Witcher: I Can Extract Everything - Chapter 330

Chapter 330 Chess Game

Pa-ta! Pa-ta!

In the dark dungeon, a few soft sounds suddenly rang out, and a few figures fell to the ground one after another.

Standing on the ground, Heath looked at the surrounding environment.

This was an underground space. The light was very dim, and only the general outline could be seen vaguely. It was basically an empty space, and the ground was very smooth as if it was paved with tiles. There seemed to be some sculptures or something standing on the ground.

Nyssa asked, “Where is this place? It seems very spacious?”

“What a dense dark element. I also smell a rotten smell. Did someone cast a necromancy spell here?”

Nyssa groped forward and said, “It’s too dark…”

“Don’t move!”

Heath seemed to have noticed something and suddenly raised his hand to stop Nyssa.

“Did something happen? Sir Wizard?” Nyssa asked in confusion

Heath didn’t explain much and just said, “Stand here and don’t move.”

After saying that, he walked forward on his own. However, his movements were very strange. He didn’t walk in a straight line, but jumped and jumped like a child playing a checkerboard game.

After jumping dozens of meters forward, he stopped and chanted an incantation to summon a fireball.

The fireball illuminated the surrounding five meters or so, and a brazier could be vaguely seen standing in front of Heath.

Heath held the fireball and threw it straight into the air. The fireball shot straight into the sky with a whoosh, and then exploded in the air with a bang. Then, it fell to the ground in the shape of an umbrella.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A series of crisp explosions suddenly sounded. One brazier after another lit up in this space. As these braziers lit up, the scene in this space was completely exposed to them.

Immediately after, the two Apprentices could not help but open their mouths wide.

At this moment, they realized that they were in an extremely spacious square. The square was covered with black and white tiles. A tile about half a meter in diameter was just enough for a person to stand, and at this moment, each of them was standing in the middle of a tile.

In addition to them and the brazier, there were also sculptures on the tiles. The images of the sculptures included knights in armor, kings and queens with crowns on their heads, well-dressed nobles, and even farmers with rakes.

“This… This is…”

Suddenly, Carrette seemed to realize something. He said in surprise, “Chess, this… Could this be a Magic Chess Array?”

A Magic Chess Array referred to a magic formation that combined magic and chessboard in the Wizard World.

Most Wizards liked games that focused on governance. Chessboard games were one of them. In addition, chessboard games had a certain deceptive nature. Therefore, many Wizards liked to combine magic and traps with chessboards and set them up as magic formations to protect the treasury against external enemies and so on.

Over time, these magic arrays formed a small type of magic array, also known as a Magic Chess Array.

Heath nodded. “Yes, this is a Magic Chess Array.”

He pointed at Nyssa and added, “That’s why I asked you not to move.”

Nyssa was stunned and subconsciously looked at her heel. When she looked at it, she exclaimed, “Ah!”

Only then did she realize that there was a black brick in front of her heel, and on the brick was a round hexagram with a triangular emblem in the middle. Anyone familiar with the various symbols of Wizards would know that… this was the emblem of a magic array.

She quickly said, “Thank you, thank you, Sir Wizard.”

If it weren’t for Heath’s timely reminder, she would have fallen into a magic trap long ago, and the magic traps on this chessboard would have no use before they were activated… Perhaps she would have been teleported out by now.

However, her gratitude could not be heard by Heath at this moment, because Heath’s mind was completely focused on the chessboard in front of him.

Magic Chess Array!

Usually, Heath himself was very interested in board games and Magic Chess Arrays built on board games. He had also read and collected a large number of Magic Chess Arrays. Unfortunately, he had never met a Wizard who was good at using chess formations, so he had never had the chance to show off his skills. He did not expect to meet it in this dungeon today.

‘Let’s see how the results of my daily learning are!’

With this thought in mind, he said, “Listen to my command later. Go wherever I tell you to go, understand?”

Pausing for a moment, he added, “If you cause trouble, don’t blame me for not being polite.”

After saying this, he deliberately added a bit of (Deterrence) into his words and released an intermediate-level Wizard’s spiritual power. When the Wizard-level suppressed them… It immediately made the two Apprentices keep silent.

“Yes… Yes…”

Following that, Heath did not delay any further and immediately began to crack this Magic Chess Array.

Unlike other magic formations that could be cracked from the outside through brute force, Magic Chess Arrays were usually set up with exquisite interlocking rings and tight seams. Cracking it from the outside was very difficult and required a very high level of strength. Normally, a Wizard-level Magic Chess Array would require at least intermediate or even an advanced level of strength to crack it.

The Magic Chess Array in front of him was no less complicated than an intermediate-level Wizard. With Heath’s current strength, it was almost impossible for him to break it through external forces.

If he could not break it from the outside, then he could only break it from the inside. This was the correct solution to the Magic Chess Array, which was to play chess.

Standing on the chessboard, Heath scanned the chessboard in front of him and began to analyze the game. Since he wanted to play chess, he naturally had to understand the game before he knew how to start.

At this moment, if it were any other Wizard who did not understand the game, they would probably be forced to give up. However, for Heath, this was not a problem. Over the years, with the help of the system’s powerful extraction function and a little hobby of his, he had extracted countless chess games and chess sheets. Including his own comprehensive level, he was not inferior to a chess master.

Through his observation just now, Heath quickly figured out the way of the chess game in front of him. This was a standard game of “The King’s War’.

This kind of chess was a common chess game on the continent. It was somewhat similar to the chess game on Earth. There were also chess pieces for the king, queen, prince, princess, knight, farmer, and other corresponding roles. The chess pieces on both sides were the same. Defeating the other side by playing these chess pieces was considered a win.

After getting a general understanding of this game, Heath officially began to break the game…