The Villain Only Wants To Live a Buddhist Life
Chapter 298 (2)

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Who said that Dark only had one chess piece that was ridiculous.

These [Light Elf] were clearly the same, alright!

Could it be that these chess pieces were pirated too?

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From the beginning of this match, the Knight House students, who were originally very confident, had some ominous premonitions.

But Noble House students who had been secretly worried about Dark's chess strength raised their chests slightly.

The credits that could be used for purchasing rare chess pieces were all accumulated by the students themselves.

That was also the crystallization of one's own hard work, a display of strength!

The students of Noble House all had powerful family backgrounds, and many of them were wealthy people who were good at suppressing people with money.

But that was a gift from one's family, and they would be despised for getting their family's help in this kind of competition.

The "wealth" in the academy was different from the "wealth" outside.

In the academy, "wealth" was "virtue".

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They still didn't know that Dark got those cards for free.

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In the following game, Dark who had used [Ultimate - Last-minute Effort] no longer kept making some low-level mistakes like a pure rookie.

Although there was no clever strategy and tactics, by relying on a steady style of play and strong enough chess pieces, he was able to slightly suppress Robert in the early stage!

This was completely different from when he played against Doron.

The first-year Noble House students who had watched him play against Doron couldn't help but be amazed.

Doron himself was also like a squirrel with a chestnut stuck in his neck, realizing that his dreams of revenge may be shattered again.

Was this the kind of progress humans could make?

During this period, Dark shouldn't have played against other people, right?

Could it be that he had been practicing alone in his dorm room?

But no matter how surprised they were, the chess skills that Dark showed at this time were obviously moving away from a new player.

In fact, the techniques and tactics of magic chess and magic duel were interchangeable to a certain extent.

It was like the Thirty-Six Stratagems of the Art of War could be applied to many fields other than war.

Profound knowledge and extensive experience also helped Dark master the way of playing Magic Chess as quickly as possible.

He was a different man now than he was a few days ago.

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When Dark’s pieces occupied the [Magic Crystal Mine] on the board first and stayed there for three rounds, his [Castle] expanded suddenly, upgrading from a simple Level 1 castle to a relatively luxurious Level 2 castle!

This meant he could already start placing tier 2 pieces.

And Robert gradually fell into a difficult situation at this point.

This was something Robert didn't expect before the game.

However, his extensive experience in Magic Chess kept him calm and unwavering because of a momentary disadvantage.

Immediately afterward, Robert manipulated the chess piece to actively jump into the lightning field, so that the chess piece's ‘damage received’ reached the specified value, and his castle was passively upgraded as a result!

The decisiveness of this "self-harm" caused a lot of discussions among the little magisters.

Robert's skills in Magic Chess began to be gradually revealed.

The disadvantage of chess piece strength was gradually made up by his moves and the use of the chessboard terrain.

In the confrontation of level 2 chess pieces, although Dark's chess piece strength still had the advantage, he was still losing ground slowly until it was reversed!

Robert's play method was not reckless, but very cautious, which was completely opposite to his personality. He gradually eroded the Dark’s territory through small manipulations.

Evade, exchange pieces, take advantage of the situation, and use the weak to strike the strong.

Only those who had played against him would know how high his level was.

For a first-year student to be able to hone his Magic Chess skills to this level, apart from hard work and passion, he obviously also needed talents above average.

If he could spare some of the hard work of studying Magic Chess to study, he wouldn't have been at the bottom of the pile last semester.

Better yet, if he could utilize his understanding and techniques of Magic Ches, he may be able to transform from a "retarded" extra to a "smart" supporting character!

Dark was surprised.

As the chessboard situation was gradually controlled by Robert, that feeling became more and more obvious to him.

This game might completely overturn his subjective impression of Robert!

He began to feel that Robert was actually very smart.

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When the game progressed to the second half, Dark also started to place his troops in formations.

He kept using the tank-type Magic Chess to block Robert's pieces, thus stacking "damage received".

The rule of relying on the "total amount of damage received" to reach the target to upgrade the castle from Lv2 to Lv3 existed, but it was not easy to do.

And at the same time, the opponent would also be able to upgrade the castle from Lv2 to Lv3 because the "total amount of damage caused" reached the target.

But before that, Robert had upgraded the castle from Lv2 to Lv3 by "occupying three [Magic Crystal Mine] at the same time, for three consecutive rounds"!

He started to place the level 3 pieces first.

At this point, Robert encountered resistance.

According to his calculations, in order to avoid the appearance of the cheating chess piece [Vlad the Vampire], he needed to occupy and defeat Dark's [castle] before it was upgraded from Lv2 to Lv3!

Therefore, he should avoid Dark's chess pieces and make unnecessary attacks on them as little as possible, so as not to make the "total amount of damage received" reach the specified value.

However, Dark showed extremely high skills in the formation of troops relative to students of this age, which made it impossible for him to advance smoothly.

Leaving aside the various well-known tactics, Dark was also a fan of various types of chess. He already had a lot of attainments in other chess, and he just needed to gradually apply them to Magic Chess.

Simply relying on the strength of chess pieces had limitations. His only true strength was to increase his chess skills as soon as possible.

As Dark's "total damage received" gradually accumulated, it was impossible for Robert to always avoid clashes or not fight back.

Finally, after a period of stalemate, Robert beheaded some of Dark's pieces and finally arrived below his [Castle].

However, if he attacked the castle, the damage received by [the castle] would still be counted into the "damage received by chess pieces", and Dark's "total damage received" was only one step away from making the castle upgrade again!

"Should I attack or not?" Robert looked at [Jackal Axeman] standing in front of the [Castle] with a big axe in its hand, unable to give an order for a long time!

The little magisters who came around to join in the fun couldn't help holding their breath.

The only noise left in the classroom was Robert's short panting,

"Attack!" A student from Knight House couldn't help but blurt out.

"Attack!" The bravery in Robert's bones finally made his move.

[Jackal Axeman] raised its ax and swung it down at his order!

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