Super God: One Punch and You're Dead

Stark blinked. His self-righteous humor had no effect at all.

Still, Stark believed he was being hilarious. He was practically considerate to a fault.

"We can begin anytime."

However, Stark never imagined it.

This duel would leave him bitterly regretful.

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"Another round!"

"Again!"

"Another round."

"One last round."

"I guarantee this is the last round, Mr. Lin."

"Lin Yan, do you dare play another round?"

"I, Stark, guarantee this is the last round."

Glass after glass went down Stark's throat. His entire face had turned the color of pig liver, and his gaze had begun to grow unfocused, yet he still gritted his teeth and refused to admit defeat.

Even his speech was becoming slurred.

"Fine, I lost."

Even in the final round, Stark admitted defeat with a flushed face.

He had only heard of Chinese chess before. This was his first time seeing the real thing.

But since he had agreed that Lin Yan would set the rules, Stark had no face to go back on his word.

Chinese chess, also known as "xiangqi,"

had a long history. It was a two-player competitive game and a cultural treasure of Xia Kingdom.

It was a game that simulated warfare.

At the end of the Qin dynasty and the founding of the Western Han, Han Xin greatly revised Chinese chess. It gained the Chu River and Han Border, the rule that kings could not face one another, and was still called "xiangqi."

Later, through continual refinements by later generations, by the Song dynasty, the red side's original "cannon"

was changed to "cannon,"

"pawn"

to "soldier,"

while the black side's "advisor"

was changed to "scholar,"

"minister"

to "elephant,"

and Chinese chess had basically taken its present form.

The river boundary on the board was also known as the