AWB Chapter 356: You need to paint the chess pieces yourself.
Chapter 356: You need to paint the chess pieces yourself.
"In short, this is the background of the story."
Alice stood before a giant canvas, using magic to control her brushes and paint, saying...
"40 years have passed since the birth of the world's first girl with magical abilities, namely Yemei."
[Mercury's Secret: This is a fictional story set in another world, unrelated to any characters or IP. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental!]
"Isn't the time span a bit too long?" Xin Yuehu complained.
"Because that's the background of this fan fiction, but apparently the parent company of this IP really likes to harp on copyright issues, so..."
Hellcat shrugged and said.
Alice continued:
"The magical girls have built an empire spanning across the star plane, ruled by the fox spirit named 'Emperor'."
"Fox, am I actually an emperor?" Su Tianqing wondered thoughtfully.
Alice nodded.
"OK."
"Furthermore, Empress Heartmoon Fox leads more than a dozen magical archetypes under her command, establishing a powerful magical girl organization called the [Warband], which fights across the astral plane to maintain the integrity of the magical empire."
"There are several versions of the story and characters that follow, but this version is the most widely accepted—"
The brush continued to paint, creating several human figures dressed in magical power armor.
"First and foremost is the loyal [Kiricat] Hellcat, commanding the largest [Ultimate Battle Cat] force!"
Nan Jiayu silently watched the blue power armor-clad giant gradually taking shape on the canvas, feeling quite eerie to see her own head inside such an exaggerated power armor.
"Next is the symbol of the empire, the Cheshire Rabbit, Saint Rabbit Les, who commands the powerful but flawed Saint Blood Rabbit!"
"And then there's... Fenrir, who commands a warrior group called the Astral Wolves!"
"That sounds like a really exciting concept. So how do you play it?" the golden-haired fox girl asked curiously.
Setting is one thing, but just looking at the setting doesn't feel very interesting; you need to bring out the actual gameplay to attract people.
"This is a 'strategy game'."
Alice brought out another drawing board and sketched some simple buildings on it. Then she took out a few small trinkets that symbolized chess pieces and placed them on both sides, showing them to the cat and fox.
"Each map has a [mission objective]. The two sides need to command their own pieces to complete the mission or eliminate all of the opponent's pieces."
"So it's a game that tests strategic deployment, huh? Sounds interesting!"
The fox girl excitedly wagged her tail, deliberately rubbing it against the cat girl beside her, as if asking for the cat's opinion.
The Hellcat nodded gently.
"Okay, let's play this today. Can everyone choose different factions?"
"It should be possible, and I plan to let everyone customize the shape and content of the chess pieces. It will be a lot of fun to assemble and paint the chess pieces themselves."
"However, it seems there's another category of characters on the forum that's even more popular?"
Su Tianqing started searching on her own, and found a very popular discussion thread on the magical girl forum, which she immediately shared with the two people next to her.
Three little heads huddled in front of the phone screen, looking at this magical girl fanfic post with over a million likes and 40 views:
[Magic 40k Supplementary Rules: Evil God Chapter]
In the distant astral warp, there exist five incredibly powerful astral evil gods, and they are—
【Khorne & Hellcat】
【Sexual Aspect: Cheshire Rabbit】
Fenrir from "Nurgle"
Alice from "Treachery"
【Lord of Darkness - Heart Moon Fox】
The three of them exchanged glances and looked at each other blankly.
……
In the end, Alice decided against adopting the evil god's rules, which seemed to be easy to exploit the copyright issues of another world. Instead, she decided to design the mental world using normal rules.
After granting Alice administrator privileges in the world of her mind, the fox girl gave her a brief training on basic rule design skills and then left it to Alice to develop on her own.
After that, a new post appeared on the account 【Magical Girl Fox Fox Official】:
[To our viewers in Chengdu! And to viewers all over the country and even around the world! Happy New Year!]
Did everyone have a happy New Year holiday? You must have spent time with your family!
[Well then, it's time for a fun New Year's event! This time, the event is designed by the newcomer Alice!]
The event is called "Magical Girl 40k: Astral Brawl"!
After sending the status update and receiving the notification, Su Tianqing happily sat back down at her desk on the villain's rooftop and continued to give the catgirl beside her a crash course in the lessons she had missed.
Meanwhile, in Rongcheng Huatianli residential area.
Lin Muyao took small sips of the lemon pop in her hand, scrolling through her phone listlessly.
Hua Ling sat calmly by the window, flipping through a storybook.
Meanwhile, at his desk in his room, Nan Xiaofeng was painfully rushing to finish his winter break homework.
"School starts in just over ten days, Xiaofeng, what's your homework...?"
The white ferret floated leisurely to the desk and glanced at the pile of homework, which had only a few books left.
"Wow, that was quick! Xiao Feng, you didn't secretly cheat with magic, did you?"
"Bai Ling, don't bother me! Go away!"
Nan Xiaofeng chased away the stargazer elf beside him, and Bai Ling spread her hands and flew away, landing on Lin Muyao's head and sitting down, looking at the phone screen with her.
"Mu Yao".
"uh-huh?"
"Mu Yao, was your phone case specially made for you by the Hero Association last time?"
"Yes, look."
Lin Muyao flipped her phone over to show Bai Ling the exquisite embossed pattern on the back, depicting the figure of the magical girl Nightingale.
But the ringing sound in her phone's notification bar quickly caught the girl's attention, and she immediately opened the notification.
[The streamer I follow posted a new update: Magical Girl Fox Fox official]
"Is that Xin Yuehu's activity? Is that guy planning something bad again?!" Bai Ling said indignantly.
"It seems like they're inviting us to go out and have some fun tonight..."
Lin Muyao glanced at the post and muttered to herself.
"What? She wants us to go have fun? She's never had any good intentions! This time she's definitely just trying to trick us into going there to get beaten up!"
Nan Xiaofeng turned around and said.
He had been beaten by Hellcat for two or three days in a row, each beating more severe than the last. He dared not activate Star Shadow on his own initiative, fearing that the opponent would also use Star Shadow form to fight him.
In that state, the Hellcat was practically a god of war!
Nan Xiaofeng would rather be locked in the world of her mind by Xin Yuehu and called "Fox Mother" than see the Hell Cat of Stars again.
"...Xin Yuehu said in her post that she invited us to play chess together tonight, not to fight."
Lin Muyao added.
The group looked at each other in silence, then quietly took out their phones.
"Playing chess? That Xin Yuehu must have some evil plan. I don't believe it!"
"It's said that this plan was designed by Alice. If we don't go, they're going to randomly pick a building in the CBD and blow it up."
"Why are they even taking hostages??"
Nan Xiaofeng harshly criticized Xin Yuehu's villainous behavior, but upon closer reflection, she realized that Xin Yuehu was indeed a villain, so she had nothing more to say.
The girl slammed the book shut, stood up, and said indignantly:
"We absolutely must stop Xin Yuehu's plan tonight!"
"We can't let her scheme succeed!"
"...I think you just want to beat Hellcat at chess," Lin Muyao muttered sarcastically.
The bedroom was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Hua Ling chuckled as she looked at her phone screen, staring at the line of text on it, not quite understanding what this chess game was all about.
Is "Warrior Iris" a strange fan-made work?