After the previous rounds, he had also noticed a problem.
The big-headed creature never threw out many puppets at once. Even at its peak, there had only been around ten or so, and they had been pathetically weak, swept away with just a few casual sword strikes.
Was it playing cat and mouse?
That might have been possible at first, but after being enraged, this thing had gotten serious and held nothing back. If it truly wanted to take him down, it only needed to throw out all its puppets at once. Forget one Zhou You—even ten of him would surely die.
So the answer was simple.
It was not unwilling. It was unable.
And since Zhou You knew a little about chess, he had roughly figured out what was happening.
Every chess piece had its own value: a pawn was worth about one point, a knight about three, a bishop about three, a rook about five, and a queen about nine.
It now appeared that the big-headed creature had roughly fourteen points at its disposal. Two rooks, one knight, and one pawn were already its limit.
And there was still one mud monster and one rook regenerating on the field, for a total of eight points. It had just thrown out four more pawns, making another four. Together, that made twelve points.
In other words, if he charged in now, aside from throwing out two more pawns, the big-headed creature would have no means left to protect itself!
He gathered his qi in his chest, stepped forward, and raised his sword. Then his taut muscles suddenly relaxed.
At that moment, there was nothing left in Zhou You's mind but that single big-headed creature.
His sword had become a dazzling streak of light. Wherever it passed, the pawns fell like