"...hm? Hold up"

Just as Smallsnake was about to place his piece down, he frowned.

"Did you just say that a camera caught you taking off your mask?"

Lazily supporting my chin with my arm, I nodded.

"Yup"

Confused, Smallsnake tilted his head and frowned.

"...isn't that bad? I mean-"

Seeing Smallsnake's confusion, before he could continue, I cut him off

"Well that is if what they saw was my real face"

Coming to an understanding, Smallsnake's brows relaxed

"Ah...so you didn't reveal your face?"

Nodding my head, I pointed at the board. Urging for him to continue.

"Don't you remember the photos I sent you? The ones you used to create multiple facemasks for me?"

-Tak!

Moving one of the pieces, Smallsnake nodded his head.

"Yeah"

He did.

Although he didn't know who the people in the photos were, Smallsnake remembered receiving a text a couple of days ago regarding the creation of a couple of skin masks.

With current technology, creating such high detailed masks didn't take much, so he had it promptly made the next day.

Seeing that he understood, I lethargically said

"...well I was wearing two at that time."

-Tak!

With one of my eyes closed, I moved my bishop diagonally across the board.

"I see...and who's mask does the other one belong to?"

Hearing his question, I didn't answer immediatly. Instead, I answered with another question.

"Smallsnake, who do you thinks stands to gain the most from the conflict between Sword of light and Luxious?"

Getting answered back with a question, Smallsnake thought for a moment before hesitantly saying

"...errr, the ones who wins between them"

Shaking my head, I lightly smiled.

"Tut, tut, tut, not necessarily true..."

-Tak!

Moving one of his pieces, Smallsnake frowned.

"...then who?"

Smiling, I glanced at him and said

"Have you ever heard of the term, 'the mantis stalks the cicada unaware of the oriole behind?'"

Nodding his head, pausing and thinking for a moment, Smallsnake's eyes widened

"...you don't mean"

-Tak!

"Yup"

...

Luxious Headquarters, 80th floor.

Overlooking the city from the tainted windows of the highrise building, a tall muscular man interlocked his fingers behind his back.

A cold and indifferent aura exuded from his body. Briefly glancing towards the bottom of the building, towards the busy streets of Ashton city, the tall man coldly spoke

the two people we sent

so

a few feet away from the muscular man, a man dressed in a simple

reply, after a short pause, the

"...hmm, strange"

thinking, the grey suit

what are

-Bang!

as the guild master of Luxious, Patrick Reid, was about to speak, the sound of the door smashing reverberated across the space as an individual wearing a black suit

"Emergency report!"

into a conflict inside of

an invisible pressure instantly bore down on the individual

"khhh..."

-Thud!

just barged into the office felt his knees give out as he knelt on the ground

Patrick coldly spat as he glanced at

like that...How is this piece of news deemed to

-Gulp!

saliva, trembling, the individual

master got into a

-Gulp!

another gulp of saliva, the poor man

an arm

-Vauuuam!

-Bam!

whole office space as the furniture around the room was obliterated into dust. Papers flew everywhere, and the whole

looked towards the kneeling subordinate and slowly

said...recount me everything

without a second thought, the subordinate nodded his

with Nolan Valdev...son of current guild master of Sword

the aura around Patrick slightly

light?

his head slightly, Patrcik gestured for

told to continue, without a second thought, the subordinate instantly started

in the middle of a conflict inside of the nightclub, out of nowhere,

massive overbearing pressure started emanating from

when was Sword of Light that

dared to make a

of Sword

Light didn't regard

fists tightly, Patrick turned towards Victor who stood by

our high ranking members...in a week's time, I want everything prepared...prepare the paperwork. We are

opened wide as

"Guild master!"

face, Patrick once again stared

matter if the opponent is another gold grade guild, if you

...

-Tak!

down, I glanced at Smallsnake

so the guild master of Luxious will most likely prepare

pawn, paused. Looking at me, he

"A guild war?"

"Yes"

head

predictions, as soon as the guild master of Luxious found out what had happened to his son, he would without

This was inevitable.

only had one

instantly try to fight against the person responsible for crippling his

could do that was through

central government established to legally

had no choice but to establish guild wars

specifically made to avoid deaths, as at the moment humanity could not afford to lose any more talented warriors. With the pressure coming from all sides, the

a lot of discussions, the central government set up a

name suggested,

this conflict would all be done inside

to create a state-of-the-art virtual machine that could replicate 99.99% of

the guilds could compete against each other under fair rules without losing any member of their

gain something that was agreed upon prior to engaging in a

with the central government acting as the intermediary, there was no need to fear for the other party not holding up

sure he's going to declare a guild war so

once again confused, looked at

the events that had happened

Smiling, I lazily yawned

you're spot on...After a bit of thinking, the guild master of Luxious, Patrick Reid, will instantly realize that something was wrong with the events that led to

head, Smallsnake curiously glanced

that, wouldn't that mean your

-Tak!

a few squares diagonally, I

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