The universe cracks, the planet halts, the seas rages, the earth rumbles, the city shakes, the people scream, her heart beats as her soul disintegrates, yet in the moment. It all doesn't matter; it doesn't even become part of her perception for even a moment, as the split between reality and fiction has disappeared.Ivana laughs and says, "This was a rather long dream, wasn't it?"She quickly uses her curse and takes control of her overflowing hair. Then she condenses individual strands into sharp blades, which she brings towards her neck. Maples activates her legacy on her hand, touches Ivana's head, slowing down her actions, and says, "Hold on girl, this is reality.""Huh? Don't lie to me!"Iancu turns to Elia and says, "Everyone, turn and close your eyes, she got this."Elia walks forward, and Ikaras says, "Why do I need to close my ey-." As her eyes meet his, he feels a hand grab his throat, squeezing it tightly, bringing him to silence. And moments later, his eyes shut from the p

Both teams stand on the 160m by 120m pitch, with the crowd screaming towards them, pumped for the match to begin.On the Knightmares' side, Iancu rides the monster truck in the back, acting as the Knightmares' goalkeeper, Pumnflacără and Orb stand a little in front of him with Pumnflacără on the right, and Orb on the left, acting as defenders. Dumnorix stands on the right of the midfield, with Ikaras standing in between the Orb and Dumnorix. Finally, both Pumnpiatră and Mõõk stand as the two forwards of the team.On the Bloody Mary's side, Žudrė rides the monster truck in the back as the goalkeeper, with Pink as the sole defender. Green, Yellow, and Blue stand in the midfield, with Red and White standing ahead of them as the strikers, on the left and right wings respectively.As per tournament rules, the team which has knocked down the most pieces in the season up to this point gets the first advantage and claims the ball. So as he holds the ball in his hands, Red says, "Let's destroy

Through Pia's mind, his body can feel all the movement on the ground around him; in this moment, every aspect of the pitch is fully bound to his mind. "No defence can protect you."He tosses the ball into the ground right beneath Žudrė's monster truck, and then he says, "Arise!"Beneath the truck, a series of small pillars appear, and the ball bounces from one to another again and again. Then, all around the ground, little cannons made of earth appear and from inside them, boulders are shot right towards each side of the monster truck.Valerio says, "Isn't this cheating? I thought you were only allowed to use the ball to strike down the pieces?"Ivana says, "No, this is Pia's speciality! In cursed chess, you're only allowed to attack people within a certain area from the ball, so he traps the ball beneath the given monster trucks, and then uses that as a loop hole to send a series of boulders towards the truck causing immense damage to all of it's operation, and breaking it's structur

-Break-With his hands pressed against the ground of his monster truck, Iancu takes a series of deep breaths as he turns his head and sees the chessboard behind him decimated, with almost half of the pieces lying on the ground.He feels a surge of pain run through his body, and stares at his hands where his gloves have been ripped, and his flesh beneath them broken and gushing blood.He turns his head to the side, where he sees the Gynėjas siblings celebrating and, along with Cara, Orb, and Ikaras, all lying on the ground utterly exhausted.Zbur, standing by the mike, says, "38 minutes have passed since this match began, and the slaughter has ended. Ever since their captain's last goal, the Knightmares have been in a never-ending blockade by those six ogres. It is utterly devastating how much they are getting their butts whooped into the ground."Ivana, rubbing her head, says, "This is my fault, this is my fault! I shouldn't have picked this strategy and should have used Maple and Cyr

As the laughter from Žudrė and her mother starts to fade out, White smashes his plate on the table and says, "Finish! Seconds please!"Red says, "Go get it yourself; no one is your slave in this house."Yellow says, "If we let White serve his own portions, he will eat it all!"Their mother, standing up, says, "Then let me get it for him."As she reaches for the blow, Žudrė quickly grabs it and starts to run, saying, "Too slow hag!"Her mother stretches her hand across the table to grab Žudrė, but she easily sidesteps her mother and runs back over to the pot of stew she cooked to serve out seconds."Hey, didn't I tell you to stop helping?""Ever since your pilgrimage to Deno, you've been limping. So no more walking than necessary! If you get up and walk, I will never forgive you. And I will cry until all of the water leaves my body and I become a shrivelled up prune."Sitting down, she says, "Stop being so dramatic. I wonder where you get this from."Green, eating his stew, says, "Look