Wizards of the East at Hogwarts

Chapter 16 Chessboard
Li Ran was tossing and turning on the bed, unable to sleep.

He sat up from the bed, the lights in the room were not turned on, and the curtains were drawn.It can be said that you can't see your fingers.He touched his right wrist by feeling - where the unknown Ouroboros tattoo was.

The touch of the skin at the tattoo was different from other places on his body, and it gave off a cold and damp feeling when touched.This feeling is not very comfortable. If I have to describe it specifically, it feels like touching a lake with a thin layer of ice in the cold winter of September.

Li Ran stopped touching the tattoo. He stretched out his index fingers and slowly rubbed his temples.

He always felt that things had gotten worse since the three of them got on the train this time, and most importantly, there was an inexplicable idea in his mind. It seems that there is a black hand controlling it.

The moment he had this thought, the scene in front of him changed.

Cracks appeared on the originally clean and tidy walls. As the cracks grew larger, the wall skin began to fall off. Other tables, chairs, and benches were also broken, and slowly turned into fly ash. Not only these things, but everything around him was turned into dust .including his parents sleeping in the bed next to him.

The moment his parents turned into ashes, his eyes turned red and bloodshot, his eyes widened like copper bells, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be torn apart.

After everything around him disappeared, Li Ran seemed to be pulled up by something suddenly, a sense of weightlessness came to his mind, his head began to spin around, and he was forced to close his eyes.

When the weightlessness in his head disappeared, he found himself in a mysterious place.He wanted to walk around and check out his surroundings.

But before he could make any movements, he found a stretching feeling in his body. His body seemed to suddenly grow larger, turning into an image of an adult man about 1.8 meters high.

After the enlargement, his limbs seemed to be restrained, unable to move.He could only turn his head a few times, and the pajamas he was wearing had disappeared.Instead, he was dressed in the costume of an ancient soldier—wearing a long skirt, armor on the outside, shorts on the lower body, and leggings on the outside of his legs, a pair of short boots on his feet, and a flat bun in the back of his head. , holding a long bronze sword in his left hand, and a shield of medium size hanging on his right hand. On the shield is engraved an angry unicorn, all black from top to bottom. (Note 1)

This time, Li Ran succeeded. After a lot of effort, he was able to observe in a small range up, down, left, and right.At this moment, a big event happened. Li Ran found himself in a big and scary chess board.

The most important thing is that there is still a huge hand floating above his head!
He seems to have become a 'pawn' in chess!
Before he could recover, he was pushed step by step by the huge hand in the sky from the black square where he was, to the opposite red square.After reaching the red square, the giant hand let go of him and returned to above his head.

At this time, he felt that the strength binding his limbs disappeared, and he moved on the spot, but unfortunately, at this time, he had already crossed the border of Chu River and Han Dynasty.It's just like the common saying "a pawn never returns when he goes away", he can't take half a step back, and other things don't matter much except for backing up.The most important thing is that the huge hand is still suspended above his head all the time, and it used transparent silk threads to force him to do various actions before.

It took Li Ran a long time to forcefully turn his head, looked at his own position, and found that except for an old general who was still standing at the back, the other chess pieces had fallen to the ground and died.

And what about the other side?He turned his head to observe again, but he only saw layers of fog, and the red position in front was completely covered by the fog.

Is this what it feels like to be treated like an ant?He laughed at himself sadly in his heart.At this moment, the anger in his heart had been covered by a huge sense of powerlessness.

No, maybe he is a little stronger than an ant, after all, he is now the 'pawn' of the big hand above his head.It can be regarded as barely falling into the eyes of the strong and becoming a pawn in his hands.

The feeling of powerlessness increased again.

The big hand on Li Ran's head didn't know that the pawn in his hand had so many thoughts.

The big hand manipulated the silk thread to control him to move forward.The feeling of being unable to move came back.

He stepped into the fog of the red square step by step.

After entering it, I found that the fog only had an outer layer, like a barrier, which was simply surrounded.

At this moment, there were not many chess pieces on the red side's position, only a few soldiers in red armor, and a red combat vehicle the size of a van stood motionless a few hundred meters in front of his left.

He took a closer look and found that the pawns on the opposite side were different from him not only in color.

Every soldier on the opposite side was not wearing the armor of ancient Chinese soldiers that Li Ran wore.It is a kind of heavy armor similar to that worn by European medieval knights, and they also hold spears and lion king shields in their hands.They have European faces, blond hair, and bushy beards.

Fortunately, the opponent didn't have a mount that matched his equipment, he thought with luck.

At this time, the giant hand manipulating him suddenly withdrew the silk thread on his body, and slowly retreated out of the fog.It quickly withdrew from the fog of the red side and disappeared on the red side's position.It seems to want him to fend for himself.

At this time, Li Ran also felt that the physical restrictions had disappeared, because he could not retreat, he could only bend down and walk quietly to the right, trying to stay away from the European soldiers.

It's a pity that before he took a few steps, those soldiers discovered him and rushed towards him with spears and shields.

His heart sank, instead of bending over, he ran away with big strides to the right.Looking back at the soldiers while running away, he even took time to look at the red chariot. Fortunately, the chariot didn't chase him for some reason, and it still stopped where it was.This eased his mood a little, but luckily it wasn't the worst.

Li Ran dragged these soldiers to run.

It's not that he's afraid of fighting, but that there are too many people on the other side, there are three people, three times as many as himself.He could only try to increase the distance between these few people to see if he could break them one by one.He kept looking back at the three soldiers.

He had already discovered that the speeds of these people were not exactly the same.It was obvious that one soldier was chasing him much faster than the other two.

If the speed of the three opponents were exactly the same, he would have stopped and waited to die.After running for a while, he found that his physical strength was not lost at all, as if this body didn't know what was tired at all.

The winning rate has increased by another [-]%, and Li Ran feels a little happy.

Thanks to the large enough chessboard, he ran for more than ten minutes and still hadn't reached the grid in the upper right corner of the chessboard.But basically it's only a few hundred meters away.He turned around and found that the soldiers who had been chasing him had already been divided into two echelons.

The one at the front was the fastest soldier I had seen before, and he was a few hundred meters away from the two people behind him, and almost a few hundred meters away from himself.The two people in the back can't see clearly, and the distance between them seems to be about 100 meters.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Ran stopped and turned to look at the fastest soldier.

He slightly loosened the sword and shield in his hand, twisted his neck, and moved his body, trying to dispel the tension and fear floating in his heart.

"Touch", he collided the bronze long sword and the unicorn shield in his hand.He bit his lower lip with his teeth.Blood burst out, flowing from the lower lip to the chin, and then slowly dripping to the ground.

Due to running for a long time, the bun on his head had already been scattered, and the long hair was blown by the breeze that appeared in the chessboard at an unknown time, making it look a little messy.

Li Ran stopped biting his lip, and spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood.The eyes became no longer afraid, but rather bloodthirsty frenzy.

He firmly held the bronze long sword in his right hand, and there were blue veins protruding from the back of his hand.

The tattoo on the wrist also became darker, as if it had become a black hole, swallowing even the color of light.

It's going to be a tough fight.Watching the European soldiers gradually approaching, Li Ran thought silently.

　The second update is coming~
　　Conventional ticket collection and investment~
　　The next step is real hand-to-hand combat~ I don’t know if everyone will like it.

　　Note 1: According to the dress code written by Qin Bing, weapons and shields are not.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)