Surprisingly enough, it seed that despite the casino’s gas all being heavily stacked against the players, the owner’s promises were not empty words. Though still pretending to be only a manager, he personally took Sofia to the private VIP exchange desk, while sending other skeletons to fetch Kuli and Mornn.
Sofia followed Pestle’s movents from a distance while she idly chatted with the ghost behind the desk.
“Is the casino even going to survive such a big payout?” she asked, curious about how much could even realistically be won in the event.
“That it will, you needn’t worry about our finances,” the ghost answered, “Though it certainly is a big sum to be withdrawn all at once, and our boss will surely spend the next month cursing your na, the casino will survive nonetheless.”
“Honestly I half-assud that you would default on the paynt and just kick out.”
“That won’t do. Our treatnt of lesser custors may be a bit rough… But for big players it can be said that we are walking on eggshells, we have a reputation to maintain.”
“I suppose that’s reassuring… Can I know what happens to the… Less fortunate of the ‘lesser custors’?”
“You are talking to one of them…” the ghost answered with a sigh.
“That’s about what I expected…”
“Well, no one in the staff here can complain, really, we all knew what we were getting into when we entered a casino run by soone so notorious… Ah, it looks like your money is about ready, give a second,” the ghost said before turning around and flying through a wall.
Sofia turned around, Kuli and Mornn were just sharing what they did in the little ti they’d gotten to actually play while Sofia was making so big bets. It seed they did not do too bad, Kuli making a good amount playing a regular card ga, and Mornn gambling her life away on Roulette. They did not mind stopping now as they all felt that Sofia’s cash-out should be more than enough for a first place with maximum tournant points.
The ghost quickly ca back, one small and one large lockboxes appearing on the desk between him and Sofia.
“There. Since your winnings were just above three hundred million tokens, we included an item valued at thirty billion gold, and made up the difference with mithril and gold ingots, in that large box.”
“An item worth thirty billion? In that tiny box? How do I know I am not getting scamd?”
“Check for yourself,” the ghost said with a shrug, “I am certain you will understand the value of the items when you see them, there are two in the box but you may only take one.”
Sofia tried to feel the contents of the box with her mana senses but enchantnts inside completely obscured her view. This better not be so kind of mimic waiting to eat my face.
Slowly opening the box, Sofia looked inside. It contained a set of two small mithrium earrings, one with a blue hanging gem and one with a red one, on a bed of white silk.
Oooh, mithrium? It’s not a lot but that should be quite expensive, thirty billion gold for a single one of those, though?
A quick Identify of the red gem earring convinced Sofia that this was probably more than worth the price.
★★★★★★★★★U [Tournant Master’s Gambler’s Fallacy Earring]:
Carefully crafted from the rarest materials by a genius craftsman, this master Earring allows damage you deal to sotis critically hit, dealing double damage.
Base critical hit chance: 7%.
Whenever you deal non-critical damage, you gain an additional 7% critical hit chance until your next critical hit.
Cannot be destroyed.
Must be prid before use.
Is only available for purchase if won as a prize during the ‘Gambler’s end’ event and safely retrieved.
Price: 777 777 777 TP
Woah. More hidden Master items. I’m not sure of the math here, but the effective double damage chance with this on… Feels like it’s probably around twenty percent? I’m not too sure how I would calculate that. If I could ti that well with a big bolt… It’s probably a better item for people like Ezerid who have attack with many projectiles thought. That with the master hydra bow would be incredible, I bet. Not too sure it’s the best for either or Pareth though, but it does co with a discount compared to the other Master items, which is nice.
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Maybe the other one will be better suited for us?
★★★★★★★★★U [Tournant Master’s ALL-IN Earring]:
Carefully crafted from the rarest materials by a genius craftsman, that master Earring give a multiplicative buff of 77% to any one main stat of your choosing and its three related sub-stats.
(Applied after all other modifiers)
Must be prid before use.
Chosen stat cannot be altered after priming.
Becos a permanent part of your body.
Consus two skill slots.
Your two other main stats’ base growth per level is set to zero.
(They will now only grow from overcoming the filters)
Is only available for purchase if won as a prize during the ‘Gambler’s end’ event and safely retrieved.
Price: 777 777 777 TP
Sofia audibly gulped, reading the description several tis.
Lord.
I need this. We need this.
Doesn’t even matter who buys it, doesn’t even matter that it consus two skill slots.
I could get 77% increased mana?
Pareth could get 77% increased health?
Even for Alith, she could get 77% increased stamina?
That…
Well. We can only buy three uniques each. That’s our first spot taken. And if I get the ten gold star pins, it will only be 700 Million TP with the 10% discount. That’s a whole 200 Million cheaper than the regular Master items!
“So? You do understand these items’ value, right?” the ghost asked, as Sofia was silent.
“I- I do. It is certainly not a scam, I have no complaints.”
“Assuredly. Then, which one will you take?”
“The one with the blue gem,” Sofia answered, “Out of curiosity, do you know where these earrings co from? Did Ak’Virad himself make them, perhaps?”
“I do not believe we have any information on who the craftsman is, but if you must know where we procured those, as one of the oldest ‘employees’ here, I can tell you. Soone used them as a wager in a ga of cards in the early days of the casino, of course, they lost. And these have been waiting in our coffers ever since.”
“Really? The early days of the casino you say? What did they look like?”
The ghost frowned sightly as he tried to rember the details, “It was quite so centuries ago… From what I recall, it was a young woman. I would be hard-pressed to give even the most basic description, I fear, my mory is not what is once was, and I believe they only visited once… But I do rember they were quite cheerful despite the monuntal loss, which struck as quite odd, back then.”
“Hmm, I see…”
The ghost looked at Sofia’s face and his expression shifted, as he seed to rember sothing. “Right! She had strange hair, much like you do!”
“Is my hair so weird? It’s just a bit shiny.”
“That… That is quite unusual, yes,” the ghost deadpanned, “But, back to the point I do rember now, that her hair was a rather unusual dark shade of blue. Certainly not sothing one sees every day.”
“Interesting, thank you for the information, I doubt I’ll ever get to et that person, if that was centuries ago, but good to know these aren’t, like, stolen property.”
“That is slightly insulting, but admittedly not totally undeserved… The blue gem earring, then, are you sure?”
“Absolutely.”
The ghost carefully took the earring out of the box, after disarming so of the enchantnts inside, and also opened the other coffer revealing the ingots of precious tal inside. Sofia collected the team’s winnings and after that, the ghost led them all to the casino’s actual entrance and exit for valued custors. It was a rather long tunnel with a red carpet, its walls covered in enchantnts, going up in a light slope toward the surface.
The group had a lighthearted chat as they walked though, discussing Sofia’s dice ga, until Kuli stopped and asked Sofia.
“Wait, Sofia, did you not have so of your skeletons in the Casino? Did you leave the crow behind?”
Sofia turned around with a creepy smile.
“Of course not, I unsummoned them all a long ti ago, a necromancer worth their bones would never let their skeletons behind,” she said, lying through her teeth.
In truth, Pestle had gone very deep inside of the Casino’s underground floors while Sofia had kept the Lich’s attention. Ever since then, she had stopped moving.
Since Pestle hadn’t unsummoned herself, she likely had not been captured or anything like that; in Sofia’s mind, this could only an one thing. Pestle was waiting. Waiting for what exactly was uncertain, but she would have to move before Sofia left the casino and the event ended for her, so she would know soon.
Pestle. I can see the exit. Whatever you’re trying to do, now’s your last chance.
Sofia felt Pestle start to move.
With her action ca the deafening sound of an alarm, as the entire casino shook, drowned in bright red lights.
There we go.
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