My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 206 The Black and White Kings Flash, Noon Has Arrived (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Xia Pingzhou did not disturb Ayase Origami, nor did he take the phone from her room. He simply left the underground corridor quietly. As he walked out of the interconnected alley, the moonlight and the lights of countless homes shone brightly, illuminating his dark eyes.

Just then, at 10 p.m., Big Ben at the top of the Parliament building chimed.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

Hearing the chimes, Xia Pingzhou looked up and raised his eyebrows slightly. He saw a huge red exclamation mark standing at the top of Big Ben.

It is clearly a symbol of the event cards.

"On the roof of the parliament building? That's quite conspicuous. Logically speaking, since it's guided by the system, there shouldn't be any problems... I'm really worried that I'll be caught by Ruri Urushihara as soon as I run over. I don't want this to happen every time the mecha and the main body meet."

As Xia Pingzhou pondered this, he raised his hand and put on the hood that came with his black coat, his face hidden in the shadows.

A gentle evening breeze ruffled the brim of his hat as he stood in the alley, leaning against a billboard, discreetly unleashing his Sky Drive. A swirling black and white halo, like ocean waves, flowed around him, forming a Möbius strip-like loop.

With the enhancement of its "spiritual" attributes, the "chessboard" area of ​​Unit 2 has now expanded to a circle with a radius of sixty meters.

Xia Pingzhou closed his eyes, and from his vantage point above, he could see the brightly lit street in its entirety. He could even clearly see the expressions and lip movements of pedestrians on the street, and the smiling faces drawn by children with mist on the bus windows.

It's as if God lowers his eyes and looks down upon the world.

He observed quietly for a moment, then opened his eyes, reached out and picked up the chess piece shadow of the "Queen Statue".

As the chess piece shattered, a clear "click" rang out, and then a magnificent and dignified giant shadow appeared, standing before him with a reverent posture, bowing slightly in await of command.

Seemingly aware that its large size might be seen by passersby, the Queen statue lowered its head and took two steps to the side, just like Xia Pingzhou, hiding its figure behind the billboard, much like a middle school student being punished and avoiding the gaze of classmates.

Xia Pingzhou exhaled, leaned against the billboard behind him, put his hands in his coat pockets, and slowly looked up at the Queen statue.

"You seem to be working a lot... You have to rescue the diaper-wearing demon and run around with me. Aren't you tired?"

The queen statue paused slightly, then looked up to meet his gaze and gently shook her head.

"Stop pretending, you should know what I'm thinking, right?" Xia Pingzhou suddenly said, "So... you know everything I've been through, including 'Xia Pingzhou is just a machine'."

The queen statue paused again, and after a few seconds, she nodded slightly nervously, indicating that she could sense the monarch's thoughts.

Under Xia Pingzhou's unwavering gaze, she lowered her head, nervously raised her finger, and used the flame at her fingertip to write words, explaining, "This is a special mechanism designed to facilitate chess players in issuing commands to chess pieces."

The Queen Statue also said that other chess pieces do not have their own thoughts and only mechanically execute commands, but the Queen Statue is different. In fact, she can perceive Xia Pingzhou's thoughts and his worries most of the time.

Out of respect for Xia Pingzhou, she usually only shows this in battle; in daily life, she pretends not to know what Xia Pingzhou is thinking.

"You've been a great help. So what do you think I should do?" Xia Pingzhou said. "I have so many worries, why don't you offer me any advice? You're the only one in the whole world who knows what I'm thinking and what I'm struggling with, why don't you say a word?"

The statue of the queen seemed to freeze in place as if it had crashed, then waved its hands frantically, and finally rested its chin on its hand and pondered seriously for a long time, with cold flames flickering in its eye sockets.

She lowered her eyes and suddenly remembered that her monarch was only twelve years old. It was normal for him to be unreasonable at times, and he should be given positive encouragement at this time.

Thinking of this, the queen statue nodded and smiled at him.

Then he raised his finger, a blue flame enveloping the tip, and wrote characters stroke by stroke in the air:

"Whatever decision you make, it will be the right one; even if it's not right, I will follow you to the end."

Xia Pingzhou stared at the fiery characters shimmering in mid-air until they were blown away by the wind, turning into ashes and disappearing, before he looked away.

Just then, the queen statue stared at him for a moment, then suddenly leaned closer, gently opened her silver arms, and embraced him. To prevent accidentally hurting him, she had already hidden the dagger in her skirt.

Xia Pingzhou was slightly taken aback.

At the moment she came into contact with the colossal, silvery statue, her thoughts seemed to be transmitted to it:

“I know how much effort you have put in and how much you have endured… You have to put on a different face for every different person and constantly use a different appearance to deal with the current environment. Your mind is already exhausted, and you even feel that your soul is about to be torn apart.”

"But please remember that I will always be watching you from behind. The hardships and difficulties you face now are only temporary. One day you will be able to leave that cage with that white-haired girl and then... travel around the world."

Xia Pingzhou remained silent for a long while, his head lowered, his black bangs obscuring his eyes.

"How did you even know about our plan to travel around the world? This is a secret between me and Kong Youling."

The queen's statue lowered its eyes, and cold flames flickered in them.

"Please don't do this," Ji Minghuan sighed. "If a hacker sees this, he might mock me, saying, 'You have another mother now, and a cross-species one at that.' Wouldn't that make me look incredibly foolish?"

The Queen statue released Ji Minghuan, hesitated for a moment, and then raised her hand to write in the darkness: "If you want me to play the role of the mother, I'm not unwilling." "Just kidding..." Ji Minghuan shrugged, "I just wanted to test whether you could read my mind when you're not in battle mode. I didn't expect you to tell me everything right away. It's not interesting at all, and it saved me the trouble of testing you."

He raised his hand to wipe his nose and said casually, "Let's go, let's go to Big Ben. There's still a card event we haven't finished, and it might be over if we go any later."

The Queen nodded, embraced his body, and leaped into the moonlit London like a whirlwind, dancing atop the spires of Gothic buildings. At that moment, her figure was serene and noble, her neck as long and slender as a swan's.

A giant, silvery-white shadow, as bright as moonlight, sped across the London sky and soon arrived at the Houses of Parliament. It climbed rapidly up the walls and reached the very top.

She gently released Xia Pingzhou.

Xia Pingzhou stood on the top of the tower, raised his arm, and looked up against the strong wind.

The huge red exclamation mark in the night sky slowly disappeared, replaced by a black and white event notification box.

[The number one card event in London, UK has been triggered – defeat the "Clock Demon" atop Big Ben.]

"Another card-related event appearing alongside demons?" he thought. "Perfect opportunity to test the strength of the king's new powers."

The statue of the Queen stood guard in front of Xia Pingzhou, its head tilted back, gazing motionlessly at the distorted night sky.

Just then, the sky shattered like glass, and a demon made of three giant clocks emerged from it, its body structure resembling that of Magnemite from Pokémon.

The three second hands of the clock demon spun simultaneously, their clicking sounds overlapping in mid-air. Then, the thirty-six numbers fell from the clock face, as if a woman were washing off her makeup with makeup remover, sending chills down one's spine.

The thirty-six Arabic numerals swirled rapidly in the sky, forming a numerical vortex that, like a black hole, irrationally stirred up space and time. The closer one got to the numerical vortex, the slower time seemed to pass, and space appeared to undulate faintly like a mirage.

Xia Pingzhou thought to himself, "I just finished fighting the Blue Arc Demon, and now I have to fight the Ghost Bell Demon? How paternal and filial! Ghost Bell Demon... I'll send you to hell to meet your son right now." With that thought, his eyes turned cold.

"Die, you demon bell demon," he whispered, reaching out to touch the four chess pieces on the black and white ring track.

Amidst the shattering sound of breaking glass, the statues of the king, the knight, and two soldiers appeared, forming a giant legion that surrounded Xia Pingzhou.

The statue of the empress was connected to Xia Pingzhou's mind and understood what he was about to do, so it silently took two steps back.

At the same time, a scarlet light suddenly emanated from the empty eye sockets of the king's statue, as if it had made a pact with the devil and gained power from purgatory at this moment.

Xia Pingzhou closed his eyes and silently gave the king a command in his heart.

Immediately, a black and white system notification popped up in the darkness of my mind.

The sacrifice of the "Knight Colossus" and two "Soldier Colossi" has fulfilled the conditions for the release of powers.

[Hint: The ultimate power of the King's Statue—"The King's Flash"—has been unlocked.]

Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes and said, "King's Statue, unleash the power 'King's Flash' on the Ghost Bell Demon."

As soon as the words fell, the figures of the knights and soldiers transformed into a bloody rain of only black and white, which swept past and instantly merged into the scepter held high by the king's statue.

At the top of the scepter, a small sphere, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, gathers. This sphere, no bigger than a fingertip, shifts between black and white, possessing a powerful vitality, as if it were a condensed version of the entire chessboard world.

The king's statue points the top of his scepter at the clock demon.

"Boom——!"

With a deafening roar, the fingertip-sized sphere shattered instantly, and a massive black and white beam of light shot into the sky, roaring as it tore through the atmosphere, devouring time and space, piercing through the vortex of Arabic numerals, and then rushing towards the clock demon's body, burning it to ashes.

After that, the black and white beams of light, like out-of-control beasts, continued to shoot upwards uncontrollably, chasing after the clouds and tearing open the clouds above. The dark clouds that had been covering the moon vanished in an instant, turning to ashes.

At that moment, it was as if a window to the sky had been opened, and the moonlight poured down without reservation, shining on Xia Pingzhou and the Queen's statue, and enveloping London's Big Ben.

The atmosphere was wailing, and the wind howled endlessly. A sound louder than Big Ben reached the ears of every citizen. As if they had seen a snowfall, they all looked up in surprise at the sky above the Parliament building.

The black and white pillars of light had faded, replaced by a huge hole in the middle of the clouds, with a huge bright moon hanging in the middle of the hole, and a sliver of clear light on the horizon.

As Xia Pingzhou watched this scene, a black and white notification box suddenly popped up in his dark eyes.

The first card event in London, UK, has been completed.

As a reward, the event card "It's High Noon" has been added to Unit 2's event card book. Open the card book to view the card's effect.

　Asking for a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)