I pressed the rank up button. The orb of darkness grew slightly and gained a purple outline. A third button form next to the other two saying 'upgrade unit' with a one under it. The light under rank up turned off and create said I can make four more units. I scanned through the rule book. It says that I can create special pieces, minus the king and queen. I closed the book and pressed the create button.
"Create knights- Death, Famine, War, Pestilence." Four blobs landed on the board. On E8 was the skeleton of...Some weird pony hybrid. It had the build of earth pony with the wings of a pegasus and the horn of a unicorn, but there were much larger. On F8 was another combination of the three. This one was deathly thin, I could see the outline of it's bones. on G8 was yet another combination, I quick glance showed the the fourth was one as well. War was bulky with his horn and wings being the smallest of the bunch. On H8 was a monstrosity. I know I made it but I felt like I was going to puke. It was a sickly green color with some of it's skin falling off.
"This is a new combination. I wasn't really imagining this. I'll call them...Alicorns. A combination of all three pony tribes. But, that's enough gawking." I pressed the upgrade button.
"Upgrade Unit- Chaos." Tentacles of darkness came out of the orb, wrapping around the pawn. When they let go a new creature was standing there. He has a deer antler on the right, a blue goat horn on the left, one long fang, different-sized pupils, a snake tongue, a goat beard, and white bushy eyebrows. He has the right arm of a lion, the left claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. In addition, he has a bat's right wing, a pegasus left wing, a horse's mane, and a dragon-like snake's tail with a white tail tuft. The shape of his body resembles that of a snake. I'll name him Discord. Sadly he's still a pawn. In the rules Upgraded units are still the same units just more powerful.
"Now..." She was getting really nervous. I clapped my hands together, "It's time for a break." I uncrossed my legs and stretched. Faust in the other hand was confused.
"What do you mean 'time for a break?' We just started and I'm on the losing side, I need to start taking back my pieces."
I smiled at her, "We've been playing for easily 5 or more hours. Even if time doesn't pass here we still need to relax and take a break every now and then." She gained a thoughtful look for a moment.
"I suppose you're right. I need time to make a plan anyways." She pouted, it was kinda cute.
"Do you think you can make this place more vibrite? The void is to bland and boring."
"You can create something yourself." I just gave her a confused look, "Don't tell me you haven't noticed. You said yourself that we've been playing for over 5 hours. That much mental work would make anyone tired. Tell me, are you?" I thought and realized that I don't even feel drowsy. "When you agreed to play you did more than became a obstacle for my ponies. You became a god." I had a lot of things running through my mind, the main one being.
"So I'm a god of evil and darkness to your ponies?" She gave a light chuckle.
"Technically yes. As I am the god of good and light to them. Though I'm sure that means nothing to us." I had to agree with her. I turned to face the void, snapping my fingers. Around us formed the most beautiful garden. Every flower and plant you can think of was here. Right next to us was a large pond, the water so clear I could see the rocks at the bottom. The sun shined down on me with a warm breeze flowing through my hair. That's when I noticed that it was longer.
I normally keep it pretty short but now it was a little past my shoulders. When I picked up a strand I saw it was no longer my normal brown but a light grey instead. My cloths were a few days old and started to smell so I snapped my fingers and changed into different ones. I went with black dress pants, a white button up long sleeve, a black dress vest with a purple tie, and black dress shoes.
I sat under a Magnolia kobus tree across from Faust and gave a soft smile, "Let's continue, shall we?" She smiled back and nodded. I looked down at the board and saw discord scrambling back to place, glancing back at me. I gave a small chuckle and reached out to move my next piece.
The descriptions were a bit lengthy but otherwise the chapter seemed fine
I especially like how discord scrambled to get back in place but our human (god) friend just took it in stride, sneaky little minx that he is
Has it really been only 5 hours for them? Or did it only feel like 5 hours? Because that’s a little short of an amount of time for our resident god to get grey hair and grimy clothes
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It was a little bit of both. It felt like five hours but it was much longer than that. Like how time flies when you're having fun
The four horsemen of the apocalypse... nice
I find it extra amusing that you make them knights
Ooh will grogar be a king or simply a pawn? I can’t wait to find out
I actually would like to ask if you could make a chapter that is the rulebook. Just as an secondary focus whenever you what so we can also play this chess type or give ideas so you can improve your story or we can make suggestions on the rules.
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Oh that sounds fun
really good so far cant wiat for more
Will this get a update? Hope this isn't dead
Very fun story. I do so hope that there is an update soon. It's so very very fun!
So far I'm very interested to see where this will go, the idea is unique and I haven't seen anything like it. I do want to know the rules of this game since it will give us a better grasp of just how it works. However, one thing I would like to see more of is banter between Faust and the human while they play.
Nice chapter please upload more.
Anyway, I writing this comment to tell you all that I've just made a Tv Tropes page of this story.
Go visit whenever you want.
very good we'll done can't wait to see where this is going
Plz update as soon as you can plz
This is freaking great. I can imagine this as a mobile game, hope you update soon.
Discord can move outside of time and space so of course he can move off the chessboard it makes perfect sense even though discord himself doesn't make any sense
I just realized something with this concept. Eventually twilight might find this realm of the gods and realize the god of light and the god of darkness are pretty good friends