! They are toying with the participants!

Life! In the eyes of the gods, it is worthless!

[Ding, congratulations on clearing the fourth act of the Divine Play!]

Before leaving.

Lu Chen glanced at the three broken Mother Goddess statues and memorized their respective abilities. He vaguely felt that this might be a manifestation of the Three-Eyed Mother Goddess's power, and perhaps it would be useful in the fifth act.

The three of them walked through the portal.

They arrived at the final act's Divine Play venue.

It was actually a place with a starry chessboard.

The dome split open to reveal a starry curtain, and starlight condensed into a 7x10 grid chessboard, with a river of stars serving as the boundary in the middle.

Each square was made of translucent blood-colored crystal, and looking down from high above, it looked like a huge square blood-colored battlefield.

On many of the battlefield squares, there were still white bone remains of those who had previously participated in this Divine Play and died; they were still moving, their arms covered in phosphorus fire grabbing at something, as if their Souls were unwilling to sink here.

[Ding, the fifth act of the Divine Play—Divine Chessboard, begins!]

[Ding, because only three job-changers are participating in this game, the chessboard has been simplified, setting up only three types of pieces: Pawn, Rook, and Queen!]

[The rules for this act of the Divine Play are as follows:]

1. [Flesh and Blood Chess Rules]:

Everyone who enters the Divine Chessboard will be forced by the Divine Play rules to become a flesh and blood chess piece, and the piece's identity will be randomized.

[Pawn (Melee Class): Can only move one square at a time, can tear through adjacent square barriers to provide support, but will be burned by the bone phosphorus fire.]

[Hint: Before crossing the river (own half): Can only move forward one square at a time. After crossing the river (opponent's half): Can move forward, left, or right one square, cannot move backward.]

[Rook (Ranged Class): Can only move in a straight line, triggers star track explosions when moving in a straight line; if moving across the river of stars, must sacrifice a body part each time, until death.]

[Queen (Healer Class): Can move one square at a time, horizontally or vertically, cannot leave the "Nine Palaces"; each round can choose one friendly "piece" to release a healing light wave to treat and restore their injuries and HP, but if the healing effect is chosen, the turn is considered over.]

[Hint: A "Queen" cannot face another "Queen", otherwise the active side will trigger a certain-death judgment!]

All "pieces" can move freely. However, once a "piece" moves, the other "pieces" cannot move and must wait for the next turn's movement prompt.

[Hint: When both sides' "pieces" collide, the outcome is decided through combat; the attacker has an additional damage BUFF bonus, and the game only ends when the opponent's "Queen" is killed!]

2. [Space-Time Shackles]:

At the beginning of each round, a Sanskrit chant praising the gods will sound (about 30 seconds), and participants must complete their move before the chant ends; if they exceed the time, they cannot move this round, and one random participant will be pierced by star rays, with their limbs pinned in place for three rounds!

3. [Sacrifice Mechanism]:

When eating an opponent's "piece", the winner must choose: ① Sacrifice a body part of their own to absorb the loser's "square position", with a chance to upgrade—Pawn becomes Rook, Rook can move diagonally, Queen can move outside the Nine Palaces. ② Give up absorption, and a random skill will be Sealed, until all skills are Sealed; they can only be restored after the game ends.

4. [Astrological Curse]:

When the Gemini meteor shower passes (every 15 rounds), all healing skills will have the opposite effect. In rounds when Scorpio rises, black hole traps that swallow pieces will randomly appear on the movement path.

5. [Endgame Awakening]:

When the opponent's "Queen" is successfully killed, someone must voluntarily jump into the [God-Forsaken Square] in the center of the chessboard and detonate themselves to trigger the final BOSS; only by killing the BOSS can they clear the stage!

Hint: If the game fails, all survivors will be sanctioned by the gods and sink into this chessboard forever.

The rules for this final act are simple and clear.

And the conditions for clearing it are also very transparent.

But Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.

Because the rules of this Divine Play test human nature even more!

In the face of life and death, it is difficult for anyone to sacrifice themselves for the greater good to help others achieve victory.

Once someone acts out of selfishness to protect themselves, it will be basically impossible to win this chess game.

Furthermore.

Even if the game is won, one person still needs to be sacrificed to trigger the final BOSS.

As for the strength of the final BOSS, it is unknown, but Lu Chen can be certain that it will definitely be the most top-tier BOSS among Tier 5 BOSSes!

Now, Lu Chen's only worry is how to quickly take down the opponent's "Queen" while ensuring his parents' safety, and win the chessboard first!

As for the final BOSS, Lu Chen is not particularly worried.

[Ding, the chess piece identity has been randomly selected, you have been randomly assigned to the "Pawn" piece!]

The next moment.

Lu Chen was forcibly teleported to the fixed square of the middle "Pawn".

His father was randomly assigned the "Rook" piece identity, and his mother was randomly assigned the "Queen" piece identity; both were teleported to their corresponding squares by the rules.

Immediately after.

On the chessboard across the river of stars, "pieces" also appeared: 3 Pawns, 2 Rooks, and 1 Queen.

It seemed like there weren't many pieces.

But!

Lu Chen had already perceived that the opponent's "Pawn" was not a single Invading Monster, but a swarm of Invading Monsters, with a quantity of—one million!!!