"Xia Nan!?"
"What are you doing here?"
When a clear voice from across the table reached my ears, I saw the familiar face peeking from behind a mountain of chips.
mories related to this person flooded my mind in an instant.
Kalanfor, Half orcs, and the Destiny Coin...
"Alton?"
Xia Nan recognized the figure that he hadn’t seen in a long ti.
—Alton.
A Lightfoot Half orc, who is also a devoted follower of the Goddess of fortune, "Taimola."
I rember when I first t him, he wasn’t a professional, and had only mastered the Vortex Slash Battle Skill; the Teeth Hunting skill was learned from the barbarian Fugang after parting ways with him.
At that ti, I was just a low-level adventurer, usually taking simple tasks like collection and guarding, and I t him during a caravan escort commission from River Valley Town to Kalanfor.
Although that task ended up having so mishaps, we got unknowingly caught up in the sheriff’s sche and almost beca sacrifices for his ritual, but in the end, we managed to overco the enemy and leave the town alive thanks to our strength... and a little bit of luck.
Now, more than a year has passed since our last eting, and Kalanfor was mostly destroyed in the aftermath of a battle between two Extraordinary Level powerhouses. When I left Pan Yun Province, it was still in the process of being rebuilt.
I had also gone from being an unknown low-level adventurer to making a na for myself as "Gray Sword" in River Valley Town, and successfully advanced after a series of events, becoming a bona fide professional, with my Professional Level now at Level 3.
Hundreds of days have passed, from Kalanfor to Suo Yu Bay.
In a foreign land, suddenly encountering such an old acquaintance after a long ti.
In a daze, Xia Nan truly felt a sense of different tis and people.
Frankly, if we count the ti spent together, the close contact with Alton was even less than that with the young Colin whom I just sent to Suo Yu Bay.
But perhaps due to having faced a life-and-death crisis together when I was weak, I already consider him in my heart as a trustworthy friend.
Of course, the Destiny Coin he gifted at our parting, which helped a lot during my subsequent adventures, was also an important factor in our closer relationship.
Unlike myself, who stayed at River Valley Town to continue my adventurer’s career, I rember that he left Kalanfor directly after our parting due to his "Lightfoot Half orc" nature of disliking staying in one place, and his passion for traveling.
Yet to et in such a way in Suo Yu Bay now, one can’t help but marvel at the wonders of destiny.
Clearly, for Alton himself, being able to et Xia Nan in a place completely unrelated to River Valley Town is also sothing entirely unexpected.
The surprise and joy of unexpectedly eting an old friend was unabashedly displayed on his fair and rosy face.
With a flick of his short legs, he hopped down from the high-backed chair.
But after only a couple of steps towards Xia Nan, he suddenly realized sothing, paused, and glanced at the mountain of chips on the table.
His voice was urgent and sowhat apologetic:
"Could you wait for a mont? It won’t take long!"
With that, he waddled back to the table on his short legs, "plop plop," and sat back down.
He waved from afar to indicate to Xia Nan not to hurry, that he was right there.
Xia Nan suddenly noticed two peculiar gazes directed at him.
"Mr. Xia Nan, do you... know this person?"
Hera’s expression was hard to describe, her voice carrying so hesitation, asking quietly and tentatively.
Next to her, the casino manager involuntarily tensed up, staring unblinkingly at Xia Nan.
"I guess you could say he’s an old friend of mine." Xia Nan replied straightforwardly, "Also, if you are concerned about those chips on the table, you can wait a bit longer."
After all, based on my past experience with this little fellow in the casino, winning money... wasn’t his objective.
As a follower of the Goddess of fortune, completing rituals is Alton’s pursuit.
The ownership of the chips on the table will change soon, without surprises.
"That much money is not an issue, he can have it all."
"The problem is..."
Unlike her usual decisiveness in front of her subordinates, Hera displayed a bit of hesitation in her speech now.
In this business, usually, concerning gamblers winning in the casino, regardless of how much they win, as long as there’s no cheating involved, they wouldn’t interfere, and might even spread news of the winnings for publicity.
The reason for their current heightened vigilance is Alton’s incredible performance of not losing a single ga for several hours, which had struck Suo Yu Bay’s casino workers deeply due to a shadow left in their hearts by a certain Legendary Figure.
Now, seeing Xia Nan seemingly acquainted with him, naturally, they wanted clarity.
"Does Mr. Xia Nan’s friend have any connection to the ’A Lin’ we ntioned earlier... you understand what I an, right?"
Hera asked cautiously.
Strictly speaking, they do have so connection.
After all, the first ti Xia Nan saw the na "A Lin" was on the attribute panel of the Destiny Coin gifted by Alton.
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