The Starry Sky Chessboard: Book 6 of Starchild Escapes Arranged Marriage

by Fat Bread

  If people worshiped it as an evil god, the darkest and deepest abyss would be born from it.

  On the contrary, if kind people prayed to it with hope and light in their heart, the master of glory and holiness would be born from it.

  The God Crystal was a legacy from the era of the gods. Essentially, it was a combination of endless gods' soul shards, it was the initial form of a god.

  If inputting countless programs and equations into its core, and connecting it with countless Planet Quadrant Computers that were specially made for it, what kind of god would be born from it?

  It was Alpha, the newborn cyber god. An unprecedented faith about science was born in the endless god's domains.

  The Starry Sky Chessboard was the first place the newborn god chose to announce its coming.

  "Boom boom pow!" They were the running sounds of the Planet Quadrant Computers.

  "Clap!" "Clap!" Because the Planet Quadrant Computers were running at full power, on the surfaces of the planets, a great number of thunderstorms were forming.

  Surrounded by countless thunder and lightning, the newborn god stretched out her hand in the God Crystal, putting down her first chess piece on the Starry Sky Chessboard.

  The location was "tengen"!

  Chapter 426: Opening

  In the Sky Tower, on the Starry Sky Chessboard.

  Perform the guess odd or even game. Cyber Elf Alpha won.

  In the rule of the game of Go, the player who went first would obtain an absolute advantage, therefore, it was necessary to make some rules to restrict the chess player. However, there wasn’t such a rule in the game of Star Go.

  "Sente" or "gote" could only show the difference of different chess players' styles. Orfina the Ruby Dragon liked to attack first, if she couldn't win the guess odd or even game, she would feel gloomy for a while; Norn the God of Wisdom didn't mind "sente" or "gote", if he used "gote", his winning rate would be higher.

  As for Yun Xi, because his winning rate was still 100% till now, it really wasn't a problem for him.

  Similarly, Cyber Elf Alpha didn't mind it either. At any rate, she would be the winner.

  Their duel was being considered by countless legend ranked beings. It would determine the strongest Star Go player.

  The number of people who were concentrating on their duel was in the "hundreds of millions". Legend rank stood for the highest will of a god domain, as the stage of the highest wisdom in the endless god's domains, their duel was destined to be recorded and eulogized.

  Most people thought that Alpha would be the person who laughed last, after all, she had achieved the unprecedented 7 star points.

  Although "A Cloud in the Sky" also gave an incredible performance in the games before, his style wasn't as intimidating as Alpha's, it was difficult to make up your mind to put up stakes on his side.

  Just as the alchemists and engineers of the Mechanus God's Domain expected, Cyber Elf Alpha's performance shocked the entire endless god's domains.

  "Hum? Tengen?" Yun Xi was surprised.

  Cyber Elf Alpha was the first 7 star points chess player he had ever met, no wonder that she was the strongest chess player till now!

  She understands the importance of tengen, maybe it will be a tough battle. No, I’ll not be surprised if I lose this time.

  Teacher Casina, maybe I can't achieve 100 victories in a row in this game.

  Yun Xi sighed and looked at the chessboard, putting his first chess piece nearby tengen.

  Cyber Elf Alpha, she is really tough!

  In the Mechanus God's Domain, when Yun Xi put down his first chess piece, Alpha suddenly trembled. Countless data flows flashed through her pupils.

  "Alpha requires additional computing power!"

  "What? The game just began! What is happening?"

  "Don’t ask, just do it. Be quick!"

  "Understood. Launch the 15th and 16th Planet Quadrant Computers! Start synchronizing the data!"

  "Preheating the engines of the 17th and 18th Planet Computers, unlock their dormant states."

  "Prepare the 19th and 20th Planet Computers, perform the first power-on test!"

  "Boot all satellites!"

  Alpha's will was absolute to the engineers in the Mechanus God's Domain. Even though they felt strange, they still performed her orders determinedly.

  In a desert star field, one huge building after another rose to the surfaces of the planets, one solar sail after another opened from their folded forms, and one windmill after another opened their fan-bladed wheels.

  Hydroelectric power, geothermal power, solar power, wind power... all kinds of automatic power plants ran at full speed.

  These Planet Computers could use all kinds of powers as their energy source, this was their special property. Because of these automatic power plants, the computers could calculate even faster than gods.

  If converting the energy used to boot a Planet Quadrant Computer to money, the number could let a country instantly bankrupt. And there were hundreds of Planet Quadrant Computers! They were all built for one goal.

  Everything is for the great Alpha! This is the final fantasy of the past Starship Alliance, the present Mechanus God's Domain.

  Infinite data started to flow inside Alpha's metallic antennas.

  "Code name, Cloud."

  "Import all the records of the games he has played, and build 130,000 mathematical models for the next 30 rounds."

  "He is used to putting his first chess piece onto tengen. When he played with Norn the God of Wisdom and Orfina the Ruby Dragon, he obtained 'sente' and used this method to gain his upper hand advantage."

  "Therefore, if I put my chess piece onto tengen first, it will effectively reduce his chance of winning."

  "He is good at activating fire-type, wind-type and mixed-type 'ko' on the star map, I should pay attention to his moves in case that he repeats the 'ko' he used to defeat Orfina the Ruby Dragon."

  "Decide the place where I should put my second chess piece at. Calculate 10^24 possibilities within 3 seconds."

  "Build the new model about his style."

  Within a second, Cyber Elf Alpha had calculated over hundreds of millions of times, the mathematical models she built this time were ten times more than what she built when she played with Black Mage and three times more than what she built when she played with Norn the God of Wisdom.

  All these were for determining where she should put her second chess piece at!

  "Pa!" Yun Xi put down his fourth chess piece and looked at Cyber Elf Alpha in confusion.

  This 7 star points chess player is different to any chess player he met before.

  After putting down her first chess piece onto tengen, her moves became irresolute.

  Since she had occupied tengen, Yun Xi had to take the second best, putting down his chess pieces around tengen.

  It didn't have any special meaning, he was just used to putting his chess pieces in the center of the chessboard. At any rate, Star Go was always an interesting game.

  To Yun Xi, Star Go was just an easy-to-understand game. No matter where he decided to put his chess piece at, he could always feel the mystery of the orbits of stars.

  Tengen was just the simplest method for winning, it wasn't his only option.

  Actually, he didn't mind if he put his chess pieces at any place on the board. As long as he played Star Go, he could naturally gain an advantage on the chessboard.

  Chapter 427 God Match (1)

  On the Starry Sky Chessboard.

  "Cyber Elf Alpha" vs "A Cloud in the Sky".

  Alpha looked at the chessboard in silence. The metal antennas on Alpha's head slowly rotated, transmitting all the changes on the star map into her real body in the Mechanus God's Domain.

  At the same time, the calculation calculated by the terrible computing power of the Planet Quadrant Computers also transmitted into Cyber Elf Alpha's body.

  Apart from her, no one could possibly achieve this.

  Only in the final fantasy
of the Mechanus God's Domain, the newborn cyber god whose goal at birth was to calculate everything, made it possible for her to withstand the amazing computational costs and she was far from reaching her limit.

  In the past, the research of the Mechanus God's Domain went in a wrong direction, a blind alley. They continuously built bigger and bigger cores of Planet Computers, in order to meet the requirements of more and more computing power.

  Until they built the largest Planet Computer on the biggest empty planet in the domain, they finally found out that they could do nothing more.

  All the stars in their domain, apart from fixed stars, even the largest planet had been used to build the largest Planet Quadrant Computer in history.

  In memory of the origin of the Mechanus God's Domain, the Planet Quadrant Computer and the planet was named "Star River".

  However, their proudest achievement in all the history of the Mechanus God's Domain also represented a terrible truth: the expansion of the entire Mechanus God's Domain had come to an end.

  Theoretically, there were still a lot of planets in the Mechanus God's Domain that could be used to build new Planet Quadrant Computers, and the people here were already used to living on and around the Planet Computers. The starfield where the "Star River" was at, was the core of the entire Mechanus God's Domain.

  However, it was impossible to build any bigger Planet Computers, this truth was even worse than death to the engineers of the Mechanus God's Domain.

  However, they could do nothing about this, because there wasn’t any larger planets in the entire domain.

  For dozens of years, it seemed that there was no road they could move forward on.

  Until the elves brought the God Crystal, then everything changed.

  For the first time, desperate engineers agreed to cooperate with alchemists. They started to pursue the mystery of gods together.

  And Cyber Elf Alpha was their final product.

  With the God Crystal as the core, using the rules of science and alchemy, plus the secret magic of elves, their highest masterpiece was born. She was born with the power of dominating all Planet Quadrant Computers.

  Each Planet Computer was like a part of her body, with them, she never needed to worry about the upper limit of her computing power, because it was destined to be infinite!

  If using the life system of the natural world to describe her, she and the Planet Computers formed a huge banyan tree.

  Each branch could be independent and complete, but also, they formed a perfect life system when being connected together.

  In the natural world, the branch of the banyan tree could be stripped and cultivated to be a new banyan tree. One for all, all for one. The relationship between Cyber Elf Alpha and the Planet Quadrant Computers was like the relationship between a banyan tree and its branches.

  Alpha could control all of these branches, and help them grow up.

  Because of her, the final fantasy of the Mechanus God's Domain finally came true! She was destined to be the master of all electric equipment!

  From the moment she was born, the entire Mechanus God's Domain was doomed to be changed. Alpha had understood the meaning of her life and was ready to fulfill her mission.

  She will come.

  She is destined to come.

  Her birth stood for the new beginning of the Mechanus God's Domain!

  With the infinite computing power, she could solve all problems in the world. She would be able to predict the fate of the world, the possibility of the appearance of any natural disaster, and even the constitute forms of gods!

  Her computing power could even become ten thousand times stronger than any legend ranked being, as long as people built more and more Planet Quadrant Computers for her!

  "My goal... is to transcend everything..."

  "My future... my wish... is to become an omniscient god!"

  "Past, present, future! I will be able to record everything, calculate everything, predict everything!"

  "I! Alpha! Am Invincible!"

  Yes, this was the wild ambition of the Mechanus God's Domain, and the result the elves were pursuing.

  Find the secret of the legend rank and even the gods by using Alpha's infinite computing power!

  It would become an unprecedented magnificent feat, because no one knew exactly how to become a god. Even Hydra, the favorite fantastic creature of the world could only become a god due to luck.

  Only through Alpha was it possible to find the secret of gods by using her computing power.

  Alpha was the absolute faith of the Mechanus God's Domain.

  Alpha was the ecstasy of the elves who were tired of their long lives and the boring world.

  Alpha was the strongest weapon of the mortals who wanted to find the secret of gods.

  Even though they had to use the power of the God Crystal, the engineers of the Mechanus God's Domain wanted to prove that nothing couldn't be calculated.

  Chapter 428: God Match(2)

  Yun Xi was the final opponent she needed to defeat. After that, she would achieve a total victory on the Starry Sky Chessboard. This was what Cyber Elf Alpha judged.

  For this purpose, the computing power she used now was beyond the limit of when she played with Norn the God of Wisdom. Apart from that, three more Planet Quadrant Computers were supporting her in the Mechanus God's Domain.

  The resource expenditure of the Planet Computers was costly. Although they could draw the necessary energy of the planets themselves to maintain their running, once they entered full force calculation mode, they would draw extra energies from the core of the planets, which could cause damage to the environment of the planets.

  Even though only one-fifth of machine sets were running, the energies they consumed were still massive, the coolant liquids they were using could even fill up a ocean.

  These coolant liquids were not the products of the planets themselves, but the special products of the Mechanus God's Domain. They were specially made for these Planet Computers.

  The rule of equivalent exchange was valid in all worlds. Alpha's amazing computing power was building on these planet level consumption of materials.

  Cyber Elf Alpha didn't look down on Yun Xi at all. She treated him more seriously than even when she played with Norn the God of Wisdom.

  However, after 10 rounds, Alpha found that some rare logical errors appeared in her counter circuits.

  It was a really strange and incredible problem to Alpha.

  For the first time, Cyber Elf Alpha realized that there were bugs in her calculating programs!

  Code name: Cloud.

  Model 1 of calculating the winning rate: over 90%. He has made three big mistakes till now, which has greatly raised his possibility of failure to 99%.

  Prediction: I can defeat him after 50 rounds with a great advantage.

  Model 2 of calculating the winning rate: unknown. I can't predict his next move. His style doesn't meet any models in my database.

  Prediction: Before I make an advanced prediction, I must update my calculation programs and upgrade the mathematical models.

  The first model was based on Alpha's experience, which was easy to be inferred by all Star Go players.

  Yun Xi's style was easy-to-understand, it wasn't complicated at all. He didn't use any formalized series of moves or tricks, because no one taught him about these.

  At first glance, he was just a common newbie. With the amazing analytical ability of her supercomputers, Alpha easily found that he hadn't even understood all the rules of Star Go.

  Even Alpha would use formalized series of moves to reduce the cost of computing power. However, Yun Xi knew nothing about them, he just put down his chess pieces by following his feelings.

  Most experienced Star Go players, for example. Black Mage would give a wee smile in the face of such a newbie, then crush his chess pieces on the chessboard using the most fierce attack without mercy.

  Of course, Black Mage had been taught a painful lesson. He didn't da
re to hold such an idea anymore.

  After calculating, Cyber Elf Alpha also drew a similar conclusion.

  In the final analysis, her experience was just a combination of data sets, which could be summed up after calculating.

  The formalized series of moves of Star Go was a similar thing, it was the basics, the trick, the method that was used to save the player's computing power.

  Each formalized series of moves was a valuable experience and wealth, it was the weapon saved in Alpha's database. No one was stronger than Alpha when using formalized series of moves, she could crush anyone on the chessboard if anyone wanted to compete with her.

  Her computing power was so terrible that even Orfina's instinct and Norn's prophecy were inferior to her.

  No matter what formalized series of moves her opponent was using, Alpha could even predict her opponent's next 10 steps. However, Yun Xi didn't understand anything about formalized series of moves, therefore, she could find no method to deal with him from her massive database.

  Moreover, there was no record about the battle around tengen in any formalized series of moves! Therefore, errors occurred in her calculation.

  Her logical loop formed two distinct judgments.

  The first was that her opponent was just a newbie, victory was already waving its hands at her.

  The second was distinct. Because there was no record in her database, she could find no method to analyze Yun Xi's style and predict his next move.

  The "unknown" has appeared.

  The two distinct judgments put Alpha into a tight spot.

  It was an overwhelmingly weird phenomenon.

  If it was a Planet Computer, it would calculate over and over again in loops, pursuing a result which could never be calculated, because the corresponding data hadn't been inputted into its database.

  However, Cyber Elf Alpha wasn't just a cold machine.

  She was a god born from the God Crystal, the highest wisdom that was controlling all the Planet Computers.

  In the face of the unknown logical loop, she chose to pause the game, updating her database first.