Before the mist, thirty-four red circles, each about ten feet across, stood in a straight line, separated by several yards.
The stone giant leader said, "The second Fate Game is Little Promotion from the Promotion Board."
Many Fate Arts Masters wore confident smiles.
The Promotion Board was the Fate Game Fate Arts Masters played most often, and it was also the most important one.
Li Qingxian remembered Guo Xiang saying that many games in Fate Games originated among the common folk, and that children in the Qi Kingdom were especially fond of playing the Promotion Board and the Ascension Board.
These things had existed since ancient times. They had originally been meant to teach children benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, fairness, and integrity, but later spread far and wide into ordinary games.
The rules were roughly equivalent to the flight chess and Monopoly games of later generations. Everyone had a die, moved according to its roll, and dealt with whatever lay in the square they landed on.
A Fate Game combined Fate Arts with the Promotion Board, making it somewhat more complicated.
A normal Promotion Board Fate Game ran from birth all the way to attaining First Rank office, testing a Fate Arts Master's grasp of an entire life's fate. However, low-grade Fate Arts Masters did not have enough magical power to sustain it for that long.
Little Promotion generally lasted ten steps, making it much faster.
The stone giant leader said, "For the second round, each of you may choose a circle and play the Promotion Board. This round, everyone receives three additional Universal Jade Pendants."
Li Qingxian lowered his head and saw that a total of four small jade pendants hung from his waist.
Looking at the others, only a few had four jade pendants at their waists. Most