"What sort of trouble?" Hoyo asked.
"Tower Master gave us an assignnt," she said. "But I honestly think he's just ssing with us," she said.
"Can you explain so more? I really have no idea what you're talking about," Ludwig asked.
Kassandra gathered her thoughts and then said, "Rember that you said Master Van Dijk had asked you to bring an item from the Mage Masquerade?"
"Yes, but that was it, he didn't say what to bring," Ludwig replied.
"Well, he said he wanted the Artificer's Orb."
"That… I don't think we have enough money for that," Hoyo said, "Even with all that gold, we can't afford that," Hoyo added as he gestured to Ludwig's side pouch.
The busboy soon ca with a frothy mug of beer that Kassandra grabbed and gulped half of it in one go, surprising both Ludwig and Hoyo.
"Ahhh, that hits the spot, been a while too, never mind, the reason why we have to do this, is because Master Van Dijk promised us full passing marks on next week's exams. Basically, this is a mission that if we succeed in we can skip the entire next week's exams and pass. I want this so bad! But why does it have to be like this!" she said and ruffled her own hair.
'I can see why she always has unkempt hair…' Ludwig thought inwardly.
"You'll grow bald at this rate," He said as he pointed at her hair, which she rapidly tried to straighten with her own hand, not that it did much.
"And like Hoyo said, if that thing is expensive, then what's the point of sweating about it."
"That's the thing, it's obtainable, for free even," she said. "But I doubt I can earn it, ahhh, I should have studied more about the King's Gambit… I never thought I'd be needing to play a Noble's Ga to pass my exams."
"Slow down, Kassandra, and get to the point, it's frustrating to talk to you this way," Ludwig said, he inwardly thought that she might have a severe case of ADHD, but he didn't want to point it out, they probably have no idea what that is in this world anyway.
"Yes, Yes, the point, anyways, the Mage masquerade are planning several events, one of them is the King's Gambit ga. All is welco to join, but only the nobles win that ga every ti."
"Good, now that we know what's going on, tell , what's this Artificer's Orb?" Ludwig asked.
Hoyo was the one to answer, "Basically, it's a core that can be used to create a golem, the Artificer's Orb is a valuable object that people wouldn't mind spending hundreds of thousands of golden Krona to obtain."
"Okay, then, what's this King's Gambit?" Ludwig asked. After all, the na was… quite familiar. Almost too familiar.
"Ah, since you don't know, there is no point in explaining it. I'll be participating, I have so experience playing it a few years ago, and I still rember so strategies. This book," she said as she pointed at the large book in front of her, "Is sothing I grabbed from the academy, it harbors the history of King's Gambit and how it ca to be, and even the plays and strategies that the creator had made. Which still hold strong to this day."
Ludwig was more and more intrigued, "Humor , and show
the book's content," Ludwig said.
She sighed and opened the book.
"See this," she said as she showed an eight by eight black and white square shaped platform with symbols on it.
Ludwig's upper lip twitched, both in annoyance at the fact that Kassandra completely underestimated his understanding and the fact that she insinuated that he was ignorant, and at the fact that he fully knew this ga.
After all, he ca from a wealthy family, incredibly wealthy in fact that this was a ga that he hated with all his being.
For a simple fact, that he showed incredible genius playing it when he was young.
'Freaking Chess is haunting
even in a different world…'
"You look surprised, it's fine, it happened to
the first ti I saw this, it looks complex. It's an easy ga to learn, but incredibly hard to master." She said
"I see…" Ludwig stalled as he looked with amusent at Kassandra trying to explain a ga where he reached the status of Grandmaster in just so he can get his father off his back about playing online gas.
"These are pawns, they move on square forward and…" she began explaining the notions and all possible moves of each and every piece.
"And this is the Queen, the most powerful piece on the board, she can move diagonally and in straight lines," Hoyo added, "I read about this ga before" he said feeling proud that he finally knew sothing that Ludwig had no idea about.
"Right…" Ludwig said.
"The creator of this ga was a genius," she said, "He apparently was awarded by the forr emperor of Lufondal a seat in the council, though he was later called a madman since he kept saying that he ca from another world and all. Regardless, this ga remains the most strategically complex ga of the current world, and I need to study up on so strategies that we can use later tonight."
Her words explained sothing Ludwig was wondering about, how did chess even co to exist in this world, especially with the exact rules that were created on Earth. But the fact that soone got isekaied here like him, was enough to explain it. Van Dijk had already ntioned that several people had co to this world from another place, heroes they call them. This guy was probably one of them… though taking credit for creating chess was a bit too disingenuous, he couldn't bla the guy, since he got a seat on the Imperial table.
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"When is the event happening?" Ludwig asked.
"In one hour!" She said as she began skimming through the book.
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