After lunch, Lisbon and I had our second bet surrounded by children. The bet was a nine battlefield chess that used nine boards and 120 chess pieces. The chess pieces consisted of 60 pawns, 15 rooks, 15 knights, 15 bishops, ten mages, four queens, and one king. Aside from the fact that the pawns were capable of moving backward and there were mages, the method of moving the pieces was like chess from my previous life.

White mage pieces were war mages and could kill up to two pieces within one space around it. In the case of black mage pieces, they were necromancers. They could kill a single piece within one space around it and revive that exact piece in the same spot. Mages could move up to three spaces in any direction, so their mobility was low, but they were the core of this game.

I explained the rules of chess while laying out the chessboard and asked Lisbon, "I'll pass on selecting. Which one are you going to choose, black or white? Black goes first."

This chess game's theme was a battle against the king of immortals, the head of the black magicians in the past. The reason...