Joshua unexpectedly changes the direction of the game, causing the two forces on the board to diverge. Now Joshua has become Black's "king." Although Joshua didn't know how to play this kind of game well, one thing he knew for sure was that he could find a way to fall into the range of the White statue and lure his opponent into attacking him.

The chessboard was filled with the sound of stones colliding and shattering. Before you know it, all the "pieces" on both sides have disappeared, and only one of White's "knights" and "kings" remain on the board. Since the king travels only one square, Joshua is protected from attacks as long as he keeps a certain distance from him. The knight's movement is also very special, and the remaining knight's statue happened to have been changed by Joshua, and the whole game is still played under irregular conditions. On top of the empty chessboard, Joshua had plenty of room to move and think about how to cope.

"Just destroy them all and you'll be able to get through it, right?" Joshua thought to himself. He counted every square that the "knight" could reach, and from the oblique angle he kept approaching the king.

"Oops, I almost forgot an important question. Joshua's face suddenly tightened, "The material of these statues is so sturdy that my attacks don't seem to work." But with the mentality of giving it a try, he made the decision and rushed to the position of the king of White.

White's knight kept moving closer to Joshua to protect his king, but was unable to attack Joshua due to the way the knight moved. So the task of attacking could only be entrusted to the "king".

Joshua rushed in front of the king with his sword in both hands. He observed the position of the "knight" and chose a place that his opponent could not attack to meet the final "king vs. king" game. Since Joshua is already Black's "king" by default, the opposite king moves very carefully. Generally speaking, in a game of war chess, one side has only the king and the knight, and the other side has only the king, and the other side has only the king. Once a draw, the trialist will linger in the game forever, which is much better than going back to the third tier. Although Joshua was not proficient in the art of chess, he disrupted the rules of the game by mistake.

Joshua calculated the best place for the decisive battle and met the rival king head-on.

"Brilliant ......" Joshua raised his sword high with both hands, and the golden light instantly spread all over his body. Followed by a dazzling sword light, it was accompanied by a powerful fighting aura and holy light that shot out from the sword body, continuously impacting the statue. Due to the previous attacks, the ordinary sword light would bounce away after hitting the statue, so Joshua gathered all the sword lights at this time and gathered them into a huge beam. This move is one of the strongest moves that Geraint gave him, the Radiant Slash.

The "King" sculpture made of sacred stone trembled all over its body after being attacked by the Radiant Slash, and stopped moving forward. Joshua was in a constant standoff with his sword. Beads of sweat the size of beans continued to flow down his forehead, and golden beams of light slammed into the sculpture.

"I remember that the trialists who passed this level in the past were all proficient in the moves of war chess and could use their own pieces to destroy the opponent's king. But this kid is really different!" the mysterious red phantom man overlooked the situation from a corner of the temple, "but with the strength of the holy stone, it is not easy to use the fighting spirit to crush it. The Titans of the God Realm used these sacred stones to make shields, and the strength of human beings is limited after all, unless they ......"

As time passed, just as Joshua's fighting energy was about to run out, he finally saw cracks begin to form in the sculpture......

"What? The statue made of the Holy Stone has cracks?" "The phantom man stared at the chess game with an incredulous gaze, "Could it be that this kid is ......?"

"Ah, it's almost a success!" Joshua saw the hope of victory, so he gritted his teeth and tried to hold on, "Give me some more strength from the fragment of the Holy Sword!"

"It turns out that the fragment of the legendary holy sword, Escaliba, is on the body of this child. A slight smile appeared on the phantom man's face, "No wonder the gods did not hesitate to approve of this child......"

"Hiss" Under the impact of the sword light, huge cracks began to appear on the beige statue of the king, and the sound of stones breaking and scattering continued to come out.

"Ahh White's king has finally disappeared from this board entirely.

"Huhu~ You can always pass the test now, right?" Joshua gasped and squinted at the entire chessboard. The only remaining statue of the "knight" on the chessboard also disappeared without a trace after the "king" was destroyed. A flash of white light flashed, and the barrier that had been erected around the board seemed to disappear.

"Ha Luha, I need to find a way to the next floor. Joshua was about to leave, when suddenly the ground began to shake violently. A red bolt of lightning slashed down from the chessboard, instantly striking Joshua himself. "Ah...... Yes...... Ah......h

"Mr. Arthur, I'm curious to know what the challenge of the Dao at the back level of the temple is?" Geraint flicked a soldier's pawn.

"The challenge of the last layer of the Flame Temple is a true test for all trialists. "This test can be said to be a test that will determine the future fate of the trialist. The gods of the divine realm will consider the trialist's comprehensive abilities in all aspects. See if the Trialist can make the right choice while increasing their strength. There are often many important points for a person to live in the world. Only by making the right choices can the road of life be smooth. Once you make a wrong choice, you may have to spend your life to make up for it, and in the Temple of Flames, you may never be able to get out of the wrong choice. ”

"What kind of choice is that?" asked Gerant.

"Ha Luha, I can't say that. Because everyone has their own different path in life. The gods will see his future destiny through the wheel of years. And the fifth floor of the temple is for them to deduce the way forward. Only by making the right choices at the critical moment can you become a real powerhouse. If it were His Royal Highness, his fate would be closely related to the entire kingdom......"

At the other end of the Temple of Flames, a sunny, bird-singing and flowery world appeared in front of everyone. Joshua, who was struck by lightning, also appeared in this space.

It looked like it was early in the morning, and Joshua was lying unconscious on a grassy field, surrounded by many low trees, like a luxurious garden in a royal palace. At that moment, a few drops of nectar flowed down from the leaves of the dwarf tree and fell on Joshua's hands.

"Well, where am I?" Joshua looked up and slowly opened his eyes, "I remember being struck by a lightning bolt and thinking it was over." How did you get here all of a sudden?"

He got up and looked around, realizing that the scenery in front of him felt familiar to him, but he just couldn't think of a specific name.

"Your Majesty the King...... Your Majesty, why are you here? My attendants and I have been looking for you for a long time, but I didn't expect you to rest in the back garden of the palace. A formally dressed court official ran up to Joshua, "It's early in the morning, why don't you go to the morning court, why are you in the garden?"

"Ah, Your Majesty, where is the king?" Joshua looked at the attendants, who were indeed very similar to the court attendants depicted in the book, and was stunned, "I have arrived in a palace. But listening to them, the king of this country is also in this back garden now, and this is a big trouble. ”

"Your Majesty, don't play here, come with us to the main hall for the morning pilgrimage!" the attendant suddenly knelt down on one knee in front of Joshua and saluted.