“What else do I say? Under these conditions, I will sign it no matter what. cluck.”
I smiled slowly and accepted the god contract again.
“sure. It’s just that I have anxiety and have been pledged.”
Perhaps it was magic, Balbus touched the cold skewer with his hand a few times, and steam suddenly bloomed.
I read the contract again while Balbus gobbles it up.
In fact, the content was nothing. To put it simply, it’s like this.
1. The price of a bet or gamble is not paid until it is over and continues to be transferred to the next round. However, in this case, it is calculated twice, and the last loser pays the last winner after it is completely over.
2. The payment of the price here refers to Balbus Artifact. Adelian counts in gold coins.
3. The bet or gamble continues until Adelian gives up.
4. If the stake is raised to the stage where one of the two is unable to pay the price, the bet or gamble ends on the spot.
5. The type of bet or gamble is determined by Balbus and is not subject to change.
“This is so delicious. Especially this sauce… … ! Anyway, there was nothing against me, so I signed it. I don’t know why you need those conditions.”
Sauce smeared my mouth, and Balbus belatedly expressed a question, so I smiled and opened my mouth with a kind face.
“My nickname is Laveth’s madman. Of course, I have gambled a lot, but the excitement of gambling comes from the size of the stake. You know?”
At my words, Balbus nodded.
“If this side wins once and that side wins once, only the position of the stake will change, and true gambling is best when you carry the burden on your back.”
In fact, it would look like bad terms for Balbus. Especially number 1. Because if Balbus gets money every time he wins, he makes 99 bets if he only loses 1 out of 100, but if I do it the way I have suggested, he will have to pay for 99 bets even if he only loses the last one out of 100.
However, the reason he accepted my words was, on the surface, for the fun of gambling, but in fact, he is a debtor.
Video posted in the concept article. It was from the video someone obtained with the 5th Federation of Miracles. Balbus is not a gambler, but a debtor.
The reason why he lives in such a crypt even though he has so many artifacts.
It was because he had lost a gamble with an unknown god. Living in this narrow and dark dungeon by gambling with people who occasionally enter, or paying off the debt.
Even if he couldn’t do that, he would have been doing it for hundreds of years, so Balbus must be confident in his gambling skills. Since I look quite wealthy, they must be thinking of robbing me.
Of course, it is true that Balbus is the king of vigilance.
“And if after I lose once or twice, if Mr. Balbus doesn’t say it’s not fun, I’ll feel very unfair, so this is the provision I put in. Either I give up or I go bankrupt. Until then, keep going.”
“What, little human. My conscience will be fine as long as you give up before you go bankrupt. cluck cluck. Then what about the last item I decided on but not changing?”
“I’m trying to get used to it, but Master Balbus doesn’t want to change it just because he’s tired of gambling, hahahaha. Please look at this. Isn’t he a newbie compared to Lord Balbus?”
Anyway, it’s okay because Balbus has nothing to lose except for number 1 of the conditions I set, and Balbus doesn’t even think about losing to me in number 1.
He may think of losing if he has to, but he is quite proud of himself.
[Balbus Aribake―An Ancient Fairy Addicted to Gambling]
Representative Traits: [Gambling (SS)] [Skill (S+)] [Luck (A)] [Awareness (A-)]
Hidden Traits: [Conceit (S)] [Swimming (F)]
It’s hard to stick with, but even harder to raise. If it’s A, you’ll have to lose in the beginning so you can’t lose.
There are a total of 3 games that pop up when you meet Balbus in Innocent Saga.
One dice game. One is a battle game where you catch monsters given out by Balbus. And the last one.
“Then let’s begin. gambling.”
“good. Sports are played with cards.”
card game.
There are a few minor rules, but to put it simply, the card game Balbus described was an innocent version of blackjack.
Instead of the dealer, use the artifact to receive and check the cards one by one, and then keep or pass to beating… The game that makes no 22.
There’s no chance I’ll beat Balbus, who’s been gambling for hundreds of years.
The sound of my breath, the glance of my eyes. At least he would know my hand with a heartbeat.
“Then let’s begin. I’m going to activate the card game artifact. And I swear by mana. I won’t be tampering with the card.”
Balbus, since he is a gambler and not a cheater, he says he starts with the fairest conditions possible.
‘In the first place, skill is a fraud, skill.’
I put on a face of anticipation while hiding my inner feelings.
“Then I will take the card.”
* * *
Even when I first came here and said that I was gambling with Balbus, Luna and Zero had openly worried faces, and Kane didn’t show it, but Kane was worried because he was always by my side.
‘They’re bad kids.’
As soon as I took out the god’s contract, they were sitting and talking among themselves in a small space right next to the crypt room.
“Then what if I kick it low to the bottom?”
“I think we can break it by pressing the shin instead of avoiding it.”
“Senior, how does this spice blending smell?”
At first glance, Luna and Kane seem to be fighting with words instead of bodies.
Zero looked like he was cuddling the spice box I gave him, mixing the spices, and often asking questions in conversation.
‘It’s a lonely fight. really.’
I took the card and bent the top a little at an angle so only I could see the number.
‘8.’
Right now my hand is 11, 7, 8, so the situation is too far for 22.
There is one pass, so pass… … .
“Your hand looks bad, cluck cluck.”
“Ha, you’re out of luck.”
I tried to keep my poker face as much as possible, but can I avoid Balbus’ attention?
The stake that started with 1 gold is now 64 gold after 7 rounds.
Perhaps because of the god’s contract, the exact number of gold floated above our heads.
It would be a lot of money for an ordinary person, but it was a small amount for me and Balbus.
“Oh, I lost again. 24 vs 22. It’s a waste this time.”
“Cluck. this is the age let’s continue Are you still okay?”
Balbus smiles as he collects the cards on the table and puts them back into the dealer artifact.
Because I didn’t give up, the 64 gold was neither Balbus’s gain nor my loss, and the stake of 128 gold was staked on the next edition.
“Keep, pass, keep.”
“Oops, lost.”
“Clack cluck!”
After all, the gambler Balbus. Rather than repaying a debt owed to an unknown god, he seems to have fallen for the fun of gambling itself.
It seems easy to guess 22 with cards, but it is difficult.
It’s not a normal trump card, it’s a card used on this continent, so there are 5 types of patterns, and the score calculation for each pattern is different.
Depending on how many types of patterns and what number you make close to 22, the level of appreciation is different.
‘Is it good to win a newbie, the old person is too much.’
It’s obviously an early game that you started to lose, but are you getting pissed off?
I shuddered as I watched Balbus tearing at each win.
“I lost again.”
“The stakes are too high now, so why don’t you just give up.”
Not acting, but little by little, I really want to f*ck Balbus once.
“What are you talking about, let’s go to the next edition.”
I took the card and checked it out. A card with the highest quality of the 5 card patterns.
There is only one in it, a kind of joker card that translates to 1 or 10, and 10, 11 cards.
The best hand you can get in this game.
‘Of course now, for real.’
I closed my eyes slightly and opened my mouth.
“pass.”
As long as Balbus’s luck is grade A, if a good hand came to me once here, it will be a long time before a good hand comes to me again.
The stake this time is 8,192 gold.
Now, it is a burdensome amount even for a nobleman to spend at once.
But I couldn’t have come here just to eat that.
‘I don’t know if it’s known as a geometric sequence.’
Among the miscellaneous knowledge I knew when I was Kang Su-ho, there was this tale.
The story of a grain of rice on a chessboard.
When the king, who loved chess, granted a boy a wish in return for losing, the boy said,
One square on the first square of the chessboard, two squares on the next square. four eggs, eight eggs.
I want you to fill 64 chess squares in this way.
The king, who replied that he would gladly give it to him, said that he could not immediately guess the reason why his servants were making a fuss, saying that the kingdom had no such ability.
‘By the way, there are 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice after going up to 64 squares, and they say it’s about 4,000 tons?’
“I lost.”
“Ah, again… … .”
“young master… Please try this.”
In the middle, Luna takes the artifact ring and puts her own fruit juice and a simple sandwich in front of me.
I took a shot of the juice and opened my mouth sternly.
“Next edition, let’s go.”
“Okay… … .”
Balbus now has a subtle complexion. I looked at him and smiled slowly.
“Give up. You know. Human child, you can’t beat me. huh?”
Looking at Balbus, who entered the appeasement as if he was secretly speaking for me, I deliberately widened my eyes and opened my mouth as if to say something.
“Did you sign a contract with me?”
“That’s true. Isn’t it burdensome? Human, you’re all robbed after that.”
I smiled and fluttered the contract of god, then held it up clearly and pointed at one place.
3. The bet or gamble continues until Adelian gives up.
“Keep it!”
The current stake is 32,768 gold.
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In some ways, even with less money or two more editions in this state, the amount will change dramatically.
131,072 gold.
By simple calculation, 13 billion won when 1 gold is set at 100,000 won.
‘It’s just starting.’
Without passing or checking the cards I received, I laid the three cards face down on the table in the order given by the dealer artifact and crossed my arms.
“What, what?”
“Oh, I lost too much. There’s no way to win by just doing it. It seems like my numbers are all read.”
I smiled round and round and continued.
“I’ll just walk without looking.”
“Are you crazy? then it goes bankrupt The amount is already staggering!”
Balbus’s complexion is pale.
“There’s nothing for Balbus-nim to lose.”
At that, I acted like a stage show maniac and tossed my chair back.
‘I’ll be scared.’
If you leave it to chance this way, 99 times out of 100 Balbus will win.
But if you just do it 100 out of 100. Balbus will win.
Balbus’ luck is high, but it’s not until the triple, so the moment I win will come.
Or if I keep losing and Balbus goes bankrupt.
the former wins. The latter is a great victory.
Until then, it’s a game of whether my gold will hold out or the value of Balbus’s artifacts.
In any case, Balbus would win. Gamblers are faster than anyone else at calculating odds.
Just once, the moment when I hold on to the end, hold on, and win only once.
Or the moment when I hold on to the end and the stakes rise above Balbus’ Artifact.
‘All of Balbus will be robbed.’
Balbus trembled as if he had finished his calculations for my imposing attitude.
Balbus is an artifact, and since I limited my price to gold, how much gold other than buildings, jewels, and magic stones do I have?
“If you really want to go bankrupt! Okay, I’ll make you regret it, human kid!”
Balbus’ hand holding the card became faster. It is clear on the face of the intention to quickly raise the amount and sink me by playing one game at a time.
‘But that would be a trap too.’
Balbus is no reckless gambler. Even that kind of appearance would be calculated coldly and cast me down.
‘I only believe in money and go.’
I still put the card down on the table without looking.