The Taming Master

‘What kind of battle will it be this time?’

Immediately after gathering in the open space for the purpose of entering the battlefield for the Wednesday battle .

Ian’s first thoughts were .

‘Can’t be more than the Mirror Battlefield… no, maybe they will be going to come out with a fresh content?’

The ‘dimensional mirror’ battlefield was fresh enough to admire, even for Ian .

Having experienced such content, it was inevitable to be expecting something more from the battle .

And a roaring voice entered the head of Ian .

“Kay, have you all gathered?”

A man, standing on the platform of the open space with a very heavy bass voice .

Ian thought that he might be a higher level NPC, than any NPC of the village that he had come across in the Warrior’s village .

‘Parker was a Platoon head, is this one the captain?’

It wasn’t comparable to Cameres who was on the Hero’s Path, but the armor that he wore, was very very flashy .

And while Ian was in such thoughts .

“I am the Celestial Dragon General, Hansen . Among all of you, I will select the ones to join the battlefield . ”

Listening to Hansen, everyone turned puzzled .

Surely they were all under the impression that they would be entering the battlefield, but none of them expected the ‘select’ part .

Even before they could even try to calm themselves, Hansen continued,

“Here, you and you . And you . This side . ”

While the users were in a frenzy, Hansen was selecting the warriors very quickly .

And Ian too was called, moving to the back of the platoon .

“Hmm, yeah . Till this friend, it is 24, right?”

At the response to Hansen, lieutenant Parker responded with a stiff look .

“Yes, General . ”

Hansen looked around and nodded his head .

“Nice, you move to the blue gate . The rest of you go to the white gate behind there . ”

Not just Ian, everyone couldn’t understand what was happening .

Something seemed to be going on, but no one was able to find an explanation for the situation .

The NPCs were too unfriendly .

‘I think that there are around 50 people in the square… why did he just choose 24?’

Ian was thinking hard to guess .

And it was the same for Hoonie who was beside him .

“Hyung, what is even happening here?”

“Well…”

“This, getting picked is a nice thing right?”

“I think the same . All of the selected users are of a higher rank than a combat soldier . ”

“Hyung, you’re a recruit but you have been chosen, why?”

“Hmm? Which is why we need to see . ”

Ian who was talking with Hoonie once again fell into thoughts .

Sixteen users were selected by the General of Celestial Dragons, except for Ian, every one of them were Combat soldiers .

In addition, a few combat soldiers weren’t picked up too, so he wasn’t able to understand the standards .

But there were no more things to deduce and no longer did he have the time to think .

“There, friend . What are you doing? Move quickly . ”

Lieutenant Parker shouted, and Ian had no choice but to move quickly .

“Ah, yup . Going . ”

Ian was one of the 24, whom Hansen had chosen .

Which was why he moved towards the blue gate .

And the moment Ian stepped on the blue gate .

Wheeing-!

With huge resonance, a new system message had emerged in front of Ian’s eyes .

[Welcome to the battlefield of ‘God’s Piece Board’ . ]

* * *

The busy Korean university campus at 9 o’clock in the evening and most of the students had withdrawn .

However, there was just one crowded place and the large classroom of the virtual reality .

The largest classroom in the virtual reality department, which could accommodate more than two hundred people .

However, the classroom was entirely full .

And the number of 200 students in there, were all the students of the virtual reality department .

And among them, Semi and Young-hoon were seated .

“Huuh, looking forward to it . Semi, you? Did well in the event?”

“Obviously . ”

“What was the answer?”

“Maybe the same answer as everyone in this room?”

“hu hu, that was a natural one, right?”

Unlike the usual lecture time, the two people were seated in the front row for some reason .

The expressions too weren’t the same as the lifeless depressing expression waiting for the lecture to attend .

Rather, were full of excitement .

And was the same of all the other students .

Then, why were so many students gathered in the classroom?

The reason for that could be seen on the screen which lighted up the whole room .

– Kay, the documents have just arrived from the LB .

– Oh, Hines, let’s open it up . I’m curious as to what kind of content the Kailan’s planning team have come up with this time .

– Haha, I feel the same way, Lucia . So, shall we look at the rules of the new battlefield together?

– Quickly do it . There isn’t much time before the game starts .

It was the first thing that came up on the classroom screen was the game broadcast YTBC .

And the students in the virtual reality were all gathered in the huge room to watch the Brave Canyon’s battle .

– Oh ho, the name of the battlefield is ‘God’s Piece Board’ .

– ‘God’s Piece Board’… what could that be?

– Well? The first thing that enters my mind listening to it, nothing other than a chessboard .

– Ho oh, yeah . Is this really related to chess?

– I’ll know once we open it up .

The crowd of 200 people and the noise-filled classroom suddenly became silent as if everyone had died .

It was because they started to talk about the battle on the screen .

Due to the silence in the room, both Semi and Young-hoon were whispering,

“What? Chess? How will that even work?”

“Yeah . I can’t even imagine it . ”

And then came the conversation between Hines and Lucia .

– Kay, let’s look at the file sent by the LB for the viewers .

– Ah, this is so exciting . This isn’t even related to me, but why is my heart pounding like this?

– Huhu, isn’t that because you want the Korean rankers to be active?

And on the screen that Hines and Lucia were there, a new screen had appeared .

A huge peak that rose to one side of the Brave Canyon and a mysterious silverly clouds hanging around .

The screen which had been showing the mysterious landscape from afar, gradually enlarged, and Semi who looked at it, mumbled in a small whimpers .

“Oh, that really is a chessboard?”

Young-hoon too nodded and said,

“Ri, right? Seems like a chessboard… but is it a bit unusual?”

“No, look closely, it is a bit different from chess, it is a Shogi chessboard . ”

“What is?”

“the boards are much denser . ”

“That so?”

Huge rocks on top of peaks .

The top of the rocks was cut flat and smooth and with a familiar shape .

Like Semi and Young-hoon said that it was Shogi board’ .

A mysterious sight that excited the viewers .

And subsequently, on the board, a silhouette began to appear, just like a ‘Shogi piece’ .

Woong-!

At the same time, Hines explained,

“The name of the Brave Canyon’s battle is ‘God’s Piece Board’ . And I will explain the rules of the board from now on . ”

After gulping, Hines began to read the documents from LB which seemed very complicated .

It was something that would be very hard to understand by reading once or twice .

But one thing was definite, the content was going to be very interesting .

“Wah, this is awesome!”

Young-hoon unknowingly began to admire .

This was the brief summary of what Hines described .

1 . 24 of the best users will be selected by the Celestial camp and the Asmodian Camp .

(User selection criteria are ‘battle power’ and ‘class’ and the combat power is measured on the user’s stat and equipped equipment . )

(The unselected users can gain 100 contributions if the camp of theirs win . )

2 . The selected users are moved to the battlefield from the blue gate and placed on the board according to the ‘God’s Choice’ .

3 . The position of the board determines the position of the user, and the range of movements depend on the position .

*Position

-High General: Located in the middle of the back row, it can move up to five spaces in turn .

If the High general dies, the battle is lost .

(An additional two spaces can be moved if an enemy is killed, and can battle another time . )

-Advisor/ Minister (General): located at the right and left of the High general, can move up to three spaces in turn .

When an enemy attacks, the stats are increased by 10 percent .

(When standing near the general, he can be supported . )

-Assault Captain: located on either side of the row, and can move up to 10 spaces in one turn .

Attacking an enemy increases the stats by 5% .

(If there are allies or enemies on the route, it can jump once . )

-Aide: located on both sides and can move up to five spaces per turn .

Only one of all heroes who can use the recovery skill and heal up to 2 allies per turn .

Each time an ally is healed, the target is healed for 30% .

(Only a ‘priest’ class user can be selected . And cannot attack an enemy first, but when it is attacked, it can fight back . )

-Soldier/ pawn: placed at the front of each faction, and can move upto two spaces in a turn .

4 . The celestial camp and the Asmodian camp will move alternatively, and the order comes in the order given by the system .

5 . When the pieces meet, the battle occurs, and a battlefield is created in the center of the board, and the battle between the two users begins .

The defeated user becomes a ‘dead piece’ and is summoned outside the battle .

And during the battle, the vitality cannot be recovered except for the help of ‘aide’ and even after the battle, the vitality doesn’t restore .

* * *

Ian who had heard everything from General Hansen, looked interested at the difficulty .

‘Wah, what kind of a board game is this?’

From Ian’s point of view, the battlefield of the ‘God’s Piece Board’ was a level of showing the power of the planning team .

Each turn was like a 1:1 tournament, but the rules and methods were long like a never-ending chess game .

Ian was able to roughly understand the situation and looked at the battlefield .

‘The titles are so diverse . I wish I could be a general or an assault captain…’

Ian wanted to be in the center of the battle to have some kill point, calmed his heart and waited for the battle .

If the position was taken properly, then the game could move in a superior manner .

‘Please, High General…!’

After a while, new system messages began to emerge infront of Ian .

[The positions of each camp users have been determined . ]

The users of the Celestial camp were called one after the other with the system messages .

[… user, your job title has been set to ‘General’ . ]

[… user, your job title has been set to ‘Aide’ . ]

[… user, your job…]

And at the end of the message .

[‘Ian’ user, your job title has been set to ‘Soldier’ . ]

A line of messages had come to his sight and depressed the hell out of Ian .