Chapter 143: Game of Chess

Chapter 143: Game of Chess



Rushing through the streets of Dawnwatch, Adam felt the rush of the time.

There wasn't any time to be wasted.

At first, he thought about getting a carriage, as they were usually faster than just running, but they had to go rather slowly due to the narrow streets and heavy traffic.

Thus, he decided on just running.

There was some distance to the market place. A distance that seemed unreasonably long, but he knew he had to make it there as quickly as possible.

'I didn't know this would happen, cursed!'

Adam clicked his tongue and felt like he should've done something after seeing Loya, the demoness incarnation, back then, but he thought that she was just an innocent victim of all of that.

The timeline had now changed.

Last time, she became controlled by the demoness during the year 2151. It took her another seven years till she was able to swallow the sun.

Now, the Dark God was saying that it would happen today if he didn't stop her.

So, something happened back then that stopped her from swallowing the sun. Perhaps someone stopped her, which caused her to delay plans for another seven years.

'I don't want that darkness to return. Those years were horrible.'

Adam gritted his teeth and pushed through the crowd. The crowd almost fought back, not wanting to move an inch, but eventually he managed to push through and continue his way down the cobblestone streets.

'Back then, King Moriarty restored the sun. What was He saying that it cannot be restored? Could it be that the King didn't restore the sun after all? But the sun clearly returned with all of its warmth and light.

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After a short while, he arrived at the market place. He was looking around frantically, wondering what alleyway he took before.

He had slight difficulties remembering the way to that fire-destroyed building.

At that moment, Adam halted as soon as he went past an alleyway that somewhat looked familiar. Then he ran inside the alleyway, navigated through the maze of narrow paths, and finally arrived at the hidden part of the city.

There, tucked away in the shadow, a smoldering, destroyed building stood crumbled with yellow tape circling around it.

However, on the other side of the yellow tape, at the front of the broken house, a naked, ash- covered woman was crouching, drawing something on the ground with her bloody fingers.

She drew an eight-pointed star with demonic symbols surrounding it, muttering incantations under her breath.

At that moment, Adam saw five figures tied on five broken, charred pillars, their mouths covered with cloth, their eyes wide with fear.

A blood ran down their arms-Loya used their blood to draw the strange symbol on the cobblestone ground.

Adam slowly drew his sword and approached her, keeping his footsteps silent on the dusty ground.

As soon as the family of five saw him approach, their eyes lit up with hope, and they wished they could shout for him to kill her.

Adam cut through the yellow tape with his sword and said, "Loya, it's time to stop."

Loya flinched and turned around to face Adam, her eyes filled with tears.

"Die, mortal!" The demoness screamed like a hysterical monster and drove her dagger

towards the man's chest.

Adam parried it with the blunt side of his sword, and a white hue spread across his blade-he used his Kraft—then exchanged another series of blows with the demoness.

Slowly, Adam started pushing her back. She was struggling to maintain her ground as Loya's body was physically much weaker than his.

Then, with his free hand, he took his shield from his back and used Shield Charge, slamming right into her and sending her flying through the charred wall of the house.

The wall crumbled over her, burying her in a cloud of dust and debris.

A few seconds later, she jumped off the ground, coughing and sputtering. "You are nothing but a vessel of evil," the demoness said with a ridiculing tone. "Alastor is using you. When the time's right, he'll betray you, kill you, and take everything you hold

dear."

"You don't need to worry about me. I'm not foolish enough to get betrayed anymore. Never

again."

The demoness gritted her teeth and lunged at him, her eyes blazing with anger.

Adam blitzed past her dagger, then cut through her arms from elbow to wrist.

The arms, with one of them holding the dagger, fell to the ground, right at the center of the

demonic symbol on the ground.

"Nooo!" She screamed in pain.

Ignoring the pain somewhat, she ran after Adam and kicked her leg forward.

Adam brought his sword from down and cut through her thigh. The leg fell while the blood

gushed from the fresh wound. She fell on the ground on her knees.

"You don't understand!" She screamed. "You're just a pawn in a game of chess played by

Gods. You are nothing to them!"

Adam twirled his blade around and placed the tip of the blade against her chest-the heart

right behind the layer of flesh.

"I am not too bad at chess," Adam said and smiled. "I don't mind playing with them."

"Hahaha!" The demoness laughed. "You think you can outplay Alastor? He is a hundred steps

ahead of you. After all, he is the original Trickster God."

Adam just smiled. Didn't answer back. Then stabbed the blade through her chest, through the

heart, and out of the back.

She let out another painful scream before collapsing onto the ground.