124 Downright shocked!
The game is starting, and for tradition, everyone shouted.
Everyone: Asciente!
The Old Deus released its power everywhere, the power became waves, the waves turned into substance, concept was defined and then revealed. Imitating the universe's beginning, a land was born in the sky.
Xiao Qiangwei: Hmm, well… A being created from a concept is different from a normal cultivator…
[Later]
After deciding the rules of the game, everyone, included Xiao Qiangwei, by his own decision, fell asleep and almost everyone's memories about the last 24 hours used to make the rules disappeared.
Soon, Xiao Qiangwei opened his eyes and raised his body, then he looked around, there were Sora, Shiro, Steph, Ino, Izuna, Jibril and Plum, who were still sleeping in the ground.
Meanwhile, in front of him and the sleeping people, there was a very colorful and traditional-looking girl. She was wearing a frilly white hat with decorative orange-yellow ribbon laced around it with a traditional japanese mask shaped like a fox on her left side.
She has purple bangs that changed to blue on both sides of her head and her long hair turned from blue to green. Her eyes were blue-green and purple, and she wore red eyeshadow.
She had two red tiger-like markings on both sides of her face and wore an ornate orange-yellow choker.
Her outfit is quite revealing, as it exposed her midriff and legs. The clothing had a color scheme of orange, purple and yellow with ribbons flowing all around it, and she had no shoes.
She was holding a paintbrush in her hands as countless scrolls spreaded on her back like wings or a veil, Xiao Qiangwei was slightly charmed from her despite being surrounded with beauties left and right, but he regained his senses.
The next one to wake up was Sora, who slowly got up and was charmed too from the girl's appearance.
Sora: ….Erm…? Where is this, who is this girl, and what am I doing here?
Xiao Qiangwei's eyes widened, he didn't remember anything about what happened since they came in the little garden of Miko, it was impossible for him to forget… Unless… He consented beforehand. Not even the strongest Old Deus can even touch him, much less modify his memories, unless Tet uses the Suniaster.
Shiro: ...….Mm.... Nii….? …..Where is this….?
She slowly woke up after Sora, and in order, Jibril, Steph, Plum, Izuna and Ino also woke up.
Xiao Qiangwei: Someone messed with our memories. Probably the Old Deus in front of us.
Sora: That explain things… So we are inside a game.
In front of everyone, there were 8 doors, and over their heads, there was the land that the Old Deus created, which was floating. About the girl, while she was moving the brush, she spoke.
Old Deus: Game start condition "One": The challengers' memories from the past 24 hours… Collection, confirmed.
"Two": Provisional fee… The commonly called "Miko"s life… Collection, confirmed. It will be considered as established by the Game Start condition.
Ino: ...Wha…!? M-Miko…!?
Everyone turned below the Old Deus that was floating, and saw Miko's corpse in the ground, Ino and Izuna quickly arrived there and tried to call her out, but they didn't want to believe their five senses that she was dead.
No, her soul was just collected from her body.
Old Deus: Now… The Sugoroku you have desired… From this moment on, it'll be considered to have started and the rules will now be disclosed.
In that moment, Xiao Qiangwei felt as if a part of his memories turned back.
1: Each of the eight players own "Mass Existence's Time" will be granted as ten "Dice", split into percentages.
2: The Dice Holder can only move across the same amount of squares as the outcome of throwing all the dice they possess.
3: The result from throwing the dice is random and, after throwing it, one dice wfrom the used ones is removed.
4: In the case of traveling together, after declaring so, the travelers will only move in accordance to the outcome of the representative.
5: In the case the number of players moving together surpasses two people, an "Overall Number of Travel Companions x Attendants"s worth of dice will be removed from the number of dice used.
6: From the moment the game begins, the Players hold the right to create 50 "Tasks" each.
7: The Dice Holder who's stopped on the square will be forced to follow any instructions the "Task" holds.
8: The Dice Holder cannot proceed until either the Task is accomplished or seventy-two hours passed.
9: The Dice Holder will be able to steal one dice from the Question Master(The one who made the Task) by accomplishing the "Task". If it's not accomplished, then one dice will be stolen from the Dice Holder instead.
10: Each "Task" will be described on a billboard arranged irregularly on the square's board.
11: The "Task" may, based on its contents, change the environment of the square in question.
12: However, all "Tasks" that include any of the following will be considered invalid:
>12a: Words limiting the Task to a specific target.
>12b: Instructions impossible to accomplish by anyone beside the Question Master or impossible for any of the Players.
>12c: Words directed at the Dice Holder designating an advance or retreat of squares, independently of the dice's outcome.
>12d: Words written in any language beside Imanity's.
13: The Dice Holder to reach the last square will be the Winner and as such, the game will end.
14: The Old Deus in question has the obligation to fulfill all requests of the Winner, within its' range of rights.
15: If all Players lose the entirety of their dice or if they become "Unable to Continue" through DEATH, the game will end.
16: In the case of becoming "Unable to Continue", the Old Deus in question will be granted the right to COLLECT EVERYTHING from all participants, except from the Leading Player.
>0a: The game board is an imitation of reality, but, the events that occur there are all real, including death.
>0b: There is one person among the Dice Holders whose memories weren't collected, a Traitor.
So… In short, this was a Custom Monopoly but without properties, and if his Immortal Senses say anything, a continental-sized Monopoly.
For those who don't understand much, there are 400 squares, in those 400, each player made 50 tasks that need to be concluded, if you can't do it, wait 72 hours to proceed.
One has 10 dices, and he will throw all 10 of them, the addition of the numbers that come out will be the number of squares he will pass through. Once he reached the square designed, he will need to do the Task.
Once you throw the dices, one of them will disappear, the aftereffects of this are currently unknown, but from Mass Existence's Time, one can think about one's lifespan, but it would be strange since Jibril and Xiao Qiangwei's lifespan is eternal.
So… It could mean the body's lifespan, if he loses a dice, his body will be from 28 to 25,2 years old, if he gets one dice, his body will have 30.8 years.
About gaining and losing dices, if you can complete the task, then you will gain the dice of the person that made the task, but if you can't then the one that made the task will get one dice of yours.
Xiao Qiangwei looked down, and saw 10 dices rotating around him, then turned around and saw Sora biting his nails in stress while Shiro called from behind him, both of them had 10 dices around their bodies, like everyone else.
Shiro: ...Nii.
…
Shiro: ...Nii… Hey…. Hey, Nii…
…
Shiro: ...….Nii, if you keep ignoring Shiro… If you don't answer… then….
…
Shiro: ...Shiro… will put down panties… and flip, skirt.
Xiao Qiangwei: Pfft….
Sora turned immediately and spoke while flushing down all his thoughts.
Sora: WHA!? YES, NII-CHAN IS RIGHT HERE, HE ANSWER WHAT!? ….Hah?
Xiao Qiangwei: Hahahahahahaha!
Shiro lowered Steph's panties and flipped her skirt, and it seems that Sora's brain made a screenshot during the exact moment he saw the "Utopia".
Shiro: H-Haaaaaaaaah!? Wh-wh-w-what are you doing so suddenly!
She let out a scream and pulled up her underwear, while pressing down on her skirt.
Shiro: ...Didn't say… Shiro's…
Sora: ...Ahh, that's right… Nii-chan was completely fooled you know, ahahaha this… fel… low! Steph… You finally stopped hiding your exhibitionist habit, huh? No, I don't mind it at all, you see?
Steph: Haaaah!? S-She sneaked behind me and undressed me on her own, you know!?
Sora: It's fine if you don't hide your heart, ok? By the Ten Pledges, she can't undress you if you don't allow or accept it even if subconsciously… as such, it was something you desired and…
Xiao Qiangwei: ...How did you made such a good reason in less than 3 seconds?!
Xiao Qiangwei was downright shocked at the situation currently in front of him
