Ting!
[Main Mission Alert!]
[Main Mission: Defeat Cinderella
Main Task: Destroy Cinderella's flag / Conquer the other party's territory]
[Would Player RiverSun like to accept?]
Clicking <"Yes">, the game's rules and objectives unfold from an old scroll.
It was just the normal rules of GoG. Zyair didn't waste his time after reading the first two items of the rules. He knew how to play GoG, so there's no reason for him to read the rules again.
[Game of the Generals will commence in just one minute...]
[Please pick your flag.]
[Please pick your flag.]
Seeing the system alert, Zyair felt curious. He knew this game wouldn't just be playing a normal GoG or it would be too boring. Zyair clicked the panel and various colorful flags emerged.
Since Zyair only had a minute to choose a flag, he scrolled everything rather fast, and picked a flag that caught his attention. It was a red flag with a blazing golden sun that seemed to be eating a dimming grey moon. He can't explain what it looks like but that's what Zyair thought looking at it. Anyway, every flag looked weird so, Zyair just chose the best looking ones.
Once both flags were chosen, they were both displayed at the screen like Olympics.
Zyair's red sun flag vs. Cinderella's blue flag with a silhouette of a castle.
Zyair didn't care about the other's flag, instead he was looking intently at the timer, feeling excited at heart. He could already imagine the scene of that green board becoming a huge forest. Zyair imagines his avatar holding his flag waving it heroically, while wearing a cool military uniform.
Zyair thought the GoG would be like playing PUBG or crossfire, or maybe like those survival games or catching flags. He may be an idiot when it comes to playing them, but he likes to watch them, and dreamed of participating in one of them in real life.
Zyair's eyes were filled with stars thinking about it. "This broken game finally made me play something good!" He always wanted to play something like that in reality. Though he could only play these things in online games, looking at his frail body and glass heart full of cracks, Zyair, although unwilling, was already satisfied with this degree of excitement.
He wanted to be with Qantas for a long time, so Zyair had to suffer quite a bit. And he knew that as well.
Anyway, Zyair had already trained his imagination all these years, and dreamt quite a lot. He can't do it in reality but, these colorful and vivid pictures he thinks of were enough to satisfy his desires...well for now.
Recalling his childhood dream, Zyair let out a gentle smile. He wanted to study in the Military Academy before. He wanted to become a five star General. In addition, don't you think owning a gun seemed really cool? In the end, thinking that he just wanted to look cool, posing with a gun in his hands and a military uniform, Qantas bought him a military cosplay costume and a toy gun.
Holding those costumes, Zyair pouted his lips and with a "hump!", he ignored Qantas for an hour. Back then, he still couldn't accept and keep denying his illness, and felt Qantas was making fun of his dream. But slowly, as he grew older, he doesn't really care anymore.
Since he was just a child, Zyair was looking at Qantas as if he was his king. Holding his plastic sword, Zyair rode his wooden pony in front of Qantas, who was coolly seated on his throne, reading a book.
Thinking like this, Zyair's gently smile slowly widens into a stupid grin. Qantas is his King, while he is the General. He imagine Qantas wearing a golden crown, sitting on a golden throne. On the other hand, he, Zyair was standing by his side, wearing a golden armor with a fiery red cape, fluttering majestically as it was blown away by the wind.
Qantas would use his brain and speak his orders, while he would stand in front shielding him from all dangers. He would act by his orders, he would kill by his words, he would even conquer the whole world, if his king wishes for it.
Zyair imagined such a scene and couldn't help but chuckled for a bit.
He could do that, but he wondered if he could also do that in bed...
While daydreaming, the count down on the screen reached zero. Then the Olympics "RiverSun vs Cinderella" appeared again with magnificent confetti and music.
Zyair finally looked at the screen, eagerly thinking of a strategy, while imagining what kind of terrain their battlefield is.
Zyair's eyes stayed on the screen. At first his eyes were still filled with stars, brightly shining with excitement. Then it dimmed, followed by his face that turned completely dark.
After the confetti and the music, the screen was cleared. Zyair saw his character still standing in front of Cinderella. RiverSun was still inside the hall alone with Cinderella. Nothing has changed. There is no huge forest, no cool and refined military characters to be controlled in GoG.
But instead, Zyair saw an additional table and chairs in the center of the hall.
With his dull eyes, Zyair watched as Cinderella approached one of the chairs in the table, and his character too, moved in sync with Cinderella. Only when Zyair's character finally sat on the chair did Zyair realized that he was once again being slapped by the game.
Then once RiverSun was properly seated, a green board appeared on the screen.
[The Game of the Generals is now starting]
[Both players will be given 5 minutes to distribute the pieces at random.]
GoG is like a game of chess, except that the pieces were military and not members of the monarchy.
The green board has 72 squares, arranged in 8 ranks and 9 files. Each player has 21 pieces that could be arranged depending on the strategy they have. Zyair, with his hot-blooded personality, wanted to attack the most. He could change tactics depending on the situation, but if he could he wanted to just attack and not defend.
Nevertheless, this is a turn-based board game. Although Zyair was now raging with fire inside, he still wanted to play the game. After all, he didn't mention it before, received the world class chess championship when she was just 10 years old. He played various board games and won them all, and hasn't lost even with Qantas. But since it's boring, Zyair refused to play them again.
So, in this game, Zyar wanted to use the Blitzkrieg strategy but gave up on it. He didn't know how this Cinderella princess played and didn't want to make mistakes. But since he was totally pissed off, Zyair wanted to end the game as soon as possible. Zyair clicked the panel where the game pieces are and begun distributing them on the board.
GoG has a total of 21 game pieces; An Army General, General, Lieutenant General, Major General, Brigadier General, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Captain, 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant, Sergeant, six Privates, two spies, and one flag.
Just like chess, it's hierarchical. The higher the rank the more it could kill. Well, except for the two spies. Spies could only be killed by privates, while it could jump ranks and kill a general. And the flag, it can't kill but it can destroy the enemy flag once they clash.