As I listened to his voice dive down as he stopped talking I looked at him in shock eyes open as I thought.
'Did he just say that my soul would become this dimension's new source of energy? ...Goddamit the situation has only gotten worse, forget about money, I would beat this guy but I don't know what he said about being a God is true or not, I don't feel like playing the joker right now. I need to get out of this place.' as soon as I thought that I took a step backward which he noticed.
Tet stopped glancing at me and look to the side like he was in deep thought. It was at this moment that I don't know what hit me but I decided to look at my surroundings.
It looked different... from when I Fell. But I noticed I was inside a... giant black square? I separated my gaze from what was in front of me and looked to the side to see... giant squares?
This was one of those thoughts of realization that I always had. Connecting the patterns of seeing black and white enormous squares, the first thing that came to my mind was that we were standing on a Chessboard and it looked to have missing pieces that are needed to play with.
With nothing else to do or should I say can do, I don't feel like playing the fool and being fooled. I took in a breath and decided to ask: "If I don't have any options, could I at least know why we are on a chessboard that seems to only has a few pieces?"
He looked at me seeming to change his face from indifferent to one that looked more curious about what I asked. He glanced at me for a moment before speaking. "oh, you... noticed?"
He stated something obvious if I was the one in the adventurous position I would throw someone in an incinerator if they ever asked me something that they can tell themselves. I took a breath as my lips twitched, I was about to say something but was cut off.
"I can see it all over your face, don't be petty it was a rhetorical question. Anyways some of the pieces that were supposed to be on the Chessboard were lost when the dimensional anomaly occurred. Those pieces used to represent different races but now there are only two left."
I looked at him as he seemed he didn't want to stop talking so I nodded my head as he continued.
"The King piece which is behind us represents "Imanity" but to you, it would be humanity. The second piece is the Bishop, which represents the "Ex-Machina" race. They look a lot like Imanity but what makes them different is for the simple matter of fact that they are like androids units that are a part of a cluster acting as a single mind.
The reason Imanity is the king piece is that "The 179 Ghosts" of Imanity that took part in "The Eternal War," The 179 Ghosts never seen in battle came up with this Idea"
What he said took my head a lot to process, I looked stunned for a moment. I wanted to question what he said but it didn't seem to have any gaps that would suggest that it was not true. I could only 'sight' at this in my head.
I only looked at him with a worried face and only had one question to ask as I said.
"What now?"
He looked at me sideways as he spoke. "Now am going to give you my powers, usually it does not work this way for if one wishes to challenge me it would be under the banner of representing their race but before that could happen they would have to defeat all the other races' representative to win the right to challenge me.
But in a situation like this, I would have to challenge you and lose on purpose"
I could understand how the races could challenge their God but could not understand how their God could challenge them. Were there such rules in This place?
I asked as such and got an expected answer. "You would have to have the right to challenge me in normal circumstances but since we are in a dire situation I could challenge you, while you who are being challenged have the right to decide the rules.
Let's play a simple game of "tic tac toe" much like Chess no parties could cheat"
I looked at him trying to figure out what he is thinking, as I was doing that I thought to myself.' Doesn't he want to lose on purpose? Is it his pride he's trying to defend?... Not to be cheated on his last game?' as I was distracted by my thoughts I looked up to see him smiling, why was the question I was stuck with.
I asked what we are betting knowing full well of the response that was to come but did not expect the last part of it.
When he spoke my ears were on a high pitch, just to not miss one word. "I bet you this fragmented dimension with the 10 Pledges along with the "Suniaster" and the 10 Pledges as a skill to represent my will, my power.
All you have to do is bet that thing of a construct that is part of your soul that I see it as of an equal value"
Once again, I was stunned by his last words. 'How could a piece of my soul be worth so much? I don't know what it is but I bet it would be useless when I awaken it. But even still if it's worth that much so be it.'
I looked at him and had to ask even though I didn't care anymore. "What makes the construct in my soul so special that it is worth this much?"
Tet looked at me with a look that could say am about to laugh but let me stop myself.
Listening to what he was going to say an instinct told me that it needed to be heard.
"You see... Ace, this fragmented dimension if I were to find something to compare it to it would be that small continent of your world called Australia. Now you would not have been here if I was looking for individuals with normal stature because there are most of the population in your world.
Believe me when I say I did not think that you would fit the requirements but just by pulling you to this dimensional fragment or rephrasing it for you bring this dimensional fragment close to your reality to be able to pull you in. But it still costs a bit of energy that can not be replenished but am glad that it won't because for this very moment it allows us to play for something that we both think is of equal value"
Just when I thought I heard it all it felt like he had dropped a boom shell on my head. As I was about to ask him why he did not tell me this before but then I hear him speak again.
"Shall We Play?"