Ashley
I purse my lips as I read the mission details of the third Domain. The Order Domain.
Court of Order
You have entered the System Tower's third Domain. The following objectives have been unlocked.
Complete objective 1 or all of the objectives to conquer the third Domain.
Complete 1 or more objective to leave the third Domain.
All objectives will give an unspecified number of points towards your final System Tower score.
Floors of the System Tower will vary depending on your total point score when arriving at them.
Objective 1: Kill the Judge.
Objective 2: Kill all monsters within the Court.
Objective 3: Kill all Jury Enforcers within the Court.
Objective 4: Find the Jewel of Order.
Objective 5: Survive for 12 hours within the Court of Order.
It's pretty much the sa as the last two, but with Order instead. So I'm guessing most of these Domains are all going to be the sa.
As for the text? It's white.
Which I guess makes sense for Order. The balance scale of the universe in a sense.
As for the Domain itself?
I can't help but look around. Because the Domain is in the form of a strange pitch black realm full of random floating square platforms. With nurous monsters in the form of chess pieces. Except ones with feet.
What's even stranger is that the chess pieces are literally set up like chess pieces on a chessboard. With the platforms being chessboards.
And there are hundreds of boards just from what I can see.
Although the platform I'm on isn't a chess board. It's just a simple platform.
Also, there is a bridge between the platform I'm on and the first platform with chess pieces. And there's so sort of raised dais at the center of each chess board.
I begin to walk across the bridge, only to pause when a System Notification appears in my vision. One that's incredibly surprising to .
WARNING
A NEW UNIQUE MONSTER HAS BEEN BORN IN THE UNIVERSE
WELCO THE BIRTH OF THE EMPRESS OF TWILIGHT.
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A CLASS B UNIQUE MONSTER.
Huh? That's… not what I was expecting.
Not that I was really expecting anything.
The Empress of Twilight? A new Class B Unique Monster…
Is it… normal for Unique Monsters to be born this frequently?
Chaos doesn't respond, which reminds about the whole 'Primordials can't talk in so of the other Primordial's Domains in the System Tower ' thing. With the Order Domain being one of those ones that he can't speak to in.
All because Justicar is extrely strict about most things.
Which makes sense for the Primordial of Order.
I wonder if the Primordial of Order was like that before becoming the Primordial of Order?
That's an interesting question, but whatever. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day.
Although I'm kind of curious about whether Chaos knew Justicar before he beca the Primordial of Order or not.
Maybe I can ask Chaos about it later.
For now, I focus on the chessboard platform in front of as I walk across the bridge.
None of the monsters are moving at all. But I can tell they're monsters just from their life force and magical energies alone. And there are white monsters and black monsters.
White ones on my side of the board and black monsters on the other side of the board.
Sothing tells the Domain wants to play chess.
And that assumption is confird when I step onto the chessboard and the monsters all begin moving. With each one making poses like they're beginning to ready themselves for a ga. Only to freeze into a ready position, returning to not moving again.
I turn my gaze towards the raised dais at the center of the board again when it begins to glow. Almost like trying to tell to step onto it.
A few seconds pass as the thing glows before it starts pulsing with light. Then I shrug and step onto the thing out of curiosity.
Following which the raised dais rises into the air and starts slowly spinning around the chessboard. And a control panel appears in front of with the different board pieces and different spaces on the board are shown to .
My eyes narrow a little at the panel before I rember that chess gas start from the white player's side. anwhile the pieces the control panel looks like it controls for are the white pieces.
So out of curiosity, I begin the chess ga.
Honestly, I kind of like chess. So I don't mind wasting ti here playing.
With that in mind, I play one move after another, finding the ga to not actually be that difficult.
In fact, it's actually incredibly easy. So easy that it doesn't take long before I win.
And when I do win, all of the pieces on the board just blow up. Which makes feel rather awkward since I didn't have Assimilate activated.
aning I don't get any skills for killing them.
That's annoying, but I can always just use the skill when killing the next board's monsters.
With that in mind, I turn my attention to the next board as the platform I'm on gradually goes to land back on the chessboard. anwhile a bridge appears between this board and the next.
Hmm…
After looking between them, I give a shrug before walking across the bridge to the next board. Then I try to kill the black pieces with my Gaze of Destruction.
And it works.
Sort of.
It destroys the piece when I try, but that very piece just returns again without a scratch on it. And I don't get any sort of ssage about the kill.
Does this an the only way to permanently kill them is through beating them in chess?
I would just skip past them, but that ans I wouldn't be able to one hundred percent this Domain. Which is not sothing I'm okay with.
So I guess I'm playing chess.
First though, I'll try a few different ways to win without playing. Because this is way too many gas.
I glance at the hundreds of chessboards visible in the distance.
Waaaay too many…
A slight chill runs down my spine at having to play that many gas.
After all, while I do kind of like chess, I don't like it this much. Not enough to play it hundreds of tis in a row.
I let out a sigh at that before destroying the chessboard with my Gaze of Destruction. Only for said board to regenerate at about the sa speed as I destroy it.
So I try to destroy the monsters with my physical strength instead of Gaze of Destruction. But the things don't take any damage at all.
The only thing that even lays so much as a scratch on the monsters is Gaze of Destruction. Which just leaves them reforming again afterwards.
I grit my teeth before eventually just giving up.
It looks like I'll be playing chess…
A lot.
Although before I start playing, I jump off the platform and start flying to test if it's possible. And I quickly find that it is, indeed, possible.
For , at least.
Not for others. Considering the clear effect of Unchained activating when chains begin to shoot up from the platform to grapple onto .
It doesn't really matter much in the end though. Not when I'm stuck playing every chess ga regardless.
With that thought in mind, I begin playing the next ga. With Assimilate activated this ti.
And just like the first round, it doesn't take long for to win the second ga of chess. Which makes wonder if it really will take a long ti to win all these chess gas after all.
Unless the chess gas get harder and harder as ti goes on?
Or as I clear more of them, that is.
I can see that being possible.
Anyway, I look at the ssages after winning the match.
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Order Piece} x32
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Resolution of Order, is now unlocked for your usage.}
That's an unusual skill na.
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