Chapter 471: The Human King
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
With King Landhar III’s movements, a chess piece that flashed with starlight gradually appeared. King Landhar III’s body and the illusion of a chess piece the size of a meteorite appeared in the sky the moment that chess piece appeared. It even suppressed the Blackmoon Knights and the sea folks that had drunk the Ascension Potion.
The light of the race chess piece also blocked the illusion of the G.o.ds spying on the world below.
When he saw that scene, the melancholy man said slowly, “I told you not to move around. You not only moved around, but you also took something without being asked. You are infringing on my rights. Would you like to die here?”
“Wait a second, Nidhogg. That is not His Majesty’s fault. After all, even if he does not want to, he can’t give me the race chess piece.”
Watson extended his right hand and grabbed the floating race chess piece. He could feel a chess piece appearing in his heart the moment he took it.
Baldur’s race chess piece, which had been stuffed into his body undetected, could be felt clearly.
[Unknown level item: incomplete human race chess piece.]
[Effect: after releasing the chess piece, all humans within the range of the chess piece will be controlled. It has nothing to do with strength. The chess piece can also be placed on a person’s body to control them. The person controlled by the chess piece can not remove the control. It is ineffective against non-human races.]
When the chess piece in his body appeared, Watson’s mind was filled with information about it.
“Fusion system, activate.” Watson immediately began fusing the race chess piece.
[Congratulations, Master, on successfully fusing the incomplete human race chess piece to form a complete race piece.]
[Sovereign-tier item: Human’s race chess piece.]
It was said that before the appearance of treasures with the ability to control the fate of a race, all kinds of creatures and races were born in the creation of heaven and earth.
[Effects: King of the Human Race (the discourse of the human race has supreme authority), Human Control (the master of all the known knowledge of human history or the creation of things), Human Creation (the consumption of power to create the human race), Human Barrier (before the extinction of the human race itself will not be materially harmed).]
[Additional effects: Molecular Acceleration.]
Watson’s fusion transformed the two pieces into a round piece that emitted white light. A tower-shaped base was at the bottom of the piece, and on the base was a statue with no facial features. It was difficult to tell whether it was a man or a woman. The face kept changing, as if it did not look like a human but was made up of every human’s features.
Everyone there, including King Landhar, felt as if their fate was in Watson’s hands after the human chess piece was fused. It was as if they were destined to be Watson’s servants, and they felt compelled to protect their king.
“What is going on?”
People in the capital looked up at the sky, which was not far from them. At the same time, their bloodlines were drawn to the chess piece in the sky, and they subconsciously desired to become one with the ma.s.sive chess piece.
That sensation was as if the chess pieces in the sky were torches, and they were the sparks flying from the torches. Despite the fact that they could move freely after leaving the torches, the torches had always drawn them in. It was the place where they were born as well as their final destination.
“Another amazing thing has been created by Young Master Watson.”
The ascension potion’s effect had already worn off, allowing them to regain their original strength from the starlight tier. With burning eyes, everyone looked at the chess pieces floating in front of Watson. They all stretched out their fists to press against their chests, enjoying the stronger beating of their hearts in their chests.
‘That chess piece was mine. That power was mine as well.’
King Landhar III focused his gaze on the chess piece in front of Watson. His eyes were filled with apprehension.
As the human king, he was familiar with the game of chess. It was mentioned in some ancient books from the third era. It was said that the ancient G.o.ds fought over something, resulting in a long-lasting war that tore the entire world apart.
One of them was race chess. Race chess first appeared in that world when the world was born. It could be referred to as the cradle of all races. When the world was first created, a certain type of energy gathered and became race chess. There were strong and weak energies, but they were roughly equal. The race chess then began to multiply, dispersing from a large ma.s.s of energy into smaller energy individuals. The races were those high-energy individuals.
Each race chess piece had roughly the same amount of energy. As a result, the greater the number of individual chess pieces, the weaker each person’s power is. Humans, for example, despite the fact that there were many of them, their strength was very average; unlike dragons, their weakest level when they reached adulthood was platinum-tier.
The chess pieces were last recorded during the void era. It was rumored that many of the chess pieces were wiped out during the ancient battles. That resulted in the erasure of those races’ chess pieces and the depletion of their bloodlines. The human race’s chess pieces, which were not thought to have an advantage in the ancient era, were also shattered but not wholly destroyed. The people of the Void era were in charge of the fragments. The race chess pieces vanished following the expansion of the Void era when they challenged the divine realm, and the entire kingdom collapsed.
When later generations of kings learned about the race chess pieces, they mocked the so-called race chess pieces controlled by the Void era and the more ancient battles. They believed that those were simply the byproducts of myth’s formation.
King Landhar III thought the same thing until he saw the race chess piece that Baldur used on Watson. He recognized the treasure at a glance because it was precisely the same as described in the ancient legends. The ancient legends turned out to be true. If he could successfully inhabit Watson’s body, he would gain Watson’s magical talent and also the race chess piece. He could achieve the peak of his life.
Unfortunately, he was defeated.
He did not want to give away the race chess piece, just like Watson said. He could not refuse because Baldur had previously sworn that whoever defeated Baldur would receive the race chess piece. He had previously defeated Baldur. In reality, everything was pre-planned by Watson. As a result, Watson’s victory over Baldur resulted in the race chess piece recognizing Watson as its master.
While King Landhar III was thinking about it, Watson was sorting through the thoughts that came to him. Along with the appearance of the race chess piece, many things that did not belong to him appeared in his mind simultaneously. Among those were the technology and wisdom that countless dynasties had ama.s.sed over the tens of thousands of years that humans had lived since ancient times.
Those were like a picture scroll that slowly unfolded in his mind, allowing him to read the past with clarity. He could also directly extract the technology that humans had previously mastered. Not only that, but some elites existed in the past, and he could learn the abilities that those people had mastered directly from them.
The history of humanity was the history of creation, and humanity’s hymn was the hymn of courage.
Watson observed that countless humans throughout history had accomplished incredible feats. Perhaps, when compared to other races born with great power in ancient times, humans’ power was too weak. However, humans also possessed unique group intelligence. They were able to avoid pride and show their fangs at the strong precisely because they were weak.
Aside from that, Watson had a better understanding of the world after fusing with the chess piece.
“The race chess piece can be thought of as the sovereign tier’s symbol.”
The lowest cultivation system in that world was iron-tier, while the highest was sovereign-tier. Each tier had its own distinct features. Bronze-tier warriors, for example, could transform their combat aura into armor, while silver-tier warriors could fly.
Diamond-tier elites could understand the rules above their tier, and starlight-tier elites could become G.o.ds. Their bodies had the power of stars, illuminating the earth. What about sovereign-tier?
Watson had previously only known that sovereign-tier elites were above starlight-tier elites and were even more powerful than G.o.ds. He finally had a firm grasp on that tier. The term sovereign referred to the ruler of a particular race.
The race chess was a symbol of sovereign-tier. The race chess was created when the world was created, and its energy was fixed. As a result, the highest achievement of a person who understood race chess was fixed, and that was to gather the energy of all the other partic.i.p.ants in the race into one’s own body. If you could do that, you would be a king.
The sovereign tier represented the pinnacle of that world. If a person wanted more power after reaching the sovereign tier, they could only go to other elites for it. In other words, they had to fight for the right to play chess.
Or, like Nia, they could choose to reincarnate as a Child of G.o.d. They could reincarnate from one race to another and absorb the energy of the other. They would be able to break through the limit that way. Originally, Watson was wondering what else could stop Nia after she had reached sovereign-tier. He realized it then.
That world was much larger than he had antic.i.p.ated. It was not, however, without limitations. Watson could grasp a sliver of the world’s edge.
“The ability of each race chess piece to control a race or create its own people is derived. Its essence represents the ability to create the world. The human chess piece symbolizes the origin ability, which is molecular acceleration,” Watson muttered to himself.
The ability to move and expand an infinite amount of energy was referred to as molecular acceleration. That was very similar to how humans were able to quickly reproduce and replenish their population regardless of how much suffering they endured.
Nia had mastered two sovereign-tier skills. The first was molecular deceleration, which should have been a gift from the race she was born into. Molecular acceleration was the other. It should be a new ability Nia gained after reincarnating as the Child of G.o.d in that world.
Watson had gone from diamond to peak diamond-tier after understanding that point and having a deep understanding of the power system of that world. He was on the verge of breaking through to starlight-tier.
Watson would have needed at least ten years to acc.u.mulate energy from diamond to peak diamond. However, with the invention of the human chess piece, that process was drastically shortened. Not only that, but Watson had a good idea of where he wanted to go with his future training.
“There is a limit to how much a race’s power can grow. If I want to get stronger, I need to fuse more races and make more race chess pieces! It appears that, in addition to the sea race and the dragon race, I need to control more races.”
He had previously subdued the sea folks and the dragon race solely to gain control of the sea and sky to better fight the kingdom. However, he had a more lofty goal then.
Watson inserted the human chess piece into his own body after a long sigh. If the human chess piece immediately entered his heart and fused with it, a.s.similating his heart into the shape of a chess piece, one had to master the race chess piece if one wanted to become a sovereign-tier elite. The person who mastered the race chess piece, on the other hand, was not necessarily a sovereign-tier elite.
It was the same with Watson; he was only at the peak of the diamond tier when he realized he had what it took to become a sovereign-tier elite. Although he was still a little immature, he would undoubtedly grow into a worthy human sovereign-tier elite in the future.
Watson looked around, filled with pride. “The battle is over. Everyone has worked hard.”
His voice did not need to be particularly loud at that point, after fusing with the race chess, but it could still reach the ears of everyone there.
“Young Master Watson appears to be a little different than before. Should I say he has grown more majestic or stronger? I do not even dare to look at him directly now,” a Blackmoon Knight muttered to himself.
The people around him nodded as well. “I have the same impression. My legs are shaky. If I had not held on so tenaciously, I would have knelt in front of Young Master Watson right then and there.”
“I will lavishly reward the soldiers who came, whether it was the Blackmoon Iron Knight, the sea folks, or the dragons.”
“I serve Young Master Watson with no expectations of recompense!”
Many soldiers yelled at the same time, their voices echoing across the sky.
Watson’s corners of his mouth curled up in delight at that response. “There has to be a reward, but first—”
Watson raised his hand to the sky and activated the fusion system mid-sentence. The world, which had been harmed by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of starlight-tier elites, began to heal as a result of his fusion, and it became even firmer. The G.o.ds’ spying vanished behind the ma.s.sive black curtain in the sky. After their vision was blocked, one could clearly see their unwillingness in their eyes.
Watson’s fusion ability healed not only the sky but also the shattered land. The large hole created by Baldur’s void wars.h.i.+p’s Divine Power Star Destroyer Cannon quickly recovered, and the magma that seeped out of it vanished. Even the royal city, which had been ripped apart by bottomless ravines, was rea.s.sembled and rebuilt. The citizens sat on the ground in a daze, staring at their relatives and friends who were not far away, their faces contorted with relief at having survived a disaster.
That scene happened in an instant, and Watson quickly drew his finger and turned to face King Landhar III, who was standing across from him.
“This scene, Your Majesty, is about to come to an end. You invited the G.o.ds to come in and secretly plotted to take over my body. I am not sure what I should do with you.”
“What exactly do you intend to do with me? Kill me?” King Landhar III’s eyes flashed. “The winner takes everything. There is nothing wrong with what you did.
“You can rest a.s.sured, Your Majesty. I will not kill you for the time being. If I kill you, the kingdom will be in shambles as a result of my actions! Two of the three princes died as a result of your actions, as did Augustus. The Campbells will not tolerate that. If I kill you now, everyone in the kingdom will believe it was my fault. There will be no ministers in the kingdom to back me up. Furthermore, the Winter Nation and the Elven Kingdom are collaborating to invade the Holy Dragon Kingdom. It is better for Your Majesty to deal with that.”
Watson shook his head and shrugged. “Just as I had a backup plan for your previous actions, didn’t you have a backup plan for your failure?”
Like Watson’s, King Landhar III’s backup plan was for the Holy Dragon Kingdom to fall apart and be invaded by other kingdoms, one to destroy the kingdom and the other to destroy the world if he died. The only difference between Watson and King Landhar III was a difference in their perspectives due to their power differences.
“Watson, I don’t have to pretend anymore! I only have one question for you right now. My plan was supposed to be flawless. How exactly did you destroy it? It appears that you were aware of all of my plans in advance and completed the counterattack in a location that I was unaware of.”
When he realized his final thoughts had been revealed, King Landhar III sighed and stopped pretending.
He was perplexed as to how Watson could derail his plans. He might not have made the most significant contribution to the kingdom in history as king of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, but he boasted that he was the best at planning. In that regard, both the late king and the kingdom’s so-called famous strategists were inferior to him. How could a 12 or 13-year-old boy like Watson do something like that?
“That is a long story, Your Majesty. Are you willing to listen?”
“Of course. After all, I am powerless to do anything but listen to the story right now.”
Watson cleared his throat and was about to speak when a magical array appeared beneath Sylvan’s feet and in front of King Landhar III. He slapped King Landhar III across the face.
Slap!
King Landhar III’s face swelled up at a noticeable rate, and blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.
“I should call you Frier, not King Landhar III. You are still in the mood to hear a story? You must have a lot of free time.” Sylvan’s eyes glowed with murderous intent, and his raised right hand trembled. It was engulfed by a magical fluctuation powerful enough to kill a diamond-tier elite.
King Landhar III turned his head and spat out a mouthful of blood, saying, “Sylvan, you are still the same, still very rash. When Avril was still alive, she tried many times to persuade you, but you have not changed! I am afraid Avril would be very disappointed if I saw you now.”
Slap!
Another smack. “B*stard, you have no right to mention Avril’s name. You are the one who murdered her.. I am going to kill you